Character Sheet:
Name: Cassandra Brandford
Age:30
Appearance: As seen above. Black hair that shines blue in the light, brown eyes. She is 5' 7" tall and slender but strong due to a few enhancements she agreed to during medical school. The thin scars on her face are from one such enhancement. Her right eye is artificial, and is equipped with a sensor that can scan a human for broken bones, internal damage, etc.
Position: Head Doctor
Personality:She is very strong willed and minded. Her opinions are not always kept to herself but she can be tactful when the occasion calls for it. She is passionate about her work, and values all life as sacred. She has a hard time making friends, but once she is your friend you have a loyal ally and confidante. She is driven and resourceful, and will work herself into exhaustion to save a life. She possesses dry wit that is sometimes misconstrued. It is rare to see her smile, but she does when she is not working. (which admittedly is rare)
History: Cassandra was born into a fairly poverty stricken family. Her father was a menial laborer in the mines carrying heavy things that others had no desire to tote to the more remote areas of the mines where the rails did not yet connect the tunnels. He was a good man, hard-working and honest.To help with expenses they decided to allow borders to rent the room out a room they had fashioned in the lower level of their dwelling. Sadly, one of those renters took a liking to her mother and forced her to leave with him. Cassandra had been there and the man had forbidden her to follow saying he would kill her mother if she did. She was 10 years old at the time and had no idea how to help her mother aside from calling the neighbors to tell them what had happened. The neighbors refused to help her so she ran to the next. She finally came upon a man in a uniform, and if you asked her now she still could not tell you what kind of uniform it was or what it signified, all she remembers is that he helped her. Unfortunately, they found her mother dead, brutally murdered lying in a ditch just outside town. She was taken home and the uniformed man waited with her until her father arrived home. She listened as the man explained what had happened, and saw her father fall to his knees and cry. Something she had never seen before or since. The man, as it happens, turned out to be a paramedic who was on his way home for the day. He had tried to save her mother but finally was forced to give up. His efforts to help her that day led her to the medical field. She wanted to be able to save people from dire situations and circumstances and return them back to their families if she could. She never knew his name, but he had a profound effect on her life. She attended medical school and was among the top three percent of her class. She allowed experimentation to be done on her person in order to offset the cost of the education, as well as advance medical science. She is an avid reader and a very quick study. Her implanted eye can pull up anything she has ever read and display it before her, which comes in very handy when making diagnoses of rare viruses or injuries. She has never married nor created any family of her own. Her father passed away in a mining accident 4 years ago and so she felt no particular attachment to her home town. She was approached to head the medical staff of the Andromeda and after much deliberation she agreed to accept the position.
Other: In addition to her eye, she also has implants in her right leg and left arm. The implant in her leg enables her to jump rather high over 10 feet. The one in her left arm gives her lifting strength (She has yet to encounter a patient she could not lift one armed). Though she is unaware of the fact there is also a device implanted at the base of her brain that transmits information back to the man who implanted the eye. He did so in order to study the longevity and usefulness of the device. (It could be possible for it to be intercepted and someone could gain access to that...just for an FYI)
