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Name: Seven of Nine (Annika Hansen)
Canon: Star Trek: Voyager
Original or Alternate Universe: Original
Canon Point: During the episode 'Year of Hell'
Number: RNG one?

Setting: Wiki article on Voyager

History:
Seven was born as Annika Hansen on the Federation colony at Tendara, in the year 2350. Her parents (Erin and Magnus) were exobiologists, scientists that decided to make their specialization studying the Borg--a race of cybernetic humanoids assimilated from various species throughout the galaxy, that the Federation was only recently aware of. The Hansens were granted use of a ship, the USS Raven, and set off to study the Borg along with young Annika, then 4 years old.

The Hansens spent just shy of three years embroiled in their research, having followed a Borg ship back to the Borg's region of origin. Being a small ship, with shielding advancements invented by Magnus Hansen that made it undetectable, the Raven was able to continue its study of the incredibly dangerous Borg. In 2356, their luck ran out and the Raven was damaged in an ion storm, which allowed the Borg vessel they were following to detect them, and the small ship was captured, the Hansens assimilated--down to little Annika, age 6.

At the point of Annika's assimilation, she ceased to exist as an individual. The Borg Collective, made up of drones without free will or even independent thought, were a single consciousness of which she became one part: Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix 01. During the 18 years she spent as Borg drone, Seven assisted in the assimilation of millions of individuals from many different species, but the Borg bit off more than they could chew with one of them, known only as Species 8472.

The Starfleet vessel Voyager happened to be beginning what would be an arduous journey through Borg space during the brief war between the Collective and Species 8472, a conflict that threatened to overrun the entire galaxy. Captain Kathryn Janeway, newly made aware of the threat by 8472 attacking her ship and crew, offered a solution to the Borg: an alliance, technology that could be used as weaponry against their common enemy in return for safe passage through Borg space. Seven was assigned to work with Voyager as a liaison, and through a series of unfortunate events including the destruction of the Borg cube she had been on and the decompression of the cargo bay on Voyager the surviving Borg had claimed, Seven became the only drone on board. She was severed from the Collective when the alliance between them and Voyager was broken. Due to the fact that she was human, Captain Janeway took responsibility for her, and decided to keep Seven aboard.

After being separated from the hive mind, Seven was belligerent and unwilling to accept her humanity. Her body was rejecting her Borg implants, however, so unless they were removed she would die. (...and she still demanded that Janeway let her.) Janeway ignored her wishes, and most of Seven's Borg technology was removed and Seven started down the long road to finding her individuality.

It was an incredibly bumpy road at first. Seven took opportunities to try and contact the Borg Collective, was abrasive and infuriating to most of the ship's crew, and Seven had a hard time understanding their motivations as well. Shortly after Seven was freed from the Collective, Voyager passed near a moon in a sector of space belonging to the B’omar species, where her parents’ partially-assimilated ship had crashed. A Borg homing device on it was still active, and it caused Seven to have hallucinations of a raven and Borg drones chasing her. It also reactivated some of her implants, causing her to leave Voyager in an attempt to find it and rejoin the Collective. Instead, she regained her full memories of her assimilation--this point was when she decided to remain an individual of her own free will.

(Still wasn’t very good at it though.)

After an incident where an alien species experimented on the crew of Voyager, and Seven was the only one that could see them, they encountered a powerful weapon--a time ship, equipped with a weapon capable of eliminating entire worlds from the space-time continuum. While visiting with diplomats from the Za’al species, the ship was engulfed by a temporal shockwave that eliminated the alien diplomats and changed Voyager’s circumstances drastically. They were faced now with the Krenim, a species with powerful weapons that could cut through Voyager’s shields like they weren’t even there. Voyager was heavily damaged, and while attempting repairs Seven found an undetonated torpedo lodged in Voyager’s hull. She was able to use scans of it to alter Voyager’s shields to defend against the time ship’s weapons, but the weapon detonated with her and Commander Tuvok nearby. He protected her, causing him to be injured and go blind. Seven took it upon herself to assist him in day to day tasks--the ship falling apart around all of them made just existing aboard Voyager difficult.

The continued conflict with the Krenim and Voyager’s damaged state caught up with the ship eventually, after a direct conflict with the Krenim timeship. The rank and file crew was ordered to abandon ship. Seven remained on board with the command crew, her engineering expertise put to hard work getting the ship even vaguely functional.

Personality:
Seven's personality is somewhat difficult to deal with for those who are not used to her. She's awkward in her humanity and tends to be blunt and abrasive, if not outright dismissive. It’s hard for people to get a read on her, as she doesn’t outwardly display what she’s thinking and feeling--at the point she’s at in her development, she doesn’t even know half the time either. She finds social decorum tedious and confusing, and often ignores it outright. She often clashes with others, over things ranging from how to handle ship maintenance to her social skills (or lack thereof.) As she spends more time on Voyager as an individual, Seven's personality becomes more and more distinct, despite the hiccups--she may be 25 years old, but she acts a lot like a rebellious teenager at times.

While she seems emotionless, Seven is anything but. She's driven by logic, but also by emotion--expressed differently than some and more subdued, but not any less. She's headstrong and stubborn, and capable of acting with passion. She feels fear--but often not in the situations that one would expect, or if she does she doesn't show it. She feels and shows regret for the atrocities she committed while part of the Borg collective, even if logically she knows that she wasn't responsible. She feels anger towards her parents for their carelessness leading to them and her being assimilated, and she feels love and caring toward the members of Voyager’s crew she is close to. She is especially close to the command crew (of note are her interactions with Harry Kim, Tom Paris, Tuvok, the Doctor and Captain Janeway, whom she would consider friends and mentors, and B’Elanna Torres, whom she respects but clashes with often since they both have amazing tempers), Naomi Wildman, and Neelix, and when interacting with them she seems to be more relaxed and show her emotions more freely. With other crewmembers, she tends to be more reserved, but can be at the very least cordial when she needs to be. However, ironically, she does not function well when left alone (she does have a degree of eremophobia, the fear of being alone) despite her natural inclination to distance herself from others. No matter what, she is very protective of her crew and actually very loyal. If she was really aware of the concept of family at her time point, that is how she would define them.

Seven is highly intelligent and driven, both stubborn when she believes she’s right and adaptive to new situations. She demands perfection of herself and others, which can make her difficult to deal with even for those who genuinely like her. Seven’s work drive, perfectionism, and ability to adapt to new situations are aspects of her personality that she retained from being part of the Borg collective, and something that she actually respects and admires of them despite her eventual disgust and hatred for the Borg in general. Things she’s adapted from learning how to function as an individual is a tendency to play devils’ advocate--she can dispassionately see the validity of two conflicting points of view and will not hesitate to point out something others may find distasteful, such as her blunt acknowledgement of another species’ use of capital punishment even when the rest of the crew was horrified by it.

She doesn’t participate much in traditional recreational activities, even in her off time, preferring to spend her free time researching, working, or regenerating. She will at times participate in things she would define as frivolous, such as playing kadis-kot and practicing music. When asked she will sometimes try other things, though activities that require more creative thought, such as participating in Voyager’s holodeck simulations, are harder for her to enjoy as she tends not to play along--her capability for imaginative thinking is mainly limited to invention and application of technology. She does have a sense of humor, but it's dry and often rather off-beat, it may not even be apparent that she’s joking. Her manner of speaking is rather formal, almost to the point of sounding awkward and robotic.

Abilities, Weaknesses and Power Limitations:
Seven is human, however her physiology is still enhanced with Borg technology. Her senses are better--sight, smell, and hearing at least. Her right eye is completely artificial and can be used to see heat signatures, radiation, and infrared with adjustment. She also has an eidetic memory--not a natural skill, but her brain is thoroughly shot through with technology and she basically has a supercomputer between her ears. By 24th century standards. Her perfect recall is due to being able to call up images from data memory. Her heart and respiratory systems are also reinforced, enabling her to survive in lower oxygen concentrations without ill effect. She's more resistant to injury, illness, and radiation than a normal human, and is also physically much stronger than a normal human woman of her age and physical type. Aside from the benefits granted by her technological enhancements, Seven is highly intelligent (a trait she showed even as a child) and skilled with all forms of technology, able to analyze and adapt to using existing technology quickly and fabricate other technology given the time and resources.

Her Borg implants aren't all awesome--they make her susceptible to electromagnetic interference. Electromagnetic pulses can be used to knock her out, and if they're strong enough could likely kill her. They are also prone to malfunction, and since the ones she has left are generally in control of vital organs, they present a serious medical risk. She also has to regenerate in a Borg alcove to maintain her cybernetics, and if she goes a long time without she experiences symptoms similar to sleep deprivation that can also cause her to lose consciousness if it goes on long enough. She doesn't normally sleep like a normal person, though she can if for some reason she's unable to regenerate, and it helps to mitigate those symptoms. If pressed, she can go for a year with minimal regeneration, as she has needed to do during the year Voyager was under attack by the Krenim.

Inventory:
(1) brown bodysuit + Starfleet commbadge (non-functional)
(1) standard tricorder
(1) type 2 phaser
Appearance:
Seven is a tall woman with medium-length blonde hair that she always keeps pulled tightly back. Her eyes are blue, the right one surrounded by the remainder of a Borg ocular implant. There is also part of an anchor for what was her faceplate on her left cheek, near her ear. Her right hand still has the skeleton framework of Borg technology covering it, capping her fingertips and running over the tops of the digits, back to the wrist, where it runs underneath her skin.

An image of Seven of Nine can be seen here
Age: 25

AU Clarification: Not applicable

S A M P L E S
Log Sample:
Floating, weightless, in a chamber filled with viscous liquid, wasn’t a precisely novel experience for Seven of Nine, who had come of age in a Borg maturation chamber. She couldn’t say she found the comparison comforting, after the so recent trauma of recalling what precisely had happened to her aboard the Raven. It certainly wasn’t where she was supposed to be, Voyager had no such stasis facilities, certainly not near Astrometrics. Even if she did, after the vicious Krenim attacks they would more than likely not be functional, as 87 percent of the ship’s non-vital systems were.

The breathing tube down her throat pulled itself out with an uncomfortable scraping burn, likely to leave her voice hoarse until her nanoprobes could repair the minute damages, and she was released to fall on the floor, her body covered in the blue gel and hair stubbornly clinging to her face. A self-diagnostic to attempt to explain the feeling of nausea and dizziness came up with nothing, which in itself was disturbing. Seven did not take well to unexplained feelings of illness, not with the delicate balance of technology with her organic systems. The gentle thrum of the deck plating beneath her hands was familiar to her as breathing, enough to determine she was at least on a starship despite the unfamiliar configuration and dim lighting. Could it be the interior of a Krenim vessel? Or another hostile environment, one she was unprepared for?

She was functioning within acceptable parameters. Her first priority should be ascertaining her location--Krenim ship or otherwise--and finding a way to return to Voyager.

Seven stood abruptly, grounded by the minute fluctuations of the deck and a renewed sense of purpose.

Comms Sample:
[The expression of the woman on the communications feed is deceptively calm--the anxiety and anger in her eyes the only indication that she is in a less than restful place in her spirit, so to say. Her voice is equally level, when she speaks.]

I would speak with the individuals in the Engineering crew. I have expertise that would be best utilized in the maintenance of this vessel.

[This vessel that uncomfortably reminds her of damaged hallways, flickering lights, crew injured or dead or scattered to the stars--a crew that needed her. It’s lucky the lighting isn’t green, or she’d be snapping at everything and everyone. She straightens even further, as if her spine’s been replaced by an iron rod. (It’s reinforced with multiple metallic alloys, but that’s not the point at the moment.) She’s been led to understand that the faster this ship reaches its final destination, the faster she can return, and that is her only priority at the moment.]

If there are Starfleet personnel present, I would also request that you contact me.

[A beat--obviously someone is not 100% concentrating on their manners right now, and Seven’s one of those that needs to.]

Thank you.