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|Name=Zoey Ward

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|Species=Human

|Gender=Trans-female

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|History=The Civil War of Omicron Reticuli Prime began with the massacre at the Angos Spaceport. Zoey (at the time named Zachary) was 13 at the time, living with her family in Coria, a city not far from the Angos Spaceport, and tried to flee the city as the chaos erupted around them. Thousands of refugees were packed into tight streets, where panic set in and resulted in neighbor turning against neighbor. By the time the fighting spread to Coria, already over 100 people lay dead in the streets, and the rest were butchered by fighters for what limited resources were left. It was there that Zoey lost all but her mother, her fingers crushed in the chaos and requiring amputation.

Languishing in a refugee camp, Zoey saw incredible misery and pain. People starving, killing each other over loaves of bread, the lynchings of impromptu courts. It was here that Zoey gained the scars over her left eye, in a refugee camp outside Pana when a sociopath tried to carve her eye out with a spoon. He was caught and later nailed to a post in the sun. Not long after, her mother was killed when she tried to keep a thief from taking some of the rations being given out by a passing Starfleet starship to ease the suffering (Omicron Reticuli Prime remains a non-aligned world), and in desperation, Zoey literally lept into the arms of a Starfleet officer beaming back to his ship, the Endeavor (CA-1483).

Zoey was nearly returned to the planet below, but the CMO of the Endeavor, Lilliam Warwick, convinced the captain, Wyatt Locke, to let her treat Zoey before releasing her back to the planet. That's when it was discovered that Zoey had a heart condition that would require long-term treatment. With the captain having already agreed, Zoey was given refugee status aboard the ship and kept for treatment. With treatment underway, she was given psychiatric evaluation and it was discovered she believed herself female, despite her birth gender. After her treatment for her heart condition, she began the process of becoming a trans-female, later having full gender reassignment at 18.

At the age of 16, Zoey was adopted by a lovely couple on Earth, who tried to give her the kind of life she lost when the war broke out. She still had night terrors often, and while she was offered the chance to have her scars removed, she keeps them as reminders of what she's faced. After spending almost a year getting caught up on a basic Starfleet education, Zoey signed up in her spare time as a lifeguard, going to school during the day and keeping kids safe in the evenings. It was there that she met her two best friends, Noah Scott and Harold Johnson. The three became a trio that were inseparable, hanging out and getting into the occasional mischief. Overall, Zoey's late teenage years were positive ones, giving her the ability to overcome the horrors and finally have some closure. It was for this reason that she joined Starfleet, hoping to bring some of the positives she received to others.

|Majors=Astrophysics, Quantum Mechanics