Cerred King

### Academy Courses

Xenolinguistics, Communications, Contingency Planning, Diplomacy, Interspecies Ethics

## OOC

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Lt. JG Cerred King is the Assistant Chief Intelligence Officer on the USS Odyssey.

## Background

Cerred was born to a Betazoid woman before being given to his father and raised on a small science vessel mainly traveling the Gamma Quadrant with his brother, their father, and his brothers mother. The relationship with his brother has always been rocky at best and almost deadly at worst. When Cerred was 3, their vessel was intercepted by a Borg cube and their parents were assimilated. Cerred and his brother were stuck in an escape pod for a week before landing on a forgotten Federation science colony in the Gamma Quadrant on a planet called Mantis IV.

The boys were taken in and raised by a retired Andorian biologist. At 4, a major lab accident killed an injured many people, Cerred included. He got lucky and didn't have super severe burns but the blast had destroyed his hearing, leaving him completely deaf. It was a struggle at first but they managed to learn to communicate with Andorian sign language. As Cerred got older, he mastered Standard, Vulcan, and Romulan sign language as well. He'd begun speaking again about two years after the incident and found a love of language as he got older.

When he was about 10, his brother ran away from home and the pair were left to wonder of he was alright. A year after, they discovered that he'd made it to Vulcan before getting arrested and offered the option of Starfleet or prison. When they heard that he'd chosen Starfleet, Cerred and their guardian came to Earth to be closer. Cerreds love of language expanded upon finding the Federation databases, allowing him to get a proper fluency with Standard and Vulcan and get a chance at Klingon.

Learning new languages was great but Cerred wanted to see more than just San Francisco and offer a helping hand to other Federation citizens who didn't have their handicaps repaired. The decision to become an advocate through the Diplomatic Corps put him in front a Starfleet Academy entrance exam seat. He failed the first time and took it again at 17, passing but only just.

His time at the academy was fairly uneventful, though exciting when his brother graduated the technical academy and was given his first posting on a space station. Cerred kept in contact as best he could up through his third year at the academy when he and his guardian recieved a transmission from his brother in case he'd been killed in action. However there was never any official notification or record, concerning Cerred.

Towards the end of his third year, he was helping a friend organise personnel files and came across his brothers. He quickly copied the file and found his own, copying the data from there as well. His brothers file had stated he would be receiving a commission and assigned to a ship. Cerred took both files and doctored them so he could take that place, then hacking into Starfleet Personnel and replacing the files where they were. He took more effort to spread word that hed been lost in a training accident and fudging his physical and blood tests to look like his brothers.

Cerred made it on board, posing as his brother with no issue. The charade lasted a few months until a psionic attack had landed him in sickbay, putting him face to face with the captain he wanted answers from. In the process he spilled all the beans, getting arrested and confined to quarters. About six months in, a member of Starfleet Intelligence came to offer him a position and his freedom. Cerred gladly took it even though it meant potentially throwing away his chance at being an advocate. His commission was revoked and he was busted down the Petty Officer in the process.

Cerreds first mission went very bad very fast, landing both himself and his senior officer on trial for torture, insubordination, and attempted mutiny. During the trial, Cerred was almost attacked by his supposedly dead brother, finding out he'd defected to the Tal Shiar and faked the whole thing, spending the last two years using Cerred as a puppet, though what the end game was is unknown.

Cerred was taken down to Crewman instead of cashiered from the service, a bittersweet relief if any at all. For the few months, he kept a low profile until their next mission came. This mission went much better, resulting in multiple members of the crew being commended, promoted, and Cerred getting his full commission and rank of Ensign.

Cerred recently recieved orders to transfer to the Odyssey, one he quickly accepted. He took the position for a change of scenery and a chance to continue to prove that he's more than just a criminal and Starfleet academy dropout.

## Appearance

Around 5'6", 130 lbs. He is a littple pale with wavy black hair. He has faint nose ridges, pointy ears, and violet eyes instead of the typical Betazoid black.

## Other information

* Typically carries a PADD around programmed with a speech to text subroutine. Can lip read to an extent but is improving. Owns hearing aids but almost never uses them and prefers to communicate with telepathy or sign language, but he does actually talk. Has a pet turtle named Yúcatan.
* Likes: Industrial and metal music, his turtle, watching the stars, cold brew coffee
* Dislikes: Large crowds, his brother, feeling useless