Name: Joan Ellis (Fictional)

Age: 28

Height 5 ft 8'

Hair: fiery carrot red

Eyes: pale blue-green

Distantly related to Lord Edrington (though by no means a noble - merely the daughter of a modest land owning farmer -gentleman) Admiralty managed to bludgeon their colleagues in the army to enter upon a venture of especially training a small number of women expressly to serve aboard Monstrous. Drawn from families with lads already serving, they have some idea of the new life they'll be entering upon - at least till their term of duty is up (when more girls will be rotated through.

A competent rider, swordswoman, possessing no fear of firearms (perhaps a healthy respect would better describe her view of guns) and unusually proficient in the martial art of naginata ryu (a ladie's school/method of martial art where combatants train in full kimono! (based in Hiroshima and thereabouts).