Lieutenant Jaya Thorne
Name Jaya Louise Thorne
Position Chief Flight Control Officer
Rank Lieutenant
Character Information
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | Human - Deneva Colony | |
| Age | 31 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5'5" | |
| Weight | 152 lbs | |
| Hair Color | Brown | |
| Eye Color | Brown | |
| Physical Description | Jaya seemed to wear a smirk 24/7. She was also fond of frowns, grimaces and looks of boredom or disgust. When she did truly smile, however, it could light up a room. She was a little taller than average height and at first glance, didn't look as heavy as she was because most of her weight was in muscle. She had full, firm C-cup breasts and a nice round ass. Her tummy wasn't flat, but not flabby either. Her hair was dark auburn and fell anywhere from her shoulders to her middle back, depending on how long she let it grow. She usually wore it up in a ponytail or bun. Her eyes were a lighter shade of the same color of brown. She felt most like herself when she was lounging about her quarters, alone, in comfy clothes. To that end, she often wore sweatpants or pajama pants and a t-shirt or tank top when she was in her room. |
Family
| Spouse | N/A | |
| Children | N/A | |
| Father | James Thorne | |
| Mother | Constance Spader | |
| Brother(s) | None | |
| Sister(s) | None | |
| Other Family | Maternal grandparents, 2 maternal aunts, 1 maternal uncle all on Deneva. Paternal family unknown. |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Jaya had trust and abandonment issues stemming from early in her life. She tended to keep people at a distance so she wouldn't risk getting hurt. She also put herself in risky situations just for "the thrill of it". She had never properly dealt with her grief over losing her mother or the pain that her mother's family caused her by abandoning her. While she saw her father as the only family she had left, she was still wary around him. He had changed so much from when she was little, and she still harbored a lot of resentment because he wasn't there for her when she needed him the most. She still admired her father, though, and would do almost anything to make him proud. Jaya believed that respect was earned, and she was loyal to those who earned hers. She hated snitches, and was still angry at the crewman who sold her out. She believed in karma and cosmic justice, despite the religion that her mother's family tried to instil in her. While she did believe in love, she saw no purpose to the institution of marriage. She did, however, recognize that everyone had need for sexual pleasure and she was more than willing to indulge herself if the occasion arose. Jaya prefered men over women for sex, and she's never slept with a non-humanoid (to her knowledge). She could be prone to hot-headed behavior and rash decisions when her emotions were running high. She was a fan of sassy remarks, comebacks and bad puns. She had kleptomaniac tendencies and struggled to keep them in check. |
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| Strengths & Weaknesses | Loyal, stubborn, mischievous, hot headed, klepto, daddy issues, childhood trauma | |
| Ambitions | Discover something no one has seen before through flight | |
| Hobbies & Interests | Toy starship, miniature figures, drinking, etc |
| Personal History | Jaya Thorn was born in January of 2342 on Deneva. Her mother worked as a geologist and helped locate Denevan Crystal outcroppings & underground growth locations for extraction. Her father worked for Earth Cargo Services doing freighter-line runs. Despite her parents productive tryst and obvious affection for one another, Jaya grew up with very little of influence from father. His runs kept him away for long periods of time, and she guessed that was why her parents never got married. But each time he would come home, he'd bring her a present: a toy ship. She would listen for hours as he told her stories of flying through the sky to deliver his "number one important cargo", or how it feels to break through the atmosphere of a planet, or of dangerous space battles with evil pirates from which he would barely escape. The days when he would be home were among her favorite days of the year and she cherished his stories (and toys) above everything else. But growing up in basically a single-parent home wasn't easy. Since her mother worked long hours to support their daily life, Jaya spent most of her childhood being watched by her mother's family. While they were always kind to her, she heard their hateful whispers about her father (because they were never quite spoken behind closed doors and children are precocious). It devastated the little girl to know that the man she idolized as her hero could be such an villain in the eyes of her grandma, grandpa, aunts & uncles. So when her father was home for a week (around Jaya's 8th birthday), she decided to sneak aboard his ship and go with him when he left. It took 2 hours for her mother to get a hold of him, and another 20 minutes for him to find Jaya hiding on his ship. The argument that erupted between her mother and father, upon Jaya's safe return home, was the first time she'd ever seen them fight.. and it was bad. After that, Jaya's father didn't come home anymore. She would write to him, but he never responded back. If it weren't for the toy ships that appeared randomly in her rom , she would have thought he'd either run off or died. But with her father now out of the picture, Jaya's mother slowly began falling apart. Within a year, the woman had lost her job and her home, and so Jaya and her mother moved in with Grandma & Grandpa. Not long after, however, Jaya's mother fell ill and quickly passed. The grief of losing a daughter combined with the resentment they felt towards Jaya's father suddenly made grandma & grandpa's home a dangerous place for the little girl. But with few options on the table, Jaya had to improvise as best as she could. Jaya's temperamental mood and rough attitude reflected the turbulence she was dealing with at home, but it also chased away most of her school friends. In their place, she started to attract a new crowd of kids. Her new friends helped her cope with the chaos she was dealing with at home and gave her something to look forward to at the end of the day. She was 10 the first time she picked a mark, and she quickly became addicted to the thrill of stealing. From there, the door opened for Jaya into a new world: the world of crime. She learned very quickly that being cute would open up more wallets than being sneaky would. She also learned how to read people and react quickly when things went south. And when all else fails, stealth plus a good distraction always works. Now, armed with a means of getting money and several loyal friends who helped with her schemes, Jaya felt that her life was finally on the upswing. But after just 2 years of running her gang of friends, she was caught and arrested. Jaya spent the night in a holding cell, waiting for someone to come and get her, but her family was done with her antics. Her grandparents requested that Jaya be sent to a reform school, or some place like it, where "bad kids" like herself could be "fixed". The paperwork was completed that afternoon and the following day, Jaya arrived at her new boarding school. There was no freedom there, and to make matters worse, Jaya wasn't the top dog anymore. Now she was the new kid. But her time there was short. After only 2 months, she got into a fight with another student and she attacked him, and almost killed him. Jaya was officially arrested and sent off to a juvenile detention facility to await trial. Despite being once again at the bottom of the pecking order, Jaya wasn't the only newbie, but she was the most popular one. Her con schemes had become popular gossip and everyone wanted to meet the girl behind them. But with fame also came jealousy. It only took one trip to the hospital for Jaya to realize that she either had to come out on top, or become a nobody. This time, Jaya chose to be remembered. It took many more fights and trips to the hospital, but she earned her respect. She also earned her GED. When the time came for her release, just after her 18th birthday, she had changed. Jaya's first priority now was to find her father. He was the only family she had left that might actually care about her and she was tired of being alone. But where to start? She put out feelers using her new connections, and received word back about a place he'd been known to frequent when he was in town. Jaya waited 3 months for his return, but their reunion was bittersweet. She wasn't the same starry-eyed little girl anymore and he no longer had space stories to tell her. The loss of his daughter and beloved a decade prior had changed him. Even so, he would always be her hero, so when he encouraged her to apply to Starfleet and leave Deneva, she didn't know what to think. She made him promise to keep in touch before they went their separate ways, and he promised to get her a job with the freighter-line. Her father was good to his word, and a week later she was learning the basics of piloting. Within a year, Jaya had become one of the best pilots for Earth Cargo Services. She went on to build quite a reputation for herself over the next 7 years, but she had never quite let go of her checkered past. During one of her longer supply runs, Jaya's ship was attacked by raiders and all their supplies were stolen. The ship was left mostly stranded and the task of limping her along to the nearest friendly star base fell to Jaya. Of course, when they arrived on Starbase 10 requesting repairs and assistance, and spouting a story of an another attack, they caught the ear of Starfleet. One by one, the crew was asked about the attack and everything they remembered. Someone on the starbase must also have done some digging, because after questioning everyone once, Jaya found herself in a second face-to-face with Security. They pulled her ship's logs and made an interesting find: it seemed that the same group of raiders hit her supplies every 3 months like clockwork. Starfleet had only one answer for that kind of coincidence: Jaya must be smuggling goods under the table. Jaya denied all accusations until she was shown a recording of one of her newer crew members explaining the details behind the "arrangement". Starfleet tried every trick in the book to pull a confession from the stubborn woman, but she refused. She knew what those raiders did to people who blabbed. Frustrated with her lack of communication, Jaya was sentenced to 3 years for smuggling illegal goods and another 5 years for obstructing a Federation investigation, but it was better than the fate that awaited her if she snitched. The looming threat of the Dominion proved to be her saving grace though, as she only served one year and a few months of her sentence before being recruited into Starfleet. The call for able-bodied persons with flight experience did not go unnoticed around the starbase. Neither did the option to commute the senescence of minor offenses directly into service time. Eager to fly again, Jaya enlisted with Starfleet. Her first ship was little more than a transport vessel and her time was spent checking manifests and cleaning out Cargo holds. Jaya spent the next two years working her way up the chain to CONN officer. The flights were routine and simple, but she cherished them. It wasn't meant to last though. Just a couple years later, The U.S.S. Resolution was in need of a helmsman and apparently Starfleet had assigned the job to her, with a crossover promotion to Ensign to boot! |
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| Service Record | 2360- GED earned, landed job with ECS 2367- charged with piracy, interred at SB10 2369- enlisted in Starfleet on bonds of 6 year commuted sentence 2369- assigned to courier ship USS La Zee Suzette 2371- assigned to USS Resolution |