Leea Pandac
Character
Leea Pandac
"Flying until our wings glow like the Sun"
"Surviving at a cost."
BASIC INFO |
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| Age | 23 |
| Alias | Leia Panidao |
| Species | Mirialan |
| Gender | Female |
| Height | 1.6 m |
| Weight | 52 kg |
| Force User | Yes |
FACTION INFO |
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| Faction | Mandalorian Empire |
| Clan | House Verd |
| Division | --- |
| Rank | --- |
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
A flash of green skin and black inked tattoos framed by short cut raven hair, a pair of ebony eyes shine from shallow sockets, and the glint of pearlescent teeth. Slim and fit, she would readily blend in with any number of alien crowds seen the galaxy round. Rarely taking the spotlight, she stands to the periphery, the hunch of her shoulders and the wideness of her eyes speaking of wariness born of a lifetime on the rim. Other days, she dons the hardened armor of a Mandalorian warrior, resplendent in browns and golds. Within the protection, she stands as tall as she may protected in her anonymity. On those rare occasions that truly relaxes, perhaps in the safety of a personal starship, or among trusted friends, she might be seen to wear a plain tunic and fitted breeches. Sleeves rolled, the crisscross of scar tissue can be glimpsed, thin lines of darker green that add a deceptively rough and tumble look to the quiet pilot.
PERSONALITY AND BELIEFS
Wary but friendly, Leea embodies a paradoxical approach to life that speaks of a diametric experience. On one hand, she will boisterously chat among friends and volunteer when a cause electrifies her. She is unceasingly loyal and utterly trusting, to those she names family. She has an innate grit and determination that belie her slight frame. However, on the flip side, she is reclusive when apart from close friends. She will abandon allies when situations seem to turn and rarely believes strangers. And without support, she will quickly surrender to fear and cowardice.
With a love of space and flight, she will often speak at great length about anything incidentally related to it. However, her knowledge of the field is entirely experiential and she quickly becomes lost in more academic or theoretical discussions. This focus and life experience has left her with a natural proclivity to spacer lifestyle. She loves to travel, is afraid of settling down, and generally enjoys visiting new places. She often keeps her ships with a slightly above average oxygen rich atmosphere during shorter flights, but will usually drop the ratio to substandard levels in longer term stints. She will usually claim this is 'save the air filters' as she despises how difficult they are to replace.
Her time spent in space has left her with a paradoxical love of the void and the stars, but a distinct fear of terrestrial skies. She usually stays indoors or if forced into the open will prefer to wear full armor and avoid looking up. If one could push her enough to admit, she would be forced to share that her fear stems from a childish worry that a planet's gravity might stop. Unlike a ship where she is still inside a safe space even if gravity disappears, a planet has no walls to hold her in. Another fear that often trails her is of a common death in spacers: explosive decompression. She is fastidious about ensuring armor plating it properly welded, that seals are intact and airlocks are fully functional. She maintains her ships, because she has seen far too many pilots die in horribly ways. Due to this fear and wariness, she usually sleeps light and will often be the first to wake up at the slightest alarm sounding if anything is wrong with the ship.
STRENGTHS & WEAKNESSES
▲ PILOT: Leea spent much of her life inside a cockpit, starting at an age where many more civilized people would still be studying and enjoying innocent life. She has extensive experience across several different fighter craft, but has lately been given the helm of freighters and larger vessels. She is innately proficient in most stellar maneuvers, often being capable of instinctively feeling when to push a craft's limits.
▲ Starship Engineer: Having lived and breathed stellar craft as long as she has, Leea has developed a broad understanding of the parts and necessities required to keep a ship operating. Limited to this specific field, she has an impressive knowledge of parts and how to repair or maintain a ship. She is confident enough to do her own repairs and, on rare occasions, upgrades.
▲ Lithe: As slim and small as she is, Leea has learned to compensate with speed and maneuverability. She can squeeze into tight spaces and is generally limber enough to move around with ease.
▲ Spacer: A life spent on starships, in cramped cockpits, long term zero gravity, and oxygen poor enclosures, has led to Leea being incredibly comfortable with the travails of life in space. She can sit for hours behind a pilot yoke that is too small for her, or easily adapt to sudden loss of gravity. Where most might be uncomfortable with the small life adaptions one needs to live on a ship for extended time, Leea is at home in it.
▼ SURVIVOR: While some stay alive through will and bravery, Leea has relied on less honorable methods. When the odds start looking rough, there are few things in life that will keep her from retreating. Years of fleeing, of escaping, of surrendering when faced with overwhelming odds, she has learned to prefer hiding to remaining firm. She may be many things, but few would name her brave.
▼ Diminutive: Of small frame and slight build, Leea may be agile and flexible, but she lacks strength. Sometimes, the best tricks still need raw power to make them work, and here is where she tends to fumble. Leea often has to put her full body into movements, or relies on external assistance to compensate for a naturally weaker frame.
▼ Child of the Void: Leea has spent most of her life in space. As an obligate pilot she rarely set foot on planetary masses. Ironically, despite being often exposed the vastness of space, it is under open skies that she is most uncomfortable. Some might diagnose her with a specific form of Kenophobia. She is comfortable in truly massive structures and does not mind working in cavernous space stations or even subterranean locations. But the sky above her head creates a sense of dread she can't quite shake off. She also tends to become fatigued more easily when burdened on planets with standard or greater gravity.
HISTORY
Coming from a lowly administrative family on Makeb, Leea grew up in a loving family with three brothers. As the only daughter, she was often fighting to maintain some degree of autonomy within the household. Where her siblings outperformed her in academics, she took up track and field along with her twin. An innate wanderlust blended with her burgeoning athleticism and drove her to explore ever further onto the mesas and rocky outcroppings. She would often convince her twin to come along on particularly long journeys, where they would spend days in the wilderness.
During a longer expedition along the far plateaus, an electro-storm struck suddenly starting a rock slide that trapped both of the siblings in a cave. Leea was trapped under a boulder, legs shattered, while her brother had lost his hand. Pinned beneath a boulder, Leea could offer little help, but her brother valiantly did what he could to stabilize her. She barely remembered what happened after, except that when he managed to dig enough of a hole to squeeze out of the cave, he promised to get help.
Though she could not recall it, almost three days passed, during which she survived on muddy water that trickled in from the rain and the sparse insect that crawled too close. A squad of local militia out for practice maneuvers were the ones that found and finally rescued Leea. She was rushed to the closest medbay, a field clinic where she remained for a few days before being transported half way around the continent to a full hospital where she would spend a year in recovery. Given reconstructive surgery and bacta treatment, her family's finances were severely damaged. It was only once she was finally brought home that Pandac learned her brother had never returned, no sign of him had been found in the vicinity and the search had been given up a while ago. She never fully recovered from the loss.
Returning home, Pandac was horrified to discover her family had sold everything to pay for the treatment. While they endeavored to stay together, ultimately it became necessary to split up among family where space was available. Leea went to live with a close friend of her father. Burdened with guilt and nightly reliving the cave in, she refused to travel the mesas, and rarely stepped outside the home. She became lethargic and it seemed as if some previously overlooked illness struck, a high fever began and she soon stopped eating. Visiting whenever possible, her father managed to convince a generous doctor to visit. The Twi'lek was enthused, knowing her story and amazed that she had survived so long in the elements.
In the depths of illness, Leea spent more time sleeping than anything else, yet even after her long rests, she was keenly aware of those who had visited or checked on her while she slept. Her condition worsened, delirium and hallucinations became prominent during her few waking hours. The doctor despaired that she would probably pass, the list of medical treatments available in a nonclinical setting was too limited and the family couldn't another stint in the hospital. However, fortune favored the young alien, for she began a sudden and inexplicable recovery. Within a month she had begun eating and exhibited enough strength to move about.
Around this time, her family showed signs of financial recovery. Her eldest brother secured a job at as an overseer at a refinery, he bought a house and convinced the family to come together again. Each changed enough to make it more difficult now, sharing a roof. Leea felt the tension more strongly than others, and at a friend's suggestion she enlisted in the local militia. Initially refusing fieldwork, she remained in a clerical position, though she was ill suited to the demands of this job. Eventually, when it became apparent she could no longer hide inside, she accepted a post as a maintenance crew for ships, and begrudgingly landing beacons. The former gave her the opportunity to remain close to secure stations and places that would be relatively resistant to storms. The latter forced her to travel along stretches of open land, in small teams to ensure beacons were operating and replacing damaged ones.
Despite her fears, Leea proved surprisingly aware of geological shifts. On more than one occasion, she correctly predicted an earthquake or an electrostorm and managed to find safety with her teams. Over time, she began to slowly come to terms with the great wilds. She was never a particularly exemplary soldier, and showed no signs of climbing the ranks, but in the militia that hardly mattered. However, her life would take a sudden and unexpected turn when a damaged frigate entered the system. Claiming to be under the authority of some Inner Rim galactic power, they landed soldiers demanding reinforcements and repairs for the ship. While amicable at first, tensions grew until the frigate attempted to assert control over the region and more supplies than the meager farms were capable of producing.
Leea was taken prisoner when the situation turned hostile. Alongside squads of her militia, she was captured and carried off. Taken off world and pressed into service, Leea was introduced to politics and new ships and weapons. Pushed into battles, she was forced to fight for reasons she didn't understand. When she surrendered to an overwhelming enemy force, she was pressganged again, her limited experience with ships seeing her placed in disposable fighter units. Over the years, she would bounce between different armies, different sides, and different philosophies, flying under all manner of banners to survive. And all the while, developing a desire to live and a talent as a pilot.
One day, when fighting in a pitched battle, she provided air support to ground troops. When her forces were being pushed back, she saw an opportunity. Her fighter had a hyperdrive! It was old, barely functional. But, it was a way to escape. And she didn't waste the chance. In the chaos of a full rout, she slipped away and became a free agent. It would be years before she would settle again.
Now, after so long on the run, she has found something to connect to in the form of a cathar and his rather curious family. As his pilot, Leea has finally begun to experience life again. And she's beginning to discover to much about herself.Inventory
Vehicles
TBA 'Runner'
TBA 'Interceptor'
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