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 ===Background Summary===
-Cayle has lived the bulk of her life aboard a starship; she was born while her father was the XO and her mother was a councellor on the USS RUTLEDGE. When she was 4, her father assumed command of the USS ODYSSEY, a Galaxy-class starship, where her mother took a posting on the same ship as COU. The Velds would spend the next 14 years on the ODYSSEY- this is where Cayle's formative years were spent. When she was 18, she applied to and was accepted into Star Fleet Academy. It was around this time that her father retired from Star Fleet rather than accept promotion to RADM- he didn't feel his talents would be best served behind a desk. Cayle's mother retired several years beforehand, while she was beginning her adolescence, so as to devote more time to the raising of young Cayle.
+Cayle has lived the bulk of her life aboard a starship; she was born while her father was the XO and her mother was a councellor on the USS ''Rutledge''. When she was 4, her father assumed command of the USS ''Odyssey'', a ''Galaxy''-class starship, where her mother took a posting on the same ship as COU. The Velds would spend the next 14 years on the ''Odyssey''- this is where Cayle's formative years were spent. When she was 18, she applied to and was accepted into Star Fleet Academy. It was around this time that her father retired from Star Fleet rather than accept promotion to Rear Admiral- he didn't feel his talents would be best served behind a desk. Cayle's mother retired several years beforehand, while she was beginning her adolescence, so as to devote more time to the raising of young Cayle.
 Due to her upbringing, Cayle does not truly feel at home anywhere but on a starship; indeed, she chooses to stay in VOQ whenever she is between assignments as she retains no other permanent address.
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 She is decidely her father's daughter- she shares the same passion for exploration and the search for knowledge, and would scoff at any attempt to derail her quest. It is for this reason that Cayle originally turned down her assignment to DS13- she felt her opportunities for such explorations would be limited on a star base. However, her ultimate goal is command of a starship, and she was strongly advised by superiors to take the position shouldshe desire a command of her own in the future. Begrudgingly, she accepted.
-Though initially viewing DS13 as simply a "stepping stone" to a future command, she would grow to cherish her role as station XO- not in the least bit due to the fact that, as station XO, she got to head up most away missions which, of course, meant commanding USS SPITFIRE, DS13's attached warship. In fact, it was her exploits as SPITFIRE CO which would ultimately shape her career.
+Though initially viewing DS13 as simply a "stepping stone" to a future command, she would grow to cherish her role as station XO- not in the least bit due to the fact that, as station XO, she got to head up most away missions which, of course, meant commanding USS ''Spitfire'', DS13's attached warship. In fact, it was her exploits as SPITFIRE CO which would ultimately shape her early career.
-Given DS13's proximity to the Gorn Hegemony, Cayle was frequently sent out to help protect Federation interests from Hegemony exploitation. Usually, she was successful- which made her a particularly nasty thorn in the Gorn Hegemony's side. However, as troublesome as she was to the Hegemony, she, along with Major Molly Sharpe was even more so to a small group of renegade Star Fleet Marines. These Marines ultimately engineered Cayle's abduction from a dying SPITFIRE underneath the eyes of USS LEVIATHAN and RAMSES in the Tybiiran Complex, which effectively ended Cayle's active career in Star Fleet proper. She would be
+Given DS13's proximity to the Gorn Hegemony, Cayle was frequently sent out to help protect Federation interests from Hegemony exploitation. Usually, she was successful- which made her a particularly nasty thorn in the Gorn Hegemony's side. However, as troublesome as she was to the Hegemony, she, along with Major Molly Sharpe was even more so to a small group of renegade Star Fleet Marines. These Marines ultimately engineered Cayle's abduction from a dying ''Spitfire'' underneath the eyes of USS ''Leviathan'' and ''Ramses'' in the Tybiiran Complex, which seemingly ended Cayle's active career in Star Fleet proper. She would be rescued by her friend Sharpe, but the torture at the hands of the Marines had been enough to scar her deeply.
-rescued by her friend Sharpe, but the torture at the hands of the Marines had been enough to scar her deeply.
 This abduction would affect Cayle in more than emotional ways. As a result of the emotional trauma, she has made it her mission to bring those responsible down. This task has proven more difficult and circuitous than anticipated; under all the layers, she has heard whispers of the existence of the mythical Section 31. She now believes that they were the ones pulling the renegade Marines' strings and are ultimately responsible for her abduction and torture. This has turned her desire for justice and personal vengeance into an obsession, such that she transferred from command-track to Star Fleet Security and Intelligence Services (SFSECIS), the internal intelligence branch of Star Fleet, roughly analogous with the FBI. Since Section 31 exists within Federation borders, this was who would normally investigate such matters.