Silva D'Acier

Silva D'Acier is the current President of the Eagles. While she is the youngest of the Faction leaders, she is no less dedicated, intelligent and capable than her peers.

Early Life
Silva was born shortly after the Invaders left Earth, and the only violence she has known has been that of humans fighting humans. She is still no stranger to adversity though, having grown up with constant raids and discrimination simply because she wasn't British. From an early age, Silva was a woman driven by her conviction to the American Dream, a concept that kept her parents working in the face of adversity and hatred, and she ran for leadership of the Faction as soon as she was able, determined to make a difference for the Americans in England.

Current Situation
Silva isn't stupid, and hasn't risked an all-out war with the other Factions just because they were mean to her as a child. She has instead opened up more trade and diplomatic arrangements with the other main groups in Kent, both to keep her own Faction strong, and to ensure that the other Factions let their guard down more around her citizens. As this has happened, there has been a noticable cooling of tensions between the Eagles and the other Factions, with more friendly talks happening than ever before.

Still, this doesn't mean Silva has let her guard down, and while she happily engages in talks with the "pure" British Factions, she is well aware that if times got especially hard, her Faction would be all too quickly sacrificed if it would let the others get back to even the current state of affairs.

In Combat
While she prefers to let others do the fighting for her, Silva is by no means a bad fighter. This isn't a fact she widely publicizes, prefering to, much as with her diplomacy, allow her opponents to believe she is weaker than she actually is to allow her to get the upper hand. With a small frame, extreme levels of fitness and relative youth on her side, she can flow round most attacks before delivering blows to an enemy's weak points and darting out of combat again.

On the other hand, she is relatively weak, relying on hitting weak points to do much damage at all, and ensuring she dodges, because even a few weak hits will put her out of a fight if they connect. It is believed (but not confirmed) that Silva is a Nat Transhuman, and if this is the case, the hits would have to be made quickly before she regenerates.

Why Ellen Page?
Ellen Page has already made a strong career on playing strong female characters, usually acting far older than they actually are (Juno and Hard Candyare both excellent examples of her work). Despite this, she is still a relative unknown in England, and can therefore add a star performance without having the game being accused of relying on a star presence for the lead roles.