Maria DeMedici

Maria DeMedici was a privatized security agent who worked alongside her partner and lover Tomas "Tommy" Shirow. Maria was known for her gruff demeanor and a penchant for breaking the rules. Tomas and she sneaked aboard the Grand Salon sky ship owned by entrepreneur Lucien Delacroix. Their mere presence on the luxary skyliner was considered a felony, but Maria cared little for authority or for the entitled attitudes of the ruling class. While on the ship, Maria picked up a bizarre signal on her scanner in the wake of a solar storm. Confident that the bogey was somewhere on the skyliner, Tomas and she searched through the various upper levels in search of it. From the manner and method of its approach, she could only assume that it was hostile. She quickly came to realize that the ship belonged to an aggressive alien race known as a Yautja - interplanetary Predators whose culture was predicated upon the sport of the hunt. This particular Predator killed and skin three individuals on the skyship, including Lucien Delacroix's bodyguard Chief Mitchell.