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** She has a second side-interest in robotics and cybernetics (since most 24th century robots use at least some organic components), especially in regards to their construction, for which she has a number of 'innovative' (read: impractical) ideas. | ** She has a second side-interest in robotics and cybernetics (since most 24th century robots use at least some organic components), especially in regards to their construction, for which she has a number of 'innovative' (read: impractical) ideas. | ||
** This really is a hobby, as it has almost no useful applications, especially because she is truly an amateur when it comes to building and programming them. | ** This really is a hobby, as it has almost no useful applications, especially because she is truly an amateur when it comes to building and programming them. | ||
*Sving-meh | |||
**Kalpana is an amateur sving-meh player, practicing on a weekly basis and at other times that she needs to calm herself down. | |||
**A sving-meh is an iridian instrument that is closest in form and function to a terran fiddle. Physically, it resembles a skinny stringed instrument made of polished wood and natural strings, no longer than the length from an iridian's armpit to wrist. Rather than being anchored near the musician's neck, however, it is designed to tuck under the arm, running in the space between arm and torso. | |||
**The sving-meh produces a sound that is higher-pitched than a terran fiddle, and in iridian culture it has been used not only for entertainment, but also as a means to comminicate between ships on Ireane's oceans. | |||
*Miscellaneous | *Miscellaneous | ||
** Lastly, she seems to have a completely out-of-place curiosity about various shielding and cooling techniques, looking into the technologies of races that come from, or live on, abnormally hot worlds. | ** Lastly, she seems to have a completely out-of-place curiosity about various shielding and cooling techniques, looking into the technologies of races that come from, or live on, abnormally hot worlds. | ||
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===Parents=== | ===Parents=== | ||
'''Mother''': Geeva Nitya is an experienced immunologist currently teaching at the Veem Institute of Medicine in the Iridi system. Outsiders have been known to say that Kalpana is the spitting image of her mother, leaving both to wonder who is doing this 'spitting' and why. The two keep very open lines of communication, and Kalpana often calls on her mother for medical advice, much to the chagrin of her shipboard doctors. | '''Mother''': Geeva Nitya is an experienced immunologist currently teaching at the Veem Institute of Medicine in the Iridi system. Outsiders have been known to say that Kalpana is the spitting image of her mother, leaving both to wonder who is doing this 'spitting' and why. The two keep very open lines of communication, and Kalpana often calls on her mother for medical advice, much to the chagrin of her shipboard doctors. She has a near-perfect grasp of languages, speaking over three dozen fluently. | ||
'''Father''': Geeva Vivek is the kind of man you would not want to meet in a dark alley, late at night. He stands close to seven feet tall (2.13m) and has a fair bit of muscle on him. He is a geologist by trade, specifically dealing with planetoids, which keeps him out in space and away from home most of the time. Still, Kalpana learned a lot from her father about living in the universe, so she goes out of her way to say hello every now and then, or send him any interesting specimens that she comes across. | '''Father''': Geeva Vivek is the kind of man you would not want to meet in a dark alley, late at night. He stands close to seven feet tall (2.13m) and has a fair bit of muscle on him. He is a geologist by trade, specifically dealing with planetoids, which keeps him out in space and away from home most of the time. Still, Kalpana learned a lot from her father about living in the universe, so she goes out of her way to say hello every now and then, or send him any interesting specimens that she comes across. | ||
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# '''238304.23''': Assigned to the [[USS Steadfast-A]] as the Helm / Communications / Operations Officer. | # '''238304.23''': Assigned to the [[USS Steadfast-A]] as the Helm / Communications / Operations Officer. | ||
# '''238305.04''': Re-assigned as the [[USS Steadfast-A]]'s Chief Science Officer. | # '''238305.04''': Re-assigned as the [[USS Steadfast-A]]'s Chief Science Officer. | ||
# '''238312.17''': The [[USS Steadfast-A]] is decommissioned. | |||
===Past Assignments=== | ===Past Assignments=== | ||
* '''[[USS Wallace]]''': ''( | * '''[[USS Wallace]]''': ''(2382 09.09 - 238304.18)'' Being posted to the USS Wallace as the HCO officer immediately after graduating from the Academy was a bit of a shock to Kalpana, especially given that she had fully expected a science position. It was, after all, what all of her training had been aiming towards. Her first captain quickly won her over, however, with his flexibility and willingness to explain the reasoning behind her posting. She was just getting settled and figuring out her place in the ship's community when word came down that the Wallace was to be decommissioned. Partings are not uncommon in her culture, and while she will go on to better and brighter things, she will always remember her first ship and crew with much fondness. | ||
* '''[[USS Morningstar]]''': ''(238304.18 - 238304.20)'' Life on the Morningstar was... interesting, to say the least. Kalpana had not been on the ship for more than thirty minutes when they were unexpectedly attacked by an alien vessel and, within a day, ordered back to Starbase 118 for decommissioning. The experience of having two of her ships decommissioned so quickly after one another has left Kalpana wondering if maybe there is something wrong with her. It certainly seems as though she is a bad omen to any ship whose decks she walks. | * '''[[USS Morningstar]]''': ''(238304.18 - 238304.20)'' Life on the Morningstar was... interesting, to say the least. Kalpana had not been on the ship for more than thirty minutes when they were unexpectedly attacked by an alien vessel and, within a day, ordered back to Starbase 118 for decommissioning. The experience of having two of her ships decommissioned so quickly after one another has left Kalpana wondering if maybe there is something wrong with her. It certainly seems as though she is a bad omen to any ship whose decks she walks. | ||
* '''[[USS Steadfast-A]]''': ''(238304.23 - 238312.17)'' The Steadfast was a new beginning for Kalpana. She was brought aboard as the HCO, but soon found herself where she had always wanted to be: the Chief Science Officer. Intended as a training vessel where new Ensigns could get their 'space legs', as it were, she found her experience in the world and on previous vessels serving her in good stead. Right after the third mission or so, she was finally beginning to feel that she finally had a secure place to serve... and then the powers that be were forced to shift personnel and vessels around to make ends meet and, well... a training vessel is a luxury that not every Fleet can afford. | |||
===Living / Working Spaces=== | ===Living / Working Spaces=== | ||