Dadria Nihl

Appearance
Dadria is 1.8 meters tall and weighs in at 47.7 kgs. A bit on the tall side and thin, perhaps unhealthily so. Her hair is straight and dark. She normally lets it grow freely until it’s length becomes inconvenient, at which point she cuts it herself. Because of this, it’s always straight cut.

Personality
Dadria is pragmatic to a fault. She’s cold. She’s calculating. Every problem is an equation that needs balancing, and she has no issues balancing it. This makes her a good quartermaster because she is brutally frugal. She keeps meticulous records on the stores of her ship, finding and eliminating any inefficiencies. This also makes her a terrible quartermaster, because she’s incredibly unsympathetic. Supplies for a party? No. Repairs for the holodeck? No. Preventative part replacement? No. Dadria will give you exactly what you need. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Those upset by her spartan policies have compared her to a Vulcan. Vulcans, however, would not appreciate this comparison. To some, her brutal pragmatism might seem to be purely logical. However, those who actually do operate on logic recognize her behavior for what it is. An obsession. A compulsion to eliminate waste. A form of paranoia, a deep seated fear of being without.

Ambitions
To have the most efficient ship in the fleet.

Morals
I’ll be the first to go without. I can’t ask people to go hungry if I’m not hungrier, to be cold if I’m not colder. My crew, those I’m responsible for, will always have more than me.

History
Life can be hard on a colony world. Many of the luxurious of Federation Space just aren’t set up yet. Life is simpler. Harder, in a lot of ways. But simpler. This was the soil Dadria Nihl grew in. The world that nourished her, that helped her grow and learn. A world where one had to get their hands dirty, where everyone had to work together to tame a wild world. Dadria grew from a little girl with a crooked smile to a hardworking young woman with a heart as big as the sea. Her mom worked repairing the farming equipment while her father worked in the water reclamation plant. She spent her after school hours with her mom. Not working, no she didn’t have near the technical knowledge for that. Simply spending time with her mother. Maybe she’d fetch a part or a tool, but the elder Nihl kept her daughter away from the heavy machinery. Those were happy days for Dadria, and even now she looks on them fondly.

Dadria joined Starfleet because … well, what is a small town planet to do? Sure, she could’ve stayed on her colony world, lived out her life there. But that wasn’t the life for her. Her first year at the academy was a bit rough. Mostly because she didn’t have any real idea what career path she should be taking. Command? She didn’t exactly have the most commanding presence and she didn’t think she had that it took to make the hard calls. Security? Tactical? No. She was a lover, not a fighter. Science? Small town hick planet, she didn’t have the makings of a great astronomer. Medical? She really didn’t have the stomach for it. The closest she found was Engineering. Dadria always had a knack for math and engineering let her apply that. It wasn’t until her third year that she really found her calling. Operations. Specifically, logistics. She wasn’t exactly top of her class. No, she was good, but not that good. What was more important was it was something she enjoyed. Something that challenged her in a satisfying way. She graduated 63rd in her class and began her career in starship logistics.

Dadria’s career was pretty uneventful. She did a good job, no doubt. But the thing about logistics is if you’re doing your job right no one will think about your job. Dadria was good at her job, and she was satisfied enough with that. Until the Wexford.

The USS Wexford. A small, long range survey ship, and her first position as a Quartermaster. Granted, she was the whole logistics department, but it was still a promotion! A chance to really prove herself. A chance for everything to go wrong. Far within unexplored space, a graviton storm destabilized the Wexford’s warp core. Leaving the thirty two man crew stranded countless light years from rescue. When the Wexford was found two years later, it was hailed as a miracle. It would’ve been amazing if anyone at all had survived that long. But there wasn’t one survivor, or half a dozen. But most of the crew was still alive. Starving, weak, and barely conscious. But alive. And, once they’d all received medical treatment, they all had the same thing to say. Dadria Nihl had saved them. If it weren’t for her, they never would have lasted long enough. She was a hero, she was slated for a commendation.

Dadria didn’t want to be a hero. She didn’t want a commendation. She just wanted to get back to work. Dadria declined the commendation and, as soon as medical cleared her, she got back to work.

Core Courses

 * ADMIN101: Star Fleet Operations
 * ADMIN110: Chain of Command and General Protocol
 * DIPL101: General
 * ENG221: LCARS Programming 1
 * ENG231: Computer Memory and Personnel Interfaces
 * ENG232: Replicators, Transporters, and Holodecks
 * ENG233: Sensors, Communications, and Helm Systems
 * HIST101: Birth of the Federation
 * LANG101: Federation Standard
 * LANG110: Major Species (Elementary) - Cadet's Choice
 * LAW101: Federation, General
 * MATH101: Concepts
 * MED101: First Aid and Field Medicine
 * PHYS101: Concepts
 * PILOT101: Runabouts and Shuttles
 * SURV101: Starship Emergencies
 * SURV110: Environmental Suits and Zero-G Training
 * TAC101: Combat, Unarmed
 * TAC110: Combat, Small Weapons
 * BIO101: Concepts
 * XEN101: General

Majors

 * ENG101: General Electronics
 * ENG111: Intermediate Electronics 1
 * ENG112: Intermediate Electronics 2
 * ENG121: Colossal Failures in Engineering
 * ENG311: Starship Engineering
 * ENG330: Bio-Neural Components
 * PHYS350: Thermodynamics
 * MATH250: Differential
 * ARM101: Introduction to Weapons
 * ARM110: Hand Phasers, Phaser Rifles and Artillery

Minors

 * ENG222: LCARS Programming
 * ENG312: Subspace Mechanics
 * ENG321: Base-Mode Programming
 * ENG322: Base-Mode Operations
 * ENG331: Operations and Command Functions
 * ENG420: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
 * ENG421: Automata, Computability, and Complexity
 * MATH440: Topology

Trivia
Dadria still owns a stuffed toy from her childhood. It's the only thing she owns that she'd be unwilling to recycle.

Likes

 * When things make sense
 * Having more than enough
 * Peace and quiet
 * Reading paper books
 * Working

Dislikes

 * When things go wrong
 * Being hungry
 * Combat
 * Feeling useless