Forward Unto The Breach

Posted on Fri Nov 27th, 2015 @ 5:48am by Ensign Vex Krylore

Begin Personal Log:

I thought that the academy was going to be hard. I'm the first Unkari to leave the Empire in well... ever. I was the first of my people to board a strange shuttle and fly off to a planet full of totally unknowns. I was excited and scared to death. I had studied up on all the information I could about the Federation; the main members the, the charter, even the layout of the academy grounds. Yet I still wasn't prepared for the scope of the place when I stepped off the shuttle and saw it for the first time myself.

And then there were the people; oh so many people. It wasn't like home was a tiny colony, we had over 300,000 citizens of the empire living there but we were all Unkari. Maybe a few aliens but nothing compared to what I was going to encounter at the academy. And then I stood in the quad and realized just what it was that I got myself into.

I checked the database, there aren't a lot of Federation members that have three sexes, let alone ones that have a hermaphroditic one. On my planet, I would have been sought after as a mate, here I well, I wasn't sure what I was going to encounter. It helps that I look male, I am male... and I guess I'm not. It's such a hard concept to explain to someone that's not Niri.

I remember the first time I had to explain to August, who seemed very interested in the whole thing.

"So, you're a guy?" he asked.

"I use male pronouns," I said. "And I have much more masculine traits than I do feminine, that's why I identify as Niri. Those that have mostly female traits call themselves Niru."

And then August looked at me and just smiled. It was one of the first reactions that I got outside my species that wasn't loaded down with questions. After that it became a lot less awkward. Really, as August pointed out unless you got really intimate with me, then you would never know that I wasn't just a normal guy.

And then I ship out to my first assignment and I have that fear of having to answer those kinds of questions all over again. I know Starfleet is full of curious types but it was hard enough for me to make friends at the academy and there were thousands there, the Highlander is a lot smaller and I worry that I won't manage to fit in with anyone.

*Sigh* I should head to bed, showing up like a zombie for your first shift aboard the ship isn't' exactly what I call a good first impression.

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