Rush, Sophia
PRC 
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STAR FLEET PERSONNEL COMMAND FILE |
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| RETIRED[2] | |||
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| Sophia Rush | |||
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| Career Occupation | |||
| Position: | First Officer | ||
| Assignment: | USS Avenger, CA-1500 | ||
| Rank: | Commander | 
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| Biographical Attributes | |||
| Species: | Human | ||
| Gender: | Female | ||
| Height: | 160 cm | Weight: | 49.9 kg |
| Eye Color: | hazel, mostly brown with some green | ||
| Hair Color: | deep brown, looks black in certain lights | ||
| Hairstyle: | shoulder-length and wavy, usually pulled up into a ponytail while on duty | ||
| Physique: | lean and athletic | ||
| Complexion: | Brown | ||
| Voice: | alto, confident but gentle | ||
| Affiliation: | United Federation of Planets | ||
| Birthplace: | Utopia Colony, Mars | ||
| Born: | 18309.18 | Age: | 33 |
| Familial Relationships | |||
| Father: | Edward Rush | ||
| Mother: | Janelle Rush | ||
| Status of Parents: | working at the Utopia Planitia shipyards, Janelle Rush: structural engineer, Edward Rush: starship repair supervisor | ||
| Siblings: | Laura (33), nurse on Mars | ||
| Marital Status: | Married to Jay Howard, Star Fleet Security Officer | ||
Contents
Personal History
Daughter of two employees of Utopia Planitia, Sophia was exposed to starships at a young age. Her father, before his additional training and promotion, was a welder, her mother made sure the frames of the ships would hold. Sophie and her twin sister Laura would pull out the stacks of PaDDs loaded with blueprints from their mother’s office and study them. When they played pretend, they played “starship captain”. They would go outside, point at the stars, and talk about the places they would go.
Laura never went to the stars--her path took her into nursing. Sophia on the other hand knew she wanted to join Star Fleet, but she didn’t know what she wanted to do. She wasn’t patient enough for science, or technical enough for engineering, and she found the idea of sitting at a tactical station mindnumbing. For awhile she considered medical and security, but couldn’t decide which to focus on. She entered the academy initially with a medical specialty.
Her first year, Sophia struggled with a lack of focus. That changed the beginning of her second year, when she took Introduction to Starship Support. Support was everything she wanted: varied tasks,multiple areas of interest, and a chance to see all aspects of a star ship and its crew. She switched her emphasis to support, while picking up EMT and marksmanship certifications on the side.
Upon graduation, Sophia was stationed on a heavy cruiser, the USS Trafalgar. As a midshipman and ensign, she rotated through the various specialties of support. She served as a biological material cleaner and in decontamination, and as an assist for every other department. At her promotion to lieutenant junior grade, she was assigned primarily as a medical assist, in addition to leading the biological clean-up team. Because she kept her marksmanship up, she also acted as an extra guard when needed. In a major incident in her early career, she punctured a lung trying to keep a patient from being taken hostage.
Later, she was promoted to full lieutenant and transferred to the USS Independence, another heavy cruiser in a new fleet. Here she was assigned as Chief Support Officer. Her focus had switch from filling the needs of one department, to filling the needs of all of them. She had to learn where best to allocate personnel and resources, along with the unique needs of each department. On the Independence she met Jay Howard, a security officer. They became fast friends, and later more, his intense focus on security balancing her urge to split her focus among everything. They married shortly after Sophia was promoted to Lieutenant Commander.
The First Officer on the Independence became a mentor for Sophia, and pushed her to take the Command Officer’s Certification test. Here Sophia learned that her eclectic skill set was a benefit, not a downside to being in command. Having both macro and micro perceptions of the workings of the ship allowed her lead with precision and understanding. She became interested in a career in Command, and made careful efforts to remedy any gaps in her education. She worked hard, but the chaos of the war with the Krynar kept her in a support position where she was really needed. She was shocked and horrified by the destruction of the Krynar system, even if she was glad that war was over. When a First Officer position opened on the Avenger,she was recommended to fill it.
Personality Profile
Academy Major(s): Starship Support Systems
Academy Minor(s): Emergency Medicine, marksmanship certification
Hobbies and Pastimes: recreational shooting, reading non-fiction, long-distance running, finding hidden areas in mundane locations
Short-Term Goals: to make her long-distance relationship with Jay work
Long-Term Goals: to be a good leader and role model to her crew
Personality: Sophia is the classic example of “jack of all trades, master of none”. She is intelligent and has many interests, though not enough focus to stick to any one for too long. At times her way of thinking is chaotic, jumping from one train of thought to next, but she nearly always manages to synthesize a solution out of the chaos. Sophia is empathetic and understanding of others needs. She has a desire to help others achieve their goals, though she also has a good sense of when her advice isn’t appropriate. A rare idealist, she wears cynicism and sarcasm as an armor to protect herself from disappointment. She has many acquaintances and friends, but few close ones. She likes to meet people, but has trouble keeping in touch with them.
Sense of Humor: whip-smart, quick with a response, rather dry
Phobias: worms. As an ensign, Sophia once had to clean thousands of still living worms out of the jefferies tubes. She has despised them ever since.
Likes: gaining knowledge about new subjects, helping others, getting to know people, seeing her family, solving a challenging problem
Dislikes: being condescended to, feeling helpless or alone, things being dirty or out-of-order, arrogance, bullies
Pet Peeves or Gripes: support officers being treated like they're unimportant
Bad Habits or Vices: cleans/straightens things that don’t need it, ignores problems in her personal life
Achievements: good grades at the academy, excellent scores on certification tests, her various career advancements
Disappointments: not getting to see her family very often, sometimes wishes she’d had the focus to go into a different field
Illnesses: Nothing out of the ordinary
Strengths: versatile, quick thinking, excellent memory, solid marksman, understanding of others
Weaknesses: difficulty focusing on one thing at a time, often fears being overlooked, can spend too much time thinking when she should be acting
Fears: dying, not being skilled enough to advance her career
Prejudices: has a number of stereotypes and opinions about every other department in the fleet. She does her best to keep them to herself.
Off Duty Clothing Tastes: comfortable dresses
Distinguishing Features: Nothing of note
Friends: her husband, Jay
Personal Paradigm Shifts
Most Painful Experience: puncturing a lung. it was the first time Sophia thought she might die.
Best Time: her time with Jay on the Independence, especially their wedding
Most Crucial Experience: being encouraged to take the command certification test
Role Model: Cdr Irina Skaya. She encouraged Sophia to do command officer’s certification, and has been a mentor for her in the later stages of her career
Career History
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