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Full Name: Nippikin Zekliaoson

Known as: Dr. Zek (pronounced Zeek), or just Zek

Species: Gulin

Gender: Male

Age: 41

[color=fff200][u]Appearance [/u][/color]

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Zek wears a mostly orange space suit with black trim, and has pale white skin with dark, nearly black, eyes and tusk. He always looks a little moist inside his suit, and most people look at him and assume he’s sad or angry. But, that’s just how Gulin tend to look. (Resting Gulin Face).

[color=fff200][u]Vocation[/u][/color]
Zek is a frontier traveling doctor. Due to his interest in medicine and foreign species, this always seemed to call to him.

[color=fff200][u]Personality[/u][/color]
Zek is fairly oblivious when it comes to many things aside from medicine. Zek cares about his patients, but it’s not always clear if it’s due to an emotional attachment, or a love of keeping other living things living. Zek is friendly, but does have some people he’d rather not speak with.

[color=fff200][u]History[/u][/color]
 Zek was born on Gauss Prime, in the city of Lenttaluka. As a young Gulin, he was raised by his community with the other children his same age. They lived in large underground caverns where adults who excelled at raising children would teach them the ways of the universe; maths, science, art, and recreation. Zek quickly showed promise in biology and began a apprenticeship with the local Gulin physician of Lenttaluka. There he learned everything there was to know about Gulin anatomy, but he craved more, he wanted to perform medicine on every living being he could.

For Zek's Celebration of Age (a tradition where 15 years old Gulin were tasked with broadening their horizons how they saw fit.) he visited the planet of Ha'Mdama where he felt at home surrounded by numerous foreign species. He returned with a purpose, after visiting a local school and applying for the next year.
 
A year later he returned to learn the ins and outs of modern galactic medicine. His primary instructor Cliff Henderson (a human), passed on his own medical tools to the promising young Gulin at his graduation. Zek left for the far reaches of the galaxy, to help little known species.  Some years later Cliff and the school were destroyed by the entity known as The Nomad. Zek grieved as best he knew how, and attempted to help those he could in the situation without getting involved with military efforts directly. So, he found himself on RX3248, helping the remaining citizens of the once brilliant Ha’Mdama lick their wounds and move forward. 

[color=fff200][u]Valued possessions[/u][/color]
Zek has a small collection of mementos from every patient that has died in his care. Some people see this as morbid and strange, but it acts as a reminder for Zek to keep trying harder.
Zek has a medical kit passed on to him from his human mentor 10 years prior. 

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