Jean-Baptiste Chevalier de Lisieux
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Age: 25
Nationality: French
Rank: Lieutenant
Branch: French Army; newly assigned to the Foreign Legion
The fourth son of an old noble family, Jean-Baptiste is a young officer of impeccable manners, formal bearing, and unmistakably aristocratic background. He is lean and athletic, with dark hair, refined features, and the controlled posture of someone raised to represent both his family and his service.
Unlike many officers of similar birth, Jean-Baptiste has already seen active service. He served in the French Arm, taking part in operations against colonial dissidents and armed rebel groups. His record is respectable, though his experience has largely been in small-unit security actions rather than conventional warfare.
He volunteered for service with the Foreign Legion despite his family’s preference that he return to Earth and accept a staff appointment. When in dress uniform, he wears the sword traditionally associated with his rank and social station.
François Blanc
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Age: 36
Nationality: French
Rank: Sergeant (formerly Adjutant, equivalent to a Master Sergeant)
Branch: French Army; now assigned to the Foreign Legion
François Blanc is a career soldier with more than fifteen years of military service. His dark complexion and features suggest substantial African ancestry. He is powerfully built, weathered, and carries himself like someone accustomed to field conditions rather than parade grounds.
François joined in 2285 during the Central Asian War and subsequently served with distinction in the Franco-German War of 2292–93. He is regarded as a capable infantryman and veteran noncommissioned officer, particularly skilled in small-unit tactics, fieldcraft, and close combat. He holds the Légion d'honneur 5th Class as well as several lesser merits.
His final period in the regular army ended following a serious disciplinary incident involving an officer. Rather than face a lengthy prison sentence and formal court-martial, François accepted assignment to the Foreign Legion.
He has a poorly concealed dislike of officers, aristocrats, military pretension, and Germans.
Laetitia Claire Cassart
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Age: 24
Nationality: French
Rank: Aspirant (Officer Cadet)
Branch: French Army; assigned to the Foreign Legion for field service
Laetitia Cassart is a university graduate beginning the practical service year required before commissioning as a Sub-Lieutenant. Her degree is in xenology and related colonial sciences, funded through a military education program. Following her Aspirant year, she will owe the French state a further ten years of service.
She is blonde, blue-eyed, intelligent, and conventionally striking. Her appearance is also recognizably the result of a once-fashionable prenatal genetic enhancement package. The treatment produced highly consistent features among its recipients, leaving Laetitia with the uncomfortable distinction of resembling hundreds, if not thousands, of unrelated people who received the same modifications. Such packages have since been heavily restricted, and their recipients sometimes face social prejudice or unwanted attention.
Although trained in xenology, Laetitia has been assigned to Aurore, a colony with no known intelligent indigenous species, and attached to the Foreign Legion for her Aspirant service year. She has academic and military training but little practical field experience.