MINERVA4.0

Name: MINERVA4.0 (said as MINERVA40), formerly Minerva Sparkstar
Age: 34, but with the cybernetic features looks 28
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 138 lbs.
Appearance: Before/After
Race: Spiritoain
Planet: Spiritos Prime, Spiritos quadrant
History: When Minerva was born, her parents Allieda and Rukos Sparkstar knew at once that their daughter was special. Not that being born with black wisps of hair instead of the normal blue, white, or silver giving it away. While she was growing up, the two noticed how different their daughter really was as the little girl's fascination for Star Command started to come into light. Bu at least they were relieved when Minerva started getting into normal things like taking up a rare Spiritoain instrument called an arimosa, one of the rarest and most difficult instruments to play. The young girl would soon go down in history as one of the very few that could play it without any problems whatsoever. Then she got the knack for chess and every day she was at the Hall of Strategy, improving her skill on the chessboard.

Moving into the latter teen years, Minerva was known quite well around the planet as being the oddball out as for her different colored hair and non-neutralic personality. By the time she was old enough, she decided to prove to everyone that she was who she was and signed up for the Academy. Passing the entrance exam, which astounded everyone but didn't surprise them, the young woman was bidding a fond farewell to to her family and friends and spending her young adulthood learning how to be a Ranger.

After graduation, the Spiritoain was having the time of her life, being the captain of Team Sparkstar. Everything was going for her and her team until her twenty-eighth year when the crew was out on a mission and suddenly their ship was attacked by an unknown force, causing the ship to slowly explode with the heavy attacks it was receiving. The others were able to get out, but Minerva was trapped due to her seatbelt malfunctioning. Just as everything was about to go boom, one of her dear teammates came back just in time to send the distress beacon, save his captain and get back out when the craft went up in flames. after being rescued, the damage had been done to the woman when she was being assessed by a Star Command-regulated doctor. Minerva had lost her right leg, her left arm, the flesh and muscles around her neck, the top half of her face and all of her hair. While on extensive life support, the decision was made to send her home where the advanced science community possibly had a way of saving her life.

In Spiritos Prime's best lab, the scientists were hard at work first creating the replacement limbs, tendons, muscles and the cybernetics needed to run the new parts without a glitch. They even created blue synthetic-like hair to replace the midnight-black mane that she had lost. Once everything was installed and the CPU implanted into half of her brain, the terrylium-carbonic alloy shell created to protect the new hardware was put into place. The new system they had designed worked by being powered by the energy of the stars with two brand-new never been used stellar panels which worked just like solar panels that were placed on her back. When everything was green-lit to run, the scientist started her up and MINERVA's life was saved in the nick of time. However, they realized that they had made a fatal flaw: when they were combining her brain with the CPU, they accidentally messed with the part that dealt with emotions and "erased" her comprehension of fear, meaning that she doesn't understand what it is and how to grasp the concept of it.

Spending six more months getting acclimated to her new body, she was released to go back to work but due to being in rehab for so long her team had been disbanded and had been assigned to Team Lightyear once she had been cleared for duty. Ever since then, things have been nothing but a roller-coaster ride......

Special Extra: A mighty legend of Spiritos Prime, known as the Heart of Spiritos, is known to be seen as a small blue orb that contains the breath of life of the first Spiritoain ever to live. Only those that are worthy to be the Keeper are chosen by when they have seen death and survived. but since being a neutral race, seeing death and live is a pretty rare thing. Not if you're MINERVA, that is. Just before she was powered up for the first time, the Heart appeared out of nowhere which flabbergasted the scientists and placed itself at the base of the cyborg's throat, creating an engraved eight-pointed start around itself and mystically wrapped a blue ribbon just above it, declaring the woman to be the new Keeper of the Heart, which then gained her the respect that she wanted from her people.

Thank you.

cool! and, the 'after' picture isn't there anymore. still, im liing the story

Thanks, and thanks for letting me know about the pic. It's all fixed.

alright ^^