Gwendolynn Baylay

Corporal Teagan Gwendolynn Baylay Member of the First Assault Squadron (SALRON One), the Questor-only special missions unit created by then-Lieutenant Colonel Roy Jameston in the 2050s to deal with the aftereffects of the Eugenics War and the Second American Civil War on Canada before and after First Contact with Vulcan in 2063. Said unit would remain together through the final phase of the Third World War, the so-called "Optimum War" that raged over Earth for a decade, ending in the battle for Space Station Perfection on 4 July 2079. In that fight, the leaders of the Optimum Movement for the Purification of Humanity (a Khmer Rouge-like organization who wished to remove the "non-optimal" from Terran society) under Colonel Phillip Green fled the planet after unleashing a final act of "purification" which unleashed the Post-Atomic Horror. During that conflict (not discovered until much later), thousands of supporters of the Optimum would flee the planet via sleeper ships that took them to planets like Phäeton and beyond. In that last battle, Jameston and her force would disappear as well...though a comatose Jameston would be found by a Vulcan survey ship three years later, she then being moved to the Khal Fortress on Vulcan where she would rebuild her life as Roy Pannam. The remainder of her unit would be allowed to "escape" their fate via the Guardian of Forever, travelling forward through time to the Battle of Frontier Day in 2401, where they helped Jameston recover her memories, then they moved to free the large Starfleet contingent over Earth from Borg and Changeling attempts at seizing control to destroy Earth and gut the Federation from within. While the veterans of USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D would confront the Borg Queen directly over Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the majority of SALRON One — supported by hundreds of starships built by Port Weller Spacedocks that avoided the issue with the upgraded Borderlands virtual reality program thanks to their being directly touched by "Race Zero" (as the Collective derisively called Questors as a whole) — would sweep in to help ensure no hidden traps were set up by the possessed junior officers and servicemen, plus kill off rogue Changelings (who had been separated from the Great Link for an inordinately long period of time) to ensure another Dominion War would be launched. Like the others of her assault team, Baylay came into SALRON One quite honestly. One of the last of the group to cross into the Fold, the native of the former city of Vanier (located northeast of downtown Ottawa) would come under Jameston's command after the tragic Ottawa Incident of 2069. Sure enough, once the national government had relocated to Québec City, "Optimum Season" was ordered on Phillip Green's people with no bag limit. In this, Baylay would team up with Master Corporal Heidi Fumerton of the Kanata neighbourhood of Canada's capital city, Corporal Demi Kilger of Cornwall on the Saint Lawrence River near the Québec border and Corporal Courtney Whalley of Smiths Falls upriver from Ottawa. Once they were ready, the team were happy to unleash all sorts of hell on their opponents across three continents before they got to Space Station Perfection. Once the time-trip to 2401 was facilitated with the help of the Guardian of Forever and the SI of USS Cornwallis (who had Jameston aboard) and people got up to speed, Fumerton led her team aboard USS Rockcliffe to head to Earth and help deal with a pack of ships dominated by Borg-possessed young officers and crewmen. On hearing Fumerton's comment about the Sinjāb-form shipgirl's quite striking looks, Baylay - who was quick to see that Rockcliffe had an affiliation with her own old regiment, the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa (Duke of Edinburgh's Own) - commented back, "Hey, Heidi, lay off the kid! She comes by it naturally!" Rockcliffe, naturally, got a massive crush on the Vanier native. After it was all said and done and she was demobilized, Baylay wound up moving in with Rockcliffe in the latter's cabin outside the urban part of New Ottawa; much that she was impressed by the megaopolis' recovery from World War Three, it was too intimidating to her and she wanted country air. Of course, people in Starfleet wonder if Baylay wasn't turning the poor shipgirl into her personal pet! Given the times the now-destroyer SI has been seen nesting in the Questor's lap...!