Amelia Esperenz
Age: 1500+
RACE: Founder
GENDER: Female
BIRTHPLACE:
HEIGHT: 169cm
WEIGHT: 97kg
HAIR: Bleach Blonde
Eye Color: Sea Blue
TEMPERAMENT: Fair, but passionate in her views
ASSIGNMENT: USS Providence
DESIGNATION: Chief Medical Officer
PARENTS: Sereal – authorised her segregation
SIBLINGS: Too numerous to count.
SPOUSE: None
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
Amelia is a Founder – Need I say more?
PERSONALITY CHARACTERISTICS
Amelia is passionate about her beliefs, and will stand by them regardless of the cost to herself. She believes that life is the priority, and peace is the ultimate objective. She has watched her people rule the Dominion with an iron fist for over fifteen hundred years, and although she has had more than her fair share of power, it doesn’t mean as much to her as it does to her fellow Founders. She proved this during the war, when she was sent to Earth to wipe out the human race, and instead joined Starfleet medical and became a doctor.
EDUCATION
Amelia has had two educations – one with the Founders and one with the Federation. One to take life, the other to give it and appreciate it. Although the Founders’ education was very thorough within the link, it was her education with the Federation that she could put down as specific steps of achievements.
Thanks to her prior knowledge and experience with torture and death, she was able to gain the highest marks ever recorded on StarFleet Medical exams. Because her own people have always known where she was, they always pulled out (leaving behind wounded survivors) of planets that she was expected to arrive on. (When it wasn’t critical to their operations, of course). Because of this, she was in charge of a number of search and rescue missions and given the field commission of lieutenant.
After the Alpha/Delta war she was promoted to Lieutenant Commander and given her own medical team on board the Providence.
INTERESTS
Amelia has a strong affection for classical music, and spends a great deal of her spare time playing a variety of different musical instruments. She also enjoys her work, and will often be found sifting through manuals of alternative medicines from various worlds, making a mental note of cross-referencing them with other races in ways which the Federation has yet to conceive.
HISTORY
Amelia has had two educations – one with the Founders and one with the Federation. The one with the Founders began soon after her creation – where she was given the embodiment of the Great Link’s knowledge as far as the physical make ups of the solids within the Dominion were concerned. They then informed her that she was to be the first line of defence, sometimes even ahead of the Jem-H’dar.
If there were a particular species of solids that were causing trouble, it was her job to eliminate that problem – completely. By poison, radiation, plague, whatever it took to end the existence of the troublesome species of solids.
But she never felt comfortable in this role, and many times she tried to escape her fate and the Jem-H’dar who were ordered by Sereal to act as her bodyguard. Once, with the assistance of the ape like Vorta, she almost succeeded. But three weeks later Sereal arrived and made a very loud announcement that if she didn’t come out of hiding she would send the Jem H’dar in to lay waste to the world that she was hiding on, killing everything except her. Amelia surrendered and returned to the Great Link, for further ‘training’.
Everything they shared with her, was in some way related to the position they had chosen for her. Even the smallest detail about a rumoured race was given to her, so that she could learn how best to wipe out everything ranging from an individual to an entire planet.
Within the Dominion, she fulfilled their requirements. The beings she was sent to eliminate lived in fear of the Dominion and they almost welcomed their execution. But when she was sent through the wormhole to destroy any solids that might be considered a threat to the Dominion, she finally encountered multiple races of solids that enjoyed their lives and had no intention of rolling over and dying just because the Dominion said so. They lived strictly for themselves, not for a greater being. They were strong, because of their variety and vibrancy, not because an outside force had made them so.
She knew Sereal would want the Federation obliterated, but once she arrived, she couldn’t bring herself to extinguish the life that she found on Earth. And when she found the humans’ determination to survive as masters of themselves an easy match for her own people, Amelia decided to find a way to convince her people to co-exist, rather than conquer this particular group of solids.
She spent five years masquerading as a human, until word of the blood tests filtered through the academy, and she knew she wouldn’t be able to hide much longer. So she came to the Medical Academy’s director, Admiral Rodney Clarke, and revealed herself.
As the war was in full swing by this time, and after discussing the matter with Star Fleet intelligence (Amelia proved herself by revealing the method she would have wiped the human race out, had that been her desire – a method which still could have succeeded with terrifying efficiency, even at that time). After helping the humans put into place a procedure which would prevent their elimination (At least, by that method), she was permitted to stay in the Medical Academy provided she never attempt to enter any other field of operations. (ie.. Engineering, or coms...etc…) And she was forbidden to link with any other changeling – even Odo. They made it clear they didn’t really trust her, but for now, with Admiral Clarke’s backing, they permitted her to continue under the pretence of being human. She was given a highly classified rating – of which no one was permitted to know outside those who already did. (After all, what was the point in making an enemy of someone who already knew everything about killing you at various speeds in order to extract information? Better that she learned how to keep you alive, if she’s sincere about it).
During the war, she was posted to various ships throughout the Federation – most of which kept away from the front line. She knew their reasons, but let it slide, knowing how a Founder would feel if an officer of the Federation’s high council suddenly presented itself as the greatest friend to the Founders. At least the solids were giving her the benefit of the doubt, for now.
However, towards the end of the war, Amelia had a visitor from another Founder. One who was dying, but was determined to reach her at all costs. He died in her arms, but the message he gave her was very clear. The Founders were all dying of a terrible disease, and the Federation was keeping her from finding out. Furious that they were playing along with this act of genocide, Amelia shifted into Admiral Clarke’s form and made a formal request for her presence in the Medical Academy.
Once it was authorised, she left and returned to the academy on Earth so as not to cause too much trouble once her deception was noticed. She shifted things around her room to make space for her medical equipment. Then with the use of Admiral Clarke’s authority, she downloaded Odo’s medical files so as to compare her dead friend’s DNA with his as well as her own.
She almost had the cure, when her notes were destroyed by section 31. Outraged, she then learned that her own mentor, Admiral Clarke played a major roll in the disease’s creation. This was almost enough to convince her of the Humans’ capability for deception, except she also learned that Doctor Bashier – a human, was also working on the cure, and had in fact found it.
She left Earth and went to DS9, only to discover the reports of a cure were an elaborate lie, and she set about trying to find a cure in the mean time. Admiral Clarke then arrived on the station, and with a little cohersion, she convinced him to help her replicate the cure, but by the time they had achieved it, Bashier had given Odo the antidote.
After the war, she still remained with StarFleet, holding true to her word to avoid her own kind until things settled down. A year later she was promoted to Lieutenant Commander on the Providence, one of many ships to explore the Delta Quadrant. By having a Founder on board, the rebel movements within the Dominion wouldn’t be so quick to attack them.
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