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LoAmi

The Complete Lo'Ami Bio

A somewhat irreverant and speculative compilation of the history of the Lo'Ami hosts, as interpreted from your contributions.

 

 

The Tale of Lo'Ami

 

Last summer (2003), some of you contributed previous hosts during Lt. Arphazad Lo'Ami's zhian'tara. During the ritual, previous hosts temporarily possessed crew members' bodies and told their stories. Thus, the history of Lo'Ami was recovered from the amnesiac symbiont. In the process, Arphazad gained more control over and recall of the memories from previous lifetimes. Once again, thanks to everyone from STSF who contributed. When placing hosts in time slots, I tried to be as faithful as I could to the contributor's story (within the constraints of the timeline and keeping the Lo'Ami symbiont alive in the present).

(All years referenced are Earth standard)

 

 

 

It all began in the dark ages, the dawn of space flight on Trill. Then, the young, adventurous Trill, who spit in the face of danger - in other words, the stupid ones - booked themselves as crew members on the first cargo ships they could find, in search of excitement. The governments frowned on the practice, but let it continue with the promise of riches from far-off worlds. The Symbiosis Commission looked on with a watchful eye, lest a symbiont be lost to the Trill forever, in the voids of space.

 

 

Enter Haya'la (1780-1831), who was joined at the age of 19 as the first host to the Lo'Ami symbiont. One of the new, spacefaring generation, she charmed the host who tested her into recommending her joining. Promptly afterwards, she stunned the Symbiosis Commission and the government, and enlisted into the crew of the P'qod, a light cargo vessel. As was the custom, they set a course for a promising looking planet, and hoped for the best. Unfortunately for this crew, their course was 2.7 degrees off, leaving them fuelless and helpless next to a primitive planet that wasn't even close to developing space flight. This backwater planet was known to some of its inhabitants as "Earth." With no choice, the crew packed their belongings and landed, leaving their ship in a highly elliptical orbit. It would crash into the Siberian wilderness a century later, in 1908. The crew hardly blended in to the local inhabitants, forcing them to move around frequently. Haya'la and fellow crew member Edom raised a son. Haya'la and Edom eventually succumbed to an influenza epidemic during their travels in the city of New Orleans. After Haya'la's death, Edom was forced to remove the Lo'Ami symbiont from his lover, and place it in their 7 year old son, who would have been too young for joining on the homeworld. In Edom's dying breaths, he was left in a local Christian orphanage with a short note about his heritage hidden in a Bible...

 

Frances (1831-1908, contributed by: Dacotah, implied) grew up an orphan. He was educated in the strict and religious atmosphere of St. Michael's. He was never adopted, perhaps because of his "deformed" spotted face. He was apprenticed in the medical arts to the priest-doctor who took him in. Now a grown man, the attractions of the other side of New Orleans overcame his "moral character." On a supply run for the orphanage, one of his dalliances produced an unwitting result - a daughter. Given that the mother, a harlot, wanted nothing of the child, Dr. Frances took her into the orphanage. In what turned out to be ironically good fortune, a ship had overturned in a Gulf of Mexico storm. The child would become an orphan at St. Michael's, ostensibly the lucky survivor of the shipwreck. Dr. Frances stayed far away from her, until he knew it was time to pass on the Lo'Ami symbiont, as the now yellowed and torn note in the Bible had told him to do.

 

Marie (1908-1938, contributed by: Dacotah) was half-human, half-Trill the daughter of Dr. Frances Lo'Ami and a girl known only as "Raphaelle." Being a half-breed, and so young at the time of joining (15), she was never able to fully access the experiences of the previous hosts, and, thus, went to her deathbed thinking that she was orphaned by a shipwreck. However, she had the sense of adventure of Haya'la, the moral tendencies of Frances, and, eventually, the profession of her mother. At 16, she ran away from St. Michael's, unwilling to become a Sister. Her beauty quickly landed her a job as a dress model in an upscale boutique. There, she met her business partner and eventual husband, Jean-Pierre Latour. With her help, their establishment, La Perle Rose {The Pink Pearl}, would become the greatest little whorehouse in New Orleans. Marie " learned how to court and to flirt. To deal with mob bosses and whiny girls. To deal with violent customers, the occasional police raid, and angry wives. ... learned to look past the disdainful glares of women on the street." ... and a business sense. After the death of her husband in 1920, Marie became a very wealthy and powerful woman, taking full advantage of the city's taste for alcohol (and other things) during Prohibition. In 1938, Marie died of malaria. The symbiont was discovered at the hospital, removed, and preserved in polyethylene glycol for research purposes.

 

In 1940, an expedition sent by the Trill government to recover lost symbionts arrived at Earth and located Lo'Ami in the hospital's basement storage. The symbiont was treated, and returned to active symbiosis. Because of the history surrounding the lost symbionts, and some unfavorable reactions to the joined species by other spacefaring races, space travel was once again frowned upon, and an era of xenophobia had swept over the Trill homeworld.

 

Juliana (1943-2005, contributed by: Trichon) was a native born Trill. She was already a successful private investigator at the time of her joining at the age of 27. Juliana became enveloped in a case surrounding a suspected alien on Trill. She became infatuated with her subject, Gary Light, and eventually fell in love with him, convincing those who hired her that the subject was a native-born Trill. Gary and Juliana had two children out of wedlock, a son, Braca and a daughter, Amaya. Gary did not age even after decades, and refused to tell Juliana his secret. He eventually left her. Braca had her committed to a mental institution, seeing that she could not stop ranting about an alien conspiracy involving herself and his father. She was diagnosed with paranoia. In order to prevent permanent damage to the symbiont, Lo'Ami was removed, causing Juliana's death at the age of 89.

 

Esrelda (2005-2011, contributed by: Vex Xiang) somehow managed to get through the normal mechanisms preventing people like her from being joined (Rumor has it that her examiner was a drunk, and was somehow convinced that she was a promising young doctor because she wore a white lab coat). The medical school dropout spent most of her six joined years homeless, dancing for spare change at a street corner. She was eventually (mercifully) hit by an automobile, releasing Lo'Ami to a more worthy host.

 

Vesta (2011-2064, contributed by: Ziggy Stardust) was considered a "safe" choice by the Symbiosis Comission to take on the Lo'Ami symbiont after the previous hosts. She was a 25 year old aristocrat at the time of her joining, already married to a rising government official, who tragically died in an airplane crash in the line of duty. After her husband's death, she was appointed Minister of Culture in his place, and raised their children alone. Once again, Trill culture had turned to spacefaring, and it was her job to fight a losing battle against the tide of adventurism before it led the Trill back to the troubles of the days before space travel was taboo. She truly believed in the importance of native Trill culture above that of offworlders, and wanted to protect it. After herretirement from her government post, one of her grandsons followed in her footsteps. She retired to the family vineyard, distraught over the failure of her term in office. Even her own children were now being acculturated by offworlders.

 

 

(2064-2114, still open) The Lo'Ami symbiont was unjoined for 50 years, under the care of the Symbiosis Commission.

 

Seg'Ami (2114-2152, contributed by: Images) studied political science at university, and excelled at theory. His hard work and accomplishment placed him in line for the Lo'Ami symbiont at the age of 20. Seg'Ami worked as a researcher in the Diplomatic Corps, writing many noteworthy academic papers. He was appointed to the rank of Ambassador and given his first offworld assignment at the age of 58. The assignment was first contact with a mysterious race known as the Klingons, whose nearest base was reachable only by the new warp 5 capable starships. Seg'Ami anxiously awaited greeting their new friends, only to find that the Klingons were more interested in using Trill as target practice. The naive theorist Seg'Ami was killed by a Klingon blade that barely missed Lo'Ami. The symbiont was brought to a Klingon research lab for study, where it was subjected to many perturbative tests.

 

Two years later, in 2154, the Diplomatic Corps managed to exchange the symbiont for an exhorbitant price in various rare metal alloys. The reason the Klingons wanted them remains a mystery.

 

Ilsen (2154-2221, contributed by: Moose) was joined at age 18, a promising young university student/mathematician who claimed to "see solutions in his head" without being much of a formal problem solver. He also had a penchant for warp field dynamics. (He was the kind of mathematician that other mathematicians scornfully call 'physicists'). He worked on the Trill warp 7 project, but eventually turned to another unattainable goal -- breaking the infinite speed barrier. Having eventually come up with a somewhat incompletely solved theory, and a good deal of funding from the Science and Engineering Directorate, he was given one chance to prove that warp as they knew it could only propel a ship at a snails' pace ... of course, it didn't work. Ilsen was forced off the project, despite the promise he had shown previously. He returned home to tend to his aging, ill father, his children, and the family business, an inn known as 'The Crazy Stallion', which the locals not-so-humorously called 'Ilsen's Inn-sen.' Ilsen lived to the age of 85.

 

Kurahj (2221-2254, contributed by: Jorlis), a historian/archaeologist, who thirsted for knowledge, but did not leave the homeworld until later in life. He was joined to the symbiont at age 34, giving him the previous hosts' tastes for adventure. He was the only "survivor" of a failed expedition to a far away planet (beyond the Kandoru sector) rumored to contain the remanants of an ancient civilization. Instead, he found mysterious creatures who killed mercilessly and instilled an intense fear. Kurahj Lo'Ami's body was found on a shuttlecraft bound for Federation space. The Lo'Ami symbiont was saved, but the memory of the incident was blocked from future hosts until Arphazad's zhian'tara.

 

Tarqesh (2254-2276, contributed by: Seiben) was joined at age 22, the first Lo'Ami to have graduated from Starfleet Academy, and one of the few Trill in Starfleet at the time. He was a true career-oriented officer, finding no time for family. He quickly rose through the ranks, starting as a helmsman, then operations officer. Finally, he was promoted to first officer of USS New Hampshire, in the battlefield, at the height of the wars between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. New Hampshire was nearly destroyed in battle, saved at the last moment by Federation reinforcements. Tarqesh, however, did not survive the battle.

 

Despite Tarqesh's brain-death, his body was kept alive by a young, unjoined Trill doctor onboard USS Cochrane, who saved the symbiont from being shot into space on a torpedo during the funeral ceremony for New Hampshire's victims. She had assumed that she would be the Lo'Ami's next host, given that she was a promising initiate, and that she had saved Lo'Ami from destruction. However, after returning the symbiont to the Symbiosis Commission, they decided to give the symbiont to an initiate from a politically well-connected family.

 

Brandon (2276-2310, contributed by: BluRox) was chosen for joining at age 24 for political reasons, rather than his qualifications. He was not highly motivated, and his Starfleet career was mostly unremarkable. At age 58,he was an ensign assigned to a desk job in San Francisco. That was, until he was coaxed by a mysterious figure into stealing a chip from Starfleet Research & Development. He did not know who put him up to it, nor the purpose of the chip, only that taking it might pay back the system that he felt had been ordering him around for too long. He was murdered by an officer in a Starfleet uniform who took the chip, and left him with the parting words: "Section 31 thanks you."

 

The symbiont was recovered and the Symbiosis Commission authorized its transfer to Phedra ((2310-2362, contributed by: Moose, implied)), a Trill who was studying journalism on Earth at the time. Reporting the news was too constraining a career for Phedra, whose niche was a more artistic form of writing. He traveled the Federation in search of a good story, and good women. However, while his stories were quite successful, his marriages were not. In his 52 years as a Lo'Ami host, he fathered twenty-eight children with six wives and eight mistresses. He died at home on Trill at age 77.

 

Nemrod (2362-2374) was joined at age 18, shortly before leaving Trill for Starfleet Academy, another host in search of adventure. He started out in security, but switched to engineering out of infatuation for a woman. Eventually, they went their separate ways. Nemrod became assistant engineer on USS Reliant, in line for the chief's position. His life was cut short when a console exploded during a diplomatic mission gone awry. His advice to Arphazad was: "Don't let your career pre-empt your life."

 

The symbiont was damaged in Nemrod's death, and could not be kept in stasis for return to Trill.

Arphazad (2374-Present) is the half-human son of the Federation ambassador to Trill - who was negotiating from the USS Reliant at the time of Nemrod's death. Because he was a half-Trill, Arphazad would have been ineligible for joining through the initiate program. However, implanting the symbiont into him was the only option to save it from death. Originally an academic researcher with little interest in Starfleet, he received his D.Sc. in theoretical and experimental physics from the Daystrom Institute at age 20. Shortly after his joining, at age 21, he enlisted in Starfleet, having gained the Lo'Ami symbiont's sense of adventure. At age 24, he graduated Starfleet Academy and became an ensign in the science department aboard USS Arcadia. Because of his mixed-species heritage, and the damage Lo'Ami incurred, Arphazad was unable to fully control the symbiont, or to recall all of the previous hosts' memories. After an accident aboard Arcadia, Arphazad became entirely disconnected from the symbiont's influence. The zhian'tara ritual was used to recall the previous hosts' memories and make them accessible to him. Arphazad, 32, is now Arcadia's chief science officer.

Edited by LoAmi

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A somewhat irreverant and speculative compilation of the history of the Lo'Ami hosts, as interpreted from your contributions.

::thinks Lo'Ami made a mistake in his attaching:: :D

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::thinks Lo'Ami made a mistake in his attaching:: :D

::agrees with the Evil Incarnate::

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Hmmm... technical issue; apparently, when you click on the link on the boards, browsers treat it as a text file, not an HTML file... Fixed.

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