Elsie Hickory

## Appearance

Standing at 5,4 Elsie is a pale fair skinned woman with brown soft and plentiful hair that when down extends down to her lower back, she has decisive stand out blue eyes that are amplified by her dark lashes that seam to make her eyes pop. She stands as someone who has inquisitive and curious mannerisms looking around and exploring every aspect that she might come across in her life.  She is seen wearing false glasses purely for style and enjoyment. Elsie also wears a lot of varying earrings especially off duty on her almost mouse like round ears. As for her body structure she is 139lb with a thin body that comes across as almost frail but due to Elsie having a habit of forgetting to eat , when not on duty she wears her hair down or in a bun  instead of tied back when on duty so she can present herself as professional when in uniform.

## Personality

Elsie hickory isa modest individual who enjoys keeping her eyes to her work, she is brilliant in what she does although she often gets lost in thought even around social interactions. She considers herself a reasonable person but can be a big cranky when it comes to her work if touched and tampered with. She is an attention to detail individual priding herself on being the one who is prepared for eventualities whenever they arrive and being the one with all the answers.

### Ambitions

To create something that becomes standard equipment on starfleet vessels, to fix the universe in her own little way even if it was as small as figuring out what was wrong with a worker bee every week.

### Morals

Science and knowledge is an important foundation in life, if you apply what you learn than you’ll live a long prosperous life.

## History

Elsie grew up in London alone with her mother since her father was away in starfleet for most her life and on top of that had an extremely rough relationship with her mother since Elsie actually had longed for a life like her father who worked in starfleet’s science division where as her mother preferred her to be someone who never leaves earth due to her mother irrational fear of space travel its why Elsie just can’t be with her father at his post and probably the reason why she grew so distant to her. It was like she was denying her dream over something she couldn’t comprehend at a young age.  Her father however did send her balsa kits for her birthday, they kept herself busy on nights mother wasn’t home one of her favorites was a classic Miranda Class model she painted and constructed on her own.

At school she was not academically gifted struggling with maths and languages at a young age, she wasn’t the type of person who wanted to learn through books and papers but taking things apart and seeing what makes them tick, one of the first things she took apart was a watch that was passed down to her and mainly since she had such a fascination with this item from the 20th century that still worked today, her mother was furious with her since that same watch had been in the family since its creations but this inspired her to promise she’ll always put things right through understanding and gathering knowledge her own way.

Her teen years were probably some of her happiest, this was her at her social peak she had garnered a few friends in school and was genuinely at a point where changed almost seemed like a bad thing to her, this made her question herself coming to the end of the time where fun isn’t allowed and you have to make a choice in what you are going to do, in a phase she calls in hindsight her “on the fence” time. In a way it was due to understanding where her mother was coming from since she had experienced loss through relationships and heartbreak to see that fear is terrifying and the galactic beyond was truly scary for her. She had her mother apply for a few jobs in Federation Archival services since Starfleet was starting to feel like the wrong move to make, sure she applied but she told herself she wouldn’t get in.

She was called up for an interview in san francisco so she and her mother who wished to go with her to attend the interview took an interplanetary transporter there to sit down and see what they were inquiring about. Sitting down in the polished walls of Starfleet HQ was almost making her feel at home but she could tell it gave her mother bad memories. The Officer in front of her was a teacher of Command training and was asking how serious the application was and if Elise knew what she was signing up for. But the main points if she was ready to make the jump from her standard college life to Starfleet Academy. This is the point of no return, she may have not been close to her mother but she’ll never forget what she said to her “Elsie don’t be afraid to take apart the universe and put it back together again, only then will you not fear it” in a sense it clicked in her head this is exactly what she wanted from as a kid breaking wood sheets to build starships to disassembling her watch she was going to do what she was good at. The Teacher asked again if she was sure and Elsie with confidence said yes.

Eventually she got the letter that yes Starfleet would accept her if she moved into San francisco dorms. life took a shift mainly since she saw her original friends less and less due studying and general work loads the first year was easy mostly practicals but as year two creeped in so did the amount of work that got harder and harder over time but life was on course to take a even harder shift, 2 years into studying a accident befell her, a battery inside of a prototype overloaded while she was tinkering with it this sent her directly to hospital. Having a piece of her taken away due to what the academy ruled as an accident was a blow to her mental health requesting to be held back a year to take a term to get used to the prophetic right arm which felt so alien as well as a unfortunate reminder,

Being back home in london did wonders at reenergizing herself since in truth the reason why she probably blundered was due to rushing and trying to get work done and having a break was exactly what she needed for term, she even got back with old friend and people from her past and even got on better terms with her mother after she basically gave her the strength to go on this course, she hid a lot of the pain though not wanting to put too much pressure on her mother. Being in her own room she struggled to build the balsa models she used to since her hand shook so much it took a lot of recovery time but she was able to come back and join in the current year but it meant she had to redo 70% of the year again which was fine her her books as she felt it put a bit more ease into coming back to the academy.

Within the next two years she had managed to graduate and be signed off for her first assignment, it look a while at first but she was soon placed on for a Oberst class monitoring a super cluster of stars and wanted her to work on drones that could work in superheated conditions to avoiding and risk to the crew, this would be her station for the next 4 years, she made friends and even got into a relationship with a fellow officer but it ended badly due to arguments over the future. When receiving her next assignment she thought it was for the best feeling as if she had messed up her first interactions but this would be a fresh start.

She was posted to Mars Dry docks as a repair bee specialist overseeing the many different issues in creating a starship in drydock, this was a simple job but it was nice being close enough to home that during days where she got time off she could visit old friends and make another wooden model to put up on the already full wall. Dry docks a few years later got a call that they were being assigned to new positions in Starfleet and Elsie was to be moved to the Arcadia to begin another chapter doing what she loves.

## 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

* NANO 101 - Nanotechnology I
* NANO 102 - Nanotechnology II
* CYBER 101 - Cybernetics I
* ROBO 210 - Advanced Robotic Design
* ROBO 211 - Operational Robotics
* Neuro 101 - Neuroscience I
* COMPSCI 202 - Computer Core Maintenance

### Minors

* BIO 102 - Micro Biology
* ASTRO 101 - General Astrophysics
* HOLO - Basic Interactive Holograms
* MED 101 - First Aid

## Trivia

* Elsie Hickory has a prosthetic  right hand that goes up to her elbow it was lost due to an accident at the academy’s science lab
* Elsie most likely has a minor case of OCD
* She has a cat called Luna, she is a Black and White Norweigan Forest cat
* Elsie speaks with a soft british accent

### Likes

Cats, Theater and media, Balsa wood vehicle building sets. Old starship designs, warm showers but putting it to cold right at the end. Beach days on the holodeck

### Dislikes

Over Complicated foods, dogs, things that are broken, uncertainty and chance