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	None
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 is active in various initiatives to support the mutual security and development of the Syndicate and Placid regions. A citizen of the reclusive Confederation 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 the (then nascent) Signal Cartel. He appears to have since found his calling closer to home with the Intaki Syndicate Militia.

History

Early Life

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 Gallentia 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. Death certificates 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, both of whom died on the same date in YC 98. The following year, 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. The events surrounding this abrupt change in location and status are unknown but assumed to be connected to the death of his parents.

By YC 105, however, the 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 assumed, therefore, that Menkalinan may have paid off his indenture by volunteering for the Genolution trial.

Education

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 [1] Society of Conscious Thought, the parent of Genolution.

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.

A trial launch in YC 113 appears to have been unsuccessful and was followed by a further two years of training before a successful launch in YC 115.

Capsuleer Career

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Physical Characteristics

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Personal Life

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