USS Virinat

==USS VirinatAquarius Class Light Escort==
Command Crew 	
CO T'aesla of Virinat Romulan FemaleRomulan Tactical OfficerA country girl, from the Colony of Virinat. She and her friend Tovan Khev were scouts, trainees in the Colonial militia.  Both liked it, and studied everything they could grab.T'aesla herself is a coffee colored girl, with light brown hair and green eyes. She sees herself as a tomboy and not very good a "girl stuff". She sees herself as a soldier protecting her people. 
T'aesla and Tovan Khev see themselves as good friends and commerades in battle.  Everyone has realized they are a pair, except for T'aesla and Tovan. 	
XO Tovan KhevRomulan Male Romulan Tactical Officer    A Farm boy and apprentice soldier, he found himelf swept up into the madness and is doing the best he can to keep up and do his job. He is tall and handsome, and utterly clueless about that.  	
CENG D'Vex Romulan Male Romulan Engineering OfficerD'vex was one of the refugees from Virinat, who escaped from the massacre of Virinat. He is excellent at keeping technology running happily. He thinks they have it too easy with plenty of tools, resources and parts.  He can keep machines running that others would consider a total write off.  	
CSci S'eath Romulan Female Romulan Science Officer    A former Tal Shiar Agent,  Has a record from a deep-cover mission as a Vulcan. Busy looking out for her newbies and kids.  She looks like a generic everyday Vulcan woman. She lived on Vulcan for 30 years undercover. She defected from the Tal Shiar and took up with T'aesla and her crew. She works as the Science Officer, running sensors and trying to keep up with the physics of modern space. 	
Tactical Juan Yuette DeppnerHuman FemaleStarfleet Tactical Officer    A Human from Earth. A former Starfleet Officer, Juan was cashiered for corruption and later became a pirate.  She joined the RRW Spirit of Virinat as a mercenary but is really a partisan of T'aesla and the Romulan Republic.  They have given her a second chance to straighten up.     Back by T'aesla and her crew, Juan has found some acceptance in the task force.  	
CMO Hiven  Romulan MaleRomulan Medical Officer    Hiven looks a Romulan football player. He was a med student long ago, but became a refugee.  He did his best, with poor resources and conditions. He joined T'Easla's crew as a field medic but spent all his time studying until recently he was able to pass his exams and become a doctor.  	
Latel Romulan Male Romulan Tactical Officer    He is tall and tightly put together. He was a Tal shiar Lietenant until he learned of the Elachi alliance.  Now he is an avid Romulan Republic partisan.  	
Science Officer
Satre  Romulan Female (23rd Century)Romulan Science OfficerSatre was rescued from a wrecked 23rd century Romulan ship.  She was horrified at the destruction of Romulus and what her people have become.  But she also appreciates the freedom and openness of the Romulan Republic 	
Engineering Officer
Tanrana Vulcan Female Starfleet Engineering OfficerA Mercenary Vulcan Engineer, Tanrana has deep affection for her Romulan Republic Friends and has brought them to Vulcan several times. There are rumors that she's actually a Starfleet, Federation or Vulcan government agent, Rumors which Tanrana refuses to address in any way. 	
Engineering OfficerVeril Reman Female Romulan Engineering Officer    Daughter of a noted Reman Scientist and dissident, Veril came along with T'aesla's crew to protect Veril from Tal Shiar Assassins.  She has made a place for herself as an engineer and technowizard. 	
Xixius Romlan Male (Old refugee) Romulan Engineering OfficerA refugee from the Hfihar System, Xixius  was a soldier a lifetime  ago.  After years as a starving refugee, he's grabbed onto life in the Militia.  	
Uvooz Yaal Bajoran Female Bajoran Intelligence OfficerUvooz will only admit to being a Bajoran Adventurer.  She has access to a lot of gadgets and "special skills" that, say, a spy might have.  But she, too enjoys the crew of kids, riff raff and left overs that have become a real crew. 	
Intelligence OfficerHolo-LeetaPhotonic Bajoran FemaleStarfleet Intelligence Officer 	
Medical OfficerHologram Julian BashirPhotonic MaleMedical Officer 	
Medical OfficerEMH Mk 1Photonic MaleMedical Officer 	
Science OfficerOtra Daniel MarshkoyaHuman Female CyborgStarfleet Science Officer
A Refugee from an Alternate Universe Federation, She is quietly sliding towards the Yellow Submarine 	
T'aesla Models the Romulan Republic Militia Uniform 	
T'aesla Models the Romulan Republic Star Navy Uniform 	
===Origin Story===
Several members of the crew were colonists on the Colony Planet Virinat when it was smeared by the Elachi. In a surprise attack the Colony suffered massive casualties and complete destruction. Xarvus, a refugee and old crank gathered a group of survivors around him and escaped to an ancient warbird hidden in orbit in the system.It turns out Xarvus was a Lieutenant in the old Imperial Romulan Star Navy, but has his career limited because he was too much of a free thinker. Xarvus taught his young people and refugees how to crew a Warbird, how to be Starship crew people and how to survive and win battles. Xarvus took a young lady under his wing, T'aesla. In D20 terms She has a high CHA and a high WIS and is reasonably competent in other measures. She became his right hand woman and his XO.Xarvus and his crew became supporters of the Romulan Republic and sailed along with the rag tag fleet of freedom loving Romulans. In time, age caught up to Xarvus and he passed.  T'aesla took over the ship and the crew and over time has built them up to be go-to team for Romulan Republic High Command.  They consider themselves part of the Romulan Republic Militia, and when they can be bothered to worry about uniforms, these are the ones they wear. This puzzles Romulan Republic High Command, since they would cheerfully be commissions and promoted and everything, if they'd hold still long enough.  They have long since graduated from their ancient, decrepit warbird, and now until very recently ran a new, up to date warbird of approximately the same size and missiong profile. But they don't. They keep moving to the next crisis and next problem where civilians are under threat from attackers. 
Recently, a series of attacks and bombing have revealed that the dying remains of the Tal Shiar have a hard on against T'aesla and her crew. The Romulan Republic worked a deal with the Federation, where T'aesla and her crew were shuffled onto a Federation escort to hide them from the Tal Shiar until they can run down who is so intent on revenge and settle them.
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Ship Name 
USS Virinat
Brief description of shipLooks like a squish of the Defiant, and a Ruabout designed by the Oddessey design team. 
Campaign role for the shipTo carry T'aesla and crew into trouble
Fleet roleA light escort
Age:2 years
Length:~75m
Distinguishing Marks (Odd paint job, repair scars etc.)The USS Virinat has a hot rodded power system that is obvious on scans. She has numerous patches and repairs visible on scans
Equipment Quirks and Problems:The Virinat packs an insane punch for a ship her size, but only briefly.  Over a long engagement, she'll have to carefully manage her heat to avoid over heating. 
Equipment AdvantagesThe USS Virinat packs top of the line shields, weapons, and power systems. While she holds together she can do amazing things. 
Shuttles, number, any odd ones?None.  The Virinat is too small to internally dock a shuttlecraft. 
Primary Power: The USS Virinat uses a overbuilt Dilithium mediated warp core.  For short bursts it can develop amazing power.  The price is that it's fuel hungry and demands heavy maintenance
Secondary Power: The Virinat uses time tested and well understood Impulse drives.  Large ones for her size. 
Weapons: The Virinat had axial cannons of devastating power.  because the ship is so small and so overly engined, turning the ship to line up targets isnt the challeng it is for a large ship. 
She also has smaller plasma cannon on turrets on her aft facing as well as a looted Borg Kinetic cutting beam. 
But the point of such insanely over done fire power, is to finish a battle quickly and immediately
Crew:About 40 people
Manned by Romulan Republic Defence Force irregulars, as well as the usual grab bag of mercenaries, adventurers and allies. 
Technically they should wear the uniform of the Romlan Republic Defence Force, but they generally don't.  
Among Romulans there was an old media franchise that was very popular. In it, it was common for extras and minor characters wearing red pants to die during the show. "Red pants" to become a running joke among Romulan fans.  Among T'aesla's crew, the habit of wearing red pants has become common as a wry reference to this piece of popular culture. 
Enterprise-D Scale
On a scale of 1 - 1000 where 1000 is the Enterprise-D of 2364.
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