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Author Note: I copied/reference some backstory from Challenger’s Harimau team profile for one paragraph, so some sentences will sound similar. That is all.


Identification/Statistics

Birthname: Kaida Wong

Pilot Name: Kaida Sebenco

Birthplace: Citta Nuova (Makana)

SEX: Female

Birth: February 16th, 2180

Appearance: Kaida Wong (Remastered).jpg

Zodiac: Aquarius

Age (Currently 2217): 37

Nationality: Makanian

Origin: Hong Kong (China)

Race: Asian

Language(s): Chinese / English

Religion: N/A

Height: 5'8"

Hair Color: Brunette

Eye Color: Dark Brown

Occupation (Before AG-Pilot): Genetic Biologist

FX350 IDF: SEBE0216.2180

Team: Harimau

Position: Co-Lead Pilot

Pilot Rank: Professional

Region Reputation: Southeast Asia

Squad Teammates: Jusef Suyanto / Loraine Johnson

Team Loyalty: High

Allies: FEISAR

Rivals: (None)

Medals: Gold: x3, Silver: x3, Bronze: x5

Sponsors: Silva, IOTA, JAP Energy Drink

Favorite Events: Single Race

Favorite Track: Sebenco Climb/Peak, Blue Ridge

Leagues Competed: FX350 to FX500

Character traits: Environmental, Thoughtful, Eager, Determined


Skill

Awareness: 6/10

Aggression: 4/10

Reaction/Reflexes: 6/10

Consistency: 6/10

The Island of Makana isn't just known for its national sport of AG-racing, it was also known for its natural looking artificial environments. One of the most greatest landscapes in Makana were the Sebenco mountain range, coming across the lower region valleys of Blue Ridge which was possibly the only spot on the island that isn't a big city. The highest peak on the island was Mt, Sebenco, measuring over 7000m in the air, almost a quarter shorter than Mt. Everest. It was also the spot of two AG-Tracks, Sebenco Climb and Sebenco Peak. Few meters away from Mt. Sebenco lay a mountain-based city of Citta Nuova, as one of the high-altitude cities on the island. It's also the birthplace of one devoted pilot currently competing in the FX400 league, both mountain and all of nature.

Originally born with Surname "Wong", Kaida was born on February 16th, 2180 on the coldest and highest parts of Makana in Citta Nuova. Her family was from Hong Kong despite her first name being Japanese, given by her mother thinking it was a beautiful sounding name. Her parents came to Makana during the second Great Depression, living in a home where she could see Mt. Sebenco from her bedroom window. She always saw it in her room or outside anywhere around the city. When she got older, she started falling in love with the mountain, amazed by its wonders of nature in hopes to one day head to the summit of its peak to see everything around the island.

While living on the high parts of Citta Nuova, Kaida always lived in a freezing environment in the clouds covering the mountain sides below the city. Temperatures reached from 20 to 60 degrees F, even during summers. Not only it was so cold, the air was also slightly thin due to the high altitude of the city. But Kaida was so use to it, that her body never shivered to the freezing air and breathes quite normally, adapting to its elements. She eventually does leave out of the city and first visits the Makana Valley of Blue Ridge National Park just below the mountains. She then sees vegetation for the first time in 5 years when she was born. All around her was surrounding grass, shrubs, trees, animals, etc, even seeing Mt Sebenco out in the landscape. She didn't just fell in love with mountains, but all of nature itself, as Kaida would rather live down in the valley then up on Citta Nuova. She also realizes how warm and rich the air was, too use to the environments up in the mountains, even so, it was a new experience for her. This became her interest when she went to school, in hopes of becoming one of nature, studying plants and caring for animals. However, she was completely different out of every student in her class, commonly referred to as a "treehugger". Not having too much friends due to everyone's fond with technology and anything that was high tech, other students just felt odd to be around someone that seemed to "live in the past". Kaida however didn't care what everyone thought of her, continuing her obsessed interest during high school as an environmentalist.

During the time she graduated, The FX300 Racing League was already in effect around the whole Island. While Kaida was not interested in races in Makana, one team in particular got her attention. Southern Asian, Harimau International, became the team she rooted for; a team that was originally a humanitarian organization coming from Malaysia. Harimau started out aiding the Asian continents during the 2nd great depression, which then on they had made their funding in order to bring back certain animals that have been extinct for over a century. Most commonly was the tiger, which became extinct in 2100. In their efforts they successfully genetically breed two tiger cubs as their experiments became highly reviewed by the press, bringing back an animal that has never been seen for over 80 years. This also got the attention of FEISAR director: Nicolo Testa, who had made a visit to the tiger reserves in Sepang. Malaysian Writer, Mrs. Suruni was a big fan of FEISAR since the days of AG-Racing and was surprise to impress the current director of the company. Testa had made series of meetings between other FEISAR officials giving interest to the heads of Harimau International and Malay businessmen by setting a branch in Malaysia for certain development, but it was declined to take part of the country for their own. Instead they provide assistance for a new starting team in Malaysia. With the FX150 arriving in 2185, FEISAR was finding out that some of its' old locations from the F9000 still had technology and skilled personnel who didn't have a place on FEISAR's new team due to the team member limit enforced as one of the new rules. This would apparently turn Harimau into a newly fledged racing team instead, thanks to current engineers that were sent to Malaysia who began building a brand new ship that could enter in the upcoming FX300 Racing League.

Kaida had interest in volunteering for Harimau, not for their racing team overall, but for their side projects in particular. Unfortunately, she had to travel to Malaysia as she leaves her family back home in order to be close to the team's headquarters. While Entering in Malaysia in Sepang, Kaida was fascinated by the country's vegetation and culture feeling right at home. Staying in Malaysia for a couple of years, she was beginning to study about the past animals that had disappeared in the world. Out of every animal she had read about, one animal in particular had got her attention. Searching through pages of the animal files, she was introduced to the panda bear, a white and black furry mammal originating from eastern parts of China. Kaida thought it was the cutest animal that nature had brought to planet Earth. However, their existence was vanished by the 2100's. Kaida would do anything to bring this animal back, even if it meant racing for Harimau's AG-team.

While Kaida continued research on the panda, she was given news by her family back home in Makana that her mother was having another baby. Though excited to have a baby brother/sister, she was still busy and obsessed of her research and still stayed in Malaysia instead of coming back home for her mother. By the beginning of the 23rd century, Harimau eventually stopped being a racing team for a couple of years near the end of the FX300. They focused back on global projects to repopulate the world with genetically engineered tigers, having successful results by their breed of tigers in their reserve. Feeling like she had the chance to present her project, Kaida made meetings with Mrs. Speed and Suruni followed by a couple of other researchers that were interested in her work. Kaida was for sure that the biology sounded factual, even acquiring bones of caniforms that may have the DNA foundation to be built upon. But as she presented further, her audience felt that it sounded illogical. The company wasn't ready to bring back this black and white mammal, as the genetics were too rare to re-genetically engineer, requiring a fortune to find and create such efforts.

Kaida would eventually put her project aside, and decides to come back home, being away from her parents for over 3 years. She soon then meets her baby sister for the first time, given the name Azura. Azura was 2 years old when Kaida came back home to Citta Nuova in Makana, already forming a bond with her big sister during Kaida's stay with her parents. However, Kaida wanted to live out of her parent's home, already knowing she had taken care of herself back in Malaysia. She decides to own a small house down in the Blue Ridge Valleys. After all, she was living under nature.

Kaida continued to focus on her research, but just couldn't find any way for the researchers back in Malaysia to fund for her pet project or use her DNA findings, dealing with stress. To relieve her stress, she would turn to Yoga, heading to the hills for routines while also seeing the whole landscape. Eventually however, she would get back to work but would still get stumped from her personal research. Just when she was about to give up, she then looked at an old magazine of Harimau's AG-Racecraft on the front cover. The Bio-fueled racecraft became such a technological breakthrough that the team performed very well during the FX300 league. Kaida was amazed of how the company's racing team built a successful craft that won a number of races during the first couple seasons of the racing league. She was also surprised on how they use the race winnings to fund for their projects in the first place. Kaida was desperate to fund her research; without even thinking, she had an insane choice to become an AG-Pilot for the team.

Harimau soon began forming media attention around the world because of their racing team, and eventually started to make a comeback for the upcoming FX350 league in 2205. However, this meant that the team needed to redesign their current craft, unable to compete until 2206. Between all that, Kaida came back to Malaysia, surprising the Harimau Organization that she wanted to compete for the upcoming league. Kaida sincerely had no idea what she was getting into; competing in such a dangerous sport just to bring back her favorite animal became senseless to the researchers that knew her and that her desperation will get herself killed on the track having no experience. But Kaida took her chances and began her pilot training on a local AG-track in the same city of Sepang.

While piloting Harimau's FX300 craft for the first time, Kaida was completely confused with the controls, and at times, she almost crashed the craft entirely. Nervous of what may happen next, they tried to remove her from her seat, but Kaida refused to do so and gives herself another go. She eventually gets use to the craft's controls but was strictly required to keep using the craft's pilot assist function. She was still a trainee since the second season of the FX350, continuing in 2206. At the time, she was turning 26yrs old, and it was when Harimau had introduced their new ship design for the current league back in Makana. She officially competes that same year, only able to compete in Venom class races, but her inexperience couldn't get her into much of the AG-Tournaments, some of which were the UpLifT league race events.

For a couple of months, improving her racing skills, Kaida would slowly grab fans attentions, and sure enough was offered with her first sponsor by certain companies. Browsing for a main sponsor, there was one sponsor she clearly had a complete dislike in particular. Taking a look at 2nd Skin's offer, she noticed a cross eyed panda head on their label, feeling very offended that the clothing company would use fur skins on their products due to her love of animals and their rights, especially if it's her favorite animal. While this was half true, the company never used real fur for their products anymore, but Kaida was still disgusted by the company, refusing their offer in sponsorship.

Throughout the first few seasons of the FX400 league from 2207, Kaida became very skilled piloting the Harimau craft. She had made a couple of amateur wins during her first few seasons in the league, but as she moved up to a different speed class, her racing experience began to be challenged. Her new lead squad pilot, Jusef Suyanto became a big help to her, challenging the more technical circuits while she came in the top 3, having him take first during team races. Eventually, Jusef also helps Kaida with her skills in pre-races. She was soon becoming a professional class pilot and was also gaining more experience on the much higher speed classes in every race. Even so, she was now almost mastering her local tracks around her home, including Sebenco Climb which was challenging even to skilled pilots. Kaida continued to race on Sebenco Climb and Peak during the years competing, even while she was still very inexperienced. However, she was so dedicated to master the 2 tracks that she decides to change her surname to Sebenco as her pilot name and for her love of the mountain overall. Her new last name lives up as her fans began to call her by that full name. What she didn't know was that her first name was actually a Japanese term meaning "Little Dragon", as such, she was also known in Japan as the "Little Dragon of Mt. Sebenco".

In 2211, she was soon met by a FEISAR junior pilot, Loraine Johnson, beginning to join with the Harimau team. Both female pilots respected one another, as Kaida shows and introduce Loraine to the Harimau craft. Both set out on the track of Blue Ridge, as Loraine gets use to the new craft which was no different to FEISAR's. As Loraine now became part of the team, Kaida congratulates and welcomes her to Harimau and her new squad, joining Kaida and Jusef within their squadron. While Kaida asked her why she changed over to Harimau, Loraine didn't want to talk about it as she would avoid the question. Being thoughtful to Loraine however, Kaida decided to make her a special gift. She was kind of skilled with clay when she was a young girl that she shaped a mold of the Harimau Logo and using a safe liquid metal alloy to fill it, turning it into a necklace. As Loraine's new AG-Queen outfit and Pilot uniform was about to be sent, Kaida included her gift along with it. Since then, Loraine had always worn the necklace and outfits, feeling dedicated and part of the new team, or at least she tried.

While she followed behind her male teammate, Kaida was responsible to lead the teen British pilot by her side. Her experience in the league started to improve by 2212, already racing as a professional and competing in tournaments for the team. She then now had experience with the more technical circuits, including on her home track in Citta Nuova and already Sebenco Climb. What started as desperation of funding for her favorite animal, became a full-fledged career. Kaida began to receive lots of media attention all around the Island of Makana and all over Asia, becoming one of the best loyal pilots on the Harimau team. But despite her years of competing and being on the top 3 in a few races, it was still uncertain to her if she was close to raising funds for her pet project throughout the FX500 in 2215.

Fortunately, the funding for Kaida's pet project began to raise interest back at Harimau HQ, already gaining recognition to support her genetic research. What was already been said was that a couple of panda cubs were being developed back in the genetic labs in Sepang, and the results were positive. Kaida was excited and happy to hear the results of her pet project, hoping to see the world populate also with genetically engineered pandas thanks to the help of Harimau International. She continued on as a pilot during the FX500 league in 2215. But despite her success in the later years, she would eventually retire in 2218, leaving Jusef to lead the team while avoiding a beating from a returning rogue team, mostly targeting them during the mid FX500 racing league. As a gift for her retirement by Hi, Kaida was given a baby panda cub to raise in her own home. However, this doesn't signal the end for her family racing in the FX leagues. Her actions would inspire her little sister, Azura, to eventually compete in future racing leagues way in the mid 2220's.

Medal Count: (3G/3S/5B)