Lieutenant Elena Mao
Name Elena Mao
Position Chief Flight Control Officer
Rank Lieutenant
Character Information
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | Unknown | |
| Age | 70 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5'6" | |
| Weight | 125 pounds | |
| 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 > Born on the Aegis home world some 50,000 light years from Earth in a cloaked system > Eidetic memory > Exceptional night vision |
Family
| Spouse | None | |
| Children | None | |
| Father | Unknown | |
| Mother | Unknown | |
| Brother(s) | None | |
| Sister(s) | None | |
| Other Family | None |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Elena was bred to be an agent of the Aegis. She's courageous, smart, and a patient predator, who waits for the right moment to act. She is capable of forming strong attachments as she did with her partner, Dorian Mao. Her devotion and loyalty to him and to the cause made them an exceptional team. However, her independent nature combined with an intellect that questions rather than accepts, makes it hard to form such attachments; Dorian, as it turned out, was the exception rather than the norm. She's not blind to the flaws and the problems in others and slow to trust. Fifty years as an agent for Aegis taught her that. 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. | |
| 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 of 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. Weaknesses > Has a strong need for a place that belongs to her and her alone. These days, its her quarters aboard the Crazy Horse. 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. And don't even get her started on the Borg. > 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. > Has no concept of family, parental love, and the kind of security in which children thrive. She's used to living on the knife's edge. > 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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| 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. |
| 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. She enrolled in Starfleet. |
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| Service Record | 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. 2357-2360: Starbase 129, assigned as Pilot 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. 2360-2367: USS Jane Addams, Flight Control Starfleet just had to interfere. Her quiet life torn away from her when they moved her to shipboard service where it was harder to fade into the background. By the time they reached the Battle of Arcturus, she was the Assistant Chief of Flight Control Operations. 2367-Present: USS Crazy Horse, Chief of Flight Control The Borg have changed things for her. The operative in her stirs from a long slumber and she finds herself thinking more and more of getting back into the fight. |