Pris Shenkley was a Human woman of the 24th century, and a mercenary in the Silver Paladin's band. Shenkley designed weapons systems, but chose not to work for Federation as she feared that she would lose control over who used her weapons and the purposes they were used for. Instead, she chose to work for Adrian Dareau, where she constructed weapons exactly suited to specific tasks she could agree with. She had no criminal record within the Federation.