Physical Description:
An attractive young woman with strong features and a piercing gaze. She keeps in shape through regular workouts and an active lifestyle. She is of average height, but compensates by wearing a pair of rather ominous pair of boots that add a few additional centimeters to her height. She has a very attractive smile when she does smile, but her scowl has been known to send people running for cover.

Distinctive Features A silver ring in her genitals; silver rings in both nipples; a silver stud in her left nostril; a silver ring in her left eyebrow; a tattoo of the Neerou family crest (an azurate hawk) on her right hip

Professional History:
Smuggling has never been an easy profession, not even for the greatest known smugglers in the galaxy. Shiv, not being one of the most well known smugglers in the galaxy, has found it to be a difficult existence. But, she manages. During the four years she's been working as a smuggler, she's had to make numerous sacrifices, things she told herself she'd never do. But, when the food ran out and maintenance costs for her ship ran high, survival won out over conscience.

Shiv has reached the point where she'll run just about anything that needs to be run: drugs, weapons, stolen Imperial equipment and supplies, political refugees, and even slaves. She has forced herself to harden her emotions against the things she's participated in and done. But, when it comes down to staying alive or not, she has found that her morals and ethics are highly flexible.

Background:
Born Maeren Shivral on the small outer rim world of Tev Ronon, Shiv has had a difficult life. Her parents, both scientists, were studying life on Tev Ronon IV, an icy world with little to no life. They lived there until Shiv was ten years old. She spent her youth bundled up in layer upon layer of clothing, yet her teeth still chattered. There weren't many other people living on the ball of ice, so she had no one to play with. It was boring. She hated life on Tev Ronon.

Most of Shiv's early life was spent reading or doing other similar activities that require no additional people. She read about the galaxy, the Empire, the past and future, good and bad, everything she could get her hands on, Shiv read it. Finally, shortly after her tenth birthday, her parents moved. This time, it was to a jungle world on the other side of the outer rim. At least there were other people living there this time, and Shiv made her first friend, another human girl named Lerrah. Her new home, Agarra, was hot and humid, a great difference from Tev Ronon. By comparison, Shiv loved it. She and Lerrah did everything together, and became closer than Shiv had ever been with another person, especially her parents. Lerrah was two years older, and knew quite a bit more about practical life, and Shiv was a willing student.

One thing that she learned, the thing that earned her the nickname 'Shiv,' was the native sport of ni'gokk, or knife play. Shiv picked it up very quickly, and soon found she was better than a lot of the natives. She was quick and agile, and could strike like the ba'ni snake. She was happy to have something she could be good at, something the others would look up to her for.

Six years after relocating to Agarra, an expedition into one of the lower jungles disappeared. Shiv's parents were on that expedition. Shiv had stayed home to study for the school she'd been attending, and hadn't gone with them. Despite the bad feelings she'd held for them and the inhospitable life they'd provided for her, she was hit hard. She wandered in a daze for a week with Lerrah doing everything she could think of to get her out of it. She didn't know what to do.

She had spent a little time learning how to fly her parents' old freighter since an injury to his hand had forced her father from being able to fly it any longer. Shiv went to Lerrah and asked her to come along as she left Agarra. It had been a difficult choice, but her friend came along. The two young girls took off in the dead of night and headed off in search of adventure.

They started working transporting cargo for people looking to have cargo transported. The money wasn't good, and they ended up being cheated out of payment more than once. Two years into their operation, they were approached to carry a shipment, the contents of which would be kept secret. Lerrah didn't like that they'd be carrying unknown cargo, and Shiv liked the credits it would bring in. They fought, and it was a bad fight. At the end of it, Shiv was left alone. It was rough for the next six months, but she got by. And, in getting by, she actually managed to keep her head above water...barely.

The sad truth, as it was eventually revealed to Maeren, all of her past, all she remembers, are implanted memories. When she was Dargus Kandran's prisoner, he used the cloning facility on his ship to duplicate the original Maeren Shivral. There was a problem in the memory transfer to the second clone, Saris, and the original's memories were lost. The original, who would eventually be given the name Kimara by Keeve Zenarr, was added to the stable of pleasure slaves along with Saris, neither of whom had any memories as had been the intention.

The programming instilled by Dargus Kandran led Maeren into situations where she acted on her libido, and eventually the relationship she shared with Keeve came to an end. He chose Kimara, not realizing she was the one he had originally loved. Despairing, Maeren went into a downward spiral and eventually ended up working at Nocturnal Delights, an adult club in New Plouton, where she works as an entertainer, in and out of the bed.

Personality:
Shiv is a very moody person. Lately most of her moods have been dark ones, especially since the fight that cast her out on her own. When she's in good spirits, she's fun to be around. But, when she's under one of her darker moods she's either very sullen or outright hostile.

Vehicle of Choice:
Shiv is the owner of an old YT-1900 freighter, the Stiletto. It's had a lot of work done on it, and it shows. It's enough to get the job done though, and that's all that counts in her book.

Form of Dress:
Shiv does little to accentuate her natural beauty. She generally doesn't wear much form-fitting attire or reveal too much skin. Her pants are typically black or brown or styled in urban camouflage patterns with many pockets and places to hide small objects. She wears a large variety of different types of shirts, the only real requirement being that they are comfortable. Her boots add a few extra centimeters to her height, as well as a convenient hiding place for extra blades. Though it's rarely used, she wears a blaster just in case.

Superhuman Powers and Abilities
None

Hope - a reisakitten given to Shiv by Keeve.

Equipment:
Hidden throughout her clothing are a variety of knives and other small blades. Credit chip. Blaster. Datapad.