Claudia Ptolemy

The flight leader of Aegis' combat pilots. Also part of the maintenance crew with Tim Luna and Jun Kirishima. Maintains calm, rational detatchment on most topics, but more emotional when dealing with her "family" and close friends. The eldest member of Aegis (129 years) due to being an Innovade.

Appearance
Despite her age, she appears to be in her mid 20s. Build on the slim side of average. Hip length red hair. Typically wears business casual clothes.

Innovades
Artificial humans created for space exploration in 2031. A controversial program, it did not survive the technology boom as space travel became easier, undermining the motivation to use enhanced humans to compensate for the earlier technical challenges of manned spaceflight (microgravity, radiation, long trip times...). The program was terminated in 2033 and never made public. By that time though a number of innovades had already been made and little is known of what happened to them since.

(Known) Notable physical traits:
 * Apparently do not age
 * Immunity (or at least high resistance) to poisons and illnesses
 * Do not require much food, water, or sleep
 * Apparent constant physique (don't get fat, but also don't appear to get stronger through fitness training or lose muscle/bone from innactivity)

Personality
Sour on slavery and politicians. Tries to mentor the other Aegis pilots (and even the Nuada's AI Anemone) to varying degrees of success. Claudia enjoys teasing and flirting with others as an entertaining way to observe the human condition. Jaded and shameless, hopes for the best, but plans for the worst. Competative, but only when convinced she has a reasonable chance of victory.

Has an affinity for electronics and since talking chief mechanic Jun Kirishima into allower her to perform maintenance work has been applying that to developing new capabilities for her own use and the other Aegis pilots. Through this work she has developed a more generalized knwoledge of military technologies. Notable developments include the Claudia Operating System (C-OS), reverse engineering the Mobius Gn-Drives, and a miniature power suit with power rivaling a full size mecha (Tau-0).

Claudia is pragmatic to the point of not being concerned with fairness. This is moderated by a non-confrontational attitude, seeking to minimize unnecessary conflict. When fighting she often tries to talk down human opponents, but has no qualms about hacking adversaries systems and turning them to her advantage. Perhaps because of this she has an affinity for remote type weapons.