My Name: Ryan Phlaminus

Char Name: Kyridia Feynman
Species: Human

Gender: Female
Place of Birth: Red Cliff, Victory, Terra Nova

Faction: Grimm’s Army
Role: freelance technological and scientific expert (or ‘tech gal’, as she’s more often referred to as)

Weapons of Choice: she normally doesn’t need to carry any, but a heavily modified PP9 plasma pistol is included in her prosthetic arm (scroll down for more details about it)

 

Biography: Kyridia was born in Greenville, one of the many industrial centres that surrounded Victory’s capital Red Cliff, and was raised by her mother, who owned a quite well known workshop in the proximity of an Airforce base. Ever since her early childhood she would spend entire days helping her mother disassembling and repairing starships, and she affectionately recalls those moments as some of the best of her life . Even though she would never describe herself as such, she was undoubtedly a child prodigy. At fifteen she was admitted in Saintsworth Academy, one of Victory’s most prestigious Athenaea, and graduated two years in advance; her degree thesis was an autonomous research on dynamical analysis of non-isotropic radial singularities in containment fields, and the whole Victorian scientific community praised her work for being both extremely original and very important for the development of new kinds of starship engines.

Of course, governments tend to keep a close watch on valuable scientists, and even more so when they’re young and extraordinarily brilliant as Kyridia was. It wasn’t long before the government asked her to join a project codenamed Icarus, and she was practically forced to leave her studies at the Athenaeum and move to a secret military base in the extreme north of Victory. She was shocked when, upon her arrival, she discovered that Icarus was nothing but a new kind of orbital superweapon, and that most of her colleagues didn’t seem to care in any way for the death of thousands of innocents that their creation was likely to cause. At this point, it’s not clear what happened exactly, as the official reports are what’s sure is that she somehow managed to escape the facility, bringing with her an essential part of Icarus’ reactor that alone was worth more that a small city. The exact dynamics and the extent of her accusations are still is a matter of debate for Victory’s government: a part of the Congress tries to minimize the consequences of her act, but the vast majority considers her a subversive traitor who should be treated as such. All agree that, as one of the country’s most valuable minds in possess of military secret information and material, she is to be brought back at any cost.

With an accuse of high treason dangling on her head, Kyridia was forced to live clandestinely for nearly a year, constantly travelling from village to village working as a mechanic to get by; it was during this period that she came in contact with Grimm’s Army, in the person of a girl only a few years older than her, who ultimately bring her to Grimm’s headquarters

Kyridia’s duty within Grimm’s Army is currently described as ‘freelance technological and scientific expert’: the fancy name means that Grimm offers her protection and resources for her research, and in exchange she shares her discoveries and prototypes of armour, vehicles and weapons. After three years of intense collaboration, both parts can say without fear of being wrong that the deal worked out perfectly: Kyridia is free to study pretty much whatever she wishes with access to almost limitless resources, and Grimm has finally found a way to reduce the technological gap between him and the Big Four.

 

Personality:  Kyridia is, for many aspects, a free spirit: she’s always enjoyed finding her own ways of solving problems rather than being told how by someone else, and – as confirmed by her actions -- doesn’t hesitate taking radical decisions when she feels it’s the best thing to do. She’s always been very distrustful about the concept of ‘Order’, and her dislike of all-encompassing governments has only harshened with her experience within the Icarus project. She isn’t necessarily an anarchist, but judges personal freedom much more important than the sacrifice of the single for the establishment of the ‘greater good’. Her vision of science also differs dramatically from Victory’s system, in which research is inevitably entwined with politics. Kyridia strongly believes that science should not be subordinated to political interests, and instead scientists should be able to study whatever they want, without any kind of boundaries.

From a more personal point of view, she’s generally regarded as an all-around nice person, and she cares much (almost too much, as Helena often reminds her) for those around her. Still, many consider her to be too distant at times: it’s not uncommon for her to remain silent during a conversation, deeply assorted in her thoughts, giving the impression of not caring about what the other is talking about. She became good friends with an unexpectedly conspicuous number of people in the past three years, but the bond that links her to Helena Sanduleak is of a totally different kind  -- aside from having saved each other’s life several times, the two young women share much more that it would be expected from such different personalities and lives.

Kyridia lost her left arm during an activation test of one of her inventions, a highly experimental homopolar field compressor; many would have been terribly shaken by the incident, but she merely took it as a new if unusual opportunity to working a field of science different from her own. Her prosthetic arm is arguably one of the most advanced works of subcellular nanotechnology in the whole Terra Nova, and it’s filled with a seemingly endless variety of accessories and add-ons that Kyridia keeps installing every now and then; among them, she included a small particle cannon for personal defence, although many would object that her mind is the only weapon that she’ll ever need.