Cassiopeia Glover

Captain

Cassiopeia Glover, 2267

## Service Record

* Starfleet Academy 2248-2252
* Navigator, USS Saladin, Saladin-class 2252-2254
* Helm/Tactical Officer, USS Xerxes, Saladin-class 2254-2256
* Helm/Tactical Officer, USS Excalibur, Constitution-class 2256-2260
* Helm/Tactical Officer/First Officer, USS Hornet, Constitution-class 2260-2265
* Commanding Officer, USS Gneisenau, Constitution-class 2265-2267, 2419-Present

## Awards & Commendations

* Palm Leaf of Axanar Peace Mission
* Starfleet Award of Valour (awarded Posthumously)
* Starfleet Citation for Conspicuous Gallantry (awarded Posthumously)

## Biography

Cassiopeia Glover was born on the 31st of October 2230, in Manchester, England, on Earth, to biologist Orionis Glover and chef Cassandra Feron. She was their youngest child, having one older brother, Hercule, two years her senior, who would become a theoretical physicist.

Cassiopeia was a very active child, taking part in any sport that she could, becoming captain of both her secondary school’s football and cricket teams, but her true passion was for stargazing. Cassiopeia would turn down an offer to play on the England national football team to enrol in Starfleet Academy.

During her time at Starfleet Academy, during a training cruise on the USS Republic in her third year, she served alongside James T. Kirk, who would go on to be Starfleet’s most famous captain, and took part in the famed Axanar Peace Mission.

After graduating from the Academy with honours as a qualified helm officer, she would take up several postings that allowed her to flourish as only a skilled pilot could, proving herself to perform well under pressure. She was serving aboard the USS Excalibur when the Federation-Klingon War of 2256-2257 broke out. Starfleet ordered all the Constitution-class ships on deep space assignments to ensure their survival.

In 2260, she transferred to the USS Hornet, and in addition to the helm, was named the first officer. Her time as First Officer impressed Fleet Captain Dexter Fitzpatrick, then captain of the Hornet. Following the end of the Hornet’s five-year mission of exploration in the Beta Quadrant, recommended her for the command of one of the newest Constitution-class Heavy Cruisers, the USS Gneisenau.

Fitzpatrick himself would take command of the USS Sharnhorst, commissioned simultaneously as the Gneisenau, and the two heavy cruisers would be assigned joint-defence missions with once again waxing tensions with the Klingon Empire.

In 2267, with the formal war between the Federation and Klingon Empire being declared, the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were posted at Drozana Station, charged with its defence. The two would battle with the infamous Kargh, son of Korren, responsible for carrying out several hit and run attacks on starbases along the border between Federation and Klingon space.

Knowing that Drozana station was critical to the Federation’s defence plans, she saw through a ruse implemented by Captain Kargh when his ship, the IKS Qib, feinted an attack towards Deep Space Station K7 in the nearby Sherman system. Glover instinctively knew that Kargh’s real target was Drozana and worked with Fitzpatrick to lay their own. The Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau laid down tri-cobalt mines in the Drozana System’s asteroid belt and then set a course for the Sherman System to apparently reinforce the Sherman System. Only the Scharnhorst continued to Sherman, with the Gneisenau doubling back and taking up a position at the L3 point between Drozana Station and the Drozana sun, completely obscuring her ship from Klingon sensors.

When the IKS Qib launched its attack on Drozana, as was Kargh’s real plan, Glover sprung their trap into action, racing out from behind the sun and opening up on the Qib, damaging the Klingon ship’s cloaking device in the fight, and forcing the Qib to flee into the nearby asteroid field, doing heavy damage to the Klingon ship when it set off the tri-cobalt mines.

Unfortunately for Glover, the damaged cloaking device from the Qib resulted in the Klingon ship leaking tetryon radiation, which caused a temporal rift when interacting with the explosion of the mines. Both the Qib and the Gneisenau lost power and were pulled into the rift, depositing Glover in 2419, where Joint Task Force Bellerophon would rescue her and rejoined Starfleet.

She later learned that she had been posthumously awarded the Award for Valour and the Citation for Conspicuous Gallantry for the apparent sacrifice of her ship to save Drozana station from destruction.