Lt. Ezete Sh'kaal, Starfleet Officer (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RBlAE6kWm52GfbhiRDC51BdZGaPxMprt/view?usp=sharing)<br/><br/><strong>Description:</strong>Ezete Sh'kaal is tall by human standards, as most Andorian women are, at 1.8m (6') tall and has a sleek body that she has conditioned with long hours of training but retains a shapely form.  Her skin is sky blue and her hair a grayish white, cut into a bob style haircut to keep it out of the of Engineering work and now simply as habit.  Her eyes are a pale gray, her face pretty with clean features and plush lips.  She keeps her body trimmed clean of any hair save for what is on her head and has no tattoos but she does have a circle of very small scars above her hairline on the top of her head.  These cannot be seen but would be detected by scan or felt by anyone running their hands over her head.<br/><br/>On duty she wears her uniform, of course, and on her off duty hours, she tends to dress casually and shows a good bit of skin due to Andorians having not much in the way of a nudity taboo.  In her quarters, she goes nude if possible but if she shares quarters, she will wear enough to make her roommate feel comfortable.<br/><br/><br/><strong>Background:</strong>Ezete Sh'kaal was raised on Andoria, one of five children raised by her four parents.  Unusually, the quad formed by her parents not only included a male and female Andorian but also a male and female Human, her parents having met while in service to Starfleet.  Growing up, Ezete was strong, quick on her feet, and had a sharp, agile mind.  She, along with two of her other siblings, joined Starfleet when the time came.  Rather than simply enlist, Ezete went to Starfleet Academy and showed the potential to have a bright future; studying Engineering as well as Security, deciding to be a "complete Operations officer," in her own words.  She also enjoyed going out with friends, mingling freely with her fellow classmates and those among the general population of San Francisco.<br/><br/>She performed well on her cadet cruise and on her first tour of duty, her daring and brilliant Engineering often serving to help carry the day for her ship, the<em>USS Bohr.</em>She was quickly promoted up to Lieutenant and her Department Head was confident she would be Chief Engineer on a starship by the time she was thirty.<br/><br/>That all changed when the<em>Bohr</em>investigated strange energy signals coming from the planet Gnostic VI.  The energy was discovered to come from ruins across the planet's surface that showed it had once been home to an advanced, pre-warp species.  In addition, there was evidence of wreckage from older starships from unknown species as well.  Ezete was put on an Away Team to help investigate the ruins, under the command of the<em>Bohr</em>'s 1st Officer, the Edosian Lt. Commander Ilos.  While exploring, Ezete discovered that the energy signature was coming from a strange array that seemed to be cobbled together from technology not only of the native species but also that of more recent technology that could only have come from starships.  As the Away Team investigated the array, they were attacked by a pack of strange, savage animals that acted with surprising intelligence and cunning.  Lt. Commander Ilos was able to escape but the rest of the Away Team were captured.  The creatures then bound them and began to feed, drilling thin tendrils into their skulls.  Ezete remembers no more until she awoke in Sickbay.<br/><br/>The Captain and 1st Officer had led a daring rescue attempt and discovered the truth of the planet in the process.  Tragically, Ezete was the only one of the Away Team to be found alive.  The creatures had been a genetic experiment in thought control by the species that lived on Gnosis IV, creating a genetically modified organism that fed on the intelligence of sentient species.  Something had happened that allowed them to run wild and destroy the civilization that created them.  Starved for food, they had almost died out when a starship of scavengers came to the planet, found the ruins, and decided to harvest them for anything they could sell.  The scavengers were caught and fed upon, their ship crashing into the planet as the last member of its' crew sent out a distress signal while under attack from one of the creatures they had brought on board.  That distress signal brought another ship and the cycle repeated.  The creatures, dubbed "Thought Eaters" by the<em>Bohr</em>'s Science Officer, were not sentient but were intelligent enough to figure out that signals sent up into the sky brought food, so they cobbled together the array to dray ships in.  The array was now destroyed.  Captain Erica Tyler, having made the determination that the Thought Eaters represented a threat to sentient life on a potentially galactic scale, invoked General Order 24 and<em>Bohr</em>used its' weapons to thoroughly destroy the ruins and any sign of life on the planet.  Thus, the adventure ended and the<em>Bohr</em>went on in its' survey duty.<br/><br/>But it wasn't over for Ezete.  The Thought Eater had done significant damage to her body and to her mind.  Where she was once strong, she was now weak.  Where she was once bright and brilliant, she was now slow and dim.  She still had all of her knowledge but her ability to think and apply it was damaged.  She could do tasks by rote easily enough but anything requiring higher thinking was incredibly difficult.  She was simply less than she had been.  Though she did therapy during her time in Sickbay and after, there was only minor improvement.  It soon became clear that she could no longer serve in her current position, and Captain Tyler had her quietly transferred to<em>USS Warrior</em>not in Engineering, but as Security.<br/><br/>There are no ship's counselors at this time, so Ezete's deep depression has largely gone unnoticed and is just assumed to be standard Andorian reserve and stiffness.  She is no longer the happy and outgoing young woman she once was, but withdrawn and stoic.  She has cut off all communication with people she used to know, friends and family alike, ashamed at her new limitations.  Her awards and pictures are all in a box in her quarters and more than once she has considered destroying them.  She does not socialize with her crewmates, eating and training alone as much as possible.  Ezete performs her duties to the best of her abilities but has shown a remarked penchant for recklessness in combat situations.  So far this has been taken just as her being overly brave rather than the death wish that it actually is.  She knows that she will never be promoted again; her career is essentially over.  She simply isn't capable of more.  She knows it and she hates herself for becoming this way.<br/><br/><br/><strong>Reference Pics</strong><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Taken on her cadet cruise in the old uniform</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://images-wixmp-ed30a86b8c4ca887773594c2.wixmp.com/f/960dae42-3dc3-465a-a2ac-8a3888cd78ce/ddeeq32-da38af30-d797-43ee-a37e-ba3cb94fddfc.jpg?token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOiJ1cm46YXBwOiIsImlzcyI6InVybjphcHA6Iiwib2JqIjpbW3sicGF0aCI6IlwvZlwvOTYwZGFlNDItM2RjMy00NjVhLWEyYWMtOGEzODg4Y2Q3OGNlXC9kZGVlcTMyLWRhMzhhZjMwLWQ3OTctNDNlZS1hMzdlLWJhM2NiOTRmZGRmYy5qcGcifV1dLCJhdWQiOlsidXJuOnNlcnZpY2U6ZmlsZS5kb3dubG9hZCJdfQ.VDag00GxUt8SYHe3c1-9n4bjdeF4Dpy3Ltbg5Wlz-xk)</div></div><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Dressed up for a date before the incident</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://bw-1651cf0d2f737d7adeab84d339dbabd3-gallery.s3.amazonaws.com/images/image_1648565/b0359054bf172d618230012cd6ef5c12_large.jpg)</div></div><br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">With friends in her Academy days</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://66.media.tumblr.com/741b20f29b287b9f446061f87b62bf5b/tumblr_inline_pid4ngF4W81s2i9s9_500.jpg)</div></div><br/>