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Ensign '''Geeva Kalpana''', an [[Iridian]], is currently the Helm/Comm/Ops officer aboard the [[USS Wallace]]. | Ensign '''Geeva Kalpana''', an [[Iridian]], is currently the grudging Helm/Comm/Ops officer aboard the [[USS Wallace]]. | ||
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* '''Date of Birth''': 235503.11 | * '''Date of Birth''': 235503.11 | ||
* '''Place of Birth''': Fe'enko Village, Ireane, Iridi System | * '''Place of Birth''': Fe'enko Village, Ireane, Iridi System | ||
* '''Age''': 27 as of 2382 | * '''Age''': 27 T-years as of 2382 | ||
* '''Gender''': Female | * '''Gender''': Female | ||
* '''Telepathic status''': N/A | * '''Telepathic status''': N/A | ||
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* '''Birthmarks, Scars''': There is a small scar on her right forearm from when she was in a solar sail accident as a child. | * '''Birthmarks, Scars''': There is a small scar on her right forearm from when she was in a solar sail accident as a child. | ||
* '''Tattoos/Body Modifications''': None known. | * '''Tattoos/Body Modifications''': None known. | ||
* '''Build''': Inhumanly lanky (because, you know, she | * '''Build''': Inhumanly lanky (because, you know, she is not human), with the entire body looking 'stretched out'. Her limbs and digits and disproportionately long when compared to a terran. | ||
* '''Carriage''': Often strained and sluggish, given her low gravity origins. | * '''Carriage''': Often strained and sluggish, given her low gravity origins. | ||
* '''Taste in Clothing (when off duty)''': Moderately conservative. | * '''Taste in Clothing (when off duty)''': Moderately conservative. | ||
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** 'Fresh' water. Too much of it can throw off her osmotic balance, making her sick. | ** 'Fresh' water. Too much of it can throw off her osmotic balance, making her sick. | ||
** Artificial gravity gives her a headache. For the most part, it is a dull ache that she is used to, but damaged or mis-calibrated gravity generators can worsen it. The same applies to starship shields, tractor beams, and other gravity-based technologies. | ** Artificial gravity gives her a headache. For the most part, it is a dull ache that she is used to, but damaged or mis-calibrated gravity generators can worsen it. The same applies to starship shields, tractor beams, and other gravity-based technologies. | ||
* '''Resistances''': Unusually high tolerance for radiation. | * '''Resistances''': Unusually high tolerance for radiation and most bacteria and viruses. | ||
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===Habits=== | ===Habits=== | ||
Kalpana tends to nod a lot to others, especially superior officers. This seems to be an adaptation of hers, taking a terran gesture and using it in place of her culture's own gesture of respect. As it is an adopted gesture, it tends to get a little overused, mostly due to inexperience with it. | |||
===Taboos=== | ===Taboos=== | ||
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===Hobbies and Pastimes=== | ===Hobbies and Pastimes=== | ||
* | * Science | ||
** | ** She keeps up with most academic journals and any new advances in science, especially those in the astrosciences. | ||
** She has a special interest in the formation and lifespans of stars and other celestial bodies. It is likely that she has the largest collection of simulations and information about them in the sector. She's regarded as something of an overzealous pupil by her peers, however, but she doesn't seem to have noticed. | |||
* Piloting | |||
** An avid pilot, she tries to keep up with the latest in small craft advancements, but this hobby often falls by the wayside. | |||
** She is an experienced solar sail astrogator and pilot, and while she would love to go out sailing now and again, such trips require days or weeks to complete, a time span that is extremely difficult to fit into her schedule these days. | |||
*Robotics | |||
** 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. | |||
*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. | |||
===Ambitions and Goals=== | ===Ambitions and Goals=== | ||
One day, Kalpana would like to see the inside of a star. She would love to physically dive within the nuclear furnace of a star's heart and see what might be lurking there. She would also love to finish any number of papers that she started and get them published, but it seems as though every time she gets one almost done, something more exciting or worrying comes along and forces her to shelve the discourse for another day. | |||
One of her more immediate goals seems to be getting a position as a science officer, which she feels is more her 'place' in the world. | |||
===Personal Achievements and Disappointments=== | ===Personal Achievements and Disappointments=== | ||
She doesn't talk a whole lot about her life prior to the Academy, but probably her biggest disappointment / achievement combination came when she failed her Academy entrance exam the first time, only to pass it four T-years later. | |||
==Family== | ==Family== | ||
Kalpana's family has managed to stay fairly connected, despite the busy lives of almost all its members. While complete gatherings are rare in modern times, they regularly exchange messages and packages. | |||
===Spouse=== | ===Spouse=== | ||
* '''Marital Status''': | * '''Marital Status''': Single. | ||
===Children=== | ===Children=== | ||
N/A | |||
===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. | |||
'''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. | |||
===Siblings=== | ===Siblings=== | ||
'''Brother''': Geeva Ananta is two T-years younger than Kalpana, but he also has about two years' more experience with the universa than she does, as he went right to work after graduating from the Keepiru Culinary Institute. Within six T-months, he had a position on a space station in the nearby K'enp system. In return for turning the communal mess hall into a low-G environment, he dutifully serves up four meals a day and coordinates the efforts of two dozen kitchen personnel. In all, they serve some six thousand miners and engineers. | |||
==Personal History== | |||
'''The Early Years''': Kalpana's early years were spent shuffling between her home world and her father's small survey vessel, taking trips with him to investigate the various planetoids mucking about the system. This was her first taste of exploration and it got her hooked for life. Her planet-side life, while exciting, was nothing compared to the joys of sailing about on the very edge of explored space (the edge as far as she was concerned, at least). | |||
'''Secondary School''': As she grew older, her responsibilities and obligations increased and her trips out with her father became fewer and farther between. She still got into space regularly, but there were no more week-long excursions to the edge of the solar disc. During this period, she also began looking into what to do with her life. An uncle pointed her towards Starfleet and, in a bout of exuberance, she applied. A few weeks later, she learned that she had failed the entrance exam, showing that sheer desire cannot get you everywhere. Trying to take things in stride, she reevaluated her goals and took a slightly different track. | |||
'''University''': Intending on pursuing a civilian career, Kalpana enrolled the in-system Venek Science Institute and began studying a number of general science courses, with a specialty in astro-sciences. During the course of her four years spent studying here, her uncle and parents convinced her to try again with Starfleet Academy. Far more mature and prepared than she was four years prior, and bearing a fresh degree in astrophysics, Kalpana passed the entrance exam with above average scores. Not perfect, but then, not everybody can be top of their class. | |||
'''Academy''': At the Academy, Kalpana spent a fair bit of time acclimating herself to the rigors and changes that come with being an iridian in Starfleet. Through all of this, she pursued courses in the sciences, and passed with above average grades in nearly all of her classes. Rarely the 'best', she tended to fall into the upper ten percent, though. It seems to be her lot in life to always be second best. | |||
===Timeline=== | ===Timeline=== | ||
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* '''Current Rank''': Ensign | * '''Current Rank''': Ensign | ||
* '''Current Assignment''': [[USS Wallace]] | * '''Current Assignment''': [[USS Wallace]] | ||
* '''Duty Post''': | * '''Duty Post''': Helm/Comm/Ops | ||
===Awards & Commendations=== | ===Awards & Commendations=== | ||
===StarFleet Assessments and Records=== | ===StarFleet Assessments and Records=== | ||
"Geeva Kalpana is an apt pupil and an adequate officer, and refreshingly average. She shows some amount of promise, although an unhealthy adherence to the precepts of her birth culture is sure to hold her back in the future. She has a definite conflict with what she perceives to be 'illegal' actions regularly undertaken by modern Starfleet crews, and her superiors are advised to keep a close eye on her for just such a reason. I, for one, would rather watch and be impressed, than not watch and be surprised." -- Admiral Jane DuGalle, Academy Mentor. | |||
===Timeline=== | ===Timeline=== | ||
# ''' | # '''23781.12''': Entered Starfleet Academy. | ||
# '''23829.07''': Graduated Starfleet Academy | # '''23829.07''': Graduated Starfleet Academy | ||
# '''23829.09''': Assigned to the [[USS Wallace]] as HCO Officer. | # '''23829.09''': Assigned to the [[USS Wallace]] as the HCO Officer. | ||
===Living / Working Spaces=== | ===Living / Working Spaces=== | ||
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* '''Quarters''': | * '''Quarters''': | ||
* '''Favorite Room''': | * '''Favorite Room''': | ||
===Subordinates=== | ===Subordinates=== | ||
Give information any subordinates your character might in charge of. If there are NPC profiles on the wiki, give links to them here. | Give information any subordinates your character might in charge of. If there are NPC profiles on the wiki, give links to them here. | ||
[[Category:Characters]] | [[Category:Characters]] | ||
[[Category: Wallace Crewmembers]] | [[Category: Wallace Crewmembers]] | ||