Diane Kent

Name Diane Kent

Position Press Secretary

Basic Info
Personality
History

Character Information

Gender		Female
Species		Human
Age		33, June 14, 2361

Physical Appearance

Height		5’6(167cm)
Weight		119 lbs(54 kg)
Hair Color		Brown
Eye Color		Brown
Physical Description		Growing up, athletics played an important role in Diane’s life. Even now she keeps herself in shape due to the nature of her work, though it is less of a focus than it once was. She has a bright smile with a very approachable demeanor. However, can appear assertive and possesses an inner intensity that makes her hard to ignore.

Family

Father		Benjamin Kent
Mother		Akari Kent

Personality & Traits

General Overview		“Three things cannot be long hidden: the Sun, the Moon, and the Truth” Diane is personally a caring individual who would do anything for anyone. She is an advocate for the truth and views herself as a voice for the voiceless. On a professional level, she can come across as a little too aggressive in her pursuit of the truth. However, her inner strength is admirable, even among those who are on the negative side of her stories. Due to the nature of her work, she does find it hard to have many close friends and finds herself with scores of acquaintances.
Strengths & Weaknesses		+ Curiosity, she has a strong ability to connect with people, and a sense of justice - Has a tenancy to agitate a bit as she pushes for truth, lack of ability to separate her journalistic self from her off-work self, and a severe distrust of official responses
Ambitions		While only a single reporter, Diane wants to one day own her own news service
Hobbies & Interests		She has two loves that help her separate from her professional life. The first is her first sports love, Parrisses Squares. The other is the holodeck.

Personal History

Family time with the Kents was a luxury. With Benjamin being a Starfleet Captain on an Ambassador-class starship, Akari was left on the Moon to teach creative language and rhetoric at Armstrong High School. During one of Bejamin’s R&R sessions during the Cardassian Wars, she became pregnant. Nine months later, Diane was born in the Armstrong City Medical Center while Benjamin was involved in some far away border skirmish. Diane was brought up in a home that placed a high value on education and pushing oneself to the best of one’s ability.

Growing up with an absent father was difficult for Diane, she would only get the occasional subspace communication until the end of the Cardassian Wars. Her father made a brief appearance before leaving again to command an aging Excelsior, the Concord. Life went back to normal again before another war would break out. When she was just fourteen, her father went to war again as the Dominion War began.

Each day, Diane and her mother would watch the casualty lists, each day hoping that her father’s name would not be among the dead. It was a difficult task to keep living as normal as the Federation seemed to be falling around them. Fortunately, the Moon being isolated meant that normal life was a bit easier to perform than if they’d lived on Earth. However, that shattered as Diane neared her fourteenth birthday, news came that her father had been killed during the Liberation of Cardassia. To cope, Diane found Parrisses Squares and poured herself into school.

A few short years later, Diane decided to apply for Starfleet. Perhaps it was a bit of patriotism, or the thought of making her father proud. She applied and was accepted into the Operations program. She was a model student and champion Parrisses Squares player during our first two years, however she hated being there. During her third year, Diane washed out of the Academy in order to pursue her passion. She loved writing and became a holonovel writer, a few of her novels became huge hits, especially those involving wartime adventures.

In 2387, Diane left her post when she heard news of the Hobus disaster striking Romulus. Within a few weeks, she found her way aboard a supply transport with press credentials in hand. Her new job was to tell the story of the Romulans. She spent time in scattered colonies and refugee flotillas, gathering the truth about what was going on. Thanks to her work, humanitarian aid picked up and she began to make a name for herself for telling the truth.

When she came back, to the Federation in 2390, her focus changed to bringing attention to those forgotten worlds that were still on the waiting list to be rebuilt after the Dominion War. She uncovered various corruption scandals and even found herself in dangerous positions. As 2394 rolled around, she heard about a new colony ready to be founded on the site of a vanished colony. The opportunity was too much to resist, how often would one get a chance to report on a new beginning with the possibility of rooting out what happened in one of the more famous vanishing acts of our time. She boarded the Io, ready to make a new life on Haumea Colony.