Mariko Kietan

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Space combat exercises taken place: Twenty-three (23)
Space combat exercises passed: Fifteen (15)
Space combat missions completed: Two (2)
Space combat missions failed: Two (2)

Contrary to her performance on the ground and in close combat, Mariko is a distinctly average fighter pilot. The one thing she has going for her is the fact that she can adapt to different tactics used by enemy pilots. In all other respects, she isn't really that distinctive in a cockpit. Her special abilities that she possesses, she uses to combat the G-forces that she experiences in hard turns, control the ship and use all the controls on the control panel. She is too short to reach the pedals in the foot well of an Eagle, and her physical arms are too weak to pull back or push forward the throttle, let alone control the joystick.

She scores averagely in most duel simulations, but scores poorly in teamwork simulations. She simply refuses to listen to orders to target specific ship(s) and does whatever she feels like doing. She is more a liability in space than an asset. However, in a single observed event when a person known as Juno Keitan was watching Mariko in training, she passed with 96 percent overall marks. A big jump from the 67 percent average she was scoring before then.

Mariko has since stayed with Juno out of her own choice rather than Juno's. I have observed that Mariko does everything in her power to impress, make happy, or otherwise fulfill Juno's every request, order and instruction. Why she has attached herself to Juno, nobody knows, but it just happened. She also refers to Juno as "mama". It appears that Juno, in Mariko's mind, is her mother. At seventeen, Juno is almost certainly not the genetic mother of Mariko. It is something that only Mariko can explain, but its looks instinctive.

In proper space combat, against Kusari naval and police pilots, Mariko doesn't take her time. She does her job, with noticeably more efficiency than when in training. This could have something to do with the fact that Mariko simply likes to kill, but she doesn't really concern herself with fighting voluntarily, as she prefers ground combat. She has been forced to eject before, but has not been around any of us when she has. If she would have done so near us, she would have been killed straight away. Her last failure was in Cambridge, where she was picked up after losing her fighter to a Corsair, whilst making him lose his own. The emotional distress of Mariko as she apologized relentlessly to Juno was astounding.

As a summary, Mariko may be a killing machine on the ground, but in the air, she is just another pilot. But then again, she is just a few months past her fourteenth birthday.

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