Lords of Gossamer and Shadow NPCs: Peta Sorell of the Jenscri Imperium

Peta after overthrowing the starship Forstrier, the last sighting of her in the Jenscri Imperium
Image by Michael Ezaky, legalese at the bottom of the page

I once believed that I knew what the infinite was.  I worked for the 17th Battalion Intelligence Division as a saboteur and intelligence operative for the grand Jenscri Imperium.  The Imperium had conquered 1367 worlds and settled a further 4864 by the time that I found my way onto the Grand Stair.  Its boundaries were marked in thousands of light years and a person would more likely die of old age (and the average age of death was 389 for a woman) than be able to make it from one side of the Imperium to the other.  We are a warlike race, but we bring stability to the formlessness of space.  We have devoured other Empires and taught them the benefits of strength and true culture.  We bring light to the dark spaces of the Universe and liberate the down trodden from the tyrannies that oppress them.


My last mission was to send the Forstrier (a Herlin class Warship from the planet Keldon) into the gravity pull of the twin suns from the system.  This would tear the ship apart and destroy a weapon on board that would wipe out our invasion force in less than an hour of the battle being joined.  I had spent a year infiltrating the ranks and the time came for action.  These things rarely go by the numbers but this time it was different.  The Commander of the ship, a woman by the name of Char Rollande came between me and the event of uploading the virus on the bridge.  I had spent months covering myself as the tech, putting subroutines into the systems that would warn of a computer malfunction at this time.  But as I entered the bridge she just knew.   

We battled and I got the data crystal in to the receptacle and the program uploaded.  Seeing this the Commander attempted to break off the battle and make her way through a door that in my schema had simply been a computer conduit.  I dropped her with a well placed blow to the throat and took her keypass from her.  Behind the door there must have been something terribly useful.  I swiped the card and stepped through, a smug smile on my face over my shoulder as I went.  I turned and cursed as the keycard dissolved when the iris door swirled shut.  I had been led into a trap.  I ran down the long (impossible in relation to the ship schematics) pure white corridor.

It was a maze of twists and turns and I soon realized that I was probably drugged.  This was insane.  Stairs up and down, doors of all shapes, sizes and materials.  I spent months wandering, a little more crazy with every sight and sound.

But now I realize this is real.  If only I can find my way to the Imperium I have found another tool in the war to dominate the universe…

100 Point Version

Attributes
Psyche: 6
Strength: 15
Endurance: 11
Warfare: 38

Powers

Warden of the Stair (10 Points)
Cantrips (5 Points)


  • Charm
  • Invigorate
  • Numb
  • Reveal
  • Sureness
Allies
Jenscri Intelligence Division (3 Points) Partisan Support
An organisation that spans galaxies in the Jenscri Imperium Gossamer reality.  Peta is a valued operative and has never failed a mission.  They are aware that she was not on the ship when it was ripped apart due to an implant that every recruit has not reporting her death and they are currently actively seeking her.  

Artifact
Neural Synapse Enhancement (24 Points)
This is the implant that enhances and records an agents welbeing and physicality.  It provides a good deal of extra information through extra sensory perceptions.


  • Confers Quality to User (5 Points) Engine Speed
  • Confers Quality to User (5 Points) Tireless Stamina
  • Engine Speed (4 Points)
  • Tireless Stamina (4 Points)
  • Extraordinary Psychic Sense (4 Points)
  • Able to Speak and Reason (2 Points)
Stuff
Bad Stuff +12


200 Point Version 

Attributes
Psyche: 17
Strength: 31
Endurance: 19
Warfare: 50

Powers

Master of the Stair (35 Points)
Cantrips (27 Points) All Listed

Allies
Jenscri Intelligence Division (3 Points) Partisan Support
An organisation that spans galaxies in the Jenscri Imperium Gossamer reality.  Peta is a valued operative and has never failed a mission.  They are aware that she was not on the ship when it was ripped apart due to an implant that every recruit has not reporting her death and they are currently actively seeking her.  

Artifact
Neural Synapse Enhancement (24 Points)
This is the implant that enhances and records an agents welbeing and physicality.  It provides a good deal of extra information through extra sensory perceptions.


  • Confers Quality to User (5 Points) Engine Speed
  • Confers Quality to User (5 Points) Tireless Stamina
  • Engine Speed (4 Points)
  • Tireless Stamina (4 Points)
  • Extraordinary Psychic Sense (4 Points)
  • Able to Speak and Reason (2 Points)
Stuff
Bad Stuff +6

300 Point Version

Attributes
Psyche: 31
Strength: 47
Endurance: 30
Warfare: 69

Powers

Master of the Stair (35 Points)
Cantrips (27 Points) All Listed
Invocation (20 Points)
Sorcery (15 Points)

Allies
Jenscri Intelligence Division (3 Points) Partisan Support
An organisation that spans galaxies in the Jenscri Imperium Gossamer reality.  Peta is a valued operative and has never failed a mission.  They are aware that she was not on the ship when it was ripped apart due to an implant that every recruit has not reporting her death and they are currently actively seeking her.  

Artifact
Neural Synapse Enhancement (24 Points)
This is the implant that enhances and records an agents welbeing and physicality.  It provides a good deal of extra information through extra sensory perceptions.


  • Confers Quality to User (5 Points) Engine Speed
  • Confers Quality to User (5 Points) Tireless Stamina
  • Engine Speed (4 Points)
  • Tireless Stamina (4 Points)
  • Extraordinary Psychic Sense (4 Points)
  • Able to Speak and Reason (2 Points)
Stuff
Bad Stuff +1


Legalese: Some rights reserved. This work (the image above) by Michael Ezaky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Unported 3.0 License

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