Senwa, Luri (World Guide, Biographical) (Patreon)

Born 14.6.4581, Kaira, Miyoria, Droxi Nebula Prefecture, Feyli Empire. Female. Courgar Fey’li

Luri Senwa was born as the fifth of nine sisters on the Senwa family farm on the 14th of Quickriver, 4581IR. A bit of a tomboy, Luri spent much of her early life making a nuisance of herself by tinkering with various bits of farm gear and otherwise making life hard for her elders, who just wanted to get work done without having to deal with her often quite curious ideas regarding what constituted ‘improvements’. Never quite up to par with her peers in the formalized learning department, she would be sent to a vocational school rather than receive a more traditional secondary education. This experience would lead her to attend the Miyoria Mariners’ University in 4598 as a practical starship engineering student.

While Luri’s education at Miyoria-MU was focused on preparing her to work as an entry level engineer aboard starships, her knack for understanding and usefully modifying advanced technology led her instructors to encourage her to explore a more varied practical engineering education, with a focus on developmental process and systems design. She would graduate with a Master Engineer qualification in 4602. She would be hired straight from school by the Chevinta Shipyard at the Mashiva Spaceport, Mashiva, Maria, Marian Drift Prefecture. There, she would work as a senior assistant to various naval constructors overseeing the yard’s thriving ship modification business.

As a result of her position at Chevinta, in the summer of 4605, Luri would come into contact with Vixnati Corporation and their program to modify a trio of Kavyanti warehouse freighters into ‘experimental starships’. Luri would become responsible for ensuring that the nebulous systems which Vixanti intended to install would actually fit in the modified internal structures, without knowing what any of the systems actually were. By early 4606, the three spaceframes were ready for the commencement of systems installation, and were delivered to the Vixanti Ramp at Mashiva Spaceport.

Far too curious for her own good, Luri managed to figure out that the kinky media resulting from various Vixanti experiments was related to the installations in the three Desinty Class starships. Using this discovery, she managed to work out that the ships were using this biogel as some sort of ‘universal transdimensional substance’ to do everything from power the ship, to move, to provide artificial gravity, and even to act as the ship’s computer. While she had no idea exactly how each system worked, her deductions were accurate enough to trigger red flags during a Navy security audit of her personal computer files at Chavanti.

On the 12th of Rainsong, 4606, Luri was arrested for industrial espionage on the assumption that she’d acquired illicit access to highly classified information from Project Obsidian. In less than 24 hours, Project Obsidian’s senior security staff were having a collective heart attack when she showed them just how ‘easy’ it had been for her to work out what was being installed in the ships simply by seeing the structural modifications and assuming it had something to do with all those shiny black ‘living dolls’. Little could be done to keep Chavanti personnel from making a similar analysis but, to keep the secret secure for as long as possible, it was decided that Luri should ‘transfer’ to Vixanti in order to help see the ships through to completion. Thankfully for the sanity of Project Obsidian’s security department, Luri didn’t have to be asked to join Vixanti twice. The lure of new and exciting technology was just too strong.

Within a few weeks of Luri’s joining the ranks of Vixanti, the company decided to roll out its initial Vixanti Interstellar Lifestyle products to staff. This included the initialization of all biogel systems within Vixanti Facility Three. Everyone would don their suits of glistening black goo, live in apartments equipped with glistening black goo powered everything, and even sleep on, or within, glistening black goo beds. The new Vixanti engineer wasn’t particularly enthused with this, especially considering the fact that it was wearing this experimental biogel that had lead to all those kinky black biogel dolls.

Despite being more or less compelled to let herself be coated in biogel from neck to toe, Luri would find the related technologies too enticing for her to try and back out of it all. Encouraged by biogel’s creator, Dr. Anshi Alluwa, she would mainly focus on the Destiny Omega, the third and final ship that, as it would turn out, Dr. Alluwa intended to use personally to control all biogel everywhere. Not really understanding the details, Luri would ensure that the Destiny Omega was equipped with a number of undisclosed systems which would help ensure that no one else could take control of the Omega, and through it all biogel.

Owing largely to the damage caused by water intrusion during the Omega Incident, the protections against someone else taking control of the Destiny Omega’s biogel core failed to function properly, allowing Shetari Anwae to take control in Dr. Alluwa’s place. Though she’d technically aided Dr. Alluwa’s plot, which itself was a plot to supersede a similar plot by Vixanti Three’s director, Nuva Exi Shi, Luri was kept on as the Destiny Omega’s new chief engineer.

Since the Omega Incident and its immediate fallout, Luri has assisted Dr. Alluwa and other Vixanti, and it’s subsidiary Gelitech, scientists in developing various technologies that cross the divide between living biogel and machine. Most notable of these are the Destiny Delta and it’s Cyborgirls, and the related Low Resource Consumption Crew project. While she generally steers clear of most other biogel developments, she spends quite a bit of time tinkering with Cyborgirls in her small dedicated workshop aboard the Destiny Omega. She particularly enjoys testing new Cyborgirl Operating System software, and seeing how both unprogrammed and programmed Cyborgirls deal with various alternative robotic body types.