JX350 Racing League Pilot Profiles

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Chapter 5


Identification/Statistics

Name: Jessica Caluroso

Gender: Female

Birth: July 2, 2199

Birthplace: Bordeaux (France)

Age (Currently 2215): 15

Nationality: French

Origin: France

Race: White

Language Spoken: French and English

Religion: N/A

Height: 5’4”

Hair Color: Silver

Eye Color: Blue

Appearance:
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Occupation (Before AG-Pilot): Student (Good Smile Racing Academy)

JX350 IDF: CALU0702.2199

Team: AG-System

Position: Secondary Pilot

Pilot Rank: Junior

Region Reputation: Global

Squad Teammates: Michael Sanderson (American), Mizuki Nakajima (Japanese), Alexis Anderson (American), Sora Akiyama (Japanese), Katsu Sasaki (Japanese), Thierry Caluroso (French), Sofia Rossetti (Italian)

Team Loyalty: High

Allies: Auricom, Goteki 45, Mirage, Mercutian De Gautet (German/Van-Uber), Vincent Stephenson (Englishman/Triakis), Buster Harding (American/Triakis)

Rivals: Polina Petrov (Bulgarian/Tigron)

Medals: Gold: 4, Silver: 8, Bronze: 5

Sponsors: AG-Systems, Anti-Gravity Development, Belmondo Foundation, Good Smile Company, Good Smile Racing, ICOM, Joy Noodle Bar

Favorite Event: Single Race

Favorite Track: Any

Leagues Completed: JX350

Character Traits: Clever, Supportive, Watchful, and Wise

Skills

Awareness: 10/10

Aggression: 7/10

Consistency: 9/10

Reaction/Reflexes: 9/10

Bio
Thierry Caluroso is AG-Systems’ prodigy and plans to take Katsu Sasaki’s place as lead pilot once he retires. Thierry has become the pilot to look out for when he takes lead pilot status for the team and his skills on the track showed, when he astonished everyone with his lap times and the barrel rolls he pulled off. He is the next big thing and looks to match or even surpass Kel Solaar, the greatest AG-pilot of all time. However, if there is one person that can get close to his caliber or even match his skills, it would be a Frenchwoman, or girl for that matter. That girl is Jessica Caluroso, a young French girl who races for AG-Systems’ junior team ‘Friends in Speed’ and is the younger sister of Thierry himself.

Jessica was born in Bordeaux, three years after her brother, Thierry, was born. Like her brother, she took interest in AG-racing at a young age and both were soon seen flinging AG-karts around the tracks in Bordeaux as best they could. Unlike her brother however, Jessica was slow to learn, but soon was able to hang with him. Both brother and sister caught the attention of FEISAR and were offered a place in FEISAR Study. Both pilots soon became regular sightings as reserve pilots at race weekends, the Caluroso duo often impressed in practice sessions but were always sidelined for the more popular Italian in the team, Ezio Di’Rosso. They became close friends with a lot of the paddock during this period, most notably Vincent Stephenson of Triakis whenever he came to the tracks for testing purposes. Thierry’s patience with FEISAR only lasted for a short while though before he and his sister set out to find a place to fly at the same time as his friend did.

The two soon found a team to fly for when they were undergoing experimentation, that team was AG-Systems. However, the team had almost all of their race seats full when both came to apply for a seat. As a result, only Thierry was able to gain the final race seat, leaving Jessica on the sidelines for much of the FX300 to FX400 leagues. However, during this time Thierry learns about a new academy opening up in Japan, which was near the main facility of AG-Systems. When they got an invitation to attend the Good Smile Racing Academy, Thierry sent her sister there off the bat so that she can refine her skills while he was racing for AG-Systems during the last FX400 season. When Jessica got there, she took the first part of the initial evaluation and score a ninety percent, despite the school’s high standards.

While Jessica was there, a valuable possession of hers was stolen from someone when she was eating lunch. When she found out who stole it, she ended up eavesdropping on a conversation where a particular bully was sent by the leader of the group of bullies to steal valuables in an attempt to recruit more members. She then followed the bully to their leader, Polina Petrov, who was causing chaos among the school. After discovering the leader and her attempts to recruit more members for her growing influence, she soon hatched a plan of her own to get her pendant back – which included a photo of her and her brother, Thierry. She stepped forward and Polina soon found the pendant’s owner who was brave enough to stand before her and said:

(Polina) “If you want your precious pendant back, you’ll have to join me on my conquest in taking over the academy.”

Jessica accepted the offer and began working in Polina’s shadow while secretly finding a way to get her pendant back and find out how many valuables were stolen. She found out through another student that many valuables were stolen just to recruit others, only to not give them back to their respective owners. Jessica then began to look around for any students who were willingly to go against Polina and her tyranny. She soon found that eight students were able to evade Polina’s first attempt to rob them, only to be surrounded by her gang for a second time. When the head director of the academy stepped in and broke up the gang, Jessica made contact with one of the students who was about to be robbed. She then explained the situation to him and she gave him the information on what was going on and what they needed to do in order for Polina to lose her grip on the academy. The boy that introduced himself to her was Michael Sanderson, an American student, and they soon began to work together with his friends.

Jessica was one of the few students to break Polina’s record on the get go when the second evaluation came about, though the results weren’t displayed until the end of the evaluation and eight other students would do better than her. During the second evaluation, Jessica met another student at the academy before the evaluation and both girls took it together. The student in question is Setsuko Tanaka, a Japanese student who is also a test pilot for Auricom and AG-Systems. As both passed the evaluation with flying colors, both girls became friends and began to work with each other to graduate from the academy. Both girls, along with Michael and his friends soon became the top students of the academy.

As she enjoyed the perks of being one of the top students in the academy, Jessica continued to monitor Polina’s activities while working with Michael and his friends to help them loosen Polina’s grip on the school by breaking all of Polina’s race records of the school. While she didn’t have the style of her eight friends, she did have the skills of an AG-racer and showed it to the academy during race days on the track that surrounded the school, astonishing everyone around her as she was one of the two students alongside Setsuko to keep up with Michael and his friends, who were only using their hover boards and their Adaptive Flight Suits, made by Mizuki Nakajima, a close friend of hers. Eventually, Polina lost her grip on the academy and Jessica was able to get her family pendant back from Polina. She then helped Michael and his friends get their stuff back from the Bulgarian student before her expulsion from the school. She then went on to graduate from the school in 2214 with excellent marks and top honors.

Around the same time, AG-Systems’ and Auricom’s team principle, Sakura Tanaku and Jessie Fairbank, were at the school to pick out the top ten students of the academy to race for their junior teams. Sakura, after seeing her brother Thierry race with such finesse for AG-Systems at such a young age, chose Jessica for her team along with Michael, Mizuki, Alexis, and Sora. She would be glad that brother and sister would be together on the same team. When the kids got there, Sakura made a surprise announcement and presented the five pilots of the ‘Friends in Speed’ junior team. With Jessica as one of their pilots, Thierry was impressed to see his sister improve within three years of being apart and hopes that she can help the team take the first JX350 league.

When the JX350 league came about, Jessica showed off her prowess to everyone. She was able to score a number of top finishes in the JX350 league in every race she took part in. She wasn’t exactly like her brother, but she was close enough to make her noticeable by the crowd and the fans. Thierry continued to spectate the JX350 league that her sister was taking part in while he was participating in the FX500 league that was going on alongside the JX350 league, monitoring her progress. At the same time, she has made many friends in the racing league including the Makanian Amazons, the MAGEC junior team of Mirage, Mercutian De Gautet of Van-Uber, as well as Vincent Stephenson and Buster Harding of Triakis, who are friends with her brother. During the Virtual Series, Thierry wanted to train Jessica personally and run tests on AG-Systems’ newest line of craft that were being developed and did not take part in the Virtual series. However, Jessica was able to fly some of AG-Systems’ newest craft and experienced them before anyone else did and also did some tuning on some of the current craft including the FX500 fleet of ships in AG-Systems’ main facility.

Jessica, her friends, and AG-Systems soon got a nasty surprise when Tigron return to the grid for the Rapier Series. Jessica herself was a lot more surprised when she saw a familiar face piloting the Bull ship. Polina Petrov, rouge student of the academy she went to who underwent some changes. Jessica kept a close eye on the newly changed girl whilst keeping her attention on the track, hoping that Polina wouldn’t take her aggression out on the other competitors on the track. However, her worst fears came true when Polina eliminated the other competitors during the first race of the week on Metropia Reverse, which was dubbed the ‘Race of Infamy’. Undaunted however, Jessica was one of the few pilots to help get the Netika Ambulance Shuttles back up and running when they were disabled by the EMP emitted from Polina’s Bull ship. It was thanks to her that many civilians who were caught in the blast were saved and even Joes Peteers, chief ambulance pilot and lead pilot for Assegai, admitted that she and the Miracle Eight were able to pitch in and save a lot of people on that day. However, it became clear that Polina wanted revenge for what the Miracle Eight, Jessica, and her friend Setsuko ‘did’ to her back at the academy a few years ago. Polina branded Jessica as a ‘traitor’ to her cause. When Thierry asked her what Polina was talking about, she explained what Polina did back at the academy and she got friends together to help her. Thierry believed every word she said and wanted her to keep an eye on Polina.

On the flipside, her friends were enjoying success. The Miracle Eight consisting of Michael, Mizuki, Alexis, Sora, Johnathan, Hitomi, Eric, and Ayaka were becoming very popular globally and have said that the friends they made, including Jessica, gave them the support when it was needed. Hafiz Nejem of MAGEC won his first gold at Modesto Heights and Alqamar and Alshshams Raqisas of the same team won their first gold medals in a race in Ubermall and a Time Trail run in Metropa respectively. Mercutian De Gautet of Van-Uber won his first gold medal of the season at Ubermall a week after Alqamar won hers and Jessica and her friends helped each of them celebrate the occasion. However, Polina began to overshadow their success, causing a lot of damage in the JX350 league. She soon discover a weakness in Tigron’s Bull ship and was able to get as much data as possible on the crack in the hull of the ship, which was then transmitted to Ayaka Hamasaki of Auricom when she was looking for information on how to destroy the so-called invincible ship. When the racing league came to Tech De Ra, the Bull ship was destroyed with the help of Jessica when she was able to monitor the ship’s status and sent data to each pilot who were competing in the last race of the tournament in the Phantom series to aid them in the destruction of the ship. Many of the pilots have said that Tigron would’ve caused a lot more damage if it weren’t for Jessica’s help.

While Jessica didn’t take part in the season finale tournament of the first JX350 racing league, she did help her team with the tuning of the AGS-400 to help her friends secure the JX350 cup along with Auricom. Michael, Mizuki, Alexis, and Sora have said Jessica has become their best friend and she continues to help them whenever she could. Jessica might not have the popularity of her friends, but she has the skills of her friends and looks to take in the next JX350 season. The sister of Thierry Caluroso, the prodigy of AG-Systems, many analysts see her taking his place one he retires from racing. Only time will tell if this is the case, but Jessica’s future is bright and she plans to continue her racing career with her friends as long as can.