<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=329941.msg15759876#msg15759876">Quote from: GloomCookie on 19-02-2021, 06:21:31</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">PC Betazeds are empaths only. Other Betazeds can be telepathic.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Okay :)<br/><br/>Adjustment to Nissillia's history to explain how she lost her telepathic ability:<br/><br/>General Background:<br/>Nissillia is from a frontier colony established by the Betazoids.  Unfortunately, a plague nearly wiped out the colony and Nissillia lost her family at the age of 5 and put into an orphanage.  The plague also damaged her telepathic abilities, so she is only Empathic.  She did the research and came to the conclusion that the only way she was going to  make a better life for herself was to join Starfleet Academy, she studied hard and got into Starfleet Academy.<br/><br/>Psychological Profile:<br/>Like most Betazoids, she is very calm, quiet and amicable individual.  She is always willing to lend a hand to someone in need.  At times she pushes herself to hard to prove that she belongs in Starfleet, probably a side effect of being an orphan and having to earn her way through hard work.  When she gets focused on interesting research, she will forget to eat and overall barely eats enough.  Her early years were filled with instability, so she seeks stability in her life.  Unlike most Betazoids, she is an atheist, truth is her religion.  Because of her lost of telepathic ability, she has a tendency to feel like a cripple when around other Betazoids, being around non-betazoids allows her to push that feeling aside.  She prefers to not talk about what happened to her in her past.