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Name: Daniela Altman (aka Danila Alton)
Age: 29
Marital status: single
Occupation: Anchors "Terran News Nightly", the planetwide news broadcast. Ambitions to eventually anchor the Federation-wide off-planet broadcast.
Former Occupations: Reporter for the Terra Times, investigative reporter for "TNN", anchor of various smaller shows (even hosted a talk show) before hitting the big time. got her first job through the intervention of the crime boss she was sleeping with at the time, and she still has "professional connections" with the "FamilY".
Education: BA in English, MA in Journalism
Laran: Alton Gift: weak, but still dangerous. She earned her reputation as an investigative reporter by "making" informants talk. The idea of telepathic ethics never occurred to her.
Residence: Has an apartment on the ritzy side of New York
Income: She's a well-paid TV personality, as well as having a few...investments on the side.
Politics: Loves 'em--they provide constant fodder for her broadcast. She doesn't particularly care what politicians do, as long as they don't do anything to her.
Abilities
Unarmed Combat: She's in good shape and can throw a punch--learned that after the first time somone tried to rape her when she came to the big city.
Armed Combat:
Antique Weapons: Can use a knife, but not with any sort of elan.
Guns/Lasers: Learned how to use a gun while investigating rival drug rings ofr a newspaper story.
Vehicle driving: She knows how to drive both air- and ground-cars, and owns one of each, although she prefers to walk or be driven around town.
Computer use: is quite proficient with the basic research skills she needs as a reporter but no more than that.
Interpersonal Relations: Can be friendly and charming, or a cold bitch, depending on whether she thinks you're an important person to her. She forms strong emotional attachments, but often to the wrong person. She has a weakness for powerful (and often dangerous) people for romantic entanglements.
Weaknesses: Arrogance--she thinks she can get away with anything. Eventually, she'll find out differently. A tendency to get caught up in an emotion and act without thinking it through.
Appearance: 5'8", slim, ice blue eyes and dark red hair dyed black.
Romantic relationships: Former (and still occasional) lover of crime boss Paul Genovese.
Friends/Contacts: Many contacts, few close friends
Hobbies: Dabbles in playwriting, under a pseudonym
Special equipment/Vehicles/Expensive possessions: Air and ground cars, a fair amount of surveillance equipment from her reporting days
Other information:Daniela/Danila is the nedestro daughter of an Alton lord, acknowledged and sent off-planet to be educated until a match could be found for her, preferably one advantageous to the Alton Domain. She ran away at age 17 to New York, where she obtained her degrees while working thankless reporting jobs. She can't understand why anyone would voluntarily live on a planet like Darkover, with no modern conveniences (she is "very" fond of all the nice things technology can do) and has been very careful to prevent her Darkovan heritage from becoming public knowledge. Nonetheless, she is drawn to associate with her fellow ex-patriots by a powerful, if irritating, nostalgia.
E-mail: evansml@gusun.georgetown.edu
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