Sera zh'Aella
Lieutenant Junior Grade Sera zh' Aella is currently serving as a Helm/Comm/Ops Officer aboard the USS Gorkon
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| Sera zh' Aella | |||||||||||||
| Position | Helm/Comm/Ops | ||||||||||||
| Rank | Lieutenant Junior Grade | ||||||||||||
| Species | Andorian | ||||||||||||
| Gender | Female | ||||||||||||
| DOB | 236309.21 | ||||||||||||
| Age | 38 | ||||||||||||
| Birthplace | Harbortown, Andoria | ||||||||||||
| Writer ID | V239107TZ0 | ||||||||||||
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Personal Profile
Stats
- Height: 1.86m
- Weight: 153lbs
- Hair Colour: White
- Hair Length: Medium length, just past shoulders. Tied back when on duty.
- Eyes: Blue
- Build: Athletic
- Handed: Right
- Antennae: Sera's antennae have a tendency to betray her emotions, dropping to her head when upset and reacting wildly when surprised.
- Taste in Clothing (when off duty): Prefers shorts and a lose fitting vest top or t shirt.
- Quarters: Located on Deck 5, they are cooler than the rest of the ship due to Andorians preferring colder climates.
Hobbies and Pastimes
- Wrestling: Sera has trained in the Human combat sport since high school on Lunar One Colony. Sera continued this at the Academy joining the Academy wrestling team and she continues to practice when off duty.
- Sailing: While at the Academy Sera developed a taste for human sea sailing. This is considered strange by most Andorians who generally prefer ice sailing.
- Piloting: Although she has never flown anything bigger than a shuttle, she gained a minor in Helm/Navigation and likes to fly at any opportunity.
Manner
- Engineering Skills: Extremely capable when working in the fields of propulsion systems or component engineering, weaker in programming and theoretical engineering/science.
- Socially: Occasionally misses social cues, especially if they are subtle. Partially awkward and insecure around Andorians who are not family members, due to being raised off world since the age of eleven.
- Temperament: Although somewhat shy among strangers, she has a dark sense of humor that she voices when among people she feels comfortable with. Not easy to anger but is susceptible to it if pushed too far.
- Ambitions and Goals: Becoming more self-assured and gaining a position of responsibility aboard the Gorkon.
Background
Sera is the youngest of two children born in Harbortown on Cheshras Island, Andoria. Sera attended Shras Endilev School until the age of eleven when her family migrated to, the mostly human, Lunar One Colony. This Migration was due to the threat of the Dominion War, Betazed had fallen to the dominion and there was a fear that Andoria would be next. However, Sera's family were among a minority of families to migrate due to the threat leading other clans to brandish them as cowards.
Spending her teenage years on Lunar Colony One was difficult for Sera. Along with all the normal teenage issues, she had the added difficulty of not being able to bond with other species on Lunar One Colony. She was often left confused by social norms of humans and the other specials who resided on her adopted homeworld. The first year especially was excruciatingly lonely for her as she found socializing with her peers impossible and spent much the year as an outcast at her school. This began to change when Sera joined the high school wrestling team at the age thirteen. Naturally disciplined Sera found the tough wrestling practices and competitions extremely fulfilling. She slowly developed into one of the team's better wrestlers and found her teammates wanting to socialize with her a lot more due to her success. Overtime Sera became increasingly more comfortable with social interactions and developed a dark sense of humor, she is now more comfortable socializing with humans and other non-Andorian.
Sera studied engineering in during her high education and received an apprenticeship upon exiting education at a medium sized freighter shipyard orbiting Europa, Sera found the work acceptable but after eighteen months decided that she wanted to travel before settling down in her career. Sera Spent two years traveling the Federation before finding her way back to Andoria, while visiting the Wall of Heroes a memorial Sera experienced a private epiphany and soon after put in her application for star fleet.
Career Overview
StarFleet Academy
Sera attended the StarFleet Academy training facility in Marin County, Earth across from the Golden Gate Bridge. Already an apprentice civilian engineer Sera selected Engineering as her Major and, after some deliberation, chose Helm/Navigation as a Minor. Throughout her Academy training, Sera showed herself to be excellent in the fields of Propulsion systems and component engineering however sometimes struggled in the field of programming and her lack of skills at improvising caused some concern from the courses assistant instructor, Senior Chief Petty Officer Leigh McMann. In her 4th year, Sera decided to base her thesis and final project on Alternative Faster-Than-Light Technologies for which she received an A-. Her final exam, aboard the USS Centris-A, was conducted by Commander Brell and Lieutenant Commander Rustyy Hael. While Sera missed her goal of graduating in the top ten percent of her class she was pleased in her eventual position, 37th out of 212.
While at the Academy Sera chose wrestling as her main Extracurricular Activity. Despite having been on her high school wrestling team Sera lost her first three matches at the Academy, relying too heavily on her natural strength and speed instead of technique and timing. After a long discussion with the team's coaches, Sera was able to adjust her training and competition style. She eventually managed to build a very respectable record after these initial setbacks and she considers being part of the wrestling team as one of her favorite memories from her time at the academy.
USS Gorkon
On Stardate 239406.06 Ensign Sera zh'Aella joined the USS Gorkon, under the Command of Fleet Captain Quinn Reynolds, as an Engineering officer.
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- Leutra IV
During Sera's first mission aboard the Gorkon she was part of an away team investigating Leutra IV. This planet shouldn't exist in theory due to it's lush temperate M-class status and it's orbit around a Magnetars. While on the planet, there was a massive solar flare that knocked out all the team's equipment and forced them to find cover in a nearby cave system. Sera awoke in darkness and remembered that she had fallen into a pitfall upon entering the cave, cut off and in darkness she was able to signal for help but was rescued by mechanical spiders, known as the 'Keepers' who acted as caretakers of the cave. Unfortunately, she believed they were going to eat her and resisted her rescue until she was dropped at the feet of her away team. Sera assisted in uploading of Federation Standard to the Keepers and served the rest of the mission by repairing and recharging personal equipment. While in the cave Fleet, Captain Reynolds ordered Sera, Ensign MacFarlane and Lt. Commander Millis to salvage a secondary com array from a wrecked Ranger shuttle what had been swallowed by a sinkhole, they were able to use to contact the Gorkon and arrange a rescue.
On Stardate 239409.09 Sera zh' Aella was promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade and assigned to Helm/Comm/Ops.
- The Devil's Expanse
While manning the Helm for the first time during a journey from the Earth to the Tyrellian System, the Gorkon suffered a critical failure of the quantum slipstream drive leaving the Gorkon stranded in the deadly Roman Expanse. The nebular had a constantly shifting interior and was filled with plasma and electrokinetic storms. During the attempt to escape the Nebular, Sera was assigned to the Engineering team tasked with restarting the ships failed warp core. During their stay, two life forms were discovered to inhabit the nebular, telepathic creatures with a limited shapeshifting ability and a Subspace Starfish which feed off of the power of stranded ships. Sera's team was able to restart the warp drive but only after the rest of the crew devised a way to fight the Subspace creature which had been feeding off of the Gorkons power.
Personal Relationships
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Leigh McMann Mentor & Friend Sera met Leigh McMann while at the Academy when Leigh was serving as an assistant instructor on the Engineering course. The older women mentored Sera through her initial difficulties adjusting to the Engineering program, particularly helping Leigh overcome her inability to improvise. When Leigh was assigned to the Gorkon the two women developed a friendship after a rocky start. |
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Jocelyn Marshall Friend Sera met Jo during her first away mission on the Gorkon, in the cave system of Leutra IV. Sera's unfortunate first impression, trying to fight off mechanical spiders that were rescuing her, has been a continued source of embarrassment for Sera and later assessment for the pair. Jo was one of the first people that Sera was able to let her guard down around and share jokes with due to the humans own sense of humour. The two have since shared Poker games involving a top hat and confronted a tentacled subspace creature that threatened the Gorkon. |
Service History
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Cadet First Class | 239406.06 | Graduated Starfleet Academy | Engineering |
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Ensign | 239406.06 - 239409.09 | USS Gorkon | Engineer |
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Lieutenant Junior Grade | 239409.09 - Present | USS Gorkon | Helm/Comm/Ops |
Awards & Service Ribbons
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SIM Archive
- Spider Food 239406.07 - After graduating from the Academy, Sera awakens in complete darkness and remembers that she was part of an away mission.
- Start of a beautiful friendship239407.20 - Sera meets WO1 Leigh McMann in the Gorkon's lounge and causes offense.
NPC Listing · USS Gorkon Crew Manifest · Crew History
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