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Savan was born to two Vulcan researchers—Varis, a geologist, and T’val, a biologist. When Savan was approximately 9 Earth years, he accompanied his parents from Vulcan to a new Vulcan colony. During the final leg of their journey, their transport became caught in an ion storm, causing irreparable repair to the warp drive and leaving the ship with no option but taking refuge in a nearby unexplored solar system. Unbeknownst to the the Vulcans, the transport was carrying a large shipment of Trellium D that had been safely contained. However, a breach in the containment field caused for a gradual release of Trellium D into the ship’s ventilation system. Eventually, Savan’s parents suffered from moderate exposure. While the exposure did not lead to the violent, irreparable state of Vulcans ship  in the 22nd century, Varis and T’val both lost control of their emotional suppression, leading to various states of paranoia and rage. After the couple nearly killed the ship’s captain, the physician managed to put them into stasis. Savan had been in a different area of the ship and suffered a lesser degree of exposure. While the exposure was not fatal for his parents, both were never fully able to recover and sent to a hospital facility on Vulcan. Faced with irreparable loss of emotional control, his father, Varis, eventually comitted suicide, while his mother managed to improved but ended up in a Vulcan clinic located in a remote province. With his parents unavailable, Savan was first passed to paternal uncle Staran, who quickly realized he was unable to raise the child on Vulcan. The Trellium D exposure left Savan unable to develop the emotional suppression common in Vulcans, consquently rendering him unable to effectively function and thrive in the rigorous education expected of the average Vulcan youth. A near fatal attack on two schoolmates led Staran to look for some way to send the child off-world.

After some effort, Staran was able to find a cousin named Torin, who was a quarter-Vulcan. Raised between Terra and Vulcan, Torin’s father, Selon, decided to follow a Terran way of life, joined Star Fleet and married a human female, with whom he had three children. Despite his father’s preference for human ways, Torin managed to raised his children with some Vulcan culture and taught them certain mental disciplines in order to help contain some of the stronger Vulcan drives, all the while knowing their dominant human blood left them for all intents and purposes humans in the eyes of fellow Vulcans. (Their Vulcan features did make other humans considered them as Vulcans.) Selon’s oldest son, Torin, eventually became an interspecies anthropologist based out of San Francisco. While Torin could not consider himself a true Vulcan, he did pride himself on his Vulcan ancestry and was eventually able to reestablish and maintain contact with Selon’s family. Thankfully, the family hailed from the small city of T’Vral Kol, located on the shores of the Vorth Sea. In keeping with the general culture of T’Vral Kol, the family was relatively liberal and open-minded when it came to other species. Hence, Torin seemed the most logical option to raise a Vulcan child who would never be entirely accepted in the narrow constraints of Vulcan society.  

After several months of discussion over subspace between Staran and Torin, Torin decided to take the then 10-year-old Savan into his custody and brought him to San Francisco. Savan proved to be an entirely new challenge. Unlike his own children who were of a mixed background—and hence with more moderate human traits—Savan was pure Vulcan who possess with the strong emotions and passions of his ancestors with only a modicum of the control. In some ways, Savan had the raw, unfiltered rage of a Klingon youth—an emotional quality that Torin knew from Savan’s loss of his two parents and the inability for Vulcan society to accept his parents, leading to his father’s suicide and mother’s internment. As an anthropologist, Torin contacted parents of mixed species children for desparate advice. He was first able to find a former Romulan agent for the Federation who settled on Earth and married a human husband. While the Romulans never adopted the logical philosophy of the Vulcans and was known for their passions, their emotional temperament was nothing like Savan’s. The parents of two part-Klingon children had found one successful outlet for their children: intense physical activities that required immense discipline. Their advice proved to be an effective channel for Savan. Torin managed to enroll Savan into various martial arts programs and wildnerness survival programs. His eldest son, Tauvin, was an accomplished surfer and eventually taught Savan the art of wave riding and competitive swimming. As the human expression goes, Savan took the sport like a fish to water.