Jade Cummings

The Following is a character from the Graphic Novel Jade Growing Up Again and is provided in detail. For a list of characters from the series click below.

Origin
Born Jade Chan, daughter of the renowned family of detectives and decendants from Jackie Chan, Jade Chan entered Starfleet Academy during her mid-teens in an attempt to get away from what she viewed as a repressive uncle and away from the shadow of the family name. Her uncle a well renowned officer, she had believed at the time that the only thing they shared in common was a spirit of adventure and a desire to explore and as such set out to make a name that would do the Chan family proud.

Going through the academy with only barely acceptable scores Jade proved herself at a young age to be effective at manipulating people, a master at the negotiations table and skilled at making the kind of judgement calls that get results, she somehow progressed through the ranks of the academy in spite of poor grades and quickly made the rank of Lieutenant.

Along the way she met up with her child-hood friend Paco and with a new girl  Punky, both of whome were making their own journey and trying to escape their own bad or unwanted family lives and together they became an inseperable trio, working well together to the point where they even began recieving joint missions.

A pentient for trouble
By the age of 22 Jade Chan had become an officer renowned for her ability, her tendacy to take risks and her ability to talk her way aparently out of anything. Regularly stealing apples, food and numerous other petty item as well as the occasional test results Jade seamed to automatically fall into the role of Infiltrations officer, being assigned tasks that took advantage of her skill and made them useful to the Confederation and its allies.

This was what got her into her current prediciment.

Sentencing
On being given a mission to investigate a Colony Planet that the Confederation had lost contact with some hundred years ago, Jade, Along with her partners Paco and Punky were assigned to investigate, land on and infiltrate the planet of Paradiso, supposedly to find out if anyone was still alive, how they had survived the plague that supposedly should have wiped them out, and what had happened to a number of Confederation space craft who had entered Paradiso space.

On arrival they found the planet active, highly populated and with technology far in advanced of their own. When they tried to break the quarintine line and land the trio were quickly overpowered, taken to a holding cell, sentenced and tried for the following crime.


 * Crime ; Tresspass, Breaching Quarintine, Resisting Arrest.
 * Sentence ; Four to eight cycles of childhood, from the ages 6 to 12

Jadee Christina Cummings
Post rejuve Jadee was placed with Spanko parents as is the custom with convicted criminals under the understanding that her assigned parents would help her to rehabilitate and punish her through excessive spankings. After some initial teething troubles due to her kleptomaniac tendencies she has however settled in very quickly, even starting School alongside her old team-mates.


 * Her favourite food is Apples.
 * Her favourite colour is Turquiose
 * Her favourite subject is Maths