Personnel File

Written in 2376

Madia Amme was born to Madia Lanod and his wife Namar in the Terran year 2349 in the Bajoran farming district known as Dahkur Province. She was their first-born and was followed by a sister Onna. The first three years of her life were fairly uneventful as she spent them on her parent’s farm, where they eked out a meagre existence.

In 2352, the Cardassian occupiers of Bajor seized Madia Lanod's farm and took him and his family to the ore processing plant on Terok Nor. Here, he and his wife worked in various capacities for the Cardassians.

By 2354 Amme, now aged five, had found 'gainful' employment, running errands for the station's Ferengi bar owner, Quark. This early experience of the Ferengi was to later influence Madia Amme's life.

An accident in the ore processing centre in 2359 left Amme and her sister orphans. The accident was caused by an electrical discharge, which ignited a pile of raw uridium and caused an explosion in which 27 Bajoran workers (including Lanod and Namar) were killed along with 3 Cardassian guards. This was the one event that changed Madia Amme's life forever. As there was no place on the station for orphans, she and Onna were sent to an orphanage on Bajor by Gul Dukat. For first depriving her of her parents, by allowing the negligence that caused the explosion that killed them, and then taking her away from the only other thing she cared about, her job at Quarks. Gul Dukat earned Madia Amme's undying hatred.

The shuttle carrying the orphans to Bajor never completed its journey, as the resistance shot it down. After their Cardassian guards were killed, the children were rescued by the resistance, from a life of almost certain servitude to the Cardassians. This gave them a chance to reclaim their lives; their home and gain revenge for the death of their parents at the hands of the Cardassians.

The resistance cell responsible for the attack on the shuttle, was the renowned Shakaar resistance cell that was led by the now First Minister of Bajor, Shakaar and included the Bajoran Liaison officer to Deep Space, Major Kira Nerys. Madia remained with the resistance until the Cardassian withdrawal from Bajor in 2369 when she was 20 years old.

Following the Cardassian withdrawal, the forming of the Provisional Government and the arrival of the Federation to oversee Terok Nor, now renamed Deep Space Nine, certain trusted Bajorans were sent to other planets to learn about their economic structure, in the hope that some of the information gained could be used to help bring financial stability to Bajor. Therefore, owing to her early life experience and her, now renewed, friendship with a certain Ferengi bartender, Madia Amme (now promoted to the rank of Major in the Bajoran Militia) spent 6 months of her life, in 2370, on the Ferengi homeworld of Ferenginar. Here she learned the Rules of Acquisition, which in itself is unusual, as Ferengi women are forbidden to quote from the rules, as they are considered second class citizens and are not even permitted to wear clothing. Her sister, Onna, accompanied her to Ferenginar and embraced the Rules of Acquisition with enthusiasm; Onna is currently selling timeshare apartments on the pleasure planet Risa.

In 2375, Madia Amme, now aged 26, is permanently assigned to Starbase 410 as Bajoran Ambassador. Madia has gained respect from the Provisional Government and the Vedek Assembly. She is a trusted Ambassador, Negotiator and Secret Agent. She was regularly sent on missions into Dominion controlled space, in an attempt to rid Bajor and Deep Space Nine of its Dominion & Cardassian "visitor" during their brief occupation, prior to the station being retaken by the Federation.

Madia has a very strong spiritual side and is very close to Kai Winn, having given her her full support following the loss of Kai Opaca and the death of Opacas' favoured successor Vedek Bareil. Some my find Winn's hard line approach a little daunting nut she is steady and strong in her service to the Prophets. Madia finds this commitment comforting. Although she found herself in conflict with her religion by fighting the Dominion presence on Bajor as the Treaty was signed at the recommendation of the Emissary, Benjamin Sisko. It is due to the support of Kai Winn, that Madia is an Ambassador, with a lot of leeway. During the Dominion occupation of Bajor, the Major formed an alliance with the Klingon Ambassador to Starbase 410, which resulted in the delivery of some Klingon Warbirds to the new Bajoran resistance, along with skeleton Klingon crews to train the Bajoran resistance fighters in their use. This is something to be kept from the Federation staff on the Starbase, as they have a strict policy of non-interference called the Prime-Directive. The Klingon High Command has no such policy. These ships will now aid Bajor against any return threat from the Dominion and Cardassia.

Madia is known on Starbase 410 for her outspokenness and basic lack of diplomacy. These things are always getting her into trouble with the station Admiral, Anarita Jat (a Trill). One such instance is her remark about the subjugation of Ferengi women to her Klingon friend K'iHQaS, which K'iHQaS repeated to the Grand Nagus, almost causing a diplomatic incident between Ferenginar and Bajor. Only due to the swift intervention of the Admiral was this prevented. Her outspokenness on this subject during her stay on Ferenginar may (or may not) have some bearing on the fact that the Ferengi Ambassadors chief of staff is a clothed Ferengi female.