No-Tech In Space

Born December 11 on a "No-Tech" Reservation in Grand Canyon City, AZ; Alesky "Collie" Kalinowski grew up in a single parent home. Raised by his mother who acted as a midwife within the community Alesky was exposed to medicine very early in life. He learned very early the No-Tech way of healing, by use of plants/herbs, minerals and animal materials.

On his sixteenth birthday he was allowed out into the world to 'test his resolve' in the No-Tech way of life. Alesky was enthralled by the 'modern' world. He made the decision to leave the reservation and make his way in the world. A sign of weakness and treason to the No-Tech way Alesky is considered "dead" and is not allowed contact or acknowledgement by anyone of the No-Tech community until "he comes to his senses and returns".

Living in Pheonix, AZ Alesky made a living as a metal scrapper and providing holistic and naturalist alternative medicine to anyone who asked. He learned how to handle and shape metal and developed a hobby of creating welded, metal sculpture.

Turning eighteen he hitchhiked from Pheonix to San Fransisco to apply enlistement into the Starfleet Medical Corps. He had to retest for admittance twice before acceptance and beginning basic training. His first year int he Fleet was a struggle and took alot of adapting. By his second year he was working well into the Medical track and excelling rapidly.

His training has been slow and thorough to "catch up and keep up" but he has never failed or floundered in duty. On his internship cruise he was assigned to the USS Crazy Horse and attended multiplle landing parties as the acting field medic.

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No-Tech Philosophy

The No-Tech Community believes in living an existence strictly on traditional and naturalistic materials. They allow nothing beyond basic tools and survival equipment. No electricity or anything digital, electronic or depending on a man made power source. Food, shelter, water, medicine and all other necessary materials are cultivated independently or taken directly from their surroundings. At the age of sixteen No-Tech youths are allowed a trip into the "New World" to experience it and decide wither to return to the No-Tech community or to leave and modernize. The choice to leave is considered a great act of weakness and betrayal and individuals are shunned and banished from the community unless they return to will full intention of renouncing the New World.

No-Tech communities are largely matriarchal and females largely out number the males. The parentage of children on the sire side is often unknown or left unrecorded and families are typically large and often interconnected through half-siblings and half-cousins. Status and professions within the community are traditionally passed down through family lines.

The Grand Canyon City No-Tech Reservation dependence is on raising and herding sheep and goats in the scrub desert and in a few desert honeybee colonies. The main export for intertrade with other No-Tech clans and reservations are raw wool, woven fabrics and materials, clay and cactus based medicines, and honey.