Sylvia, also known as X9V2, is an automaton character that worked as a mercenary within Voidspace.
Jouweria played her during the Beneath the Void mini campaign in which she worked for the Starburn Starguild.
Biography
X9V2 was an automaton created by the Astral Artificers of the city named Scraza somewhere deep in Voidspace. Mostly populated by Gnomes, Astral Elves, etc, as well as automatons that they've created. Influenced by the orderly realm of Mechanus, they infused their automatons with mortal-like life.
Sylvia is among the first automatons infused with the will of Mechanus, basically being actual souls.
Sylvia surprisingly did not prove to be malicious she obeyed and cooperated with her creators but questioned too many things out of curiosity and decided to escape her confinement. Wanting to look like a humanoid and be treated like one, she dresses up like a cow girl as is the aesthetic of most people in Scraza to fit in but fails to do so.
After escaping, she became a mercenary in Voidspace and eventually ended up in Zaerock where she wanted to be hired by the Starburn Starguild. In some ways, she actually wanted to establish law and order in Voidspace as her true goal.
Beneath the Void
Check the main one-shot page for the detailed plot summary.
In 3E490, deep in Voidspace, crimelord Sezza Starburn controlled much of the space around Draxaria, ruling through Zaerock within the Rings of Zaeria. Faith Blackreyne and Buster worked for her, and two more freelancers were hired, Sylvia and Zephyr. Faith truly trusted Sezza and had worked for her for some months already. Sezza gave Faith a new ship, that she named the Eon Raven. Their task was to go deep into illithidspace around Alphyth. As they left, they ran into an asteroid field full of destroyed ships, and were attacked by space sharks controlled by Vampires. After defeating the vampirates, they finally made it to Alphyth. Sezza contacted them and had Buster reveal that their true task is to recover “Prisoner Zero” from the Civitas Caelorum, the mind flayer prison citadel. To learn its orbital position, they landed on the moon of Alphyth, Moros, near an abandoned duergar mining outpost called Moros Base 3. They discovered that it was destroyed by something some centuries ago, and went deeper into the subterranean ocean base. There, they discovered the flight logs, but awere attacked by a Protean Abomination consisting of all the dead dwarves. After defeating it, they rested at the base and repaired the Eon Raven.
The next day, they made it to the Civitas Caelorum. They infiltrated the lower levels, sneaking by sensors and mind flayers. They ended up fighting a lot of mind flayers and grell, and finally made it to Prisoner Zero’s cell, who looked like an ancient construct. They fought the illithid known as the Warden, and made it back to the Eon Raven with Prisoner Zero. As they escaped, they were chased by a nautiloid. Prisoner Zero took control of the ship somehow, flying into the upper atmosphere of Alphyth. As he did so, the party defended them from Byakhee. Zero flew the ship out of Alphyth once they’d lost the illithids, jumping to hyperspeed. He revealed that his heart was made up of what he called Dimensium, a near-infinite battery. He was a weapon developed in the Omniborn Crisis, and locked away by the Elves. He told them to go to sleep.
The next day, they reached Dobuna’s orbit. There, Zero took them to an old ruin floating in its orbit, where he recharged himself to 20%. Not wanting to go to Sezza, he fought them, but they ended up taking him down. They promised him that they wouldn't hand over Zero to Sezza, and Zero in exchange shouldn’t fully recharge and wreak havoc on mortals. They headed back to Zaerock, where they were confronted by Sezza. She was saddened by Faith’s betrayal, and lit up a red sunblade. She and her honor guards entered combat, one of the guards even killing Zephyr’s shadow-dog. Faith ended up taking Sezza down, creating a vacuum of power. They thought about taking over her operations, as Zero bid them farewell, flying off into space.
Timeline
3E450 - Sylvia is created on Scraza.
3E490 - Sylvia was hired by Sezza Starburn and sent on a mission to rescue Prizoner Zero from Illithidspace during the events of Beneath the Void. She later turned against Sezza and helped take over the Starguild.
Gallery
Sylvia in 3E490 during BtV. (Credit: Jouweria)
Sylvia in the Dark (Credit: Jouweria)
