Vhanda Sh'Andate

USS Apollo-A
Vhanda Sh'Andate
Position	Engineering Technician
Rank	Crewman Second Class
Species	Andorian
Gender	Female
DOB	236112.07
Age	39
Birthplace	Andor

Vhanda Sh'Andate is currently serving aboard the USS Darwin-A as a Engineering Technician.
This Character is a PNCP of Jellico.

Stats

• Height: 5.8 feet / 1.77 meters.
• Weight: 155lbs / 70 KG
• Hair: White
• Eyes: Blue
• Build: Strong Lean
• Handedness: Left Handed

Background

Vhanda grow up in a loving family and has a female twin (non-identical). As a child Vhanda had been fascinated with sea life, her mother and father would read her stories of sea monsters on other planets. Vhanda kept this fascination from childhood to adolescence and adulthood, her focus switching from mythical sea monsters to real life creatures. Growing up, everything that Vhanda did seemed to revolve around the ocean, including swimming, surfing, and fishing. However as Andor is an ice planet most of those childhood activities were done on School and public holodecks. Throughout her education she fascinated by all kinds of marine life and when her family took a vacation to rise at the age of fourteen Vhanda spent the entire trip SCUBA diving.

After gaining good grades in school Vhanda applied and was accepted into the Li Nalas Memorial College on Bajor to study Marine Biology. While at College got into a relationship fell in a fellow student, she got Married at the age of 21. Her parents were upset with the decision, believing Vhanda was too young, and there was a brief rift between them. While married and leaving on Bajor she became interested in the Prophets and Celestial Temple, going so far as to study the teachings of Vedeks in her spare time.

At the age of 24 and half way through her master’s degree in Marine Ecology, Vhanda discovered that her husband and best friend had been having an affair for a year, feeling that her world had been shattered by the betrayal she filed for divorce and Bajor before it was finalized, she also left her Master’s Degree unfinished. After leaving Bajor Vhanda was unsure of what to do, she considered returning home to her parents but felt embarrassed and ashamed and instead traveled for a year on freighter visiting other systems and planets. After a year of traveling and living out of hand luggage she settled down on Deep Space 7 were should found bar work. It was during this time that she found that she had a talent for basic for taking things apart and repairing while working on the bar’s faulty replicators, she was later able to perform minor repairs on the Holodecks. During her time on the space station Vhanda had a three month relationship with a fellow Alvanian bar maid.

During her stay on the Deep Space 7 Vhanda became increasingly aware that she regretted abandoning her study’s and leaving her future in Marine Biology. Due to the large Starfleet presence on the station Vhanda visited a recruitment officer and inquired about the possibility of continuing her studies and finding a vacancy within the fleet, she was informed that the chances of finding such a specialised vacancy was unlikely and would require her to finish her studies and complete the Officer program at the Academy in order to qualify for such a theoretical position. Not wanting to spend the next five plus years studying, but still wanted to do something more challenging and rewarding that bar work, she inquired about more immediate possibilities. One week before her twenty seventh birthday Vhanda traveled to earth and entered into the Starfleet Enlisted training program for scientific support staff. After two months training she spoke to a representative of the academic staff about switching her training focus to enlisted engineering program finding that science program didn’t ignite the passion that she previously had for studying marine biology. At the age of 28 completed her training and left the Academy as a Crewman 3rd class, six months later she was promoted to Crewman 2nd Class.

Personality

Enjoys change but is concerned that many of her life decisions have been due to the fact that she has been ‘running’ since she was hurt by the breakdown of her married. This is not something that she would easily admit, and when asked about her traveling and bar work by relative strangers she passed off the decision with a flippant response stating that she was bored and seeking new adventures. Likes to be challenged in her work and does not enjoy being bored.

Can be impulsive, without thought for long term consequences.

Somewhat socially ill at ease and will overcompensate by being brash and trying to make others feel awkward.

Has a problem with allowing internal anger and frustrations build up and releasing them at inappropriate times, sometimes snapping at colleagues and friends.

Highly sensitive to criticism from superiors and has been described as ‘ being moody for weeks’ such events.

Trivia

Prone to chewing on things when worried and absentmindedly taking things apart when bored.

Enjoys physical exercises, while going through enlisted training at the academy she took Human Wrestling and Klingon Mok'bara classes. She was average an both but enjoyed the physicality of the wrestling more than the meditative style of Mok’bara.

Does not like her antenna being touched and was reprimanded for striking a fellow crewmember for grabbing one while drunk on shore leave.

Once tried to take up flower arranging while on Bajor and found that she was awful at it.

While on Deep Space Seven she got her upper back tattooed elaborate mosaic of flowers, she has stated that this was a drunken mistake but has made no attempt to have the tattoo removed.

Service History

Her personal EVA suit hadn’t reached the Darwin yet and she was forced to use one designed for a human of her height and build. Which meant that the cursed helmet pushed her antenna flat against her head, something that by itself would have made her feel queasy added to the fact that whenever she looked up from the hull of the ship her inner ear would fight to try and find up and down, It was a wonder that she had not been sick in the borrowed helmet. The Petty officer in charge of this shift kept calling her Wanda, and she had given up trying to correct him Her Com badge beeped inside her EVA suit where only she could hear it. She placed her wielding touch on safe and released it letting it float by her side in the vacuum. From out of a pocket on the suits leg she slowly pulled a PADD and brought it to life with a tap from her gauntlet. It was a message an Ensign Cook, one of the Darwin’s Medical Officers and it stated that she was required to attend sickbay as soon as possible for a physical check up. She supposed she couldn’t argue with that, as soon as she had reported aboard she been given this stupid human EVA suit and the tools needed to help replace the Darwin’s armour plating. She hadn’t even had chance to see the security officer about getting her permanent security clearances yet. She checked the chromo on her wriest, just below her oxygen gauge and wondered if the Petty Officer leading the shift would let her go early, usually the answer would be no but she did have a pretty good excuse and she only had thirty minutes until she was due to be replaced anyway. She considered it for a moment and then nodded to herself. If there was a possibility of getting out of the ill fitting human Eva suit thirty minutes early and stretching her antenna if was worth asking. Regards, Mark Devlin-Clovering | e5 Systems Support Analyst | Friends Life A : Pixham Lane | Dorking | RH4 1QA T : Tel: 0345 2684182 (Group XT 85143) E : Mark.Devlin-Clovering@friendslife.co.uk cid:image002.png@01CBEA16.DEA24E30 Part of the Aviva Group. www.aviva.com. Please consider the environment before printing This e-mail may contain confidential information and/or copyright material. This e-mail and its contents are confidential to the intended recipient only. Any unauthorised use may be unlawful. If you receive this e-mail by mistake please advise the sender immediately by using the reply facility in your e-mail software and delete this email. Friends Life is a business name of the following Friends Life companies: Friends Life and Pensions Limited Company number 475201 Friends Life Limited Company number 4096141 Friends Annuities Limited Company number 6363657 Each of the above companies is authorised by the Prudential Regulation Authority and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority Friends Life Marketing Limited Company number 5059179 Friends Life Investment Solutions Limited Company number 6389025 Friends Life Services Limited Company number 3424940 Each of the above companies is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. Friends Life Management Services Limited Company number 983330 is an appointed representative of Friends Life Services Limited, Friends Life and Pensions Limited and Friends Life Limited. Friends Life The Blue Line Limited Company number 3146254 is an appointed representative of Friends Life Marketing Limited Suntrust Limited Company number 1460956 is not authorised or regulated by either the Prudential Regulation Authority or the Financial Conduct Authority. Each company is registered in England and Wales with a registered office at Pixham End, Dorking, Surrey RH4 1QA. Visit www.friendslife.co.uk to see how our online services can help you

Service History
Insignia	Rank	Dates	Posting	Assignment	Additional Comments
	Crewman Second Class		USS Darwin-A