Description
¶ Overview
- Full Name: Anya Rochelle Tyr
- Aliases: Kupua
- Species: Human
- Ethnicity: Polynesian, Scandinavian
- Nationality: Freelance
- Born: March 15th, 2668
- Place of Birth: Augustus
- Gender: Female
- Sex: Female
- Sexual Identity: Bisexual
- Faction: Freelance
Anya Tyr is an ace fighter pilot and a frighteningly effective leader of a fighter wing. She's also considered a master thief by those in the trade, a skill she picked up from associates of the West Isles Company after she was drummed out of the Confederation service.
¶ Physical Description
Anya is a tall, well-muscled individual. Both her Polynesian and Scandinavian heritage show through in her build. She has sharp, fast reflexes that aid her in both her piloting and thieving pursuits.
¶ Personality
Outwardly, Anya enjoys acting like she takes nothing serious in her life. She is a gregarious and often loud personality, which tends to get her called upon to be something of a face for West Isles when they need one.
Inwardly, she is constantly tracking and planning. Thanks to her upbringing and the way she ended up getting booted from Confederation service, she now keeps tabs on everyone around and always has an exit route planned. She was burned too often by those she trusted in the past to ever allow it to happen again. More than once, she has alerted d'Ardenne to a developing problem with plenty of time for the crew to slip away unscathed.
¶ History
¶ Early Life
Anya was born in a culturally Polynesian city on one of Augustus' many island chains. She lived a fairly comfortable life as the only daughter of two highly skilled fishermen. When she was six, a hurricane killed her fathers. Without any extended family, she entered the foster system. In the two foster homes she lived in, she learned about the less-comfortable side of life, although she would be the first one to tell you that her experience in the system wasn't a bad one.
¶ Family and Personal Life
In her second foster home, Anya was first exposed to the idea of military service and had her first encounter with a fighter pilot. Needless to say, an impression was made.
Anya formed a very strong connection to her second foster home and to this day, she will still take time to visit them and routinely sends them money after every job. She has even approached d'Ardenne about helping them find a larger, nicer house. In response, Walker purchased a sprawling house on an island in the bay near that foster home's location, setup a trust for the fosters, and secretly moved them in. It wasn't until Anya took him with her for a visit that he revealed that to her. She pushed him into the bay before diving in and hugging him.
Anya rarely engages in romantic relationships and while she has been known to enjoy the occasional fling, she also rarely engages in those. She enjoys sex and she enjoys relationships, but she also understands that her life right now is too complicated to be an equal partner in a relationship.
For now, the found family that she has in the Chilkoot crew is enough for her.
She does enjoy flirting with Emmy, mostly because they both know nothing is likely to happen there. Their's is a deep love, despite it being strictly platonic.
¶ Religious Views
Anya holds no faith of her own. Her fathers adhered to the version of the Polynesian faith that emerged amongst the stars, but they died before they could truly pass their faith along. What this has done is left Anya with a deep curiosity about faith in general and her cultural faiths specifically. Whenever she can, she will seek out faith leaders to speak to about their beliefs. One day, she hopes to take a trip to Earth and seek out the the faith of her ancestors and ask questions there, but it hasn't happened yet.
¶ Military Life
Anya attempted to join the Empire cluster's Defense Force, but the local recruiter turned her down, supposedly due to her low school grades without even having her take an aptitude test. Six months later, when she received top marks on the Confederation Navy's aptitude test and scored off the charts on the starfighter/pilot proficiency category, she took great delight in scheduling a meeting with the recruiter who rejected her and their boss and showing them the results before walking out to join the Confederation Starfighter Corp. The recruiter found himself reassigned to a sensor station for allowing such a strong pilot to slip away.
She passed basic training and pilot training with ease, though her instructors made frequent notes that her attitude was almost always bordering on insubordinate. In officer training, she found herself in the Commandant's office twice for disrespecting senior officers. Despite this, she was still passed on to active duty and just after her 19th birthday she found herself in command of one of the fighter squadrons based out of Juno Station, largely due to the low number of highly skilled and qualified leaders that opted to remain with the Confederation Navy when other offers came along.
This posting lasted for just over a year. In April of 2688, Anya was brought up on assault charges after Oliver San Michels, the wealthy son of a local League ambassador, failed to take no as an answer at a reception. His well-connected father, who had just been approached about becoming one of the owners of the station, put pressure on the Confed Navy commander on Juno Station to put all the blame on Anya and clear his son's name. Despite the very loud protestations of Wing Commander Terra Rose, Anya was dishonorably discharged and handed over to the local judicials.
Walker d'Ardenne was present at the reception along with Emmy Sinclair, and together, they arranged for Anya to avoid prison time and leaked a metric mountain of blackmail-worthy material about the son to every news outlet in the League and the Confederation, along with hi-res video and audio of him refusing to accept Anya's no.
The elder San Michels received two messages the same day, one was from the League President accepting his resignation (which he had not sent) and an anonymous message sent by d'Ardenne that simply read "Reap what you sow." Unfortunately, while this effectively ended Oliver's attempt at joining the League Diplomatic corp, there were little to no further repurcussions on the San Michels family, though Walker did keep an eye on them.
¶ West Isles
Once the dust had settled at Juno, d'Ardenne approached Anya about coming to work for him at the still relatively new West Isles Company. After an hour long conversation, she accepted his offer and the two of them, along with Emmy, immediately proceeded to a corrupt breaker yard in Freelance space and stole some ships, two of which were traded to CNK as part of the Chilkoot deal. The third one was a heavily modified Valyarn fighter that Anya still uses to this day.
¶ Thief Training
While waiting for the Chilkoot to roll off the CNK line, and with d'Ardenne off recruiting another member of the team, Janson and Sinclair introduced Anya to the more trustworthy contacts they had in the underworld. She spent the next year learning how to be a thief from them, and as a result of the widely varying training, she possesses a wildly random but deeply useful set of skills related to all aspects of being a professional thief. Her "final test" more or less, was to show d'Ardenne what she had learned by trying to beat the proving ground that Ralph Marks had created at his, and now d'Ardenne's, villa on Calysto. It took her nearly two weeks, but she finally overcame every challenge that d'Ardenne set for her.
¶ Legacy
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¶ Ships
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Chilkoot - The Primary ship of the West Isles Company
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Crimson Bolt - The highly customized Valyarn fighter that Anya flies
¶ West Isles Crew
¶ Walker d'Ardenne
¶ Mikhail Janson
¶ Emmy Sinclair
¶ Riley Aimes
¶ Whitney Antares
¶ Major Associations
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