Mara Venn

• Autopistol (3D-3)
• Rifle (3D)
• Heavy Leather Duster (Protection 1)
• Prospector's Kit, hand scanner, encrypted communicator, and 40 metres of climbing line
• Riding mule with panniers

• Gun Combat (Slug)-2
• Survival-2
• Drive (Wheeled)-1
• Science (Geology)-1
• Broker-1
• Mechanic-1
• Investigate-1

Mara spent three terms drifting between survey camps, mining claims, and company security contracts, earning a prospector's kit, sidearm, and a modest claim stake at mustering-out. She came to the current gold rush after detecting anomalous heavy-metal readings beneath an abandoned company town.

Quiet and transactional in public, Mara dislikes bullies and company men who mistake poverty for weakness. Under pressure she becomes very still, gives precise orders, and shoots only when she has chosen the ground.

A wiry, weather-browned woman with silver-streaked black hair, amber goggles, and a left hand replaced by a rugged industrial prosthetic. Her careful gaze and disciplined weapon handling suggest a former survey professional beneath the dust-caked frontier clothing.

Gun Combat (Slug)-2, Survival-2, Drive (Wheeled)-1, Science (Geology)-1, Broker-1, Mechanic-1, Investigate-1

Mara's survey data proves the richest vein lies beneath a settlement whose inhabitants are being quietly evicted by a powerful mining combine.

She wants enough gold to buy out her claim partners and leave the frontier before the discovery attracts a corporate army.