History
DiNay is from the third planet, Aldea, in a single-star system, Mercid. Aldea is largely water, though a good bit of it is frozen in very large polar caps. The land masses consist of 2 large continents, one in the northern hemisphere and one in the lower hemisphere, connected by strings of large islands. The warmest temperatures in the inhabited sections are approximately 70 degrees F, or 21 degrees C. The ambient light on Aldea is much dimmer than on Earth. The Aldean people can see very well in very dim light.
Aldea has intra-system planetary space travel capability, a well-established scientific community, and regular trade agreements with numerous interplanetary neighbors from other systems, but the Aldeans do not have a warp capable fleet of their own.
A Civil War has divided the population of Aldea into three factions along a spectrum of support or rejection of a unification proposition between Aldea and the people of Feedora, an inhabited moon of the second planet in the Mercid System. For some 90 years, a sector Empire, known as Red Sigma (by the Federation) and Red Brigade by Cayden DiNay, has been initiating civil unrest among the populations by secretly providing all three factions of the war with information, training, and equipment.
The URA (Unification Resistance Army) is a left wing faction, radically opposed to the unification process. URA militia are highly trained, efficient, and secretly tasked to carry out various violent acts of civil disruption, including attacks on the infrastructure supporting the Unification Party, the primary faction in favor of the unification program.
Red Sigma had spent close to 100 years building a small, but very rich empire of planetary systems. They had also watched from a distance as the United Federation of Planets and their puppet police force, Starfleet, moved ever closer to their happy corner of space. As long as they had remained at a respectable distance from the borders of Red Sigma space and not interfered with planets that Red Sigma had targeted as prospective conquests, the Emperor had merely watched. But as the Federation expanded their influence, Red Sigma embarked upon a plan to discredit the Federation and Starfleet, and selected Aldea and Feedora, a politically distracted but reasonably developed civilization, to serve as an example of the “evil, devious and ruthless nature” of the encroaching Federation. Aldea was expendable in the bigger picture.
Red Sigma had done a very effective job of recruiting an small army of Aldeans, who, by means of brainwashing, drugs, and/or intimidation, were now in service to the purposes of the Empire, whether they realized it or not. Some were covert operatives, communications experts, weapons specialists, pilots, in business and the economy to gather intelligence, some well-placed in institutions of higher learning, others were physicians, politicians, military attaché’s. Cayden was a pilot and flew missions for them. What she did not realize because of brainwashing and drugs, is that the lives of her family hung in the balance of that agreement.
The Empire orchestrated an attack on the USS Destiny. The original plan had been to capture the Destiny, and using Red Sigma loyal troops, ostensibly lead an introductory mission of the Federation to Aldea. But rather than delivering a delegation of ambassadors, they planned to discharge a delegation of assassins without mercy. Cayden was a pilot in the infiltration plan to disable the Destiny.
That plan failed, due in part to the advanced intelligence and abortive actions of the SDA, Special Defense Agency. Having been captured by Jandre Szôlösi and his SDA Team, Cayden was suspended in stasis and they were enroute to the SDA establishment at Slade, when their shuttle was the victim of a temporal distortion and they were transported to an alternate reality, one in which the Vulcan Surak had been assassinated before bringing ‘logic’ to that violent race. After an elaborate adventure, they were able to return to their home reality by way of the Guardian of Time portal. None of the team members, nor Cayden (who took an active role in the return operation, believing SDA to be her ally), have any direct or accessible memories of the events. When they returned to their reality, all seemed normal, the Prisoner was still in stasis, and they proceeded with their mission of delivering Cayden to the SDA Slade operation. However, the Office of Temporal Investigations has reason to suspect Jandre Szôlösi and Cayden DiNay may have some connection to a case under investigation.
Since arrival at Slade, Cayden has undergone a series of interrogations, including a Vulcan mind-meld, and was found to be under the influence of the brainwashing drug, tremuline. After de-toxing from the drug, she was able to remember the coercion and threats made against her and her family by Red Sigma. In light of the failure of her mission in connection with the capture of the USS Destiny, her parents, younger sister, and 2-year-old daughter have been executed.
As a result, she is no longer able to consider returning to her home planet, as she would be arrested and summarily put to death. She has defected to the Federation and become a key agent in the SDA's intelligence gathering network in the sector.
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