Name: Tomi Maione
— "Birdwatcher"


Faction: Mercenaries



Occupation: Owner/Proprietor of The Nether Forge mechanics shop, located by the space ports in the Hephaestus District of Nova Olympus, Mars, specializing in the repair of land and airborne vehicles.
Is also a primary source for information regarding mercenary activity and assignments within the Sol System and is recognized as such.


Distinguishing Characteristics: Tomi is a human woman in her 30s (her actual age is something she intentionally doesn't reveal), known for her mop of messy golden curls and diminutive stature, standing at only 5'1''. Her fair skin is dotted with freckles and moles from her time spent out in the sun, and scars from excursions past, though most of them lay hidden underneath her clothes. While she doesn't take it out with her often, solely because she hates being judged for it, she has a cane for her right knee. It's a simple black cane, nothing flashy and easily replaceable, primarily used around the shop, and any questions about it are quickly deflected.
She has tattoos winding among some of her more graphic scars, watercolor renditions of local flora, with the most prominent ones being on her right forearm, right leg, and back. 


Other Information: A human native to Mars, born on its colonies and schooled in one of Nova Olympus's military academies, though she was honorably discharged from Alliance forces after only a few short months due to a failed reconnaissance mission. (Said mission is why she's reluctant to reveal her age; with that and her first name anyone can lean that she was involved in it and her former Alliance ties could complicate her current work.) However, during her schooling she specialized in engineering, and used what she learned and her brief exposure to military-grade vehicles to start up a business in repairing vehicles, whether they be the taxis and monorails used in the inner city or infantry fighting vehicles and intergalactic ships. Most of her work tends to be centered around repairing personal transportation however, as they're her biggest and most profitable clients. When she isn't in her shop or out on supply runs or fulfilling personal requests, she's often upstairs in her loft baking, or roaming around the city and its outskirts with her camera. Despite severing most of her ties with the Alliance, she has a few Alliance friends that she occasionally drinks with, but is quick to never share too much information about her side work as a mercenary and her newly formed bond with them. Due to her injury, she doesn't take on much mercenary work, instead taking in requests and passing them on to other mercenaries who are directed to her shop (and taking in a novice pilot who have crashed their very foreign airship; trying to fix it is a personal project of Tomi's).
Her reputation as a information broker of sorts is wide enough to have reach thorough the Sol System, though most are wise enough to use a code name for her outside of Nova Olympus — within the city walls, she's Tomi; outside of them, she's the Birdwatcher.


Character Classification: Player-Controlled/Storyteller NPC