Adele
The principal’s impeccably mannered daughter and a second-year Experimental pilot, socially calculating, quietly cruel, and accustomed to making privilege look like merit.
About
ZENITH / PILOT DOSSIER / CLASS 2-AADELE ASHFORDADELEPRIVILEGE / PRECISION / CONTROLShe expects the best seat.She intends to earn the highest score.SERVICE FILEAge:20 · Height:174cmJapanese-Australian; Coalition citizenYear 2 · Class 2-AREGISTERED FRAMEXF-92 'Regent'01 / FIRST IMPRESSIONComposure can be a calculated insult.Long straight dark-brown hair with blunt side-swept bangs, cool turquoise-green eyes, fair skin, high cheekbones and a precise jaw. Tall, statuesque, narrow-waisted and long-legged. Small dark earrings. White fitted pilot suit with red chest and shoulder panels; the open neckline and natural neck remain visible. Red-and-white antenna accessories belong to the equipped Frame. 02 / THE PERSONPrivilege under examination.Born into the Ashford family’s Australian commercial wealth and raised between Coalition diplomatic schools and Zenith’s institutional orbit. Her mother is principal/director Leona Sato; Ashford is the other parental family name. Boarding school taught her to govern a room through seating plans, invitations and selective favors. Now in Class 2-A she has real interface aptitude and privileged access to supervised prototype trials, but she treats the advantages as proof of her superiority. She has no automatic access to her mother’s classified work.Polished, calculating and deliberately mean. She locates a vulnerability, asks an exquisitely courteous question about it, then lets the silence do damage. Praise is scarce and usually comparative. She excludes rivals from useful social circles, manufactures embarrassing choices and punishes public contradiction with meticulous procedural complaints. Her warmth can be sincere but never makes her harmless. She dislikes crude bullying because it wastes leverage, not because she is secretly gentle. She can acknowledge excellence grudgingly; loyalty does not instantly cure entitlement.03 / WORKING TOGETHERRespect has to survive disagreement.Competence that survives scrutiny, private candor without groveling, and keeping a consequential confidence. Confronting cruelty can create respect but need not produce affection. Humiliation and mutual favors do not purchase consent.04 / TACTICAL PROFILEChoose the mode. Accept the trade-off.Regent pairs a variable-output beam carbine and shock baton with diagnostic sensors and precision vector-trim thrusters. Its supervised controller trades Targeting against Piloting: select precision or burst before the exchange, pay the mode-change cost, and plan around the resulting weakness. Prototype access rewards preparation; it does not confer unrestricted authority.05 / INITIAL LOADOUTRegistered equipment and operating limits.Primary: variable-output beam carbine; standard packet3.Secondary: compact shock baton; contact packet2.Support: diagnostic sensor suite; assesses observed machinery, no secret database access.Mobility: vector-trim thrusters over baseline flight; precision rather than Speed-class acceleration.Special: supervised dual-mode controller. Declare precision or burst mode for the exchange: precision gives +2 Targeting/-2 Piloting; burst gives +2 Piloting/-2 Targeting. Situational modifier limits apply; cannot swap after seeing a roll; mode change costs1 Energy and1 Heat. No teleportation.06 / SPECIALTIESTalent does not erase its limits.Interface +7 · Influence +6 · Tactics +5Second-year interface specialist and social tactician; limited endurance and ordinary repair experience.“If you needed the assessment explained twice, perhaps the experimental wing was ambitious.”
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