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Okay, Keepers Star Trek AU

Sophie is a half Vulcan half human baby found as the sole survivor on a Maquis ship. Sophie is raised by the human Foster family, professors at Star Fleet academy. When at twelve Sophie is in a terrible shuttle accident that claims the life of her parents and places her younger sister in a coma , Sophie is taken in by former Star Fleet Xenobiologis Grady Ruewen and former Star Fleet Commander Edaline Ruewen. Before Sophie has a chance to adjust to her new life Grady and Edaline are called back by Starfleet to serve aboard the USS Everglen, captained by their friend, and Edaline's former subordinate, Alden Vacker, SPACE THE FINAL FRONTIER

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Blog Post 2

There is a remarkable difference in the leadership between Alavar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and Panfilo de Narvaez described in the preface and the letter that was sent to Charles V from Cabeza de Vaca. There are two places in the Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca story that stand out as moments of great and terrible leadership. After Naravaez ignored his council to not go further into the coast of Florida, lost his ships, and built makeshift rescue boats to escape on, "Naravaez took the best oarsmen in his own craft and left the other barges behind him as they neared Mobile Bay; when he pulled away from the other he told them with false magnanimity, that 'it was no longer a time when one should command another' - that is, every man for himself!" (Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, 28) There is a leadership principe of "Owning the Cause", which means, in humility, you sacrifice yourself for the sake of the mission and the people you lead, like the captain going down with the ship. The mission here would be getting home, which is not hard for Naravaez to get behind, because obviously he wants to survive. The problem lies in his complete disregard for the men he leads, which is evident in him taking the best rowers for himself and then hiding his abandonment of them behind a sentiment of them being free of command. Justice was served, however. Naravaez and his boat were never seen again, as they probably died at sea. Cabeza de Vaca was a different story, fortunatley. He was one of the crew that was abandoned by Naravaez and marooned on mainland America. After wandering around America for months, enduring capture and starvation, Cabeza de Vaca came across some of his countrymen. These were the folks that could finally take him back to Spain. The natives that were escorting Cabeza de Vaca and his men at this point were benevolent to the point that they were providing food for them and thier countrymen. The Spanish people that they encountered wanted to enslave the natives that helped them. "After this we had a hot argument with them... We got so angry that we went off forgetting the many Turkish-shaped bows, the many pouches, and the five emerald arrow heads etc., which we thus lost. And to think we had given these Christians a supply of cowhides and other things that our retainers had carried a long distance!" (35) Cabeza de Vaca was willing to step in and defend the natives that his Spanish countrymen were trying to exploit to the point that he'd lost valuble property. Cabeza de Vaca owned the cause of the native people better than Naravaez did for his own men he was responsible for! Cabeza de Vaca was able to hold off the Spanish men from enslaving the natives, but were essentially put under arrest by the Spanish. The letter that Cabeza de Vaca wrote did not say whether his Spanish countrymen acknowlaged his wishes to keep the natives from slavery, but he did have his doubts. A mantra of sorts for leadership goes like this; if you are going to lead, you are going to suffer. A good leader lives by this, and is demonstrated in the account of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca.