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Doctor Stephanie Young
Race: Caucasian
Age: 60
Hair: Auburn
Eyes: Green
Build: Although in her sixties, Stephanie is still a very beautiful woman and she keeps herself in shape through working out and keeping active.

Attributes:
Agility: d8
Strength: d4
Vitality: d8
Alertness : d10
Intelligence : d12
Willpower : d12

Life Points : 20
Initiative : d8 + d10

Good Name (Major): Well known through the Verse
Highly Educated (Minor): Best schools on Ariel
Parliamentary Clearance (Minor): A legacy of the work she has done
Reader (Minor) : Sometimes knows things, especially medical
Talented (Minor) : Medical Expertise (Surgery)


Non-Fighting Type (Major) : will not hurt or kill another being
Hyperfocused (Major) : When doing medicine, nothing else matters
Credo (Minor): First, Do no harm
Memorable (Minor): Part of being well known
Hyperfocused (Major): When doing medicine, nothing else matters

Skills
Athletic d6
Influence D6
* Persuasion d8
Knowledge d6
* Herbalism d10
* Chemistry d10
* Biology d10
Medical Expertise d6
*Emergency Surgery d12+d4
* First Aid d12
Perception d6
* Deduction d10
* Intuition d12
Planetary Vehicles d2

Equipment-
Doctor's Bag (MedAcad)
Medical supplies, Standard x3
Immunization Packets - 10
Clothes - 10 fancy outfits, 3 basic
Cosmetics

Stephanie young was a doctor for many years before the unification war began and was well known as one of the best surgeons in the Verse. She was a surgeon by the time she was 26, a chief surgeon at 30 and became chief resident of the Emergency by 35. She went on to develop new techniques and methods of surgery that saved hundreds of lives. Always on the go, she never found time for relationships and never married.

During the war she was in charge of a state of the art mobile hospital on the Alliance side. What made her famous was her passion to save lives and refusal to separate patients by which side they were on. She became a "darling" of the news vids during the war for her passionate fight to keep soldiers alive and her well-documented fights with military brass about treating enemy soldiers. Her reputation was so well known and popular that the Alliance had to bow to her wishes or risk public relations disasters.

Her ship was shot down about midway through the war and she was captured by independence fighters who knew her from the vids and reputation. She continued her work as a doctor for the Browncoats but under the same stipulations she had before, that she treated everyone equally not just one side. When the war ended, she was decorated by both sides as hero of the war. The medals meant little to her as she more thought about all those she couldn't save.

She tried to resume a normal life and was offered a high position in the Arial hospitals but she found her job was mostly admin and didn't enjoy it. She took to doing work at a charity clinic where she at least felt she was doing some good. It was through the clinic that she met Captain Jon of Destiny, who was shot up bad after a botched job. She joined the crew shortly after that on a whim to see the Verse and find "herself".

Stephanie has a gift of reading people medically by touch. She can diagnose someone with the simplest of contact, and this ability has served her well over the years. For people she is very close to, she can sometimes know when they are in trouble or in danger. Only Jon and Grace (Destiny's Mechanic) were aware of this gift.

Stephanie often spends her time in the infirmary reading and cortex surfing. When on planet she often finds places nearby that could use a doctor and volunteers for as much time as she can manage.

She and Captain Jon developed a relationship for awhile which she found complicated her being on the ship and with the crew. After much soul searching, she decide to leave Destiny to seek another ship. This lead her to Rocinante via Tess who worked on the ship before and a professional colleague names Willow who was leaving the ship to take care of her mother back home.

On Stephanie:

Stephanie is a consummate professional, very self-possessed, and has a bearing to her that immediately demands respect. She is well known, well respected and is perfectly willing to use that to get her own way. She is fiercely loyal to ship and crew, especially the captain.

She is very quiet mostly, a good listener and always willing to be there for someone without any demands. If working on someone as a doctor, she can become super focused on her task, so much so that she will ignore a gunfight going on to save a life.

The doctor has no family, no children and has never married. Her romantic life is best described by her as many ships passing in the night but never docking for more than a few days.