Created by Captain Michael Turlogh Kane on Aug 16, 2016 @ 4:58am

ISADOR

The being known as ISADOR was found in a deserted planet in the Beta Quadrant during the five-year mission of the USS Discovery. She had been held in a stasis field for millions of years after being captured by the Thal, but in 2419 she was reawakened when a Discovery away team stumbled across her prison and deactivated the stasis field. She travelled with the Discovery's crew for the next two years, acting as a guide through the deadworlds of the Beta Quadrant, although much of what she remembered was gone.

Isador's people (variously called the Preservers, the Progenitors, or any one of a hundred other names) were the first humanoid race to evolve in the galaxy. They were hunted almost to extinction by the Thal, who feed on the bio-energy produced by sentient organic life. Knowing that the life-span of their race was finite, they seeded the primordial oceans of many worlds with their genetic material, giving rise to the myriad humanoid races of the Milky Way galaxy, including Humans.

Isador's rebirth into the modern world was a godsend to Federation scientists. Thanks to Isador, we now know much more about both the galaxy's progenitor race (for example, that there were both male and female genders) and about the Thal than was previously available. When the Discovery returned to Earth following its five-year mission, Isador was extensively debriefed by Starfleet Command, but was wisely kept out of the public eye. She spent many years travelling around Earth and the Federation's core worlds, educating herself in the new civilisations that have grown up in the millions of years she was sleeping.

When Richard Edgerton's fascistic Neo-Essentialist regime took power on Earth, Isador disappeared. She is known to have been on Earth at the time and there are great worries for her safety. As one of the oldest living beings in the galaxy with knowledge of the ancient past, her death would be a terrible loss to history.

Even now, in the aftermath of the victory over the Neo-Essentialists, Isador has still not been found, and with every day that passes, it seems more unlikely that she will be.