Usoa Arrigorriagakoa Eukenaren

Usoa Arrigorriagakoa Eukenaren is an excentric Science Officer of human (basque) origin.

Origins
Usoa was born from a line of space-wandering pioners and businesmen, she always lived on starships and space stations, and never walked on any real planet surface before. She was 14 years old, when her family's cargo-ship suffered a terminal hull-breach near the Gum-nebula area of the Orion-arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, and because at the time of the disaster she worked in a space-suit, she was the only suvirvor. She lived for months in the wreck without gravity and food - so she eated the dead bodies of the crew, between them his own family. She was later rescued by the Pa’haquel, an avian race of interstellar "whale-hunters", who traveled in nomadic packs on living starships made from the dead bodies of cozmozoidan star-jellies. She was adopted by one klan-leader, Wa'hase'Raph, then lived and hunted together with them, and she recieved scientific education by the Pa’haquels allies.

Starfleet carreer
After a disaster at the border of the Federation she and her adoptive father made contact with Starfleet, got enlisted as an officer, and made the scientific conversion in a special program. She is now one of the main experts on the field of working with alien technoilogies. In 2375, Usoa was secund officer of the USS al-Qazwini with rank lieutenant commander.

Relationships
In 2375, she is almost 36 standard Terran years old, but she never walked on any real planet surface before, she always lived on starships and space stations. Because of this, she has a phobia from real planetsurfaces, and her inhuman, cannibalistic, hunt-oriented past surrounds her like a dark aura. She celebrates strange Pa’haquel rituals together with her father on a daily basis, only this can help balance her traumatised memories. Because of such excentrities she never had any real relationship with any human. Secretly she is attracted to the Communications Officer of the ship, Neringa Zvikaite, but the other woman dont reflects her feelings.

Cultural Background

 * "Usoa" means "Dove" in old basque language. It is tradition in some basque dialects, that somebody has two surnames: "Arrigorriagakoa" means "the one from the place of the red stones" - it is the surname of her father -, and she also has the surname of her mother - -, "Eukenaren", which means something like "noble born".

Inner links
The writer of Star Trek: USS al-Qazwini had some inspiration in Usoas background by Star Trek: Aurora, and Christopher Benett's novels, but he intended to create an archetypical basque whale-hunter as science officer.