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Lieutenant JG Malia Jacy

Name Malia Elu Jacy

Position Chief Operations Officer

Rank Lieutenant JG


Character Information

Gender Female
Species Human
Age 27

Physical Appearance

Height 5' 4"
Weight 128 lbs
Hair Color Dark Brown
Eye Color Dark Brown
Physical Description Mali keeps her hair long and typically unbound regardless of whether or not she’s in uniform. Her eyes, while dark, have often been described as warm and inquisitive; and though it takes a cup of coffee or three, by the time she leaves her quarters she’s wearing a perpetual smile. She sports a small tattoo between her shoulder blades of a bear paw; her spirit animal according to her mother’s people.

Family

Spouse
Children
Father Halian Jacy
Mother Kachina Jacy
Brother(s)
Sister(s)
Other Family

Personality & Traits

General Overview Malia is an eternal optimist. Quick to dismiss negativity and slow to lose her temper, there has been many a suggestion made that she would have done well to explore the diplomatic path in Starfleet. Mali is naturally nurturing, helpful, loyal, charismatic, honorable, tactful, resourceful, punctual, organized, and motivated.
Strengths & Weaknesses Strengths ~ Mali is very self aware. She knows her limitations and is not too prideful to admit her downfalls. She can be trusted to give an honest opinion when asked and to help anyone in any way where she feels that she can.

Weaknesses ~ Because of a natural tendency to think things through thoroughly, Mali is terrible at being ‘put on the spot’ and has a difficult time making split second decisions. She dislikes deadlines, finding them to be one of her true stressors.
Ambitions Due to her upbringing on various starships, Malia’s greatest true ambition is to one day settle on a planet and start a family that won’t be affected by transfer orders and duty requirements and where she can absorb nature much in the same way her ancestors had done. As far as her career goals, she aspires to the title of Chief Operations Officer.
Hobbies & Interests Mali is interested in everything. She has a love of knowledge, how things work and why. In the tradition of her lineage she has invested time in learning how to spin clay for pottery pieces and create jewelry, working primarily with beaded strands over metals; much easier to recreate in the holodeck. Her parents ensured she was educated in the mythology and tradition of their respective peoples as much as she could be on a starship. Outside of the holodeck she’s an amateur poet and enjoys challenging word and number puzzles as well as most card games. Mali also has a decent grasp of Pool, which she enjoys exercising now and then. Mali holds a special appreciation for ship arboretums as they’re the closest she can get to a nature setting in space.
Languages Federation Standard, primarily. She has a basic grasp of a few more common alien languages though.

Personal History Malia was born June 26th, 2359 aboard the USS Helios where her father served as the Chief Science officer. Like many other children born on starships, Mali grew up surrounded by ever changing scenery around the same structured core. Mali’s father changed ships three times in the course of her childhood which, though fostering her appreciation of many different aspects of varying ship classes, left her without a deep connection to most of the children she met; save one. As a result Malia grew up to be very close to both of her parents and grateful for the familial bond that came of it. Her father is her hero and her mother her best friend. During the early years of her education, Mali excelled in arts, writing, and literature related classes. Much to her father’s chagrin, she was only mildly competent in science based courses.

As the daughter of an officer and a ‘ship brat’ Mali never once thought that she wouldn’t follow in her father’s footsteps and spend her adult years the same way she’d spent her childhood ones; among the stars. Halian supported her decision 100% but her mother wasn’t shy about sharing her concerns for Mali’s life with her daughter. In the end, as with everything else Malia aspired to do, her mother supported her decisions and both of her parents attended her graduation with no reservations on her behalf.

During her first year as a cadet Malia took several ‘interest placement’ tests and what she took away from the results was that she’d do best in a position where she not only found a purpose but one that would offer her a lot of variety in her daily duties … or as much as an officer could find in the confines of a ship. She had interests in many departments aboard a ship but none that proved to be any more than the next. Indecision gripped her but a friendly counselor helped to guide her to her final decision to enter into Operations.

At the Academy Malia did about as well in her courses as she had in her youth. Arts based classes produced her best efforts while the engineering and science basics were something she viewed with necessity instead of passion. Mali made no excuses or apologies for this either. She firmly believes that some people are more fitted to certain skills than others which gave her the ability to be content with her stronger points while working to develop her weaker ones to what she felt was the best of her potential. Flight was another matter entirely, however. Though it wasn’t something she could ever envision making a career of, all of the intricacies that went into propelling crafts both large and small through space intrigued her and it was during these lessons that she understood she cherished the freedom and awesome perspective being a small speck in the part of something much larger than herself really gave her.

Outside of her classes, Malia found a world she’d always thought was there but hadn’t quite understood how much she’d enjoy it. She made friends easily with her open outgoing attitude and managed to retain a few more grown up friendships then the passing acquaintances of her childhood. Being on Earth also afforded her the opportunity to meet a few of her kinsmen during visits to the reservations of both her mother’s Hopi peoples as well as her father’s Zuni tribe. In these lengthy but infrequent visits, she found that she was proud of the accomplishments of her ancestors and felt closer to them for being able to not only witness but take part in some smaller familial ceremonies. Mali also finally got to spend some time with the women of the tribes who taught her how to use a ‘real’ loom and spinning wheel for clay; both feelings that still awe Malia to this day. Horseback riding and archery were both things that she discovered came naturally to her and gave her the basis for a few holodeck programs that she uses as frequently as possible both for fun and to relieve stress.

Her first posting was to the Intrepid class USS Warrior; something she viewed as the cosmos chuckling. Upon getting settled, she was pleased to find that she knew a few other new officers from the Academy which only made her more brazen in her questioning where it would benefit her to do her job better. On the Warrior she served under Lieutenant Elizabeth Braugh, a tough and functionality minded department head who taught the Ensign as much about what it meant to be an Ops officer as the Academy had. Lt. Braugh stressed upon Mali the importance of teamwork and camaraderie with the crew one served with and pushed home the point of strong communication and always remembering that no matter what one thought they knew about a certain department or function aboard a ship there will always be someone who is more able to spot a problem or find a solution as an operations officer themselves. ”If all the world is a stage,” Elizabeth had explained once, “and by all the world, I mean a ship here, then think of yourself as a supporting actress. It’s not your job to stand in the light and sing to the audience; it’s your job to make sure the audience is looking where they should and that the light shine more brightly on the lead for it.” For three years Mali molded her actions after Lt. Braugh’s and found little ways to make each assignment she was given an opportunity to learn something more; be it what to do in certain situations or sometimes what not to do. Of all of her responsibilities on the Warrior, Mali enjoyed inventory control and aiding the ship’s quartermaster the most. Her natural desire to organize and control a small part of her environment served her well in these functions. The Warrior had been on the last leg of her service when Mali had been assigned to her and at the end of three years she was recalled to dock.

Mali took a couple of months to explore the southwestern United States and gathered knowledge of other Native American tribes and traditions outside of her own heritage. It was during this time that she learned how to pair colored beads and stones to create art that could be worn as well as being introduced to an ancient form of tribal tattooing roughly translating to ‘tap tattooing’. Ever curious, Malia volunteered to let a burgeoning artist apply his trade to the skin between her shoulders. It was an experience Mali was grateful for, but not one she cared to repeat. During this short leave time as well as gaining traditional knowledge, Mali also found she had a more than passing interest in herbal medicine which led to her becoming acutely curious about the same type of belief applied in alien cultures and she added that to her personal list of knowledge to gain.

Her next posting placed her aboard the USS Eclipse. The Eclipse was a Defiant class vessel which was one class that Mali had never had any experience with. She liked the small nature of the ship and the smaller crew because it allowed her to become intimate much more quickly with the systems and the ship’s officers. Here she didn’t know any of her fellow crew and the Chief of Operations was a man who was just about the polar opposite of her previous boss. Lt. Jacob Marx touted the importance of Operations and made sure that just about everyone knew it. While Malia valued his experience and his pride for their duties she found it difficult to adhere to his attitudes of what some of the other crew would have described as superiority and ego. There was a good balance between the two, as Marx was excellent at split second decisions and projections in the area of supplies as well as having a strong engineering background which was something Mali still had yet to get a better grasp of. In the end though, because of the small size of the ship and the lack of any ability to find a connection with the Lt., Mali applied for a transfer only two short years after she first came aboard. Her reasoning of wanting to branch out a bit and take on the challenge of a more diversified and larger ship system was deemed acceptable and it was at this point that she was accepted to assist the department head on the USS Pandora.
Service Record Starfleet Academy: 2377 to 2381
USS Warrior: Operations Officer; 2381 to 2384
USS Eclipse: Operations Officer; 2384 to 2386
USS Pandora: Assistant Chief Operations Officer; 2386
USS Pandora: Chief Operations Officer; 2386 to present.