Nara Makure

Nara Sophia Makure is an Altessian-born pilot, explorer, philanthropist, and artist affiliated with the Engineers of Unity on Elios. She is perhaps best known for her role as the de-facto leader of Polaris, the three-person crew made up of the EoU Directors' hand-picked protégés. She was selected for the program by Operations Director Nova Xaris, who finalized his decision after witnessing Nara's decisive win at the 75th annual Rallye du Costa, in which she took first place.

Early Life & Education
Nara was born on 13 April, 3107 in the Altessian region of Northern Invoca, to parents Maylisa and Argos Makure. Her mother was a noted sociopolitical activist, and her father a wealthy business owner and defense contract negotiator. Nara had one older sister, Auvern, who was born of Argos' first wife, who passed long before Nara was born.

Following the tragic death of her mother at the age of 5, Nara came under the tutelage of Winson Savahn, former Administrator of the Engineers of Unity, and longtime friend of her mother. It was Maylisa's wish that Nara would enter Savahn's care in the event of her untimely death.

Consumed by the grief of being widowed for a second time, Argos Makure's emotional state deteriorated, and he turned to alcohol to drown his pain, becoming verbally abusive with his two daughters as time went on. He removed Nara from public schooling and demanded that whatever care Winson gave her was to remain within the walls of the family's Invocan mansion, forbidding her from leaving the house for any non-trivial purposes. Thus, Nara developed no friends, formed no long term relationships, and was generally kept as an unwilling shut-in by her father.

For the next eighteen years, Winson Savahn would largely be Nara's sole source of human contact beyond her immediate family. Savahn effectively took it upon himself to raise Nara as his own, educating her, caring for her, and generally acting as a father figure to her she grew up. He put special emphasis on encouraging Nara's hobbies and nurturing her artistic and creative talents, regularly buying her art supplies and keeping her well-versed in culture as well as academia.

Hypersport Rallying
It was around Nara's 16th birthday that she was first introduced to terran Hypersport, a subgenre of vehicle racing involving many various types of planetary terrain. She and Savahn acquired a small, compact hatchback vehicle and converted it into what they called the GT/M, then began entering races under a concealed identity. Nara disguised herself with a modified race suit that androgenized her physical appearance, and refrained from speaking to any of the other drivers at any point in the races. She quickly found she had an immense natural talent with the sport, and Savahn began to restructure the engineering aspects of her ongoing education to tie in more directly with her racing career.