Rajesh Kapoor (Mirror)

Warrant Officer

Kapoor, as Captain in the Terran Imperial Starfleet.

*For the Prime universe counterpart, please see Rajesh Kapoor.*

## Service Record:

* Maintenance technician, ISS Bellerophon, Intrepid-class 2393-2394
* Senior Maintenance technician, ISS Bellerophon, Intrepid-class 2393-2398
* Junior Science Officer, ISS Brazzaville, Nebula-class 2398-2403
* Chief Science Officer, ISS Brazzaville, Nebula-class 2403-2406
* Executive Officer, ISS Brazzaville, Nebula-class 2406-2409
* Commanding Officer, ISS Brazzaville, Nebula-class 2409-2420
* Commanding Officer, ISS Triangulum, Galaxy-class, 2420-2421
* Prisoner of War, Joint Task Force Bellerophon, 2421-2422
* Astrobiologist, Olympus Station 2421-Present

## Awards & Commendations:

* Conquest Medal
* Special Warfare Ribbon

## Biography

Rajesh Kapoor was born 31st of March 2375 in Ludhiana, Punjab, Azad Hind, on Terra, to Amrita Kaur, and Kamal Kapoor, both farmers. Rajesh grew up a largely happy and carefree life as a peasant boy in his native land. He was always interested in the world around him. He spent countless hours scrounging for any book on biology and chemistry and performing any number of experiments on local animals, plants, and fungi. A desire to learn new thing was uncommon to the boys of his home town, but he would soon able to recruit several 'research assistants,' who were enticed by the chance to aid in the performance of his many cruel experiments.

These carefree days ended shortly after turning 18 when the reconstituted Terran Empire conscripted him into the Imperial Starfleet at gunpoint. Assigned as a maintenance technician on the Intrepid-class ISS Bellerophon, an opportunity struck when his supervisor had his back turned. Kapoor took a chance and assassinated his supervisor, securing the position for himself, and the first time he had killed a sapient being. He surprisingly found himself indifferent to the murder but recognised that it was just how the system worked if he wanted to advance.

His big chance came a few years later when he challenged a drunk junior science officer of the ISS Brazzaville for his position on a stopover at Terok Nor. Having seen the Brazzaville out of a viewport, he immediately fell in love with the ship and knew he would have it one day. Claiming the Junior Science Position on the Brazzaville, he set about learning everything he could. Being a quick study, he became a reliable underling of the Brazzaville's chief science officer. When it came time for Kapoor to take his place, he didn't even see the knife coming.

By 2409 he was captain of the Brazzaville, and found himself with more freedom than expected, and by mere chance, encountered the Caitian information specialist, S'Dex. S'Dex had been hired by Terran Imperial Intelligence to infiltrate the 'Prime' Universe and acquire updated Federation weapon specifications, force deployment, research projects and more. 'Buying' a copy of the information for himself, Kapoor discovered data of the fungus Prototaxites stellaviatori and the Federation's research into its use as part of a propulsion system. Intrigued, Kapoor made it his life's work to recreate the drive, not for the benefit of the Terran Empire, but to satisfy his desire for knowledge.

Eventually taking control of an abandoned Starfleet Intelligence Black site in the Badlands in the Prime Universe, Kapoor set to work studying the spores and constructing the spore drive. He set about creating three prototypes, which were to be installed aboard the ISS Brazzaville, her sister ship, ISS Leopoldville, and ISS Boudica. The Boudica gave the most trouble, as it was a requirement for official support from the Empire, who wished for a fast attack raider vessel who could jump into a system, overwhelm its target, and jump out before responders could engage it.

Installing the much smaller ship's spore drive caused many design challenges that set the project back by years. Still, finally, by 2420, two of the prototypes were ready for field testing, the ISS Brazzaville and ISS Boudica, while the refitting of the ISS Leopoldville had fallen behind schedule. Testing of the drives discovered a control issue. They could make jumps happen but were only accurate at short ranges, with longer or sequential jumps taking the ship's computer hours, or sometimes even days to calculate out.

A solution was to be found in the research notes in the form of  Tardigrade DNA. A short excursion into the mycelial network proved ultimately successful in recovering a sample at the loss of only twenty-four Imperial Marines and thirty-six security officers. With the tardigrade's DNA sample in hand, Kapoor only needed a subject to inject it into; he would have this hand-delivered to him upon encountering and entering into an Alliance of Convenience with a known terrorist, John Jackson Miller. The two of them concocting a plan to use the captured Federation Starship, USS Black, as bait to take Starfleet officers prisoner to make into test subjects. While the initial part of the plan was successful, the prisoners, led by Lieutenant Commander Valarie Callahan, were able to escape. Starfleet was able to capture both the ISS Brazzaville and ISS Boudica.

Reeling from the loss of his research facility, Kapoor seized command of the ISS Triangulum with the aid of the ship's executive officer, Valerie Ishan. Subsequently falling in with the camp of Captain Julia Amiga, Kapoor was offered up by Amiga to feign defection to the United Federation of Planets to serve as a spy, the operation of which this was to happen failed so spectacularly that the captured Kapoor decided to defect for real.

## Defection

After being captured, Kapoor defected to the United Federation of Planets, and was issued a warrant. Eager to make use of his knowledge for his new Federation masters, he managed to strike up a friendship with Joint Task Force Bellerophon's head researcher, Samus Aran, the two having similar skill sets and interests in the Mycelial Network.

Kapoor came to believe in the Federation's message of peaceful cooperation, regularly giving advice on how to prevent the fall of the Federation to the control of the Neo-fascist political party Ad Populum. Though he claimed this to be self serving, as fascists coming to power in the Federation would likely see him be executed as an enemy combatant were it to become public knowledge that he masterminded the Terran Empire's mycelial technology. In truth, he admires the Federation for being able to last in a turbulent universe, and would hate to see it collapse, and its accomplishments forgotten.