Auriga Menkalinan (Character)

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Name	Auriga Menkalinan
CONCORD ID	A-75-72-69-67-61 / M-65-6e-6b-61-6c-69-6e-61-6e
Gender	Male
Race	Gallente
Bloodline	Namvari (Miners)
Blood Type	A-
Father	Reuben Hakobyan
Mother	Ignês Menkalinan
Siblings	Claire (Callisto) and Olivier (Orpheus)
Spouse	Cilisa Lugara
Children	None
Extended Family	Anna Menkalinan and Jakob Hakobyan
Date of Birth	YC 81
Place of Birth	Algasienan IV
Date of Death	YC 106
Place of Death	Algasienan VI - Moon 4 - Genolution Biotech Production Facility
Height	183 cm (6'0")
Weight	75 kg (165 lbs)
Hair Color	Dark Brown (starting to grey)
Eye Color	Grey Blue
Licensed	YC 115
Occupation	COO
Specialization	Immigration Services
Education	SoCT, Geminate Campus (Remedial Secondary) and Center of Advanced Studies, Placid Campus (Undergraduate and Postgraduate)
Corporation	Intaki Syndicate Militia
Religion	Namvari traditional animism
Affiliation	Confederation of Pelion and the Intaki Syndicate
Augmentations	None
Tattoos	Right cheek (clan identifier)
Piercings	None
Marks	Scars from blistering across left face and body
Vessels	Various
Remarks	Author of the Menkali Papers, member of the ISP Goals amateur kendu team

Adam ‘Auriga’ Menkalinan is a capsuleer affiliated to the Intaki Syndicate who participates in various initiatives to support the mutual security and development of the Syndicate and Placid regions. A citizen of the reclusive Commonwealth of Pelion (on Algasienan IV), Auriga’s path to the capsule was unconventional. His early years as a pilot were marked first by a failed trial period and then by a formative experience in Thera with Signal Cartel. He appears to have since found his calling closer to home with the Intaki Syndicate Militia.

The information presented on this page is based on publicly available data and interviews with those individuals holding pertinent information who could reasonably be located.

History

Childhood, 81 to 98

Detailed information about Menkalinan’s early life is limited due to the technological and geographic isolation of Namvari society. The Menkali extended family appears to have been among the first wave of immigrants from Gallente Prime’s Morthane Mountain Islands Commonwealth to settle on Algasienan IV over 520 years ago. This makes it likely to be among the most conservative elements of Namvari society. The family is reported to control a modest territory to the north of Argalasti, the only Namvari settlement of any size. Pastoralism and textile production are the dominant economic activities in this area. Deaths associated with violence between feuding family groups are common.

The register of births and deaths in Argalasti indicates that Menkalinan was born in YC 81 to Ignês Menkalinan and Reuben Hakobyan and was followed by twin siblings in YC 90. It is assumed that, in keeping with local customs, Menkalinan received only the most rudimentary education and began working with the family’s herd of laminoids from the age of eight, before taking sole responsibility for a herd in the mountain pastures from 11.

The public register records the deaths of both Ignês and Reuben on the same date in YC 98 with the cryptic entry of ‘misadventure’. What is clear, though, is that this incident precipitated an abrupt change in circumstances for Menkalinan and his even younger siblings.

Synkretos, 99 to 105

In YC 99, Menkalinan appears on the register of indentured workers in Synkretos (Algasienan IV’s only city) contracted to Hakobyan Prospecting LLC for a term of twenty years. Hakobyan Prospecting is owned by Jakob Hakobyan, Menkalinan’s paternal uncle. The company is based in the dock district of Synkretos and specialises in mineral exploration operations in the equatorial region of Ventiki. It has been connected with numerous allegations of abusive employment practices involving personnel in isolated jungle sites whose survival is entirely dependent on supplies of medicine from the company.

By YC 105, however, Menkalinan’s indenture is recorded as having been terminated following early payment of the contract sum. Local media archives for YC 105 reveal that, during this period, the Genolution biotech research facility in Algasienan was advertising for volunteers to participate in a clinical trial. It is surmised, therefore, that Menkalinan may have paid off his indenture by volunteering for the Genolution trial.

Crisis and Rehabilitation, 106 to 108

Local media archives are conspicuously silent on the outcome of the trial but the notes to Genolution’s annual report in YC 106 indicate that a provision in its accounts was attributable to sunk R&D costs and settling a class action in Josmaert District Court. Anecdotal evidence among the local population points towards subjects of the trial suffering from catastrophic side effects but all individuals with direct knowledge appear to be subject to Non-Disclosure Agreements. It is notable that, also in YC 106, Menkalinan appears on the register of students at an institution on Roua V specialising in remedial education for adults operated by the Society of Conscious Thought, the parent of Genolution.

Education and Training, 109 to 117

In YC 109 he enrolled as an undergraduate at the Center of Advanced Studies’ campus in Agoze before graduating into CAS’s capsuleer training programme in YC 111. Inquiries made among contemporaries at CAS point to an aloof personality, perhaps socially isolated by being older than average, from a conservative cultural background and having to repeat several courses.

A trial launch in YC 113 appears to have been unsuccessful and was followed by a further four years of training before a successful launch in YC 117.

Signal Cartel, 117 to 119

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ESOCI, 119 to 120

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Physical Characteristics

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Personal Life

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