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Bryan Andrew MacRae was born in Edinburgh, Earth, to Allison (Neé Leslie) and Duncan MacRae. His father is a retired editor and political correspondent for the Federation News Service and his mother is a museum curator and historian. The couple met when | Bryan Andrew MacRae was born in Edinburgh, Earth, to Allison (Neé Leslie) and Duncan MacRae. His father is a retired editor and political correspondent for the Federation News Service and his mother is a museum curator and historian. The couple met when Allison was researching Cardassian history. He has a younger sister, Iona, who works as a chef in Geneva. | ||
He enjoyed a comfortable upbringing in a small, quiet community on the outskirts of the city. A marginally above average pupil at school, Bryan was quite shy and self-conscious – preferring to just keep himself to himself and let others take the attention. He wasn't particular popular and was bullied into his early teens. Looking back, he believes this is where his talent for discerning people’s true emotions and intentions began to manifest itself as a form of defence. | |||
Despite this he strived to be a good student and was eventually rewarded with good grades in his final exams. He decided that he would like to continue his studies further but wanted to move away from home, partially due to the wanderlust of adolescence and partly to start afresh where he could discover himself away from the people who he grew up with. As this was more important to him than the subject of his study he started looking for degree courses and institutions where he thought he would find this chance. | |||
He eventually chose the Europa Academy of Social Science, based in London, to study psychology. One of the appealing features of the four year course on offer was that it included a one year placement program off-world. Bryan selected, and was approved, to spend a year studying on Betazed as he felt that he would benefit from studying alongside a telepathic race and learning about their approach to the subject. | |||
Following his graduation he applied for, and was accepted, as a post-graduate researcher working at the Assulin Institute in Tel-Aviv in the field of non-verbal communication. During this period of study he was able to expand his knowledge of body language, voice stress analysis and microexpressions and was occasionally called upon, typically by private corporations or media organizations, to assess news footage or observe/conduct interviews to assess subjects for signs of deception. He hoped that this blend of academia and commercial work would help him find avenues into further work in the field. | |||
A defining moment in his work was | |||
It was during his time at the institute, while writing up the last part of his dissertation, he was contacted by a recruitment agent from Starfleet Intelligence with an offer to join the academy and begin training as an intelligence officer. Having enjoyed his work over the last two years and feeling this might finally be a chance to do something more constructive with his future – he accepted. | |||
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===Allison MacRae=== | ===Allison MacRae=== | ||
'''Mother - (B: 233110.11) (Age: {{age|2331|10|11}})''' - | '''Mother - (B: 233110.11) (Age: {{age|2331|10|11}})''' - Allison MacRae (Neé Leslie) is a historian and museum curator at the Caledonia Museum Of Cultural History. Born in a small agricultural community she was raised in a fiercely patriotic home environment, brought up to believe that the Federation was an infallible institution that always put the needs of citizens first. During her teenage years, what Allison refers to as her 'anarchist phase' she began to question what made the Federation so special? Much to her parents disgust she began to look into the past of the Federation - trying to find proof that it couldn't be beyond question or reproach. She found her evidence in the form of the Khitomer Conspiracy. The details were somewhat unclear but what was obvious (at least to her) was that if institutions were organized and controlled by people, and people were capable of anything to further their own goals, then it wasn't possible to trust them implicitly. While the tensions with her parents did subside she had found that she had enjoyed her research and study and elected to take it further and study history. | ||
She found it fascinating - all of the different aspects of state, religion, politics all moving together to form a complete picture of a nation and his people. Following her graduation she began working in academia. She started studying periods of earth history but she eventually found herself drawn to other species throughout the galaxy, particularly those that were just emerging onto the galactic stage. It was while she was looking into the history of Cardassia, and the influence of State on cultural development, that she met her husband to be. | |||
She and Duncan currently reside in a comfortable but modest home on the east coast in the shadow of Arthur’s Seat, an iconic natural landmark just to the south of Edinburgh. | |||
===Iona Louise MacRae=== | ===Iona Louise MacRae=== | ||