Cheekeet Longflight

Captain Cheekeet Longflight is a female Akltak leader of the Longflight Clan and colony Governor of their new homeworld.

Description
Cheekeet is a feathered avian with a toothed beak and hands on each wing, standing around five to six feet in height. she can see in five primary colors and her hearing is more sensitive than that of all but two of the Unified Civilized Races.

History
Cheekeet was educated in the Unified Inner Worlds, learned to be a pilot and was taught by the Unified Military Fleet to be a ship's Captain.

When her clan had excavated a buried intact Precursor late generation planetary assault machine, the precursor re-activated and proceeded to destroy the colony. Cheekeet managed to load precious eggs and chicks into a shuttle and reach one of the orbital stations; High Nest Six.

After the colony was rescued by Klark Kant (Klark-351), a member of the Cyborg Cooperative Hero League, Cheekeet was invited by the Confederate Naval Forces (Fast Response) to battle the Precursor machines.

She joined the command of Admiral Kevin Kitikik'thok Yamamoto, Confederate Naval Forces (Fast Response), aboard his flagship the CNV Jesse L. Brown. She was outfitted with one of the Confederate Naval implants, learned how to use the gestalt targeting system to help the weapon targeting systems and virtual intelligences, how to wear the ship-board armored vacuum suit, how to use Terran shipboard systems, and learned a lot about Terrans themselves.

She also took part in nine fleet actions in ninety-three days, serving aboard the Jesse L. Brown for an even one hundred days. Nearly sixty days prior to leaving the service, Cheekeet accepted the Admiral's offer to purchase a new system for her colony.

The Terrans had taken the planet by force, wresting it away from Precursors who had jumped in while Task Force Argo had been checking the system. When no claims against it were found, the Admiral offered it for sale to Cheekeet.

At first, Cheekeet was unsure she could afford it. But after the paperwork was filed, including volunteer service, survivor of a Precursor Extinction Attack, a Colony Destruction Survivor, and many other forms, she had not only been able to afford to purchase the system from the Terran Colony Administration but had enough left in rebates to outfit the colony.

She offered the Admiral permission to put Confederate Naval Stations in the system, he'd requested and gotten permission to have a Naval Forward Operations Base built. Their new home becoming an 'allied joint defense planet' to the Confederacy.

Cheekeet retired from the Confederate Navy and took up the position of colony Governor. At some point, a Confederate Navy Officer came by to give her several awards in a quiet, private ceremony in her office. She was asked if she wished to sign up for Civilian Reserve status and be 'on the beach' to use the slang, which she accepted.