Taev Zaytsev

# Service Record Overview

* 2415 - 2417  – Served aboard RRW *V'Rela* (*T'Varo*-class), under command of Erei'Riov Khelan, during and after Iconian War.
* 2417 - 2419  – Attended fast-track officer programme at Republic Navy College, graduated as Erein (Ensign). Transferred to Outback, assigned to USS *Ares*.
* 2420 - 2421  – USS *Ares*, helm officer, promoted to Enerein (Sublieutenant).
* 2421 - 2422  – USS *Ares*, helm officer, promoted to Erei'Arrain (Lieutenant).
* 2422 - 2423  – General Operations duties aboard Starbase 381 *Praetorian*.
* 2423 - onwards  – 26th Fleet Engineering, Starbase 381 *Praetorian*.

# Dates of Rank

* May 4th, 2415 – Uhlan, RRW *V'Rela*.
* June 8th, 2419 – Erein, transferred to USS *Ares*. (Transfer orders)
* January 28th, 2420 – Enerein, USS *Ares*
* July 1st, 2421 - Erei'Arrain, USS *Ares*
* March 22nd, 2422 - Erei'Arrain, General Operations, Starbase 381 *Praetorian*
* March 5th, 2423 - Erei'Arrain, 26th Fleet Engineering, Starbase 381 *Praetorian*

# Awards & Commendations

* Iconian War Medal on Stardate 93623 (January 7th, 2416)
* End War Medal on Stardate 97441 (November 1st, 2419)

# Military & Civilian Education

* Standard ground combat  including pistols, rifles and hand-to-hand.
* Explosives and demolition  basic training, emphasis on explosives' disarmanent.
* Standard piloting  with emphasis on vessels in size range: *Tiercel* shuttle to *T'Liss*/*T'Varo*-class warbird.
* Standard diplomatic protocol - course taken twice, as the candidate failed module in *Interspecies Courtesy*.
* History of the late Romulan Star Empire 2350-2400
* Xenobiology: Cosmozoans, course taken remotely in 2422. Certified by Starfleet Academy and Republic Navy Academy.

# Biography

## Family and Early Life

Born at the turn of millenium, century and decade, 13 years after Hobus supernova, Taev grew up on Algorab, with Romulus and Remus being a little more than a myth or a bedtime story. His early childhood, at least what he could remember, was filled with humble life – not too much, not too little. One day, a strange ship appeared in the skies above Algorab City. That’s where his memory becomes hazy. A flashbacks of unusual faces, if those were faces at all, then a bald Romulan with a strange left eye, a star-shaped metals on his palms and whispers of many voices… it was like a very wild dream. A dream he dreamt often.

His first clear memory after the ship was that of a woman who was not his mother. Her name was Nadel. She would told him he was safe, and that everything was going to be alright now. He was going to ask about his parents, but he couldn’t remember their names. Even their faces were a blurry memory. She took him to other children and adults in a place called Mol’Rihan – New Romulus. Metal stars were gone from his hands, but his skin was pale green and his veins were visible. Other children didn’t like him because of that. For almost a year, he lived in the refugee shelter, being ignored, occasionally bullied, by others of his age. Nadel would visit him sometimes, but he was mostly on his own. He learned about Starfleet people, who all looked different, and the Klingons. The former, he began to realize, looked at him with pity, the latter called him different names, pretty much like teenagers he lived with.

As he continued attending school, things weren’t going for the better. Something was wrong with him. His own people, Romulans, more than Starfleet people, avoided him. And he couldn’t figure out, or remember, why. On school trip to Republic Command, he sneaked away from his group and found his way to Nadel. Much to his surprise, she was expecting him there. And there was another person, young man in Starfleet uniform - who looked Romulan, yet not Romulan enough. Storming into her office, he demanded to know why everyone treated him differently and where his parents were. And that’s how he learned of the Elachi, Hakeev and the Borg implants he had. Algorab City was destroyed, his parents never found or even identified. No parents, no home place to call home and, with exception of his own name, no identity.
He ran out of the office, with Nadel and the Starfleet officer in pursuit, towards one of the Command’s balconies looking down to Reman settlement. Before he could throw himself, the Romulanish man grabbed him and pulled him away from the edge.

*“We live in times when the loss of any Romulan life is a tragedy!”* he heard Nadel’s voice.

After many counseling sessions, he returned to school. Yet, he became distrustful of Romulans, Klingons and Starfleet alike. Apart from Nadel, the only person he somehow befriended was the Starfleet officer who stopped him from suicide attempt. This was probably because the man lost his parents and two sisters at very young age too, so Taev had someone to identify with, for the first time in his life. His friend had an unusual name for a person of Romulan descent – Yorkin. Much to Nadel’s dismay, Yorkin taught Taev how to use a phaser, as the young Romulan was eager for vengeance, even if Hakeev was long dead by then. Nadel would to turn to Yorkin's not-yet-fiancee, T'Lara, for help.

Seeing lack of proper parenting as the source of Taev's problems, T'Lara adopted Taev. During the next three years, right to the beginning of Iconian War, the young teenager went through much needed improvement, although nobody quite understood how did his Vulcan guardian exert such a constructive influence over his fiery and volatile personality.

## Iconian War and Aftermath

In 2415, Iconians launched their attack on New Romulus. While not directly endangered, Taev witnessed the effects of Herald rampage across the planet. As ash and dust settled down, Taev concluded there wasn’t anything more to lose – he would join the Republic Military, one way or another, even he was under-aged. As luck favours the bold and the children, and Taev was both, he ran into erei’Riov (Subcommander) Khelan, who was more than eager to fill in his crew complement, by many means necessary. He conscripted Taev aboard his *T’Varo*-class warbird, RRW *V'Rela*, unbeknownst to his Vulcan guardian. Over the course of Iconian War, Taev gained experience in ground combat and piloting, especially on hit-and-run missions, not unlike the Delta Flight battle group. T'Lara's death in the Battle of Herald Sphere, however, rekindled his old personality.

With the end of Iconian War and after completing additional training in Republic Military Academy, he officially granted the rank of Erein (Ensign). But with skills and battle-hardened experience, coupled with late teenage years, vengeance turned into arrogance. While he kept himself in line with the authority of comanding and flag officers, Taev was mean and unfriendly with Yorkin and his fellow ranking officers, often unjustifiably looking down upon them – just as he was looked down upon few years earlier.

## "Exile" to The Outback

Considered unreliable of commanding his own, smaller warbird, he was ordered to stay at Mol’Rihan during the Hur'q crisis. With no means to vent out his frustrations, he ended in series of brawls, bar fights and even illegal hand-to-hand combat matches. After discipline hearing, Republic Military Command decided to send him to The Outback, hoping that the perilous nature of the dwarf galaxy might put him in line, if nothing else would.

He was appointed as the helm officer to USS *Ares*, under the command Captain Kass Lanae. His posting was initially a bumpy ride, as he often clashed with almost all of the senior staff, most notably with Captain Lanae and Lieutenant Nialwen Ji'lapor, Tactical Officer. Over time, however, his behavior started to show signs of change. Several influences contributed to this change: Lanae's constant pressure with additional tasks in the Main Engineering, witnessing of brutality of Scourge in the End War and Aleksandra 'Sasha' Zaytseva, a young computer specialist he began to date shortly after the War. As Taev's life becomes deeply intertwined with Sasha's, the changes seem to become more pronounced. As Captain Lanae herself stated to him: "Under Sasha's influence, you have grown into a man."

## Service Record in PTX-1138 (The Outback)

* AAR: Survey of Sector J18
* AAR: Scourge Lure Test - Diverting Lingering Scourge from Polaran Space
* AAR: Investigation of derelict vessel
* AAR: Attending Diplomatic Dinner at Kingdom of Cevant Homeworld
* Preliminary Report on Status of Discens Ion Corridor
* promoted to Enerein (Sublieutenant)
* AAR: Ares Computer Malfunction
* AAR: Investigation of Sabotage on *Ares* - Part 2
* AAR: Loss of MV Boniventure
* AAR: Baby Purrgil Rescue and Anti-pirate Engagement
* AAR: Operation Hidden Talon
* AAR: Investigation of MRS Ascendant and subsequent investigations
* AAR: Responding to Polaran Navy request of vessel rescue
* AAR: Encounter with CAA vessel
* AAR: Purge of Alien Installation
* Professional Orientation and Holodeck Training Scenarios
* AAR: Comms Array Incident
* AAR: Investigation of Abandoned Settlement
* AAR: Nullspace pocket anomaly
* AAR: Investigation of Second Abandoned Colony
* AAR: Investigation of 4th Kresaran Colony
* First Contact: Kresaren Dominiom
* promoted to Erei'Arrain (Lieutenant)

# Medical Report

Given psycho-terapies' results taken in over past decade, it is believed that tr'Havaran was involved as a "guinea pig" in Tal'Shiar experiments with Elachi indoctrination or, more certainly, Borg assimilation. The patient does not exhibit any physical traumas, save for the pale green skin, accentuated bloodstream coloring and general lack of body hair. From physical perspective, he is fit for duty.

The psychological side of the matter is, however, confusing as different symptoms have surfaced over the years. On most general level, the patient is withdrawn from his social surroundings, unless professional duties occupy him enough to focus strictly on the task at hand. He also has no problem with senior authority and has demonstrated to single-mindedly focus on enacting the received orders.
However, when it comes to peers, colleagues of equal rank or disabled persons, the patient exhibits sociopathic behaviour. Yet, he has demonstrated a soft side for non-humanoid lifeforms (e.g. creatures that could be pets, then plants, etc.) and children up to a certain age.

Recommendation would be simply - to keep him busy with work, attending regular counseling sessions, preferably in the presence of commanding officer. The patient is still in his formative years, so it is difficult to predict how his personality will develop.