Tale

## Appearance

Tale has short dark-blue hair with bangs swiped just slightly to the left. She also has bright blue or aqua eyes. This is due to a choice by her primary creator, scientist Adam Lee, who did not want her to appear too life-like no matter which appearance she chose. Her feminine appearance was chosen by herself for some reason that she cannot accurately describe anymore, in the moment it was almost like emotion.

Her skin is relatively pale and her appearance makes her come off as being in her early 20s with a relatively youthful look that hasn't changed since she chose it. She wears a basic Starfleet Operations uniform with no other additions due to having no strong cultural background. Outside of her uniform she typically wears very bland clothing. Because of this, her civilian clothes are usually a single-coloured skin-tight jumpsuit as she finds it to allow her to fulfil the parameters of any emergency and is not too bulky. Although she has been developing what mortals call a “sense of style” most notably a bright yellow jacket.

It's not hard for her to stick out due to her unnaturally coloured hair, bright blue eyes and pale skin. It makes her appear less human. It won't be as noticeable if a Klingon or Nausicaan was in the photo, but it's obvious when it is just her or she is surrounded by humans.

She stands 167 cm tall. Despite her stature, her physical state as an android allows her to be much stronger than almost any other living being, including Humans, Klingons and Nausicaans for some examples. She remains unaffected by most physiological and psychological issues such as radiation, disease, lack of oxygen, chemical imbalance, alcohol intoxication and mind control.

## Personality

Due to limits in what the Daystrom Institute could not allow, but perhaps for the android’s success, Tale lacks any sense of emotion. She has speculated why this could be and has concluded, but not confirmed, that it was a combination of technological limitations due to the limited materials they had to work with, and it was due to the possibility Tale may begin to think of themselves as a benevolent entity that will not abide by the moral regulations of the Federation. Rather than putting in a program to inhibit Tale, it was instead decided that no emotion would be better.

Generally, she will act helpfully, but often fails to understand the emotional qualms of her fellow officers and will tend to interpret a lot of what they say as being literal. She can sometimes come off as passive-aggressive in how she almost always answers literally and in a deadpan way, however she is just trying to contribute.

Many of the positive traits that Tale has is due to her being an android. She can easily find factoids within the database of the Federation relative to her level of access. Her literal perception of the world may be used as a sense of humour as she can easily misunderstand certain expressions.

Her most glaring negative trait would have to be a lack of emotion, this comes with some benefits like not acting on a feeling of benevolence, but it also prevents her from empathizing with her crewmates to any major capacity. She can also come off as pessimistic due to giving the blunt part of a situation when talking, especially if it is a very dangerous or serious matter.

Her one wish is not to be human, she understands entirely that her current form is superior to humanity and without it, she would likely go insane due to a lack of her current abilities, instead, it is to improve herself, most prominently with the ability to feel emotion.

### Ambitions

Attaining emotion but not necessarily becoming human.
Acquiring all forms of knowledge available to her understanding.

### Morals

Due to a built-in morality chip, Tale cannot kill unless she sees it as necessary, nor will she cause egregious harm and suffering. She also has no problems disobeying orders that would violate the programming of this chip. However, if it was to be deactivated it is not unsurprising that she may act radically on her already established knowledge that androids are physically superior to humans and would take a very strict and authoritarian perspective on how to deal with natural life. Essentially, without this chip, she would have no issues execute a fellow crew member if it would benefit Tale.

## History

### Beginnings

Tale was created by Lieutenant Commander Adam Lee of the Daystrom Institute. He was one of many Starfleet scientists studying the android known as B-4. Her development as one of the first replicated Soong-type androids was an immense success and her first two years of life were spent training around human society, although there are some things that she simply has not managed to understand, such as the need for clothing when armour in combat is such a rarity. Despite this, she was successful and after one month of testing, Tale was permitted to select an appearance of her choosing. In a sense of emotion or something similar to it that she cannot describe again, Tale chose the appearance of a female human, relatively similar in appearance to her creator due to his past and to try and fulfil the spot of his deceased daughter. However, Tale's lack of emotion prevented her from properly feeling that emotion, but her choice helped reassure the Commander that he was a success in his work. After this, she continued to undergo testing, ensuring that no programs failed and no matrices broke. Her testing was an overwhelming success in the field of cybernetics and robotics as another new android, more advanced than some predecessors. After two years of properly adapting and working out any serious kinks in the system, she decided to apply to Starfleet Academy, her entrance was more than easy due to her processing power and near-infinite information access, she was accepted into the academy.

### Starfleet Academy

During her time at the academy, she frequently excelled in all areas to no surprise and it was often questioned by her professors why Starfleet did not just directly put her into service, a morality chip and with all Starfleet records at her fingertips, she would not have needed the specialization of the academy. She has yet to reveal her reasons for entering into the academy, feeling it best that others do not know for the time. Her years in the academy were rudimentary and average, she made few friends and in some cases was even mocked for how literal she was. Of course, she paid no attention to this, not entirely understanding their objective. after four years, she graduated from Starfleet Academy, learning as much as possible to best serve before beginning her service as an Ensign.

### USS Wellington

Upon exiting the academy she was commissioned on the USS Wellington, her service was as an Operations officer and she excelled in duty, performing her functions quickly and without delay, it was because of this that she had much spare time aboard the ship, and because of this she took up many hobbies, including; painting, playing the Saxophone, Cello, Viola, Clarinet, Oboe, Trumpet, Drums and Piano, bartending and mixology, and learning the schedules and process of running each position on the ship in the event of a crisis, these were rarely practised however and she didn’t get to prove this and it was mostly reserved to her asking department heads if she can use some of their materials for experiments. Her service on the Wellington however was short, and only lasted one year due to her feeling as if she could learn more from returning to the academy and being able to test certain theories from her readings, specifically in biology and chemistry.

### Back to the Academy

During her time at the academy for her post-graduate studies. Tale took BIO102, BIO201, CHEM101 and CHEM111 as she thought a more basic introduction would allow her to experiment with a wide variety of topics. She tested various theses that she had thought of regarding biology, getting notable acclaim for the ingenuity of her projects due to how they managed to always come out just correctly and perform quite amazing tasks despite their simplicity. She also researched various reactions for chemistry regarding relatively new chemicals that have been discovered on various new planets. She considers it an educational experience, a human may even say that she enjoyed it, although she has no concept of enjoyment. It allowed her to express theories she only thought about. However, she only needed a year for this to experiment with theories in a controlled environment and her self-evaluation made it so she considered herself ready to serve on a starship again. She was assigned as an Operations Ensign on the USS Arcadia due to her request that she be put on a vehicle that will properly explore the galaxy rather than just be reserved like her previous posting.

## Starfleet Courses

### Core Courses

* ADMIN101: Star Fleet Operations
* ADMIN110: Chain of Command and General Protocol
* DIPL101: General
* ENG221: LCARS Programming 1
* ENG231: Computer Memory and Personnel Interfaces
* ENG232: Replicators, Transporters, and Holodecks
* ENG233: Sensors, Communications, and Helm Systems
* HIST101: Birth of the Federation
* LANG101: Federation Standard
* LANG110: Major Species (Elementary) - Cadet's Choice
* LAW101: Federation, General
* MATH101: Concepts
* MED101: First Aid and Field Medicine
* PHYS101: Concepts
* PILOT101: Runabouts and Shuttles
* SURV101: Starship Emergencies
* SURV110: Environmental Suits and Zero-G Training
* TAC101: Combat, Unarmed
* TAC110: Combat, Small Weapons
* BIO101: Concepts
* XEN101: General

### Majors

* ENG101: General Electronics
* ENG111: Intermediate Electronics 1
* ENG112: Intermediate Electronics 2
* ENG121: Colossal Failures in Engineering
* ENG213: Electromagnetics and Applications
* ENG222: LCARS Programming
* ENG311: Starship Engineering
* ENG312: Subspace Mechanics
* ENG321: Base-Mode Programming
* ENG322: Base-Mode Operations
* ENG330: Bio-Neural Components
* ENG331: Operations and Command Functions
* ENG420: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
* ENG421: Automata, Computability, and Complexity
* PHYS275: Electrodynamics
* PHYS350: Thermodynamics
* MATH250: Differential
* MATH440: Topology
* ARM101: Introduction to Weapons
* ARM110: Hand Phasers, Phaser Rifles and Artillery

### Minors

* ASTRG101: Navigation of Starships, Sublight
* ASTRG102: Navigation of Starships, Warp Speed
* PILOT210: Minor Ships
* PILOT220: Major Ships
* TAC170: Combat, Introduction to Starship Combat
* TAC250: Combat, Shuttles and Runabouts

### Post-Graduate

* BIO 102: Micro Biology
* BIO 201: Advanced Biology
* CHEM 101: General Chemistry
* CHEM 111: Advanced General Chemistry

## Trivia

* Tale can play a variety of instruments with her unique style, this includes; saxophone, clarinet, cello, viola, and piano. Theoretically, she can play any instruments, but the prior mentioned ones have a style unique to her that she learned from educating herself and learning from various notable musicians on the holodecks she has had access to. Charlie Parker, Benny Goodman, Natalia Gutman, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig von Beethoven are all individuals she has taken skills from by learning with them on the holodeck. Although not a complete expert, she is certainly experienced.

* She understands how to operate any position on any starship and can adapt to most, if not all, situations that could be encountered, at least theoretically. Due to how she still learns while working, there may be more qualified individuals for that specific position, but she’ll be there if they can’t be.

* She is a skilled bartender, at least in making already known drinks through known styles. Tale has yet to create any of her own styles or adapt a style from someone else as her own. Simply mixing the drinks is all she can do.

* She primarily uses her left hand, learning from her creator and adapting the trait, although she is ambidextrous.

* She enjoys building models from various eras of history. Armoured Fighting Vehicles from Earth's violent past to a modern Klingon Battlecruiser, most are stored on her desk in her room to advertise them in a way as if she feels pride.

### Likes

* Tale likes small animals, she has been considering acquiring a pet of some sort in the future.

* She enjoys babysitting as it helps her learn about the early development of humans and how they act, she sees it not only as a way to help her comrades who have children but also to learn and educate herself.

* She enjoys playing a variety of musical instruments.

* Puzzles are always intriguing and test her intelligence, although she relied much on the holodeck to build her new ones.

* From studies of crewmates and the chemical composition of it, she has taken a liking, although not needed to eating squares of chocolate.

* Experimental practices are always something she is willing to try in a controlled environment. She enjoys collecting more knowledge and this only helps.

### Dislikes

* Tale dislikes those who disobey orders without reason.

* Being called a robot in a derogatory way. She cannot act on it, and it’s a dislike due to that it is untrue to refer to her as a robot.

* Complete Vulcan logic, she dislikes the idea that there is only one path that is somehow most logical, despite the fact her lack of emotion could compare herself with Vulcans, she finds that to be the end of the similarities.

* Tale dislikes the perception that she was forced into Starfleet, she found it a great way to learn more about living beings and all their different cultures, not simply something that she was pressed into by HiCom.