Commander Atna
Name Atna
Position Project Officer
Rank Commander
Character Information
| Sex | Female | |
| Species | Vulcan | |
| Age | 47 | |
| Pronouns | she / her | |
| Summary | Even among Vulcans, Atna is known as one of the higher end performers. An exobiologist by trade, Atna is a scientific generalist at the forefront of her field. While she is capable of something passing for affection with those she knows and considers friends, she can be unpleasantly and unrepentantly cold and condescending to others under her command or outside her interest or respect. Atna is currently (unbeknownst to anyone) under the control of a Goa'uld consciousness, despite the symbiote that overtook her having left her body. |
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| Place of Birth | Gol, Vulcan |
Physical State
| Height | 5' 7" | |
| Hair Color | Dark brown | |
| Eye Color | Blue | |
| Physical Description | Equatorial skintone, athletic, longer hair than most. No scars or tattoos or other identifying marks aside from birthmark shaped like a duck on her stomach. |
Family
| Spouse | Tos (Deceased) | |
| Father | T'Skau | |
| Mother | Atia |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Cold, but curious. Atna tends to see most sentient beings in the workplace who allow themselves to be controlled by emotion (and also many Vulcans) as a higher order of animal, and as such tends not to rely on or trust them to any capacity greater than her work requires until they have proven themselves. This is not prejudice or superiority exactly, simply a logical determination that the most reliable and compatible minds for her to work with are logical ones she is familiar with, others tend to be less predictable in a way that disrupts her attempts to schedule herself and her work. Socially she is much more inclined to involve herself with non-Vulcans, and has involved herself in the dramatic arts to enhance her ability to interact with others. |
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| Strengths & Weaknesses | + Logic +Advanced scientific understanding + Perfectionistic -/+ Workaholic - Particular and snobby - Responds poorly to emotions of others - More interested in wild animals than sentient beings - Inflexible, stubborn - Can be unkind to subordinates |
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| Ambitions | Atna hopes her discoveries and work will prove noteworthy, she also hopes to find a satisfactory mate with whom to breed and raise offspring, though her standards are perhaps unrealistic. | |
| Hobbies & Interests | Atna runs to keep herself fit, as well as practicing Vulcan martial arts, though purely for exercise purposes, she is a strict pacifist. She has found recreation in theatrical participation, a technique that allows her to demonstrate emotions in a controlled manner, to better understand them and the others around her. |
| Personal History | Atna is the first and only child of Sub-Administrator T’Skau of Higher Gol and Professor Atia of the Vulcan science institute. Born to a family already renowned for it’s achievements, Atia achieved all the goals set for her by her parents in childhood, and life was good. She was bonded telepathically with a mate chosen by her parents, but the boy did not survive his kass-wan ritual, leaving her free to choose her own destiny in that regard. Atna would often wonder the planes of Gol, taking to impulse-cycle when old enough to drive one, always fascinated by the life that managed to survive the merciless Vulcan desert. Atna studied at the Vulcan Science Academy, but after a decade of work as a researcher realized there was little to be done to distinguish herself in the field of local biology, and that the waitlist to apply for the expeditionary service was more than a decade. Instead, she decided to apply to Starfleet, attending the Academy for four years. She served on a number of vessels before finally finding herself assigned to the USS Mercury’s biology department. In short time she became Chief Science Officer, and remained with the crew until the ship's destruction in the one-week war. She continued to serve throughout the fleet, being mercifully away from Earth on Frontier Day in 2401. When she received an invitation to join Rovak's command once more at DS13, she took the remote assignment. Atna was personally involved with their first encounter with the being known as 'The Watchman', and was sent briefly back in time alongside Rovak and Flynn. She also was among the crew who encountered the Dalek and the Time Lord Commander of the USS Excalibur, revealed to be a TARDIS disguised for local conditions. Atna assisted the Atenist refugees from universe E-5, but shortly after the Lady Hera was extradited, Atna was attacked by a rogue symbiote. Atna also found affection in her relationship with the multiversal visitor Dr Intharia T'Zor, and the two shared a romantic bond born out of telepathic connection that revealed the mutuality of their feelings for one another. The crew would later learn that the symbiote was bred specifically to avoid detection, but they would not realise that it had transferred its consciousness into Atna, taking control of her. Under the symbiote's influence, Atna accepted a position as the personal scientific liaison to the Commander-in-Chief for the Stargate research project being begun at Daystrom after the potential of the fantastic alien device was realised. She remains under alien influence, but is the only one aware of it. |
