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|Character Type=PRC

|Name=Kaguyagat Mo

|Image=Yagamo.jpg

|Nickname=Yaga

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|Species Count=1

|Species=Human

|Gender=Male

|Height={{Feet|6|2}}

|Mother=Tapessa

|Father=Kallik

|Sibling=Younger Brother: Silla

|Marital=Divorced. On a pilgrimage with friendship boundaries for the time being

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|Assignment=USS Titania, RSV-88002

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|History=Power corrupts. Unlimited power corrupts limitlessly.

To a people who returned to their native lifestyle after the 21st century post-atomic horrors, coming around yet again to another forced modernization was resisted by the tribes of the Inuit. They had seen the Norsemen come and go. The Cossacks come and go. The whalers come and go. The missionaries come and go. The fur-traders come and go. The soldiers and scientists come and go. The ice come and go. Yet they remained. Over time, by bonding with more southernly tribes like the Tlingit. Dolgan, and Yakut for trade and strength, they formed the loose pan-arctic Tribal Republic of Makivik. By the 23rd century, though, readily available solar, wind, tide, and cold-fusion power generators had seduced most people. By the 24th century, instant communication in the vast wilderness, replicators in igloos, transporter tourists, and environmental activists had drowned the Inuit lifestyle into what one Inuit writer famously wrote as “Thawed Perma-lost.” The arctic tribal nations hemorrhaged it’s youth away to southern climates and societies. Time blended their peoples more, but never quite fully broke their spirits.

Named Mo, after a Korean-Inuit musician in Yelizovo who died the same day Yaga was born, Kaguyagat Mo grew up in this new 25th century arctic reality. His mother, Tapessa, and his grandmother ran a prestigious law firm in Alaska, where he would pretend to intern afternoons after elementary school. His father worked all around the world building high-rise towers, public stadiums, and municipal plazas. His paternal grandmother was a geologist monitoring the volcanoes of Kamchatka, and Yaga’s father Kallik had gotten a pilot’s license in his own youth to fly her around the peninsula. His paternal grandfather managed the commissary at a Yelizovo plant that made space-worthy environment suits for Starfleet. Yaga Mo had dove under pack ice in an environment suit, flown over Sopka volcanoes, and hiked the Itelmen paths of the Kamchatka River with his grandmother and Yup’ik family long before he was even 10 years old.

Yaga Mo grew up in these two worlds, between modern and native. He mountain-climbed, camped, skied, kayaked, and hunted the Land with tribal family, while he saw, toured, and visited all the worldly places with his parents. He could be with his father in, say, New Delhi at lunch and still spend a family evening at a Lodge beyond the arctic circle. His Inuit grandparents and Elders tried to teach that there was no difference between the past and present. They would send willing tribal children to Qasgiq camps with their father or Ena camps with their mother for long summer vacations with extended family. There they learned the traditions and customs that made the various tribes of the Inuit unique. The Yup’ik tribes were not limited to Earth. Yaga Mo had extended family, generations long, on Andoria and Dorvan V, and they spent one summer in the company of each during his childhood to keep the traditions stirred.

When an avalanche at Sopka buried his brother and killed his grandmother, Yaga Mo focused on high school sports to process his grief; parrises squares, hockey, skiing, velocity. He was gifted with natural sports ability and intellect, and his parents funded the trainers and schooling necessary to foster his sports skills. He made his way through the downhill ski championship competitions until he slowly gained minor fame, and gained an older, skilled, international adversary named Bjarne Øyvind. After high school, Yaga Mo married his tribal sweetheart, Melanie, an intern at his mother’s law firm. He was accepted to a junior college in Ottawa and was heavily recruited to play for its junior parrises team, helping them win silver in the 2415 World Junior Parrises Championship. In the downhill slalom qualifying run-up to the 2416 Olympic Games, Yaga and Bjarne were the featured first and second place competitors, swapping finishes at seemingly every other competition. That was when his invitation came to join the Makivik parrises team in the Olympics. Yaga chose to bow out of the downhill Olympic Skiing, leaving Bjarne to easy medals, but the surprise Makivik parrises team won gold that year. Yaga was offered full scholarships for law degrees from prestigious universities, and was tempted with fame in international parrises as a heavily recruited star player. His soaring popularity and changing lifestyle split his young marriage.

At that summer’s Ena, a Starfleet officer returned to her Inuit people as a rescued victim of the Krynar recovering from Enlightenment, and her tale grew large in the minds of those who listened to her. Not the least of whom, the Elders of Yaga’s extended Yup’ik family tribe.

The Makivik Tribal Elders decided the galaxy was dangerous enough that Inuit culture could be lost forever, to a monster they had no tale to guide them against. They viewed all life as a circle of respect. If the bear or the orca ate you, you were still somehow part of that circle. Even the Cardassians could be viewed as adversaries in that respectful circle. The Krynar, however, were no wolf or raven trying to trick them; they were a heartless tidal wave to wash the Inuit from existence. Similarly, the Borg were a volcano of thoughtless destruction, one that would leave no trace of the Inuit behind. This reality of a new galactic circle left a broken strand in the Elders thinking. The Inuit Elders needed a new shaman guide, a new type of angalkuk, to face this new challenging future and re-tie the circle into their understanding again. Each of the three Yup’ik tribes; on Earth, Andor, and Dorvan, were to choose a candidate to take the gathered history of all the Inuit and records of who they were, and go out into the universe, showcasing that history while seeking new healing spirits for the tribes. These three candidates were the Inuksuk, ‘on the righteous path,’ and when their personal story, their Qanemciq, joined with a mythical story, the Quiliraq, they would discover their Tuunraq, or healing spirit, and could return to the tribe as a great hero, perhaps to even become a shaman themselves in time.

The Elders felt the five-part image of the Golden Gate Bridge, the bridging metaphor itself, and his mate Melanie in San Francisco were clear, strong signs the Academy was Yaga’s first challenge. Yaga had come back to Melanie to help seek his path into Starfleet before the Elders chose him, and they felt she was a steady guide to his path, married or not. He spent as many nights studying in her Rincon Hill apartment overlooking the Bay as he did in his Law School McNeal dorm.

While he was able to continue his parrises playing on the Academy teams, and was part of the 2419 Security Parrises Team that went undefeated his sophomore year, he was unable to train at a level necessary to participate in the 2420 Olympics in either parrises or skiing. He was able to take time to attend part those Olympics with his ex-wife Melanie, and cheer his aging friend Bjarne on to bronze twice more.

Knowing from the beginning that the Academy would take up most all of his waking hours, Yaga put off the more difficult Inuit lessons and simply took time learning the ancient Inuit dialects that would be necessary for him to understand and interpret the Inuksuk oral histories after graduation. He and Melanie made overnight trips to several arctic lodges to learn the songs and dances without relying on universal translators.

All three of Yaga’s electives were spent on “Mo’s gift;” his natural piano ability & music theory.

Yaga Mo graduated in 2421 with 52 credits and a e-coind of 9.1.

|Short=Walk on the moon. Come to understand what ‘help defend Earth’ really means. Advance further in his Inuksuk training to find his next "cairn" which will show he is on the right path for his journey. See more types of stars and more planets than the only three he knows. Actually finish reading War & Peace in its true Russian version (he's having difficulties).

|Long=To continue his Starfleet studies to eventually add a third Minor in Law Enforcement. To follow his Inuksuk path to find it's destiny. See a LOT more of the galaxy. If lucky enough, return to be a tribal leader, settle down and send others out on their own Inuksuk in his place.

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