Commander Lyanna Sonson
First Officer
Species;
Human
Sex;
Female
Age;
29
Service History;
2365
- 2369 - Starfleet Academy.
2369
- 2371 - Starfleet Medical, Paris. Doctorate in Medicine.
2371
- 2373 - USS Bertrand - Lt. (jg), Medical Officer, Delta Shift Team Leader.
2374
- USS Venture - Lt. Assigned as Chief Medical Officer
2376
- USS Venture - Field Promotion to Executive Officer. Confirmed after
the Treaty of Bajor is signed.
2377
- Brevet Promotion to Commander approved.
2377
- Starfleet Command School
Character History;
Lyanna
grew up in the country with her sisters, and had a good early education. She
loved to study the wide variety of plants and animals that lived around her
in the country. And by the time she was eight she had already expressed a keen
interest in biology.
Once
she had moved to London with her parents she continued her schooling and went
on to finish school and almost immediately applied to Starfleet Academy medical
school. She had already shown potential and passed the entrance exams with relative
ease. She studied hard at Starfleet medical, broadening her knowledge to include
anatomy, physiology, virology and exobiology.
It
was also during her second year of medical training, on a medical field trip
out that she met the man that was to later become her Husband. Lyanna and Mark
fell in love instantly and were married nine months later during the summer
recess.
After
graduating the academy third in her class, Lyanna was posted aboard the USS
Bertrand. The Bertrand was a dedicated medical ship and as such, in the
first two years of her tour she attended several large disasters, she quickly
took on what responsibilities were handed to her and as such caught the attention
of the senior surgeon on board. Her dedication to the medical field earned
her the respect of the officers she was serving with and consequently received
her promotion to full Lieutenant when the Bertrand was reassigned to the seventh
fleet.
As
war broke out, Lyanna experienced some of the worst situations that can be imagined,
her training had prepared her for treating her comrades but the sheer scale
of the casualty lists was something she could not have imagined. In the
early days of the war the Federation was soundly defeated at every engagement,
her ship was always the one first into the area after the battles picking through
the wreckage of smashed vessels.
She
stayed with the Bertrand for another year until she received a new posting aboard
the USS Venture, the Venture's medical staff had been heavily depleted in the
long months of fighting. She took up the role as the Assistant Chief Medical
Officer, but as Starfleet’s resources grew thinner and the CMO was needed elsewhere,
she took on the role as CMO the head of Department.
The
war slowly began to turn in the favour of the Federation and people were beginning
to believe that the war could be won. That was when the Dominion unleashed
its latest weapon, the Breen. An as yet quiet force in the war, the Breen
had always been elusive to the intelligence of the Allies, however nothing could
prepare them for the surprise that awaited the combined fleet at Chin'toka.
A
Federation, Klingon and Romulan force of nearly 100 ships was met by the Dominion
and newly joined Breen forces and the Breen used an energy damping weapon that
crippled the power systems of the ships. This left the fleet helpless
and the Dominion forces took full advantage destroying all but one of the ships
in the fleet. The one surviving ship, a Klingon cruiser managed to expose
a weakness in the weapon that in time the Romulans and the Federation could
exploit and render it useless.
It
was during this battle that Mark Sonson was lost, although several of his crewmates
confirmed he made it to one of the Brisbane's escape pods, he and others were
never found. The news hit Lyanna hard, but she had no time for grief -
instead she just assumed and prayed that he was taken prisoner.
With
the Federation building up a fleet to liberate Betazed, the Dominion felt the
tide of the war once again turn in the Alliance's favour. As was their
way, they made the Alliance pay in blood for its victories. During one
of these many battles on a day that Lyanna will never forget. The Venture
and her escorts were ambushed by a Dominion scouting force, despite being clearly
outgunned and outmatched the Dominion forces engaged anyway.
The
battle should have lasted little more than five minutes, however the lead Dominion
ship - taking advantage of a gap in the formation of the federation group, ploughed
into the Venture in a suicide charge into the saucer section that seriously
damaged the Venture. So severe was the damage that it killed almost all
of the Bridge crew. Only Captain Hedges, Lizzane Woy and Alan Lethard survived.
Lyanna and her medical team reached the bridge to be greeted with a scene of
destruction. With three more ships out there and the Venture disabled,
her escorts fought hard just to prevent any more of the Dominion ships from
attacking.
Lyanna
evacuated the wounded from the bridge and they fell back to the Ventures battle
bridge. From here, Captain Hedges organised the emergency repairs and
once again the Venture was back in action. Lyanna found herself in the
position as a senior officer, and lacking any other available staff, she found
herself doubling as the ships XO. With the Venture now fully back into
the fray the other Dominion ships were defeated. Despite being heavily
damaged the Venture was forced to remain in action for three more weeks before
she was pulled back to Starbase 59 for repairs.
Captain
Hedges authorised her field promotion, and she continued to serve in the dual
capacity as both First Officer a part time Medical Officer for the remaining
months of the war. Once peace was officially settled the Venture was recalled
to Utopia Planitia for a major overhaul and upgrade. During this time
Lyanna went back to the academy to attend the Command School, once she graduated
she was offered the chance to once again serve with the Venture.
Skills;
Lyanna
is a very competent doctor with nearly five years medical experience since leaving
the academy. She is always reading medical journals and profiles. She is never
afraid of the responsibility of being a doctor and tackles all of the challenges
that it entails with excitement. She regularly in some of her free time goes
to the holodeck to practice difficult medical procedures to keep in practice,
and has developed a very sophisticated anatomy simulation, which she uses to
practice on.
Appearance;
Height:
5’'7".
Hair:
Deep Red.
Eyes:
Green
Personality;
Lyanna
is a very happy, fun-loving individual with an opinion about everything. She
still holds on to the hope that her husband may be found, even now, more than
two years after he was lost. She has tried to keep a positive attitude
but gradually the optimism has begun to fade, and she has buried herself in
her work to avoid facing the situation.
This
sometimes spills out into her work, when she is put under a lot of pressure
she will take-up the responsibility and calmly organises the situation with
a no-nonsense attitude. She is ambitious, but patient enough to realise and
appreciate the experience of the other officers she works with.
She
tries to get on with everybody, and has a very open ear to people's problems.
She is however occasionally given to causing a little mischief, but has mellowed
as her responsibility to her crew has taken priority.
Default Reactions:
Discipline
- Lyanna will without question always follow orders and respect the chain of
command.
Combat
- Lyanna does her best to stay out of combat, hiding or retreating and always
calling for security or reinforcements. If left no option she will return
fire on a medium or heavy stun setting.
Leadership
- As a ranking officer and Department Head, Lyanna will take command if no other
more appropriate officer is available, she is a risk taker but will try to mitigate
them by asking others for help.
Diplomacy
- Lyanna will always talk first and try to negotiate out of a sticky situation,
she is usually very gentle and polite. However when necessary she can show a
very determined side of herself.
Social
- Lyanna is very outgoing and feels comfortable in social situations, she has
been known to use charm to win peoples confidence and is a natural extension
of her bedside manner.
Personality
- Lyanna is not easily distracted and follows a course of action to its natural
end.
Fitness
4
Co-ordination
3, Dexterity
+1
Intellect
5, Perception
+1, Logic
+1
Presence
3, Willpower
+1
Psi
0
Skills;
Administration (Starship Administration) 1(3)
Athletics (Racquetball) 2(3), (Climbing)(3), (Riding)(3)
Command
(Starship Command) 1(3)
Computer
(Simulation/Modelling) 2(3)
Culture
(Human) 2(3)
Dodge
1
Energy
Weapon (Phaser) 3(3)
Engineering,
Systems (Computer) 2(2)
First
Aid (Wound/Combat Trauma) 3(4), (Klingon Physiology)(4)
History
(Human) 1(2), (Federation)(2)
Language;
Federation Standard 3, Romulan 1
Law
(Starfleet Regulations) 1(3), (Federation Law)(2)
Personal
Equipment (Medical Tricorder) 3(3)
Planetside
Survival (Forest) 1(2)
Sciences,
Life (Genetics) 2(2), (Microbiology)(2)
Sciences,
Medical 4 (General Medicine) 4(5)
Sciences,
Physical (Chemistry) 2(3)
Sciences,
Space (Stellar Cartography) 1(2)
Security
(Security Systems) 1(2)
Shipboard
Systems (Medical Systems) 4(4), (Command)(5)
Starship
Tactics (Dominion) 1(3), (Cardassian)(2), (Federation)(2)
Unarmed
Combat (Starfleet Martial Arts) 1(2)
Vehicle
Operations (Shuttlecraft) 2(2)
World Knowledge (Earth)
Advantages/Disadvantages;
Department
Head +4 (XO), Innovative +1, Promotion (Commander) +8
Code
of Honour -4 (Starfleet Code), Pacifism -1 (Cannot Kill), Smothering -2, Vengeful
-1 (Jem'Hadar), (Romantic
Attachment -3 (Mark Sonson))
Courage:
7
Resistance:
4
Renown:
21
Aggression
0, Discipline +5,
Initiative
+3, Integrity 0,
Luck
+1, Openness +3, Skill +9
XP Awarded; 92 XP Spent; 92