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== Early Life ==
Rikk Qosin was born at the Taranko Colony, a frontier Federation colony. His parents were all merchants and traders, dealing in whatever junk they could get their hands on and trying to scrape together some sort of living. His fathers had dreamed that the colony would be a chance to be right at the forefront of a brand new Federation expansion, bringing opportunities that they would not have otherwise. But war with the Cardassians came, and Federation expansion halted, and Taranko remained the edge of nowhere. Rikk loved his parents, but loathed his home. He had no interest in business, but couldn't find any way out of it - he was going to wind up just like his parents unless he did something about it.
One day, however, everything changed. One of his fathers and his primary mother were heading to another system to try and collect supplies for the colony when they found themselves in the aftermath of a Cardassian ambush and brought Rikk along to help. Bodies baking in the hot sun, homes burned to the ground, barely any survivors to be found. They were nowhere near the front, and it wasn't an important strategic target. It was merely pointless violence brought on by a desperate group of soldiers who had been on the run for long enough to turn into little more than pirates.
Rikk was eleven. He didn't speak for a week afterwards, but when he did, he very plainly told his parents that war was pointless, and that he was going to become a doctor because if he couldn't stop people from trying to kill each other, he could at least stop them from succeeding.
== Career ==
