Trawler II
Lianna Macklin
Lianna Macklin was drawn to the sea from childhood. She became a capable and agile swimmer and later a fearless diver, earning her SCUBA certification and spending a great deal of time snorkeling and deep-sea diving. She found the hunt for lost and buried treasures beneath the seas intoxicating, and hired out as a diver and salvage operative, learning the ropes and putting aside money until she could start her own operation.
Unfortunately, Lianna wasn’t nearly as good at managing treasures as she was at finding them. She never managed to save much, spending what money she had on the good life while in port, then scrambling to sign on to another salvage and make more. She started going on dangerous solo dives to get a bigger cut, hoping for the legendary “big score” to give her what she needed to achieve her long sought independence. She found it, but not in the way she ever expected.
While on a solo dive, Lianna stumbled upon a hidden sea-cave, a secret lair used by the criminal deep-sea smuggler known as Trawler, an old foe of the Sea-King. Inside the pressure-sealed main chamber was one of Trawler’s sophisticated diving suits, plans and technical information and equipment, and copies of the smuggler’s notes and journals. Lianna eventually pieced together how the diving suit worked. More importantly, she had information about caches Trawler buried and hid years previously, along with various sites he discovered, down below safe diving distance for all but submarines and diving bells. The world’s oceans were now her oysters, just waiting to be harvested!
With her initial hauls, Lianna was able to buy her own boat, the Treasure Hunter, and hire a crew to expand her operations and provide surface support for her dives. She quickly earned a reputation for turning up tremendous finds, and selling them to the highest bidder. Lianna was swimming in money, although she spent it as quickly as it came in, save for what she managed to set aside for her crew and operating expenses. Between parties in Saint Tropez, Ibiza, Hawaii, and the Bahamas, she carried out new salvage operations, finding the limits of the Trawler suit’s capabilities and of its original owner’s maps and journals.
Her expertise as a salvage operator willing to ignore certain niceties drew the attention of Yvonne Orphis (aka Coral Snake), looking for the ancient ruins of Lemuria and certain arcane secrets therein. The two women began a cautious partnership, eventually recruiting Emerald City local Steelhead, who was running his own small-time smuggling operation. Together, “The Trident” has been even more profitable than Trawler’s solo operations, and Lianna is enjoying herself immensely. Her eye is still on the prize promised by Coral Snake, however: the lost troves of the ancient Serpent People, which once plundered the known world. With that kind of wealth, she could go anywhere and do anything, and the law would never catch up.
Physical Description
Apparel & Accessories
The Trawler suit is a heavy, armored diving vessel, equipped with strength-magnifying servo-motors and aquatic turbines for propulsion. It is capable of firing heavy steel-mesh nets from launchers in the arms and directing a powerful electrical charge through the arms as well, which can conduct down the cables to the nets, shocking those trapped in them. Lianna has upgraded the original suit some with assistance from Steelhead, incorporating some improvements from his own armor.
Mental characteristics
Intellectual Characteristics
Trawler is a live-in-the-moment thrill seeker and risk-taker, who loves the hunt for treasure almost as much as the experience of having (and spending) it. She tends to lack foresight, always scrambling from one score to the next to make ends meet, but she’s smart enough to look out for her own interests first. She doesn’t see anything wrong with taking whatever she wants, but tends to avoid needless violence.
Social
Contacts & Relations
Trawler’s key allies are her Trident partners. She likes them, but doesn’t particularly trust them. She’s watchful for a double-cross from Coral Snake and enjoys keeping Steelhead wrapped around her finger, but doesn’t see him as anything more than a plaything. Many of the Trident’s Tines were members of her crew originally, and she still holds their loyalty.
Trawler’s foes have always been heroes interested in protecting the seas and their treasures from being plundered. Her predecessor fought Sea-King, and Lianna has run afoul of his daughter, Neried. She’s considered an outlaw in Atlantis for her crimes.
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