Miri'Seraph vas Hackworth

Showing off a reskin I did for a Tali model for a character I played in an RPG on TZF. Miri'Seraph vas Hackworth is a nanotechnology engineer and captain of the MSV Hackworth, a refitted frigate dedicated to her late husband Neil Hackworth, who perished on an incident on board Omega which also resulted in her freedom from Cerberus. Currently, she leads a mixed team of survivors from the incident around the galaxy, in hopes of stopping the Collector threat before a similar event on Omega can happen again.

"Born on the Rayya to a clan who had made many expeditions into human territory to learn of their culture, Miri was instantly ingruiged by the alien lifestyle beyond the Flotilla. Excelling in fields of nanotechnology research at an early age along with engineering, she took it upon herself to find a use for nanotechnology outside basic resource conversion and medical practice. When she was eighteen, Miri attempted to develop her own source of nanotech with limited success to an outright catastrophe when a destabilized nanocyte processor severely damaged the Neema's cargo hold, spoiling a recent capture of element zero. To avoid exile, her parents prematurely sent her on her pilgrimage into Citadel space, starting on the Citadel itself in search of other corporations that would put her services to use. Unfortunately, many occupations that could have used her skills turned her down due to distrust of her race, being seen as scavengers and thieves. She worked as a waitress at Dark Star Lounge, where after expressing great interest in human culture, was taught to sing by her boss, who was an asari matriarch who herself was a famous singer many centuries ago. Miri briefly had a permanent position as a singer at the club until under mysterious circumstances she was contacted by Cerberus, who were looking highly trained nanotechnology engineers to go undercover in an Alliance vessel to create a self-replicating nanomachine as a superweapon. Under the secrecy of simply being the chief engineer on the ship, Miri cooperated with another nanotech engineer to create SeeD, Dr. Neil Hackworth, who were the only two on the ship who were aware of the Cerberus exchange. While working on the technology and going on countless missions together, Neil and Miri developed more than a professional relationship, both seeking to help their own race with the new technology. Neil, however, when Miri professed her love for him, had a change of heart, no longer caring for using SeeD as a weapon, he saw a potential for something greater than he could have hoped. He instead started to create a design for nanomachines to terraform planets in record time rahther than as a planet killer. Sadly, Cerberus had bugged the ship and learned of the doublecross, selling their IFF codes to a batarian slaver ship which attacked the Progress, leaving only Neil and Miri alive. Miri was captured by the slavers and sold back to Cerberus as leverage to give Neil a reason to hand back SeeD to its owner. Neil, along with a rag-tag crew of new friends, tracked down Miri's captives on Omega and once again betrayed Cerberus, freeing her. Her freedom carried a heavy price, as Neil's cybernetics finally refused contact with his body, slowly killing him in Miri's arms as they left her captives behind. After briefly joining the team to stop the Shadow on Omega, and revealing the true nature of the Shadow, suffered a nervous breakdown which compromised her mission to the point where quarian Fleet Marines had to extract her from the operation. After intensive care from the Flotilla and meeting with a long-lost friend, Tali'Zorah vas Neema, Miri gained confidence in her work and presented it to the Admiralty board. Her technology boasting incredible amounts of potential univerally, but still unfinished, she was assigned a ship to use for its study as the captain. Miri however used the ship not only for the production of new schematics for SeeD, but she also used it as a base of operations for the team on a whole new mission. Miri however has been showing signs of mental instability since her suit rupture, and the Admiralty board recommends keeping one eye on her at all times, lest risk her entire life's work if she struggles with her mentality again."