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[b]Name:[/b] 	  Sophia Brandt
[b]Rank:[/b] 	  Lieutenant Commander
[b]Position:[/b]  Intelligence Liasion Officer
[b]Species:[/b]   Human [i](Genetically Enhanced)[/i]
[b]Age: [/b]	  28

[b]Special Skills:[/b] Medical Doctor, Technical Wiz, Section 31 Agent, Antosian Cellular Metamorphosis.


[b]Service Record[/b]

[b]2373:[/b] 	 Accepted to the Vulcan Science Academy.
[b]2376:[/b] 	 Graduated VSA's Medical School.
[b]2376:[/b] 	 Accepted to the Andorian War College.
[b]2379:[/b] 	 Graduated AWC's Space Warfare Program.
[b]2379:[/b] 	 Accepted to Starfleet Academy's Accelerated Commissioning Program.
[b]2381:[/b] 	 Graduated SFA's Advanced Tactical Training; commissioned in Starfleet with the rank of Lt. JG.
[b]2381:[/b] 	 Assigned to Starfleet Intelligence.
[b]2381-83:[/b]  [i]Redacted.[/i] (Classified by Starfleet Command.)
[b]2383:[/b]	 Assigned to the USS Artemis as Starfleet Intelligence Command's Liaison Officer. 

[b]Background:[/b] 

The daughter of a former Terran Representative to the Federation Council and a former Station Director of the Federation Investigation Bureau, the expectations for little Sophia Brandt's future were largely unrealistic from the start. Her young life was relatively harsh and unforgiving; subject to a strict mental and physical training regiment that even most Vulcan children would find unrealistic. No matter how hard her parents pushed, little Sophia remained an average human child of average pursuits and below-average intelligence. Whether it was their ego, or simply their fanatical will, the Brandts would not allow their only child to be average...and for her to be [i]below[/i] average was simply unthinkable. 

Their answer came in a dangerous operation, illegal within Federation borders; gene resequencing therapy. Though the procedure would almost result in Sophia's death, and a medical coma of nearly a year, the Brandts never once waivered from the course they had selected. Should Sophia die, the Brandts reasoned, they were still young enough to have another child. But Sophia survived, and very quickly after waking proved to be everything her parents initially dreamed of in a child, and much more...unfortunately for Mr. and Mrs. Brandt. 

At age sixteen, the Brandts lost control of their daughter when Sophia uncovered her parents illegal gamble with their daughter's life. Feeling betrayed and unaccepted by the only people in the universe that she felt should love her despite any shortcomings, Sophia rebelled against the carefully laid out plans for her future that the Brandts had put into place over years. When they threatened to cut her off, or worse, Sophia answered her parent's cold ruthlessness in kind: she laid out the evidence of their crimes she had gathered over time, and threatened to expose them should they ever tamper in her life again. Age sixteen was the last time Sophia Brandt had any contact with her parents, leaving home and never looking back. 

Her first two years were spent in San Fransisco, a place she had never spent much time before. There she absorbed all she could of various cultures and species, eventually befriending a Vulcan diplomat much older than she that would become a mentor, and see her delivered to the Vulcan Science Academy where she could begin her education properly. At the VSA Sophia would excel, just as she would at her next stop, the Andorian War College, and her stop after that; Starfleet Academy. She was fast-tracked through the Academy even more than most, given her training at the Vulcan Science Academy and Andorian War College (two famous Federation learning institutes that pre-date the Federation itself).

Sophia did not only attract the attention of Instructors and Academy Staff, but Starfleet personnel outside the Academy. Half way through her first year, Sophia was confronted by a man dressed as a Starfleet Captain that called himself "Sloan", revealing himself a double agent working for the Tal'Shiar. The man knew of Sophia's past, of her parent's crimes, but was willing to wipe all the records and keep her from any potential prosecution should she join the Tal'Shiar as an agent for Romulus. Not only did Sophia decline to betray the Federation, but her super-charged mind quickly worked out the entire thing was a ruse. Desperate, "Sloan" dropped the show, allowing Sophia to wake up and find herself strapped to a biobed in an unknown location. Then he introduced himself as a senior operative for the clandestine intelligence agency Section 31. The ruse was set up to test Sophia's loyalty, and she had proved that (and her cunning) in spades. Then "Sloan" gave her two options: join Section 31, or die. 

Sophia choose life. For the rest of her time at the Academy, Sophia Brandt would go through her Academy training by day, and her Section 31 training by night. After graduation, Section 31 arranged for Sophia's assignment to Starfleet Intelligence's Black Ops units, highlighted by her service as a "Marauder"--Black Ops Starfleet agents masquerading as smugglers and pirates in order to complete missions critical to restrengthening the Federation after the Dominion War, missions that simply could not be carried out by regular Starfleet personnel given the very deceitful and violent nature of their objectives. 

Having proven herself to both Starfleet Intelligence Command, and the leadership of Section 31, Sophia was selected to become the Liaison Officer between Starfleet Intelligence Command and the newest ship assigned to SFI's "Phantom Fleet"—the Sovereign class USS Artemis. Though it's unusual for such Liaison Officers to be active on a starship temporarily assigned to Starfleet Intelligence such as the Artemis, Starfleet Intelligence Command and Starfleet Command have made it very clear that Commander Brandt isn't going anywhere for now.

The reason? Clear as mud, as no one will give the Artemis or the ship's CO a clear reason for the Liaison Officer being attached to newly built Sovereign starship. And Sophia, herself, only offers a mysterious smile when directly asked about it, and says, "I wasn't told the reasoning, either." Whether it's the truth, or a lie, remains to be seen.