Editing STA:Reac Crew Shath (section)

=Lifepath=
==Home & Upbringing==
*Starbase; Starfleet
*“My Home is Among the Stars; Honor is the Last to Go”

Shath Th'Ovinihr is an Andorian born from a heritage of Starfleet personnel. His parents would tell him often that members of the Ovinihr clan served as some of the first Andorians in Starfleet at the founding of the Federation, and that his was a heritage of honourable service and pride <br><br>
Shath grew up on DS-4 Station, where his family had been stationed to serve in Ops and Engineering, and he spent much of his time out of school exploring and getting to know the ins and outs of the Starbase. This curiosity extended out beyond his home station and he readily accepted his parents' expectations that he would go on into Starfleet himself when he came of age, a path that would allow him to go further into the stars that he had grown to admire.

==Starfleet Academy==
*Major: Command, Minors: Science
*“Never Ask Others to do What You Wouldn't.”
Enrolling in the Academy, Shath gravitated towards the command track, seeing this as his way of getting a ship of his own to explore with, as well as it being a good fit for his quiet brand of charisma. Minoring in sciences as well, especially Astronavigation kept him, he thought, well-rounded if a little sleep-deprived.<br>
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During a field exercise, where Shath was placed in command of a small team of cadets as a way of training for high-stress situations, Shath suffered a minor breakdown from the demands of issuing commands to the others that could wind up sending them into harm's way, harm that he felt he should go into himself first 
==Career Events==
*Mentor/ Dealing with a plague 
*“Hard Decisions Don’t mean Hard People”
Feeling disillusioned by what he saw as a lack of command material, Shath was approached by a Benzite Doctor, Parretha. The doctor had mentioned being impressed with Shath's work in the field exercise and had requested that the Cadet be assigned to her team for a work study period, where he would act as a pilot for the doctor in some of the more remote Federation colonies.<br>
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Shath eventually opened up to the Doctor as they were going about the program and confessed his lack of confidence and 'softness' that would have him wash out of the Command track. Parretha allowed that sometimes being in command meant that there would have to be hard decisions to be made, but that didn't mean that the person giving the commands had to be hard themselves. Indeed, compassion and empathy would be just as useful to the young officer as a willingness to make sacrifices in the name of difficult decisions. It was while Shath helped the doctor during a massive outbreak of Hyraxian Fever on the colony of Trico IV that he was ableto see what the doctor meant first hand, and the memories of Dr. Parretha's actions on that world have stayed with him. Heading back to the Academy after his time with Parretha finished, Shath took to his studies with a renewed vigor.