Mae Ellis

“Everything happens for a reason....ya know?”

1st Lieutenant Mae Ellis is a member of the Alliance and has served many ships. Notably she was a marine on the SSV Jughead when it was still called the Doberman with Captain Cliff Rogers as Commanding Officer of Operations, and re-joined later as a CIC officer when Elijah Thatcher took the position.

Background
Mae was born on Tyr in 2155. Her parents were both in the mining industry which is what Tyr is known for. Few alliance operations went by Tyr, but when one did and she was of age she enlisted-- it beat a life of human facilites built for mining. Initally interested in piloting which led to her vast understanding of combat manuevers. At nineteen, after only being enlisted for about a year, she joined the Doberman while Cliff Rogers was the Captain. It was on the Jughead that she became a sergeant, and when the ship temporarily "retired" she would leave and serve under Rogers untill achieving the rank of Gunnery Chief.

Transfered to the Citadel briefly to train cadets, Mae became interested in diplomacy as well and learnt how Asari have excellent diplomacy from one of their ambassadors. Mae would continue to travel from base-to-base and train cadets, until she and doing missions in between until achieving the rank of 1st Lieutenant. She was asked by Rogers if she would meet him on Ilium, where he asked if she would join the Jughead's new crew and Captain: Sergeant Elijah Thatcher. She agreed, although the situation seemed confusing to her on paper. Regardless she trusted her old commanding officer and signed on to the SSV Jughead once again.

Mass Effect: Resurgence
Mae was the least skeptical of the CIC officers when joined the Jughead, as Thatcher has Rogers blessings. Her feuds with Staff Liertenant Greg Stacher are frequent for various reasons, let alone the skepticism Stacher maintains. Mae is very friendly to other members of the crew on the Jughead, especially the marines as she was in their shoes once upon a time. She is unsettled by Botch, primarily because he hasn't been alive for a decade yet vastly outsmarts nearly everyone on the ship.