An alien from the unaligned Zeta Sector, Katyna Reidal was drafted by the Rezerbian Space Forces, an organization considered barely better than terrorists by the Federation. After an incident between her and a superior officer, she was given the opportunity of execution for insubordination or a dangerous mission, and Katyna picked the second. She was sent to Kepler-186 to investigate rumours that the Federation blockade concealed a relic or superweapon of immense power... and like many people before her, her ship crashed on entering the system. Retrieved from her crash site by Kislev, she was kept as a prisoner and had a short-lived career as a Nortune Battler until she managed to escape by stealing her own Battling Gear and go on the run. To support herself, she's become a Drifter, travelling the wastes and never settling down in one place - but learning a remarkable amount about the history of Filgaia. Unfortunately, Kislev appears to have it out for her (or her Gear), and her bounty has skyrocketed since her escape, with a bonus for intact retrieval.
Katyna's weapon of choice is a pistol capable of firing various highly modified bullets.
Unfortunately the weapon was lost on coming to Filgaia; she doesn't know if it's with Kislev, still sunk in her wreck, or broken and lost forever, but she doesn't have it. As a result, she's currently using her backup weapon, which are knives, primarily thrown. She knows ranged techniques to maneuver knives in various ways after they've been thrown or to cause small shockwaves when she throws them. These techniques are a mixture of self-taught and trained. She is also a capable knife-fighter in melee range but uses these skills less often, preferring to keep her distance.
What Katyna did successfully retrieve was her modification kit. Originally designed to modify the bullets fired by her pistol, it works on other metal projectiles; Filgaian gunsmoke firearms are not of sufficient quality to be used to fire modified bullets, so she only does it with knives at the moment. These modified knives contain systems like a superheated edge that emits a jet of flame on impact, an electric wire that chains the target to a location, and an explosive spike, among others.
Though the modification kit is actually modern space gear, most people of Filgaia would believe the knives to be a mysterious excavated ARM, as they are quite similar in results to Metal Demon-era 'elemental guns'. Katyna does not correct them.
Tools
Grappling Cable: Katyna uses one of her modified knives that trails an ultralight cable suitable for climbing, swinging, or using as a tool to pull things at a distance. Supports 600 pounds.
Portable Scanner: Katyna has a small scanning system roughly analogous to a Federation tricorder, though of clearly different design.
Gear
Katyna possesses a Gear.
Wild Trigger was an entrant in the Battling Arena. Believed to be of Kislev make, Katyna has her private suspicions upon messing with the internals that it's older than that - and the determination with which Kislev appears to be trying to get it back justifies her belief. While poking around, she managed to get it to boot into a different system (once), which called the Gear Argentis; Katyna tends to use that name for the Gear, though it's still better known at large as Wild Trigger.
Argentis is a humanoid Gear. Rather sturdy-looking and almost bulky with armour, it has solid exterior plating that conceals a smaller core in the torso (though not the limbs). It has built-in boosters in its legs that allow it to jump extremely high and slow its fall, but not fly.
Argentis' primary weapon is a large gyrojet rifle; it fires bullet-rockets, which are big enough to be loaded with missile payloads. It also has an integrated shield on its left arm, though it's of limited use while firing, as the rifle takes both hands to steady due to its length. Every once in a while, Katyna finds how to activate hidden equipment in the Gear itself.
Anything else about Argentis is currently unknown.
Space Alien
Katyna is a Halloran, a sentient race from the Hallora system in the uncontrolled Zeta Sector. They originated on the second planet in that system, Hallora II, which is a humid, warm world with a largely subtropical and tropical climate. Independently spacefaring, they colonized their two moons but did not discover the secret of FTL transit before encountering the Rezerbians, a nearby race in that sector. Though Hallora remains nominally independent, in practice it is a vassal system of the Rezerbians, dependent on Rezerb for defense and transport while being exploited economically. Additionally, the Rezerbian military uses Hallorans as enlisted (or drafted) personnel in positions that the Rezerbians find difficult due to their physiology.
Physically, Hallorans are a humanoid species. They average slightly taller than a human, but generally fall within human norms for height and mass. Their most obvious trait is their blue skin, which is marked by both stripes and spots in patterns that are as individual as a fingerprint. Bold colours with clear, symmetrical patterns are considered an indicator of health and attractiveness. As a general rule, Hallorans do not tattoo themselves (including with Symbological tattoos) to emphasize their natural patterning; artificial markings are considered crude and unpleasant at best, though there is no bias against tattooed non-Hallorans. They have pointed ears and tend to have pale eye colouration.
Hallorans descend from semi-aquatic mammals who adapted to living in flooded forests and came onto shore and into the trees. Though a fully land-dwelling species, they maintain some vestigial traits from their heritage, such as an ability to hold their breath for much longer than a human and clearer vision underwater. Additionally, as they come from a slightly high-gravity world, physically fit Hallorans tend to be agile and acrobatic when in a 'normal' gravity field.
Though Hallorans are very rare in Federation space, they are not unknown to the Federation. Most Hallorans who do not live in the Hallora system work for the Rezerbians in some capacity, either military or civilian. A minority live independently within the neutral Zeta Sector. Many civilian Hallorans find work in the entertainment or service industries, as their colouration is considered attractively exotic to multiple common species.
Leon Albus: Katyna hunted him down due to him also being wanted by Kislev. He introduced her to Bartholomew Fatima, and she's currently on the Yggdrasil.
Bartholomew Fatima: Captain of the Yggdrasil Pirates. He struck Katyna as someone she can work with, though he's naturally curious enough that she'll have to be sure to keep certain things out of his hands. She approves of what she's heard about the Pirates.
Lily Keil: Less approachable than Leon but in much the same boat. She struck Katyna as more paranoid and less open than Leon, but she'd still like to know her better.
Acquaintances
Arleph Ardan: Seems to know a lot about machines. ARMs meister?
Ida Everstead-Rey: Also some kind of scholar and clearly not having a good month. Kat kept a recording for her, but isn't sure how to actually give it to her - it's not like Ida has a computer she can send the file to.
Talise Gianfair: Katyna worked with her once. Nice enough, and willing to put in some hard work, which is also nice. Katyna thinks she knows Morgan, so that might be an in.
Claude C. Kenny: Well, she knew the Federation would be around, but Claude wasn't precisely who she was expecting. She wants to talk to him - maybe they can make a deal.
Morgan Newkirk: Mysterious! She talked to him and would like to do so again.
Gwen Whitlock: Katyna worked with her once too. Well-prepared.