STA A More Perfect Union/Linnea

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Background

Quite possibly one of the last Ocampa from Suspiria's colony to remember - if only barely - the last days of the Caretaker's life before old age caught up to her as it had with her mate, Linnea was still a young child when the colony was left without their guardian to protect or direct them. Her parents were a little less arrogant and a bit more curious than the norm for the colony and so they struck out on their own to explore with their daughter. Unfortunately, the Borg were not at all far away, and the modifications that Suspiria had made to the biology of her Ocampa were very interesting to the Borg. Now, this happened at some point in the 280s - the Ocampa were not exactly on the same calendar as the Federation, after all - and yet she's only four years old. Most of one year was spent as a happy little Ocampa, and a similar amount of time was spent getting most of the implants out of her and helping her adjust to abruptly being in the Federation of the 2450s. The middle two and a bit years are ... complicated.

DTI complicated, although at least not especially so by their standards. The number of phenomenon that can displace a ship in space and time are not especially high, for sure, but neither are they unheard of. A Borg probe ending up a few thousand light years from it's previous location is honestly more unusual than a few decades being skipped over in the process. (The probe, outdated and confused when it couldn't detect the larger Collective had been easy for Starfleet to disable, incidentally)

Still wanting to learn more about other species - but without doing it the Borg way - Linnea had considered Starfleet but instead gravitated towards the diplomatic service, especially after seeing footage and documentaries about the T'Rongovian accession to the Federation. Their concept of Radical Empathy appealed to her, and she has been part of developing a modern take on the concept.

One of her early mediation missions, negotiating a dispute between frontier mining colonists and Starfleet, who had wanted to construct their own outpost on the planet, led to an early example of the successes of her fledgling model. Neither side especially respected the other, and both had honest concerns about the activity of the other and the role those activities were possibly having on the recent geological instability of the region, and the situation between the two groups was going nowhere until, the leader of the colonists incapacitated by worsening planetary conditions and the Starfleet team cut off from their own command by those same conditions, she stepped in and took charge of both, aware of their grievances and concerns and able to inspire both sides to follow her direction on a third path that addressed most of the concerns of both parties.

Another example, and one a bit less discussed as being successful revolves around how her empathy is strong enough - possibly influenced by the latent telepathic abilities of the Ocampa - that her response to negotiating with a warlike alien culture whose representatives who saw the Federation as peaceful, weak and undeserving of respect found their aggression mirrored by the tiny Ocampa woman. The Federation did not get the peace they wanted in the region, but relations did improve, as apparently getting too caught up in empathy with their aggression to the point that it took two of them and a Starfleet security officer to pry Linnea off of their lead representative's face - taking his ear with her - did more to earn their respect than any prior diplomatic overture.

With more knowledge of the Delta Quadrant than all but a handful of individuals remaining from the Voyager and Protostar missions, Linnea was attached to the mission to provide her understanding of the local species and cultures.

(So, career events, and the whole Radical Empathy Value being used and compelled there. She not only knows what the other side is feeling, but feels it herself, which helps with convincing them of her sincerity, but she can get a bit caught up in it. Those last guys wanted a fight and so, so did she.)

In terms of appearance, she's a small, slight, somewhat androgynous young woman, with hair. The hair varies wildly in style, length and colour/s on a near daily basis as she's still getting used to individuality. She's certain she's a she, but everything else in flux. She's also has numerous piercings and a few tattoos, using the bodily modification as both an expression of herself and as a way to assert control over her body after the whole, you know. Borg thing.