Echo Squadron is an elite squadron that doesn't exist on any books. It's made up of League Naval Intelligence operatives who are also decent pilots. The idea is a group of people who can fly the engines off anything they find, get in and get out with minimal resources. They are only assembled for a single mission at a time, pulled from other, more mundane duties. Where possible, the officers assigned to Echo aren't otherwise considered Intelligence Assets.
While operating as a part of Echo Squadron, all members are given Spaceforce Ranks, regardless of their normal branch of service. Often, these ranks are higher than their normal (though they might be lower), as a way of obfuscating the members true identities, as well as making the suqadron more effective in the field with greater operational authority in-situ.
At this point in her career, Glyse wasn't well known, beyond being the enigmatic Admiral McKenzie's daughter. Being 21, she was eager to prove herself in her first command. Common rumors at the time was that her impressive academy performance (and all the records she smashed) were falsified as a PR stunt, since she's a pretty face for recruitment posters, and McKenzie is a good bedfellow to keep happy (and suspected of having the connections to make it happen).
Glyse has yet to have her 'buck the chain of command and get people killed' moment.
Yui is one of those people who have always struggled with physical skills, and as such as overcompensated with mental ones. She's brilliant, witty, and weild snark like a weapon. Her skills as hacking an security systems came from needing to find something she could do that wouldn't rely on any of her physical abilities.
Her skills as a pilot came about when she found out that she had decent enough reflexes, and most of piloting was outthinking your opponent. Her tactics are on point, but her skills with a stick are still a bit lacking.
Note: Her personality is based off of Agnes Jurati from Star Trek.
Aanya is a woman of few words. She appears cool and confident, but it's hard to know what she's ever really thinking. She seems very easy going, always being willing to go with wha the group has decided, and just trying her best to be useful. If it doesn't have anything to do with her domain, she will simply sit back, content to let others handle it.
The one thing Aayna will get very passionate about is her weapons. She has a veritable arsenel, and she names every single one. They all have meaning to her, and she's not above threatening an ally or friend if they so much as scratch one of her weapons. (She's killed men for damaging her favorite pistol.)
If she ever loans you a weapon, you must listen to her description of the weapon's name, it's history, and her handling instructions. If you don't she won't loan you the weapon. Period. Circumstances don't matter.
Marcus is, for lack of a better term, 'too good for this world'. He's also hopelessly obsessed with Glyse, but more in a cute puppy dog way than a creepy one. Everyone knows he'd madly in love with her, and he knows there's about 0 chance. It doesn't deter him from being the good soul and gentleman he is.
He's also one of the most natural trackers the academy had seen in decades, and has been shot down three times already, surviving in situations where optimistic odds put him under 10%. He's very skilled at survival in any environment and has a good deal of luck on his side.
Duncan is Glyse's rival from her days at the academy. They've traded records back and forth and he is, perhaps, the second best pilot in the League, if don't believe in ties. What's even more impressive is that not only is he a normal human, but he's not even a focus user; he's worse at it that most humans, at least as far as Glyse can tell.
Duncan is pure fighter skill; he can run and shoot and fight, but put him at the controls of anything, and he becomes a lethal machine, much the same as Glyse. The reason why he's her #2 is because, despite their rivalry and constant back and forth, she trusts him and he her. They drop the rival stuff the moment the shit hits the fan and she picked him for this assigment personally.
Aria is bubbly, friendly and entirely unforgetable. As Glyse put it after meeting her, "that's girl's throttle is stuck wide open". She loves making friends, tries to be the voice of optimism and is bouncy from one end to the other.
What's more disturbing than her non-stop energy is her behind a sniper's scope. She channels that boundless energy into waiting for the perfect moment to strike. She's incredibly good, with a paitence that rivals the best. She will stalk her prey from the shadows for hours or days before setting up the perfect kill. And once she's done, she's back to her typical self.
Many have suggested her bouncy nature is a mask, but so far, there's never been any evidence of it. She knows it's a bit weird, but she likes her job, and her skills, and who she is. She see no reason to fit into other people's boxes.
Matteo was operating as a Warrent Officer on the LSS New Delhi for eight months before he was discovered to not even be a member of the League military. The way they discovered him was when they tried to promote him. He operated without any falsified papers; he had no military ID of any kind, and yet was put on duty shifts, rotations, and handled classified material numerous times durring his eight months on the Delhi.
This incident landed him in prison for two years, before he walked right out the front door as a prison guard, and continued working there for another six months before being caught again.
In both cases, he knew the regulations backwards and forwards and could pass any standardized test they gave him, even helping other coworkers bring their scores up. People who worked with him even testified (to Naval Intelligence officers) that they swear this is part of an elabroate psyop or coverup, because there is no doubt in their mind that Matteo is legit.
After both incidents, Admiral McKenzie looked into his background and had found evidence he did the same thing to the Terrans, except was never caught. At that, he offered the man a field commission and tapped him to train Intelligence Officers in infiltration.
Kae is one of the surliest Free Lyndri in the entire galaxy (which says something). She's rarely happy, complains about everything, and is one of the most brilliant ships mechanics to ever walk a flight deck. She's not an engineer (as she loves pointing out), she's a mechanic. She doesn't design things, she fixes them, improvises them, or otherwise cobbles random shit together to make it fly. And if it's larger than a shuttle or small freighter, she's out. (She doesn't like big ships; reminds her of the slave transport she was born on.)
She's also absolutely lethal, having studied every form of martial arts she could get her hands on and adapting them for deadly use by Lyndri. To her, it's a hobby; she doesn't want to be known as some killer uber-assasin; she'd rather be the bitch carrying the large wrench that'll kick your ass if you blow another grav modulator from too hard a landing.