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*Full Name: Ash Tristan MacKenna | *Full Name: Ash Tristan MacKenna | ||
*Race: Human | *Race: Human | ||
*DoB: | *DoB: 237012.29 | ||
*Gender: Female | *Gender: Female | ||
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*Mother: Marian Crawford-MacKenna (Farmer, Storyteller, Archeologist) | *Mother: Marian Crawford-MacKenna (Farmer, Storyteller, Archeologist) | ||
*Siblings: N/A | *Siblings: N/A | ||
*Significant Other: [[Randal Shayne]] | |||
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*Height: 5'5" | *Height: 5'5" | ||
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*Hair: Red | *Hair: Red | ||
*Eyes: Green | *Eyes: Green | ||
*Skin: Fair | *Skin: Fair/Pale | ||
*Build: Slender | *Build: Slender | ||
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Ash was born in a small town in Scotland. Of traceable Scottish decent, she grew up following the stories and traditions of the older days. She has no siblings, and was able to lead a quiet life in the highlands of the area where few people still live. The relics of broken and derelict monuments and castles were her playgrounds, and she spent lots of time on her father's farm. Ash is well versed in how to handle a variety of animals, plants, and has an uncanny interest in the weather and geological phenomenon of long ago. When she was old enough, she enlisted in Starfleet in order to expand her knowledge and provide a route for her endless seeking of knowledge. | Ash was born in a small town in Scotland. Of traceable Scottish decent, she grew up following the stories and traditions of the older days. She has no siblings, and was able to lead a quiet life in the highlands of the area where few people still live. The relics of broken and derelict monuments and castles were her playgrounds, and she spent lots of time on her father's farm. Ash is well versed in how to handle a variety of animals, plants, and has an uncanny interest in the weather and geological phenomenon of long ago. When she was old enough, she enlisted in Starfleet in order to expand her knowledge and provide a route for her endless seeking of knowledge. | ||
Ash is extremely shy and does not like to be around people. While some of this is just being unable to connect socially, some of it stems from the | Ash is extremely shy and does not like to be around people. While some of this is just being unable to connect socially on account of inherent neurodivergence, some of it stems from her semi isolation as a child. She did not fit in well with the social structure at the Academy and found herself at the cruel end of her peer's jokes, with many of them jealous of her grades, and because she was given a provisional commission, they told her that she would soon fail. Taking this knowledge with her into her first assignment aboard the Resolution, she is always wondering if she has messed up. No matter what she does, she over worries about doing it right, and when it looks like she didn't or that her idea or theory was not good enough, she panics. | ||
Most people see Ash as extremely nervous, and she has been known to literally run away from social situations. She will hide in corners if forced to attend social functions, and her favorite place to be is a small, out of the way corner of the Astrophysics Lab. If you were to watch her work, you would see her do multiple things at one time, generally having one screen full of code relating to a visual representation which is on another screen. Watching code, and understanding it, calms her down and helps her forget the social interactions she is forced to have. She will generally carry a PADD around for the same reason, as a way to cope with situations where she would love to run away, but cannot for one reason or another. | Most people see Ash as extremely nervous, and she has been known to literally run away from social situations. She will hide in corners if forced to attend social functions, and her favorite place to be is a small, out of the way corner of the Astrophysics Lab. If you were to watch her work, you would see her do multiple things at one time, generally having one screen full of code relating to a visual representation which is on another screen. Watching code, and understanding it, calms her down and helps her forget the social interactions she is forced to have. She will generally carry a PADD around for the same reason, as a way to cope with situations where she would love to run away, but cannot for one reason or another. | ||
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==='''Undercover Coincidences'''=== | ==='''Undercover Coincidences'''=== | ||
Ash's assignment aboard the Columbia is cut dramatically short as she gets word that a freak accident at home claimed the lives of her mother, father, and beloved horse. Returning home, she deals, or doesn't deal rather, with the fallout of the loss. Without friends, and now without family, she all but gives up. It was Starfleet that finds her, having invoked counseling trauma protocols in the wake of her leave, and who brings her back to the nearest installation for recovery. Not long after she's back on her feet on the outside at least, she is offered the opportunity to transfer to the Intelligence division. Without much drive or joy in the things she used to love, she took Starfleet up on the offer and was subsequently shipped out to Karek Tor undercover to learn what could be learned about a zealot religious faction that potentially endangered the entire region. | Ash's assignment aboard the Columbia is cut dramatically short as she gets word that a freak accident at home [[MacKenna How She Came to Be|claimed the lives of her mother, father, and beloved horse]]. Returning home, she deals, or doesn't deal rather, with the fallout of the loss. Without friends, and now without family, she all but gives up. It was Starfleet that finds her, having invoked counseling trauma protocols in the wake of her leave, and who brings her back to the nearest installation for recovery. Not long after she's back on her feet on the outside at least, she is offered the opportunity to transfer to the Intelligence division. Without much drive or joy in the things she used to love, she took Starfleet up on the offer and was subsequently shipped out to Karek Tor undercover to learn what could be learned about a zealot religious faction that potentially endangered the entire region. | ||
It was aboard the station that she runs into an away team from the USS Eagle led by the one man she missed in her life, Randal Shayne. | It was aboard the station that she runs into an away team from the USS Eagle led by the one man she missed in her life, Randal Shayne. | ||
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The station is ultimately destroyed and Ash returns to the Eagle with the away team and is soon after assigned to the ship. Slowly, her connection with Shayne is confirmed - he had never left her despite her grief. She didn't share any of it with him either, not wanting to burden him in his new role as First Officer. Instead, she graciously accepts his invitation to move into his quarters and starts slowly putting her internal emotions back together again. | The station is ultimately destroyed and Ash returns to the Eagle with the away team and is soon after assigned to the ship. Slowly, her connection with Shayne is confirmed - he had never left her despite her grief. She didn't share any of it with him either, not wanting to burden him in his new role as First Officer. Instead, she graciously accepts his invitation to move into his quarters and starts slowly putting her internal emotions back together again. | ||
{{ | ==='''Abnormal Normality'''=== | ||
With nothing but her connection with Shayne left in the universe, Ash threw herself into her work often taking on assignments that sent her across the galaxy and out of contact for long spans of time. She found that she was not only good at things like that, but also that it allowed her to be solitary and out of crowds, which she liked. Her base of operations became the USS Resolution, housed in the Borderlands, and Deep Space 224, which she returned to between missions and served on as a Science/Intelligence liaison officer. | |||
Most of the information regarding her missions outside of the Resolution have been redacted to all but those with the highest levels of clearance. | |||
==='''The First Day of the Rest of Her Life'''=== | |||
Granted an extended leave, Ash takes time to meet up with her longtime boyfriend in person in the living park on Deep Space 3 not realizing that it would be the trip to define the rest of her life. The two had remained true to each other despite the distance between them, but given the chance, the pull became too great. In the soaked artificial moonlight of the park, [[MacKenna The First Day of The Rest of Their Lives|Ash asked Shayne to marry her]], and with a simple command he wisked her back to his quarters to reveal that he had already aquired rings. With the proposal, a [[MacKenna (Shayne) Turnabout In-Rude-er|transfer was granted]] and Ash became a permanent member of the Arrow crew. | |||
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Educated at home until she left to join Starfleet. Very high grades in sciences and mathematics, but falters in just about any other area. | Educated at home until she left to join Starfleet. Very high grades in sciences and mathematics, but falters in just about any other area. | ||
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Ash keeps to herself, and transfers all of her efforts into her studies. As a result, she excelled in the Academy and far outdistanced her classmates. Because she was so far ahead of them academically, she was offered a provisional commission aboard the USS Resolution, a science vessel that had just been commissioned. | Ash keeps to herself, and transfers all of her efforts into her studies. As a result, she excelled in the Academy and far outdistanced her classmates. Because she was so far ahead of them academically, she was offered a provisional commission aboard the USS Resolution, a science vessel that had just been commissioned. | ||
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Ash's parents are both archaeologists that have been dispatched throughout the galaxy to study various civilizations. When Ash was born, they decided to settle on Earth in the land of their forefathers in order to share their love of history and the traditions of the human race. Since she joined Starfleet, they have returned to their old occupation on a limited basis. They still have the farm, however, which is always taken care of even if they are off world working. | Ash's parents are both archaeologists that have been dispatched throughout the galaxy to study various civilizations. When Ash was born, they decided to settle on Earth in the land of their forefathers in order to share their love of history and the traditions of the human race. Since she joined Starfleet, they have returned to their old occupation on a limited basis. They still have the farm, however, which is always taken care of even if they are off world working. | ||
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'''[[Kora, Makal|Makal Kora]]''' - The Chief Science Officer aboard Ash's first assignment, the [[USS Resolution]]. Provided feedback and support, helping Ash grip the new role as a Starfleet officer. | '''[[Kora, Makal|Makal Kora]]''' - The Chief Science Officer aboard Ash's first assignment, the [[USS Resolution]]. Provided feedback and support, helping Ash grip the new role as a Starfleet officer. | ||
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'''[[Shayne, Randal|Randal Shayne]]''' - Serendipity at its finest. Ash met Shayne by chance at the awards banquet following her assignment to the ATF/Columbia. He seemed to pick up on her extreme discomfort and moved to protect her from the cause despite its normality. They were true kindred souls, seemingly 'on the same page' and in tune with each other. It didn't take long for her to fall completely for him even with her normal reservations and inability to share her feelings. [[MacKenna Goodbye is not Goodbye|His transfer to another ship crushed her]], but they continue to try to connect despite the distance between them. | '''[[Shayne, Randal|Randal Shayne]]''' - Serendipity at its finest. Ash met Shayne by chance at the awards banquet following her assignment to the ATF/Columbia. He seemed to pick up on her extreme discomfort and moved to protect her from the cause despite its normality. They were true kindred souls, seemingly 'on the same page' and in tune with each other. It didn't take long for her to fall completely for him even with her normal reservations and inability to share her feelings. [[MacKenna Goodbye is not Goodbye|His transfer to another ship crushed her]], but they continue to try to connect despite the distance between them. | ||
True to their serendipitous nature, the two run into each other once more aboard Karek Tor, an abandoned Cardassian station on which Ash was serving undercover to collect Intel on a rouge faction of religious zealots SFI believed to be an up and coming threat to Starfleet. Following the demise of the station, she requests and is granted assignment aboard the Eagle. | True to their serendipitous nature, the two run into each other once more aboard Karek Tor, an abandoned Cardassian station on which Ash was serving undercover to collect Intel on a rouge faction of religious zealots SFI believed to be an up and coming threat to Starfleet. Following the demise of the station, she requests and is granted assignment aboard the Eagle. Not long after moving in together, she is sent out on further missions for SFI, but the two continue to work at as normal of a relationship as possible. He becomes the one stable aspect of her life, and the one thing she can count on even as he moves into his own command aboard the Arrow. | ||
Following a time of trials and time apart, during which both fought to keep in touch as much as possible, they finally met in person on DS3. The spontaneous asking of Ash to go with Shayne led to her asking him to marry her and a few favors called in later, Ash was officially transferred to the Arrow to serve as the Chief Intel officer, but also to plan a wedding and build a home. After spending years in the black collar, she finds these tasks her most fulfilling - and challenging - yet. | |||
'''[[Ezo, Mirra|Mirra Ezo]]''' - As the leader of the away team and the maker of the hypospray bomb that took her artificial hand, Mirra seems to feel at fault for Ash losing her hand. The result of that, plus their shared loss in the wake of multiple transfers off the ship, lead to a kind of connection that promises to grow into friendship. | '''[[Ezo, Mirra|Mirra Ezo]]''' - As the leader of the away team and the maker of the hypospray bomb that took her artificial hand, Mirra seems to feel at fault for Ash losing her hand. The result of that, plus their shared loss in the wake of multiple transfers off the ship, lead to a kind of connection that promises to grow into friendship. Unfortunately, Mirra goes MIA and Ash has been unable to uncover any information regarding her whereabouts. | ||
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*237911.02 - Accepted into Starfleet Academy | *237911.02 - Accepted into Starfleet Academy | ||
*238605.26 - Assigned to [[USS Resolution]] as a provisional ensign due to extremely high aptitude for science. | *238605.26 - Assigned to [[USS Resolution]] as a provisional ensign due to extremely high aptitude for science. | ||
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*239602.22 - Reassigned, Starfleet Intelligence (Field Operative) | *239602.22 - Reassigned, Starfleet Intelligence (Field Operative) | ||
*239610.05 - Reassigned, [[USS Eagle]], Intel Officer | *239610.05 - Reassigned, [[USS Eagle]], Intel Officer | ||
*239705.10 - Reassigned, Starfleet Intelligence (Field Operative) | |||
*239808.01 - Reassigned, [[USS Arrow]], Chief Intelligence Officer, SFI Liaison | |||
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