Kira has faced more death and destruction in her youth than most do in a lifetime. When she was just three, her father, a farmer, was killed while working for the Resistance while her mother reportedl died from malnutrition in the Singha Refugee camp. When she later discovered the true story of how her mother actually was mistress to Gul Dukat and lived a life of comfort as his consort, Kira was shaken, but her strength pulled her through even this brutal reality. Kira has at least two brothers and the young children went through all the sparseness and lonely existence that orphans growing in a refugee camp could endure.

When Kira was twelve and working in the mines, Lorit Akrem recruited her into Dahkur Province's Shakaar resistance cell, named after its leader. After a year of running errands and cleaning weapons, the group finally accepted her fully when Shakaar approved her to replace a missing member for a raid on a Cardassian skimmer. The earring she wears today was made from the metal of the skimmer by cellmate Lupaza, after Kira killed the entire unloading complement while trying to impress the group.

The next year she helped to temporarily liberate the Cardassians' notorious Gallitepp labor camp, and eventually learned to fly outdated Raider craft against her oppressors. She suffered cold and hunger during the long winter of 2360-61 along with the rest of her cell in her native Dahkur Hills caves. Her group had evaded Cardassians for 10 years in the area. Through all the years of carrying out dangerous resistance missions, Kira never served time in Cardassian prisons, but she had once been detained at a Cardassian interrogation center with her fellow cellmates when she was rescued.

Her years as a Bajoran Resistance terrorists meant murder was unavoidable. She helped to plant a plasma bomb in Gul Pirak in his residence and she killed deserters of the movement to preserve its secrecy. One such murder in 2365 took her to then Terok Nor, where she met for the first time Quark and Odo. She has said in years to come that killing takes something away from the murderer, and regrets having killed "far too many."

She accepted a major's commission and the post as Bajoran military attache to Benjamin Sisko and the Starfleet officers on DS9 following the withdrawal in 2369 - although she had initially turned it down and voiced strong protests to the Bajoran Provisional Government against its move to ask for Starfleet's assistance in reconstruction. At first icy and cynical to the Commander Sisko, she has since come to respect deeply the keen judgment and stoic courage of Sisko as well as his other senior officers. Kira was temporarily recalled early the next year pending reassignment during the abortive coup on Bajor, after she risked life and career to rescue reluctant Bajoran hero Li Nalas. It was then that she first met Vedek Bareil in person, strong favorite to become the next Kai, and they fell in love.

Despite the dawning of Bajoran independence following the end of the Occupation, Kira was bereaved by personal loss. It was she who performed the Bajoran death ritual for Opaka, when the Kai was trapped in the Gamma Quadrant. The next year Kira was at Bareil's side when a scandal he took on himself to shoulder the blame for during the Occupation dashed his chances to become Kai. Another year passed and she faced his death alone after the Cardassian peace treaty her negotiated and Winn would later take the credit for had just been completed. But Kira found some solace in being able to stop Winn's bid to become First Minister, the secular leader of Bajor, when she helped diffuse a land-reclamator crisis and bolstered her old resistance leader Shakaar to the post instead. She in turn fell in love with him a year later, and Gul Dukat noted her obvious attachment to strong male personalities.

Kira has had to convince Sisko on occasion that she can handle cases involving people close to her heart. Her deep-rooted hatred of Cardassians lessened much faster than she would have thought, first sympathizing with Aamin Marritza and even helping Gul Dukat once to save his half-Bajoran daughter from his own hand. Dukat eventually suffered for allowing Ziyal to live shamed and was relegated to the humiliating position of a Klingon marauder. Kira later took the girl in to save her from a pirate's life with Dukat. She still can only tolerate so much of Quark and Ferengis in general, and is an infrequent visitor to his bar and even rarer visitor to the holosuites. She feels that "Starfleet types" live too much by automation and not enough by their wits, and still thinks the Federation itself is "naive" - but her Cardassian experience has left her a strong civil libertarian, opposed to unnecessary security crackdowns.

She would become more of an admirer of Sisko's character after treachery from Winn was revealed - despite never having been comfortable with the notion of working under the Emissary. Kira came to have more faith and now meditates daily in her quarters. Her Spartan quarters feature a personal Bajoran shrine - the standard icon behind an altar - with a couch and endtable, a desk, and a table with two chairs in her living room.

Kira was kidnapped in 2371 and surgically altered to be Cardassian as a pawn in an elaborate Obsidian Order plot to expose her new identity's father as a Cardassian dissident. After Legate Ghemor refused to allow the Order to harm her, he sent her back to Deep Space Nine and they formed a bond. Later that year she was chosen as Presider for DS9's Gratitude Festival, when she had planned to spend the holiday with Bareil but fell for Bashir instead, a result of Lwaxana Troi's Zanthi fever - which acts to draw out latent attractions. For one who is blunt and to the point, she has shown every sign of thinly-veiled impatience at the generally charming Julian, there is a mutual attraction after all. Shortly afterwards, Bareil, the love of her life, died in an accident, and the Colonel has not been able to mention his name without pain.

Kira stays fit by way of playing Bajoran springball, a sport she has taken up in childhood. Aside from following the local teams' standings she allows it as a rare personal holo-program diversion. She feels ill at ease with idle time and her rough childhood allowed little room for fantasy, so as a rule considers holosuites a waste of time and prefers instead the real thing - a trait Dax is trying to help change. Even so, she does use feminine toiletries like epidellic skin lotion. In music, she only knows Bajoran composers and doesn't feel artistic at all despite her mother's career. At times she has enjoyed Bajoran synthale, a Stardrifter, Bajoran ginger tea, and hot coffee. She's never had much luck at winning anything before Quark's "prizes", but knows how to play Dabo.

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