Cerana

Although Starguard has always had the larger presence in the city, both Starguard and the United Earth Marshal Service look over Colonial Bay. Both acknowledge that the presence of metas and aliens necessitated their full-time attention. Between the Spring of 2062 (when Starguard reopened it's doors in Colonial Bay) and November 2063, the UEMS presence in Colonial Bay has been little more than a lone man, United Earth Marshal Citadel. This changed with the assignment of a new deputy marshal to the small city center UEMS office (and occasional World Court attorney visits).

History
The deputy marshal on assignment with the UEMS is Rashmika Gandhi, code name Cerana. Prior to her job with the UEMS, Rashmika was personal assistant to Queen Bee (Bee), superhero and district manager for the Colonial Bay branch of Hive Inc. When Bee shifted her focus away from super-heroing and onto advertising and company administration, Rashmika left Hive Inc. and immediately obtained an interview for the UEMS deputy marshal position. She left on good terms, still maintains contact (and does occasional maintenance on the Hive Inc. teleportation device) and received quite a few of Bee's more powerful gadgets as a parting gift. She has yet to receive any complaints (outside of fashion critics) for augmenting her UEMS equipment in this way.

Training
Rashmika is a driven individual with a strong desire to learn anything that she thinks would be remotely useful to know and superficial access to the most powerful teaching tool on the planet. This drive to learn real-world skills has to some extent limited the development of her mental powers in favor of physical training. Prior to leaving her position at Hive Inc, mentally, she was likely the *least* powerful Hive manager on the planet.

Knowledge
Cerana has access to the one of the most powerful sources of information on the planet: the collective thoughts and memories of thousands of people. She can access this "psychic database" or "psychic pool" to learn everything from the contents of sealed government documents to foreign languages to transdimensional physics to martial arts to the latest cooking recipes.

The pool has one major drawback: The pool tends to lump all sources of information together. This "muddies" information on commonly known topics, for example mixing the real world experience of black belt martial artists with backyard enthusiasts who received all their "training" from movies. Due to this drawback, Bee has an easier time locating obscure information (like metallurgy or transdimensional physics or the identity of a specific face) than common information mixed with myths (like love advice or how much plumbers should charge). Bee is only now learning to sort conflicting information by source to overcome this drawback.

Wealth
Most of Cerana's other abilities come from a variety of rare and expensive gadgets. Unlike her comic book idol, Batman, she doesn't have to spend money hiding where the money is coming from.

Shortly after arriving in Colonial Bay, Bee abandoned the Batman style grapple gun and replaced it with mechanical wings. The wings hum in flight but fall silent in glide mode. Despite adding several insect-themed items to her arsenal, she still has the boomerangs and flash pellets. Additional upgrades include a Quinntex armored cloth costume, room-sized teleporter (with a wrist mounted remote), a force field belt, and "Stinger" cattle-prod style heels on her boots.

Her equipment underwent another drastic change when she abandoned the Bee identity altogether in Nov 2063 and joined the United Earth Marshal Service. Her new UEMS armor still has elements of her life as Bee: she is possibly the only UEMS deputy who performs her duties in (electrified) stiletto heeled boots.

Skills
Cerana is as highly trained as anyone who has wanted to be a superhero her entire life can be. That training took a beating when Bee first arrived in Colonial Bay, but is gradually getting replaced with real-world experience.

Description
You see a svelte woman with unusual eyes and a waist found only in comic books.

Her skin is more tan than dark, but with an even tone lacking pale patches or freckles: a product of her family all being from northwestern India more than time in the sun. Her slightly darker shoulder-length brown hair is slicked back on both sides into a french braid that starts on her forehead and runs all the way back to the nape of her neck and a bit beyond. She often wears sunglasses, but when she takes them off you can see that the 'whites' of her intense brown eyes are honey yellow.

Rashmika is dressed today in a daring take on a fitted Armani suit and fashionable heels. Wraparound yellow glasses fail to hide the dark brown irises of her eyes, but make the sclera look normal. Her mid-thigh length suit jacket is dark brown and fitted to show off her figure without being tight, but is worn over a cropped white button-down shirt that stops at the base of her ribs. It is snug at the bottom over her ribs and inside the jacket along her forearms, but loose on the chest and shoulders. Her tie is thin and black and stops at the base of the shirt. Despite the loose fit where she needs it, the shirt is also missing a button or two.

Although the rest of her build is fit and thin, Rashmika's twenty inch waist is as narrow side-to-side as it is front-to-back: her waist always looks like she is wearing a corset. However, in a shirt that stops at her ribs and dark brown slacks that ride just low enough to expose her hip bones, any corset she wore would have to be an invisible one.

The brown of Rashmika's slacks exactly match the color of her fitted thigh-length coat and fit loosely over fashionable black boots with pointed toes and metal stiletto heels. Occasional sparks from the heels hint at a deadlier purpose than fashion.

Personality
Even before starting work as a Hive Inc. employee, Rashmika was a person who always had to be involved in some project. This only increased upon becoming a Hive employee and increased again upon joining the UEMS. She is quietly competitive and will even compete with Queen Bee, even when they were the same woman. She very much enjoys her current life and is in no hurry to be promoted to higher level management.

Rashmika is one of twelve women who tranferred to Colonial Bay from India with Bee. Some conspiracy theorists believe Attache was Rashmika affecting a fake French accent.



Bee

 * [[Media:Hero at the Helm at Hive Inc|Hero at the Helm at Hive Inc]]
 * Intro Queen Bee
 * Bee KO's herself
 * Ghost's Pledge
 * Queen Bee Interviews for Starguard
 * Shoots and Ladders at Imptech
 * Nuclear Head Cold
 * Campus Clash
 * Send in the Clones
 * Dorian and Zeal's Wedding
 * Assault on Starguard