Leslie Andrews

Doctor Leslie Ayla Andrews (Civilian Consultant 558946) is one of the most prominent scientific advisers of the Office of Space Intelligence. Her extensive research into the KNIGHT Supersoldier Program has been groundbreaking, and she is particularly renowned for her work in developing and researching the GEN3 Excaliber Powered Armors. In addition to these impressive achievements, Andrews has also played a key role in overseeing the development of smart AIs like Laralyn.
Despite being a civilian, Andrews has earned a well-deserved reputation as a trusted authority within OSI. This has allowed her to wield considerable influence and command respect from some of the most important military figures within the organization. Her expertise and guidance have been critical to the success of many of OSI's most ambitious projects.

Appearence

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Attire and personal effects

Because she is most often occupied with her work, Andrews typically wears a lab coat. Commonly, she is often seen wearing a skirt although she is also seen in the standard OSI scientist utility clothes with a dark blue blouse and pants under her lab coat. She has a set of antique bifocal glasses which feature a variety of functions, including a heads-up display, a retinal and brain pattern scanner, as well as automatic polarization. The frames contain tiny projectors which can beam classified data directly onto her retina.
She typically carries a personal laptop on her as well as a purse, the latter containing a data pad, a pocket archive, a change of clothes, self-amalgamating tape, a pocket saw, a solar power pack, medications, a folding knife, her mother's antique Rolex luxury watch, as well as coffee for "emergencies". Andrews has several personal AIs, including Gloria, who can run on her laptop, and Irma, who serves as her assistant on Harmony and Washington. Andrews has a snowglobe on her desk in her CAMELOT Base office, containing a three-centimeter-tall representation of the Matterhorn being scaled by a tiny Swiss climber.
Andrews keeps an journal with her ever since she was eighteen, purchased from a shop on Harmony. She uses the journal as a medium through which to express her thoughts and concerns, draw sketches, and map out important research notes for around forty years. It is not Andrews' only journal, since she has a second one for note-taking and also had an encrypted audio journal on her computer, though she sometimes erases its entries soon after recording them. Andrews frequently leaves her first journal lying around buried under papers, and procrastinate on adding some security measures to it to prevent it from being stolen.

Biography

Early life and education

Leslie Ayla Andrews was born on September 20, 2666 within the colony of Venus near the city of Sorzon. While an impressionable young child her father recited to her every adventurous tale of Jules Verne. At this age she was already contemplating ideas having to do with artificial intelligences and their longevity. As an adolescent she was smarter than her parents and was continually reading, learning, and talking, being eager to share her knowledge with anyone who would listen. Among the works Andrews read at some point was an English translation of In Search of Lost Time. The first game of chess Leslie played with her mother was the only one she ever lost to her. Upon beating her daughter she had said, in Italian, "When the game is over, the king and pawn go into the same box." At a young age, Leslie was sent to the elite academy Venus Gifted, where she continued to defy educatory standards. She was eventually afforded a trip to Harmony in 2680 from the Dean of Biological Science at Emeerson University, who completely funded her education until the completion of her second doctoral thesis sometime after her fifteenth birthday in 2681. While working on that second thesis, Andrews learned various line commands, long discarded and forgotten due to their archaic nature, with which she could interact with computer programs.
In 2681, while still a doctoral candidate, Andrews met Doctor Peter Walters at an academic social mixer and couldn't resist correcting his obsolete algorithm implementation when she heard him describing the matrix mechanics of the socio-economic and politico-economic vectors of human expansion. She outlined a corrective matrix calculation to him which revised his dimensional parameters so that the sixteen dimensions were used rather than seven. Doctor Walters did not appreciate being challenged by someone he saw as a young upstart, but her words seemingly caused Captain Edward Simms of the United Space Command's Office of Space Intelligence to take note of her. six months later, a grant she had proposed for using artificial intelligences to control N-dimensional matrices was green-lit by the USC, with its funding contingent on the successful testing of a model of its choosing. Naturally, it was Walters' model which she was directed to test. Andrews knew his flawed model would produce flawed results, so she ran her sixteen dimensional variant as a control in addition to his seven-dimensional version. Walters' model predicted a breakdown of social order in the Outer Colonies within twenty years unless strict governmental control was established, reinforced by an immediate and permanent military presence. Leslie ran more then fourteen hundred simulations during this time, varying every parameter, and even in the best-case scenario it was clear to her that the Outer Colonies at large would rebel against the United Nation Federation soon. She determined that at a minimum, the resulting conflict would lead to twenty years of war and the deaths of ten billion people. The maximum effect was unbounded and could involve interminable war and a new dark age for humanity. Andrews took her findings to Simms only to learn that OSI had already reached the same conclusion. The agency had been keeping an eye on her for years and it had been decided that in order to recruit her, she would need to convince herself that working with the agency was necessary to save the human race. Quinn Allen, who considered Andrews his star pupil at the time, discouraged her from working with OSI. Andrews, however, had no problem admitting that OSI's tactic had worked on her. She allowed herself to be recruited in 2682 and in early 2683 she was brought to the Inner Colony of Harmony and contracted to work as a civilian consultant on a number of classified projects.

Knight Origins

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Candidate selection

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KNIGHTS

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Work continues

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EXCALIBER [GEN3]

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AI

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Laralyn

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Xenoarchaeology and other investigations

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Reputation

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Personal life

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Family & Marriage

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Personality & Traits

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Biographical information

Homeworld

Venus

Born

September 20, 2666; Sorzon, Venus (age 58)

Personal details

Race

Human

Gender

Female

Parents

Leonard Andrews (father)

Stephanie Mccullough (mother)

Spouse

Scott Foster (husband, m. 2691)

Sexuality

Straight

Gender Identity

Female

Height

5 ft. 6 inch.

Weight

130 lb.

Hair color

Black with a little Gray

Eye color

Blue

Political and military information

Affiliation

Office of Space Intelligence (since 2682)

Doctorate

MD, PhD

Service number

CC-558946