Lael Rosek/Biography: Difference between revisions

Following the ''Tharsis'' mission, the crew was prepared for the awards dinner, a masquerade theme set on Astrofori One's Holodeck 666 in a creepy Victorian mansion. But they soon found themselves in the midst of a very real murder mystery when the body of the deceased Cardassian envoy, Kotan Jara, was discovered in the library and attempts to shut down the program led them to realize they were trapped in the simulation. They began their search for clues and the culprit, leading them to a creepy basement with remnants of what they suspected to be blood. Lael and [[Jansen Orrey|Jansen]] were then separated from the group when [[Jansen Orrey|Jansen]] accidentally triggered a trap door. They tumbled down into an underground labyrinth and searching for a way back to their team. As they went, they found evidence that someone had been living there and that the holodeck systems were failing. At last, they escaped and rejoined their team only to find that Commander [[Walter Brunsig|Walter Brunsig]] had been shot by a bullet meant for Captain [[Quinn Reynolds|Reynolds]]. When they moved him back to the mansion, they found Commander [[Alucard Vess|Vess]] wounded as well. Once they had successfully found a way to deactivate the program, both men were beamed to Sickbay for further treatment.  

After the mission, while being treated in Sickbay, Lael asked after [[Walter Brunsig|Brunsig]]. Once she was cleared, she returned to her quarters to catch up with her friends and her brother. In pain and scared, Lael finally confessed to [[Jansen Orrey|Jansen]] the complications with her spinal injury and he offered his help. The day after, they went on their first date on the holodeck.

With shoreleaave over, it was back to work. What started as a standard mission scanning a nebula soon turned disastrous as some unusual readings led to them being pulled into an alternate universe ruled by the Dominion where the Federation didn't exist and its former officers were hunted by Dominion solders and loyalists. They spent months on the run, keeping a low profile as they repaired the damaged Gorkon and returned to their own universe. They were led by a man named Connor Lucas to a group of Romulans who offered the parts they needed in exchange for the rescue of a Romulan crew taken prisoner by [[Erik Jansen|Erik Jansen]], [[Alucard Vess|Vess]]'s evil alternate universe counterpart. The team managed to lie their way aboard [[DSX|Deep Space Ten]] where the prisoners were being held and they split into two groups to locate the prisoners. Once their mission had been completed, they returned to the ''Gorkon'' aboard Lucas's shuttle, but Lael was injured in the process, the intense pain of her spinal injury, exacerbated by a collision with a bulkhead, had caused her to pass out. She was taken to the ''Gorkon'''s sickbay for treatment.

Shortly after her spinal replacement surgery, Lael followed her transfer orders with her friends [[Dassa Alexander|Dassa]] and [[Chythar Skyfire|Chythar]] to the {{USS|Za}} where [[Alex Blair|Alex]] was already waiting. Not long after her arrival, she reported for her first duty shift on the bridge where she was a part of the first contact with a bear-like race called the [[Hocktin]]. Lael was assigned to [[Alex Blair|Alex]]'s team to help with setting up a ship to ship network to exchange information. However, the mission quickly went sour when a crewmember was bitten by a flea-like creature and was exposed to a deadly virus.  

To make matters worse, Lael and [[Alex Blair|Alex]] were bitten while aboard the [[Hocktin]] vessel, and Captain [[Keelah Rhani|Rhani]] her team were taken hostage by a militaristic faction. The situation was further exacerbated when [[Hocktin]] scientist Professor Mindor beamed aboard without following proper quarantine procedures and exposed the whole ship to the virus. Lael and [[Alex Blair|Alex]] learned that the Captain had been taken and had to they fight against time to get a blood sample from the immune [[Hocktin]] to save the crew and locate the Captain before the disease reached its final stage. The energy they expended in their efforts took a severe toll on them both and they barely returned to the ''Za'' in time to receive the cure the Medical team had synthesized.  

After Captain [[Mei'konda]]'s promotion ceremony, the crew settled into a new routine aboard their new ship, the {{USS|Astraeus}}. The vessel began its maiden voyage on stardate 239607.02, launching from the station in orbit of Cait. <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sb118-astraeus/y7ZAbx18gYc/5bogg-uRCgAJ| Almost Unbearable Excitement]</ref> Their first mission serving on the new vessel began with a request from the Bajoran government. The ''Astraeus'' crew was provided a list of names whom the Bajoran government claimed had been missing since the Occupation of Bajor. The Bajoran government asserted that these individuals had been taken and had not been returned to their homes following the war. The ''Astraeus'' crew would be part of the investigation and the talks in seeing these individuals returned. As part of their arrival at Deep Space Nine in orbit of Bajor, they'd be taking on new personnel and during the briefing, Captain [[Mei'konda]] tasked her with seeing to the crew transfers. <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sb118-astraeus/TIY9E59bo-k/-rlSZnKsCwAJ| The Proof Is In The Records, Part I]</ref>

When they arrived in orbit of Bajor, they discovered a mysterious buoy containing numerous Cardassian records that they hadn't detected before arriving in the system. Some of the senior staff had their suspicions regarding its origin, but Captain [[Mei'konda]] had it beamed aboard for careful examination by the Engineering, Science, and Security departments. Meanwhile, Lael along with Captain [[Mei'konda]] and Lieutenant [[Riley Delar]], the ''Astraeus''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s mission specialist were to meet up with Bajoran minister Dalen Martov. <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sb118-astraeus/uNXVVPi2Lps/z2r2GPRpDgAJ| No Way We Got That Lucky]</ref>

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Despite the sudden loss of her captain, a man she had come to highly respect, Lael was pleased to again be working with Captain [[Mei'konda|Mei'konda]]. Following its launch, the Chin'toka was ordered to resume the Atlantis's previous edict to explore the Par'tha Expanse. {{Frame|Rosek_LtCmdrRedBkgd.png|150px|CAPTION='''Lael aboard the {{USS|Chin'toka}} (2398).'''|FLOAT=right}}The crew of the Chin'toka was invited to a diplomatic dinner in their honor by Valcarian Grand Admiral Lorrein Dels’an. However, upon their arrival, they discover that the Grand Admiral had an ulterior motive. Dels'an had reason to believe the life of her newly appointed aide, [[Dehan Strin]], was in danger and she wanted the crew's assistance in protecting him as well as to help prevent a civil war. While the away teams worked on the surface, Lael remained aboard with Lieutenant Commander [[Serala]] and Ensign [[Varik Tal'Aura]] to keep an eye on the situation from orbit. The ship was later attacked by a Valcarian cruiser and was forced to defend itself. They are able to successfully disable their attacker with the Chin'toka sustaining only minimal damage. Having thwarted the assassination attempt on the Grand Admiral's life, the away teams returned to the ship and left Dels'an to deal with the fallout as she saw fit.