User blog comment:Bluegear93/Custom Squad mate/@comment-4782844-20130309232236

Name: Talana Veltano

Race: Human

Age: 29

Occupation: Free-lancer

Dossier: Talana was onboard one of the human ships that made first contact with the Turians, when she was five months old. The ship, The Firefly, was susposedly destroyed (wreckage never found) but Talana's mother managed to escape via escape pod with her daughter. The Pod crashed on a Turian colony in the outer rim of Turian space. The colonists found the pod and the two humans. Talana's mother was fatally injured and with her final breath asked the Turians to look after her daughter. Two Turians, Acturas and Melva Veltano took her in. Both the Human and Turian governments found out about her existance two years after First Contact and it was agreed that she was to stay there. At the age of 16, Talana entered mandatory military service. She proved to be an top rate sniper and was soon moved to Special Forces. Yet career suffered due to discrimination of her race and she was regularly poisoned and attacked. Soon as her mandatory service was up, Veltano left and became a free-lancer.

Appearance: 5ft 9, short blonde hair, tanned skin, silver eyes and purple Aeterna Colony markings. She wears her former Turian Special Forces armour, quite similar to Garrus', except black. She tends to wear her helmet in public most of the time, hence gets mistaken for a Turian often. Wears a pendant, that used to be her mother's.

Personality: Veltano is used to working on her own due to her abuse in the Turian military and her trust is hard to earn. She feels more at home with Turians due to most humans seeing her as an Alien lover. She has a strong sense of justice and usually will not allow crimes to go unpunished, yet she follows the law believing that breaking the rules can turn you into what you wanted to stop in the first place. She is quite intelligent and resourceful. She values friends and family closely and has said often she would die for loved ones. Talana has problems with Garrus due to his vigilante stance and turning his back on C-Sec duty.

Burning Bodies on Omega- "I'm glad I can't smell that. One perk of Helmets."

Poisoned In Afterlife- "If you want I could shoot him inbetween all four eyes. Unless you want to do it yourself. In that case I'll watch."

Grunt's Rite- "Oh so all Krogan boys have to do is kill stuff? Why can't women ever have it easy?"

Collector Ship- "Spirits... How can the Council ignore this? They truly are cowards."

Spontanous- "One less to worry about." "Just a Normal day, eh? Killing peoPle, blowing stuff up..." " And stay down."

Weapons: Carries a Viper Sniper rifle, nicknamed Bianca, and a Predator Heavy pistol. Both Weapons are keyed to her DNA and will shock anyone who attempts to use them.

Powers: Overload- "Fried them!/ Their overloaded!" Cryo Ammo- "This ought to slow them down!" Turian Sniper, evolves to Turian Sharpshooter (More weapon damage) or Turian solider (More Health). Loyalty power- Hawk Eye (Provides a accuracy bonus and Shields instantly recharge) When activated- (Humming)/ "Let's see how they like this."