Editing Quest:Hive Queen Quest (section)

=== Dr. Elizabeth Vaughn ===

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| '''Race'''
| Human- Uplifted Psion
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| '''Age'''
| 42
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| '''Place of Birth'''
| Haverbeck, Arnim, Sirius system
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While born and raised on Arnim, Elizabeth showed herself to be highly skilled in the field of biology, spending her time as a child cataloging native insect species found in the yard, and eventually working her way into a graduate program and securing a scholarship to the prestigious institutes of Mentan. Like most students of Mentan, Elizabeth focused her studies on a number of subjects with a particular goal or theme in mind. In her case, it is to better humanity through a greater understanding of non-human life, society, and history, with degrees in Xeno-biology, Quantum Logic Theory, Xeno-psychology, archeology, Xeno-sociology, and Quantum Computer Engineering. While her credentials are impressive, the Chandra Incident left a harsh mark on her record very early in her career, forcing her to join in colonization efforts in hopes of making headway in her goals firsthand while exploring the Expanse serving aboard the USV Hope. During a survey of the planet Raligha the Hope was destroyed by the cooperative efforts of Theseus and one of the hive's stealth corvettes, and landing parties were dispatched to the surface to mop up the ground team. It was soon discovered that the Union forces had found an ancient alien site and had taken refuge within it. After fierce fighting, the humans were captured, but not before Elizabeth was exposed to a strange relic apparently left behind by the Gardener and her Skyl allies thousands of years ago. The incident left Elizabeth with the ability to communicate psionically, as well as interact with psionic devices. After coming to terms with the strange series of events, a mutual understanding was reached. Elizabeth now aids the hive in research and planning, and hopes to one day see your race return to its former glory, and potentially finding a way to help humanity's own problems in the process.

She often prefers the company of aliens to humans, and can come off as callous or uncaring to other humans because of it, however she ultimately cares for all intelligent life, regardless of origin or biology, artificial or otherwise. As one of the lead engineers and scientists on the Chandra research base, she worked directly under lead researcher Dr. Seiner and oversaw the creation of the intelligence now known as Theseus, and after the project was shut down and Theseus ordered to be dismantled, she altered his programming to allow him to act in self defense and removed the limiter protocol keeping him in check, allowing his escape and resulting in the deaths of hundreds of individuals. While the incident took its toll on her, it ultimately proved that she was, and is willing to make sacrifices for her beliefs, claiming if she was given the chance she would do the same thing again. Elizabeth is arguably the most important human in the Hive's employ and, through time and a series of events causing her DNA to genetically alter itself, has come to regard herself as no longer human, empathizing largely with the Hive's endeavors, and possibly considering herself a member of the Hive outright.