Natasha Desobry

Early life and career
None could say the life of Natasha Desobry has been hard, by any standards. Born to the Desobry family, the owners of a powerful industrial conglomerate, she never lacked anything nor was stopped from doing anything she wanted to. Sadly, for her, she was not the firstborn of the family, an older brother already 4 years old when she was born.

That meant that while Natasha was cherished and loved, she would never inherit the company of her parents, and as such had to find another way to live (not that the rent she was getting from her family was small or anything, but being lazy is a sin). It soon became apparent that the girl had a knack for engineering and bossing people around, and as such her early studies focused on the engineering field, earning a degree in one of the high class academia of Bastion, with a specialty in spacecraft engineering, and that although she was only 15 years old.

Indeed, she could have pursued her studies ther and joined one of the many companies hiring the newly formed engineers and scientists, but instead elected to honor her family name with a service in the most glorious arm of the Empire, the Navy. As such she left her family on her 16th birthday, heading to the Royal Imperial Academy where she graduated three years later, with commendations and a path all set towards the Imperial Navy.

As a junior lieutenant Natasha was assigned to serve on an Imperial frigate patrolling the outer rim, and she dearly hated that job. According to her frequent reports, the captain was a drunkard, the first lieutenant a misogynic moron and the lesser crew would have to be sent to penal colonies as their only redemption. Still she served with honor and diligence, accomplishing her task as best as she could and maintaining the otherwise falling apart ship in a relatively decent condition. There was only so much duct tape and prayers could do though, and with the fund affected to the ship’s maintenance disappearing on a regular basis the frigate eventually met its fate at the hand of pirates.

Natasha was one of the few surviving crew members, thanks to her attention towards making sure some of the escape pods were actually in good condition, and was retrieved by another Imperial ship less than 3 days after the destruction of the frigate. Those three days stuck in a bubble of air with barely enough supply and two other crew members were very long and nerve breaking for the woman that had never quite been so close to other lesser persons, but nonetheless, she had survived it. The Victory class star destroyer that had found her was a bit understaffed following a rapid unscheduled disassembly of one of its Turbolaser battery, and she was given a promotion and the post of the previous engineer chief. The year she served on that ship was a good one, where she actually put a lot of the things she’d learnt into practice.

Eventually, the captain of the ship commended her to another promotion after making some discreet search about her family. That didn’t earn him anything of course, as it would have been corruption, but the door of the Desobry company’s upper executive position suddenly opened for his nephew. Strange coincidence… Anyways, she was then sent to another frigate, but this time as an acting second in command.

That one step on the promotion ladder lasted for a bit longer than planned, but mostly because neither the captain nor his superior wanted to get rid of the small prodigy they had found in her. Working her damned best in a backwater sector, she refitted an entire fleet of frigate and patrol ships, scuttling the ones that had no future for parts and keeping the small flotilla alive and kicking. Those were very much not her attribution, but the lieutenant didn’t complain about it. She was working on ships and although only a fresh officer held almost as much power as any other officer of the fleet, bar the local admiral and his counselors.

Eventually an inspection uncovered the situation, and in a surprising turn of fate, Natasha was promoted again and given command upon a task force. Some said that it was because she was corrupting officials, others because she was a competent officer and had earned that right, but the truth was that it was a test. As she had obeyed her orders all along the time she served, she couldn’t be punished, but giving her such a command position was just asking for her to make a mistake. Sadly for the persons that wanted to see the downfalls of the annoying woman, that didn’t turn out that way. With relatively limited forces under her command, she managed to execute several high style operations with minimal casualties on her side. It was soon apparent that she was an even better commander than an engineer.

Her previous detractors were soon turned around and congratulated themselves for the brilliant accomplishment of the one they had named at that post. After all, they couldn’t lose in that situation. And that is where the story stops, and where it begins again…

Personality and traits
Natasha tends to be a rather… annoying person. Because she’s often right, and tends to shove it in other people's faces, she has gained a relatively bad reputation around her name. Being educated as one of the superior beings of the Empire tends to do such things to someone, but her high education and know-how in engineering means she also takes care of the troops under command, to a point. After all every machine needs to be tended to and maintained, and an improperly maintained machine cannot function efficiently.