Jane Sheppard

Lt. JG Jane Sheppard is a security officer on the USS Odyssey.
== Background ==
Jane was born on Earth 2380 into a rather traditional family which has served the federation for decades. She showed great potential from a young age on but also a certain wildness which made her parents compare her to her aunt, Jordan Sheppard, a lot. She learned from her father how to fight and her mother teaches her before she went to school were she became quite the trouble maker to the point where Starfleet Academy was her last chance before going to jail. She applied and was accepted, but she had a rough start, being pitched against people who prepared their whole life for this. But she prevailed, especially after she discovered the tactical division for herself where her talents and nature bloomed. Her methods were inspired by the books she was learning from, but she was frequently mixing tactics or dropping them if she deems then not good for the given situation and improvises or switches tactics, leading to her having one of the best graduation scores but also with the hate of many of her teachers since she often spoke up against them and in very few cases even proved them wrong. Her career in Starfleet itself was a rough start. She had problems fitting in on the first ship she was stationed on since many of the cadets she had learned with before were also on that ship. It escalated when some of them  tried to get revenge on her for past events at the academy and she defended herself, injuring two of the ensigns critically which left the captain no choice but to mark this in her files and reassign her to a different ship. She bumped from ship to ship, feeling more like an outcast while performing her duties as her bad reputation was growing. Then the Iconian war happened and her talents were coming more and more handy, enabling her to join a specialized squad that was tasked with covert and search and rescue operations behind enemy lines. She spent most of the war deep in enemy territory, which left her more than once in situations where she couldn't wait for instructions and decided on the spot what the best action for the team was. She was successful, her squad always made it back someway or another but sometimes at the price of her capture. She was subject to iconian experiments and interrogations while her Squad tried to rescue her. These were not easy times and they left scars on her which is why she took all her vacation after the war ended to recover from the traumas and to practice her skills she had attained to keep herself in shape. Some say she should already have gotten her promotion, but her past and her behaviour towards officers of higher rank in critical situations left her at being an ensign, but it doesn't bother her. She almost expected to not being assigned to a new ship as people of her kind were not needed anymore since the war ended, which is why she was surprised when she was assigned to the USS Odyssey by Starfleet Command, which had a 10 year assignment in the Delta Quadrant ahead of herself. 
== Other information ==
During the Iconian war she was once wounded critically and she was sent to the nearest space station, since it couldn't be treated properly abord the mission vessel, for treatment. There she was treated and found suitable for a trill symbiont whose host was dying from a wound from the war. Her physiology is rather unique, a trait that appeared and disappeared in her family, making her a human trill hybrid. She was compatible with the symbiont and the procedure was agreed upon since the symbiont otherwise would have died. It didn't sit well with her to give up her own personality, but if she can save a life she was willing to risk it. After the procedure was complete something strange occured. Instead of the symbiont waking up as the one in control Jane woke up as herself. But the symbiont now was a voice in the back of her head, as confused as her. It took both a while to get used to this situation, as well as the doctors needing time since this was something that isn't supposed to happen. After a few weeks Jane was released and sent back to her Squadron which was informed of the new situation ahead of time. Jane made use of the knowledge of the symbiont and she was observing through Janes eyes what had become of many worlds during the war, sometimes trying to ease the pain for Jane or simply uplifting her spirit so that she continues on her way.
* Likes: whiskey, company, a good fight, combat, survival, cats
* Dislikes: betrayal, secrets, tribbles, dogs, disrespect, ambushes
== Trill Symbiote ==
Trax (he isn't exactly one who prefers growing roots or traveling all the time, he goes with the flow of time and sees where it leads him, he can be sassy and has a burning passion for everything that is new) 
=== 2289 - 2315: Haley Bloom: ===
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=== 2315 - 2356: Micheal Brightstone ===
* Rulebook federation scientist
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=== 2356 - 2400: Erica Costa ===
* Shy xenolinguist
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=== 2400 - 2410: Baltazar Burns ===
* Strategic commander and tactical instructor
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Category:Former Characters