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Lieutenant Commander Elena Mao
Name Elena Mao
Position Commanding Officer
Rank Lieutenant Commander
Character Information
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | Unknown | |
| Age | 75 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5'6" | |
| Weight | 125 lbs. | |
| Hair Color | Black | |
| Eye Color | Black | |
| Physical Description | Her straight hair is nearly waist-length and her eyes are black. Aegis training combined with her dual nature has gifted her with fast reflexes and a natural grace. She dresses to suit the moment but has never been seen, unless it was essential to a mission, in any sort of a dress. She has no scars or tattoos; for jewelry, she has a strong preference for chokers. Physiology: > Genetically engineered child of individuals abducted from their home world through Varley Extraction and used as part of a breeding program by the Aegis > Expected lifespan: 1000 years > Shapeshifter who takes two forms - black cat and humanoid female > Telepathic > Born on the Aegis home world some 50,000 light years from Earth in a cloaked system > Eidetic memory > Exceptional night vision |
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Personality & Traits
| General Overview | With the Aegis, her focus, her training, her life, were all about saving the timeline. She lived in crisis mode and never questioned. Until she discovered Dorian's secrets. When she walked away from the program, Elena chose to reinvent herself. She's a capable officer who is reluctant to sacrifice herself for the greater good. She runs a small courier ship attached to Starbase 129 and she's happy living life on her own terms. Free from Aegis and the program, she has discovered herself. Quick at spotting lies, adept at getting answers, but for the most part, a reluctant hero. If she needs to act she will but there had better be need. She's a bit of an adrenaline junkie and nothing will make her come alive faster than a bit of danger. Her home is the ship and in her cabin is everything she owns. The colors are surprising feminine for someone who prefers to dress in black or midnight blue; the bed has soft, thick blankets and a heap of pillows that make a good nest. She has no fear, thanks to the breeding program that produced her, but she does have a healthy survival instinct. She's not rash but she is a problem solver, good at out-of-the-box thinking, and will always be the first one to volunteer. Just how she's wired. When she cares, she cares deeply -- she just doesn't feel the need to show it is all. |
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| Strengths & Weaknesses | Strengths > Trained in acrobatics and martial arts. Came in handy for the "cat' burglar phase of her life. Stealth comes natural to her and she's almost impossible to hear when she's creeping around. Combine her adrenaline junkie nature with absolutely no fear high places and you never know where she'll end up. > Inquisitive/Highly Curious/Resourceful. She's an investigator at heart. Someone who's wired to look for answers, to follow the trail wherever it might lead, and has the courage to act when its needed. She's never needed or wanted the resources of a huge starship. Believes strongly that there's always a way - just a matter of finding it. > Very hands-on and involved. Not ever going to be someone who sits on the sidelines. Another reason why she has no interest in moving up to one of the larger ships Weaknesses > Has a strong need for a place that belongs to her and her alone. These days, its her quarters aboard the William Dawes (where she sleeps even when they're in port). She gathers mementos of her travels and favors warm, comfortable nests. Loves sleeping amid a pile of pillows under a thick blanket. Personally, she thinks the Cardassians, in their love of stark and uncomfortable quarters, are insane. > Impervious to threats/Sneaky - Gets even. Elena is a predator at heart but sees no need to come straight at an adversary. Threats don't work on her and impossibilities are really just harder challenges. While not a prankster herself, she'll happily help someone else pull one and has been known to 'get even' with people who try to bully her in endlessly imaginative/non-violent ways that can't be proven to be her fault. > Bit of a commitment-phobe. Blame Dorian. She trusted him and in the end, he betrayed her and the whole program. Its hard for her to take things at face value these days, to trust implicitly. And maybe that's part of what's holding her back in Starfleet -- not that she sees herself as being held back. > Hot Chocolate with Whipped Cream. Nothing better at the end of a long day. A good book and a mug of hot chocolate. |
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| Ambitions | She was going to save the world and look where that got her. At the moment, she doesn't have any. Doesn't want any. | |
| Hobbies & Interests | > Art. Very good and pen and ink drawings. A skill she learned as part of her Aegis training. What she sees, she remembers and can reproduce. Nowadays, she fills pocket sketchbooks, crowds the pages, with images of things she's seen, people she's met or passed by. There are many interesting things in those pages - some are secrets others would not like written down. Doesn't matter to her. It all goes in the sketchbook. > Martial Arts/Acrobatics - Keeps up with her training and enjoys learning new styles/routines. She sees it as adding tools to her arsenal. > Reading. She is a voracious reader - anything and everything. > Trying to new things especially when there's an edge of danger to it. Adrenaline junkie, remember? |
| Personal History | > Born on Aegis in 2297 A product of genetic engineering, Elena has never had the close bond of family. She was raised to be an agent and indeed, spent the first fifty years of her life partnered with Dorian Mao, working to protect the timeline on Earth. Dorian was a workaholic, always ready to accept the next assignment, no matter how difficult or dangerous. Caution was not part of his genetic makeup and that suited Elena's risk-taking, adventurous spirit. He accepted the assignments and gave the orders; she followed. She was young and inexperienced, willing to follow his lead and learn as she went. Freed from the training, out on their own, Elena committed herself entirely to the work. And while they didn't need accolades (and weren't likely to get them), she did feel a certain sense of pride in the magnitude of their efforts. Keeping a world on the right track? That was necessary work and that feeling of doing something important stayed with her for a long while. And then, she noticed something. She started to question and there weren't always good answers. Difficult for her and at war within herself, Elena's loyalty to Dorian at odds with the suspicions forming in her mind, the ones that kept returning, that kept her up at night. Forty-nine years into a partnership that she hoped would last for hundreds, Elena began to suspect that Dorian had his own agenda. On their last mission together, Dorian made an uncharacteristically stupid mistake, one that cost him his life. And in the aftermath, a supervisor was dispatched and the enormity of his crimes were exposed. The investigation made it clear that Dorian had been acting on his own and that Elena was unaware; her only fault, the supervisor had indicated in his final report, was that she had been too trusting of the agent in question. > 2347: Resigned from the Aegis program Elena resigned. It took her time to work through what Dorian had done and the part she had played in it. She wouldn't, couldn't, accept that she had not been to blame at least in part. She thought about living a small life, settling down some where, but she had been bred for action and in the end, it was that need that kept her moving. Seeking. It took five years for her to figure it out. Five years of living on the edge, not knowing where her next meal was coming from. She bartended. She played bodyguard. She retrieved stolen items for people and enjoyed the notoriety of being a 'cat burglar' - one who returned the goods stolen by others. It just wasn't enough. Five years to the day, she returned to Earth and it was, while sitting in a restaurant that she and Dorian had often frequented, that the answer came to her, a way that she could serve without requiring the intense one-on-one commitment required by the Aegis. |
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| Service Record | Starfleet evaluation. Cadet Mao was bred to be an agent of the Aegis and exhibits courage, intellect and patience. She thinks of herself as a predator and its been shown that she will wait for the right moment to act. She is neither foolhardy nor rash. Her independent nature combined with an intellect that questions rather than accepts, makes it hard for her to form attachments; the one she did have with her partner, Dorian was the exception rather than the norm. She's not blind to the flaws and the problems in others and slow to trust. She accepts herself and admits freely that she can be stubborn, hard to convince at times. The Aegis' method for training their agents, having them live outside of a culture rather than as part of it has taken its toll on her. She's also a bit of an adrenaline junkie with a strong spirit of adventure. While she likes her alone time, she also enjoys social connections though none have reached anywhere near the level of the one she had with Dorian. Candidate is approved for Starfleet training. 2352-2356: Starfleet Academy, San Francisco, Earth Took dual majors. Command, because she had a strong need to be involved in the decision making and, as it turned out, she was good at it, and Flight. Piloting a ship suited her nature very well. After Aegis, the training wasn't hard for her; it was the psychological testing, the instructors' probes of her reluctance to trust completely that caused problems. It was believed that she wasn't ready to serve on a larger ship and so, graduated with the understanding that she would work as a pilot attached to a starbase. 2357-Now: Starbase 129, assigned as Pilot 2370-Now: Starbase 129, assigned as commanding officer and pilot of the Aegis Class, USS William Dawes The work suited her well. She piloted shuttles and eventually the larger craft attached to the starbase on any number of short-term assignments -- cargo, personnel, and sometimes, acting as a support vessel for a science team on some world or other. Nothing monumental. No enormous stakes. A part of her worried that she was wasting the training the Aegis had put into her while another part of her understood that she wasn't ready to take all of that on again. She would know, she thought, when the time was right and in the mean time, she did whatever small jobs the starbase assigned to her and rose in the ranks, becoming someone they trusted to get the job done. |