Kalli Ann Bernett
Nov 21, 2013 21:40:09 GMT -7
Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2013 21:40:09 GMT -7
Kalli Ann Bernett
"Brings out the devil in me
Hell ain't a bad place to be"
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Full Name - Kalli Ann Bernett
Nicknames/Alias - None really
Age - 28
Date of Birth - May 9th
Place of Birth - Greenleaf
Gender - Female
Sexual Orientation - Heterosexual
Affiliation - Independent
Occupation - Mechanic
Play-By -Jessica Alba
Build - Slender, tall
Height & Weight - 5'8" 138lbs
Hair -Naturally Brown (though it has been known to change from time to time)
Eyes - Brown
Unique Features -Nothing of note.
Dressing Style - Kalli may be a mechanic and dresses like one when she is working but when she has the chance she will dress as classy as she can get away with. Dresses, designer clothes anything that will catch your eye.
Other -
Likes -
Independents
Machinery
The Rim
Anything fancy
Reading
Festivals and parties
Dancing
Dislikes -
Alliance
Quiet places
Rude people
Companions
Politics
Quirks/Habits -
-Kalli is obsessed with any ship she is allowed to work on and always wants to break its engines down and rebuild it to learn more about it as well as make it work better.
-Kalli is a mechanic but loves to dress up. Though she was from Greenleaf she spent a lot of time in the Core with her father who was a high ranking Alliance officer. She cant stand the Alliance but is up on every new trend that is happening there. If there is nothing else she likes about the Core it is the fashion that comes from it.
-Kalli loves fresh foods and has a bad habit of spending her hard earned platinum on fresh food for the ship she is serving on. This also translates into cooking for the crew quiet often even though she says she hates doing the cooking.
Fears - Kalli left home at eighteen during the war because she did not side with the Alliance. She has not talked to her father since she left and is afraid to face him and how he will judge her for her actions during the last few years of the war.
Secrets -
-Kalli Sided with the Independents even though she said she held a neutral stance on the war.
-Kalli spent time on Beylix at the end of the war working as a mechanic on the surface, but really she was helping repair Independent ships and supplying them with the parts they needed for their small fleet.
Strengths -
- Go-getter, Kalli is very productive and will do anything to get what she wants.
- Confidence, Kalli is very confident in her abilities and doesn't cave under pressure.
- Caring, Kalli cares for those she gets to know, even those she doesn't really know. If she hasn't been given a reason to side against you then she will do what she can to help you.
Weaknesses -
-Trusting, Kalli is overly trusting and has on more than one occasion allowed this to be a way for someone to take advantage of her.
-Passionate, Kalli is passionate about all her emotions be it love hate or anything in between she is passionate and emotionally driven in all aspects of life.
- Prideful, Kalli is too prideful. She takes things hard that hurt her pride and has trouble walking away when it could mean a blow to her pride.
Talents/Special Abilities -
-Acrobatics, Kalli has a keen ability to keep her balance, climb from one place to another with ease, stay sure footed on the most precarious of surfaces and most anything of this sort.
-Creative, Kalli Has always been able to come up with creative solutions to problems on the spot. If she is missing the parts to fix the ship there is likely somewhere on the ship she can find something she can substitute in its place until they can get the proper part.
Aspirations - Kalli's aspirations are simple, keep working on ships and flying the 'Verse and not be found by her father.
Overall Personality - Kalli is a fire cracker first and foremost. Not to say she isn't pleasant to be around. It is actually quiet the contrary. She is a loving person and cares for all those she gets close with. What it does mean is she is witty and playful. She loves humor and making jokes. Kalli will stand up for what she believes in at the drop of a hat and she is not afraid to tell you so. All her life she has been confident in herself and shows it in everything she does.
She may have her moments where she can get scared and she is not afraid to show it, but that does not mean she is not determined even in those moments. She pushes herself (and those around her) to be the best they can be and to do what is right. She wears her heart on her sleeve and puts her trust in to everyone till they give her a reason not to trust them.
She has always loved parties and commonly finds herself being the life of the party. Be it her trying to out drink the old war vets or dancing with anyone and everyone that will give her the time of day. She is flirtatious and passionate but still reserved enough not to reduce herself to being seen as just an object. She likes to look at herself as everyone's friend and will try anything to make sure it is true.
Father - Killian Bernett [68]
Mother - Sandra Bernett (Byrd) [65]
Siblings - None
Other Significant People - Ben Burrows
Pets - None
Your History -
Kalli Ann Bernett is the only daughter (and only child) of Killian and Sandra Bernett. Her father from Londinium and her mother was herself born on Greenleaf like Kalli. Killian served as an Alliance Naval Officer. Kalli's mother was a prominent figure in the farming and cultivation of plants used for medical supplies. Mind you her mother was not a common farmer. She was far from it actually. She owned a few thousand acres actually (3600 ares to be exact That is 10 sq mi for those who would prefer that definition) that was being used for the cultivation. She had people who tended the land and did what needed to be done, and she profited from those people's labors.
Sandra met Killian when the government procured 100 acres of hers through eminent domain to be used as a way-station landing spaceport for smaller craft of the Alliance Navy. It wasn't much of a spaceport, really just something simple that would allow the Alliance to land troops to deal with drug smuggling on Greenleaf. Sandra Byrd (her name at the time) was adamantly opposed to the acquisition of her land and Killian was the officer in charge of the Alliance ship sent there to procure the land.
Sandra had a team of lawyers sent to the high courts to fight the process while Killian sent down a small crew to begin clearing the area for a temporary landing site so he could land his small ship. The ship was his first command at the rank of Lieutenant Commander. The ship only had a crew of twenty and was carrying twenty-five contractors to begin the work on the site.
The relationship between the two was off to a horrible start. Sandra and her workers protested on site as her legal team fought it in the courts. All the while Killian was moving forward with the task at hand. After several weeks of this process, the legal team had managed to get an injunction to halt the Navy's work. With work stalled, Killian took the chance to meet with Sandra to discuss what could be done to resolve the issue.
The two of them talked for hours trying to find a resolution to the issue. Though little resolution came of it the conversation turned to a more personal level. It would be four months of court battle before anything would move forward. In that time the two of them grew closer. Killian was not there to decide if the base should be built or not. His only objective was to follow what orders were given to him. As the legal team fought for her land Sandra and Killian came to terms to find a better location suited for the base to serve their needs. With the resources of the two of them they were able to find a location off her land that would put them in a more prime location for the base's purpose and would in turn save her from losing the land.
Killian proposed the ideal location to his superior and the proposal was sent on to the Navy heads and the courts for review. When it was all said and done the proposal was accepted and the vacant land was chosen as the new site. It did not take long after that till Killian and Sandra were officially an item. A few years passed and they were married.
Two years after they had married Their first and only child was born. May 9th, 2491 Kalli Ann Bernett was born. She was the center of both her parents' lives. They adored her, cared for her, and gave her everything they could. Between the careers of both her parents that left little for her to want for as a child. Kalli was like any other child, she had a loving family little to worry about and all the love she could ever want. In fact most were not as lucky as she was. Growing up she spent a lot of her time with the children of those who worked for her mother.
As a baby Kalli was troublesome and fussy. She was sick all the time and was in and out of the doctors. When she was three years old it was discovered through all the visits to the doctor that she had a congenital heart defect. Though Greenleaf wasn't the most backward planet it lacked the facilities to really be ale to treat her condition with one hundred percent certainty. It was no surprise that Kali was taken to Ariel to visit the St. Lucy's Medical Center for the top care the Alliance had to offer. She would undergo several surgeries over the next couple months while she was there to treat her condition. She would spend her forth birthday there before she was finally able to return home from Ariel. It was that trip, even with the hardship of the surgeries, that she found a love for travel.
The rest of her early childhood was mostly uneventful. All the normal scraps and spills, ups and downs of childhood that any other kid would experience. The biggest difference from the other kids on the farm is that she would travel the worlds on any time off they had from school. In twenty-five zero one at the age of ten she spent the whole summer with her mother traveling the Core worlds. Three weeks were spent on Sihnon where her father's ship was docked for repairs.
From there it was off Londinium, Osiris, Ariel and Bernadette. It was on the way back home when they made a stop at Paquin that she had the best time of the trip. The Core was beautiful but it had nothing on the atmosphere of Paquin. I don't mean just the beautiful weather of the planet that she saw but the atmosphere of the cities themselves. Everyone was energetic and excited, and she fell right in line. She loved the crowds the parties the festivals and everything exciting along the way.
The years droned on and Kalli insisted on traveling every chance she got. That was until she became a teenage. At the onset of her teenage years Kalli grew distant from her parents. She had begun to work on the equipment for the farm with a group of young boys who were the kids of the farmers. She quickly grew to love the attention she got from them and in the process began her love of working on engines and any form of machinery.
It was when she was fifteen that the war broke out between the Alliance and Independents. Even though they lived on an Independent planet her family most certainly aligned with the Alliance. For Kalli it was different though. Sure the Alliance hospitals had saved her life, but that was before she was even old enough to really know what happened. All her life she had lived on a planet that was not completely controlled by the Alliance. A few of the older boys she had grown up with left to join the Independents and fight for their home.
Less than a year into the war Kalli and her mother left Greenleaf and went off to Londinium to live while the war wore on. Kalli hated being in the Core away from her friends, away from everyone she had grown up around. She found herself resenting her father for it. She was sixteen and her father wouldn't listen to a thing she had to say about it all. It drove her to dislike the Alliance and what it was. To her it felt like oppression like she was experiencing at home.
The next two years passed and her eighteenth birthday came and went. A few months later graduation came and she was ready to head off to college. Instead of going through the Core to look for a college, Kalli set off to the Rim to get away from the Alliance. Kalli would find herself working on Beylix at a spaceport working for a man there who owned a shop. They spent a lot of their time working on the Independent's ships and helping a smuggling ring bring parts in from the Core for them.
For Kalli this last year and a half of the war was spent there doing everything she could to do everything she could to help. Though she never joined the actual military of the Independents she spent a lot of time around them either at the shop working with them or at the local bars fraternizing with them. She was only twenty years old when the war ended and the Alliance claimed control of the entirety of the 'Verse.
The next four years would be spent at that shop working to continue to help the former Independents get themselves together after the war until she would be reacquainted with a Ben Burrows who had served as a colonel in the Independent Army. The two of them had met before during the war when she had worked on a ship that was carrying his troops into battle. Ben offered her a position on his private cargo transport ship as the ship mechanic and without any hesitation Kalli joined him and was off.
Ben and Kalli became close friends over the years she served with him as they did everything from smuggle supplies from the Core to the Rim to helping fend off mercenaries of the mega corps. The ship, the Orlando, saw crew come and go but Kalli stuck by Ben's side the whole way. It wasn't until Ben became more and more brazen against the Alliance and the Orlando found itself a prime target of the Alliance Navy that she left. It was when Kalli heard that her father was leading the task force in charge of finding it that she had to take her leave of the ship and go her own path.
It was just before her Twenty-Eighth birthday that she left the ship and found herself on Santo trying to find work again. She found herself unable to find a job doing mechanical work and instead ended up working at a bar. Currently she spends her nights working in that bar and the days are spent trying to find her next opportunity to get back out in the Black and do what she does best.
What should we call you? - Kalli
Roleplaying Experience - The ones that people here would know are BSH and The Verse, a few other places along the way.
Where did you find us? - I knew about the site for some time just finally got around to joining it.
Prove Yourself - Have you read the rules? Does a gun loving backwater country bumpkin keep their guns shiny? You tell me.
Post Script -
Other characters - None
How we should contact you - PM
Roleplay Example -
It had grown late in the evening on Persephone, the streets had fallen nearly silent. Most people were fast asleep by this point, but on the Orlando life continued on. Kalli was still down in the engine room. Tools were scattered across every shelf, bench, and inch of the floor.
She had been putting every waking minute into getting the Orlando up and running and she wasn't going to stop until she had it back up and working. She was laying down with her upper torso under the power transfer case. The twenty pound lower transfer housing shell rest on the ground next to her. It was the third time she had pulled it off to make adjustments. The flow from the power generators to the engines primary cell was running outside of specs and causing several issues down the line.
She replaced a few more wires and adjusted a few more transfer levels as quickly as she could. Kalli knew she was getting close and was ready for the pay off, the Orlando's return to life.
Kalli pushed herself back out from under the casing and sat down next to it. "Come on ol' fella you can do it, right?" She questioned the Orlando as she closed her eyes and attempted to fire her up.
The readings came across her meter. "Transfer levels normal. Power levels are at peak. Everything looks good, wonderful job Orlando!" She exclaimed as she jumped up and down with excitement. That was it, she had it ready to go. She quickly ran over to the engine to conducted a forced direct start. She didn't have the patience to wait for someone to run up to the bridge and see if she would start from there. Though that would be something she would have to make sure was working as well.
She toyed with it for just a few seconds to force the start. Within a few seconds the engine was powering up as it should. It seemed shaky though, something was out of alignment still.
Kalli ran a few test on the engine before firing it up all the way. After grabbing up a few tools from the floor she unbolted a panel and tinkered with a few more parts. The engine stabilized back to a smoother level. It was ready to go. "I did it!" she exclaimed. The Orlando was running again and ready to head back out into the 'Verse.
She couldn't wait to tell the captain. As quickly as she could Kalli shut the engine back down and bolted the panels back on. There was still a lot to be done to get the Orlando back to tip top shape but it could travel, carefully, again.
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