File: Virginia "Crash" Belle

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PERSONAL FILE

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Full name: Virginia Belle
Citizenship: Liberty
Place of birth: Planet Houston, Texas System.
Occupation: Starship CO, Liberty Free Republic, Liberty Insurgency (formerly)
Height: 1.78m
Weight: around 63 kg
Description: Blue eye color, blonde hair and fair skin.
Handedness: Left
Medical records: Blood type A+, Nominal blood pressure 97/64, Eyesight 20/20 Tetrachromacy, Zero-G tolerance nominal, Chronic right knee pain after knee joint injury suffered at the age of 17 - prescribed painkillers, chronic difficulties and weakness after complicated medical care for gunshot wounds (30/11/828, Veracruz) and recovery. Nicotine and Caffeine addiction.Mild Cardamine addiction.

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Backstory and overview

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Virginia "Crash" Belle is temperamental, rash and triggerhappy former Hellfire Legion officer. She was born on Planet Houston in Liberty and she comes from relatively poor and disfunctional family. As she has witnessed LPI corruption first hand with several people around her arrested for seemingly no reason, she became slowly dissatisfied with Liberty as the years went on and her social awareness grew.

She became sympathetic towards numerous anti-establishment movements, including Xenos, although she was not radical at that time to even consider joining them and her financial situation did not allow any material support for such movements.
Later she was attracted to the Commonwealth's milder propaganda and joined the Hellfire Legion, quickly adjusting herself to the life of warfare, especially as her fellow combatants were killed or seriously wounded in combat with Outcasts and Liberty Navy.

She gained her "Crash" nickname by her fellow officers when she accidentally crashed her first own ship, HFGB Dahlonega, into the Bison transport ship she was tasked blockading - severely damaging her own ship and crippling the transport in question.
She was later serving as executive officer aboard HFBC Cooperstown before she was handpicked by Commodore Elizabeth White as bridge officer aboard INS North Carolina. There are some rumors circling around this as she was clearly not the best option available for such position, yet she somehow got into favor through unofficial meanswith Rear Admiral. Later, she became effective commanding officer when Rear Admiral Elizabeth White and her staff were gravely injured in action after the bombers strafed battleship's bridge in one of numerous Kansas's skirmishes with Liberty Navy forces, 2-10-828.

As of 25-11-828, due to the bad technical state of INS North Carolina which severely reduces its strategical mobility - Virginia Belle took command of one of its escort vessels, battlecruiser INS Roanoke, to serve her as more versatile and reliable warship for her assignments when INS Dahlonega's guns are not up to task.

30-11-828, Captain Virginia Belle got herself into gunfight on Planet Veracruz and ended up critically wounded, but according to official records - her life was timely saved by medical assistant Grace Snows from INS North Carolina. Due to severity of her injuries and lengthy recovery, she was temporarily replaced by her XO Commander Ben Sheffield at her post.

As late of as 16-02-829, Virginia Belle was seen aboard INS Roanoke once again, discussing future battle plans and other preparations against Liberty Navy and other adversaries with Commander Ben Sheffield.
Her combat record against encroaching Liberty Navy forces was cut short when she met Damien 'Cobra' Morreti, an infamous Xeno Alliance leader, who managed to convince her to leave Liberty Insurgency before it becomes her grave. To increase her chances, she limited herself to mostly INS Roanoke, to where she transferred most of her most loyal crewmen and officers for possibly defection.
As of 23-03-829, INS Roanoke cut off communications with command and disappeared during once of its patrols in California system.

In reality, she staged INS Roanoke's takeover with her new Xeno allies and fled to Fort Ramsey in Ontario. Takeover did not go well as she thought - more crew than anticipated rose against her decision, which led to number of her crew to be thinned down and ship severely damaged, mostly from raging battle inside of the ship.
Before her ship can be brought into the service again, there are some major repairs and modifications to be done first.


However, she has a darker secret around herself - she became addicted to Cardamine during of her first leaves as Hellfire's ensign. While she considers it as a grave mistake as she has to supply herself with the drug for the rest of her life, her addiction also makes her more easier target for blackmailing because of the social stigma carried with Cardamine itself.
To keep her addiction as secret as possible, she uses wristband subdermal Liquid Cardamine injector to supply herself with the drug discreetly and sourcing the Liquid Cardamine capsules from her underworld contact.

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Important story characters

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Marcus Bell (missing)

Older brother, partner in minor crimes from earlier years, last known to be imprisoned at LPI Sugarland - which served as catalyst for Virginia's radicalization. She was staging his breakout, but turmoil around formation of Liberty Insurgency put a hold on that and she lost track of him due to most of her contacts disappearing and laying low.

Commodore Elizabeth White (deceased)

Former commanding officer of the INS North Carolina and her tutor of some sort. Details of their exact relationship are unknown, but because of Virginia's fast promotion to position of executive officer aboard large capital vessel as battleship, there are some rumors floating around about White's reasons why she did so.

Bob 'Fix' Myles (missing)

Shady freelancing drug dealer, who is getting Liquid Cardamine for Virginia without questions asked, but his unresolved tensions with Junker drug dealers might cause him some problems and may force Virginia to find another supplier in the future.

Grace Snows (nemesis)

Former assistant medical officer in her late forties, lieutenant commander Grace Snows is now current chief medical officer aboard INS North Carolina. Despite her rather innocent name, profession, looks and behavior, she is ruthless and merciless, and does not like Captain Belle at all for various reasons, mainly for her promotion to XO by deceased Commodore White.
When Grace has found out that Virginia Belle is addicted to cardamine, she seized the opportunity to blackmail her and rise through the ranks.

Ben Sheffield (former friend)

Commander Ben Sheffield is former commanding officer of battlecruiser INS Roanoke before he was 'replaced' by Captain Belle, who decided to make battlecruiser as her flagship until INS North Carolina receives proper dry-docking and disassembly, realignment and reassembly of its faulty engine housing.
Unlike Virginia, Ben is stable family man with both wife and children, and serves her well as advisor and even source of common sense. It is mainly thanks to his efforts that atmosphere and cooperation between crewmen and officers are better aboard INS Roanoke than on INS North Carolina.

However, there were major disputes between Virginia Belle and Ben Sheffield during defection to Liberty Free Republic, and as a result - they have ceased to be friends and their journeys split apart.

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Contact lists

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Damien 'Cobra' Morreti (ally)

Xeno Alliance commander Damien Morreti, also known as Cobra, became one of her the most unlikely allies. They originally met when Virginia Belle was patrolling with her battlecruiser INS Roanoke through Texas' numerous debris fields and sounded alarms for possible combat with her Xeno adversaries.
Instead of battle, however, Damien Morreti noticed her rather fatalistic opinion about Liberty Insurgency and its chances against Liberty Navy. Instead of trying to kill her, he influenced her to chance her opinion and leave the Insurgency altogether.

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