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Name: Cora Béatrice Marselu (Cora Beatrice Escors - Originals name)
Appearance:
Pronouns: She/Her
Species: Homo Sapien Astra (Clone)
Age: 35
Height: 5'3
Bio: Born from a wealthy family that paved their way decades ago into politics by providing medicine for other worlds in settled space, at an exuberant price as they slowly became one of the richest families of their homeworld. Until they were bought out by Eternity Corp. One of the largest manufacturers of medicine across the solar system, who began to create a monopoly on the medical field, all of which included equipment, medicine, implants, enhancements etc.
Through strategic marriage and careful associations, the Escors family entered into a small group of elite families dedicated to protecting their homeworld (Dion) and linked to the Eternity Corporation as they held the majority share. The local government of Dion was nothing but a puppet establishment run by corrupt politicians and rich families dedicated to establishing their homeworld as a place of wealth and power. As a means to protect themselves by any means necessary, they began developing biological warfare and planetary defences...but all those who questioned the government's motives, and their methods or Eternity Corp's ethical practices soon disappeared from their homes.
Unlike her father who was tainted by wealth and the power they had over their homeworld, she had always taken on the altruistic elements of the family's lineage. Since she was a child the girl wanted to be a doctor and help people, and that dream never changed as she grew into a woman. Cora entered the school of medicine on her homeworld, and after ten years she became a qualified doctor with a speciality in surgery and then virology. It was there she entered into the Eternity Corp's laboratories as a sub-leader of a team for two years.
Everything changed when a passenger ship became infected with an unknown virus. No doctor or aid was sent for fear it might spread, but Cora and two other doctors took her father's small transport ship to dock and they began to test and aid those sick on board. It was then Cora noticed something strange. The virus was a strain, from one of the variants she had been working on to prevent it from becoming deadly. This strain had been modified to fatal levels of nearly eighty per cent mortality rates. As she discovered this, the doctors and she became gravely ill from the same virus. In a desperate attempt to cure it, Cora used the prototype on herself knowing she might die from an untested drug.
The doctors' combined knowledge made a crude cure but could not protect against the damage it had done to the body. Luckily she was in the early stages where it could be cured, if it had progressed into stage four which she deemed was when the virus had gone too far, it was considered untreatable past that stage and therefore fatal. Her father had gotten wind of her being onboard and sent a rescue crew to get back his daughter, and found she was in a coma. The other two doctors were pronounced dead at the scene, and the ship was sent into the nearest sun to burn.
Marked down as an accident, and a failure of engines they did not report the sick passengers onboard, some of which were healthy enough to be cured and fully aware of their surroundings...
For several weeks she was in a coma and given medication to help with the lasting effects of the virus. All of their data was given to a ghost team at a black site where no one knew what they were working on. When Cora woke up she went back to work once under supervision which made her investigate the laboratory studies and found several connections of viruses one week being tested on, then disappearing the next. For those she thought could be trusted among the higher-ups one of which was a family friend since she had known him from the age of five years old.
Cora told them what she suspected was happening and soon found all of her work confiscated, and she was removed from the corporation. What she had found linked to potential biological warfare and her father seemed to be involved when she hacked into his computer and found several names of politicians connected to the research and development of high-risk diseases. All of the data was downloaded that same day and as she was leaving the family home, the eternity guard showed up with a warrant for her arrest as she was branded a high-level threat and danger to society.
In an attempt to avoid the data from falling into the wrong hands. Cora awakened a clone she'd been growing in secret as she started to fear her investigation into the corporation was going to be discovered. She did not care for her life, only that the truth about them was revealed. Over time she slowly copied her full personality and memories. She also implanted a neurochip in the back of the clone's skull with all of the data containing her research, and all manner of development within Eternity Corporation. Also, what she took from her father's computer was compiled for the clone to access whenever she wanted like a memory palace.
The day she had escaped with her clone as cargo to transport her to the above station. The Eternity Guard found her and she was taken to a black site before she could end her life and give her clone a better chance if they believed she was dead. No records of her death or sightings from the family as she all but disappeared like so many before her.
Her original self had placed the cargo under a different name, but she was successfully transported to the space station above. Her last memory was that she was hiding in the crate to avoid security as the ship she was taken by was paid off to not inspect or ask questions. On awakening Cora's clone had full documentation, a ticket, money and a new family name to hide from those who wanted her original self's data. She does not know she is a clone of Cora Escors.
The cloned doctor had little money to her name, but her qualifications and skill as a doctor were implanted into her mind by the original Cora, all of her training, and experiences over the years were there as if she had been the one to undergo the education required of a Doctor.
After she had left Dion the woman found herself on a small space station, where she found work on a mining ship as their surgeon and general practitioner for two years. Until her contract ended and she like many others remained in Pilgrim's Star after the ship departed and she began looking for work...
As her desire to expose Eternity Corp remained strong no matter where her feet would land...
Personality: Cora considers herself a woman of action when it comes to medicine and combatting illnesses of all kinds (Viruses, diseases, infections etc). But in the face of adversity, she holds herself with class, a calm attitude and a methodical mind, with a touch of humour that reflects the dryness of her work when tending to admin, but it can be inappropriate given the timing as her humour becomes more prominent when she grows nervous or frightened.
Yet, in her work, she always prided herself on being approachable and a woman of knowledge, when asked about biology or viruses that affect different species. She will speak for hours on end with a top-shelf wine in hand, and discuss all manners of medicine and virology as that is her life-long passion.
But her years spent working for Eternity Corp and discovering the data only to be betrayed, resulted in her vendetta against politicians and her renegade behaviour. As a result, she is no longer afraid to question authority or decisions she considers immoral. But, Cora is by no means a saint as she has done questionable things to survive and hide from her previous employers as she holds their secrets.
Her growing obsession with diseases and medicine partially stems from Cora's shame. She could not help the 300 passengers who were infected with the A-56 virus and sent to their deaths at the hands of the same company she trusted with her work. She was haunted by their faces at night and the knowledge she played a hand in creating the mutated virus in one of her father's laboratories.
Skills: A qualified surgeon, virologist and general practitioner, she is well-versed in the biology of multiple species and she is a talented linguist.
She never received her certificate as a therapist but she has been a confidant for many previous crewmates.
Her speciality as a doctor is virology with two years in a laboratory before she moved out onto a mining ship to take on the role of their doctor, where she performed surgeries and was a general practitioner.
Cora has some skill with side arms and very little experience with hand-to-hand fighting.
Ship role: Doctor
