Offworlder Characters :
Pieter Rassilov Petravich
Cardinal Michale Fiore
Deacon Ronan O'Byrne

Pieter Rassiliov Petravich
Born:

Pieter (or Piotyr) Rassiliov Petravich was born in the Ukraine on Earth.  At some point he entered into the Imperial Service and became an assassin, or was already an assassin when he was recruited.  This is all he knows about his life before waking up in a
hospital in the Ukraine over thirty years ago.  His memories lost, he eventually put together a quiet life as an Imperial clerk before leaving Earth and, on the recommendation of a friend, Finding employment with the KLO.  For five years he lived on Gehenna, before spending a year on Aquila.

His time on Aquila was extremely eventful, he was unable to save Duke Atropos Maun from assassination, but was responsible for the death of the Duke's assassin, when both he and the Assassin fell through a glass dome after fighting on the rooftops of the city.  He was later involved in the search for Jack Kennigton and Salla Lasse, infiltrating the Aquilan underworld.  During the rescue of the children organised by Lord Lasse, Petravich was believed to
have been killed, but found washed up on the riverbank many days later.

During his time on Aquila, Petravich became the lover of Anna Le Cleche, much to the disapproval of Lord
Tremontaine.  He left Anna, and Aquila, to follow Lord Lasse to Gehenna, where he remained in service for the next twenty five years. 

He has no idea of what happened to him during the years from when he was born to when he woke up in the
Ukraine.  As advanced Gehennan medicine has estimated his genetic age to be 64, this leaves a huge gap in his early life.  A gap they may one day be filled for better or for worse.

Cardinal Micahle Fiore, OSFD, Legati a Latere of Nova Roma
(5'10, 180#)
Born:

Micahl's dark hair has already begun greying at the temples. He keeps himself clean shaven. He's a lithe, swimmer's build and strong legs from his love of riding. Formal occasions demand his full vestments, but more often he's found in white slacks and a long red coat with buttons the length of his torso. He rides in black pants with high boots and a red coat. While a healthy 42, the Holy Curia has access to rejuvenation treatments and pharmotherapy that gives Micahl a much younger appearance. His vanity allows him to keep the grey as it adds to a diplomat's distinguished air.

Nones Martius Anno DCCXXXII
  Born to Angela Rosa Fiore (nee Solatario) a new refugee on Nova Roma. She had fled the eugenic purges of Calla IV with her husband Anthony, who was injured defending the household of Archbishop Augustine. Anthony did not survive the the journey to Nova Roma, the new settlement, soon to be the universal seat of the Vatican. It had been established only a few months before and was still an untamed paradise. His Eminence took Angela into his household, and in time looked on young Micahl as the son he could never have.

c. DCCXL
  Young Micahl begins at the Nova Seiss Salle. He finishes his daily chores in the stables of now Cardinal Augistine's estates and rides his pony to his lesson. Karl was once one of the Pontiff's own guards, but since he lost use of his left eye he wasn't fit for duty. It was a shame that cyber-augmentation was against the regulations for the Guards, but Karl had never complained. He took his role as fencing master as serious as his previous duties protecting the Holy Father. He would train young Micahl in both powered and archaic blades, owing to the belief that not all planets had such powered weapons.

Ante Diem X Kalendas Februarius Anno DCCLXXIV
  Bishop Micahl Fiore is appointed Legati a Latere, and in turn is granted the rank of cardinal. His dispatch is to travel to the world of Aquilla, ascertain the current religious and political climate and the situation surrounding a question of inheritance of the world's throne. He is briefed personally by the Pope before being allowed to get his affairs in order for the journey.

Deacon Ronan O'Byrne
Born:

Ronan came up from one of the poorer neighborhoods of Morne, in a community of descendants of refugees from the sinking of Dublin. Father unknown, mother deceased, he was supported by a loose network of kind neighbors and an assortment of petty crimes until, at age 15, he was taken under the wing of an idealistic and increasingly influential parish priest. His energy and street smarts became focused on better goals, and he actually became something of a peacemaker amid the rival youth gangs of his home city. When Father Walsh was elevated to Bishop, he brought Ronan with him and saw to his education. The youth never quite lost his downside edge, though, and declined to pursue ordination, adding perhaps an Augustinian 'but not yet' to some of his prayers. Though he did perhaps comfort some few tragically young widows during his service to the Church on Morne, his discretion was admirable and his good works unimpeachable even though his methods of outreach to the disadvantaged youth of his flock were sometimes unorthodox.

Walsh became archbishop some years later, and was in an excellent position thanks to his closeness to Morne's new cardinal to exercise his patronage and secure Deacon O'Byrne a position on Nova Roma, in the Holy See itself. Five years of the outward calm of Vatican life have somehow failed to quite smooth the roughness of Ronan's edges, and this has been all to the good, as the Vatican Tribunal has occasionally needed an investigator and discreetly forceful right arm to ensure that the outward air of peace is undisturbed.