Diana Rime

Lieutenant Diana Melissande Rime

Stephanie March as Diana Melissande Rime

Personal

Alias:	Mel
Age:	27
Features:	5'8", slim, blue-green eyes.
Colony:	Virgon

Professional

Rank:	Lieutenant
Department:	Tactical
Position:	Tactical Liaison

Background

Previously the Junior TACCO aboard the Praetorian, Lieutenant Rime has been ordered invited to serve as Tactical Liaison aboard the Cerberus for the upcoming maneuvers.

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2014 (27 years ago): born on Virgon, in Saint-Gervais — a small town near the outskirts of Camargue Provincial Park which flourishes thanks to the tourist industry. An only child, papa is a machinist, and maman is a hostess at a local hotel.

2019-2031 (22-10 years ago): schooling/childhood. Local public school. Loves boardgames of nearly all flavors. Eventually refined to love of strategic/tactical games, then further to miniature-based war games. Whatever Warhammer 40k is, in BSG-land? She is ALL OVER THAT. Encouraged by her parents and gaming pals to turn her knack with the nerdish hobby into something more practical, she tries her hand at the Junior Regional War Games and is smitten. Before long, CFA: Virgon is encouraging her to apply.

2031-2034 (10-6 years ago): Colonial Flight Academy: Virgon Campus. Unlike most of her peers, her first choice was an Intelligence billet with Picon Fleet HQ. She chooses the computer engineering stream while at Academy, her studies angled toward knowledge of tactical and comm suites.

2034-2040 (6-1 year(s) ago): Picon Fleet HQ. During her five years on Picon, she becomes distinguished as a participant in, then a planner of, the war games Fleet HQ is accustomed to running. Her part in the Autumn 2040 war games caught the eye of Commander Michael Laughlin who, when given the command of CF-505 Praetorian, tapped LT Rime to serve as Junior TACCO.

2041 (now): Both she and the Corsair's Junior TACCO have been summoned as liaisons to the Cerberus by RADM Abbot, to help plan joint missions for the fleet.

Service Jacket

• 2041: April: Summoned by RADM Abbot to serve as Tactical Liaison aboard Cerberus.
• 2041: January: CDR Laughlin assumes command of CF-505 Praetorian. Rime is requested to serve as Junior TACCO.
• 2038: Promoted to LT as her roles in the war games start shifting from partipant to planner.
• 2034: Receives her Intelligence billet at Picon Fleet HQ and begins participating in the war games.
• 2031: Begins her four years at Colonial Flight Academy: Virgon Campus. Computer Engineering stream.

Physical Features

She's tall and slim, long-limbed and graceful in the careless manner of tomboys everywhere. Her fair-skinned face is often warmed with a wide and easy smile, her quick and curious gaze the vivid greenish-blue of a sunstruck lagoon. Her spun-honey hair is split into two plaits that fall to her shoulderblades, a few chin-length strands prone to escape.

On the Grid

Known Associates

Trivia

• When she has to give her full name, Diana is pronounced DEE-anna, not DIE-anna.
• Her preferred usename is Mel, from Melissande, her middle name. She tends to give this out as soon as she knows a person on any personal level.
• Whether you find her Virgan accent snooty and pretentious, or charming and exotic, or neither of these, in RL terms it's best imagined as a French accent. It's light, but ever-present, even if I'm not typing in dialect.

Minions

Intro

One part hobby, one part strategic tool. Mel uses some of the squads from her wargame as fleet representations, painted up in a sort of colonial 'shorthand'.

(Work in progress. More to follow as there's a chance to bring them up in scenes!)

Aerilon

Does Rime have a boat? Her smile fades a little with regret. "No, I had to leave all my large-scale constructions back on Picon. You would have loved what I set up, though. I recreated a First War boarding scenario with galleons and corsairs. It was fanTASTic." The memory brings her smile back as she turns and reaches into the large canvas carrying-bag she brought with her, the side stamped with a fading Camargue Provincial Park emblem. "I have… where are you, pretties… there!" She sits back up with a small plastic box, which she pops open and slides over to show Emilie the contents. "Fortified militia. These need Aerilon colors. All the blue you could want."

The miniatures Rime has deemed suitable for Aerilon's colors are a ragtag bunch of militia, their tiny plastic faces twisted in sneers and leering laughter, their weapons a mish-mash of whatever they could find. One of them is even using a broken bottle as a main gauche.

Sagittaron

The tiny pikemen are arranged in two rows of eight to present a swarm of points against whatever plastic-based threat might come their way. Some of the pikes are slightly bent, and one has been broken and repaired with a small blob of glue.

"I paint them with Colonial colors. The different squads, their roles. It's easier to use them for Fleet strats that way. These…" Rime reaches out and deftly grabs a block of four pikemen, rotating them around on the table to stand back to back with their brethren, points in all directions. "…are my Saggies. Good at keeping things away until something's close." She gives the pikemen a fond look. All her minions are loved, no matter their failings.

Recent Logs

PHD #166: The Suspicious LT

PHD #112: Midrats and Intel

PHD #133: EVENT - 2041 AE's Best Picture Winner

PHD #128: Duty Before Displeasure, Pt. III

PHD #128: Duty Before Displeasure, Pt. II

PHD #128: Duty Before Displeasure

PHD# 119: It's Left To You

PHD #118: Boom-Boom

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