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[b][color=b51a55]Name:[/color][/b] [color=#cccccc]Lorelei[/color]
[b][color=b51a55]Age:[/color][/b] [color=#cccccc]214 [i](Appears early 20s)[/i][/color]
[b][color=b51a55]Species:[/color][/b] [color=#cccccc]Ba'ku[/color]
[b][color=b51a55]Academy Major:[/color][/b] [color=#cccccc]Engineering; specializations in Warp Theory and Warp Engineering.[/color]
[b][color=b51a55]Bio:[/color][/b] 

[color=#cccccc]Two years at the Andorian War College. Six years at the Vulcan Science Academy. Two years at the University of Alpha Centauri. Nearly a century of scavenging, tinkering, reverse engineering, and nearly getting herself exiled from the Ba'ku society for her curiosity and inability to be content with the serene, pacifistic agrarian society of the Ba'ku. When the Ba'ku finally joined the Federation, Lorelei was the immediate choice for the first of the nearly immortal race to be sent off into the vast unknowns of the Federation. 

If for no other reason than she was one of the very few who [i]wanted[/i] to leave, and in no small part because she had already left before--in incidents covered up and kept secret by the Ba'ku elders. 

Nearly two centuries of life spent self-teaching herself about any and all technology she could get her hands on, Lorelei hit the ground at top gear when she finally arrived at the University of Alpha Centauri, as a student and minor celebrity: the first of her species to be seen at large by members of the Federation, in her first three months she was hosted by everyone from the Earth Ambassador to the Vulcan Ambassador to the Bolians. 

It was the Andorian Ambassador that suggested she apply to the Andorian War College; an institute that went against every pacifist teaching of her native Ba'ku. Yet after the Dominion War, even a Ba'ku could see the virtues of at least knowing about self defense. While she would struggle with many aspects of the Federation's premiere War College, the area of defensive technologies sparked in Lorelei a near obsession in technological escalation. It meant a sudden transfer from the War College to the Vulcan Science Academy, the best technology institute in the Federation. In under a year she was credited by Utopia Planitia for a critical breakthrough in the development of a corbomite transphasic inducer--her name right alongside famous engineering minds Commanders Geordi La Forge and Data on the official Advanced Starship Design Bureau submission for the technology.

It was La Forge who personally sponsored Lorelei's entry into Starfleet Academy from the Vulcan Science Academy. While her first two years were academically forgettable, this had less to do with intellectual failings than it did new obsessions: Earth culture, Star Wars, Dungeons and Dragons, comic books, rock music, [b]anything[/b] chili cheese, and the newly restarted Major League Baseball sports league. She was at Fenway Park for the first World Series since the 20th Century. Her class ranking? Laughable. 

Following a visit from Commander La Forge, and his CO, Captain Picard, something turned around. Most Academy officials believe La Forge and Picard "talked sense" into the Ba'ku woman; because what followed was one of the most impressive runs in Academy history. The first to beat the Kobayashi Maru by, what the testing Instructor called, [i]"doing Frankenstein surgery to the holographic U.S.S. Enterprise on the fly--she was five steps ahead of anything we threw at her."[/i] Of particular note, Cadet Lorelei introduced the very corbomite deflector technology she helped bring from theory to reality at the V.S.A., stumping the Instructors who tried everything to keep the holographic scenario "no-win." They failed, and the for the first time ever in a fair fight, the Cadets won.

Entering her Fourth Year, every Cadet Squadron on the Academy went after Cadet Lorelei. In an unheard of move, the Commandant of Starfleet Academy "assigned" a Cadet a Squadron not of their choosing: Nova Squadron, a once proud squadron fallen on bad years. Lorelei would do much to reverse the trend of recent history and help Nova place 3rd in the Academy War Games. Though she nearly graduated after her 4th year, it was again La Forge and Picard who convinced her to go further, try harder--so she applied to to the Academy's esteemed Advanced Tactical Training program. 

The Advanced Tactical Training program's Lead Instructor, Master Chief Eso Rosk, placed Lorelei in the elite A.T.T. Training Squadron Six: "Black Squadron", nicknamed the Jolly Rogers. On her first A.T.T. Cadet Cruise, one of the Jolly Rogers lost their life due to a Rigellian pirate ambush. The incident had a profound affect on Lorelei: she had been standing next to the Cadet who lost his life, his flesh and blood covering her by the time they were both found in the rubble of their Engineering section. It was the first time Lorelei had ever lost someone she considered a friend, and her first taste of death has left her markedly changed. More intense, more serious, and more determined to never fail one of her fellow shipmates again. 

Following the graduation of most of Black Squadron, Lorelei was named Cadet Captain by Master Chief Rosk. [/color]