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Born into the household of a high ranking Gul in Lakarian City Ishe’s early life was a cultured introduction to Cardaassian high society and the glory of the state from a young age it was intended that she was to be married off to the son of another Gul to further the political ambitions of both of the families however Ishe had other ideas.
She found she had a talent for ferreting out information and secrets and quickly established that she had no intention of just becoming a political pawn for her father.
Despite his high-ranking status Gul Kazic was just as corrupt as many of the other high ranking military and as her impending wedding got ever closer Ishe saw an opportunity to solve all her problems. In a truly cold blooded act she informed on her entire family to the Obsidian Order, providing all of the evidence of her fathers corruption that she had gathered over the years, and where that evidence didn’t exist she simply fabricated it. The resulting show trial and subsequent executions could have had devastating consequences for her standing in Cardassian society, but the Order was watching all of this and welcomed her in with open arms.
Joining the Obsidian Order she quickly established herself as a feared and ruthless operative focusing heavily on medical, scientific research and development focusing especially on the effects that extreme cold had on the physiology. She earned her self the nickname of the “The Doctor” for both her inventive interrogation techniques and her flawless track record of never having lost a subject to her methods.
The ill advised expedition by Enabrain Tain along with the Romulans saw the Obsidian Order cease to exist for all sense and purposes. The following 2 years saw a mad power struggle with the remaining operatives conducting a war in the shadows to seize what remained of the Order’s resources and establish a power base.
The arrival of the Dominion and Cardassia’s subsequent amalgamation into it changed everything. The newly reformed Cardassian Intelligence was even more ruthless and efficient under Dominion control than the order had ever been and Ishe plunged into her new duty’s with typical efficacy, eliminating her rivals and re-establishing her position as one of the most prominent operatives.
As the war progressed despite all the efforts of Intelligence it was clear to someone even as loyal as Ishe was that the Dominion was going to loose and this was only confirmed by her unauthorised and off the books interrogation of a Breen Envoy to the Dominion. She began planning for the outcome of the war which ever way it was going to go. Funnelling credits and resources to her own projects she established an asteroid base in the Badlands and began moving equipment and personal into to position to prepare.
Unfortunately Ishe was still on Cardassia finalising the last shipments when the war closed in on the home world and following Legate Demar’s wholly unwise uprising she was caught in the bombardment of Lakarian city. 2 million Cardassians died and Ishe was buried under the rubble of a collapsed warehouse trying to dispatch the last of her transports.
The next thing Ishe remembered is waking up in the medical bay of a Cardassian transport fleeing the planet. Her left eye in ruins she spent the next 6 weeks confined to the medical bay whilst her body recovered from her injury’s, refusing all offers of regenerative treatment on her face she attached a simple eye patch as a reminder of what she had been through
Whilst angry for the destruction that had been wrought to her home she didn’t blame the Dominion for it, she admired the efficiency, precision and ruthlessness in the way it had been carried out, she understood exactly why they had done it and had the tables been turned she would have done exactly the same in their place.
Ishe blamed the Federation, their incompetence and lack of understanding of the Dominion had brought all this on the Alpha quadrant. Had the Obsidian Order made first contact none of this would have happened.
Returning to her base in the badlands she began to rebuild, re-outfitting her ship renaming it the Lakarian so as to never forger, recruiting crew and followers to her cause both like minded Cardassians and Aliens alike, all who bore her grudge with the Federation. This would not be a war fought in the open but in the shadows… the only way she knew how to fight.
Loosely aligning herself to Klingon Empire to provide a modicum of protection for her actions she became a privateer in the Klingon Defence Force, currying favour and gaining allies as she went, worming her way into the heart of Klingon society and carving out her own piece of the underworld as she went. Spreading her tentacles far and wide she applied all of the training given to her by the order. When the time came to strike the Federation and its allies would learn to fear her, they would know what it felt like to suffer as she had done, as the Cardassian people had done…
For Cardassia, For Lakarian City
