Zhongli Quan Biángbiáng

Zhongli Quan Biángbiáng

Born on Urduaan (Empty Quarter 2039) in the small town of Achabbalr, Mr. Zhongli was raised to appreciate and follow ancient Chinese cultural mores of the early Imperium of centuries ago, despite the complete lack of Chinese blood in his Irashi/West Indian family. Living on a water world, swimming came naturally to him: his youthful interest in all things military (and natural mischievousness) helped him win his stealth skill.

He tried initially to enter the Air Academy of his world, locally-run despite the world being a formal colonial possession of Shamokin (Didshep (Ley 1005) in 1105). Being chosen for a non-military caste, Zhongli was rejected, and was instead routed for technical school. He did well enough here, but pulled some stealth-based and social engineering stunts to get into the local Air Officer Training Corps. But when he was ready to graduate, he applied to the Air Academy… and was again rejected, due to his caste.

Zhongli did not give up. Showing remarkable determination against the force of inflexible Vilani/East Indian caste attitudes, Zhongli mounted six more attempts to enter the academy, and was rejected each time. But on the seventh, Zhongli managed to skilfully leverage both the Shamokin colonial administration and the sympathy of House Bruce (the Imperial Noble family in charge of the system) in the service of his cause. Finally, his tenacity was deemed to be “worthy of a warrior”, allowing his reclassification into the warrior caste and permission to enter the Air Academy.

After graduating, he worked as a navigator in transport propeller and helicopter craft, with some cross-training as a pilot. He was promoted to a full pilot for prop transports, and was enjoying himself until a friendly Shamokin officer arranged for some high-tech computer training for the man.

Once his eyes were opened to high technology and the wonders of the stars, Zhongli was determined to see what else the greater universe had to offer. Unable to speak a word of Anglic (or Vilani, for that matter), Zhongli resigned his commission, soon managed to locate and finagle a TL-14 Irashi/Anglic translator from a departing Shamokin bureaucrat, and is now determined to get to the stars, no matter what.

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• Alvin Plummer. "Personality Profiles II." Stellar Reaches 23 (2013): 8.

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