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Sergeant Carius
Staff Sergeant/Oberfeldwebel Ria Carius, age 16, support gunner for the Federal Republic of Karlsland Army's Imperial 511th Heavy Armored Batallion's 24th squadron. Her Strikers are Leopard 2A3s, and her standard armaments consist of the MG3 all-purpose machine gun, the MP5K submachine gun, and various heavy weapons. Her familiar is the leopard. The only daughter born to a family of pharmacists, she should have grown up to be a pharmacist or a nurse, but at some point she developed more destructive tendencies which fueled her ambition to join the military. She'd hoped for, and was assigned, to a support gunner role in a land witch squadron. Her handling of explosives is as good as that of a professional combat engineer. She gets along so well with her commander, Lt Wittman, and gunner OFw Meyer that they're often referred to as sisters. She's always treated as the youngest sister. It was her who first referred to the Leutnant as "elder sister". "Paula-ane, you're always butting into my business, I feel like a kid."