Sekhmet

Sekhmet was an Alliance special forces commander who was a major antagonist (and frequent uneasy ally) in Black Cat Blues. I don't want to (and won't) go down the road of making a wiki page this extensive for every NPC I've ever put in a game, but Sekhmet was special, and deserves her own page, so there.

Background
Born Ophelia Miller into a military family on Bernadette, she enlisted in the Alliance Army Corps of Engineers never intending to see front-line combat. This changed when the Unification War broke out, and her unit took heavy casualties in an ambush on the moon of Bellerophon. She was sent to Dionysus Hospital to recover both from physical injuries and post-traumatic stress. Unfortunately, the same hospital hosted the Dionysus Project, an ill-fated attempt to cure Reavers that soon descended into madness as the medical staff began behaving like Reavers themselves. As punishment for a failed escape attempt, the doctors chose her as their next experimental subject. Dr. Maxwell Crane, later known as Osiris, was personally responsible for the bulk of her torture and Reaverization.

Sekhmet survived the Dionysus Project with some of her sanity by stealing and self-administering medications from around the hospital. She eventually developed a cocktail of painkillers, antipsychotics, and muscle relaxers that allowed her to temporarily function like a human rather than a Reaver - though of course this did nothing to reverse the physical mutilation she suffered. She fixed all of her hopes on rescue from the Alliance, and on retaining some of her humanity for the day they arrived. In her twisted mind, the Alliance became an infallible beacon of everything good and right and her only chance of salvation. After many failed attempts, she managed to send out a coded distress signal that informed the Alliance of the horrors of Dionysus Hospital and finally brought an end to the project (at least for the time being).

Following Sekhmet's rescue, the Alliance had absolutely no idea what to do with her: a woman who looked like a Reaver, but spoke and acted like a loyal Alliance soldier. They couldn't release her into polite society as evidence of their mistakes, but her actions at Dionysus Hospital had proven her both loyal to a fault and too useful to kill. The Alliance chose to keep her close, shuttling her around between secret bases and assigning her to various military research and development projects they thought might benefit from her prodigious intelligence.

Five years before the events of the campaign, Sekhmet was assigned to look into a few pages of Dr. Lincoln Jianyu's nanotechnology which an Alliance agent had acquired. Sekhmet quickly saw the potential in Dr. Lincoln's theories and made progress in implementing them to create a strain of tracker nanites intended to serve as a means of universal identification for Alliance citizens. However, as Sekhmet began to understand the full implications of Dr. Lincoln's research, she expanded the project beyond its original scope. She also learned that other factions, particularly Blue Sun, were a long way ahead of the Alliance in their implementation of nanotechology. Blue Sun appeared to be planning to use its technological superiority to take over the Alliance, and had already infiltrated its highest echelons. Unable to trust her superiors, Sekhmet pushed ahead with her research using a secret funding stream gained by selling nanotechnology-based assassination technology to the Syndicate. Her single driving goal became to save the Alliance from itself and ensure that it preserved its control over the 'Verse, no matter what it cost.

In Sekhmet's interactions with the crew of Black Cat she was invariably calm, analytical, and precise, giving them the impression that she had thought five moves ahead of them about any plan they might make (because she usually had). She rarely lied about anything to them, all the better to make the lies she did tell more believable. Physically, she was anything but inconspicuous and cut a bizarre and imposing physical figure: six feet tall, dressed in an impeccably tailored Alliance uniform, and always wearing an oxygen mask that covered most of her face. She required frequent injections of the drug cocktail she had developed at Dionysus Hospital to avoid reverting to a Reaver-like state. On the rare occasions when she left her cruiser Blue Nile, she was accompanied by a small army of medical personnel who managed her condition, which her official cover story claimed was the result of gas inhalation and severe burns suffered during the Unification War. She didn't actually need either the mask or the doctors, but affected both to disguise her Reaver-like appearance and project a false image of frailty.

Sekhmet had a husband and two daughters, whom she abandoned for their own safety following her torture at the hands of the Dionysus Project. (Elisa was incredibly distressed when she learned this; nobody else cared.)

During the Game
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Memorable Moments
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Soundtrack
For late-game Sekhmet, devoid of resources and dependent upon Black Cat, "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay:

One minute I held the key Next, the walls were closed on me And I discovered that my castles stand Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand... Be my mirror, my sword and shield My missionaries in a foreign field For some reason, I can't explain I know Saint Peter won't call my name Never an honest word But that was when I ruled the world