Beloved Star

Beloved Star is the Zoarari barkeep at the Rusty Flange and a potential love interest for the Scrapper.

Background
Beloved Star was born in 2353 on Zoarari, and she lived a rather quiet life on the planet until, during a rare meeting with a Zoa colony on Inadequate, she was infected with the Corruption. She was barely ten at the time (roughly equivalent to a human teenager in maturity) but was quarantined from her people on the Corrupted Zoa. Finding little happiness among fellow Corrupted Zo, she bartered passage on a human ship and left the planet.

She soon found that she had a gift for listening to others and a penchant for storytelling; she traveled the galaxy on small entertainment ships, paying her way first as a dishwasher and eventually as a bartender. Finally, she saved up enough to purchase the Rusty Flange. She detested the name but chose to keep it for brand recognition.

Star could have chosen a more glamorous life with her reputation. By the time she bought the Flange, she had worked on high-end cruise ships and space stations for several years, and had the connections to get a job among the most famous establishments in the entire galaxy. She preferred a quiet life on Vulcan to the whirlwind excitement of bourgeois bars, though, and disappointed many when she left the pleasure ship business to settle down.

Personality
The Rusty Flange enjoys a steady clientele of people from all races and walks of life, owing in significant part to Star's gift for empathy. As a bartender Star is more than willing to provide a sensitive ear to her patrons, and always knows the right thing to say (and the right time to leave someone alone). She is also extremely reliable - many patrons have gone to her with medical or personal emergencies, and whether they were regulars or first-timers she has gone to bat for them all - sometimes to her own detriment. She is naturally adventurous and always has a great story to tell, though she seems happy with the life she has made for herself on Vulcan as well.

Underneath her kind exterior lies a deep bitterness that Star has tried unsuccessfully to bottle up for most of her life. She is extremely resentful towards her fellow Zoarari for abandoning her, and this comes out as a distaste for Zoarari culture in general. Her regulars say that when she found out about the rift in Zoarari culture, she laughed and bought a round of drinks for the house. She couches this bitterness in a love for adventure and wanderlust, but underneath she misses her planet and her people terribly. She has become rather solitary as well, often drifting off into her own thoughts and taking much pleasure in alone time (very uncommon for the Zoarari, who are rarely alone).