Tethir Djinn

This is the highest-ranking medical officer aboard TNH.

 

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Table of Contents:

  1. Spec’s
  2. Life Summary
  3. 2530s Update

 

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—[Dossier]—

  • Birth Name:  Tethir Miranda Djinn
  • Age:  31 at extraction
  • Planet Of Birth:  Miranda
  • Place(s) of Upbringing:  Miranda

—[Appearance]—

  • Height / Weight:  5’6”, 145 lbs. (at 1G)
  • Hair / Eyes:  Auburn, blonde streaks (shoulder length, full of body, slightly curly) / Blue
    * gaze ranges from calming and educated to penetrating and calculated
  • Ethnicity:  English
  • Complexion:  Caucasian, lightly-tanned, fair-skinned
    * epidermis is smooth and unblemished
  • Markings / Piercings:  None / None
  • Scars / Prosthetics:  None / None
  • Garb / Attire:  Grey slacks and cargo pants with matching jacket, red and yellow flairs to indicate which medical field she is in, tight fitting shirts of various colors, white lab coats, or black leather jackets.
    * Formal attire varies; generally gowns or fine dresses.

—[Alignment]—

  • Affiliation:  None
  • Nationality:  Mirandan
  • Astrological Signs:  * New astrological signs have yet to be established for the newly colonized Verse; all the stars look different from here; the old constellations of ETW don’t exist where she is.

—[Fitness]—

  • Stamina:  Athletic
  • Physique:  Smooth, moderately toned
  • BFI:  21%

—[Vocation]—

  • Occupation:  Scientist / Doctor
  • Employer:  N/A
  • Employer Location:  N/A

—[Identity]—

  • Blood Type:  O-
  • Aliases:  The Djinn-Doc Mira
  • Call Signs / Code Names:  None

 

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Life Summary:

  • 2486:  Tethir is born into an upper middle class family as one of the more than 30 million settlers who opt to make Miranda, the outermost planet in the promising 34 Tauri multi-system, their home.  Barely half a century into its enormous colonization effort, it is as thriving and prosperous as any Core world, its infrastructure is phenomenal, its people are very happy, but all of this changes almost in the blink of an eye…
  • 2503:  17 years old, attending some of the finest schools on the fledgling colonial world, her mind is quickly set comfortably into relative overdrive, and she graduates high school early and in the top percentile of her class, having aced every honors and advanced placement, college level course available to her.  Entering university life a full year early, she begins her route into the professional medical sciences.
  • 2511:  25, with the Unification War drawing to a slow, shaky close, and with treaties being debated and signed into law on other worlds, Miranda remains on the fringe of both 34-Tauri-colonized Space and the minds of nearly all of the other 34 Tauri residents. The Alliance government continues their experiments on Tethir’s homeworld, and the ‘The Pax’ chemical reaction incident occurs.
  • 2512:  26, most believe the government-circulated cover story that Miranda’s colonial effort failed, and that the few who colonized it simply didn’t remain there.  In a time when re-stabilization and continuity were held paramount and even mortally critical, cover stories such as this one almost seem reasonable, but to the lingering citizens of the now Reaver-ravaged fringe world, there can be no absolution for the horrific mutations their government caused in so many of their loved ones.  All physical and communications traffic to Miranda is halted and banned.  The newly-created Reavers, still intelligent enough to operate fleets of spaceships, easily take over the planet and its lone moon, Caliban, then start inching out beyond their world in raids that plague nearly every planet and moon on the edge of 34 Tauri.  Naturally, Doctor Djinn is one of the few denizens of 34 Tauri who immediately notices the ‘blackout’.
  • 2515-2516:  29-30, finally allowed to return to her decimated home planet, Dr. Djinn fights a losing science battle against the still ever-present viral outbreak that has left the remaining sliver of Miranda’s original colonial population warped into psychotic barbarians.  Her mission is kept at the highest level of classification, and her arduous campaign crawls along right underneath the noses of the Reavers and their orbiting fleet of irradiated wrecks of battle-hardened starships.
  • 2517:  31, The New Horizon makes a passing arc near enough Miranda to intervene when trouble is detected.  Because The New Horizon is not a vessel controlled by the UAP (rather, it is a joint venture between them and a far more distant and greater power from a nearly-forgotten ‘fairytale’ world), it is allowed to render assistance to Dr. Djinn, whose team has been wiped out, and whose person and embunkered CDC-style facility are considered unreachable by the Alliance military now facing a virtually impenetrable, Reaver-pocked ‘territory’.
  • The stealthy Firefly-class ship “Persephone” is able to make planet-fall undetected by the Reaver forces.  Tethir is safely extracted, brought up to TNH in high orbit, and debriefed.  During a nice recovery meal and sit-down chat prepared for her by the Captain of Persephone, she wonders out loud a few times if it is actually a date, unconvinced by his reassurances that it is entirely casual; he just likes well-made food.  After it is over, she makes it a little more obvious that she wanted it to be a date, following Auz to his room, where he lets her spend the night.
  • For the next few months, Nyria provides her brilliant counselor and mediator services to the two Outlander women now both often aboard Persephone; she makes sure Cyd and Tethir share stories and goals with one another, and become friends, seeing each other as family, not competition.  That is, after all, the whole point of Persephone and TNH; it is a social experiment to see which Outlanders are capable of interacting well with the Inisfreeans, and trying out the Inisfreean Way.
  • For the next few years, Tethir works aboard TNH as one of its top medical officers and outbreak advisers (Sasha being the only medical specialist needed permanently aboard Persephone).  Every time TNH passes Miranda, she goes with Auz and his crew aboard Persephone back down to the surface to retrieve more useful data and other abandoned items, eventually finding a cure for what ruined that world.

 

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2530s Update:

She did a great job patching everyone up while stationed aboard TNH.  Having not fully hit it off with the curious ‘contractor’ who seemed to mostly keep to himself aboard one of the ships (“Persephone”) in its hangars, she and the others who had turned out to not be 100% compatible with him and his kind went along their separate ways, one after the other, as soon as their ‘seconded-out’ sub-contracts in their branches of service were through.  Today, she has a practice and clinic of her own –and one she chose to start as close to her homeworld as the UAP would allow, keeping it as easy as possible for her and those back on Miranda to get to one another whenever the need arises.

Auz never ended up looking into why she has the name of an ancient Earth race of Elementals as her surname.  Perhaps that story will be told in the years ahead.

It continues to be a point of concern to him that healers ‘became a thing’ in the modern / near-Shift era; the fact that people became so focused on things other than maintaining their own bodies/selves… speaks volumes to how excessively-complex mankind and some other collectives made their portion of reality.  He is glad people like Tethir are out there, though; very few would be able to fully recover from so many awful things without them.  Maybe one day that will change for some of them; there is always that chance some of the humans will live to see the day when they rediscover or remember how to heal themselves –just like the Djinn (her ancestors?) were known to.

 

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