Lieutenant Para Ventura

Description

Roboticist, enlisted with the toughs because she wanted "out" 2008-03-28. She is about four and a half feet tall, lightly built, and has tan skin. She has purple hair, done up in a ponytail. Doing the math, Para is eighteen years old: Tagon is 49 2008-10-01, and Para says that Tagon is thirty-one years older than she is 2009-04-21.

Bio

She had a reputation on the //Morokweng, as evidenced by the instant helpfulness of the drydock 'bots working on the Touch-and-Go// 2008-03-30. Hired on as an ensign, she was soon promoted to Lieutenant 2009-02-09. She has a green belt in Shotokan Karate, a skill she combines with her powered armor to devastating effect 2009-01-24. She has occasional attacks of PTSD 2009-02-06 , 2011-07-14.

During the Toughs' expedition to Haven Hive, she suborned the Sanctum Adroit tar-bots with a dental implant similar to Max Haluska's 2011-10-20, thus turning the tables both on Max 2011-09-18 and on Major Murtaugh's force 2011-10-09.

It was revealed during the Oisri incident that Para was an agent of UNS Internal Affairs Intelligence 2012-08-22. After the insane Tagii destroyed the Morokweng, Para activated a kill-switch to disable Tagii 2012-12-24.

Para was rehired by Tagon as a coxswain during the mission to Eina-afa 2013-03-29, since Bristlecone would take orders only from her 2013-03-28.

Affiliations & Relationships

• Civilian contractor for the UNS aboard the Morokweng 2008-03-28
• Currently enlisted with Tagon's Toughs 2008-03-30
• Creator of LOTA 2008-06-22
• Programmer of Tagioalisi and creator of her personality 2009-04-22
• Former agent of Int-Aff-Int 2012-08-22.

Appearances

First appearance

Ventura's first appearance was on 2008-03-27

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Author's Note

[This space is reserved exclusively for Howard!]

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Speculation

Possibly the 'Ventura' for which the HV scale for AI intelligence is named, or related? 2001-03-13

"Per Avventura" in Italian, or "Por Aventura" in Spanish, could be translated as "by or through chance/hazard/adventure"

Name may have been inspired by Paracelsus (meaning "on a par with Celsus"), in reference to the Ventura of the HV scale. The lieutenant is a bit young to have had the AI scale named after her, and if it was, she would not be likely to have been a civilian contractor on the Morokweng.

If you take into account her technical background, she would have been able to give far more specific intelligence on the beach-head cage. If she is an agent for UNS she is possibly a double agent for Petey. The strip on 2012-02-04 may well just indicate a UNS agent on Parnassus Dom. That should surprise nobody considering the wide range of sophonts seen strolling around, and the probability of assorted embassies.

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