Lt. Alicia Starke, 28, 5'7", light brown hair, gray eyes. She was born in the Naval Hospital at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, to Captain James and Amanda Starke.  Her paternal grandfather was Admiral Jiggs Starke, classmate and lifelong friend of Admiral Harriman Nelson of the Nelson Institute.

Alicia's father was a submariner, and from an early age, she desired to follow in his footsteps.  After her father and grandfather had an estrangement, the family moved from Pearl Harbor to San Diego, and her father retired from the sea.  Alicia grew up not knowing much of her grandfather, but knowing of him from her mother and grandmother. 

She attended the San Diego public schools and sought, and received, an appointment to Annapolis.  Her career choice was submarines, frowned on by her grandfather, but hailed by the rest of her family.  She was one of the first women on subs after Congress opened the bastion up to females with the advent of the Virginia class boats.

Alicia chose Dive Officer as her alternative path and became accomplished with the field within 18 months of her graduation from the Academy.  As Dive Officer on the Nelson, she assumes a multifaceted position including that of the Second Officer on the boat.  She is very much a part of the Senior Staff of the boat, a plank owner, and proud of the part she has played in the beginnings of a new legend