Irina Pavlova
Character Information
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- Full Name: Irina Pavlova
- Race: Human
- DoB: 2144.06.13
- Age: 24 (chronological 246)
- Gender: Female
Family:
- Father: Gregori Pavlov, Deceased
- Mother: Tatiana Gutsu, Deceased
- Siblings: Brother Anatoli Pavlov, Sisters Ekaterina and Liliana Pavlova. All deceased
- Children: Katya Pavlova, age 3
- Religion: Atheist (formerly Russian Orthodox
Appearance:
- Height: 5'6"
- Weight: 195lbs (appears as 120lbs)
- Hair: Light brown
- Eyes: Gray
- Skin: Fair
- Build: Slender, but very densely muscled.
History:
Irina was the oldest of four children, and while not the best of them academically, she was always the athlete of the family. From gymnastics in her childhood years to track, polo and rugby as a teenager, Irina was always an overachiever when it came to any test of strength, endurance and coordination. All of her coaches in the various sports hinted at olympic-level talent, if only she would stick with a particular sport long enough. Sadly, Irina usually got bored with an activity far too quickly to truly become world class. It was only the violin and shooting that she stuck with for any length of time. The violin because her father, a violist in the St. Petersberg symphony would likely kill her if she quit, and shooting because she liked the noise and staying interested just involved increasing distances, reducing time or introducing movement to her targets.
After high school her only real career options were military service or music, and while a talented violinist, she wasn't talented enough. She and neighbor Dimitri Popov joined the Earth Defense Marine Corps and attended the academy together. Her marksmanship skills quickly attracted attention at the very highest levels of the marine corps, such that she was pulled from the academy a year early and sent to the newly formed Starfleet Academy for special cross-training as a naval security officer, hand-picked by Commodore Vittorio Moretti, the commanding officer of the USS Columbia for his historic five-year exploration mission.
Pavlova and Popov by this time were romantically involved, and unknown to either of them, Irina became pregnant on their last night together before Columbia's departure on July 20, 2169, the Columbia's mission not coincidentally starting on the the bicentennial anniversary of man's first walk on the moon. At only 22-years-old and a newly commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Irina was the only marine on Columbia, and was her chief of security.
Baby Katya was born 9 months into Columbia's mission. Two years later, Columbia emerged a battered hulk on the other side of the Aurix II wormhole, and lacking life-support, Commodore Moretti sent an away team to the only planet in range with even a remote possibility of sustaining life. Katya along with most of Columbia's crew went into stasis, while Irina was part of that away team to the planet Kjenta II, barely L class on a good day.
Irina spent 219 years on Kjenta II. The planet, much like the Ba'ku home world, has special properties that affect living creatures on the surface. The away team members all found themselves getting younger, if such a thing was possible, until they stopped at their physical prime. For Irina who was only 24 at the time, she simply remained the same age. Doctor Treng and Commander Lennon, both in their 40s, reverted to their mid 20s. Nobody ever got sick, and wounds and injuries, unless immediately fatal, healed at a shockingly rapid rate.
The away team was stuck on Kjenta II because of another side-effect of the unique planet, which was the heavy ionization layer in the atmosphere that sucked all power from all equipment, to include their shuttles on the way down. Crash landed without working weapons and communications, the away team had to fight off barbaric savage tribes descended from the advanced humanoid species that had, 4 centuries earlier wiped themselves out in an apocalyptic war.
Essentially immortal while on Kjenta II, the brilliant scientist Dr. Treng set them to work on finding a way home. It took almost 120 years, but she finally designed and built an antenna capable of penetrating the ionization layer and sending out a distress signal. The USS Miranda in 2293 responded to that distress signal. For three weeks the Federation ship orbited Kjenta II and through Treng's advanced antenna collaborated with the Columbia survivors to devise and escape strategy. Sadly, nothing they tried could penetrate the atmosphere, and so under orders from Starfleet Intelligence not to leave that monofilament antenna or any evidence of it, USS Miranda fired on the antenna, overloaded its generator (killing six of the Columbia survivors) and left Kjenta.
Another century passed until in 2390 Treng built another antenna, but this time she also built a transporter and converted an old missile into an exit vehicle. Whoever came in response to their distress signal this time would find them prepared, with two escape plans and a very healthy distrust of the Federation. USS Discovery-C, herself badly damaged from the Aurix II wormhole, responded to that distress signal.
What followed was a veritable bloodbath as Treng tried to take control of the Discovery's away team, ultimately getting killed by those she tried to control. Of USS Columbia's crew, nine remained alive on Columbia herself in deep cryo-stasis while 26 were originally on the surface. At the end of the struggle, only four remained alive from the original away team, two who escaped the planet in the rocket during the power struggle, Commander Lennon who was severely injured just before the final battle, and Irina Pavlova, who had challenged Treng prior to Discovery's arrival and found herself aligned with Discovery's crew more out of necessity than choice.
Following her return to Earth, Irina was studied, poked, prodded, tested and evaluated. Like the Ba'ku before her, Federation scientists were very interested in how a 246-year-old human was not only alive, but young. Irina had little choice but to cooperate, but as time went on, she became less and less cooperative until finally she ripped all of the probes, needles and tubes out of her body and forced her way out of the medical ward. She didn't make it too far before she was sedated, but an athlete with over two centuries on a high-gravity planet was considerably stronger than the nurses and orderlies who at first tried to restrain her.
When she woke up, she found herself in a familiar place, Earth Defense Marine Corps headquarters, now part of Starfleet HQ. She was given a choice, return to active marine duty, or return to the medical ward. Irina chose active duty.
Education:
2164.06.10 Graduated Yuri Gagarin High School, St. Petersberg, Russia
2167.06.21 Graduated Earth Defense Marine Academy, Commissioned Second Lieutenant
2169.06.13 Completed Starfleet Academy Security Branch cross-training. Promoted First Lieutenant and rated for Starship service
2169.07.20 Assigned USS Columbia NCC-002 (NX class) as chief of security. Began Five-Year Exploration Mission
2171.11.13 USS Columbia lost, presumed destroyed at Aurix II.
2171.11.13 Stranded on Kjenta II for 219 years
2172.04.16 Promoted to Marine Captain (Posthumously)
Present "Rescued" from Kjenta II, spent eight weeks in medical, finally commission reinstated and assigned as Marine Officer to USS Vigilant
Notable Relationships
Dimitri Popov, died in 2232. They were unofficially married over a long-range comm relay with plans for a real ceremony on Irina's return. He was long dead when she finally made it home.
Katya Pavlova was born on April 2, 2170.
Career History
2164-2167 Marine Corps Academy 2167-2169 Starfleet Security Cross-Training 2169-2171 Chief of Security, USS Columbia 2171-2390 Chief of Security, Columbia Away Team on Kjenta II 2390-Present Marine Officer, USS Vigilant
Career Overview
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Professional History:
- 2169-2390 - Assigned to USS Columbia
- 2390 - Assigned to USS Vigilant
Mission History
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FO LtCmdr A'ern Zerxes |
Helm LtCmdr Alleran Tan |
CTO/CSec LtCmdr Eerie |
TO/Sec Lt Sabor |
TO/Sec Lt Irina Pavlova |
CE Lt Dueld taJoot |
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CMO LtCmdr Velana |
ACMO LtCmdr Aribelle Tagren |
C Lt (jg) Denji Ryan |
CSO Lt Richard Matthews |
SO Lt (jg) Udas |
IO CWO2nd Chase Valaine |
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