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Lieutenant Commander '''Jocelyn "Jo" Marshall''' is a party-hard, mellow and strange [[Human]] currently serving as the '''Executive Officer''' aboard the {{USS|Gorkon}}, the flagship of the [[Tyrellian Defence and Exploration Taskforce]]. The [[USS Gorkon]] is her first posting outside of Starfleet Academy and her Cadet Cruise. Life on the fringes of space between three factions of the Galaxy has not been an easy undertaking, to say the least. Jo has put as much of herself into the ship as possible, which includes, but is not limited to, blood, sweat, tears, and the occasional shared beer smooshed into the Cargo Bay deck plating.

:: Open flannel shirts, jeans, old military style pants, vintage band t-shirts, boots that should be cleaned more often, canvas trainers, jumpers.

:: Vintage black jacket from Earth with United Kingdom patch on the arm. Prized possession.

: '''Voice''': Mainly English accented, though can have Bajoran inflexions on certain words. Voice is quite gravelly. She speaks fluent Bajoran and slips into the language when she feels like it.

|None that she's aware of.

:'''Springball:''' A hangover from her days playing professionally for Bajor, she tries to find new players to practice with or strong-arming her friends into a game.  

:'''Meditation/Yoga:''' When she needs less noise and more centering, she quiets her mind with meditation and yoga.  

:'''Makapa Bread:''' A Bajoran foodstuff usually consumed as a breakfast meal. She can eat this at any time, in any place, with the crust - a childhood belief it would make her terribly straight hair curly. Spread with jumba jam, it's like a slice of toasted heaven.

:'''Small Spaces:''' Jo was involved in a mining collapse during her apprenticeship on Volan III. The roof of the cave came down during an earthquake, burying the young woman under the rock and shattering her shoulder - the result of which was pulling out of professional Springball. She also suffered the fatal curse of the first mission Ensign Panic Attack™, in which [[Ayiana Sevo]] managed to bring her out of before she let herself out of her EVO Suit and became one with open space.

Her parents were deployed as part of Starfleet's ongoing efforts to maintain the demilitarized zone and repair some of the damage that had been caused during the occupation of [[Bajor]]. Many [[Bajoran|Bajorans]] that Jo encountered had first-hand experiences of the war and what it had done to their home and people. Growing up among adults that had seen the end of a war, witnessing many of the problems the Dominion had caused, formed Jo into a well-rounded individual from a young age. Seeing the end of the occupation meant a return to Federation standards of living and the Bajorans cultivated the colony to thrive.  

The interest in engineering she had taken started from a young age, under the influence of her mother and father, both Engineers in Starfleet within specialised fields. Her mother enrolled her in a part-time apprenticeship as she started her middle school years, working for the large mining operation within the mountains. On finishing school for the day, if there wasn't a sports practice, Jo would grab one of the worker shuttle transports to the mines and begin shadowing one of the many mining engineers, usually Bajoran. Within a few months, she had picked up the Bajoran language and could work without the Universal Translator. She was a hard worker, being both focused and driven to find new ways of accomplishing old tasks and new solutions to recurring problems.  

Given her first motorcycle at fifteen, the first thing she did was take it apart to see how it all worked, before putting it back together and going for a spin up the mountain paths. This only fueled her drive to find bigger problems, bigger engineering tasks, which only Starfleet could offer.