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Vel’s parents met aboard the USS Catalina before the Dominion War, an unlikely pairing in that L’Vor was a Vulcan and Nicolás Careno an outgoing and bombastic engineer. Vel was likewise born aboard the Catalina, although she relocated to Earth along with her mother at the outbreak of the Dominion War. Nicolás would die when the Catalina was destroyed during the war in 2374, and Vel would grow up with no real memory of him.

As a result of losing her father, Vel grew up clinging to her ‘lost’ human culture and ignored warnings that her Vulcan side would leave her prone to emotional extremes without Surakian philosophy to temper it. She caused no shortage of difficult for her mother and stepfather during her childhood and adolescence, and despite her gifted intellect she failed an early Starfleet Entrance Exam due to her inability to keep her emotions in check.

Eventually, Vel would discover physical activity as a means to achieve focus and sooth her savage temper. She took particular interest in the Vulcan martial art of Suus Mahna, and would join the martial arts team at Starfleet Academy when she re-took her entrance exam and was admitted later that year.

At Starfleet Academy, Vel majored in Engineering with a focus on warp propulsion theory and physics. Her grades suffered at times as she tended to get distracted by extracurricular activities (namely sports), but she managed to keep her grades an an acceptable enough level to stand out and graduate twenty-third in her class.

While she has never truly reconciled herself with her Vulcan heritage and still makes a point of finding her own way without the teachings of Surak, she no longer shuns or rejects this part of her culture. Nevertheless, to look at her with her brightly-colored hair and penchant for dramatic flair, one would be hard-pressed to believe she was of the same ilk as the sensible, logical Vulcans.

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