Sylia Stingray
| Sylia Stingray | |
| Born | 1987 |
|---|---|
| Residence | Marsbase Sara |
| Nationality | Fenspace Convention |
| Ethnicity | Mixed European/Japanese |
| Occupation | Businesswoman |
| Years active | 2016 onwards |
| Height | 190cm |
| Weight | 80Kg |
| Known for | Owner of Stingray Motor Engineering |
| Website email: s.stingray@stingraymotors.com | |
Not much is known about Sylia Stingray, she is a very private individual. She moved in to Marsbase Sara sometime in 2016, registering it as her place of residence, though doesn't appear to stay there for very long. Sylia Stingray purchased Stingray Motor Engineering from Jet Jaguar for an undisclosed sum, then set about expanding the mundane side of the business. Sylia negotiated a license from AIC to use the Stingray name, and the design of the Highway Star and other Bubblegum Crisis vehicles
Stingray Motor Engineering runs out of a production plant in the Shannon Economic Zone in the Republic of Ireland, and is registered as a corporation in that country. It produces custom-built motorcycles based around Mazda Rotary engines, and by all accounts turns a tidy profit. Stingray is something of a stand-off owner, and most of the day to day management of the company is handled by a small board of directors with Sylia only called upon for meetings relating to company strategy and model developement direction.
Employees at SME are well paid for their work, well enough to overlook unusual work orders and part designs coming down from on high. Sylia has a noted tendency of buying up licenses to patents that 'interest' her, then leaving it to the company's engineers to figure out what to do with them[1]. While some cross-licenses of Stingray-owned technology have yet to be explained.
The company accountant suspects that something 'untoward' is happening, but can't quite figure out what.
Sylia, to the world at large, is nothing more than an eccentric businesswoman. But that's nothing unusual for anyone who lives in space.
Mundane attributes
Away on business...: A difficult person to track down, she seems to move about a lot. Officially she lives in Marsbase Sara. but spends a lot of her time away on business, far more than is spent on SME.
Touchy-Feely: Sylia has a noted tendency to touch and feel objects around her, pressing her hand against walls or objects
Secret Identity: Sylia Stingray is the leader of the Knight Sabers
Quirks
Almost a Dead Ringer: Sylia is a close match for her animated counterpart, though speaks with a much hoarser voice, wears contacts and seems to dye her hair. She dresses almost the exact same, oftentimes copying her outfits directly from the animation. She's clearly trying hard to match her counterpart.
Let me think..: Almost a walking wikipedia, capable of recalling surprising facts on obscure topics at a few moments notice. [2]
A unique form of fashion: What Sylia wears, doesn't appear to have ever been exactly fashionable. She chooses her clothes as much for the different textures against her skin, as she does any sense of style.
The Secret
Sylia Stingray is also the leader of the Knight Sabers. The Space Patrol is aware that the organisation is led by someone using that alias, but so has everyone behind every other attempt at forming a Knight Saber-like group. The Patrol strongly suspect that Sylia is the Sylia behind the group, but thus far have been unable to conclusively prove it.
The Patrol know that she is an acquaintance of Jet Jaguar, and they have been spotted together on several occasions. Jet has admitted to being a friend of Sylia.
Stingray Motor Engineering is partially a front, manufacturing some critical components for the Motorslaves, and providing a cash buffer for the operations of the group, while simultaneously laundering some of the proceeds of their work through patent-licensing, design-work and inter-business transactions, ensuring a buffer between the individual Knight Sabers and any payments. [3]
Finally, Sylia Stingray isn't even a real person. Sylia Stingray is Jet Jaguar operating a puppet body.
Trivia
One of Sylia's first public appearances was at a liquidation auction selling off the assets of the Pinkard mining company, where she bought some CNC machinery for SME, and discouraged a Foglio from bidding against Jet for 77 Frigga
Notes
- ↑ Something that's equal parts entertaining, as it is annoying
- ↑ Through Jet's interwave hookup, accessing wikipedia
- ↑ Roughly 20% of every payment to the Knight Sabers is lost keeping the business going. This covers taxation, 'donations' to local politicians who will 'maintain a positive environment for job retention' and other ancillary expenses.
