Name: Kayle H. Zaken
Callsign: Kay is a nick used by her closer teammates and family, except for her father who only uses her full name.
Age: 28
Rank/Title(Dependent on position): Segen (Second lieutenant)
Appearance:
Kay’s height stands at 5’6” and weighs a 145 lbs, due to the muscle she has. On duty she wears the standard Stargate uniform provided for her during her four years training, it’s condition well kept and maintain as if it was her very own IDF one. There’s clear pride and care taken in her appearance, her long hair pulled back and braided in to a single, neat braid which reaches to her shoulders. When off duty she wears a simple shirt fitting to her curves, usually grey, with cargo pants in deep green and military grade boots since she’s station on an active ship. One thing she does wear all the time is a gold locket, the David Star carved into the top. It holds a picture of her family within it and she never takes it off because of it’s emotional value, a parting gift from her family before Mossad shipped her out to the USA.
Role: Ground crew
Nationality: Israel
Biography:Kayle was born within the city of Be’er Sheva in April of 1986. She is the youngest daughter and third child the Sergeant Major Abraham Zaken, and his wife Mariam had. As expected, her old siblings had ended up serving distinguished careers in the IDF like their father before them, encouraged by their father’s stern nature. Both her parents played a heavy role within her life, each one had their own ways of how life should be lived and tried to seek a balance between them for their children. For the most part was a success. Her mother’s focus was to hearten Kayle’s feminine nature and playfulness while her father incorporated a stricter and disciplined role based off his military training. Her fondest memories mingle from her father’s lessons in hand to hand training and marksmanship as early as ten to walking to the Tel Be’er Sheva ruins on the Sabbath with her mother and joining the school’s football (soccer) team.
It was while visiting Tel Be’er Sheva where her love for cultural mystery and strong desire to learn about them had developed. The notion seemed to create an overwhelming curiosity to seek her own answers to understand the world as they viewed it, using their language, cultural history and myths to guide her. At first, when it was mainly focus upon Israel’s history, her father seemed to accept her need to know and even help it. Yet when her need branched off to creating a career in learning about Greek, Egyptian, Norse, and more instead of a IDF career, his mind seemed to view her choice as threatening to her future. Needless to say, her father and she never saw eye to eye when it came to her passion in the end. Sergeant Major Abraham’s stubbornness had managed to drive a slight wage between them, even if it was because he felt his way was the best to prepare his family for the future, good or bad.
When Kay turned eighteen, she had learned the arts of hand to hand combat, marksmanship with a handgun, and knife throwing down to perfection thanks her father. In end, she was more of a confident and strong tomboy than a woman as her mother would say. After graduating high school, Kay did the IDF mandatory service required by each Israeli citizen resulting in being one of the highest noted soldiers within her unit. Now twenty she entered a university within Jerusalem and finally engaged into her passions, her father aided in her funding despite his disappointment in her choice, where she studied the areas of languages, archeology, cultural history, and mythology for four years. Kay found those years to be most enriching until after the semester ended. It was 2010 when her class had taken a ‘Theoretical’ test over what was a made up culture and language to determine their understanding over semester’s course. The goal was to translate and determine the meanings of the old, strange designed glyphs then explain how they were able to determine it. Kayle had noticed first a repeated pattern then attempted to branch off to other areas in comparison, her mind easily clicked when the similarities had arisen in her mind and allowed her to be the only student to pass the given test. Her efforts soon caught Mossad’s attention the following week. At first, Kayle feared she would have to give up her studies and be thrashed into a military career like her father. Before she could decline there was two key problems, ones that forced her to accept the Mossad’s offer. First was the fact it was compulsory and second was her father’s to jerk any future funding to further her education. Needless to say, Kay didn’t have much of a choice then to accept it.
She was surprised to learn Mossad hadn’t intended to interrupt her learning, but rather provide a grant and opportunity to instead farther it. On the condition she was to be assigned to an international project ran by something called the Stargate Program. Naturally Kay was curious to learn about such a thing, with the main driving motive to continue her passion, and became determined to give it her best. When they had started to debrief her about what the program was about, namely what little they knew, she began to find it harder to see in a serious light. It was difficult for her to imagine a space program which main goal was to travel to other worlds, seeking out gates to activate a line back to Earth and explore them. Though the woman would admit, she found the idea rather fun and exciting, even if it seemed like an elaborate joke to her. Instant of ceasing the joke, Kay decided to wait until the punch line was sprang and bare the laughter at her silliness.
She was shipped overseas to America within days after her entrance into Mossad for the Stargate Program. They arrived at an undisclosed, isolated location where she met the officer who would supervise her training and first real proof this whole matter wasn’t a joke. Kay felt skeptical when she was handed a device she had never seen before. Then she was warned she might feel a little out of it when they presented the proof, the travel means were going to be a bit unique compared to using more modern means, as suddenly they were bathed in blinding light. Before she knew it, she was no longer on American soil but instead, beamed onto the American ship Odyssey. Besides trying to keep from throwing up, Kayle also had the challenge of trying to keep her jaw from dropping at the strangeness of it all.
During the years to follow before the Catherine Langford was scheduled to be completed and launched on her maiden voyage, Kay had thrown herself fully into the Stargate program’s requirements. Still in contact with Mossad, part of the American and Israeli agreement, they kept tabs on her throughout her involvement. She learned about the various races, from the Ancients to Goa’uld and even the Wraith, and their languages which held similarities to key historic Earth Cultures and myths like Egyptian, Norse, Greek, and more. Her university studies helped in her digestion of the information while she pieced over several years of gathered data in a small time frame. Likely she would still continue it even when she was onboard but for now, she focused mainly on what was important. In addition to the information, Kay was introduced to weapons and technology used by the Jaffa and Goa’uld, even Tok’ra, where she learned how to both combat purposes as well as is able to identify each one of them. It was a lot of information to absorb in a small time yet she refused to allow her lacking experience and shortcomings allow her to fail.
In the present now, she’s excited about the voyage to happen.
Personality:-Hardworking(Perfectionist): She will deny it until she’s blue in the face, but Kayle and her father have one thing in common. They are set perfectionists when it comes to their own performance, this trait is far worse when she has that inner knowledge she can do better. The notion will drive her crazy, slowly fading as she improves until she either meets her expectations or finally realizes her own limits. Though finally accepting the latter might take longer, her mind set and driven to met the task she’s made for herself. Currently her struggles are worse with a Ma’Tok staff weapon, at least when it comes to aiming accurately, something she still hasn’t mastered.
- Adventurous/Bit of a bookworm: Even as a child, Kayle had a strong desire to learn about other cultures, namely long past and dead ones before the Stargate Program. Now with introduction of new, alien races like Goa’uld, Tok’ra, and more, that natural trait had grown to higher expectations since the goal of the Catherine Langford is to travel beyond Earth and reconnect lost Stargates back to Earth. The notion of what she might learn through this experience is brand new to her and slightly overwhelming, an unrealized dream come true at what she might learn on this trip. One of the main reasons she seeks to extend her knowledge about other cultures is because she believes it will bring greater understanding about what influences their choices as reflected by their culture, language, and even myths. In addition, it might aid her nation’s people into the future.
-Teamplayer/Friendly: When she was in IDF, her commanding officer described her as obedient and highly valued soldier. However behind the military training and upbring, her comrades describe a different person who is friendly and ferociously loyal to her companions as well as her nation’s people. Kay’s rather open about her past within Israel when it comes to her childhood and university career choices when asked, though usually she’s more eager to discuss the knowledge she acquired during the Stargate program and about other Earth cultures in history.
Trivia:-Off duty, she either has her nose in a book or in research over one of the races the stargate has discovered. Some of her favorite genres are fantasy and romance, though she’s been known to pick up a Star Wars novel a time or two when she was bored.
-Kayle is a keen shot with a pistol. Her father had trained her in shooting, self defense, and knife combat at a young age which have followed her through the years even when she made it into the Stargate Program. To this day she still strives to keep herself from growing rusty and tends to aim for improvement. open to suggestions from other more skilled partners when she gets the chance. It’s a rarity she misses with either her knife or gun but it does happen, a fact which stirs up her perfectionist nature.
-Kay has a number of knives on her person, usually hidden from sight for cases of emergency use. She is never,
never without a knife on her though the exact number and where they come from is a mystery even to her unit members...
-Being raised in Israel and in the Jewish religion, Kayle doesn’t eat pork. More out of choice then need which shows respect towards her origins, but the situation can easily change her view when it comes down to survival.
