Skye Novak

Skye Novak is a character the Science Team encountered on Mackinac Island while meeting with the town Elders. She was being kept under detainment claiming to be a member of the Project/Founders. Science Team S-05 heard of her while investigating a facility on the Island and Charlie went to make contact.

Appearance
Skye is 5’5” (160cm) and built with the muscles she has earned as a farmer and a fighter. She has straight, shocking red hair, currently kept in an intricate array of braids, cut down to her skin on both sides with the blade of a knife, about temple-high. She is dirty in the way most survivors are dirty, smelling constantly of chemistry and drug smoke. She customarily wears simple leather armor under her wife’s olive drab M65 jacket, bearing the nametag “Novak”. Her face is painted with blue war paint in lines across her cheek, and she has a tattoo on the front of her left shoulder of the Morrow Project Recon Team eye of Ra logo. She usually has a small sawed-off double-barreled shotgun on her hip and a knife in her boot. Her face is wrenched into a scowl, and her blue eyes are usually bloodshot. On her left ring finger, she wears a ring made of resined wood braided with strands of wire. The heat treatment in the wire has left it with a colorful sheen.

Personality and Motivation
Skye is a fractured woman. Once deeply peaceful, kind, and loving, the brutal loss of her wife, the rest of her family, and only happiness drover her to madness. Now, still angry from grief, she has turned this violent anger into an art form. She is defensive and prickly - particularly when she is in withdrawal - and is something of a wild animal. She sizes people up based on threat and makes irrational snap judgments.

She is motivated first and foremost to find her wife's old Recon team, as well as to provide for her village. However, somewhere beneath the drug-and-grief-induced haze, she still is driven by her own sense of justice as well as a sense of duty to her wife's cause. She truly does want to see the world get better, even if her perspective on what that looks like is warped.

Training and education
10 years practical training as a village apothecary, 4 years semi-formal education in chemistry. Everything else she learned on her own. The last year and a half was spent learning how to make drugs -- everything from opium to LSA and DMT -- to control her soldiers and take the edge off her own grief.

Personal Effects and Mementos
Skye has a few effects: Her wedding ring, her wife's Star of David necklace, and the copy of Pride and Prejudice Maya used to teach her to read. She also carries a lot of drugs.

History
Early Life

Skye group up in a farming village called Home. She was not much for farming, instead taking up a role as a village apothecary and sore-bones.

Contact with Morrow
When Skye was 25 a recon team (R-C-114/F) entered her town and began fulfilling basic Morrow directives, building up the village, and giving them education, medicine, construction, etc.

Skye quickly became close to the team's doctor, Maya Novak, as the latter was helping Skye learn to do chemistry and create modern pharmaceuticals. Maya and Skye quickly fell in love and after a year or two Maya decided to leave the project, and the two got married. As Maya's team came back every so often Skye became something of an honorary member of the team.

Contact with Krell
A year ago Krell soldiers came to town. They burned, butchered, and pillaged Home. Maya went down in the fighting. They took over the town and forced the townsfolk to work. Eventually Skye, driven mad by anger and grief, helped organize a rebellion and turned the people of Home against their invaders and forced the Krell soldiers who survived to work for her.

Mackinac Island
Skye has been searching off and on for signs of her wife's recon team; she heard rumors of Mackinac Island's connection to the project, and began to seek them out. She was imprisoned by the monks as a dangerous impostor, until an offhand comment led to the S-05 finding her after she had busted out of jail on her own.