Lael Rosek/Biography: Difference between revisions

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At age 5, Lael joined her school's Daisy Girl Scout Troop and learned the importance of doing for others. It was also at this age that she first began taking [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_jiu-jitsu jiu-jitsu] lessons to combat bullying at school. Though she was bullied in her younger years because her {{n|Al-Leyan}} heritage, her easy-going and compassionate nature won her many friends. She loved to sing and participated in her school's choir.  

Though Lael had always been keenly aware of her father's absence from her life, it hit hardest around the tender age of 9 when all of her friends were attending Father-Daughter dances and she was the only one who didn't have a father to go with. One particular year at age 11, she tried to talk her mother into contacting her father to see if he'd be willing to go with her. When her mother refused, Lael was disappointed and conceded that she'd ask her Uncle Thomas to take her. <ref>[https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sb118-astraeus/dYjOst5yiQU/S7BIZ9hBAAAJ| Introspection]</ref>

By age 12, Lael's confidence blossomed and she joined her school's Student Leadership Club (SLC). Her passion for active pursuits led her to join her school's cross country team in 6th grade. Her best friend was a boy named Nicholas Swett, who she remained close with throughout elementary and middle school. He was her first kiss at the tender age of seven. She’d dropped her sandwich at lunch wrestling with a boy named Blake Thomas for pulling her hair. She’d cried at first until Nicholas presented her with half of his and she'd pecked him on the lips to thank him.

As is typical for most young children, Lael had a vivid imagination and her play often involved fantastical adventures. One place, in particular, inspired many adventures: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackinac_Island Mackinac Island], north of Muskegon, Michigan. She, her twin brother, and their friends would swim and explore the shores of the little island. On rare occasions, when her mother was planetside, they'd enjoy meals at the Mission Point Resort restaurant. Heaters would be set up on the outside patio to counteract the cold breezes coming in from the lake and the three would enjoy delicious mugs of rich hot chocolate with whipped cream and marshmellows.  

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As she grew older, she sought more adventurous pursuits, chief among them sailing, cliff-diving, water skiing, rock climbing, and swimming in local ponds and lakes. When she wasn't hanging out with friends, she spent summers on her Uncle's farm doing chores and helping to care for the animals. She became skilled at riding horses and participated in several riding competitions as a young teen, winning second place in her first and second competitions and first place in her third competition. She also participated in her town's cattle roping event the year she turned 13. Animals became a passion for her and that same year, Lael joined her school's Future Farmers of Earth (FFE) club. At the Kent County Fair, she was awarded the Division 1 (grades 7-8) Agriscience Fair Award and also took home the second-place award for Outstanding Junior. Outside of her agricultural science interests, she loved sports and joined her school's girls' basketball team as a starting power forward. Her athletic talent helped her lead her team to the State Championships, where they unfortunately lost by three points. Lael was disappointed by the loss but continued to play basketball.

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Lael's mother was determined to train Lael in the feminine arts and when Lael was 15, Adelynn enrolled Lael in finishing school course she herself taught at the local country club. Lael learned social graces, various dancing styles, and how to play the piano. During the course, Lael became friends with a fellow classmate, Molly Dalinton, "who professed to hate it as much as she did". <ref>[https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-chintoka/c/TOD2CJHhcII/m/wCN2mS_LAQAJ Surreal Conversations, Part I]</ref> The two would make faces and mock Adelynn's every move when her back was turned. <!--Lael later attended her debutante ball, a tradition from a  bygone era where young women were presented to society. She attended hers with "the hottest guy in her class" as her date. Her mother bought her a dress that made her look "like a walking marshmallow", but at the last minute, Lael went to the mall and purchased something "more sensible". <ref>[Link A Favor]</ref>-->

She was very active in both sports and clubs in high school. She was well-liked by almost everyone and always looked for ways to help others. She excelled academically and was a member of her school's National Honor Society. She participated in such school sports as Track, Cross Country, Basketball, Competitive Cheer, and Dance.

During her freshman year, she sang in the choir, performing a solo at the final concert that year. As a sophomore and a junior, she was an active member of her school's Athletic Leadership Club (ALC). It was during this time that she acknowledged her attraction to both men and women, becoming a member of the Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA). The summer following her sophomore year, she spent a good deal of time on Lake Huron with then-girlfriend Angie Reed, learning how to sail from Angie's brother, Joel. <ref>[https://groups.google.com/g/sb118-chintoka/c/Wws5ZJRA9is/m/HuzcD_J3AQAJ Anchors Aweigh]</ref>

 

As a senior, she developed a brash streak and used her exceptional intellect and talent in mathematics to hustle billiards games. With a fake ID supplied by her friend Aiden, she entered bars and earned herself a number of enemies. On one occasion, her competition found her out and was threatening bodily harm until the bar owner stepped in. She was elected Class President and nominated for Homecoming Queen and lost by only three votes. She graduated Magna Cum Laude and was chosen as valedictorian of her high school class.

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===='''''Year Two'''''====

During her second year at the Academy, Lael began studying Communications/Operations, Engineering, and Physics. She did well in most of her classes, but the most memorable for her was her Engineering class during her first semester. The instructor for that class preferred teaching through experiences and she enjoyed the challenge immensely. While most in her class complained about his unconventional teaching style, she came to respect him for it. Seeing how the simulations he threw out barely fazed her, he made it a personal mission to come up with a scenario even she couldn't solve. In the end, he wrote a letter of recommendation that secured Lael's place on the {{USS|Victory}} following her graduation. <ref> [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/sb118-chintoka/jVDg9EQdgh8/QgXzqToyBAAJ System Reboot]</ref>

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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.

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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.  

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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>

 

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'''Supplemental Data File: [[Lael_Rosek/USS_Atlantis_Service_Jacket|Atlantis Service Jacket]]'''

 

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