Patri Jia Kom

Introduction

Patri Jia Kom (sometimes spelled Patri-Jia Kom) is a Terran female information pirate. She has spent most of her adult life drifting from starbase to starbase, offering her services as a detective, a hacker, and a programmer, and even research assistant.

Childhood

Patri's parents were taken as slaves by the Grendallai on stardate 237603.01, while she and the fragmenting family lived in the New Cyprus Colony, near the Ithassa Region. She was schooled for a year afterwards at a boarding school. On the return of her parents, it was discovered that the Grendellai slavers had implanted her with a defective tagging device. That device damaged her brain resulting in a selective amnesia that rendered her unable to recognize her parents.

Criminal Record

Patri Jia Kom has had numerous brushes with Federation law. In every instance but one she was able to avoid jail time on technicalities. During her brief stay in a Federation penal colony on Nimbus 4, she exhibited exemplary behaviour, offering spiritual advice to fellow inmates and creating a general atmosphere of ease. By the time her parole hearing came up, she was viewed so favourably that the wardens recommended she become a therapist.

At the start of her parole, however, Patri disappeared and has since turned up under various pseudonyms.

Augmentation Experimentation

For a while Patri participated in research experiments on Science Station Tango Sierra. Little is known about the nature of the experiments that were conducted there.

Relation to the Bung Kho Cartel

Recently, in a bid to exact her revenge on the Grendellai, Patri elected to try to foil what she believed to be a plot on their part to turn a profit by destroying Deep Space 17. Thus, she took up residence at the station on stardate 238505.17, forging a relationship with the Bung Kho Cartel in a bid to gather intelligence on the Grendellai plot.

Patri was able to use her influence with certain agents in the Cartel to extract artificial intelligence technology from the personal effects of ensign Kevin Breeman and deploy it to the stolen USS Phoenix.

On stardate 238505.17 Patri allowed herself to be captured by the USS Independence-A in order to deliver intelligence information to the ship in the hopes that the Federation would foil the Grendallai plot, thus ending their financial dominance.