Valery-Tristan Saljud

Overview
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Appearance
Hair: Black

Skin: Light tan

Eyes: Brown (?)

Height: 177cm

Weight: 70kg

Noticeable Features: prison tattoo on his left shoulder blade, old squadron tattoo on his

Personality
Valery is relaxed and carefree looking in most situations. He does his best to keep tension to a minimum, but you can expect him to be serious if a situation requires his attention. He tries to get along with everyone, at least up to a point.

Abilities
“More hours at the controls of testbed and experimental planes than you’ve been alive, hotshot”
 * Competent astronavigator
 * Competent electrical engineer
 * Decent cook
 * Decent computer technician
 * Dabbling radio operator
 * Dabbling meteorologist
 * Hobbyist gamer
 * Amateur martian musicologist

History
Beginning his life as a weird hybrid of various genetic trees that came to permeate human colonized territory Valery-Tristan Saljud proved a talented pilot at an early age flying a cropduster. Life led him down paths that resulted in a scholarship at a prestigious Earthside aviation academy.

Following a short but exceptional service in a fighter squadron attached to Earth fleet carrier he enrolled in a program as a test pilot for various space planes and craft both military and civilian that lended him many practical skills as well as a certain amount of presitge in the community. Success got to his head, resulting in liberal substance abuse.

To cut a very long story short withdrawal effects caused him to crash a new SABR plane killing his co-pilot Jerome Estienne. He was judged for murder in a low profile trial and convicted for a 40 year stint in a labor colony.

10 years into his sentence however after a thorough psych eval found him a changed man, much more humble, openly admitting of guilt and willing to set the record straight, far detached from an egotist he once was. Command made the decision to bring him into active service under probation.

His record indicates him a mere navigator and has no reference to his piloting days. The ship captain would be the only one who knows anything about his sentence or the fact he is a pilot at all.