Lasari Cole - Genius with Guns

"Back there? I was a warrior, a survivor, and a myth. Out here I'm just a nerdy girl looking to solve some problems."

Age: 150+, as a former leading researcher in life extension, she holds the record as the oldest human alive
Appearance/health age: 25-35

Lasari is a scientist and innovator first, fighter second. The combination of intelligence, exceptional memory, and long lifetime are a perfect recipe for a top tier genius. While a capable fighter and survivor, she will rarely put her life at risk willingly. It would be a shame to waste her long life to a stray bullet.

Character:
Lasari focuses on solving problems before relationships. She is nice, but not very romantic. She may move fast and multitask, or get lost in thoughts for hours.

Backstory:
Born on Earth to a wealthy family, Lasari Cole went through accelerated education to graduate at age 15. She gradually built up her career in science and medicine, then joined the team that finally put all the pieces of the puzzle in slowing and reversing aging. This could not grant immortality, but gave her a few more decades of youth and life.

She intended to use this extra time well, so she joined an ambitious full VR training program, meant to prepare humans for dangerous situations in anticipation of colonizing new worlds. 7 years later, this VR Survival project was shut down due to lack of government support and ethical issues, but Lasari was awarded another life extension for her participation and achievements in this virtual world. She hopes to one day return to that world where death is only a setback, not an end.

Lasari returned to studying physics and other science fields. Over the next few years, her new teams made significant breakthrough in battery technology, genetics, as well as the new revolutionary 'relativity bypass' technology which would enable spaceships to accelerate even past the speed of light at a reasonable energy cost. It was logical that Lasari be among the first to colonize another solar system.