PROFILE: Sergeant Nyara Viss
GENERAL INFORMATION
Nyara Voss is an 8-year veteran of the Vandals with a skill set that sets a high standard even within the ranks of the most elite Special Forces unit within the Elytrian Exliptic, the Vandals (AKA Fireteam Vandal). Though deadly and ruthless when the situation calls for it, Nyara is a gentle, even motherly individual with a vibrant and oftentimes quirky personality that stands as a stark contrast to the dark, gritty world in which she lives. She is a woman who understands the feelings of loss and isolation and puts her unparalleled skill with biology and medicine to good use in the service of her squad and the people they help.
Early Life
As the daughter of one of the most prominent figures within the Grand Coalition military, Nyara has spent her life living under a microscope. With a team of bodyguards always on hand and her behavior constantly scrutinized, Nyara lived the life of a military brat with a strict and regimented lifestyle to match.
Having no desire to serve in the military in any capacity- despite her father’s nearly perpetual insistence- Nyara never succumbed to the allure of rebellion to which teenagers in her situation tended to fall and instead found her peace in biology and horticulture. Over time this hobby turned into a deeply held career aspiration that Nyara pursued through post-graduate school where she graduated with a doctorate degree at age 20 (an education that was remarkably accelerated by leveraging her father’s influence).
Her plans to become a field biologist were out on hold, however, when her mother was murdered in a mugging gone wrong while she was out on a simple grocery run. Though she didn’t blame herself, Nyara concluded that her prodigious efficiency with biology and medicine could only save: She had to be able to protect as well.
With the help of her grieving father, now a general within the Grand Coalition military, Nyara enlisted and went straight into Special Forces training where she was only one of a small handful of women to make the cut and join the ranks of the Coalition Special Operations Forces (CoSOF). Applying the same level of discipline and determination that had her graduate with a doctorate six years before the average, Nyara quickly caught the attention of then-Lieutenant Garris Agayle. After receiving special permission and, of course, the blessing of her father, General Toren Voss, Garris recruited Nyara onto the most elite CSOF unit in the entire Ecliptic, the Vandals.