Geani

Lieutenant Commander Geani (pronounced jay-ahh-nee) is used to standing out in a crowd. She was raised on Alpha Centauri, where she was one of the few Rigellians in town. At just under seven feet tall, she towered over her classmates and neighbors. She became accustomed to stares and occasional crude comment. Unfortunately, her physical appearance isolated her to a degree, and the isolation took a toll on her. Her mother was a mechanical engineer. Her father was a Starfleet small-craft pilot assigned to one of the first Peregrine fighter squadrons to be established in the 2350s. She inherited her father’s quick reflexes and intuitive grasp for visualizing in three dimensions.

Hungry for a sense of belonging, she fell in with a bad crowd in secondary school. Her grades gradually slipped. Things came to a head when she was involved in a physical fight that left a pair of Centaurians seriously injured. She still remembers the look of concern and disappointment on her father’s face as he picked her up from the district security office. As embarrassing as it was, the incident prompted her to think seriously about her future in a way she hadn’t up to that point. It got her thinking about what she wanted to do with her life, and who she wanted to be.

Starfleet academy turned down her application, concerned by her academic troubles and record of delinquency. She enlisted instead, receiving flight training and an assignment to the construction vessel USS Pandora. The delicate, jigsaw puzzle-like flying and navigation work required for building space installations suited her talents well. She earned top marks and rapid promotion within her specialty. Soon, she would be offered another chance at an officer’s commission when an opening came up in the Starfleet Academy preparatory school program. The threw herself into it wholeheartedly, graduated, and earned a commission as an Ensign and an assignment as flight control officer on the USS Invictus. Her father proudly administered her Starfleet Officer’s oath on the day she was commissioned.

The years passed, and she saw service on other ships: the Dauntless, the Intrepid, and the Excalibur just to name a few. She never forgot the second chance she got. She worked hard keeping her nose out of bar fights with the drunken officers and regular customers, the day came when she received her newest assignment to one of Starfleet’s best ships: the USS Artemis.

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