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'''Post Mission Personal log - Lieutenant Junior Grade Sera zh'Aella'''
'''Post Mission Personal log - Lieutenant Junior Grade Sera zh'Aella'''
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I'm not really in the mood for a personal log right now but the counsellor says it will be good for me….
We were sent to investigate Starbase 173 which had gone silent and was devoid of all life signs. My team discovered that there were survivors, a Cadet was held up with a group of children from the station's school in one of the cargo holds. They were shielding their life signs using bio-inhibitors, a fact we learned after the cadet attacked us like a wild animal using her empty rifle as a club. She had some wild theories, but she was also able to give us some useful information. A few officers from the science department had survived and were heading to the stations hospital with wounded. We found them right before the Orion Syndicate announced their presence by assaulting us. We held them off using phasers, blades and even knockout gas but other away teams on the station weren't as lucky.  
The Orion Syndicate just killed my friend and tortured my ship mates. If I ever see Underlord [[Leelou]], I'll [CENSORED] [REDACTED] her. Me wearing this Starfleet uniform wont [CENSORED] save her...  I suppose I should start at the beginning.
My Friend [[Leigh McMann]] was stabbed through the chest by an Orion thug and another team were gassed on the orders of the Syndicate's leader, Leelou. If I ever see her... Me wearing this Starfleet uniform won't save her life.
 
Oh, and there were more subspace monsters, insects this time. Turns out the crew of 173 was stuck in subspace due to an ancient Romulan artefact, the same thing the Orions wanted. They were all returned looking like half frozen popsicles, [[Jo|Jocelyn Marshall]] was trapped there for a while too but she seems to be doing okay now.
We were sent to investigate starbase 173 which had gone silent and devoid of all life signs. My team discovered that there were in fact survivors, a Cadet was held up with a group of children from the stations school in one of the cargo holds. They were shielding their life signs using bio-inhibitors, a fact we learned after the cadet attacked us like a wild animal using her empty rifle as a club. She some wild theories, but she was able to give us some useful information. A few officers from the science department had survived and were heading to the stations hospital with wounded. We found them about a minute before the Orion Syndicate announced their presence by assaulting us, we held them off using phasers, blades and even knockout gas but others on the station weren't as lucky. My Friend Leigh McMann was stabbed through the chest and another team were gassed on the orders of the Syndicate's leader, Leelou.
       
 
Oh, and there were more subspace monsters, insects this time. Thankfully my team only saw one of them.          
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Revision as of 10:57, 22 August 2018

Lieutenant Sera zh' Aella is currently serving as the Cheif of Security & Tactical aboard the USS Gorkon

USS Gorkon
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Sera zh' Aella
Position Cheif of Security & Tactical
Rank Lieutenant
Species Andorian
Gender Female
DOB 236309.21
Age 37
Birthplace Harbortown, Andoria
Writer ID V239107TZ0
Awards
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TOSMA
1-year Member

Badges
Donor
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Personal Profile


Stats

  • Height: 1.86m, 6'1"
  • Weight: 153lbs, 70kg
  • 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: Sera gained a minor in Helm/Navigation and likes to fly at any opportunity. Upon receiving her promotion to Lieutenant Junior Grade, she requested and received a transfer to Helm/Comm/Ops.

Manner

  • Temperament: Although somewhat shy among strangers, she has a dark sense of humor that she voices when among people she feels comfortable with. She is not easy to anger but is susceptible to it if pushed too far.
  • Socially: Historically, Sera occasionally missed subtle social cues and was insecure around strangers. Since joining the Gorkon Sera has made a conscious effort at soliciting with new people.
  • Ambitions and Goals: Slowly move into the ranks of the Gorkons senior staff and gain more responsibility.

Skills

  • Engineering: Extremely capable when working in the fields of propulsion systems or component engineering, weaker in programming and theoretical engineering/science.
  • Piloting: Despite a set back in her confidence from the Helm/Drive failure during The Devil's Expanse mission, Sera has become competent behind the helm of the Gorkon and rates herself highly as a small craft pilot.
  • Combat: Sera has engaged in combat with members of the Orion Syndicate with moderate success, using her Ushaan-Tor in a close quarters fight.

Background

Lunar One Colony, Sera's adopted home.

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

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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 with 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 of her time at the academy.


Sera zh'Aella
Engineering
Commissioned on 239406.06
Toni Turner Brell
Academy Commandant
Starfleet Academy
Training Officer
Starbase 118 Campus
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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

Sera's first mission takes place in the underground cave complex of Leutra IV. Sera makes her introduction to the rest of the crew in an unforgettable manner and gains a permanent fear of spiders.

Post Mission Personal log - Ensign Sera zh'Aella

Waking up in complete darkness, in a cave under the surface of Leutra IV is not how I expected my career as a starfleet officer to begin. It took me a few confused minutes to remember that a massive solar flare that knocked out all our equipment and forced us underground, but I still don't remember how I got trapped in a fissure. Four years of Starfleet academy and not once was being buried alive in a cave mentioned. I managed to signal for help but my rescuers were a heard of giant spiders, I've never been so scared. I was convinced that I was going to be spiderfood, how was I to know that they were mechanical spiders? They dropped me literally kicking and screaming at the admiral's feet, oh god… I'd even started biting them while they carried me. The first time my ship mates see me and have a mouthful of metal spider and my face was covered in hydraulic fluid. I hope suggesting and uploading Federation Standard to spiders, the 'Keepers', restored some faith in my ability as an officer. Thankfully they turned out to be peaceful and never made a complaint about me.

On Stardate 239409.09 Sera zh' Aella was promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade and assigned to Helm/Comm/Ops.

  • The Devil's Expanse

While at the Helm of the Gorkon, the ship suffers a catastrophic failure of the slipstream drive leaving the Gorkon stranded in the deadly Roman Expanse. Sera joins the Engineering team who attempt to restart the warp core, as their efforts progress they realise that there is a subspace creature feeding on the ship.

Post Mission Personal log - Lieutenant Junior Grade Sera zh'Aella

My first time at the helm and the ship suffers a critical failure of the Quantum Slipstream Drive. No one blamed me but it felt like a punch to the gut, or that feeling might be because the helm console was slammed into my stomach during the emergence exit from warp. Thankfully the inertial dampeners held out and stopped us all from turning into a squishy mess. I got to work closely with Commander Sevo, Lieutenant's Stoyer and Marshall in restarting the Warp core. It was one for the books, we had to use old Warp Plasma Canisters and then cold start the drive. Turns out we had a subspace creature feeding on the ships EPS conduit network and not a small creature, this was a giant subspace octopus which had snared the Gorkon. Me, Cory and Jo saw the monster's tentacles phase through the walls without creating a breach. I imagen Starfleet Command will quarantine that region of space, we saw some old ships there before we escaped, so that creature must have been feeding for a long time.

  • Starbase 173

Sent to investigate the disappearance of the crew and civilian population from Starbase 173, the crew of the Gorkon stumble across an Orion Syndicate plot to steal ancient Romulan artifacts. During this mission Sera engages in her first taste of combat, defending the station's hospital from Orion invaders.

Post Mission Personal log - Lieutenant Junior Grade Sera zh'Aella

We were sent to investigate Starbase 173 which had gone silent and was devoid of all life signs. My team discovered that there were survivors, a Cadet was held up with a group of children from the station's school in one of the cargo holds. They were shielding their life signs using bio-inhibitors, a fact we learned after the cadet attacked us like a wild animal using her empty rifle as a club. She had some wild theories, but she was also able to give us some useful information. A few officers from the science department had survived and were heading to the stations hospital with wounded. We found them right before the Orion Syndicate announced their presence by assaulting us. We held them off using phasers, blades and even knockout gas but other away teams on the station weren't as lucky. My Friend Leigh McMann was stabbed through the chest by an Orion thug and another team were gassed on the orders of the Syndicate's leader, Leelou. If I ever see her... Me wearing this Starfleet uniform won't save her life. Oh, and there were more subspace monsters, insects this time. Turns out the crew of 173 was stuck in subspace due to an ancient Romulan artefact, the same thing the Orions wanted. They were all returned looking like half frozen popsicles, Jocelyn Marshall was trapped there for a while too but she seems to be doing okay now.


On Stardate 239503.31 Sera zh'Aella was promoted to full Lieutenant and assigned as the Gorkon's Cheif of Security & Tactical.

  • Sikuna

During the Gorkon's mission to the Romulan Republic colony of Sikuna, Sera leads her first away team. During the mission her team fights a raging fire, subdues a saboteur and leads an assault on the bridge of the IRW D'delnor. During this final action there are many casualties, including Sera who was stabbed twice in the side of her torso.

Post Mission Personal log - Lieutenant Sera zh'Aella

++TOO BE UPDATED++


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On Stardate 239508.17 Sera zh'Aella was temporarily assigned to the Klingon Bird-of-Prey IKS Gre'Thor as part of the Starfleet Officer Exchange Program.


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.
Leigh McMann was Killed in Action during the investigation of Starbase 173. She was mortally wounded after leading a Bajorian child through a dimensional fissure, stabbed through the chest by a member of the Orion Syndicate. Leigh was able to eliminate the threat before succumbing to her wounds.

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Jocelyn Marshall
Best 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

Service History
Insignia Rank Dates Posting Assignment
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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 - 239503.31 Helm/Comm/Ops
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Lieutenant 239503.31 - Present Cheif of Security & Tactical

Awards & Service Ribbons

Awards and Service Ribbons
Service Ribbon Name Date/Assignment Citation
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Starfleet Academy Graduate Ribbon 239406.06
Starfleet Academy
Awarded to those who have graduated from Starfleet Academy.
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Explorer's Ribbon 239409.09
USS Gorkon
Ship wide award. Exploration of Leutra IV.
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First Contact Ribbon 239409.09
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Ship wide award. Discovery of the sentient inhabitants of Leutra IV.
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Innovation Ribbon 239409.09
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For displaying ingenuity and skills essential to the successful outcome of the Leutra IV mission.
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Explorer's Ribbon 239412.13
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Ship wide award. Discovering two species inside the Roman Expanse.
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Captain's Commendation 239412.13
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For getting the Gorkon's engines back online in such difficult circumstances
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Orion Syndicate Service Medal 239503.31
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Ship wide award battling & overcoming the Orion Syndicate on Starbase 173
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Gold Lifesaving Ribbon 239503.31
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Awarded for risking her life to assist the injured survivors on Starbase 173
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TOSMA 239506.24
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Ship Awards Ceremony, 2018
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Purple Heart 239508.13
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For being wounded in combat against Andorian pirates
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Silver Star 239508.13
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For assualting the bridge of the warbird IRW D'delnor


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2O & Ops. Chief
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HCO Officer
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Sec/Tac Officer
Isabelle Basilia
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Chief Engineer
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Chief of Science
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First Officer
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Sec/Tac Officer
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