Hope is the elixir of life. (semi-retired)
NAME: Alexandra "Alex" Russo
FACTION:
RANK: Former Flight Commander, now civilian
SPECIES: Human; Taanabian
AGE: 28
SEX: Female
HEIGHT: 5'8"
WEIGHT: 125 lbs
EYES: Brown
HAIR: Brown
SKIN: Caucasian
FORCE SENSITIVE: No
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STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES:
Alexandra is stubborn, determined, and driven to succeed. She could be called an overachiever and is a risk taker, especially if she thinks it will make a difference in the outcome. The former fighter jockey tends to chew or pull on her lower lip when nervous or contemplating something serious.
The brandy-eyed brunette is playful, yet knows when to be serious. She uses humor to help decompress from stressful situations, and can be overheard frequently bantering with droids as Alex is well versed in "Droid Speak".
Alleycat is addicted to caffeine and has quite a sweet tooth. Stimcaf with pastries is a favorite of hers along with anything chocolate. Hint, hint. The Taanabian dislikes seafood with a passion. Meat and potatoes are more to her simple farm girl tastes along with whiskey; Corellian, if it's available.
Neat and organized is the way Russo like things. She could be called a neat freak, though is really only obsessive/compulsive about the maintenance of her ship and tools. It really rubs her the wrong way if someone borrows her tools without asking and returns them all gunked up.
Alex is attracted to ruggedly handsome men and cute 'sixes', but seldom has the time, energy, nor will to do anything serious about it after losing someone close to her other than appreciate the opposite sex from afar. Though, someday she'll have to let go of the past and live for tomorrow.
APPEARANCE:
The Taanab beauty has long, sun-kissed brown hair with a bit of wave to it and brandy-colored eyes with a creamy white complexion. She stands tall at 5'8" and has a slender, athletic build weighing in at 125 pounds. The former starfighter pilot has a scar on her lower right abdomen from an appendectomy and a small red rose tattoo on the top of her right shoulder blade.
When Alex isn't wearing a flight suit or mechanic's overalls, she prefers to wear a pair of comfy, low rise jeans, a tank top or tee, heeled boots, and an old bomber jacket that has sentimental value.
BIOGRAPHY:
Alexandra Kay Russo was born on the agricultural planet of Taanab and was raised on a hop farm in the beautiful and bountiful Landau Valley near the capital city of Pandath. Growing up on a farm was hard work to which Alex learned a strong work ethic early on in life.
Taanab had come away from the previous galactic wars and plague relatively untouched with a thriving Ag industry paving the way for economic success for the planet and sector. Unfortunately, a notorious pirate gang in the sector wanted in on their prosperity and did seasonal raids during harvest time. Without much of a planetary defense force at the time, the farmers had little to stop them. During one of these such raids, the pirates destroyed her family's farm, taking all the 'liquid gold' as the hops were called and killing her family in the process. Alexandra was the only family member to survive the raid.
With no place to live and no other family alive, the young teenager was forced to move to the city and fend for herself. One of the odd jobs she'd found was that as a janitor cleaning the hangars after hours at the Pandath Spaceport. A war veteran kept a private hangar there and noticed Alex's fascination with an old starfighter of his he was refitting for a crop dusting business he was starting up. The Taanab native befriended her, offering to teach her about aeronautical mechanics and how to fly in exchange for working as a crop duster for him. The older pilot often shared with her his daring exploits during his tour of duty, which lit a fire in her belly to become a starfighter pilot herself. On the day of her 18th birthday, Alex applied to the Naval Academy and was accepted into the Flight School.
Upon finishing her academy training, the rookie Flight Officer was stationed in the outer reaches of Republic space where all noob pilots started out on patrol. Quickly though, Alleycat, the callsign given to Alex by her classmates at the academy because of her incessant need to scrounge around for caf every where they went, made her way coreward as she moved up the military career ladder, proving herself both in and out of the cockpit through her dedicated sense of duty, flying skills, and leadership ability.
During a heated battle things went terribly wrong for the small battle group that the now Flight Commander's squadron was assigned to. Alleycat's entire squadron was decimated along with the capital ship Inquisitor. She was rescued when a private salvage crew came to collect their bounty in the debris field after the battle was over. They found Alex floating in the wreckage barely alive with mere moments of oxygen left in her still intact flight suit as Alex had gone EV just before her starfighter got vaped. The crew dropped the Commander off at the next star system anonymously and took her dog tags so Russo's identify was not known while the starfighter pilot lingered in a coma for several months.
Thinking everyone she ever cared for was dead yet again especially one in particular when she woke up, Alex returned to her homeworld after recuperating sullen and bitter to rejoin her old mentor, Gus Ketch, offering her services as a now seasoned pilot and mechanic for his crop-dusting business.
SHIP:
None at the moment except a modified Z-95 Headhunter used for low altitude crop-dusting.
KILLS:
Only NPC's in battle
BOUNTIES COLLECTED:
N/A
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ROLE-PLAYS:
TBA
