Doctor Mirabella Urbanus
| Name | MIrabella Urbanus |
|---|---|
| Title | Doctor |
| Date of Birth | 31.05.31033 |
| Planet of Origin | Arezzo |
| Affiliation | CID |
Doctor Mirabella Urbanus has been described as one of the brightest minds of her generation. By the age of eighteen, she'd already earned her first doctorate in biomedical engineering. Two more would quickly follow, and the young Doctor focused her efforts on the exotic plants and animals that had been discovered in the Frontier.
As she neared the completion of her final dissertation, she was approached by the CID. Initially hesitant to join the organization, Mirabella rebuffed their recruitment efforts. The Directorate was persistent however, and in time they convinced the young prodigy that they could offer her opportunities she would not be able to find elsewhere.
Mirabella revealed her tremendous aptitude for learning at an early age. She was born to an artist father and a mother who worked as an engineer. They realized their daughter's potential, and would invest everything into ensuring she received the best education possible. She would be sent to an advanced school on Umbria, where she would be surrounded by other students as bright as she was.
While Mirabella immediately felt at home at her new school, the strain of supporting her from so far away would have a negative impact on her parents' marriage. Her father argued for starting a new life on the Republic's capital, while her mother refused to abandon the life they had built on Arezzo.
Eventually, they would divorce. Her father would move to the capital, where he would see his daughter regularly. Mirabella's relationship with her mother would be cold and distant, with years passing between brief reunions.
At the age of fourteen, Mirabella would graduate from secondary school. She applied and was accepted to the University of Perugia. Her passions had always drawn her to the study of living creatures, but she had also inherited her mother's penchant for precision and orderliness. In biomedical engineering, Mirabella found a pursuit that was uniquely suited for her.
While Mirabella excelled in the classroom, she struggled to make friends amongst the predominately older students she attended classes with. Much of what they struggled with came easily to the young girl, and she could not participate in much of the activities that punctuated early adult life on a university campus.
Despite a growing sense of isolation, Mirabella would preserve and quickly earn a degree. She was determined to continue her educational journey, and a number of professors recommended her for the doctoral track.
By her sixteenth birthday, she had joined a clinical team which was exploring opportunities to create cybernetic replacements for the Umbrian eye. Her contributions to the program would be significant, and her description of a prototype synthetic cornea would both earn her a doctorate and help hundreds of thousands of visually impaired individuals regain their sight.
Mirabella enjoyed working in a clinical environment, but part of her longed for a different challenge. One of her few close friends, another young savant, would be published by the Umbrian Academy of Sciences after discovering a new species of bacteria amongst the thermal vents of the planet Orvieto.
Piqued by her discovery, Mirabella would return to school, this time to pursue a degree in exo-biology. As the study shared much in common with organic chemistry, Mirabella pushed herself hard, quickly earning advanced degrees in both before once again pursuing her doctorate.
Mirabella would kill two birds with one stone, comparing the native Umbrian ursal, a large apex predator, to other analogues found throughout the Republic.
By demonstrating that their similar physical characteristics where driven by the natural environment of those worlds and by the selection of traits that made them more adept hunters, Mirabella helped to dispel a growing theory that life on the worlds the Umbrians had colonized was somehow interrelated.
She then articulated how differences amongst the food sources of prey animals for each of her subjects created unique dietary restrictions which would negatively impact the quality of life of non-native predators. Her theory would be met with scrutiny by the Academy of Sciences, but a number of other exo-biologists would lend her paper their support.
Mirabella would receive her third doctorate by her twentieth birthday. A strong body of published work and recommendations from some of the most accomplished minds in the Republic would make the young doctor a hot commodity.
Numerous organizations approached her, eager to have her join their research units. Mirabella was torn, and was leaning towards accepting an offer from the Academy of Sciences. However, the CID's repeated efforts finally paid off, and Mirabella chose to work for the secretive organization.
She would be assigned to the CID Applied Sciences division, where the initial focus of her research was on understanding Ascomanni biology, with the hope of identifying vulnerabilities that could be exploited in the ongoing war against the alien invaders. Instead, she almost immediately realized that the [--------Redacted-------].
Encouraged by the speed with which she reached her conclusions, Mirabella was quickly tapped to join the top-secret [Redacted] Project. Given the deeply clandestine nature of the project, all further information on her work ends after her transfer.