Captain Zhan jav Tarsh

## Physical description:

* **Height**: 5'2"
* **Weight: 75 lbs**
* **Eye Color:** Blue
* **Hair Color:** Blonde
* **Age:** 48
* **Gender:** Male

## Species Information:

* **Race**: Tellarite
* **Time of Birth**: August 16, 2330 | Stardate 7622.80
* **Place of Birth:** Axanar

* **Rank:** Captain
* **Career Track:** Command
* **Department:**  Command

* **Current Position:** Commanding officer of the USS Andromeda

## Service Record

* 2347 Joined Starfleet Academy
* 2351 Graduated the Academy Assigned to the *USS Mariposa* as an Engineer
* 2352 Promoted to Lt.Jr Beta Shift Impulse maintain team leader.
* 2356 Promoted to Lt. Cross trains into Away Team leader
* 2362 Promoted to Lt. Cmdr, Chief Engineer on the *USS Lexington*.
* 2367  Missed out on the Battle of Wolf 359, but was determined to prevent it from happening again. Obsessively studied the battle and formed new tactics to counteract the Borg in his free time. His Captain encouraged him to continue. Due to an opening, Tarsh was promoted to Commander.
* 2370 Hostilities with the Dominion started. *The Lexington* is nearby DS9 on an Interstellar charting mission for the next three years.
* 2373 *USS Lexington* fought in the Battle of Sector 001. She was heavily damaged, but due to Tarsh's battles drills, casualties were kept down and she held out until the *Enterprise-E* arrived.
* 2374 In the Lead up to Operation Return, Tarsh was promoted to Captain and given command of a Constellation-class *USS Arco*. Participated in Operation Return and various sorties in the war.
* 2375 Treaty of Bajor is signed. The *USS Arco* is reassigned to deep space Exploration around the Cardassian Union and to offer civil aid.
* 2377 After a successful 2-year tour, Tarsh was pulled from the *Arco* and given command of the *USS Andromeda* to return to deep space exploration and cartography.

## Personality Profile

* Hobbies: Word games and debates. Linguistics and Poetry.

### Talents:

* Bold: Command
* Plan of Action
* Advisor
* Incisive Scrutiny
* Plan of Action

### Values

* All things worthwhile, are worth debating
* You have to break it to know where you need to fix it
* Treid and true through trial and error
* Always Learning

## History

Raised on a Busy Colony, Theta Phi II. Theta Phi is a Federation colony near the border of Klingon space that was set up nearly 150 years ago as a foothold on contested territory. It has been rapidly growing and has become the last stop world for ships heading Rimward. Since the Khitomer Accords, the planet has seen less Starfleet presence and more civilians. Thus has a history with Starfleet, is both loved and hated by the locals for various old reasons stretching back three generations. A temperate world with larges grasslands and warm shallow inland seas.  He picked up on his father's writing craft and often has debated.

His Father, Grom, was a civil engineer, worked on a great hydroelectric dam used to power the main city.  Father should be retired, but too stubborn to admit it. So he has been pushed into a more Foreman position. Disliked the impracticality of Starfleet and how it pulled good people into the stars when there is good to be done ground side. Heth, his mother was a fiction writer. Wrote young adult science fiction novels about 5 teenagers that use color-coordinated powers and teamwork to save their planet from weekly threats. She raised Zhan vas Tarsh alot and instilled in him critical thinking and a sense of duty and justice. Older Brother, Grak, is married on Teller Prime with three children. Works as a magistrate. The Eldest nephew, Trun, is just about ready to join Starfleet.Younger Sister, Kann, is a painter who travels from all corners of the galaxy taking pictures of badass things in order to inspire people and to record events for posterity.

Tarsh has a habit and a knack for tearing down cherished ideas and truly seeing if they deserve the pedestal they rest upon. He has torn into such ideas such has the scanity of life, the Prime Directive, the ideals of the Federation and the philosophies of Sun-tzu, Surak, and Voltaire.

Took up debate and loved word games and linguistics.

## Current Mission

### Stardate 54742.4 "Seek to know":

En Route to the Shoscu system, the Andromeda received a distress call from the scientific outpost on the small H-class planet. A Klingon Bird of Prey that has been flagged as a pirate ship by Outpost Andon a few months prior was harrasing the Outpost Shoscu now and making detailed scans of the planet at Sector 22/35.

The Andromeda handedly disabled the 70-year-old Bird of Prey before it became apparent they were using Borg Technology to repair itself. Rather than risk infestation or copycats, Tarsh ordered the vessel destroyed.

ON Shoscu I, at Sector 22/35, they found a Borg sphere that has reached tense homeostasis with the corrosive environment, repairing just as fast as it was being corroded. An away team was dispatched to investigate, and they found signed of Federation technology integrated, not assimilated, into the Sphere, and reference to a project called "Heilios". The timing of the Sphere Crash as well suggests that someone in Starfleet knew about it and was covering for them.

Lt. Wallace noticed a Borg Drone acting erratically and asked for it and the away team to be beamed onboard.

### The Chigo Concern

Following the events of Shoscu I, the Andromeda made First Contact with the Chigo Concern, a bureaucratic technocracy. They were extremely difficult to deal with given their limited scope and slightly disparaging views of aliens. Given the situation,