The Heavy Metal Queen

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The Heavy Metal Queen
Crew Roster

The Captain of the Ship,
Akaisha Kusanagi.
Age: 30 (in 819).
Nationality: Kusari/Bretonian.
Gender: Female.
Place Of Birth: Transport Ship between Bretonia and Kusari.

Background: Akaisha is the child of Charles McKinnis, a former Bretonian Military Captain, and Hitomi Kusanagi a freelancer from Kusari. After her birth, her father, an otherwise loyal Bretonian citizen helped the two of them escape Bretonian space as hostilities with Kusari seemed likely at the time. Unwilling to travel with them due to his military loyalties, the family was split apart permanently.

After resettling on Hitomi's homeworld of New Tokyo, her mother decided that they should live away from the dangers of life in a megacity, and so Akaisha was raised in a quiet village in the mountains of a small island some distance from the main urban centers of the planet. Around Akaisha's 17th birthday, she learned that her mother had been killed in space during an encounter with pirates.

It was then that Akaisha began life on her own, using what little money her mother had kept hidden away for them. Akaisha managed to acquire a small freighter, using it for trading, and eventually smuggling, throughout Sirius. Akaisha was able to break into black market trade thanks in part to some of her mother's old contacts.

Eventually, Akaisha made her 'home' in Liberty and fell in with the Junkers of New York, where she later acquired her hallmark ship, the Pilgrim Liner known as The Heavy Metal Queen. This ship would go on to make her somewhat famous among certain crowds, gaining her much respect, and even fear, as well as many enemies she had never anticipated.

After being around the Junkers' for a number of years, it was brought to her attention that the Slave Trade was one of the most lucrative trades in the sector for those who had the skill and stomach for it. After many long arguments with Saito, her number two, Akaisha reluctantly agreed to have the Heavy Metal Queen transformed into a "Top of the line" Slaving Vessel. While still morally opposed to the idea of slaving, Akaisha has accepted it as the way of life she knows, something she is good at, and something that has allowed her to continue living her life with relatively few major problems.



The Helmsman/Slave Driver,
Saito Kagemaru.
Age: 38 (in 819).
Nationality: Kusari.
Gender: Male.
Place Of Birth: Planet New Tokyo.

Background: Saito was one of the best pilots in his class at the Kusari Naval Academy. He had been picked to personally command a KNF Destroyer on a training sortie in orbit of planet Kyushu. Toward the end of what was an otherwise successful mission, which would have been a positive landmark to launch him on a long career in the Kusari Navy, something went horribly wrong. it was believed to be an accident but Saito has always blamed himself for it. The ship fell out of orbit, and began a rapid, uncontrollable descent through the atmosphere of Kyushu, breaking apart long before slamming into the ocean below.

Few of the escape pods launched before the crash, killing nearly everyone aboard including Saito's training officers. Saito, blaming himself, resigned his commission at the KNF Academy and began a long and brutal battle with alcoholism which spanned more than a decade. In fact his alcoholism is the reason he met Akaisha, when she came into a Freeport bar looking for skilled pilots. Seeing this as some sort of weird way to redeem himself and prove to himself that the destroyer incident wasn't his fault, he was one of the first to volunteer and ultimately the best candidate in Akaisha's eyes. Many associates and members of the crew believe that the two of them have even developed a romantic relationship, though both of them would deny it flatly.

Saito's past has left him mostly a cynical and bitter man on the inside and this is usually seen externally only when he vents his anger on newly acquired slaves, and even the occasional Engine Room worker.



The Medical Officer,
Chelsea Hagen.
Age: 23 (in 819).
Nationality: Libertonian.
Gender: Female.
Place Of Birth: Planet Los Angeles.

Background: Chelsea was a student at a medical school run by Cryer Pharmaceuticals, in her final year at the medical school it came out that she had a severe addiction to Cardamine as well as Synthetic Marijuana. So despite her outstanding track record in the field of medicine she was ejected from Medical School, and shortly thereafter detained by the LPI, spending a year in a Rehab program. After returning home, work was hard for her to come by, and she was finding it difficult to continue paying rent, facing eviction from her apartment, when she found out about a 'Transport Ship' recently moored at the Los Angeles Spaceport whose captain was seeking out 'Qualified' Medical Personnel to serve as part of the crew. Chelsea jumped at this chance for work, not fully knowing the details of her job until after signing on, details which at that point proved ultimately irrelevant to her, given the amount of money being made.

Additional Notes: Chelsea also has an apparent knack for technology, as such she is the one who creates most of the "Devices" that the crew of the 'The Queen' use to keep their new slaves or, "Workers" as she calls them...Obediant.



The Gunnery Chief/Head Of Security,
Hans Olbermann.
Age: 32 (in 819).
Nationality: Rheinlander, Germanic.
Gender: Male.
Place Of Birth: Planet New Berlin.

Background: Hans is an extremely serious and disciplined 'gun nut', born in Rheinland of two military parents. When he reached the age of eighteen he enlisted in the Rheinland Military, serving with a 'Naval Infantry' unit, taking part in, and eventually leading his own successful raids on several pirate and terrorist bases. In the course of his military career Hans became an expert marksman and distinguished soldier, eventually leading his own unit of special operatives up until the end of his time in uniform. A time he still feels was cut far too short.

What put an end to Hans' career was a bar fight that he got himself into against two Rheinland Military fleet pilots, He wound up killing one of them and leaving the other paralyzed from the waist down. As one might expect, Hans has been on the run since then. He was later picked out by Akaisha and Saito from a handful of prospective crew-members in a bar on Niverton station. When the two heard of his experiences they could hardly wait to bring such an accomplished and disciplined soldier aboard as their head of security.

Hans has served 'The Queen' faithfully and dutifully for the duration of his time aboard, and he is the primary reason none of the slaves have ever escaped, he is also personally responsible for training the 'security' crew, who otherwise would have been standard run of-the-mill hired guns. Under Hans' direction they have become professional, effective, and disciplined marksmen that operate in a swift and paramilitary manner. This in effect, has created a small army loyal and devoted to the missions tasked to them by Akaisha Kusunagi.

Even with all of his responsibilities, Hans still manages to be personable enough to have become a good friend to both Akaisha and Saito, both of whom completely trust him personally, with their lives on and off the ship.



The Bodyguard/Fixer,
Natsukawa Saeko aka "Chidori".
Age: 17 (in 819).
Nationality: Kusari.
Gender: Female.
Place Of Birth: Planet New Tokyo.

Background: Natsukawa came to be a part of the Heavy Metal Queen's crew when she was just seventeen years old. Taken as a trophy by pirates after the transport ship she was aboard was destroyed, she spent several years being sold from one pirate to another, before finally crossing paths with Kusanagi Akaisha, who witnessed her slit the throat of an unaffiliated pirate that was trying to restrain her. Akaisha chose to intervene and protect her, for reasons that were never articulated. After this, young Saeko formed an almost familial devotion to Akaisha, the first person who had ever protected her. She would go on to become highly trusted by Akaisha, even acting as her personal bodyguard, messenger, and "fixer", as she got older and grew under Akaisha's watch.

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