Emel Kalain

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Emel "Chief" Kalain

Name: Emel "Chief" Kalain
Race: Bajoran (Genetically Engineered)
Gender: Male
Actual Age: 25 (Terran Years)
Perceived Age: 53 (Terran Years)
Actual Date of Creation: June 6, 2379 (Terran Calendar)
Perceived Date of Creation: June 6, 2351 (Terran Calendar)
Actual Place of Creation: USS Kelly, NCC-73469
Perceived Place of Birth: Tahna Den, Bajor
Languages Spoken: Federation Standard, Bajoran, Vulcan
Marital Status: Single
Children: None

Physical Description

Height: 6'2"
Weight: 176 lbs.
Hair: Black, but showing plenty of silver around the edges.
Eyes: Blue (one natural, one prosthetic.)
Description: A fairly tall individual with a medium build, Kalain's most prominent feature is the prosthetic optical implant that allows Kalain to observe much of the electromagnetic spectrum, including infrared and radio waves. This, combined with his boney face and aquiline profile can make for a striking visage.

Special Note: Kalain is a genetic experiment, and was originally designed to be both exceptionally observant and to have a tolerance for pain higher than that of the average humanoid male.

Family Status

Creators: Robert Kelly (Deceased), Selia Valen (Deceased)

Special Note: Kalain is a genetic experiment with implanted memories of a fictional history. While Kalain's memories of his Bajoran family have had a heavy influence his development, they exist only in his mind.

Father: Emel Apren (Deceased)
Mother: Emel Nara (Deceased)
Siblings: Emel Daralen (Sister; Age 58)

Service Record

Implanted Memories & Falsified Records

• Starfleet Academy: Cadet, Engineering Major (2368-2373)
• Starfleet Corps of Engineers: Ensign, Starship Systems Specialist (2373-2375)
• Starfleet Academy: Ensign, Flight Control Major (2375-2378)
• USS Kearsarge: Ensign, Chief Flight Control Officer (2378-2379)

Factual Information

• USS Agincourt-A: Ensign, Assistant Chief Engineer (2379)
• USS Agincourt-A: Lieutenant (JG), Chief Engineer (2379-2380)
• USS Agincourt-B: Lieutenant, Chief Engineer (2380)
• USS Agincourt-B: Lieutenant Commander, Chief Engineer (2381)
• Dishonorably Discharged: Conspiracy Charges (2381)

• Utopia Planitia Shipyards: Lieutenant, Damage Control Specialist (2395-2400)
• USS Voyager-A: Lieutenant, Chief Engineer (2400-2402)
• USS Voyager-A: Lieutenant Commander, Chief Engineer (2402-2403)

Decorations

Falsified Records

• Cochrane Medal of Excellence, 2374

Factual Information

• Silver Star, 2380
• Legion of Merit, 2380
• Purple Heart, 2380
• Earth Defence Service Medal, 2398
• Purple Heart, 2398

Personality

Behavior & Tendencies

Kalain has a habit of studying new people he meets, particularly those he knows he will be working with, and so he tends to base many of his conclusions on first impressions. However, as a rule, he is not a hasty or rash man, as intuition is not as swift in coming to him as it is for some. Likewise, he has trouble adapting to a radically new situation immediately, but Kalain is never one to give up or to be distracted from the task at hand.

Kalain considers himself a realist. He enjoys working in technical capacities, as well as other logic-oriented activities, but harbors a deep mistrust for religious mysticism, a trait that, in addition to his own unique origins, alienates him from most other Bajorans. While he knows them inside and out, Kalain doesn't enjoy spending time on holodecks as they are nothing more than a simulated form of reality. He is particularly uncomfortable with his own carefully crafted past because of this same distrust.

Though he is well-practiced in it, Kalain does not consider himself a natural leader, and is usually a little nervous when put in a position of commanding others. While technology is his element, and working on some technical problem tends to put his mind at ease, he has found during his time as a Chief Engineer that playing an administrative role can easily set him on edge. Kalain tends to feel a bit more comfortable around superior officers and people from other departments than he does around those who are under his command. At the same time, however, Kalain thinks of the people he works with almost as a surrogate family, and it is his thankfulness for that surrogate family that ultimately ensures his loyalty to Starfleet and the Federation.

Hobbies & Interests

While many of Kalain's interests are a result of fabricated memories, he still takes great pleasure in much of what he does. Although he has fond memories of working in Flight Control in the mid-2370s, he always returns to the technical professions in one capacity or another. He remembers becoming particularly interested in Experimental Warp Theory and Starship Design while with the Starfleet Corps of Engineers. While he enjoys the mental exercise of it, Kalain is not a particularly skilled Starship Designer because he his not a naturally creative person, and he just cannot seem to get away from what has already been accomplished by others. However, this does not mean that Kalain has no interest in aesthetic pursuits; he has memories of taking up the art of glass blowing in Starfleet Academy, and while he is still not a master of the craft by any means, he is very skilled in the medium.

Biography: Implanted Memories

The Young Assistant

Kalain was born in 2351 in the city of Tahna Den, on Bajor, to Emel Apren and Nara, and as the younger brother of Emel Daralen. Kalain spent the first seventeen years of his life on Bajor in a Cardassian Labor Camp, mining Uridium. He didn't consider his life to be by any means horrible, though, as he was so young that he had nothing better to compare his current situation to, and his family always managed to stay together in the mines. Kalain spent almost all of his free time with his older sister, and they could always be found either being taught by their parents, who had both been school teachers before the occupation, playing old Bajoran children’s games, or sitting and doodling together on walls, floors, or any other flat surface Daralen could find. It was clear that artistry was her calling in life, but Kalain was not nearly as adept as his sister was in these pursuits.

By the year 2363, the various doodles of Daralen and Kalain had evolved into grand murals speaking out against the Cardassian Occupation. These murals were almost entirely the work of Daralen, who was seventeen by this time. Behind the backs of her family, she had become something of a rebel, and while she was not affiliated with any resistance cell, her work was well known to them all. The identity of the artist behind the work, however, remained unknown to Cardassians and Bajorans alike. All the Cardassians knew was that the murals always appeared when and where they were least expected, and that whoever was creating them could not be doing so without help. That help came from Kalain, whose bond with his sister had never diminished over the years. It was now clear to both Kalain and Daralen that Kalain was no artist, and so Kalain aided his sister by scavenging for supplies with which his sister could continue her work. Kalain himself was not, by nature, a rebel. He did what he did, not to strike a philosophical blow against the Cardassians, but because it was what Daralen wanted. Besides, they were just painting… It wasn't going to harm anyone…

The Death of Apren and Nara

There were two other people who suspected Kalain and Daralen of creating the various protest-murals: Apren and Nara, their parents. Although they never said anything, they had grown more and more certain as time went on that Daralen, with the aid of Kalain, was creating the works of art that had become infamous all over Tahna Den. So it was that Apren and Nara started to keep close tabs on their daughter, not to prevent her from continuing her work, but to make sure of her safety. Who knew what would happen if she or Kalain were caught?

In December of 2363, Daralen was finally caught red-handed by the Cardassian Intendant of the Uridium Mines. Although Kalain was currently in search of more supplies, Apren and Nara both witnessed the discovery of their daughter and went immediately to her aid. They tried desperately to convince the Intendant that the murals had been their doing and not that of their daughter, and that the punishment for the rebellious murals should fall on them rather than Daralen. The Intendant saw through the attempts of Apren and Nara to protect Daralen, however… but he didn't plan to make a martyr out of the rebellious mystery-artist. He decided to dissuade Daralen from continuing in her work…

Kalain returned then with more supplies for his sister to find his sister, the Intendant, a half-completed mural, and his parents at the work site. None of them noticed his presence however, and so Kalain decided to wait and watch what was going to happen. If he had known what he was about to witness, he would've acted, but all he did was remain in the shadows as the Intendant vaporized Apren and Nara before departing.

Escaping Bajor

For nearly five long years, there were no more murals speaking out against the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor in Tahna Den. Kalain and his sister grew distant, as Kalain blamed his sister for the death of their parents. But still, they remained together, and worked in the Uridium Mines under the close supervision of the Cardassians. The Intendant had achieved his goal, and crushed the spirits of Daralen and her younger brother… But soon, he would find himself with much more than just protest-murals to deal with.

The year 2368 marked the end of the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor, and the months leading up to the withdrawal were chaotic for Cardassian and Bajoran alike. It was during these months that the Bajoran Resistance took control of the Tahna Den Uridium Mines in a surprise raid, which succeeded largely due to support from the laborers, most of whom proved eager to fight that they might gain their freedom. The Intendant proved thoroughly unprepared for the attack, and though he tried to escape during the chaos of the raid, he was eventually forced to barricade himself in his own office. Many of the laborers would've taken the life of the vicious Intendant given the opportunity, but Daralen and Kalain got there first. In an attempt to make amends with her brother over the death of their parents, Daralen gave her brother the first chance to bring what they both saw as justice to their parents' murderer. But Kalain, much to his own surprise and confusion, found himself unwilling to kill the Intendant. Seeing an opportunity, the Intendant attacked Kalain, hoping to take him hostage and escape the overrun labor camp, but Daralen took matters into her own hands and killed the Intendant herself before he could even lay a hand on her younger brother.

Soon after, Kalain and Daralen finally parted ways. While Daralen chose to remain on Bajor and fight, Kalain found a ship bound out of the B'hava'el System for the safety of Federation Space. The ship, the first vessel Kalain had been aboard in his life, fascinated the young Bajoran. It was a stolen Cardassian Freighter packed with refugees from dozens of Labor Camps much like his own seeking to escape Bajor. The Freighter was not designed to accommodate so many people, any, including Kalain, were packed onto the bridge. Although he was ordered to stay out of the way, Kalain took in as much of the action on the bridge as he possibly could as the Freighter made it's way out of the system so it could go to warp unnoticed by the Cardassian Authorities. However, the large quantity of passengers made the the Freighter easy to spot, and it was discovered and attacked just beyond Bajor VIII by a Galor-class Warship. The first hit took down the Freighter's Warp Engines, and subsequent shots threw the Freighter, which was no match for a Cardassian Warship, into a state of sheer panic. Power went down, lights went out, and people screamed as various console on the bridge sparked and exploded as the Cardassians continued their attack. One of these exploding consoles caught the Freighter's Conn Officer by surprise, knocking him unconscious. The helm controls themselves, however, remained undamaged, and so Kalain took the controls and, using the knowledge he had gained by watching the Conn Officer before the attack, he evaded the Warship long enough for the Warp Drive to be hastily repaired, and for the Freighter to escape the system.

Searching For Home

Kalain never returned to the B'hava'el System, and as time passed he convinced himself that he didn't want to ever go back. His life did not improve immediately though, despite having escaped from the clutches of the Cardassian fist. Kalain found himself on the galactic border between the United Federation of Planets and the Cardassian Union with no family, no home, no occupation, and no money. So it was that he began put any skills he could muster to work on any freighter that would take him for however long he would be accepted. The first was a Ferengi vessel, where he spent nearly two weeks as both Cabin Boy and Engineer's Mate. He lasted as long as three days aboard a Klingon Military Freighter as a stowaway, and served as a relief Conn Officer and Lab Assistant aboard a family-held Human Freighter for nearly another week. These fast paced changes in occupation frustrated the introspective Bajoran youth, and when Kalain suddenly found himself on the legendary grounds of Starfleet Academy on Earth, he applied on a whim, hoping to change the direction in which his life was headed, and much to his own surprise, he was accepted.

In the relatively controlled environment of the Academy, Kalain thrived. He chose to study Engineering, as that was the only major field in which he had received anything that even vaguely resembled a formal education. (Aboard the Ferengi Freighter he served on, several of the Engineers went so far as to teach Kalain basic Warp Mechanics, hoping to increase the value and marketability of the young Bajoran they secretly intended to sell to whomever would buy him. And while Kalain had despised his instructors, their lessons had been, for the most part, accurate, and Kalain had enjoyed the curriculum.) Four years at Starfleet Academy had quite an effect on Kalain, transforming him from a withdrawn, insecure, Bajoran refugee into a competent, sociable, Starfleet Engineer who had graduated eleventh in his class as an Ensign.

Interim Assignments

Frustrated, Kalain watched his friends leave to board the various Federation starships to which they had been assigned. His frustration came from the fact that he would not be boarding one; Kalain had been assigned to the Earth division of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers, and though he often had the opportunity to assist in repairing the various classes of Starfleet vessels in spacedock over Earth, eventually these assignments began to lose their luster as Kalain felt a nagging jealousy of the Engineers who had the privilege to call a Starship home. Kalain had requested transfers, naturally, however Starfleet was not lacking for Engineers in the mid-2370s, and so Kalain's numerous requests were denied.

However, the wish to serve on a starship did not prevent Kalain from being happy with the Corps. He made friends easily with all species, and even went so far as to teach himself the Vulcan tongue to help all of the other members of his team, one of whom was Vulcan, feel comfortable around him. While generally confident, Kalain earned a reputation in the Corps of Engineers as quiet but capable, or as some of the female members poetically put it, "the strong, silent, type." In his two years with the Corps, Kalain pursued only a few romantic relationships, all of which ended unremarkably.

Because Kalain's desire to serve aboard a starship continued to nag at him, or perhaps because he had remained rooted for such a long time after almost becoming used to living from freighter to freighter, he returned to Starfleet Academy to take classes in Flight Control, another field in which he at least had minimal experience. After serving multiple enjoyable semesters aboard various Federation Starships, Kalain graduated from the Academy... again, and this time he was posted aboard a starship: the USS Kearsarge.

The Starship Agincourt

Again, however, Kalain found his assignment frustrating. The Kearsarge was still under construction at the time of Kalain's assignment, and the Akira-class starship developed a flaw during the late stages of that construction. Eventually, the construction of the USS Kearsarge was put on hold, possibly indefinitely, and the waiting that the entire crew had endured for months was rewarded with transfers. Kalain's initial fear was that he would be dropped back into the ranks of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers on Earth, but to his gratification, he soon found himself aboard a fully-functional Akira-class starship: The USS Agincourt, NCC-66724-A.

Biography: Repressed History

The Conspiracy

As the Dominion War came to a close, Vice Admiral Robert Kelly had come to view himself as the next great leader of the United Federation of Planets, which he planned to convert into a despotism that it might "shed the shackles of it's own bureaucracy." A coup was planned and a conspiracy began. Though the exact details of Admiral Kelly's planned coup are still not entirely known by the Federation, it is certain that Kelly planned to improve himself physically using methods of genetic manipulation outlawed since the Eugenics Wars of Earths late twentieth century. Before augmenting himself, however, Kelly and Lieutenant Commander Selia Valen, who was chief counselor aboard the USS Kelly NCC-73469, decided to test each of the planned genetic enhancements individually on artificially grown embryos of various species. Of the thirty-six planned tests, it is known that at least five were never completed. The only fully-grown test embryo that Starfleet is currently aware of is Emel Kalain, who was designed to be both exceptionally observant and to have a tolerance for pain higher than that of the average humanoid male. After his successful creation in aboard the USS Kelly in 2379, Kalain was artificially growth-accelerated and given implanted memories painstakingly designed by Lieutenant Commander Valen, while Admiral Kelly oversaw the falsification of all the necessary Federation records, going so far as to fabricate a Cochrane Medal of Excellence for Warp Theory. It was also Admiral Kelly who chose Kalain's testing environment: the starship commanded by Kelly's rival, Commodore Robert Martens: the USS Agincourt, NCC-66724-A.

Biography: Actual Remembered Events

The Agincourt-A

Special Note: This section of the biography has been drawn entirely from Kalain's development on simms in the BF Main timeline. As such, this section is incomplete and will be updated as the BF Main timeline progresses. Also note that in the BF Main timeline, Kalain was posted to the USS Excalibur rather than the USS Agincourt (the name has been changed from "Excalibur" to "Agincourt" in this biography to accommodate FE continuity).

Kalain was Assistant Chief Engineer aboard the USS Agincourt-A on a diplomatic mission to Qualor III, a planet shared by the Federation and the Romulan Star Empire (note that Deep Space Six had not yet been moved to the Qualor System). He was a member of the away team/delegation to the planet's capital city when the Excalibur was attacked by pirate forces later determined to be associated with known threat Alexi Brahn. During this attack, Chief Engineer Andrew Harper was killed in the line of duty. Kalain assumed command of the Engineering Division upon his return to the badly-damaged Excalibur and excelled in the position. He was granted the position on a more permanent basis and promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade by Commodore Martens upon the Excalibur's return to drydock.

It was shortly after this promotion that Kalain became romantically involved with one of the non-commissioned officers under his command, one Crewman Diana Myers. Both Crewman Myers and Relief Conn Officer Ensign Marena Sarr were later revealed as agents planted to undermine the leaders of the USS Agincourt's technical divisions (Sarr became romantically involved with Kalain's friend, Chief Operations Officer Lieutenant Zack Talar). The planting of these operatives was in response to the Agincourts latest assignment, which was to assault along with several other starships Alexi Brahn's primary base of operations in the Mira System. During the Battle of Mira, both Sarr and Myers were revealed as what they were. Sarr was taken into custody and Myers was killed.

Though Starfleet won the Battle of Mira, the Agincourt-A was lost and Kalain was separated from his right eye. A period of depression ensued, but ultimately was convinced to return to service (ironically enough, by a resocialized Marena Sarr), and was assigned to the Explorer-class USS Agincourt-B as Chief Engineer in 2380 under the command of Vice Admiral Robert Martens.

The Agincourt-B

Kalain did not have the opportunity to ease into life on the Agincourt-B. During a tactical "simulation" during the vessels shakedown cruise, the other participating vessel, the USS Torrent, dealt considerable, actual damage to the Agincourt. Initially, this damage was chalked up as an "unidentified technical failure," but upon looking into the matter further, Kalain and a friend from the Agincourt-A—Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Paul Corrin—discovered that the Torrent had been both hiding and using banned Isolitic Subspace Weapons during the test. An investigation was launched that hoped to trace the supplier of the weapons. The investigation led to former Vice Admiral Robert Kelly.

During this investigation, the Agincourt (along with the USS Lafayette and the USS Kursk) was dispatched to Starbase 99, on the Federation-Gorn border. The station was under attack by a Gorn strike force (this was the opening strike of the 2380-2381 Gorn War). During the battle, the Agincourt was boarded by Gorn forces and Main Engineering was assaulted. Casualties were high and Kalain found himself quite literally cornered by Gorn agents. Inexplicably however, they chose not to kill him. Eventually, the Agincourts Marine detachment repelled the Gorn invaders and the battle was won. Afterwards, Admiral Martens was transferred off the Agincourt. Shortly thereafter, he disappeared.

The meaning behind these events would not become clear until some months later, in 2381, when the Agincourt, under the command of former First Officer Jason Long, was assigned to the counteroffensive into Gorn Space. Kalain, now a Lieutenant Commander, had begun habitually taking morphazine—a drug that plunges the user into what is physically a more efficient sleep (in that it leaves the body refreshed after only four hours), but denies the user R.E.M. sleep—a phase of sleep vital to mental health. Though he had been taking the drug for some time, he had not yet begun to feel any of the adverse effects of the drug when discovered that his quarters had been ransacked and the supply of morphazine missing. As Kalain was not supposed to possess the drug in the first place, he was unable to report the theft. Kalain braced himself for the reportedly-steep withdrawal effects associated with morphazine, but these too never manifested themselves.

Kalain received a riddle in a transmission. This transmission was not detected by anyone on the Agincourt, and Kalain himself was unable to trace the source. The riddle promised answers to the questions that had been piling up in Kalain's mind, and so he pursued it. Upon solving the riddle, Kalain found himself beamed (apparently in an undetectable manner, not to mention through the Agincourts shields!) from the USS Agincourt to the USS Kelly, where he was greeted by Selia Valen.

It was aboard the Kelly that Kalain became acquainted with the means and purpose behind his own creation for the first time. Using his position as Kalains creator as leverage, Robert Kelly made Kalain his subordinate, and assigned him to guard a rather important individual that he'd kidnapped some time ago: Vice Admiral Robert Martens. Kalain performed his new duties, by and large, to the best of his ability, and when a team of Agincourt operatives retrieved the comatose Martens for the USS Kelly, Kalain pursued them. However, he ultimately failed in his task due to his unwillingness to kill any Agincourt personnel. Upon his return to the USS Kelly, he was transferred to a Gorn Cruiser and tossed into a holding cell as punishment for his failure to secure Admiral Martens. When Kalain's actions were defended by Selia Valen, she was killed. Before long, the Kelly and its Gorn entourage were attacked by Starfleet forces, and Kalain was able to escape back to the Agincourt. The USS Kelly was destroyed.

Off the Grid

Upon the Agincourts return to Federation Space, Kalain was court-martialled and dishonorably discharged from Starfleet on conspiracy charges.

Biographical Information Pending