Linna Beorht
Character
NAME: Linna Beorht
FACTION: Arceneau Trade Corporation, the Foundation Trust
RANK: Ph.D. (Political Science, Interstellar Macroeconomics)
SPECIES: Zeltron
AGE: Middle-aged
SEX: Female
HEIGHT: 5’9”
WEIGHT: 125lbs
EYES: Blue
HAIR: Dark purple
SKIN: Reddish-pink
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes
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STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES (Required: 2 Weaknesses Minimum) :
APPEARANCE:
Linna is a middle-aged Zeltron in good shape. She’s spent most of her life in the public eye at a professional level, and dresses accordingly. You can still see the occasional mobile tattoo peeking out, though.
BIOGRAPHY:
Once upon a time, there was a young Zeltron Jedi named Lyn-Char Beorht. His grandfather raised and trained him on Metellos, in the slums. Lyn’s story is a long one, and mostly tragic. The relevant part is this: in his early teens, he got a nice Zeltron girl pregnant. Linna was his daughter.
She never knew her father, though later, studying at the University of Coruscant, she would observe him from a distance, even auditing a class he taught. A scholarship student, she began her undergraduate career at thirteen and her graduate work at sixteen. She transferred to the University of Rudrig, where she earned doctorates in political science and interstellar macroeconomics by age twenty-two. A prolific academic writer, she published extensively on pre-Republic civilizations, including the Thrella, Sharu, Gree, and Kwa.
Academic travel exposed her to a variety of lifestyles, not all of them healthy. Though in touch with her Zeltron cultural heritage, Linna lacked the lifestyle balance that her people often found through community. She became addicted to glitterstim and, later, dextrophetamine, a rare drug that helped her manage her sensitivity to the Force. Dextrophetamine, or ‘dex,’ provided a short burst of Force connectivity at the expense of long-term damage to one’s Force sensitivity. Linna used it deliberately, aiming to burn out her sensitivity entirely. Her goal was to avoid replicating her father’s mistakes, and to keep his spirit quiet. By this point he’d been dead for some time.
Somewhat of a wreck in her personal life, Linna attempted to regain balance by reconnecting with her people. She visited Zeltros more than once, studying the planet’s politics and serving as a consultant to the local royalty. Balance, however, eluded her, and she made decisions she would later regret. Anonymously, she was caught up in a complex series of events involving Sarge Potteiger, Jorus Merrill, and Thessa Kai -- events which left Linna pregnant.
Forced to adjust her professional and academic schedules, not to mention curb her spice habits, Linna found the pregnancy immensely irritating. By second trimester, she’d decided to give the baby up for adoption. In the end, she opted to take the father up on his offer and give him sole custody.
After the baby was born and out of the picture, Linna’s schedule returned to normal. Long-term consultancy became a permanent position with Omega Pyre -- later the Omega Protectorate -- in communications and analysis. She became close, in a dysfunctional sort of way, with Sarge Potteiger, with whom she shared at least one chemically altered tryst. If he ever learned that she'd been one of the Zeltrons involved in That One Time, she never knew about it. Far more dysfunctional was her relationship with the Dark Jedi Rach Kol-Rekali. When Sarge and Rach fought, almost to the death, it involved Sarge getting Rach out of Linna’s life.
Eventually, the quality of Linna’s work -- and strong connections to major figures in the Pyre, including the notorious Colonel Kerrigan -- led to a promotion. At twenty-nine, she was named Foreign Minister of the Omega Protectorate. She assisted the Protectorate in major situations, including an attempted Republic coup d’etat and a high-profile investigation in Theed.
One such diplomatic errand took her to Kaeshana, whose royal house was considering membership in the Protectorate. When an assassination attempt proved overwhelming, Linna deliberately overdosed on her stockpile of dextrophetamine. The resulting surge in her Force-sensitivity let her take and crush the assassins’ weapons en masse, a display of serious telekinetic power. The crash burned her out for years.
She retired for unspecified medical reasons. Months of rehabilitation made her functional again, but she felt she’d lost her edge. By this point her savings and pension were substantial: she purchased an apartment on Coruscant, overlooking the campus where she’d begun her adult life too early. Bored with academia, she declined a tenure-track position at the University of Coruscant, and accepted an oddball offer from a major broadcaster.
HoloNet News paired her with the Eldorai conservative Maerys Cadalthor, and Battle For Democracy was born.
For the next few years, Linna played the bombshell right-wing political pundit to the hilt. Exaggerating her own positions for ratings and private amusement, she cheered on the militant excesses of the Halcyon-era Republic while stirring public opinion against Atrisia and the Fringe Confederation. She wrote several books of the shiny popular-politics variety, and made a ridiculous amount of money. For the first time since her early research, she felt in control of herself and her life.
As her dextrophetamine burnout healed, however, she became conscious of a growing dread. The feeling peaked when the One Sith invaded Coruscant. Linna, publicly known as a staunch Republic supporter, began keeping the lowest possible profile. She resigned from HNN and sold her lovely top-tier apartment. Transferring most of her money offworld for safety, she lived off her savings in a mass residential unit reminiscent of the Metellos rezblock where she’d grown up.
When the Omega Protectorate invaded Coruscant, Linna was one of the locals who rose up in support. Adept with a sonic servodriver, she tangled with a Sith beastmaster in the old Senate chambers. Though she acquitted herself well, she was forced to withdraw when the invasion failed. She caught a ride on a Protectorate evac transport and left Coruscant, perhaps forever.
Aching to accomplish something of permanence again, she took a position with Arceneau Trade Corporation’s Government Relations Department as a senior analyst. She consulted on the Lasedri crisis, in which the Republic attempted to nationalize assets of major corporations and stage apparent false-flag attempts to justify authoritarian reforms. No longer the jingoist demagogue, Linna helped ATC and its allies understand the situation at a technical level, and contributed to its resolution.
It was during this time that Linna invested in a group called the Foundation Trust. The Trust’s goal -- to insulate civilization against a potential second Dark Age -- appealed to her at a fundamental level. She bought a full share in the Trust alongside a young and fabulously wealthy Mara D’Lessio Merrill -- her daughter, though Mara didn’t know it. Truth be told, Linna’s Foundation Trust membership was as much about Mara as about anything else. Linna remained a silent partner, content to let players like Rel Connory, Selka Ventus, and Darell Irani steer the ship. The Trust’s purchase, exponential improvement, and resale of Iron Crown Enterprises solidified Linna’s finances at a galactic level. As a member of the Trust, too, she sponsored and hosted the Tournament of Inventors on Naboo. In total, though, her duties with the Trust were a fairly minimal drain on her time. She remained with ATC, consulting on major political developments.
SHIP:
None
KILLS:
None
BOUNTIES COLLECTED:
None
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ROLE-PLAYS:
Note that Linna was frequently referenced/used as an NPC for quite a while. The following threads only involve a substantive PC presence.
Exodus (pre-transfer):
FACTION: Arceneau Trade Corporation, the Foundation Trust
RANK: Ph.D. (Political Science, Interstellar Macroeconomics)
SPECIES: Zeltron
AGE: Middle-aged
SEX: Female
HEIGHT: 5’9”
WEIGHT: 125lbs
EYES: Blue
HAIR: Dark purple
SKIN: Reddish-pink
FORCE SENSITIVE: Yes
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STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES (Required: 2 Weaknesses Minimum) :
- Doctor Linna Beorht is a polymath and polyglot. She never met a subject or a language she didn’t like. She’s adept with a sonic servodriver.
- Linna has a long history with spice addiction, primarily glitterstim and dextrophetamine pills. She is utterly inept at most forms of combat.
APPEARANCE:
Linna is a middle-aged Zeltron in good shape. She’s spent most of her life in the public eye at a professional level, and dresses accordingly. You can still see the occasional mobile tattoo peeking out, though.
BIOGRAPHY:
Once upon a time, there was a young Zeltron Jedi named Lyn-Char Beorht. His grandfather raised and trained him on Metellos, in the slums. Lyn’s story is a long one, and mostly tragic. The relevant part is this: in his early teens, he got a nice Zeltron girl pregnant. Linna was his daughter.
She never knew her father, though later, studying at the University of Coruscant, she would observe him from a distance, even auditing a class he taught. A scholarship student, she began her undergraduate career at thirteen and her graduate work at sixteen. She transferred to the University of Rudrig, where she earned doctorates in political science and interstellar macroeconomics by age twenty-two. A prolific academic writer, she published extensively on pre-Republic civilizations, including the Thrella, Sharu, Gree, and Kwa.
Academic travel exposed her to a variety of lifestyles, not all of them healthy. Though in touch with her Zeltron cultural heritage, Linna lacked the lifestyle balance that her people often found through community. She became addicted to glitterstim and, later, dextrophetamine, a rare drug that helped her manage her sensitivity to the Force. Dextrophetamine, or ‘dex,’ provided a short burst of Force connectivity at the expense of long-term damage to one’s Force sensitivity. Linna used it deliberately, aiming to burn out her sensitivity entirely. Her goal was to avoid replicating her father’s mistakes, and to keep his spirit quiet. By this point he’d been dead for some time.
Somewhat of a wreck in her personal life, Linna attempted to regain balance by reconnecting with her people. She visited Zeltros more than once, studying the planet’s politics and serving as a consultant to the local royalty. Balance, however, eluded her, and she made decisions she would later regret. Anonymously, she was caught up in a complex series of events involving Sarge Potteiger, Jorus Merrill, and Thessa Kai -- events which left Linna pregnant.
Forced to adjust her professional and academic schedules, not to mention curb her spice habits, Linna found the pregnancy immensely irritating. By second trimester, she’d decided to give the baby up for adoption. In the end, she opted to take the father up on his offer and give him sole custody.
After the baby was born and out of the picture, Linna’s schedule returned to normal. Long-term consultancy became a permanent position with Omega Pyre -- later the Omega Protectorate -- in communications and analysis. She became close, in a dysfunctional sort of way, with Sarge Potteiger, with whom she shared at least one chemically altered tryst. If he ever learned that she'd been one of the Zeltrons involved in That One Time, she never knew about it. Far more dysfunctional was her relationship with the Dark Jedi Rach Kol-Rekali. When Sarge and Rach fought, almost to the death, it involved Sarge getting Rach out of Linna’s life.
Eventually, the quality of Linna’s work -- and strong connections to major figures in the Pyre, including the notorious Colonel Kerrigan -- led to a promotion. At twenty-nine, she was named Foreign Minister of the Omega Protectorate. She assisted the Protectorate in major situations, including an attempted Republic coup d’etat and a high-profile investigation in Theed.
One such diplomatic errand took her to Kaeshana, whose royal house was considering membership in the Protectorate. When an assassination attempt proved overwhelming, Linna deliberately overdosed on her stockpile of dextrophetamine. The resulting surge in her Force-sensitivity let her take and crush the assassins’ weapons en masse, a display of serious telekinetic power. The crash burned her out for years.
She retired for unspecified medical reasons. Months of rehabilitation made her functional again, but she felt she’d lost her edge. By this point her savings and pension were substantial: she purchased an apartment on Coruscant, overlooking the campus where she’d begun her adult life too early. Bored with academia, she declined a tenure-track position at the University of Coruscant, and accepted an oddball offer from a major broadcaster.
HoloNet News paired her with the Eldorai conservative Maerys Cadalthor, and Battle For Democracy was born.
For the next few years, Linna played the bombshell right-wing political pundit to the hilt. Exaggerating her own positions for ratings and private amusement, she cheered on the militant excesses of the Halcyon-era Republic while stirring public opinion against Atrisia and the Fringe Confederation. She wrote several books of the shiny popular-politics variety, and made a ridiculous amount of money. For the first time since her early research, she felt in control of herself and her life.
As her dextrophetamine burnout healed, however, she became conscious of a growing dread. The feeling peaked when the One Sith invaded Coruscant. Linna, publicly known as a staunch Republic supporter, began keeping the lowest possible profile. She resigned from HNN and sold her lovely top-tier apartment. Transferring most of her money offworld for safety, she lived off her savings in a mass residential unit reminiscent of the Metellos rezblock where she’d grown up.
When the Omega Protectorate invaded Coruscant, Linna was one of the locals who rose up in support. Adept with a sonic servodriver, she tangled with a Sith beastmaster in the old Senate chambers. Though she acquitted herself well, she was forced to withdraw when the invasion failed. She caught a ride on a Protectorate evac transport and left Coruscant, perhaps forever.
Aching to accomplish something of permanence again, she took a position with Arceneau Trade Corporation’s Government Relations Department as a senior analyst. She consulted on the Lasedri crisis, in which the Republic attempted to nationalize assets of major corporations and stage apparent false-flag attempts to justify authoritarian reforms. No longer the jingoist demagogue, Linna helped ATC and its allies understand the situation at a technical level, and contributed to its resolution.
It was during this time that Linna invested in a group called the Foundation Trust. The Trust’s goal -- to insulate civilization against a potential second Dark Age -- appealed to her at a fundamental level. She bought a full share in the Trust alongside a young and fabulously wealthy Mara D’Lessio Merrill -- her daughter, though Mara didn’t know it. Truth be told, Linna’s Foundation Trust membership was as much about Mara as about anything else. Linna remained a silent partner, content to let players like Rel Connory, Selka Ventus, and Darell Irani steer the ship. The Trust’s purchase, exponential improvement, and resale of Iron Crown Enterprises solidified Linna’s finances at a galactic level. As a member of the Trust, too, she sponsored and hosted the Tournament of Inventors on Naboo. In total, though, her duties with the Trust were a fairly minimal drain on her time. She remained with ATC, consulting on major political developments.
SHIP:
None
KILLS:
None
BOUNTIES COLLECTED:
None
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ROLE-PLAYS:
Note that Linna was frequently referenced/used as an NPC for quite a while. The following threads only involve a substantive PC presence.
- Syndicate Raid Auction
- Our Place Among the Stars (GA Dominion of Copperline Hex)
- Tournament of Inventors
- Oh no no no, not MY business
- Into the Jaws of Death (OP invasion of Sith-occupied Coruscant)
- HoloNet News presents: Battle For Democracy
- (Several threads lost in the November '13 crash, at least one involving OP and Kaeshana)
- Shockwaves
- An Outside Perspective
- Would you like some water with that sand?
- Wine into water
- A chat in Corellia with the Omega Pyre
- You’re the worst
- Big Brother is always watching
- Negotiations of her people (OP Dominion of Naboo)
Exodus (pre-transfer):
