Melony Richards

Rank: Lt. 3rd Class

Position: Engineer's Mate/ Alpha Shift Engineering Bridge Officer, CSS Long Shot

Height/Weight: 5'3" // 129 Lbs.

Age: 18

Species: Vulpin/ Human Otherself

Current Training/Certifications: Fighter Pilot's Liscence (Basic)/ Flight Crew Training (Basic)/ Alliance Basic Training/ Engineering Training (Bachelor's in generalized Engineering)/ Fighter Engineering/Warp Systems Training/ Reactor Technology Generalist

Description: A mid-height Vulpin, rather attractive.  She is highly unusual in that a rather bizzare accident which is still under inverstigation has left her fur bleached blue and white, a sort of turqouis color. She still has her old markings, but they are... changed from her encounter.

The sides and underside of her muzzle is white, with ever so slight hints of a pinkish red in it.  This white streches from her muzzle, spreading out all along her front side, across her entire belly, going between her legs down partway down the bottom of her tail, quitting a third of the way down. She has so-called 'socks' on each of her extremities, each white.  She has a good mane of head-fur, an extremely dark blue, shoulder-length, usually in a ponytail.

Personality: She is stubbron, withdrawn from being mistrusted and shied away from in school and along her youth.  She prefers to work alone, because of this, despite efforts to break her out of it.  She has a 'stand or sink on your own' mentality.  She hates flying, though why is unclear.  She has been more hostile as of late, having seen something while training with Richson that has seriously shocked her, and has made her unwilling to put much trust in people.

Known History: She was born in 3237, to Ophelia and Gerald Richards, a vulpin couple.  Mother was a long-range scout, her father was a major contractor for New Navarre.  She went through the New Navarre public school system, remaining normal for a few years, until she reached physical maturity.  After that, her friends drifted away from her, and she found herself outside the normal circles due to various reasons.  

In a substitute for that, she ended up working on learning engineering, facsinated with the subject.  From 12 until the evacuation of Earth, she spent her days learning about the intricacies of starships, of how to build, while... excising her less tender feelings with her father through various methods, including swordfighting.

Then she proved herself in the evacuation of Earth, as she was brought aboard the S.S. Flash by her father, keeping the ship intact for the journey to the Expanse.  With the general fuss raised by Captain Marthan about the Vulpin, she found herself transferred and commissioned on the SS Long Shot, where she quickly proved herself.

She was worked on by Captain Diess, opening up some as she served, starting to make progress in her social interaction, especially after the Kalida Raid, in which she was dragged along with the initial raid in fighters.  

In late January of that year, she was offered a chance to learn... what exactly she didn't make clear, but having been secretly authorized, abeit without even her knowledge, by Grand Admiral Davison, she headed to Richson, surviving an encounter with the mighty citadel, to learn from him for a month.

Since then, in mid-march, while working on a chemical for the marine department of the Long Shot, several factors led to her recent... change of colors.  She is currently working on fixing herself, or barring that, smacking someone around for the incident.