Name and/or Alias: Sonya ?Rogue Knight? Goddard
Age & Gender: 34, Female
Race: Human
Height & Weight: 5?9?, 145 lbs
Type: Infiltrator Sniper
Appearance: Sonya might be mistaken for beautiful from the side, as one side has heavy scarring from where a rifle backfired and took out her right eye. Said eye has been replaced with a cyber eye. For the most part she ties her black hair back to prevent it getting in the way, but also because she can?t muster the effort to style it in any other way. As well as that, her lack of effort with fashion can be seen with the way she dresses, usually wearing plain t-shirts and jeans under a plain leather jacket. When on a job, she wears more militaristic clothing like black cargo pants and light armour made for protection against surprise attacks. She is not one to present her personality through her clothing.
History: Born and bred in Seattle, in the Renton district. Sonya came from a family deeply entrenched in the Knight Errant security firm, because of this, Sonya was pressured by her parents to join the firm, they were Knight Errant so she would have to be Knight Errant, whether she liked it or not. Though rebellious in her youth, she gave in to her parents? wishes and joined Knight Errant as soon as she was able, enrolling in the nearby Knight Errant Seattle Training Academy.
Time passed and she found that she had talent, particularly with a sniper rifle; even besting those who had more experience and cyberware. Enough to gain the attention of the higher-ups who saw her as a fine asset. Soon she was sent on missions, often preventing ?runners from raiding the property of Ares Macrotechnology and other AAA megacorps who could afford Knight Errant?s services, or even prefer the more ?elite? style of Knight Errant to the ?bumblebees? of Lonestar.
Often she would find herself testing prototype weapons in the field; on one such occasion, she was testing a prototype sniper rifle designed to compete with companies such as Walther who produced the much acclaimed Walther WA2750 ?Seekershell?. However, the weapon backfired, causing the accident which took out her right eye. The people at Ares Marcotechnology blamed her, saying that she had obviously not used the weapon in the proper manner. As a result, she was given compensation to hush her up, and fired from Knight Errant. This caused a rift in her family, as her parents saw her as a disgrace to the Goddard name.
To spite her family further, instead of trying to join Lonestar or any other security firm, she became a shadowrunner embracing the freedom of finally doing something her family hadn?t pressured her into, and choosing he direction in life. With the money she had been given she got an betaware cybereye with a built in smart link and a unable to afford the Walther ?Seekershell? she bought the lower end, but still celebrated Walther MA 2100.
With talk of her skills and the scandal that got her fired, she got into ?running pretty quickly, one Johnson offered her a place in a squad of shadowrunners with the job being a simple assassination of a corporate toady. However, the toady was a very important toady, and quite rich as well. Almost of all the squad was decimated by the security there, mainly Knight Errant officers, to Sonya?s dismay. The irony was lost on her as she was too distressed at the fact that she could not have supported the group from her foxhole and suffers survivor?s guilt about the incident to this day.
Nevertheless, it didn?t dissuade her from ?running. In fact, she has become something of a workaholic in order to distract herself from the past.
Reason to be here/things to do: A job?s a job, and Sonya isn?t one to idle.
Personality: To her, first and foremost, comes the job. Those who think that shadowrunning is a party with a bit of light exercise at the end are either complete amateurs or fools. Those who don?t take their work seriously, don?t take their life seriously and deserve whatever comes to them. A bit of loner and a bit surly, she would rather remain disconnected then form bonds only to have them broken, mainly because of what happened in the past. She also comes out with lines that are blunt and brutal, like a shot to the face.
Notable skills: Some CQC training here, some small firearms training there and even some skill when it comes to hacking, mainly just bypassing defences. Most of what she knows comes from what her Knight Errant training has taught her. Her skills mainly consist of infiltration and sniping, often going for the most open target. A crack shot, she aims either for the head or the heart, whichever Is least armoured at the time. Sonya also knows a smattering of Japanese picked up off the streets.
Equipment:
- Walther MA 2100 with various types of ammo like hollow point, tranq and explosive rounds,
- Tarus Hushpuppy as a sidearm,
- Combat Knife,
- Cyber Eye with Smartlink,
- Commlink,
- Some nuyen,
- Standard light military grade infiltration armour,
- And a battered old Thundercloud Contrail motorbike.
- A fake SIN
Contacts:
Sven Svenson, Weapon Specialist ? If you need a gun, a baton or even a katana, Fenris is your dwarf. He has supplied Sonya for years and offered tune-ups and repairs as well. Since they both have a penchant for discussing the latest developments in firearms, they have become fast friends. Not one for settling simply for civilian grade weapons, he stocks military grade weapons for anyone who has the nuyen.
Fenris, Knight Errant Officer ? One of her old buddies from when she was working at Knight Errant and still one of her drinking buddies. He is knowledgeable about the coming and going of Knight Errant and Sonya has often asked him about the security (if provided by Knight Errant) on the places she is assigned to hit. He does this out of pity as it saddens him to see a good officer out of a good, honest job.
Varys D?Winter, Hacker/Johnson ? Known as The Spider on the Matrix, he knows the ins and out of almost every building in Seattle. Sonya often contracts him for blueprints and security codes as well as potential nest spots for her jobs. He only does business over the Matrix and appears as his handle?s namesake. His services, however, don?t come cheap. Because of an ?understanding?, he often tell her of jobs he has a particular interest in.
Other: There may be another survivor from that run, who knows?
