Olivia Given

• Age: 23
• Marital Status: single
• Occupation: Terran Civil Servant -- Anthropology Department
• Former Occupations: student
• Residence: Thendara, Terran zone
• Politics: (Terran Empire) Liberal Party -- believes strongly in native rights to self-determination over their homeworld, but, personally, dislikes isolationism since it prevents people from benefitting from the diversity of the universe
• Abilities
  • Unarmed Combat: very good, has studied martial arts, lived among survivalists
  • Armed Combat: quite a sharpshooter with a Terran blaster
  • Horseback Riding: has only done it a few times, not many horses left on Terra
  • Interpersonal skills: good -- friendly, outgoing, eager to learn
  • Strengths: very intelligent, self-disciplined, adaptive, sincere
  • Weaknesses: claustrophobic, problems with authority, sometimes uses meditation as an escape to postpone facing challenges, concentrates on work/study, and the solitary enjoyment of nature, sometimes to the detriment of her social life
• Appearance: striking -- dark hair, blue eyes, medium build, athletic -- most often seen in terran uniform
• Romantic relationships: no time for one -- has been too busy with work/study
• Friends: none on Darkover yet, friends from university strewn on various planets
• Hobbies: being outdoors, meditation, martial arts, target shooting, reading and study
• Other Information: grew up on Terran colony of Phi Coronis Delta; was, until recently, a doctoral student at the University on Coronis studying human migration and colonization; got fed up with Academia so when the Terran Civil Service recruited her into a position in their Anthropology department on Darkover, she grabbed the opportunity; first time on Darkover, but is familiar with the legacy of the Lornes
• E-mail: ogiven@vertex.ucls.uchicago.edu
• Darkover website: http://www.ucls.uchicago.edu/people/staff/Olivia_Given/darkover/terranindex.html
• Non-Darkover website: http://www.ucls.uchicago.edu/people/staff/Olivia_Given/