Ramirez, Lucia
PRC 
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STAR FLEET PERSONNEL COMMAND FILE |
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| RETIRED[2] | |||
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| Lucía “Lucy” Ramirez | |||
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| Career Occupation | |||
| Position: | Engineering Officer | ||
| Assignment: | USS Sheridan, DD-4086 | ||
| Rank: | Midshipman | ||
| Biographical Attributes | |||
| Species: | Human | ||
| Gender: | Female | ||
| Height: | 170 cm (5 ft. 7 in.) | Weight: | 65 kg (143 lb.) |
| Eye Color: | Dark chocolate | ||
| Hair Color: | Very dark brunette locks | ||
| Hairstyle: | When on duty, her hair is worn in a neat and tight bun to keep it from interfering with her work, Off duty she prefers to wear her hair in loose wavy locks | ||
| Physique: | Slim, approaching athletic due to limbs toned from climbing | ||
| Complexion: | Smooth, olive-skinned | ||
| Facial Hair: | None | ||
| Voice: | Cultured and mellifluous. Her accent is broadly considered to be neutral on duty. When relaxed evidence of her Hispanic roots is detectable | ||
| Affiliation: | United Federation of Planets | ||
| Birthplace: | San Jose, California, Earth | ||
| Born: | 19506.04 | Age: | 23 |
| Familial Relationships | |||
| Father: | Cesar Ramirez | ||
| Mother: | Fátima Ramirez née Campos | ||
| Status of Parents: | Fátima and Cesar remain happily married in San Jose, Fátima is a respected journalist and Cesar is an author and historian. They usually share the large family home with Gabriela, Maria and Lucía’s dog Murph | ||
| Siblings: | Tomas Ramirez (26) - Lucía’s brother Tomas is a theatrical actor living in New York. He is in a long-term relationship with his partner. Gabriela Ramirez (19) - Gabby lives at home in San Jose whilst she studies at Medical School, she aspires to qualify as a surgeon. Maria Hernandez (19) - Lucía’s cousin Maria has lived with the family since the tragic death of her Mother when Maria was 9 years old. Maria is an avid botanist, studying at college and often finds cause to travel the world collecting samples. She hopes to join Starfleet in the near future. | ||
| Marital Status: | Single | ||
| Children: | None | ||
Contents
Personal History
Lucía Ramirez was born on the fourth day in June, a little before midday. She had arrived in her Grandparent’s home following an unexpectedly short labour of just two hours. The second child of the family, Lucía was a precocious tinkerer in comparison to her artistically inclined older brother and her animal obsessed baby sister. Her grandfather Pepe was a handyman by trade and Lucía worshipped him, following at his heels and sitting on his knee as he repaired old appliances and electrical devices. At the tender age of eight, she had taken apart the frame of her bunk beds over the course of an afternoon and with her brothers help in terms of manual labour their mother returned that evening to find two single beds reconstructed side by side from the components.
Whilst Tomas wrote stories and Gabby followed at her mother’s skirts Lucy and her best friend Mira worked on plans for treehouses, built box forts and even a dog house - hoping that the latter might convince Lucy’s mother to let them have a puppy. Initially Cesar and Fátima were indulgent of their daughter’s fascinations, however, following an incident in which both girls broke an arm each after misjudging the strength of an old tree limb as adequate to support the weight of their planned treehouse all of the parents involved agreed that the young women’s activities needed to be better supervised.
She was nine years old when the Borg returned in force to the solar system, Lucía’s immediate family evacuated San Jose, escaping off-world with other refugees from the Borg attack. The family spent a year upon a refugee transport before the Armageddon Directive was rescinded. Lucía spent much of the time aboard ship exploring and following maintenance workers as they roamed the vessel on duty. Eventually, the family were finally able to return home and begin rebuilding their life, though the world they had left behind was all but gone. No evidence could be found of her grandparents’ fate. To her eternal joy, she discovered that Mira’s family had also escaped the widespread destruction left by the Borg.
When Lucía was thirteen years old her Aunt Valeria passed away suddenly, survived by her nine-year-old daughter Maria. Fátima and Cesar adopted Maria as soon as possible, bringing her to live with the family and treating her as one of their own girls. Initially Lucía took little to do with Maria, she had never been close to the girl and dismissed the younger girl as too babyish for her, but with encouragement from her mother Lucy started to include her younger cousin in her life, discovering a similar spirit of adventure and wanderlust in Maria that Gabriela did not seem to possess.
At fourteen both Lucy and Mira attended a class vacation in Oregon and the girls tried rock climbing for the first time. The adrenaline from the climb and the aching muscles that followed an ascent had a profound effect on Lucía, finally, she had found a source of exercise she actually enjoyed. It was to become a passion of hers rivalling her habit for taking apart appliances around the home.
Often Lucía would ask to accompany her mother on visits San Francisco to see the headquarters of Starfleet, and to spot the uniformed crew members and cadets seen so commonly around the city. By the age of fifteen, Lucia had announced her intentions to join Starfleet, to no one's particular surprise. With good grades, she was a decent candidate, but Mira and Lucy both worried that it would be her fitness that let the application process down. To improve her chances Mira and Lucy improved their fitness regime, adding jogging, swimming and cycling to the weekly rock climbing, despite initial grumbling Lucy came to grudgingly admit that she enjoyed the new lifestyle. At the age of nineteen Lucía was accepted to study at Starfleet Academy in the Engineering services. At first, Lucy had found herself unexpectedly shy amongst her peers. As San Jose was only moments away she found every excuse possible to go visit her home or Mira, but after a few months she began to open up to her peers and found herself making fewer and fewer trips off campus.
Intellectually she was competent and confident, if not a particular genius. In practical matters, however, Lucía was in her element. She discovered that she enjoyed nothing more than applying creative problem-solving skills to solve the tasks assigned to her team. During extensive team-working exercises, Lucy became close friends with several other cadets. Amelia Constanza was her closest confidant but, in general, Lucía was popular and tended to bond with her fellow Engineering cadets particularly easily - although she found less common ground with security cadets, unfairly judging many of them as overly serious and stiff.
Physically, the extended training regime she had embarked upon before applying to the Academy had held her in good stead, scoring in the top 10% of her year, above many of the other would be engineers. She continued to climb when she could and in her free time, Lucy discovered a previously undiscovered talent she had for shaping holo-sculptures in the Holodecks. Having never considered herself particularly artistic before the pursuit was a wholly new and rewarding experience for her.
Working and living in such close proximity to other Cadets with similar interests and schedules inevitably led to fraternization. Lucía was not entirely without experience in that area but beyond a troubled on again off again relationship with a fellow cadet lasting over the course of three long months nothing more serious developed.
Toward the end of her time in the Academy Lucía had grown restless, the Federation had been at war with the Krynar when she had joined up, and that war was already over by the time she graduated. The whole galaxy lay just beyond her reach, close enough to touch, a universe to see and experience. With final exams successfully completed and her ship assignment in hand Lucía returned home to be with her family for just one more night before she embarked on the next chapter of her life
Personality Profile
Academy Major(s): Engineering
Academy Minor(s): Energy Emissions Systems, Matter/Energy Transformations
Hobbies and Pastimes: Rock climbing, Sculpture, anything craft related, recently experimenting with carpentry
Short-Term Goals: Make some friends at her new assignment, catch the eye of her commanding officer, build a wooden chair
Long-Term Goals: Mid to long-term - Become Chief Engineer of a starship. Super-long-term - Design a starship from the ground up, build the ship and fly her.
Personality: Open, adventurous, at times a little too ambitious. When annoyed, Lucy tends to brood and once offended it takes an effort to repair her bruised ego
Sense of Humor: Often dark, and rarely amused by slapstick or clumsiness, she enjoys more cerebral jokes
Phobias: Snakes
Likes: Taking things apart, putting them back together, climbing, the feeling after a great workout
Dislikes: Clothing with sleeves, too much peace and quiet, criticism
Pet Peeves or Gripes: People audibly sighing, hissing or huffing when they are irritated, sloppy workmanship
Bad Habits or Vices: Lip chewing when nervous
Achievements: Successfully ascending the Pure Imagination climb in Red River Gorge, Kentucky. The most difficult climb she has attempted
Disappointments: Never did finish that treehouse at home. Due to academy duties, she failed to attend her brother’s opening night on Broadway. Her Grandfather never seeing her graduate as an Engineer
Illnesses: Beyond several broken bones and climbing related injuries Lucy has been lucky in her health. Once during a training session in her final year, a nearby conduit exploded leaving superficial burns all along her right arm, since treated and repaired
Strengths: Exceptional practical skills in construction, assembly and deconstruction. Excellent ability to visualise problems and information
Weaknesses: Explaining her ideas in simple terms, anything cooking related, hand to hand combat
Fears: She wakes up remembering the panic as her family evacuated their home during the Borg attack on Earth
Prejudices: A real disdain for the untidy, the lazy and the disorderly ( Or those she perceives as such)
Off Duty Clothing Tastes: When training or in quarters she prefers to wear vests with leggings or shorts. When socialising she prefers to dress in skirts and dresses, avoiding anything with sleeves wherever possible
Distinguishing Features: A small black tattoo of a stylised Starfleet emblem on her upper left right thigh, a similar tattoo shared with several of her contemporary Academy classmates
Pets: Murph, a red setter, still living at her family home, named after a dog from a favourite cartoon
Friends: Mira Walsh (23) - Mira was Lucía’s oldest friend, growing up in the same neighbourhood, attending the same schools, drama club and both catching the bug for rock climbing during a school field trip. Growing up together the young women shared a desire to join Starfleet, but at age nineteen Mira became pregnant with her first child and had decided to pursue a civilian career in engineering in the solar system. They remain close, corresponding frequently, and Mira’s second child is named Lucy after her “Aunt” Lucía.
Amelia Constanza (24) -Amelia was Luca’s closest friend in the academy. Initially, both began as rivals but over time a mutual respect built up. Lucy took Amelia climbing for the first time, in return Amelia taught Lucy to dance. Both come from large Hispanic families and during their time at the Academy Amelia became a common face at the family dinner table in San Jose
Personal Paradigm Shifts
Most Painful Experience: The confusion and fear in fleeing from the Borg attack on Earth, the nights of endless tears when she realised that her grandparents were not with them
Best Time: The night her family and friends sat down to celebrate her enrolment in the Academy, with her sister and her best friend at her side
Most Crucial Experience: Her school trip to Oregon, where she realised that her boundaries in her life were self-imposed and where she pushed herself beyond her quiet life at home and found new challenges, which led directly to her enrolment in Starfleet
Role Model: Pepe Ramirez, her late grandfather, though much of her experience of him is coloured through the prism of childhood loyalty, she nonetheless learned to love engineering and repairing broken things from him. He told her that anything could be fixed if you cared enough to put in the effort and the time
Career History
| Position | Assignment | Date(s) | Event | |
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| Cadet | Star Fleet Academy | 21407.29 – 21807.29 | Star Fleet Achievement Medal | 
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| Service Medals Awarded | ||
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| Image | Description | Qty. |
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Star Fleet Achievement Medal | 1 |
Contact Information
E-Mail: rubricrp@gmail.com
