[*]Name: Carina Valencia A background check would reveal that her full name is Carina Ibánez Valencia, daughter of Felix Ibánez, an ex-convict who served 8 years in Huntsville after being arrested in the California system for drug running and resisting arrest. Felix has since served his prison time but the rest of his sentence is being carried out in forced labor at Montgomery Steelworks on Houston. He claims to have been rehabilitated, but many of his old attitudes are still evident even behind his honest-Joe work and family. Further investigation might reveal that Felix is the illegitimate son of a particularly notorious Corsair pirate Alonso Herrero Alvillar de la Barca. Felix's mother was raped by the pirate and eventually committed suicide over it after Felix's birth, and Felix was adopted by merchant Iván Barros Moreno who fled to Curacao and attempted to raise the boy right, but ultimately failed as Felix fell in with brigands and crooks in his teenage years.
[*]Brief Biography: Born in 795 AS to a poor family with a younger sister Consuela. Graduated 18th in her high school class of roughly 300, immediately went to work at the steel foundry to help support her family due to indirect pressure from her father. Her father constantly rambled about the sorry state of Liberty's economy and the oppression of the poor, but never really did anything to improve their lot. Her mother is a quiet, graceful woman, but as a soft-spoken housewife she is easily dominated by her husband. Her father wanted sons, as he is not shy about saying that women are the weaker sex, and although he does care for his daughters, he treats them like fragile, helpless creatures that are in need of a husband to look after them. Carina is anything but fragile and helpless, and in fact had a record of getting into fist fights rather frequently with boys at school when they would pick on people smaller than them (and she would frequently win). Carina hated her job at the foundry and longed to get away from home, but not so far that she would not be able to see her mother and sister. As soon as she had saved up enough money for a down payment on a spacecraft, she financed a simple vessel and began to explore Liberty space, doing odd jobs and trading goods. Eventually she was able to locate profitable trade routes and became financially self-sufficient, regularly sending a good portion of her earnings to her mother to assist the family. She aspires to prove her father wrong about everything by becoming exactly what he hates - a police officer, and intends to help support her mother financially if hired. She and her father had an intense falling out when she left home, and the two are still not on speaking terms.
[*]Reasons for Joining: To assist in safeguarding the trade lanes in Liberty and enforce Libertarian law for the welfare of all citizens. If the above information is revealed in a background check, Carina will gladly come clean about her true motives for wanting to go into law enforcement - to prove to herself and anyone else who might care that children of criminals need not be doomed by their parents' record, and to spite her father who A) was disappointed he did not have any sons, and made it obvious, and B) constantly ranted about the untrustworthiness and questionable lineage/intelligence of law enforcment officers in general.
EDIT: Realized I forgot a Skype ID here - I'll make one when I get home later.
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