Samira Kernher (Character)

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Name	Samira Kernher
Gender	Female
Race	Minmatar
Bloodline	Sebiestor
Blood Type	A+
Father	Ansar Kernher
Mother	Ranaa Oniken
Siblings	Aaminah Kernher (sister)<br\>Mikal Kernher (brother)
Extended Family	Astera Zandraki (cousin)
Date of Birth	88.12.08
Place of Birth	Sertene-Nauon, Casern, Thebeka III, Domain, Amarr Empire
Height	1.67m (5'6")
Weight	51 kg (112 lbs)
Hair Color	Brown
Eye Color	Brown
Licensed	115.01.27 (27)
Occupation	Combat pilot
Specialization	Sniping and skirmishing
Corporation	Praetorian Auxiliary Force
Affiliation	Amarr Empire
Augmentations	Capsule interface implants<br\>Standard cerebral augmentation<br\>Skill hardwiring implants
Piercings	Nose, eyebrow, and ears
Marks	Scarring on back and palms

Samira Kernher is a Sebiestor capsuleer and former slave who has chosen to remain loyal to the Amarr Empire. Quiet and withdrawn, she keeps a distance from both baseliner and capsuleer society. Nevertheless, her choice to stay in the Empire despite being released from slavery has resulted in both praise from Amarr, who believe that Kernher is an example of successful Reclaiming, and derision from Minmatar, who consider Kernher a traitor unworthy of the marks she used to wear.

Early life and work in the Amarr Empire, 88-107

Childhood and education

Kernher was born in servitude to the Casern Family on the planet of Thebeka III, at the edge of the Ardishapur half of the Domain region of the Amarr Empire. Though not a true oceanic planet, Thebeka III had only very few land masses with the majority clumped together at the poles. Kernher and her family lived in the slave district of Nauon in the city of Sertene on the continent of Casern. Casern was situated at the equator and so was known for very warm temperatures.

Kernher and her family were owned by Lord Eyron Casern, the Holder of Casern, but for all practical purposes they belonged to Lord Casern's niece, Lady Aara Casern, by Custodial Servitude Contract. Kernher's father, Ansar, worked as head technician for Lady Aara and had previously been in Lord Casern's maintenance staff. Kernher's mother, Ranaa, was an accounting manager for the Holder of Thebeka, and had met Ansar during business conferences between their lords. Ranaa was bought by Lord Casern after asking for permission from the two lords to marry Ansar.

Thebeka III, with Casern centered.

Kernher was the youngest of three children, born shortly after her family had been contracted to Lady Aara. Kernher had a positive relationship with her siblings, but she regularly butted heads with her brother, Mikal. Mikal, who strongly opposed the slavery of the Minmatar, did not understand how his younger sister could be taken in so fully by the Amarr faith. Mikal argued that they should take pride in their heritage, but Kernher came to despise that heritage.

Kernher was allowed relative freedom for her first seven years, though she was given extensive education from both slave and Amarr lecturers. These lessons established fundamental principles that Kernher would carry for the rest of her life, and included traditional religious education and training in proper manners and etiquette. Foremost among the lessons that Kernher received was that the Amarr were God's Chosen, blessed with bringing his message to the rest of the universe. Very little information was provided of the world outside of Ardishapur space during these lessons, and even less about the world beyond the Empire's borders. It would not be until many years later that Kernher would begin to learn that the societies beyond the Empire were anything more than primitive faithless in need of guidance.

As a child, Kernher had something of a wild streak that was encouraged by her siblings. Though she paid attention during her lessons, she had a habit of wandering when she wasn't watched, and toying with objects that weren't hers. She was routinely disciplined for these transgressions, though this only encouraged her to better hide her activities.

The high status of Kernher's parents--11th generation and favored--provided her and her siblings better opportunities than many other slaves in the Empire. While Kernher did work as a domestic servant at Lady Aara's estate in the early evenings and weekends, she was also enrolled in an Amarrian school to continue her education into her teenage years. Despite the good prospects for her future, Kernher had a difficult time in the school. As a Minmatar and a slave she was a focal point for discrimination by some of the other students, all of whom came from commoner families and many with worse fortunes than Kernher's relatively pampered upbringing. This had a formative effect on her personality and resulted in Kernher shutting herself inside instead of retaliating against the bullying. Validated by her religious education, she ended up internalizing the attacks.

Kernher's brother, meanwhile, took a more hostile response and was regularly suspended from school. He was eventually dismissed entirely and instead contracted out as an apprentice to a construction company in the city. Only Kernher and her sister actually managed to finish school, though Aaminah performed much better as Kernher frequently skipped school to avoid bullying.

Higher education and emancipation

Kernher was sent to higher education shortly after finishing her secondary schooling. Kernher preferred to focus on natural sciences when she was given options on courses, though she had little choice as to her general degree. Similar to her time in primary schooling, Kernher was given custodial work during the majority of her free hours. Her place of work was an office owned by Morad Casern, a cousin of Aara Casern. Morad took an interest in Kernher, who had developed into an attractive young woman by this time, but his religious beliefs regarding class and ethnic separation convinced him to suppress his desires. He did, however, endeavor to treat Kernher well and gave her many free hours to study along with a gold-coated personal datapad as a gift. Kernher ended up becoming enamored with Morad and even longed for his affections, though they never came. The datapad she came to treat as if it were divine, and she took it with her wherever she went.

Kernher was pushed through an accelerated two year school-to-work program that ended with an apprenticeship at a thermoionic desalination plant owned by the Casern Family. The plant was one of many in Thebeka's water industry, which worked to provide potable water to many worlds and stations within Domain and the greater Amarr Empire.

Settling in the Minmatar Republic, 107-115

Life and work on Rens

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Republic University

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Pod pilot, 115-present

PIE career

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Appearance

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Tattoos

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Personality

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Family

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Faith

Kernher's faith is very strong, though much of it is the result of heavy indoctrination during her youth. She gives very little thought to her beliefs, and sees them as right because she has been taught that they are right. Though she does argue theology, it almost always revolves around spiritual matters rather than consideration of factual elements.

As a former slave, Kernher adheres to the teachings of the Salvation Church of Blessed Servitude. As a result, her beliefs revolve around submission, and so she views it as a positive and noble tradition. Ambition and desire, on the other hand, are things she views as an evil. Kernher is also a firm believer in the power of salvation, and in its necessity for the "lesser races" (such as herself) who, according to Amarr faith, turned from God hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Cloning

Kernher has regularly expressed a severe hatred of cloning, first noted in an academic essay she wrote on the subject while attending Republic University's capsuleer program. In that essay Kernher remarked on the fallacy of defining hard cloning as a transfer of consciousness, though her paper received a poor grade from her Minmatar instructors for citing Amarrian Scripture as a scientific source. Since becoming a capsuleer, Kernher has become noticeably more hostile on the subject of cloning and she has frequently claimed it to be the most abominable invention in recent history. She believes that it drives capsuleers to throw away their lives, and the lives of their crew, on frivolous, destructive, greedy, and suicidal endeavors such as the Empyrean War, which is often referred to as the Pendulum War for its tendency to swing control back and forth with no meaningful or lasting conclusion.

Kernher's own existence as a clone has been observed to be a source of great discomfort, with her frequently claiming that the real Samira Kernher died the day her capsule was destroyed and that the person she is now is a soulless abomination. This belief has its roots in her Amarrian faith, where many adherents view clones as nothing more than empty shells.

Political positions

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Awards and decorations

PIE military decorations
	Sword of God
	Admiral's Prize
PIE Service Medals
	24th Imperial Crusade Campaign Medal
File:1ys ribbon.png	One Year Service Medal