Name: Hazel Stone
Alias: Too many to count, over the years. Is quite accustomed to people calling her by a name that those around her don't recognise. Hazel Stone might not even be her real name... at this point, even she's forgotten
Age: 46
Physical Description:
-Tall and lean
-Her face isn't wrinkled... just strongly lined, and quite handsome. Aged a little prematurely, but it suits her.
-Tanned skin from spending time in the garden during her retirement, and greying brown hair, always worn in a low bun
-Wears exclusively suits, and a top hat (when not in the garden). She's less flamboyant than in her younger days, but is still known to love a good brocade waistcoat, or brightly coloured neck kerchief.
Background: Renowned as a sort of ethical, space-age Indiana Jones, she's travelled the galaxies hunting down curios and information for the great and the powerful. She's skilled at negotiating trades, whether of information or goods, and is very proud of the fact that she has never once coerced anyone into parting with something they didn't want to lose. She was quite the dashing adventurer in her younger days, and was well known for flirting with anyone/thing with autonomous sentience. She was most happy spending time in the company of any given space station or planet's prettiest ladies/fem folk (while always being 100% upfront that she wasn't going to settle down, and wasn't going to maintain a correspondence once she left).
That's all in the past, though. These days, she's retired, and until lately has most likely been found relaxing on her estate with her wife and kids. The backstory here is that she was doing a job for the king of a planet called Senara (acquiring for him the complete collection of the Library of New Alexandria [she managed to convince him to fund a permanent position for a librarian to create holographic digital copies of every book there, a win-win for her, as the librarian in question is now all too happy to get her any book she likes]), and fell head over heels in love with his daughter. The king took a little convincing, but eventually accepted Hazel as one worthy of marrying the crown princess. He granted them the planet's lushest moon, where they've lived happily together for fifteen years.
The king, however, has been growing a little erratic in his old age. Recently, in his ongoing quest to read every single one of the library books, he discovered a collection of old Terran folk tales, and was quite taken, specifically, with Aarne-Thompson Tale Type 577: "The King's Tasks." This is the type of story in which a king sets an impossible task, and whoever can accomplish it will win the hand of his daughter. Feeling that, perhaps, he didn't adequately vet Hazel when she proposed marriage to his daughter, he has retroactively set her a series of impossible tasks. If she fails, he will remove his daughter and their children from the line of succession. Hazel has no choice but to put her adventuring cap back on, and set out in search of the items he demands.
Personality:
-Always quick to laugh, unless it's about a matter of ethics, in which case she's completely unyielding
-She's half excited to be back on the ol' adventuring beat, half annoyed at herself for how much she's grown used to the comforts of home
-Will often be found taking a quiet moment to communicate with her wife and kids
-LOVES a good story, and collects them like a magpie (she got her start trading stories, and then worked her way up to precious objects). She's also constantly picking up little trinkets to bring back for her kids
Why she wants the supercomputer: If anything is going to lead her to the impossible items the king wants retrieved, it's the supercomputer. She's pretty sure she doesn't stand a chance without it.
Misc: She's determined, first and foremost, to find the supercomputer. But she's also keeping an eye out for a nice, habitable planet or moon that she, her wife, and her kids can move to as they wait for the old king's death. It would be nice to get a bit of distance from him...
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