Editing STA:Reac Crew Kerani (section)

=Lifepath=
==Home==
*Frontier Colony: Times Change, People Don’t”
Kerani's family are ranchers on 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, 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.  Despite 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 this is not inaccurate.  Kerani, like most "Fivers," is by no means a Luddite or anti-technology, but she is skeptical of the utopian attitudes that seem to have become dominant in the Federation over the past century.

==Upbringing==
*Rural/Agricultural 
A hardy "space cowgirl," Kerani grew to be a natural athlete, mostly in individual and/or combat sports, unquestionably the most talented athlete on the planet... but she knew she was just a big fish in a small pond, and wanted more challenges, so responded positively to recruitment from the...

==Starfleet Academy==
*Major Sciences, Minors Command/Security
*“Sound Body, Sound Mind”
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.

==Career Events==
*Mentor/ Called out a Superior 
*“I don’t give a damn what others think of me”
During her final year at the academy, '''Lieutenant Commander Nicole Jansrud''' joined the Academy athletic department as [team sport] coach.  Already legendary as the best Parrises Squares player Starfleet Academy had ever produced, she had already established a name for herself as a coach as well, managing a professional Squares team during a sabbatical from Starfleet.

'''LTCMD Jansrud''' convinced Kerani to join the team despite the fact that she'd never really participated in team sports at a high level.  (Ishrelia, of course, wound up on the team as well.)  Jansrud's mentorship taught Kerani valuable lessons about both sport and leadership - the sort of teamwork necessary in Starfleet... as well as lessons from this unconventional maverick officer about how one sometimes has to bend the rules to succeed.

All was going well until one day, when Kerani's mentor approached her about participating in a match-fixing scheme originated by a Ferengi gambling syndicate.  If she and Ishrelia, the team's two stars, just "let up" a little in the next match, it could be lucrative for all of them.

Though she didn't want to go against her mentor, and knew that the ensuing scandal would tarnish the reputation of a great sports hero, Kerani nevertheless went to the authorities.  The investigation that resulted uncovered even more crimes, implicating several powerful Federation and Starfleet officials.  During that trying time, to Kerani's surprise, Ishrelia (who Kerani thought of as somewhat unscrupulous and prone to doing anything to gain an advantage) had her teammate's back all the way.

It should be noted that the Jansrud case (not unlike the Pete Rose case in the 20th century) was covered heavily in the media, and nearly everyone has an opinion on it.  The majority opinion is that justice was served appropriately, but a significant minority believe that Jansrud essentially did nothing wrong (she was betting on her own team to win) or that as a relatively minor player in a larger conspiracy, she only deserved a light punishment as opposed to being given a court martial and  lifetime ban from her sport.

Success at the Academy and the experience of the scandal 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.

==Finishing Touches==
<pre style="color: gray">*“Our relationship is… well, it’s complicated” (Value superseded by "Know the procedure but trust your gut" 
Ishrelia confuses the hell out of Kerani, and their relationship seems to defy analysis.  They have nothing in common, right?  Besides that intense physical attraction?  (And what was up with THAT, Kerani asked herself.  For one thing, she still thought of herself as straight, and had never been physically attracted to any other girl....)

Even stranger was the notion that they might have more in common than either thought, and might even... like each other?</pre>

==Changed Value==
*"Know the procedure but trust your gut" 
Kerani is in the process of melding the ways of her frontier background with her Starfleet training, and finding that synergy is possible.