| Chief Medical Officer, USS Khitomer
Amelia felt a kinship with the Khitomer CMO almost as soon as she met the woman, and opted to entrust the doctor with some of the deeply private details of her ability to telepathically commune with animals.[3] She's offered to help with Talia's Pyrithian Azure-crested fruit bat, Statler. Perhaps, in time, the shared love of animals and compatible demeanors will be the start of a friendship. Character Page: Talia Ohnari |
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* [https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-khitomer/c/6wIrN4aSh6I '''Nesting'''] - Amelia recalls what it felt like telepathically communing with a bird. | |||
* [https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-khitomer/c/Ml0abb06bqc '''Lightshow Lullaby'''] - Amelia's memory of an early empathic experience helps her communicate creatively. | |||
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| Amelia Magnolia Semara | ||||||||||
| Position | Science Officer | |||||||||
| Rank | Lieutenant Junior Grade | |||||||||
| Species | Betazoid | |||||||||
| Gender | Female | |||||||||
| DOB | 236809.15 | |||||||||
| Age | 33 | |||||||||
| Birthplace | Nantahala Valley, Casperia Prime | |||||||||
| Writer ID | A239710MA0 | |||||||||
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As long as I have the privilege of being, I'm gonna enjoy every moment of it.
Amelia Semara is currently serving as a Science Officer aboard the USS Khitomer.
Appearance
- Full Name: Amelia Magnolia Semara
- Title: Daughter of the Valley of the Sapphire-Crowned Sun
- Height: 5' 7" (1.7 m)
- Weight: 130 lbs (59 kg)
- Hair: Blonde
- Eyes: Dark Green, near black
- Build: Slim and Athletic
- Telepathic Abilities: T4/E4
- Manner of Dress: On duty, she keeps immaculate care of her uniform and hair. On and off duty, she often wears an heirloom golden pin - The Golden Leaf of Semizad - in her hair.[1] Off duty, she's the picture of a lady - often dressing to a higher standard than those around her, wearing elegant and modern renditions of classic designs.
Background
Amelia is the youngest of a long matriarchal gentry line descended from a noble house of Betazed - though no one in at least three generations seems to know which one, exactly. Born and raised in a high mountain valley on Casperia Prime, she grew up on an ancestral ranch her matrilineal grandparents had converted into a ski resort in an attempt to revitalize both the nearby town and the family name.
If they had their way, Amelia would have been born to a marriage they’d arranged for Alessa, her mother, and been shaped into the perfect modern-day Betazoid belle ready to take on the family’s mantle. That plan fell apart when Alessa fell in love with Tyvan, Amelia's father: a humble, if ruggedly handsome, outdoorsman and self-described hippie. Alessa married him despite the family objections, and was disinherited from the ranch in turn.
None of that stopped the family from insisting Amelia be brought up in the traditional way, same as generations of Semara matriarchs-to-be before her. If anything, the need to make peace in the family made sure she wasn’t going to escape childhood without learning everything she needed to know about navigating Betazoid nobility and galactic high society, and then some. Even as a child she found herself obligated to welcome and spend time with all manner of notables and dignitaries that visited the resort.
As much as Amelia enjoyed that life, when the mountains called, she answered. Between all the schooling and family obligations, Tyvan made sure Amelia was just as familiar with the local, small-town Casperian culture and, most importantly, opened her eyes and mind to the natural world around her. Scarcely a weekend passed where she wasn’t skiing, hiking, climbing, camping, or exploring nature. Tyvan also made sure she also learned to turn inward, teaching her a Betazoid kind of yoga and meditation.
As she matured, she increasingly blended what she’d learned from both sides of the family. She started working in her grandparents’ resort when school and social obligations allowed. After an unimpressive stint at University, she returned to her hometown as a ski instructor in winters, then as a backcountry and mountain tour guide in summers. Tourism in the valley boomed in her early twenties, and the growing town formed a volunteer search and rescue team. Amelia was among the first to sign up, putting her intimate knowledge of the valley to good use.
Her home changed quickly after her grandparents both passed. The estate passed to her uncle, Denral, who had little interest in running the business and less in the health of the town and its surrounding wilderness. He hired a Ferengi management company, which immediately began redeveloping the area. After a few years of non-stop change made her hometown nearly unrecognizable, her mother and father finally decided to move on from the valley, leaving Amelia alone to wonder what was next for her.
In the end, Amelia not only left the valley but the planet. She joined Starfleet, finding it was a good match for her assorted skills, and a new kind of mountain to challenge herself on.
Personality
Amelia is best described as an easygoing, refined ray of ruthless sunshine. Socially, she’s an optimistic, old-fashioned and utterly charming country Betazoid belle. Inwardly, she can’t resist the unquenchable drive to climb the highest mountain in sight - literally or metaphorically.
Her upbringing amidst the socialites and sophisticates instilled in her deeply ingrained sense of good country manners and Betazoid upper class polish, and left her with a love of gossip, harmless frivolity, and playful banter. Her rebellious phase saw her spending as much time cavorting and listening to stories in a local dive as she spent dancing and dining at charity galas, but she still struggles with rude and boorish attitudes compared to her gracious (and liberal) Betazoid-Casperian childhood norms. Still, Amelia is a master of the interpersonal, and, above all, a prodigious relationship-builder and loyal, joyful friend to those closest to her.
Amelia’s gregarious personality is balanced out with an unquenchable love of nature and the outdoors that lends her a centered, almost spiritual inner quiet uncommon in Betazoids. Long hours either in solitude or with only a close friend taking in the world around her has shaped her into a passionate naturalist and conservationist, and something of a natural scientist.
Her greatest strength might be an apparent immunity to all manner of dangerous situations. She has a knack for meeting situations head-on with reassuring poise and positivity (or annoying glee, depending who you ask) plus an inexhaustible supply of quaint sayings and analogies, and an unconventional approach to solving problems she makes work for her.
Amelia’s various reasons for joining Starfleet are all likely true: a desire to document and preserve wild places in the universe, and a dedication to finding common ground with almost anyone. However, it’s also likely she left her home equally because of unresolved grief when she could no longer recognize her home, or her place in it.
Hobbies and Likes:
- Rock climbing, hiking, yoga, and generally anything outdoors
- Parties, dancing, and good gossip
- Playing her Casperian fiddle
- Good food. She’ll at least try just about anything, but she has a weakness for her family’s barbeque tradition.[2]
Dislikes
- Dry lectures and cold theory
- Bad manners
- Using good manners to hide bad intentions
- Ferengi Capitalism
- Wanton exploitation of natural resources
Relationships
Family
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Alessa and Tyvan Semara Parents Amelia grew up in a loving home, and maintains a close and heartfelt relationship with her parents despite the distance and demands of a career in Starfleet. She frequently recalls them affectionately and their family home, even if her parents have moved out of her home valley. |
Starfleet
Service History
Starfleet Service Record
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USS Khitomer: "Ghost in the Machine"
Freshly assigned to the Khitomer after more than eighteen months on an ecological survey, Amelia is immediately thrown into the thick of a mission where an derelict and abandoned starship, USS Eridani, is apparently acting of its own accord. Alongside Ensign Lera Michaels, Commander Ash MacKenna, Helmsman Jenna Prix, and Counselor Jacin Ayemet, she's thrust into a position of getting answers for Captain Randal Shayne and formulating a plan to wrangle the ship into behaving and retrieving the away team that's stuck aboard the Eridani. Amelia is relatively unperturbed by the events, and seems more concerned with showing courtesy and hospitality to her new crew, and offers Uttaberries to everyone she meets. Not that her performance suffers - she and Michaels rapidly innovate on various ways to use the shield harmonics and the ship's running lights alongside increasingly risky maneuvers to communicate with the entity aboard the ship, and eventually the away team aboard it. As they gather more evidence, the data paints a clear picture: Eridani has been possessed by a starving juvenile non-corporeal entity (whom Amelia takes to calling "Junior", a name that sticks). The crew implements a risky plan to "feed" Junior by direct connection to the ship, and somewhat miraculously manages to pull the maneuver off. Once Junior consumes the energy and becomes stronger again, Amelia realizes she can use her telepathic abilities to communicate with the entity, taking inspiration from another crewmember's reference to Spock and the Horta. The ploy is successful, and with the new data recovered from the incident and Amelia playing translator to the entity, Junior is happily reunited with its family.
Awards & Service Ribbons
- For award descriptions, see: Awards and Service Ribbons
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Important Sims
- Nesting - Amelia recalls what it felt like telepathically communing with a bird.
- Lightshow Lullaby - Amelia's memory of an early empathic experience helps her communicate creatively.
NPC Listing · USS Khitomer Crew Manifest · Crew History
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