Ghemor, Lira

PRC	STAR FLEET PERSONNEL COMMAND FILE  SECURITY RATING 3, CONFIDENTIAL

Lira Ghemor
Career Occupation
Position:	Security Officer
Assignment:	USS Artemis, NCC-110000
Rank:	Midshipman
Time on Site:
Biographical Attributes
Full Name:	Lira Ghemor
Species:	1/2 Human, 1/2 Cardassian
Gender:	Female
Height:	170cm	Weight:	75kg
Eye Color:	Deep Mesmerizing Purple
Hair Color:	Blonde
Hairstyle:	Pulled Back in a High-Ponytail on duty. Long/Wavy, free flowing when off duty.
Physique:	Mesomorphic/Athletic with Balanced Curves: She has a naturally sturdy, well-proportioned frame: medium-to-broad shoulders, a defined but not overly bulky torso, and good muscle tone from training (hand-to-hand combat, endurance drills, phaser quals, and tactical simulations).
Complexion:	Warm peach-to-light golden tone
Voice:	Warm, smooth, and gently melodic but with a subtle Cardassian undertone.
Affiliation:	United Federation of Planets
Birthplace:	Star Base Alpha
Born:	(N/A) 07.07	Age:	25
Familial Relationships
Father:	Jarki Ghemor, Cardassian, 60 years old, Cardassian Ambassador. Stepfather’s Name: Rick Dixon, Human, 57 years old, Works at The Daystrom Institute.
Mother:	Natasha Dixon, Human, 55 years old, School Teacher.
Status of Parents:	Natasha and Rick both reside on Earth with their son, Luke. Natasha continues to work as a schoolteacher while Rick continues his research and development at The Daystrom Institute. Neither Natasha nor Lira has heard from Jarki in about 16 years, so both women had come to the agreement that they will assume he was deceased.
Siblings:	Half-Brother, Luke Dixon, Human, 10 years old.
Marital Status:	Single
Children:	None

Personal History

Her parents, Natasha and Jarki, met a year or two after The Federation/Dominion War. Jarki was an Ambassador that had been going back and forth between Earth and Cardassia. After a short, few months of relationship, Jarki returned to Cardassia; no reason was given. It wasn’t until weeks later after Jarki left that Natasha found out she was pregnant.

Lira was born on Star Base Alpha. Natasha had secured a shuttle to the Star Base as Jarki was going to meet her there. She had been born with all normal Cardassian Ridges, but her skin was peach colored, and she was warm blooded. Her skin was also smooth outside of her ridges. Lira was very self-conscious until her mother started taking her to the school she worked at, and Lira got to see all the other different species of children.

Over the next 10 years, Natasha would bring Lira to see Jarki on Star Base Alpha from time to time. Natasha was never sure why Jarki wouldn’t visit Earth properly. Between thoes times Natasha would often send a video message to Jarki if she had a question about Cardassians, such as Lira’s extreme dislike for cold but her being able to thrive in heat. Natasha found out that this has to do with Lira’s Cardassian Ridges being able to dissipate heat faster and more effectively than humans but is unable to warm herself up completely in the cold.

Out of nowhere, around age 10, Jarki stopped coming to the meeting spots. Natasha stopped receiving any messages from Jarki at all. After a year of not hearing from Jarki, Natasha gave up and since Jarki hadn’t formally recognized them in the Cardassian Union, they would not speak to Natasha.

It wasn’t until She turned 13 that her mother met Rick, who worked at The Daystrom Institute, during a class field trip. Natasha and Rick played it slowly and didn’t start living together until about a year later. Lira was very open to the idea of her mother finding someone else, especially after Jarki’s disappearance.

When Lira turned 15, Rick and Natasha got married. Rick also started to bring Lira to work, hoping that the engineering side would spark under her Cardassian heritage, but the only thing it did was allow Lira to notice that people like Rick and his colleagues were important with all their research and that they needed people to protect them.

Lira’s mother, Natasha, got pregnant that same year, giving birth to a little boy 9 months later, Luke. Lira got very jealous very quickly when Luke was born fully human, but Rick had already speculated that it would happen, so he started taking Lira to The Daystrom institute more. This is where Lira really honed her security skills, instead of engineering. She started finding flaws and confusing protocols and called them into question. A visiting Starfleet Admiral overheard her speaking and suggested that Starfleet could use someone as resourceful as she was. She didn’t think much about it until Rick told Natasha about it during dinner that night. Natasha told Lira that it would be a great career path and it would give her something to be proud of.

Lira started looking into Starfleet, she did a lot of research over the next two years before applying at the age of 18. It took her until her second try to pass the test; she was 20 at the time. Once she was accepted and started her classes, that is when she meets Sean, a Vulcan who was pursuing science with a hint of medical. She and Sean got along very well, studied a lot together, and he would give her scientific insights into strategies and fights.

Around the middle of her second year, news spread about a war between the Talarian Republic and Cardassian Union. She found herself mostly isolated from the other cadets for this due to the stigma still surrounding Cardassians. Except for Sean, who defended her at every t urn and stated that ‘Blaming someone for their species actions and not their true worth was illogical.’.

Around her 3rd year, during a small holiday break, as the Federation holds “The Frontier Day Celebration”, Sean advised he was going be heading back to Vulcan for a week as he was starting Pon-Farr. Lira, being worried about her friend, asked if she could go along, Sean agreed and Lira was off planet at the time of the attack and massacre on Earth.

Once everyone was allowed to return, Lira and Sean spent a lot of their 4th and 5th years researching what had happened. Lira studied the attacks, formations and strategies that were used, citing at even if the Borg was fully and completely eliminated as threat, history should never be forgotten. In between those times, Sean would help Lira study for her upcoming final exam. Sean had been planning to take more courses that Lira so he was not going to be graduating for a few years.

Personality Profile

Academy Major(s): Security
Academy Minor(s): Phasers/Rifles and Close Quarters Combat
Hobbies and Pastimes: Running holodeck security scenarios, playing chess, or complex puzzle games. She loves the elegant, multi-generational Cardassian novels (like The Never-Ending Sacrifice or similar epics) that span decades or centuries, emphasizing duty, sacrifice, and family loyalty.
Short-Term Goals: To prove to everyone that she is more than just a hybrid Cardassian, that she is someone that is loyal and trustworthy.
Long-Term Goals: Despite her and her mom declaring her father deceased after all communication stopped, she secretly has set a goal to one day figure out what happened to him.
Personality: She is warm, thoughtful, and quietly determined, a blend of her loving Earth upbringing under her mom and her Cardassian heritage. On the surface she comes across as approachable, polite, and empathetic, yet there’s a steady, disciplined core beneath it that reveals the Cardassian influence. She’s not flashy or loud; she’s the type of person who observes more than she speaks.
Sense of Humor: Her humor is dry, understated, and gently witty.
Phobias: Cryophobia, irrational fear of extreme cold, ice, or frost.
Likes: Warm/Spicy Foods & Drinks, Strategic Games & Puzzles,
Dislikes: Being pitied, babied, or assumed "Fragile" due to her hybrid nature, dislikes small talk that stays shallow; anyone touching her ridges without permission.
Pet Peeves or Gripes: She inherited a Cardassian appreciation for a meticulous, long-term strategy. Last-minute changes, vague briefings, or “we’ll wing it” attitudes drive her up the wall. She sees it as reckless. Overly emotional outbursts during serious situations. She values composure, even if she’s learned to express feelings healthily.
Bad Habits or Vices: She struggles to fully trust new people, especially authority figures or Cardassians. She is always looking for hidden motives — a subtle Cardassian-style paranoia mixed with a fear of abandonment.
Achievements: She was memory contest champion for multiple years in her teens, her ability to recall from her Cardassian side aided her a lot in this. She also excelled in school martial arts, self-defense clubs, or track-and-field events (endurance running or obstacle courses).
Disappointments: Struggling with hybrid health issues in public, during cooler Earth winters, her cold sensitivity episodes (shivering, fatigue, or needing to leave activities early) made her feel weak. Not having more friends when she was younger due to the stigma from just ending Dominion War.
Illnesses: She frequently complained of being "freezing," (Shivering, fatigue, or even mild lethargy/low energy) during cooler months on Earth. She bundled up extra warm if she went out.
Strengths: Her full ridges aid in heat dissipation and regulation, inherited from reptilian-ancestry traits. That combined with human warm blood (stable internal temp), she can handle extreme heat better than pure humans without tiring as fast, while still functioning well in standard Federation temps.
Weaknesses: Her ridges are still highly sensitive like normal Cardassians. Her Peach skin lacks the tougher, scale-patterned durability of full Cardassian skin. Her ridges will often shed & regrow, but her body/soft skin won't.
Fears: She fears people are secretly judging her once they notice the ridges. This breeds loyalty anxiety—she works twice as hard to earn trust and might preemptively distance herself to avoid rejection.
Prejudices: She believes her Cardassian half is inherently “tainted” or morally suspect—seeing Cardassians as the galaxy’s bullies who occupied Bajor, allied with the Dominion, and caused millions of deaths.
Off Duty Clothing Tastes: Soft, oversized tunics or long-sleeved knit tops with a high collar or subtle V-neck that gently frames her ridges paired with loose, flowing pants or leggings in warm fabrics or tailored but relaxed jumpsuits or two-piece sets inspired by Cardassian fashion (high collars, subtle shoulder detailing, tapered waists).
Distinguishing Features: She possesses all the Cardassian Ridges but has peach smooth & warm skin otherwise.
Friends: Sean Heaven, Vulcan, 26 Years old. Sean and Lira met at the Academy about a month or so after classes started. Sean was perusing science. The two would often have lunch together, and Sean would give her insights into security and fight strategies.

Personal Paradigm Shifts

Most Painful Experience: The most painful experience in her life that seemed to shape her the most was when her birth father, Jarki, had decided to completely ghost them. Even if he had died somehow, she felt that she wasn’t even important enough to him for him to have set up a way for her to be contacted.
Best Time: The best times in her life so far, oddly enough, were all the times she went to Star Base Alpha to meet with Jarki. It was fascinating to her to see all the different people and all the things they were doing. She would often see a lot of people trading or boarding ships to other places to go.
Most Crucial Experience: The crucial moments that shaped her life were all the times she spent at The Daystrom Institute with Rick. This showed her that while Science and Engineering are important, there had to be someone with them to keep them safe and to protect them from harm.
Role Model: Although a lot of people would say that her role model would be her mom, it is not. Her role model is her Stepfather, Rick. She was very thankful that not only did he make her mother happy, but he also accepted her without prejudice. He stepped up and shaped her life when he didn’t have to.

Career History

Cadet	Starfleet Academy	22605.21	Star Fleet Academy Graduate Ribbon
Security	USS Artemis, NCC-110000	22602.21	Midshipman

Medals Tally:

Service Medals Awarded
Image	Description	Qty.
	Star Fleet Academy Graduate Ribbon	1

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