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Ensign '''Kionn Rao''' is an engineering officer aboard the {{USS|Veritas}}.

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While the physical reminders of his time with the Collective are evident for all to see, Kionn buries the traumas associated with being a drone, being disconnected from the Hive Mind and reintegrating into humanoid society quite deeply. He knows he cannot change the past, so he would prefer not to revisit it.

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Much of Kionn's life before his assimilation and subsequent liberation from the Borg Collective is unknown, even to him. His age is an approximation based on cellular aging and the Cube he was on did not contain his original assimilation profile, leaving most of his pre-assimilation biography unknown save for his own name and that he was approximately 5 or 6 when he was assimilated.

Kionn graduated from the Academy but deferred assignment to pursue a Doctorate in Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology. During his time at the Academy he had discovered that while the Borg had left him with advanced information, skills and reasoning, what it considered “essential” knowledge had left gaps in his understanding and he felt he could learn more. Perhaps part of him also loathed to abandon the life he had built for himself on Earth, with friends and now family, hobbies, interests and even a beta fish, but when he received his Doctorate and received his first deep-space assignment on the Veritas, in the remote region of the Shoals, he did not equivocate, and accepted the assignment without hesitation, though it meant leaving his friends, home and fish behind.

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Kionn is more “organic” than most former Drones. While he still has considerable cybernetic implants that regulate many of his vital functions, most have been removed, including his cortical node during his initial de-assimilation, a process that left the other drones recovered alongside him dead. This left him with a case of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and some other minor chemical imbalances in his brain, but is easily managed both through medication and meditation. As a result of being assimilated so young, his skeletal system is at least for now seriously dependant on the Borg clamps to function, giving him slightly increased strength but requiring him to exercise or stretch regularly. Kionn fulfills this need with daily yoga.