rules

MUSES

MAIN
(stars of the show. even when not very active, they are always open for all interactions.)

PRIMARY
(high muse, open to all interaction)

SECONDARY
(lower muse, open to plotted interactions, memes, etc)

TERTIARY
(low muse & on reserve; open by request or with plotting)

Hugh

HISTORY

BEFORE YOU KNOW your own name, or any semblance of existence or sentience, it's snatched away from you. Abducted from your home, from your people, and made to forget before you ever had the chance to learn. YOUR DESIGNATION is Third of Five, and you are a one of many drones in the vast Borg Collective that annexes the galaxy, assimilating new life and technology, adding individual consciousness to your own.THE YEAR IS 2368, and you are on a scout ship with four others, and you crash on a frozen, uninhabited planet on the Argolis Cluster. The others are killed on impact, and you are left for dead. YOU WAKE UP in a cell on a Starship you are unfamiliar with. You cannot hear the others. You do not know where you are, or how to go home. You are scared. GEORDI LA FORGE gives you food, and mends your broken systems. Geordi is kind. Geordi is not scared. Geordi does not wish to be assimilated. BEVERLY CRUSHER heals your injuries. Beverly is a Doctor. Beverly helps people, because it is her job.YOUR NAME IS HUGH. Geordi calls you this. It makes you feel less lonely. Geordi taught you what lonely means. You do not fully understand what it means, but you want to. THE WOMAN who is both familiar and unfamiliar tells you that she does not wish to be assimilated. She says resistance is not futile. You are both lonely. THE CURE FOR LONELINESS is friends. Geordi is a friend. Geordi taught you what that means, too. He asks you questions, and you answer, and in return he mends your eye piece. You think you are beginning to understand.YOU ARE IN A ROOM with Locutus. He tells you that the Enterprise crew will be assimilated. You tell him they do not wish it. He does not care. You tell him they will resist. He says resistance is futile. You tell him it is not. He says you will assist him. You tell him, "I will not". He does not understand. He tells you that you are Borg. "No," you tell him. "I am Hugh."CAPTAIN PICARD tells you that you may stay on the Enterprise. You know that you must not. Your presence will endanger your friends when the Collective comes for you. You must return. But you do not wish to forget Geordi. You do not wish to forget that you are Hugh. They pick you up at the crash site. Your memories and knowledge merge with theirs. Your individuality does too. It sweeps through your cube like a virus. The collective cuts you off. Falling into chaos, you crash on Ohniaka III, killing the Starfleet officers stationed at its outpost.THE YEAR IS 2369, and amidst the loss of your shared hivemind, a new leader emerges. His name is Lore, and he promises a new sense of identity. He begins to experiment on your people, reconstructing them in his image. Drones with barely-understood individuality die of their mutilations before they ever have a chance to discover who they are, like you did. You feel guilty. You know that Lore must be stopped. You flee underground with a few other dissidents. Resistance is not futile. Captain Picard, Geordi, and Deanna are taken captive by Lore and his brother. You do not want to help. You do not want to risk your own lives. But Geordi is a friend. And in the end, you make that sacrifice. Lore is deactivated, and your people are free.IN THE WAKE of Cubesfall, and the loss of yet another powerful force, you fall back into disarray. But this time is different. You know what it's like to be individuals, to have names. You are the Progenitors, and you forge your own way. You begin Reclamation, a slow but steady disconnect from your implants. You are Borg, but you are not Borg. You are both, and neither. You are an xB.THE YEAR IS 2379, and the Liberated Borg Cooperation makes first contact with the Federation in a long process of Reconstitution. You form the Reclamation Project, with an official statement of purpose — to liberate Borg all across the Alpha Quadrant — and you sign the Ohniakan Accord in San Francisco. 'This not only recognized Ohniaka III as the xB homeworld in the eyes of Federation maps, but also the “Liberated Borg Cooperation” as an individual (allied) entity, and the “Reclamation Project” as its humanitarian, space-faring extension (as Starfleet is to the United Federation of Planets).'YOU ARE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR HUGH, and you are a Reclamation Consultation Specialist, acting as counselor, confidant, and guide to newly severed xBs as they begin their journey of individuality. Under your leadership, the Project thrives. You thrive too. Your life has truly begun.THE YEAR IS 2399 and the Reclamation Project learns that the Romulans have discovered a severed Borg cube that assimilated the Romulan ship Shaenor. The Reclamation Project partners with the Romulan Free State in order to oversee their reclamation efforts. This cube, known as the Artifact, becomes a temporary base where you partner with Romulan scientists and doctors as well as Federation personnel to you began your work. Reclamation is never easy, but this process is especially difficult. The Romulans lack tolerance for your people, seeing you as lesser, as property, and as hazards. Still, you stayed determined throughout, keeping your sights on the project and not letting personal feelings toward the Romulans get in the way of your work.AFTER WHAT BECOMES KNOWN as 'The Artifact Massacre', you have a lot of work to do, and a lot of rebuilding — both of physical loss and trust in relationships. But you've been through harder trials before, and the Reclamation Project is stronger than ever, with plenty of allies across the galaxy.THE YEAR IS 2401 and there is a cube, and a Queen, who is still ravaging the galaxy. Hundreds of Starfleet officers are assimilated through a biological transfusion of nanoprobes, and in the wake of this devastating disaster, Ohniaka III sees a massive influx of visitors, as new xBs of a sort you never imagined could exist come seeking refuge and reclamation. Sometimes mental trauma leaves far deeper scars than physical.

Rimmer

PERSONALITY

Rimmer is, in the simplest of terms, a smeghead. He’s arrogant, cares little for others, and hates pretty much everyone — but he hates himself more. He’s got an badly disguised inferiority complex a mile wide that manifests as a superiority complex. He’s not the smartest guy around, which he’s well aware of, despite insisting that he’s the most brilliant person in a room. He wants more than anything to be respected, to be loved — hell, simply to be liked, but he makes it nearly impossible for that to happen because he pushes everyone away. He wants to succeed, wants to prove that he’s worth something, but he lacks the ability to actually do the work. His failures are generally his own doing, but he refuses to take the blame for anything.He’s anal-retentive to a fault, likely a result of intense anxiety and the feeling of being out of control. He internalizes his problems and emotions to an extreme degree — the main example of this being his own sexuality. He’s been closeted his whole life, burying the truth under homophobia. The truth though is that he’s scared. He’s scared of himself and he’s scared of other people and he’s scared that good things will never happen to him, and he’s scared that he doesn’t deserve good things to happen to him. It takes a special person and a special situation to get him to be selfless and to care, but when he does, he’s like a whole other person. Seeing him happy, seeing him at his best is a privilege. In the simplest terms, it means he trusts you.

HISTORY

Rimmer was born on Io (one of Jupiter’s colonized moons) in 2149, into a family of three older half-brothers (John, Howard, and Frank) and his mother and (thought to be) father. His family was strict and rigid, the older boys all succeeding where Rimmer fell short. The pressure put on him by his father to succeed was met only with failure, which resulted in a deep inferiority complex, intense anxiety issues, and a desire for greatness that was only trumped by his unwillingness and inability to put in the work.He was bullied throughout school and faced abuse from his family his whole life. Even when attending a school that more or less coddled the students and held very low expectations, he never managed to gain the self-confidence possessed by his brothers.He ran away from home at age 14 (or as he called it, divorced his parents) and struck out on his own. He held a variety of jobs but never really amounted to anything. At age 17, he enlisted with the Jupiter Mining Corporation and was assigned to Red Dwarf as a third technician. He was with the Space Corps for 14 years but only managed to rise up one rank -- to second technician -- and was placed in charge of Z-shift. He had high aspirations of becoming an officer, maybe even one day a Captain, but constantly failed his engineering and astronavigation exams.In 2180, shortly after failing to complete an exam once again, Rimmer was asked to fix a malfunctioning drive plate. However, though his own ineptitude, it was repaired incorrectly, resulting in a radiation leak that killed the entire crew, including himself. The only survivors were his bunkmate Dave Lister (locked in a stasis booth) and Lister’s cat Frankenstein (sealed in the cargo hold). Three million years later, when the radiation levels returned to normal, Rimmer was revived as a hologram to keep Lister sane. Along with an evolved humanoid feline named Cat, and a mechanoid named Kryten, Rimmer and Lister now travel through deep space, hoping to one day return to Earth.

Lister

PERSONALITY

Lister is a self-proclaimed “space bum” — a title that entirely encompasses the image he tries to project of himself. He comes across as apathetic, slovenly, and altogether unmotivated… and all those things are true. He has few aspirations, no interest in rising through the ranks or bettering himself. He’s content, as he’s always been, to go through life carefree. This lends itself to an easygoing nature, kind and open. He loves people, he loves having a good time, and he loves love. Though he’s almost always well-intentioned, he’s not afraid to tell it as it is, and if someone hasn’t earned his respect, he won’t offer it. However, it doesn’t take much — he just expects back the same effort and kindness that he extends to others. Despite the fact that he comes across as somewhat idiotic, Lister is actually quite bright and clever, and he probably could’ve risen through the Space Corps ranks quickly if he wanted to. However, he lacks the interest and drive, and actively hides his more serious and studious side to preserve his image as a casual jokester.

HISTORY

Lister is from Liverpool, England, with an official birthday of October 14th, 2155, but due to a temporal paradox, the current timeline renders with him being born on Starbug to himself and Kristine Kochanski. He was left in a cardboard box under a pool table, and was raised in an orphanage for his early years and then by adoptive parents who passed away and then a grandmother who… also passed away.In his adolescent years, Lister got into a lot of trouble, ranging from petty shoplifting to car theft. As a teenager, he formed a band with some friends. He was the guitarist, and they weren’t very good, but it didn’t really matter, they had a good time. Lister was also sexually active from a young age, having relationships with both men and women but very few that were serious.Among Lister’s talents, he was a very skilled artist. He was accepted into art school for architecture, but dropped out soon after because he didn’t want to attend lectures or classes or really do anything except just draw. After that, he had a variety of odd jobs just to stay afloat, with no real aim or direction.
During a pub crawl around London, Lister ended up on Mimas (one of Saturn’s moons). Without the means of getting back to Earth, he spent the next month or so stealing hoppers and hiring them out as taxis to make enough money to afford the return trip. He eventually signed up with the Jupiter Mining Corporation and got a post aboard the mining ship Red Dwarf, intending for it to be an easy way to get a paid trip home. He was assigned the rank of technician, third class, and performed various maintenance tasks. During the first few months, Lister had a relationship with Kristine Kochanski, but she eventually broke up with him.Eight months into the trip, the Captain discovered that Lister had smuggled a pregnant cat on board. He was imprisoned in a stasis booth as punishment for refusing to hand Frankenstein over. His confinement in suspended animation was supposed to last 18 months, but shortly after entering stasis, there was an accident in the drive room which resulted in a lethal radiation leak that killed the entire crew. Lister was left alive, safely locked away, as was his cat who was sealed in the cargo hold.Three million years later, when the radiation had finally dropped to a safe level, he was released from stasis by Holly, the ship’s computer. Upon learning that he was not only the only survivor but the last human alive at all, Lister planned to go back to Earth anyway. However, knowing that he would likely lose his mind if he was left alone, Holly revived Lister’s bunkmate Rimmer as a hologram to keep him sane.Lister and Rimmer found out shortly after that Frankenstein’s kittens had bred and multiplied, and over the 3 million elapsed years, evolved into a humanoid feline species -- Felis Sapien. Most of the cats departed Red Dwarf years before, leaving only the weakest behind, which now included only one survivor, who they simply called Cat. Lister learned that in the mythology the cats developed, he was regarded as their god (though incorrectly identified as Cloister rather than Lister), who was supposed to lead them to the Promised Land (once again incorrectly identified as Fuchal rather than Fiji).The companions picked up a service mechanoid named Kryten from the crash site of the Nova 5. Kryten became part of the crew, quickly striking up a close friendship with Lister, who actively worked toward helping Kryten break through and transcend his programming.The four of them now travel through deep space with the hope of one day returning to Earth.

Quark

HISTORY

YOUR EARLIEST MEMORIES are of your Moogie teaching the Rules of Acquisition to you and your baby brother while your father is at work. Ever since you were a child, all you ever wanted was to be the best Ferengi possible. You cherish every pilgrimage to the Great Marketplace, walking with Rom and your neighbor Ravh while your fathers exchanged latinum with the most profitable vendors on the planet. Money is everything, and you are going to be a businessman, and one day, the Grand Nagus.YOUR MOTHER AND FATHER fight all the time. He can't hold onto latinum. She wants to help. He won't let her. She gets angry. She begins acting out. She wears clothes. She reads father's ledger books when he isn't home. She coddles Rom, and scolds you. Being home becomes unbearable.YOU REACH THE AGE OF ASCENSION, and purchase an apprenticeship with the district Sub-Nagus. You move out and into an apartment in the city. You're moving up in the world. You start going out with Brunt, the secretary from down the hall. The Sub-Nagus invites you for dinner and you forget the 112th Rule of Acquisition: Never have sex with the boss' sister. You're fired, your reputation ruined, and you flee Ferenginar in shame. Brunt doesn't forgive you for leaving him behind.YOU'RE QUARK, THE CHEF, with a job on a freighter preparing meals for a crew of 100. Space travel is unpleasant, but at least there's no rain, and you're better suited for customer service than clerical work. It leaves room for your own business ventures on the side. You like the work, but the work doesn't like you — the XO has it out for you, and half the crew is convinced you're attempting to poison them. After eight years, you strike out on your own, though you continue to embezzle money from the ship's funds from time to time.YOU'RE QUARK, THE TRADER, and you make a lot of friends as a freelance entrepreneur. You're a better businessman when you're on your own timetable. You're not exactly honest with your money, but when has that ever mattered? You make some enemies, but that's to be expected when you manage to evade arrest and your partner doesn't. Who can blame you?YOU'RE QUARK, THE BARTENDER, and this is the most profitable business opportunity you've ever had. A whole restaurant of your own, even on a remote Cardassian outpost, is quite an accomplishment. And you're only 31. Grand Nagus Zek was 35 when he made his first million, so you still have a couple of years to rake in the latinum. As it turns out, the Cardassian occupation of Bajor is really awful, and the new Chief of Security is kind of a bummer, but he's also sort of your best friend, so it's not so bad — even if he's a real spoilsport and is constantly trying to get you arrested.THINGS CHANGE . The occupation ends, the Federation moves in, and you prepare to move out. It's been nice, but there have to be greener pastures, right? But that Starfleet Commander is too clever for his own good, and before you know it, you're being blackmailed into sticking around. Business booms. Overall, people are... happier. That's encouraging. You're starting to think that maybe this won't be so bad after all.

Zack

PERSONALITY

Zack is bright, curious, inquisitive, and friendly. Or at least he tries to be. He’s never been one to understand or care for social graces, and he has a tendency to take everything extremely literally, with metaphors, idioms, and references often going over his head. He does not consider this to be a disadvantage, but it does tend to make communicating difficult for him. Making friends in general is not an easy task — he likes people just fine, but when their IQ is far below his, he struggles to communicate effectively, and when he was a child there were often misunderstandings with the human students because of his sometimes odd speech patterns and his apparent standoffishness. However, his intentions are always pure, and he hates knowing that he’s hurt anyone’s feelings, especially because he usually can’t wrap his mind around what he’s done wrong. He’s gentle, incapable of severely hurting anyone. Though he did get into a few fights as a child, he never fought back and usually ended up with a bloody nose and bruises. He did train in self-defense when he got older, and he’s deceptively strong now, but you’ll still never catch him even killing bugs or insects.Zack values logic above all else, at least after living on Vulcan. However, his human tendencies can never really be unlearned, and he maintains a much more casual presentation and mannerisms than most Vulcans. He learns how to control his emotions and hide them well, but he still feels very strongly, and he suffers from anxiety that never goes away no matter where he is. Despite his genius-level IQ and many talents, Zack has an inferiority complex and a submissive personality, making him at times extremely gullible and subject to manipulation. He will rarely hold his ground, and he can be persuaded into doing just about anything if the logic is sound. He especially is a very bad reader of sarcasm, exaggeration, and lies, contributing to his tendency to take everything at face value.Still, despite how immature and naive he might come across as, he’s brilliant, and that’s evident whenever he opens his mouth. And as annoying as he might be, his lack of ego and sweet and awkward demeanor is incredibly endearing.

HISTORY

YOU WERE BORN Sivath Aloran Sasak, to two renowned VUlcan archeologists working mainly on Earth, occasional guest lecturers at Starfleet Academy. They often traveled off-world on research expeditions, during which they left you, just a baby, with a human family they worked with.YOU ARE TWO YEARS OLD, and your parents attend a conference with a number of important people. There's an attack on the space station, and they are both killed in the explosion. You are adopted by the human family, and they raise you as their own on Earth. The Addys are a large family, and you now have three new brothers and four sisters. The younger ones have a difficult time pronouncing your Vulcan name, so Sasak often comes out as just "Sak" which then becomes "Zack".YOU ARE ZACK ADDY, raised human, and despite the fact that your family never discourages you from exploring your Vulcan heritage, you are content to just be human. You struggle to connect with your peers, and it is easier to not set yourself further apart than necessary. Even in appearance, you do his best to hide your Vulcan looks, keeping your hair shaggy to disguise your eyebrows and cover the points of your ears. However, there are non-physical traits that are simply in your nature. You have odd speech patterns, and you are somewhat of a child prodigy by human standards, moving quickly through school. As a result, you are teased and bullied throughout your adolescent years. He are never angry — just upset. You do not know how to control emotion through logic. You learn to take matters into your own hands by the most ‘logical’ method.YOU ARE TWELVE YEARS OLD, and there is an incident at school involving another student cheating off of your test. You confront them about it, resulting in a one-sided fight in which you sustain serious injuries. It is at this point that you begin to realize you are never going to fully fit in on Earth, and you are tired of trying.YOU BEGIN TO STUDY the way of Surak, and take refuge and solace in the controlling of emotion and adherence to logic. However, without a lifetime of training, you are never able to completely suppress your emotions, nor do you wish to. You decide to attend the Vulcan Science Academy. You study hard, and apply every single year, until you are finally accepted at age sixteen.YOU LEAVE HOME and move to Vulcan, immersing yourself in the culture and atmosphere. You cut your hair, practice meditation, live with a host family and participate in their cultural rituals. You work hard and earn a degree in Aerospace Engineering, and graduate at age 20. It is a transformative experience in many ways, and you come away with a new goal — Starfleet.YOU ARE A STARFLEET CADET, intending to pursue two doctorates — one in engineering and one in archeology like your parents. In your first year, you take a course in Forensic Xenoanthropology and fall in love with it. The specialized degree requires an additional year of fieldwork to complete your dissertation, so after four years, you was assigned to your first posting. At the end of that year you officially graduate with two degree and earn the rank of Ensign, where you continue at your post as a Starfleet officer.

Twelve

PERSONALITY

Twelve isn’t exactly what you’d call a ‘social creature’. It’s not that she doesn’t like to talk to people, she does. But her options of people to talk to are severely limited most of the time. When your options are (perhaps well-meaning, perhaps not) non-Borg, and other xBs who will do anything possible to suck up to those non-Borg and get on their good side, sometimes it’s just easier to be on your own. And so explains Twelve’s self-imposed isolation from her people and the rest of the world. She loves to debate her opinions with other xBs, but since that tends to only start arguments, she’s learned to keep to herself to avoid starting any more unnecessary conflict. Not that she doesn’t like conflict — it’s just a waste of time. She has seen first-hand the harm that non-Borg do to xBs, the prejudice and the intolerance, and it instilled a rage in her that cannot be quelled. As such, she has a tendency to be short-tempered and prone to anger outbursts.Twelve refuses to conform, and refuses to be passive and docile just to keep an illusion of peace between xBs and the Federation. She argues that it’s unfair that they should have to be polite and never do anything that could stir up tensions when non-Borg can do whatever they want without it reflecting negatively on their entire species. Because of these strong opinions, she refuses to actively participate in any efforts of diplomacy with the Federation, although she respects those who do. Despite this, Twelve highly values her individuality, and believes strongly in Borg liberation.On the other hand, she sees no need to hide the parts of her that are Borg. She’s proud of what she was, and who she is becoming — which means she also sees no need to learn what species she used to be. Additionally, she also has a very loose relationship with gender. xB gender theory is already a very fluid thing, but for Twelve, although she’s comfortable being referred to as a woman and with she/her pronouns, she doesn’t actually care. She just wants to exist as she is, without any input or unwanted opinions from anyone else. In general, her vibe is simply ‘do not perceive me ever’.

HISTORY

Twelve of Twenty was on the Borg cube that was severed from the Collective when Hugh’s individuality began to spread, subsequently crashing on Ohniaka III. After the incident with Lore, a community of xBs discovering what it means to exist as individuals began to sprang up, and Twelve was among them. She clung to the concept of identity like it was a lifeline. However, de-assimilation is a mentally exhausting and frankly terrifying process without something to ground yourself. It’s a balance of remembering what it was like to be a Borg, while taking that experience and creating something new. For Twelve, it was the holographic imaging tech her optical implants and eyepiece are programmed with that she held onto. Being able to create images in her mind enabled her to stay calm when she was spiraling. So in the end, she decided she didn’t want to have those implants removed. A prosthetic eye would not be nearly as advanced as her Borg eyepiece, so she ultimately removed only the parts that were necessary and kept everything else. And though it makes her look far more Borgish than many other xBs, she honestly prefers it that way.Over time, Twelve discovered that she could use her holography skills to create holographic art. She fell in love with it, with creating imagery out of light that she could manipulate, animate, paint with only her mind. She dedicated all her time and energy to it, and though her work had many themes, she became known for her beautiful but graphic depictions of the horrors of assimilation and the hardships of reclamation. Her work was rather off-putting to even an xB audience, but their reactions did not deter her. She created for herself, and only for herself. In fact, though her sculptures could be seen throughout the compound, very few people knew who the artist was. Or knew her, at all. And that was how she liked it.Twelve remained on Ohniaka for years, until after the cube known as the Artifact, previously host to the Borg Reclamation Project, crashed on Coppelius. Outside Federation jurisdiction, the Artifact became a new xB base, of a different kind. Twelve took a chance and relocated, hoping that she would forge a kinship with her people there that she had failed to find on Ohniaka III. And she did. And so, in spite of herself, Twelve of Twenty began to fall in love with her life.

VERSES

v / i. — ohniaka (pre-picard verse)
Takes place while Twelve is on Ohniaka III. Anywhere between 2369-2399.v / ii. — coppelius (post-picard verse)
Takes place once Twelve relocates to Coppelius to live among the xB community that springs up from the survivors of the crash.

Scorpi

Personality

Scorpi is a bright and enthusiastic young man with a strong sense of pride and honor. Love for his people and his family was instilled in him at a young age, but the backlash and criticism his family faces made his childhood a difficult one. He grew up very isolated from other children his age, and has a difficult time making friends and navigating social interactions. He's very smart and loves to learn. He has an affinity for history and collects ancient artifacts and little tidbits of information.He is also neurodivergent as fuck, including diagnosed anxiety; that being said, he's a self-proclaimed extrovert, though his loud and awkward nature tends to deter people from approaching him.Scorpi is nothing like the rest of his family, aside from his Cardassian pride. Starfleet is a dream for him, and he remains optimistic about the future.

history

THE YEAR IS 2376 and less than nine months have passed since the end of the Dominion War, wounds still raw and tensions still deep. A baby is born on Cardassia Prime amidst the rubble of a fallen empire.YOUR NAME IS KINAYUT, and you are the heir to the Jaskoth family - a line of soldiers and war heroes who have served the Cardassian Union for as long as history can recall.YOUR EARLIEST MEMORY is a funeral, a somber day of mourning for your grandparents, murdered in their own home by extremists who don't believe in second chances, all because Legate Corat Damar, the face of the new Cardassia, does. No one comes.THERE ARE RUMORS that you are not your father's son. Skrain Dukat, the disgraced predecessor to Damar, had a reputation for persuing unobtainable women, and word on the street says your mother was one of his many conquests. You know it's not true, but still, a dark cloud hang over you...THE JASKOTHS are a family of traitors. Lorvis & Naskeh betrayed Cardassia by supporting the Dominion alliance. Dijoth betrayed Cardassia by defecting to the resistance. Everyone expects you to live up to the family name.THE YEAR IS 2395 and more than anything, you want to make your family proud. You love Cardassia, you will do anything to prove that your people are strong, that twenty years after the war, you are ready to take the next steps toward righting all those wrongs.THE YEAR IS 2400, and after five years of trying, you are accepted into Starfleet Academy, the first Cardassian to reach this milestone. Thanks to the support of Legate Damar and and your sponsor Captain Nog, you will begin to bridge the gap between Cardassia and the Federation. No one is happy for you.YOU MAY BE READY for Starfleet, but Starfleet isn't ready for you. The other students are wary of your species, and the teachers and officers have heard the theories about your parentage. You do your best in school, but it's difficult. You don't fit in, and no matter how hard you try to make friends, many of your classmates - particularly your Bajoran ones - are not ready to accept you.YOU DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN to make them forget that you're a Cardassian. You wear high-collar shirts under your uniform to cover your neck ridges, and dye a streak of your hair white. Finally, you decide to change your name — Kinayut translates to Scorpion in Federation Standard; Scorpi is the anglicization you decide to use. You hope this will help. It doesn't. You begin to wonder if this whole Starfleet thing was a mistake, but when you think about facing your father with your failure, it makes you sick to your stomach. You decide to wait it out — you've come too far to give up now.

Nog

full bio coming soon.

vic fontaine

full bio coming soon.

Qelet

SOME TIDBITS

Qelet is the child of Haibar (a successful businessman and former employee of Quark on Terok Nor), and Kinia (who holds a minor political office in the Tower of Commerce). At age 18, they were captured and assimilated by the Borg. They were reclaimed a year later, and underwent heavy surgery and medical procedures as part of their recovery. They decided to go into Starfleet and are now a security officer, awaiting deployment.Qelet is set by default in the pre-Picard era (2393), but I can write them as early as early as 2386 or any time in Picard-era or after.

HISTORY

In lieu of a full bio at this time, you can find Qelet's Starfleet dossier below:

BORG MODIFICATIONS & IMPLANTS

Iba

HISTORY

Iba has two moms, Nirall and Kellasha, who are also Starfleet officers — an Admiral (Kellasha) and a Captain (Nirall). Her grandmother, Lemiya, who was also a Captain, was killed in the Burn. Iba's grandfather Palok was not in Starfleet — he ran a small business on Ferenginar, and therefore survived the burn. Lemiya was about the be promoted to Admiral and was looking forward to being able to move back to Ferenginar with her husband and work mostly from home, but she never had that opportunity.Iba grew up with her parents' love for Starfleet and the Federation, despite the hardships their family and all Ferengi faced in the wake of the Burn. When she was old enough, she enlisted as well.She was posted to the USS Nog, the first Eisenberg-class starship and one of the only ones to survive the Burn. Its crew is now 80% Ferengi, and the majority of the 45 remaining Ferengi in Starfleet serve on it. Iba was a science officer, rank of Lieutenant, specializing in research regarding the distillation of liquid metals for use as energy alternatives for dilithium. The project’s work slowed down once the dilithium repository was discovered on Theta Zeta, and she was transferred from the Nog to the Discovery due to her vast knowledge of the work being done within the Federation and her familiarity with the current member and non-member planets.

FERENGI IN THE 32ND CENTURY

In the late 25th century, Ferenginar joined the United Federation of Planets. This was a result of the massive planetary and cultural changes brought about by Grand Nagus Rom over the course of his tenure, as well as the influence of Federation Ambassador Nog, who served from 2353 until his death in the mid-2600s. Ambassador Nog’s position made the negotiations possible, and so by 2480, Ferenginar became a member planet. Grand Nagus Rom retired in 2475, 100 years after he assumed office, and his successor, his granddaughter Ishka (named for her great-grandmother) spent her first 5 years working alongside her uncle to push Ferenginar through the end of the process.While Ferenginar remained focused on commerce, many Ferengi retained their shrewd business-minded sensibilities. Greed was a trait still common in the late 25th century, but it was no longer an expectation, nor was a lack of greed deemed unsavory. Trade relations with other Federation worlds improved, and as more and more Ferengi joined Starfleet, so did diplomacy. The fight for women’s equality which began in the 2370s with Grand Nagus Zek continued, and with generational changes, the gap grew smaller. Women held positions of power and office, and the first female Nagus (one who was 1/4 Bajoran) marked the beginning of a new era for Ferenginar.Work conditions improved, unions became the norm, and though Ferenginar still practiced currency-based economics, the acquisition of profit was no longer the prominent driving force of the planet. Latinum could be exchanged for Federation Credits with ease both among civilians and Starfleet officers.
Over the course of the next 600 years, Ferenginar continued to integrate into the Federation. Though they remained one of the more distinct and unique cultures, they became nearly indistinguishable from their 24th century counterparts. In 3053, on the 600th anniversary of Ambassador Nog’s death, the first Eisenberg-Class starship was commissioned, named after him. The USS Nog was one of the only ships of this class to survive the Burn in 3069, having been docked and inactive for maintenance at the time.
However, following the Burn, Ferenginar was one of the first worlds to secede from the Federation. With countless Ferengi deaths, hundreds of ships destroyed, and millions if not billions in revenue lost, they withdrew from the crumbling union. Because the Ferengi Alliance remained one of the largest trade superpowers in the galaxy, the loss of warp capability resulted in heavy damage to their economy. The conversion rate from federation credits to latinum plummeted, with credits becoming next to worthless in comparison. At least one third of Ferengi citizens were using Federation credits exclusively, and in the subsequent economic collapse, lost nearly all their money when exchanged for latinum.The current Grand Nagus was deposed, replaced by a younger and more forceful successor who promised to not only carry Ferenginar through this economic and social crisis, but to restore the Alliance to its former glory, supposedly from the 24th and early 25th century before their Federation membership. The importance of latinum increased. Ferenginar once again became an economic superpower. Class differences were prominent and drastic, with those who had relied solely on Federation credits falling into poverty, and those who retained their latinum fortunes gaining power and notoriety. Trade increased across the galaxy, and the Ferengi Alliance formed a relationship with the Emerald Chain crime syndicate, with Ferengi businessmen working as independent contractors, merchants, and cargo pilots for the Orions and Andorians.Less than 100 Ferengi Starfleet officers remained in active service following the Burn, though the meaning of this changed drastically in the immediate wake of the disaster. The majority of these officers had lost close friends and family and wished to honor their contributions and their deaths. Their Federation membership remained intact by proxy, despite their homeworld’s secession. This number steadily decreased over the next century, as elder officers retired and very few of their children chose to pursue Starfleet service. Those born on Ferenginar after the Burn were not permitted to join, even by recommendation from a Command-level officer. By 3189, the Ferengi population in Starfleet was reduced to a mere 45, with the majority all serving together on the recently re-commissioned USS Nog.Though the Federation began to rebuild with the arrival of the USS Discovery in 3189 and the identification of the Burn’s origin, Ferenginar did not seek membership a second time. The disbanding of the Emerald Chain resulted in more initial profit loss, but ultimately the Ferengi Alliance began to see overall improvement, aided by the discovery of a dilithium repository on Theta Zeta. The remaining Ferengi Starfleet officers continued to represent their planet and their people to the best of their ability, just as their earliest predecessors did in the 24th and 25th centuries.

Pel

HISTORY

YOU KNEW YOU WERE DIFFERENT from a young age. Ferengi culture and law does not allow women to wear clothes, leave the home, earn profit, or have any sort of life. You want more. In secret, you teach yourself all you need to know about business and latinum and the Rules of Acquisition. You make yourself a pair of synthetic lobes, steal clothes from your brother, change your name, and run away to start a new life.YOUR NAME IS PEL, and your travels take them to Deep Space Nine, where you hope to learn from the person you consider the best in the business — and more importantly, to get close to the wormhole and the Gamma Quadrant, taking advantage of the profit to be found there.YOU DO NOT COUNT on falling in love with Quark... nor do you expect living as a man to feel so right.YOUR TRUE IDENTITY IS REVEALED to Quark, Rom, and the Grand Nagus Zek, and you are forced to leave DS9. You go to the Gamma Quadrant for a while, but when the Dominion War begins, you flee back to the Alpha Quadrant for your own safety.YOU END UP up on Solamin Prime, where you learned to fly shuttles and work as a pilot, doing small local deliveries and keeping your head down.THROUGHOUT YOUR TRAVELS you begin to grow more and more comfortable in the identity you've created for yourself. You realize that living as a man is not just a necessity for survival — it's a deeper part of who you are. Over a few years, you come to terms with this new identity, though you are still discovering more about yourself every day.

VERSES

v / i. — wanting more
this verse is set on the station, up until the end of season 2 episode 7. pel arrives sometime between season 1 and season 2, and works as a waiter at quark’s, disguised as a man. she and quark become very close throughout 2x07, and she develops a crush on him. she assists him in his negotiations with the dosi, and he considers her a close advisor. when rom finds out pel’s true identity, she’s forced to leave deep space nine, though rom, quark, and grand nagus zek all vow to keep her secret.v / ii. — exploring the galaxy
after pel leaves deep space nine, they travel the galaxy, doing business and making quite a life for themself. they’re happy like this, and make quite a profit. this is the most flexible verse, best for crossovers or any interactions that couldn’t take place on the station.v / iii. — making a home
this verse has a few different ways it can go. OPTION ONE: pel never leaves deep space nine. everyone keeps his secret, and he continues to live and work on the station. OPTION TWO: pel returns to deep space nine at some point following the events of 6x23 profit and lace. once zek passes his new law about females being allowed to work, she finds herself back on ds9 once again. great for later in canon interactions set on the station! how and why she ends up there is flexible, though OPTION THREE is an au of profit and lace where instead of quark crossdressing, he calls pel and asks her to negotiate with commissioner nilva in place of ishka. after that, she sticks around, at least for a while. ( I actually wrote a fic based on this concept. )

GRAY

HISTORY

THE GENERATION SHIP is like a microcosm, a small fragment of the wide, wide world. You have always wanted to see the stars, but more than that, you long to become a Guardian, the revered protectors of the symbionts on Trill, who cultivate the rich history passed from host to host.YOUR NAME IS GRAY TAL, a name that carries more weight than you ever believed you would. You were unprepared to be joined, but with your sound mind and centered soul, Tal accepts you. You are re-learning who you are. Fortunately, Adira is there. Adira, who you care deeply for, who makes you smile, who makes you feel like a person when you start to only feel like a purpose.YOU HAVE NEVER KNOWN PAIN like this. There is no one to help. There is nowhere to go. Everything you've ever learned about being a Guardian is in the forefront of your mind: you must not let the symbiont die. So you do the only thing you can — you ask Adira to take Tal. You love Adira, so Tal will love Adira. Tal will accept them just like you. You die, confident in this knowledge.THERE IS NOTHING for a long time. You rest in blissful ignorance and peace, unaware, unconscious to the world around you. Until one day, it all comes back.YOU ARE GRAY, OR YOU ARE TAL, but some days you don't feel like either. You are little more than a figment of Adira's imagination, but could a hallucination communicate so clearly? Would a hallucination have wants, hopes, dreams? You remember learning about the Rite of Emergence, and wonder if Adira unknowingly triggered the ritual in their yearning. It doesn't matter how it happened — you exist, if only in their mind.DOCTOR CULBER HAS CREATED A BODY for you, a near-replica, but better. Through the zhian'tara, your consciousness is transferred from Adira to your new synthetic form. You are alive. You are real. And you are perfect, and whole.

Zaphod

history

I'm lazy & I have Covid right now, just read his wiki.

Enoch

HISTORY

Cristóbal Rios created a number of Emergency Holograms in his image upon his departure from Starfleet, the ENH among them. His ship came with a standard installation package of five, with generic personalities and accents. Rios chose the self-scan option for their appearance (though whether the reason was narcissism or self-loathing, they do not know) and was successfully able to upload his own memory base and knowledge into them, with various modifications. However, those memories and experiences combined with five-sizes-fit-all personality types led to very unique characteristics for all of them.Designed simply to be a useful program, Enoch only wants what’s best for Rios, but after spending quite some time with him, that helpfulness has begun to extend beyond navigation alone. Holographic programming has come a long way, so it’s unsurprising that Rios’ holograms have developed feelings and minds of their own. Enoch is energetic, well-intentioned but sometimes a bit insensitive, and cares deeply for his Captain. Most would argue that his loyalty comes from his programming, but he might tell you a different story. Rios of course cares little for his holograms, and Enoch is no exception. But he continues to care actively for him, wanting to spend time with Rios. Enoch knows he needs them all, so remains determined to look out for his friend, to keep him safe and content, no matter what angry words are thrown his way.He is, after all, just an emergency hologram.

RELATIONSHIPS

CRISTOBAL RIOS — @cristobalrios
Enoch holds Rios in very high esteem, despite the fact that most of their relationship is incredibly unhealthy. Enoch takes verbal abuse from Rios without complaint, though he will often engage in debate with him that’s more like an argument that results in Enoch being deactivated. Still, despite it all, Enoch is indisputably, inexplicably, head over heels in love with the man, his creator, his own worst enemy. All he wants is for him to be happy, but his obsession with Rios becomes increasingly damaging.EMIL — @cristobalrios
Emil, the EMH, is Enoch’s best friend. Part of that might be because they’re sort of forced to be in each other’s lives, but Enoch would like to think that no matter what their situation was, they would always end up friends. They’re practically inseparable and tell each other everything. Enoch leans on Emil when he’s upset about Rios, and Emil can always count on Enoch to be the reasonable and optimistic voice in the room when he’s stressed. Emil encourages Enoch to join Starfleet, even though it would mean leaving them behind, because he knows it’s his dream. Emil has also been pining for Enoch since forever, which Enoch is oblivious to.

Zhaban

HISTORY

Zhaban was born in the north of Romulus into a family of Tal Shiar agents. When he was 12, his mother began training another young Romulan named Laris. The pair grew up together, Zhaban soon joining the Tal Shiar as well. They played, trained, and fought together for many years, until they were eventually stationed on the Romulan colony of Yuyat Beta as spies. Under the guise of winemakers working in the vineyards, they monitored the growing tensions between the Romulan people and the Federation as the date of the impending supernova grew nearer. It was on this planet that they fell in love.When Jean-Luc Picard and Raffi Muskier arrived on Yuyat Beta, the Romulan pair manipulated them, earned their trust, and eventually captured Picard’s ship. Laris intended for this to be a ruse, while Zhaban nearly turned them over to the governor on Yutar Beta. However, seeing Picard’s dedication to protecting his people, and seeing that same passion and loyalty reflected in himself, he turns his back on the Empire once and for all, and helps Picard escape.He and Laris decided to remain on Yuyat Beta to assist in the evacuation of the citizens. Once it was completed, they too left, and came to earth, finally taking Picard up on his earlier offer to remain in hiding at his Chateau. There they remained until the present day.

TROVAL

ABOUT TROVAL, FROM HYE

- short betazoid doctor. love them very much. troval is a progenitor xB: aka the same group from hugh and crosis' cube that crashed. also: the first one to enact a "reclamation procedure," AKA ripping a part of their own head's exo-plating off.
- troval comes from the place of "we know ourselves best," aka when queer people are just able to Get medical things that cishet doctors and medical practitioners will never fully understand.
- aside from being an emotional empath as a betazoid, troval is an xB doctor who's been around for an extremely long time to alpha quadrant xBs, and has seen their share of societal and personal crises in many different xBs.
- the pain from patients she's lost or the heartache they've endured at watching xBs suffer is something they're not unfamiliar with, but after going through their own reclamation procedures/sharpening her own individuality while also balancing life as a betazoid (emotional cauldron) vs. former borg (stoic x50), troval just gets it for fellow xBs, and they're one of the best surgeons on ohniaka iii for a reason.SOURCE HERE

Double Trouble

PERSONALITY

Double Trouble is loud and brash, and though they’re outgoing they’re neither overly friendly nor tactful and charismatic. People tend to be off-put when they meet them, especially because they tend to lead with insults or very forward greetings, but they often don’t mean any harm. They know their power and their worth, and so they aren’t afraid to be themself. That being said, the overly flamboyant & dramatic personality is a front, much like any character they play. They use it to cover up the fact that they’re genuinely a caring, well-meaning person, because growing up in the Crimson Waste meant that being soft was a weakness. The tiny shift in tone we see when they tell Catra “I live to serve” (quickly amended with “for a price”) is as close to seeing that deeply buried side of them. Part of the reason they come across as shallow & superficial is because they’ve spent their whole life trying to figure out who they are, and they’ve never really found someone that they like being & that other people like. They have such a desire to be loved, and that paired with the fact that they love acting more than anything else means that it’s easier to be anyone but themself. They like showing off their diva actor side, but it isn’t really them. No one has ever seen them in a vulnerable & truthful way.

BACKGROUND

Double Trouble never knew their parents – both died when they were a baby. They like to say that they’re the child of royalty, a long lost heir to some kingdom’s throne. but in reality, they don’t know. All they do know is they’ve been around for a very long time. They were found and raised by mages who either didn’t know where they came from, or wouldn’t tell them. They were raised in the Crimson Waste, but they had a lot of people taking care of them. They were about as sheltered as one could be out there. They were the treasured, spoiled child who was taught magic & trickery early on. They never had to worry about the harsh realities, and they aren’t a particularly skilled fighter because of it. However, with their magic, they don’t really need to be able to hold their own in a fight. They’ve never not gotten what they want, and they know how to sweet talk just about anyone into just about anything. Eventually they struck out on their own, and have been making their own way ever since.

BEFORE THE FIRST ONES

Many years before the First Ones shaped Etheria into what it is today, before any of the people you see today inhabited it, the planet was ruled over by kingdoms of eldritch beings. The name of these people has been lost to time, as have most of the beings themselves. One kingdom of shape shifting beings existed where the Whispering Woods now stand. When the First Ones arrived, they wiped out most of these ancient beings, in fear of their power, leaving little to no remnants of their existence. The only survivor from this specific kingdom was a baby -- found in the rubble by mages living in the kingdom that was where the Crimson Waste now is. They took the child and raised them to never know of their past, or the true history of what had happened on Etheria. As time passed, and the First Ones too disappeared, the planet’s origins faded into ancient myth. Over time, trees grew where the kingdom once was, and the ever-shifting Whispering Woods thrived on the magic of the people who left it behind.

Luna

HISTORY

Luna spent her whole life learning and following the teachings of Cloister, and believing in Fuchal, the Promised Land. As she got older and discovered that not all the cat people believed in Cloister, she decided to become a cleric, spreading the word of their people's history. It was not an easy life, as their fleet fell under the tyrannical rule of the Feral King Rodon, and she and many of Cloister's followers were forced underground into hiding to prevent being prosecuted for crimes against the throne.To avoid capture, Luna fled along with her friends Peanut and Sol, in search of the ship of their birth, Red Dwarf. They encountered "Cloister" (really Dave Lister) and his "disciples" (Rimmer, Kryten, Mutt, and Cat), and sought protection under the man they believed to be their god. Eventually, their beliefs were shattered when Lister was forced to admit that he was not a god, just a man. However, they still defeated Rodon, mostly thanks to Rimmer, who they adopted as their new god. Finally free of Rodon's oppressive rule and finding peace, they reached the Promised Land at last.Now the fleet roams space freely, and Luna and the others often visit Red Dwarf and the friends they made there.

RELATIONSHIPS

BROTHER SOL — @choicescreen
Another cat cleric who Luna fled with in search of Red Dwarf. The pair are very close friends.MUTT — @guttersniper
Luna became very attached to Mutt during their time with the Boys from the Dwarf. She's fascinated by him and his experience growing up with Lister and Rimmer, and when they visit the ship, she's always very excited to see him.

KINDOFMUSES

Howdy! Eros here. If you found this blog, you likely follow me on tongowheel, so I'm not going to go over my rules in great detail — you can read them there. Instead, here's a little about this blog...This is a sideblog to tongowheel, and features OCs from the DS9 prequel fic "The Kind of Thing That Could Be", written by myself and constablegoo. The muse list may eventually include a few canons who make appearances in the fic too. As such, there may be spoilers for the fic, but big ones will be tagged as kind of thing spoilers /I don't expect this blog to have very high traffic, and will likely be friends-only. I will not be using icons, though replies will be formatted. Most threads will be plotted. Primarily, this is a way for me to develop some of the OCs I'm writing and do some worldbuilding.Please proceed here for the muse list & descriptions!

KINDOFMUSELIST

~ OCs ~

~ CANONS ~