Ayelet Kadosh

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Ayelet Kadosh is a nurse on Deep Space 17. She was a survivor of the Vaadwaur occupation of the station in 2387, serving as the station's acting chief medical officer until the USS Independence-A arrived after the Starfleet recapture of DS17.

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Ayelet Kadosh

Name: Ayelet Kadosh
Rank: Lieutenant JG
Position: Nurse, Acting Chief Medical Officer
Assignment: Deep Space 17
Species: Human
Gender: Female
Age: 31 (Born 2356)

Backstory

Kadosh was part of the station's medical department when it was captured by the Vaadwaur in 2387. When the particular medical facility she'd been working in was overwhelmed by Vaadwaur, several of the doctors and nurses were slaughtered outright by the soldiers. Kadosh and a few others were kept alive to take care of the captured prisoners.

One of the Vaadwaur guards, however, developed an uncomfortable interest in Kadosh. Though she was prepared to defend herself, she was fortunately rescued by Msafiri Bakari, who delivered a rather unfortunate end to the guard. Bakari took her back to his holdout where he and a handful of Federation personnel, several of whom would not survive to see Starfleet retake the station, hid and planned an insurgency. Week by week, they did their best to stall the Vaadwaur's progress, but they were outnumbered and outmatched.

Kadosh hadn't known Bakari, a low ranking security officer, before the occupation, but she soon saw how protective he had become over the survivors who remained on the station. For a lieutenant junior grade like Bakari to become the senior officer on the station meant that he had witnessed many of his superior officers--his teachers, mentors, and friends--killed or worse. He promised those whom he saved that they would not be abandoned, but two months into the occupation, he had confided to Kadosh one night that he felt Starfleet had abandoned them all to face death alone.

After Starfleet retook Deep Space 17 through Operation Bright Star, Kadosh was promoted from ensign to lieutenant junior grade for her service to her fellow officers during the station's occupation. She and Bakari remained close friends. While the other DS17 survivors had slowly become reacquainted with how things worked again in an ordered Starfleet, Kadosh noticed that Bakari seemed increasingly agitated as that sense of order was rebuilt on the station. That agitation had been building up especially after word had quickly spread throughout the station that the senior staff of the docked USS Independence-A was to take over most of the station's leadership positions.

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