Editing Subcenturion Laban (section)

== Biography ==
What Laban has shared so far with her new shipmates is that she's from a (particularly obstreperous) colony world on the Federation border, where her family has a longstanding import/export business. Which may have included surreptitious trade across the Neutral Zone, but not if any busybody from Romulus is asking.

She was studying alien cultures and xenolinguistics at university--rather than business and law like her family would have preferred--when the Dominion War happened and the Imperial Fleet upended ''everyone's'' plans for her life by drafting her. Because she'd studied the Federation in school, she was assigned as a liaison on an Admiral's staff at one of the starbases, rather than to a ship on the line. The only combat she saw during the war was interservice bar brawls. (But with Klingons involved that almost counts.)

She comes off as very young, earnest, and determined to make this exchange program assignment a success. She thinks her studies have prepared her for life in the Federation but she's occasionally been wrong, sometimes comically so. She hasn't quite grasped yet that the map is not the territory.