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14:32, 09/05/874 ASE

Vital statistics of subject 32-a:

Name: Runiko Sedri Tarradia
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 160 lbs
Age: 21
Build: moderate

   Subject 32-a was inducted into the ASO at the age of 8 by way of the "Foster Care" program. The subject showed immediate aptitude for mechanical engineering, and was placed in the field engineer program. Three months into the program, the subject was selected as a host for "Atropos". Extensive testing and observation of the subject showed only a %14 effectiveness, however. Invasive surgery was inconclusive. The subject's data has been recorded, and we can gain nothing more from continued testing. Action suggested: immediate termination.

-Philegmon, Brockherst Ph. d.

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   My history:

   I was only a little girl when it happened. I was playing in my favorite park near my home, when I was kidnapped by two big, nasty military types. Project "Foster Care" my ass. It was just a euphemism for abducting little kids.
   They put me in a military camp. Told me I was "special", drek like that. I can't count the nuber of night I cried myself to sleep. I missed my parents. I stopped eating, but they force fed me. They made me train every day. I learned to use weapons and kill people. After a while they started to notice that I was good with machines, just like it says in the report. So they sent me to train with the field mechanics. I was 14 at the time.
   On my 16th birthday, they drugged me and brought me into the lab. They did all sorts of stuff to me that I still have nightmares about. from that time foreward, I dreaded weekends, because they meant another round of tests.
   A lot happened between then and now, but my memmory is spotty, at best. I clearly remember my last day there, though. I was decking into the research facilities' main computer. It was mostly a waste of time, because I could only ever get on as "guest" and most of the files were heavily encrypted. My deck was a small, low-powered handheld cobbled together from spare parts that I smuggled into my room. But one of the researchers had left a file open from the day before. Stupid fragger. I found out some of what they were doing to me. Then, down at the bottom, the termination order. I knew it would happen during the next field-training excersize. That was where all the "accidents" happened. So I had to escape or die.
   I managed it, through pure luck. During the escape was the first time I realized I wasn't planetside. It was hell catching my escape on an unmanned pod. I barely survived. Once I was far enough away, I stole a speedy little courier ship and got the frag off the planet.
   I'm still not sure what it was exactly they did to me. I've been trying to find out what "Atropos" was ever since I got away. Most of my time has been alternately spent running and planning the deaths of every scientist on that hellhole space platform.

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More information about Runiko:

-Favored Weapons: Brick (yes, a brick), Assault Rifle

-Skills: Decking (to a certain extent), Brick-fu, mechanical engineering

-Skill descriptions:
   -Decking: The art of using a remote terminal to access information on a computer connected to an accessable network, like the Internet.
   -Brick-fu: A fighting art that uses a brick as the medium. Strangely low-tech for someone like Runiko. Includes normal fighting skills like blocks and strikes, as well as several mental-bordering-on-supernatural abilities, such as the ability to absorb and disperse a limited ammount of elemental energy, reshape the equiped brick to a more desirable shape, increase the brick's mass up to 10x, and other things. Runiko is still a novice at this art, and her skills are weak. She becomes exhausted easily when working the more difficult skills.
   -mechanical engineering: Runiko is an excellent engineer, she can repair any electronic device or mechanism (provided she knows how it works and what it does), and she is constantly inventing new devices, some of which are so bizzare that only she can fathom their purpose.

-Equiptment: Brick (Fredrick McSmasher III), Tool case, Backpack full of stuff, modified glasses (has magnification, zoom, and auto-shade. Currently developing limited night-vision) and one Ares Thunderbird assault rifle

-Weaknesses: She fights with a freaking brick! All this technology, and she beats you with a glorified rock! break the brick or take it away from her, and you force her to use less-practriced means to fight you. The brick can absorb some energy, but not stop it completely. Some brick powers take time to "power-up", as it were, forcing Runiko to dodge and concentrate at the same time. Also, certain psychological triggers will cause unpredictable behaviour.