Gwen'ora Tasen

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USS Astraeus

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Lieutenant JG Gwen'ora Tasen

“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”

Ansel Adams
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• Basic Profile

Personal Basics

  • Full Name: Gwen'ora Tasen
  • Nickname: Gwen
  • Sex: Female (She/Her)
  • DOB: 224905.01
  • Age: 152
  • Looks: 25

Appearance

  • Height: 5'6"
  • Build: Slender Athletic
  • Hair: Red
  • Hair Style: Mid Back Length Wavy
  • Eyes: Green
  • Skin Tone: Healthy Lightly Tanned Tone
  • Handedness: Ambidextrous
  • PB: Katherine McNamara

Professional Experience

  • Bachelors: Bachelors of Science in Biology
  • Masters: Masters in Xenobiology with a focus in Xenobotany and Xenoecology
  • Current Research:
• Personal Information
Quarters ⮟

Gwen'ora Tasen has an interior room on Deck 10. The room on entry and warmly lit with plants covering available surfaces. A shelf near the couch has various herbs that range from mint and 3 Ba'ku cooking herbs in small post nestled there. A larger pot with a now growing Ba'ku bush that Gwen swears will eventually produce an orange colored berry one day. A pot sits on the stand beside her bed that has a beautiful Tea's Blueberry Butterfly African Violet. A small but growing Singing Plant sits on a desk in the room.

Gwen'ora's next door neighbor is Sevantha Saa who she used to share a room with.

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Interests ⮟
  • Botany: Loves learning and studying various plants. Also has far to many plants that she either has cultivated seeds for or has already planted and began turning her shared room into a mini greenhouse. This extends to planting and growing and everything else in between.
  • Reading: Back on Ba'ku she left a stash of actual books that she had acquired home but has slowly either scanned those during her trips home. So when she can she's a book worm, especially ones about various plants and other studies that interest her. Though the guilty pleasure of a romance book from various plants definitely live on her personal list of books she's read through.
  • Sketching: This is something that Gwen has been doing for years...literally. This was the art that Gwen took up as a child and continued throughout her over a century on Ba'ku. So if you ever need a sketch, this would be the woman to bug.
  • Cooking: Something that Gwen isn't amazing at but if you give her fresh produce and a stove with fresh herbs, she will love you forever but also happily cook for anyone in the room.
  • SCIENCE: If there is a way to test, poke or mess with something in a safe and scientific manner...this woman would have a lot of fun doing it. Give her something to study and she'll give it a go!
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• Relationships
Family ⮟
Mother, Ba'ku, Briar Patch

Always supportive and loving, Wila was an original Ba'ku on the planet. She was a woman who shifted partners a few times before finally getting with Nav who never left being her dear friend. Since the two have been a pair for several centuries.

As Gwen grew, she saw how much her mother worked for the village as a healer who made several of her own salves with various plants. To Gwen, Wila shared the love of plants and the use of them beyond consumption.

When the Son'a tried to use Starfleet to relocate the Ba'ku and Gwen met those of the Enterprise, Wila backed her Daughter and pushed her to do what she wanted. A people was meant to change and if this was a sign of the Ba'ku's need to be apart of the universe around them, then Wila was glad her daughter was going for Starfleet instead of chasing the murderous Son'a.

Wila supported her daughter whole heartedly and was glad every time she hears from her daughter.

Friends ⮟
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Dear Friend - Roommate, USS Astraeus

Sevantha and Gwen had gotten transferred to Starbase 118 together for their final evaluation before placement. Since then and over time especially since arriving at the USS Astraeus, the two have become quick friends. Gwen being who she is, appreciates the ins and outs of the Betazoid woman. Gwen has gotten very used to hearing Sevan communicate via telepathy while they are alone and has gotten used to when she is near her roommate to just think aloud assuming her friend would hear. Honestly Gwen has become to see Sevan as a dear friend and is excited that she's had someone from academy with her this whole time. If there is anyone in the ship the woman would trust with anything, it would be Sevan no matter what it was.

Character Page: Sevantha Saa

Colleagues ⮟
USS Astraeus
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HCO Officer, USS Astraeus

Gwen had gotten to meet Chris the same way as several officers on the ship, through the Power Rangers planning with Charlie, Cadfael, Sevan and co. Though something about Chris she noticed between then and the several times she saw him across the ship over the next few weeks was that he was a passionate man who wasn't afraid to speak his mind. That Gwen admired and honestly tugged her to want to get to know him more. Another person she was excited to get to know more through their odd holodeck adventure.

Character Page: Christopher Caldwell

Starfleet
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Ex Security Chief

Gwen's first day on the Astraeus was spent getting past the various measures of entering a starship and getting incredibly lost while attempting to find the science chief's office. Instead of getting onto her, Gwen got welcomed and instructed the best way to go for getting to where she needed to go. Plus the good guidance of to not try and get somewhere as an adventure if she needed to meet a deadline or would be late to shift. [1]

Character Page: Anjar Thoran

• History
Before Starfleet ⮟

Gwen'ora, or Gwen for short, was born on 224908.01 to Wila and Nav Tasen, two Ba'ku who worked one of the large fields for the colony. Gwen was raised on Ba'ku, a planet located within the Briar Patch. With their planet's metaphasic radiation extending slowing their age, the Ba'ku can live centuries.

From a young age, Gwen started helping her parents among the fields. Taking a huge enjoyment in plants and what all they can do for their society. As she grew up, Gwen continued to take an interest in botany and quickly added it to her list of items she wanted to focus on. Eventually when Gwen hit 20, she signed up for various apprenticeships she wanted to follow within the colony. These included botany, artwork with a focus in sketching, and dancing.

For the next 106 years, Gwen focused on herself. Eventually moving out of her parents house and began operating her own farm, focusing on herbal remedies and various unique plants that had not been typically cultivated by other members of the farming community within Ba'ku. She had some of the stranger plants but she had them growing and was developing uses for them within her community.

One of the major things Gwen did during this time was take trips with friends and family that would come with her to document other plants and animals within Ba'ku. Gwen documented and collected on a first hand basis and added the documentation to the Ba'ku's studies. Gwen also during this time period started seeing another Ba'ku male named Faren Blek who was a few years older than her. They did not take the relationship too quickly, especially as they had centuries of life to go.

The year Gwen turned 126 was the year that Starfleet initiated first contact with her people. She was there for the situation and the aftermath that happened. At first the just helped and focused on making sure to bring her research and enough seeds to start again if needed. Then helped with anything else. Her family made it out of the situation with the Son'a bruised but fine thankfully. Some of their fields were damaged by the attacks but that could also be repaired.

Gwen thought she was going to go back to her life. But ever since that day, Gwen had her eyes elsewhere than the roaming planes of the planet she had lived on for over a century. Now her gaze was on the stars. Seeing the bravery of the starfleet officers and how they were willing to protect them from their own and the Son'a. After the ship that helped her people and do the same to countless others.

So she started the endeavor to figure out what her heart wanted. This started with slowly breaking ties with Faren Blek who was also already planning to travel the Alpha Quadrant on his own. So she decided that was fine. They had enjoyed their time. Loved for a time. And it hadn't felt like that love that swept your heart away to being only theirs...so it was alright to let that go. As for her own journey, Gwen soul searched a bit prior to applying to a university on Earth. She had decided to make the leap and see what she wanted. And that was to learn more than her small home and the scans she now had access to allowed.

Soon after being accepted to the esteemed program, Gwen left her homeworld for the first time and loved every moment of it. Sure it meant she was no longer affected by the Briar Patch's unique effects. However, overall she was glad to be out and about in the stars and aging normally wasn't odd. Especially because she was aging at what seemed to be a bit slower than the standard way Terran's age.

After Gwen graduated, initially, Gwen returned home and began integrating herself back into her homeworld. Bringing her knowledge back with her. However, it became clear that her wants of adventure would no longer be taken care of via her home. Gwen tried to fit back in. Enjoy home and the calm of it. But she missed the loud and the people...the amount of information at her fingertips. The amount of opportunities.

Gwen stayed home for several years, taking trips off the world to see other nearby planets. However, eventually she realized where her heart was and applied to Starfleet in 2397.

Her family overall approved as long as she promised to not loose herself to the stars like the Son'a. Though her father heavily told her the moment she picked up a weapon she could become a Son'a and not of the Ba'ku. After swearing she would not loose herself and who she was, Gwen was allowed to leave.

Starfleet Academy ⮟

Gwen'ora Tasen was accepted into Academy and began attending in 2397 as a Biology Masters on the science officer track with a focus in Xenobotany and Xenoecology.

Overall she enjoyed academy and quickly realized that this was hopefully where she would find her place among the stars, as Ba'ku did not feel like her place any longer.

Throughout school she met many other cadets and attended several classes throughout the years. Overall science was her strong suit followed by bits and pieces of engineering. She was a tinkerer that could be dangerous or successful. Combat was not her strong suit that was for sure. An elective she enjoyed was that of studying Klingon's and their culture. They were a species that prized their strength in battle and everything along the lines of who Gwen had always seen as evil, the Son'a. The Klingon's though showed that not all species that picked up a weapon were evil. It proved to her that it depended upon the person, not their species.

By 2401, her classwork was complete and Gwen'ora Tasen had been transferred to Starbase 118 for her final exam before she passed alongside Dr. Sevantha Saa and Linna Farvor. While Gwen and Sevan were assigned to the Astraeus.

Shoreleave Intro to the Astraeus ⮟

Gwen'ora arrived via shuttle to the USS Astraeus, her first assignment with Sevantha Saa who were greeted by Serala and welcomed aboard during the ships shoreleave. Due to the shore leave having been ongoing for a bit, Gwen and Sevan got tossed into a ship that was having a traveling leave and were also tossed into an assigned room together. Due to the shift layout the two between shifts got to explore the ship and meet various individuals. Overall the time was enjoyable as Gwen got to get accustomed with her new home while also working various shifts and getting to know the science department.

The Arboretum was quickly becoming one of Gwen'ora's favorite locations for both work and relaxing.

During one of her and Sevan's adventures, the two had ended up in the Pagrati Lounge where they were roped into a holodeck program planning about an old Terran program called Power Rangers.

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Frontier Day ⮟

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• References
  1. Directionally Challenged, Ensign Gwen Tasen, USS Astraeus, 240105.21
  2. Surprise Holodeck Planning, Ensign Gwen Tasen, USS Astraeus, 240105.23
• Service History
Starfleet Service Record
Insignia Rank Dates Posting Assignment
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Cadet SD 239705.15 - 240105.19 Starfleet Academy
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Science Masters in Biology
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Ensign SD 240105.20 - 240108.18 USS Astraeus
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Science Officer
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Lieutenant JG SD 240108.18 - Present
• Awards & Service Ribbons
Awards and Service Ribbons
Award Name Date/Assignment Citation
None
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Starfleet Academy Graduate Ribbon 240105.20
Starfleet Academy
Awarded to those who have graduated from Starfleet Academy.
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Galactic War with the Borg Service Medal 240108.17
USS Astraeus
Awarded to an individual who participates in a conflict against the Borg.
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Frontier Day Ribbon 240108.17
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Awarded to those who participated in the defense of Earth and the Federation during the Frontier Day crisis of 2401.
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UFP Medal of Freedom 240108.17
USS Astraeus
Awarded to an individual who shows conspicuous heroism in the defense of a UFP member world.
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Distinguished Service Ribbon 240108.17
USS Astraeus
Awarded to an individual who distinguished themselves by extraordinary heroism not justifying the award of a Federation Cross while engaged in an action against an enemy of the Federation.

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