Editing STA:Reac Crew Kerani (section)

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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.