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|UserName = Gnai

|Rank = Ensign

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|BirthYear = 2374

|BirthPlace = Anan City, Galador 2

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'''Ensign Gnai''' ([http://ipa-reader.xyz/ /ɡnaɪː/]) is a [[Galadoran]] currently serving as a '''Science Officer''' aboard the {{USS|Artemis-A}}.

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* '''Height (outside of suit)''': Indeterminate blob

* '''Height (inside suit)''': 5'0" / 153 cm

* '''Voice (suit)''': Mechanical and monotonous, from speakers

* '''Voice (projected)''': Quiet and soft

Gnai budded off of another Gnaijan Galadoran, like every one of its identical peers, in the clonal domed city of Anan on the northern continent of Galador 2. As a young Galadoran, it had spent time floating about with peers, fascinated by everything that it came upon. It sought out a mentorship with an older Galadoran, an engineer by trade and amateur scientist, and focused its energy more into understanding the universe around it. This Galadoran, who had also gone by the name Gnai when outside the hive city and amongst humanoids, had told it stories of the wider universe, flashing wonder and excitement that Gnai mirrored in its own tendrils.

At the Academy, Gnai studied primarily in the sciences, specializing in astronomy, what had fascinated it initially as a youth. It also obtained a secondary major, specializing in nanotechnology, after its mentor. Sure, it had the same dreams as a lot of Galadorans had, of ever more efficient sources of energy, but it was also practical. Having a better understanding of engineering would mean that it could update and upkeep its suit far better.

Fresh out of the Academy, the newly minted Ensign Gnai was assigned to the {{USS|Artemis-A}}... but instead of ending up on the ship, it soon found itself trapped on {{ma|Romulus}} with the rest of the main Science staff of the ship (Commander [[Genkos Adea]], Lieutenant [[Jovenan]], and Lieutenant JG. [[Gila Sadar]]), abandoned there by the ever-chaotic CloQ <ref>{{Logo|USS Artemis-A|30}}[https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-artemis/c/rb7Uoe7iIoI/m/WzioDovTAAAJ?pli=1 A Very Warm Welcome], Ens. Gnai, {{USS|Artemis-A}}, 240102.28</ref>. One final wrench in its plans of a normal first assignment - they were trapped on Romulus in {{ma|2374}}. Unbeknownst to them, Captain {{ma|Benjamin Sisko}} and {{ma|Garak}}'s plot for dragging the [[Romulan Star Empire]] into the [[Dominion War]] had somehow failed to go off. All that they knew was that Senator {{ma|Vreenak}} was still unassassinated, and headed back to the {{ma|Hall of State}}, the building that housed the {{ma|Romulan Senate}}. For the Romulans to join the Dominion War, the team assumed that he would have to die <ref>{{Logo|USS Artemis-A|30}}[https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-artemis/c/fektuDMZnF8/m/fexpAVZNCAAJ Through the Window into the Wonderland], Lt. Jovenan, {{USS|Artemis-A}}, 240102.20</ref>.

The guards restrained the officers, dragging them away for an unclear 'further processing', into the drab and monotonous interior of the prison. When they finally stopped, the jailer informed them that they were being charged with "High Crimes against the Dominion" - terrorism and conspiracy - which would be punished with hard labor. Gnai was worried, immensely so, that it was being charged for its connection to the assassination of the Romulan Senator in 2374... somehow <ref>{{Logo|USS Artemis-A|30}}[https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-artemis/c/j6lVbA5pI6Y/m/ZN43KHwKBQAJ It's Treason Then], Ens. Gnai, {{USS|Artemis-A}}, 240103.23</ref>. After further inquiry - followed then by a sharp blow to Ens. Savel's gut - the jailer revealed to the team that their crime was attempting a coup d'état on a Dominion-controlled colony. And that Starfleet and the Federation had declared such an act to be unsanctioned. Gnai instantly began to worry for real now about the assassination and the consequences that it might face for such an act, pontificating on it while they were escorted from the processing to their cells. Locked away next to Lt. Cmdr. Salkath and across from Cpt. MacKenzie and Ens. Savel, Gnai's worries only grew as it realized the magnitude of what they had all done prior to arriving at the prison. It didn't help that the other prisoners of the cell block they were in were vocally displeased about their chatter <ref>{{Logo|USS Artemis-A|30}}[https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-artemis/c/GR9PZNl6BLc Actually Captain, It's Called A Prison], Ens. Gnai, {{USS|Artemis-A}}, 240103.25</ref>.

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| style="width: 60%;" | Back on Galador II, Gnai was apprenticed to another Galadoran, an aging engineer who had once traveled the stars. It was awestruck with the stories that its mentor - named Gnai - told it, and eventually ended up taking on its name when it left Galador II to join Starfleet. The design of Gnai's suit was a joint effort between mentor and apprentice, based on the suit that Gnai had worn when it had traveled the galaxy.

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