Lieutenant Sakie Urano
Name Sakie Urano
Rank Lieutenant
Character Information
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | Human | |
| Age | 30 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 150 cm [4'11"] | |
| Weight | 41 kgs [90 lbs] | |
| Hair Color | Black | |
| Eye Color | Hazel | |
| Physical Description | On the cusp of five feet tall and 100 lbs, Sakie’s appearance does little to challenge the childesque impression lent by her size. Her features brim with youthful sleekness, and her frame is sufficiently petite for her uniform and personal attire—a mixture of traditional and smart postmodern Japanese—to conceal her shapeliness. She typically keeps her hair shoulder-length and in a bob. Learning Federation Standard young and plentiful application in recent years allows her to speak it relatively neutrally. However, bowing in certain social scenarios is still deeply ingrained in her psyche despite her time away from home, and those unfamiliar with Japanese culture may find themselves puzzled by some of her gesticulations. Inherently agile, she can nonetheless dabble in clumsiness when preoccupied. |
Family
| Other Family | Grandmother Kotone Imagawa |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Lexington is Sakie’s first deep space assignment. Despite her career fledging within the scope of support operations, she has long aspired to go into space. The personnel losses inflicted by the recent war have yielded an opportunity she enthusiastically seized despite compatibility cautions. Yet Sakie is no stranger to major life transitions: in hospitality prior to Starfleet, her budding curiosity drove her to leave her grandmother’s inn and explore Japan, during which she was propositioned into the start of her current path. |
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| Strengths & Weaknesses | Borrowed from https://www.16personalities.com. + Good-Natured: Sakie is enthusiastic, warmhearted, and approachable with an altruistic spirit and a friendly disposition. She strives for a good relationship with everyone and subsequently has a vast, diverse circle of friends and acquaintances. + Curious: Imaginative and open-minded, she can find beauty and fascination in a variety of things and doesn’t fear venturing out in search of new ideas and experiences. Such is also key to her voracious capacity for learning: she commenced her career with a rawer knowledge and skill base than many of her peers yet has eliminated much of the deficit since. + Excellent Communicator: She lives to connect with others and is thus an adept speaker and listener, giving her tremendous capacity for positive, enjoyable conversations. This is also her greatest strength as an ops manager; her interactions with others allow her to build a wealth of subjective knowledge and context that can allow her to effectively lead as well as manage. + Perceptive: Sakie believes that everything—and everyone—is connected, so no one is unimportant to her. To that end, she can notice the subtlest shifts in others’ disposition, and can also have a keen eye for material details. + Festive: However, she also knows how to find fun and joy in a moment and few things please her more than sharing it with others. - People-Pleasing: On the flipside, Sakie is so uncomfortable with the prospect of being disliked that she’s liable to make significant compromises on her end to prevent it. Failing to win someone over is a development she can lose sleep over trying to sort. - Disorganized: Her enthusiasm stops with activities like paperwork or housekeeping, as she finds them boring. The former is one of the few areas in which a superior might need to follow-up on her, while her efforts in the latter are a perpetual work in progress on account of her mind roving. - Overly Optimistic: Her rosy outlook can lead her to make naive decisions such as believing people who haven’t earned her trust or accepting (and sharing) hard, necessary truths. - Restless: She rarely seems upset or dissatisfied, yet her inner idealism can leave her with a nagging feeling that some aspects of her life just aren’t good enough. - Acute nausea: Sakie has a history of space sickness that initially kept starship service out of her reach. Recent advances in medicine and environmental control technology have made it accessible now, but she’s still prone to episodes, particularly if the inertial dampers and/or artificial gravity are compromised. |
| Personal History | Born in Japan in 2237, Sakie’s parents perished in a submersible accident shortly after her birth. She consequently spent her formative years under the care of her maternal grandmother, an innkeeper with whom she shared a functional but contentious relationship. Her elder believed Sakie’s inquisitiveness a nuisance to guests and in the case of those who indulged her granddaughter, unduly influential. Sakie grew to harbor ambitions of traveling yet minded her grandmother until she completed her secondary education, after which she convinced her to let her tour the country via its venerable railway system. She became a train steward to that end, enjoying it so that she spent her later teenage years on various excursion routes in hopes of promoting to conductor. However, she made a fateful friend on the cusp of doing so: among the guests she safeguarded when a lapse in the local seismic regulation network suspended their trip was a Starfleet officer impressed with her leadership and composure. He pitched joining to her, which she initially resisted. Yet just as tales of the world beyond her grandmother’s inn seduced her into venturing past its walls, the promise of worlds beyond Earth eventually wore through her conditioned acquiescence of a simple life. Sakie’s grandmother took exception and disowned her when she didn’t relent. But Sakie had unwittingly forged a support system out of those she worked with and served that picked her back up and spurred her on. She gained admission into Starfleet Academy after two years of attempts and chose to major in operations management, a track that would’ve mitigated her less honed STEM fundamentals if she hadn’t leaned hard into the challenge of improving them. The fruit of that effort manifested in the form of her graduating a year early as well as an invitation to return to Starbase 1, where she transferred during her cadet cruise after incurable susceptibility to space sickness hindered her ability to complete it aboard a starship. There, she gained additional experience and was placed into the support facility personnel rotation after expressing interest in career advancement. After a brief stint at Utopia Planitia Yards, she transferred to Starbase 11 and filled its deputy ops manager vacancy in addition to assuming the role of dockmaster. Unusual in that the latter was customarily held by the ops manager, the CO divided facility and dock management in response to workload issues. It worked: Sakie proved an adept facilitator, helping the repair yards endure as one of Starfleet's most decorated facilities. Such ensured it was tenaciously defended during the Klingon War, leaving her free to fret over Earth’s crumbling defensibility. A refit of the USS Potemkin near the war’s end preluded Sakie’s transition to ship service. A survivability overhaul of her environmental systems appeared to have the collateral effect of alleviating her space sickness and was verified by the subsequent, similar refit of the USS Kondakova. With this knowledge, she enthusiastically requested—and was granted—a priority transfer to exploratory operations. Her original orders to join USS Challenger upon completion were suddenly superseded by reassignment to the recently launched Lexington instead, denying her the opportunity to partake in a ship launch. Yet any disappointment with that is far outweighed by her excitement for achieving the thick of her hopes. . . |
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| Service Record | 2248-2251: Starfleet Academy, Cadet [ma. Operations Management, mi. Xenoculture]. Cadet cruise completed aboard USS Picatrix and Starbase 1. Accelerated program completion [cum laude], 60th percentile. 2251-2253: Starbase 1, Ensign [Relief Operations Manager Gamma] 2253-2254: Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards [Orbital Control], Ensign [Relief Operations Manager Delta]. Promotion to Lieutenant Junior Grade granted in 2253. 2254-2257: Starbase 11, Lieutenant Junior Grade [Deputy Operations Manager]. Position accepted in conjunction with Dockmaster responsibilities. Multiple commendations issued for unit efficiency and effectiveness. Promotion to Lieutenant granted in 2257. 2257-present: USS Lexington, Lieutenant [Operations Manager] |