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== Family Background and Pre-Starfleet History ==

Elith's father was a lowly engineer working in a factory, and his mother was a gardener for the governmental building in the city. Elith was an only child. He was like most Cardassian children, nothing really spectacular except for the fact that he was pretty good at sneaking around, whether it was to leave his house at night or to evade reprimanding teachers at school. He would have stayed in the lower class, however an Obsidian Order agent noticed Elith's natural skills at stealth, security, and his above average intelligence. Upon Elith's Age of Emergence, he was sent to the Bamarren Institute for State Intelligence, likely to become an agent for the Obsidian Order himself.

During his final year at Bamarren, he participated in a mock battle between the other third-years, in what was essentially the institute's final exam. He was betrayed by his team's captain, and was soon expelled. After his expulsion, Elith enlisted in the military as a combat engineer and occasional infiltrator, always plotting his revenge. After a few years, he was able to kill the man who ruined his future. However, he was still denied entry into the Obsidian Order. During this time, the Cardassian-Federation War was in it's final stages, and Elith fought in quite a few of the battles. During his time in the military, he learned firsthand the ruthlessness and cruelty his superiors instituted to the enemy, and even their own soldiers sometimes. While this is normal in the Cardassian military, to a degree, Elith was disgusted with it. While he did agree with a few of the practices, his sense of morals - developed mostly due to his father's somewhat benevolent influence - found most of them disgusting. After the war ended, Elith went AWOL from the military and spent time drifting throughout the Cardassian Union and the Federation. This eventually ended a few months later, when he decided to enlist in Starfleet Academy. He kept his reasons to himself.