S'vekuk

S'vekuk was born to enslaved parents who worked in the dilithium mines on Remus, followed by multiple siblings over the years until she was sold off to an Ale brewer due to her behavior. The owners of the mine had been afraid she'd stoke a rebellion and assigning her to the most dangerous parts of the mine had not killed her off before they heard whispers of her words reaching others. At the time she was separated from her family, she had three younger siblings and her mother suspected another was on its way.

When she arrived at the Ale brewery, she remained headstrong and was often disciplined until Mktek offered to intervene. Their masters were ready to sell her off to be someone else's problem, but as he was well regarded for his skill and obedience, they gave him a chance to win her over because she was clearly keenly intelligent and they had hoped to put that to good use. The arrangement was good for them both — she learned to moderate her temper to hide her real goals, and he learned to not so blindly obey their masters. She was the one to suggest they become mates, and it was only after a couple days consideration he agreed.

She suggested they should buy their freedom after only a couple years, and the two of them worked for years until they could afford to purchase their independence. They wanted to free Mktek's parents as well, and find her family, but his parents refused to go and they had no luck finding what had happened to her family since she'd been sold out of the dilithium mines. They did finally get their union legally recognized after gaining their freedom.

They did managed to find a scrap of land dismissed as unusable by Romulan brewers, and started their own small brewery. They'd slowly built up a clientele and a reputation over a couple decades until the nova threatened Romulus and Remus. They fought to gain a spot on one of the Federation relief vessels, so they could bring at least some of their equipment and ale, but in the end they had to take the steerage class spots on the Romulan government evacuation ship that limited each of them to one bag they could carry with them. They left behind everything they'd fought for, except their seeds and their grower notes, and arrived on Earth with the clothes on the back, the bags over their shoulders, and nothing else but each other.

At first S'vekuk was distraught because things appeared worse for them on Earth than they had been on Romulus as they would have had to start over and had a whole new culture to assimilate into. They were lucky enough to get a case worker who actually spoke their language and had connections with the department of land preservation, which lead to them being offered a dilapidated farm in Kansas and support to restore it, in exchange for being the custodians to maintain this piece of Earth history.

In the decades since, they've settled in and have focused on adapting Romulan Ale and Whiskey to what they can grow on Earth, as well as slowly exploring other types of spirits native to Earth and other Federation worlds.

S'vekuk continues to attempt to locate her family, but hasn't had any leads. She believes that it's unlikely any of them were evacuated from Remus before the nova.