Name: Miranda Sinclair-Clarke
Species: Lyran
Age: 24
Department: Operations / Helmsman
Role and Rank (if any): Lieutenant Junior Grade (Lyran Imperial Stellar Navy)
Personal Equipment: Sintaris Industries Zenith pistol,
Sintaris Industries Quicksilver Photon rifle,
Sintaris Industries Holo-vision imaging glasses and
Ceremonial Imperial Navy Rapier.
Character Strengths: She has always been a gifted pilot, even as a young child she skipped right over training wheels on her bicycle. By the time she was eleven she “borrowed” her father's hover cars on a regular basis. Being a child of weapons manufacturing company Miranda has used weapons nearly as long as she has been able to walk. She is a marksmen shooter with just about any weapon she picks up. Additionally as with most of the founding families Miranda is trained in fencing and her sword isn't merely decorative.
Character Weaknesses: Affluenza, Miranda was born into a wealthy and influential family. She has never wanted for anything. Always having the best of everything and attending the best schools. She was the last child in her family and a late in life child. Because of this she was raised mostly by the household staff and had few rules growing up. Whenever she got in trouble her father was always there to bail her out. Miranda isn't one to do as she is told and doesn't care about repercussions.
Having grown in a Pre-Concert War, Lyran Empire Miranda has always known many of the prejudices common among the Lyrans. Her father Victor has always been very outspoken on Lyran superiority and that has been passed onto his children. Miranda like many Lyrans believes they are better than the other races. She hasn't had much contact with other races but still doesn't hold a very high opinion of them. The Kel'cyre are the race she probably has had the most contact with and that has only been due to Quentin's relationship with the Queen of Kel'cyre and that doesn't help her opinion any.
What they hope to find: To finally be her own person and not always being associated with her family name, her brother's war crimes or her older sister's political fame.
What they hope to achieve in the New Galaxy: As her sister puts it, a new universe, not connected to the one she came from. A fresh start.
Bio: Born on Lyre in the Imperial city to Sonia Sinclair and Victor Clarke, Miranda is the youngest child in the Sinclair family. Her family is one of the founding families of the Lyran Empire and owner of Sintaris Industries, a weapons manufacturing company. Miranda's childhood was normal for someone born into wealth and status, filled with plenty of nannies and tutors as her parents were more focused on their careers than raising a young child. Why bother when you can pay someone to do it for you? Unlike her older sister Miranda wasn't farmed off to boarding schools and always attended private local schools.
At the end of the Concert Wars Miranda was on the edge of adolescence and things with her family had taken a bad turn. Her oldest sister Quentin, heir to Sintaris Industries was branded a traitor to the Empire then later made President of the Lyran Alliance. While her brother Cedric was convicted of war crimes against the Concert forces most notably the Charabidian Enclaves. Quentin used her new position as President of the Lyran Alliance to get his sentence commuted from death to life in prison. With Quentin moving away from the family business and Cedric in prison the board of Sintaris Industries lost faith in the Sinclair family. A board vote ousted them from control of the company. The Sinclair family still gains income from the company but no longer has a controlling interest. With that any guarantee of a place in the family business was small.
It didn't help that as a teenager Miranda began running with a bad crowd. She became involved the Lyre First movement, sticking mostly to their political side. She was involved in a number of political rallies and protests, being sheltered from any of the more serious actions of the group. When Franklin Pierce attempted to kill Quentin she believed the organization that he wasn't acting on orders or was sponsored by them. Mostly due to the fact that despite many investigations by Lyran and Concert authorities they were never able to find a link. Pierce took that secret to the grave when he killed himself rather than be arrested.
Miranda became a member of the Lyran Imperial Stellar Navy for her mandatory service and after it became clear she wasn't going to be able to get a position in Sintaris Industries she stayed. She became a pilot in the Navy being able to use her love of flying to earn money. Her activities with the Lyre First movement decreased but her belief that the Lyran Alliance would be better off without the Concert meddling in their affairs remained. While on leave from her Navel posting Miranda was arrested during the raid of a Lyre First compound believed to be involved in the bombing of several non-Lyran businesses in the Imperial city. Miranda had nothing to do with the bombings but was still swept up with the others. It was only due to Quentin that she avoid charges. Quentin pulled a number of strings and cashed in most of her favors to get Miranda selected for the Concert's Exploration Ark in hope that she could get a fresh start away from everything.