Kerani Kostelic Hoshino Hyperion
A PC in the Star Trek Adventures game [1]
Summary[edit]
Bio: Female human
Environment: Frontier Colony
Upbringing: Agricultural/Rural (accepted)
Rank: Lieutenant-Commander
Assignment: Medical specialist on the USS Hyperion
Role Benefit: You reduce the opportunity cost of medical equipment and medical teams by 1, to a minimum of 0. Further, when you attempt a task using your Medicine rating, and you have assistance, you generate 1 bonus Momentum (bonus Momentum may not be saved).
Stats[edit]
Stress: 12 / 12
Determination: 0 / 3
Phaser Type-2 Attack: 4 (Stun/Deadly, Charge)
Unarmed Attack: 2 (Stun, Severity +1)
Attributes & Disciplines[edit]
| Attribute | Discipline |
|---|---|
| Control 10 | Command 3 |
| Daring 9 | Conn 1 |
| Fitness 12 | Security 4 |
| Insight 7 | Engineering 1 |
| Presence 8 | Science 2 |
| Reason 10 | Medicine 5 |
Talents[edit]
Indefatigable: When you fail a task, and attempt that task again during the same scene, reduce the Difficulty of the second attempt (and any subsequent attempts if you still fail) by 1.
Field Medicine: When attempting a Medicine task, you may ignore any increase in Difficulty or complication range for working without the proper tools or equipment.
Applied Force: When you make a melee attack, you may use Fitness instead of Daring. In addition, you add 1 to the Severity of your Unarmed attacks.
Quick Study: When attempting a Task that will involve an unfamiliar practice, technique, or medical procedure, or which is to treat an unfamiliar species, ignore any Difficulty or complication range increase stemming from your unfamiliarity.
Species Ability - Faith of the Heart: When you use one of your values to spend or gain Determination, you may also add 1 Momentum to the group pool.
Focuses[edit]
Athletics
Emergency Medicine
Frontier Survival
Hand to Hand Combat
History (Earth and Early Federation)
Botany
Values[edit]
I don't give a damn what others might think of me
I'll do anything for my family
Sound Body, Sound Mind
Times change, people don't
Appearance[edit]
Kerani's heritage is primarily from Southern India, with other parts from all over. She is very tall, at 6'3", and has the physique of a fitness model. While not conventionally "beautiful," she has striking features that, combined with her physicality and poise, many find attractive. Her striking appearance is amplified by her penchant for wearing exotic "updo" hairstyles of the sort that were most popular for women in the mid-23rd century. Off duty, she also likes to wear clothing similar to that era, that shows off her body to the fullest, and is often considered immodest by modern standards.
While she prefers wearing clothes, if Kerani was on a planet where nudity was the norm, she would stand out (especially for a human) as being utterly devoid of embarrassment or shame.
Relationship[edit]
T'Rea Hoshino, a Vulcan-Human Starfleet officer who favors her human side, is Kerani's wife and the love of her life... though it didn't always look that way.
As senior cadets, T’Rea and Kerani were both assigned to an experimental “Reaction Force” team. Practically during their first meeting, T'Rea convinced Kerani that, contrary to a lifelong assumption on her part, Kerani wasn’t straight. Unfortunately for T'Rea, who was hugely attracted to Kerani, the main effect of this was encouraging Kerani to pursue a relationship with a female Andorian cadet named Ishrelia zh'Akmiq, also a gifted athlete and Kerani’s rival.
Prior to shipping out on their first assignment, Kerani made her romantic interest to Ish’relia clear. But on the mission, T’Rea declared her own romantic interest in Kerani, and the two started a relationship afterward.
That relationship ended a few years later, when they were given different assignments. Kerani was posted with Ish'relia, and they inevitably hooked up again. T'Rea found a new girlfriend, too. It all got rather messy, and no one really handled it well. Things then spiraled out of control, leading to conflicts involving Andorian clan politics, tears, icepicks, and lots of drama, like a big Andorian epic or something out of Shakespeare.
Fortunately it also ended like an Elizabethan comedy, not a tragedy, with laughter and two weddings at the end: a traditional four-person Andorian ceremony for Ishrelia, and a decidedly non-traditional one for Kerani and T'Rea. Today it all makes for a great story, and the two families get along great.
Some years later, Kerani and T'Rea decided to have a daughter together, with T'Rea bearing the child and Kerani providing the DNA. While Vulcan-Human mating is no longer unheard of in the 24th century, and human females "fathering" children with their own modified DNA is likewise less rare, the combination presented a number of difficulties, including those presented by T'Rea not being a full-blooded Vulcan herself.
Following some difficulties (including apparent resistance from the Vulcan Science Academy to aid a mother who decidedly did not follow Vulcan ways, T'Rea recently became pregnant. Despite having only minimal OB/GYN experience and less expertise in the specialized biological sciences involved in the pregnancy, Kerani became extremely overprotective of T'Rea's health, and beginning to drive her insane.
T'Rea suggested that Kerani accept an assignment to the Hyperion, which seemed to be both fairly short-term and a opportunity for Kerani to join a pure exploration mission. Kerani had a varied background involving various planetside and [REDACTED] assignments, and a long stint in Second Contact on the USS Oxnard, she had never really been on a "seek out new life, and new civilizations" mission.
Kerani told her wife that was because she hated space travel and preferred working planetside, or at least on [REDACTED] where there was a lot of planetside action. T'Rea replied "No, you're fine with space travel, you just love bitching about it." Kerani, after a bit of self-reflection, had to agree, and accepted an assignment to USS Hyperion.
She was characteristically NOT aware that T'Rea's primary motivation was to get her out of the house until the baby was nearly due. (OOC: Kerani's player recently discovered that she has some form of Au-ADHD, and even more recently realized that Kerani does as well. Both can be a little slow of the uptake.)
Background[edit]
Kerani's family are ranchers on Earth Colony Alpha 5, one of the oldest colony worlds in the Federation. In fact, it was colonized several decades before the birth of the Federation, and is one of the smallest of the still-extant colony worlds from that time period, with under 2 million people. Colony Alpha 5's rich soil makes it well-suited for agriculture, but it has no mineral wealth to speak of, little strategic value, and is on no significant trade routes.
Colony Alpha 5 has a small tourism industry, mostly catering to "adventure tourists" drawn to the planet's plentiful still-untamed wilderness regions. Due to a substantial population from the Indian diaspora, it's somewhat popular as an exotic destination for tourism, Big Crazy Indian Weddings, and the occasional Bollywood dramatic production. However, despite its considerable natural beauty, Colony Alpha 5 never took off as a mainstream tourist destination - and most of the people there like it that way.
Many consider Colony Alpha 5 to be "behind the times," and they're not wrong. Kerani, like most "Fivers," tends to be skeptical of the more utopian attitudes that are prevalent among modern Earthers.
A hardy "space cowgirl," Kerani grew to be a natural athlete, mostly in individual and/or combat sports, unquestionably the most talented athlete on her planet... but she knew she was just a big fish in a small pond, and wanted more challenges, and therefore was open to recruitment by Starfleet Academy. Kerani had never been an especially good student, but to her own surprise found that she took naturally to the intellectual demands of an Academy education, and that intellectual stimulation enhanced her athletic efforts, and vice versa.
She also discovered that growing up on a ranch and working with animals gave her a lot of practical experience that was directly applicable to the Medical discipline.
Success at the Academy led Kerani to embrace her differences and non-conformity. She does what she likes, and isn't easily influenced by others, traits that can also come off as stubbornness and abrasiveness.