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|Hair Color=Burnt ginger
|Hair Style=Worn long, but tied back
|Build=Svelte, androgynous, wiry
|Complexion=Fair
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S/he completed a Command Course as a bureaucratic box-checking exercise and a stepping stone to hir next promotion, but shortly afterwards received notice that the USS Dauntless, 2nd Fleet independent-ops, required a new Chief Engineer. S/he had enjoyed hir work on the transwarp project, but had always wanted to see the galaxy s/he'd joined the Fleet for in the first place. S/he accepted the transfer.
Hish first mission aboard ship was fairly routine, at first. The Dauntless travelled to an unusual star system at the edge of Federation territory via transwarp gate - despite hish work designing them, s/he'd never actually travelled through one. The experience was oddly disappointing, after all the work that had gone into them. Upon arrival, they detected a ship in distress.
At first scan, it appeared to be a Constitution-class cruiser with the designation 'Enterprise', but deeper iterations revealed it to be a lower-technology copy of the original venerable design. It carried some 300 badly irradiated lifesigns, and so an away team was prepared. A nearby singularity caused some time dilation problems, however, and the team materialised about 12 hours subjective after they'd been sent. They were met with suspicion and hostility by the ship's crew, who held the away team at gunpoint. One of the team suffered a flashback and began self-harming, resulting in her being shot near-fatally by the other crew.
The Dauntless' first officer ordered the team to continue and repair the ship if possible, and Nator vociferously declined in full view of both the 'enemy' and the junior officers present. This started a toxic near-feud between hir and Commander Gregg that affected their ability to work together even after they escaped the knock-off Enterprise and returned home. It turned out that some Ferengi possibly working with a faction from the Temporal Cold War had tampered with the time line in order to sideline the Federation.
A heavyweight vessel seemed to be the architect of the situation, and threatened to annihilate the Dauntless before s/he managed to fool the computer into unlocking the ship's graser. The method s/he used dredged up some traumatic memories for certain members of the crew, but they were able to obliterate the enemy ship with relatively little damage in return. The thought of being party to so many deaths without much of a chance at parlay rankled hir.
At length, the ship returned to Bravo, and s/he sought out one of the officers hish trick had upset. S/he caught up with Lt Zephyr Praise in one of the station's botany labs, but fell victim to an example of Tholian flora that drove hir certifiably insane. S/he killed a Vulcan officer in hish frenzy, and began hunting the remainder of the science team present until s/he succumbed to exhaustion and mental influence from Praise herself.
S/he was exonerated from murder by way of reduced capacity and responsibility, but the knowledge of the unwarranted slaughter will stay with hir for a long time; let alone the effect it had on Ms Praise.
The chewing-out s/he received at the hands of hish captain for hish insubordination on the 'Enterprise' was easy to deal with, in comparison.
|Majors=Transwarp theory, Quantum chromodynamics
