Nhytzia

### Siblings:

(As Human) 1 brother, Hamdaan; 2 sisters, Kashf and Gabrielle(As Kobali) 1 brother, Thakn

## Career

### Previous Assignment:

(As Human) Engineer's Mate, SS Peshawar(As Kobali) Temple Maintenance Technician

### Current Assignment:

Maintenance Chief, USS John Adams (NCC-93359)

### Rank:

Chief Petty Officer

Nhytzia is a Kobali female, born as a human on Cestus III in the late 24th Century. She is the Chief Maintenance Officer of the USS *John Adams*, and participated in many Green Wing activities on behalf of the Void Fleet and the Federation.

## Biography

### As Miraal Sulemani

Miraal Sulemani was born on the Federation colony of Cestus III in 2375, the youngest child of Mahad and Ja'nel Sulemani.

The Sulemani family business was in shipping supplies and passengers to various settlements within the Alpha Quadrant aboard their vessel, the S.S. Peshawar, a *Whorfin*-Class vessel. As Miraal's mother Ja'nel served as captain of the ship and her father Mahad as the engineer, the family was away from Cestus for significant periods of time. Miraal would join them as a young child, often spending time in the engine bay with her father, absorbing everything he could teach her regarding ship's systems and maintenance. This lead her to develop a special closeness with him and a keen interest in the field of engineering, and she wished to apply to join Starfleet when she was old enough.

Ja'nel was distant from her children. One of her daughters, Kashf, would later recall that "...her head was always in star charts and schedules. Always trying to plot the fastest run from point A to B. How to get a load of supplies from Betazed to the Hiromi Cluster without attracting Orion attention then passengers from Hiromi to Delta IV faster than anyone else. You make the run, you get the reputation, you get the credits. Then you can keep the nice apartment in Pike City and maybe one day replace the 80-year-old ship you bought third-hand. In the meantime, she forgot she had a family." This relentless drive for efficiency drove a wedge between herself and Mahad, which in turn fostered a resentment in Miraal.

When Miraal began schooling at age 5, she stopped tagging along with her parents on shipping runs and was left in the care of her eldest sister, Gabrielle, along with her brother Hamdaan and sister Kashf. The aptitude in math and science developed in Miraal as expected, and she ached to work with her father in the engine room of the family's vessel once again.

   Disaster struck in 2391. While on a run to a settlement in the Zenas Expanse, the *Peshawar* came into contact with Orion Syndicate raiders who demanded the ship's dilithium, load of kemocite, and any passengers aboard for slavery in exchange for sparing the vessel. Ja'nel elected to run, laying down a spread of fire from the ship's lone Mark IX phaser bank to try and cover their escape. The plan did not work, however, as the Syndicate vessels opened fire on the lightly shielded ship. The resulting explosion ignited some of the kemocite in the hold, destroying much of the engine room, killing Mahad and several members of the crew. The pirates then boarded the vessel, stripping it of anything of value and capturing any remaining crew or passengers. They decided, however, to leave Ja'nel alone on the vessel to die when the minimal life support power finally fades as an example. The ship floated for several days before it was noticed by the passing USS *Biko* (NCC-50331).

Upon rescue and return to Cestus III, Ja'nel became a woman possessed by thoughts of vengeance against the Orions. She poured all of the family resources into repairing and outfitting the *Peshawar* with more powerful engines and a robust disruptor weapon system (ironically, procured through black market dealings tracing back to the Orion Syndicate) with the intent to resume shipping as soon as possible, and in hopes of running into the very pirates that took her husband and attempted to destroy her livelihood. She intended to press her children into serving as crew. However, by this time Hamdaan had caught on with the Pike City Pioneers baseball team, Gabrielle had married and adopted several children with her wife, and Kashf had cut off all ties with her mother, blaming her for Mahad's death. This left 17-year old Miraal, who also resented her mother over the treatment of her father and holding him responsible for his fate. However, the opportunity to leave school and work in space was too alluring to pass up, even working for someone she hated. If anything, she felt that the experience would help her in her Starfleet entrance exams, and maybe fast track her into a Chief Engineer job.

Ja'nel hired a new chief engineer, an elderly Tellerite named Talorsh Wuf, much to Miraal's chagrin. By mid-2392, the *Peshawar* was repaired, refit, and launched with Engineer's Mate Miraal Sulemani below decks.

Miraal interacted with her mother as little as possible, spending all her time in the engine room shadowing Talorsh, whom she found to be incompetent and disagreeable. There were numerous instances where she found errors in Talorsh's work, which he would dismiss as her being a child who had no idea what she was talking about. Complaints to her mother also fell on deaf ears. So, Miraal began to wait until Talorsh would leave the room or go off duty, and correct the mistakes she found. When he returned to his station, he never commented on the changes, so there is some question as to whether or not he recognized the changes or simply didn't care. Over the next year she also began to notice her mother taking on more dangerous runs, rejecting simple passenger runs in favor of transporting valuable materials into hostile space, and even engaging in smuggling weapons. Concerns brought to her mother would be brushed aside, and Miraal began to genuinely fear that her mother was going to get them all killed.

Events came to a head in 2395. After years of attempting to bait pirate attention, the *Peshawar* was finally successful while transporting Borite (as well as a healthy amount of smuggled Tetryon weaponry) through The Badlands. The Syndicate vessels surrounded the *Peshawar* and delivered the ultimatum to drop shields and prepare to be boarded. Ja'nel played along, ordering the vessel to come to a stop and drop shields. When the first Syndicate vessel came into range, she ordered the disruptor weapons deployed and opened fire. This surprise attack caused a great deal of damage to the Syndicate ship, but left the *Peshawar* defenseless as the two remaining ships fired.

The weapons system was very quickly disabled, while Miraal and Talorsh worked to keep the engines online and bring shields back up. A torpedo hit disabled a portion of the warp system, including the matter/antimatter intermix system. Realizing at the last moment that she made a severe tactical blunder and wishing to not get anyone else killed, Ja'nel attempted to take the ship to warp. Realizing at the last moment that the intermix system was down and any failsafes were offline, Miraal attempted to reach the console to manage the mixture manually. However, Talorsh made the same realization and got to the console before her. She tried to scream out the proper mixture setting, but he ignored her and began to release the flow manually. It is unknown if he attempted to use an incorrect mixture ratio, the magnetic bottles failed, or if his hands trembled on the valve release, but an uncontrolled flow of deuterium flooded the dilithium regulation chamber as the warp engine was engaged.

The *Peshawar* successfully jumped, but the immediately tore open a wormhole. The damage to the ship as well as the engine imbalance caused the *Peshawar* to careen wildly as the crew began to feel the effects of time dilation taking hold. Miraal saw a flash of light from the engine console as the mangled and bloodied body of Talorsh fell to the deck. She heard the voice of her mother calling from the bridge demanding to know what is happening. She witnessed the slow detonation of the engine and saw the flames and debris rushing towards her. Unable to move, she felt the flames sear her body. Felt the pieces of the bulkhead slam into her. She tried to scream but the sound came slowly from her lips. Finally, she saw the open blackness of space around her as her sense of the normal passage of time returned. She realized she was pulled through a tear in the hull of the ship as she watched the flaming wreck of her mother's vengeance streak through the void and smash into an asteroid.

It was less than 15 seconds, but floating there felt like an eternity. The pain in her chest began to rip through her and she felt the inky blackness of unconsciousness closing in all around her. And right before it took her, a single thought went through her mind.

"Well. This sucks."

#### Fate of the *Peshawar*

As it happens, the *Peshawar* came out of the wormhole in the Kendren System, in the Delta Quadrant. When the wreckage of the vessel was discovered and examined by Starfleet in 2411, it was determined that the ship made one of the longest warp jumps on record. This was likely the combination of the irregular warp bubble due to structural damage, the intermix error, the patchwork nature of the ship's engines, and the fact that the jump originated within the plasma storms of the Badlands. The incident remains under investigation.

### As Nhytzia

Miraal's body floated lifelessly through space for several weeks, buffeted by the solar winds from the Kendren star. She would have likely floated there forever, if not for a passing Kobali survey ship. Her corpse was brought aboard and examined where it was determined that, despite her injuries, she would be a prime candidate for "rebirth" when the time comes. Miraal's body was placed in stasis and then taken to Kobali Prime, where she was placed in a pod underneath the Kobali temple.

When her time came, Miraal's body was infected with the Kobali genetic pathogen, which began the process of her mutation into a Kobali. After several months of "death", Miraal reawoke in early 2396. Upon first viewing the attending Kobali medic, she was initially terrified. She had met several aliens, sure, but she had never seen this particular species before. Also, where was her mother? The last thing she remembered was seeing the *Peshawar* destroyed. And why is she alive and uninjured? And why do they keep calling her "Nhytzia"? The flood of questions and confusion caused her to panic, striking the medic and fleeing from the rebirth chamber.

Miraal ran as fast as she could through the corridors, attempting to evade her pursuers and the other Kobali she encountered. Finally, she found a small space behind a maintenance shaft that she was able to hide in, and she began to cry. She was found by a Kobali woman named Jhet'leya, who explained to her that she died here in the Delta Quadrant, was found by a Kobali vessel, and is now being given a second chance at life as Kobali. The old memories, the old pain and the old hurts will eventually fade, and she will have a new name, a new family, and a new purpose. And to further drive home that Miraal is not alone, she revealed herself as having once been Ensign Lyndsay Ballard of the USS *Voyager*, and human.

Jhet'leya walked Miraal back to the rebirth chamber and introduced her to her new family: father Thusal, mother T'yvn, and brother Thakn. Miraal was trepidatious at first, and reacted fearfully when her physical metamorphosis into Kobali began, but the kindness and love shown to her by her new family (along with the fading memory of her old life) eased her fears, and she accepted her place as Nhytzia.

Nhytzia completed her re-education over the next few years, and worked with her father on the transporter network within the Kobali City. By 2408, she had taken on a position within the Kobali Temple, performing maintenance on the stasis tubes in the lower levels. With the start of the Vaadwaur invasion in 2410, the majority of Nhytzia's time was spent in the maintenance of facility shields and defensive emplacements. While she knew that her first duty was to Kobali Prime and to the dead sleeping below, she yearned to get back to space, to carry the fight to the Vaadwaur themselves. She reasoned that this was likely the echoes of her old life calling to her, and did her best to silence the feelings.

One day, as the conflict was drawing to a close, Nhytzia was on her way towards one of the maintenance sectors within the temple when several barricades rose from the floor and trapped her within a maze. While attempting to find her way out and back to her station, she passed Admiral Keith Bowerman who was attempting to navigate the maze in order to subdue Keten, a recently awakened Kobali.

While he did not have time to escort Nhytzia out of the maze himself, he provided directions to return to the beginning of the maze. In her excitement, Nhytzia expressed an interest in leaving Kobali Prime and joining up with his crew.