Petty Officer 1st Class Xuan Chihyon
Name Xuan Chihyon
Position Chief Operations Officer
Rank Petty Officer 1st Class
Character Information
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | Orion/Human hybrid | |
| Age | 27 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5' 8" | |
| Weight | 150lbs | |
| Hair Color | Black | |
| Eye Color | Blue | |
| Physical Description | Xuan is slender and agile. Her small frame has permitted her to access areas of a starbase or starship that few others can reach. In order to reach those hard places and manipulate different machine elements, she maintains a strict vegetarian diet and exercise regimen. Her skin is a pale olive, a result of her mixed genetics. Unlike most Orion women, her body is incapable of producing the strong pheromones that her gender is known for. This is, perhaps, the best gift her mother could have given her. Had she remained near her father’s culture, and the Syndicate, she would have been considered worthless and kept out of sight. |
Family
| Father | Tesril (Orion) | |
| Mother | Zhen Chihyon |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Xuan’s mother is a career woman, having served most of her life in Starfleet’s enlisted service. Though she was never attached to the frontier, nor saw the war from the front lines, Xuan had little choice but make starships her home. She knew everyone well but had few friends. Her friends were often older than her, and mostly engineers. What her mother couldn’t teach her, the engineering staff did. At a young age, Xuan developed an affinity for math and physics, as well as technology. Though she loves to tinker, she also loves a crowd, but never to be at the center of it. Generally, Xuan is a happy person, but doesn’t seek relationships. Her mother didn’t need a companion, therefore, she feels that she doesn’t need one as well. | |
| Strengths & Weaknesses | + Highly analytical + Experimental + Friendly + Team Player - Slightly Introverted - Isn’t seeking companionship |
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| Ambitions | To learn all she can about the universe and what it offers. | |
| Hobbies & Interests | Tinkering, Enjoying time with people |
| Personal History | Fresh out of the enlisted training camp, Crewman Zhen Chihyon found herself, like most new recruits, posted in areas of the galaxy most in need of help. In her case, Zhen was assigned to Sherman’s Planet. It was a dangerous assignment, but Zhen fell in love with the local culture. She even fell in love with a simple Orion merchant named Tesril. Zhen knew full well the dangers that the planet bore, but chose to allow Tesril to pursue her, even to the point of conceiving a child. Two months before Xuan was to be born, Tesril found himself in conflict with an Orion cartel who sought Tesril’s business location to use as their own. Tesril did not survive. To protect her unborn daughter, whom she feared would earn the same fate as her lover, Zhen sought a transfer off Sherman’s Planet, managing to find one aboard the USS Shanghai, a small Oberth-type ship in need of replacements. There, Xuan was born. Zhen continued to serve Starfleet, and raised Xuan alone. Xuan quickly became a Starfleet brat, moving with her mother from vessel to vessel, though the child was often stuck at long-term care centers at home ports. When she was permitted to join her mother on assignment, Xuan was accepted by most aboard, She also didn’t notice the absence of a father figure. Class, however, was not enough to occupy her. But the age of nine, she became fascinated by machines, going so far to dismantle a food synthesizer in the mess hall and reassembling it. When she was eleven, Zhen was transferred to a planet-side base with a small engineering contingent, Xuan discovered that she was only one of four kids at the base, and consequently, the oldest. School to her became boring, and she found more to tinker with in the classroom. Eventually, her zeal to learn took her out of the classroom and into the base. Instead of keeping her holed up in a room, the base’s Chief Engineer took an interest in her, and started to train Xuan with the non-critical systems. By the time she was a teenager, and being transferred with her mother to two more starships, Xuan was allowed to continue to train with various engineering compliments on more and more shipboard systems that were outside of hazardous areas. At the age of eighteen, when it was time to follow her own path, the Captain of the USS Nimitz presented Xuan with a unique birthday present, sponsorship to Starfleet Academy. Though Xuan could easily continue down the path she was currently following, her aptitude and hunger for more was not something that an enlisted career would satisfy, or so thought both the Captain and Zhen. Xuan thanked the Captain for his kindness, and instead chose to enlist directly into Starfleet. She knew, just as everyone else did, that Xuan was perfectly capable of thriving as an officer. Xuan simply had no patience for 4 years of intense training, recounting many things that she already knew intimately. Basic training proved to be a physical challenge, but she was mentally prepared for it. What she didn’t expect, however, was the level of difficulty in the engineering school. Xuan had expected to skate right through it, but she immediately found herself at the bottom of the ranking order by the end of the second week. She managed to correct her course and doubled down on her education as if she hadn’t learned anything. The skills she garnered in her childhood helped her to quickly turn things around as she began to grasp concepts. She soon rose to the top of the class, and then graduated. Just like her mother, she didn’t get to choose her first assignment. Rather than continue a journey among the stars, Xuan was assigned to Starbase 11 as a systems technician. Without complaint, she served aboard the orbital base for a year, learning what she could from senior officers, and working to improve the base. Xuan was eventually promoted and reassigned as a systems specialist aboard the USS Delphinus, serving along the Tholian border. During her time aboard, the Delphinus was ambushed by two Tholian frigates, and Xuan soon found herself in the middle of damage control. Her quick thinking and ingenuity landed her in the ship’s damage control team instead of the general engineering pool. The following year, she was reassigned to the USS sh’Paveress as a damage control specialist, also assigned to the Tholian border. During the tour aboard the sh’Paveress, not only was her technological prowess challenged to each and every degree, she continued to make a name for herself among the damage control team. Opportunity for advancement aboard the sh’Paveress was denied, thanks to several senior engineers who had a love for the Steamrunner-class ship and had no intention of transferring. Waiting for any of them to die wasn’t an option, nor did Xuan want to die waiting. For the first time in her career, Xuan put in for a transfer to anywhere but the sh’Paveress. Due to her low rank, her name was placed in a pool of candidates to await reassignment throughout the sector. Xuan didn’t have to wait long as her skillset made her a perfect match for Deep Space Three, a forward outpost that thankfully didn’t see much excitement. The station was an aging bulk, and its true enemy was not raiders or pirates, but its own innards. Xuan’s ingenuity was put to the test, as was the rest of the operations team. She spent two years on the base, learning more and more each day. Xuan, much like the rest of the crew, was not surprised when news of the base’s decommissioning reached the subspace antenna. Deep Space Three was no longer deep in space and much of the Federation had grown beyond it. A completely separate crew would be involved in the decommissioning and disassembly, and Xuan was given the chance to stay. Instead, she chose to move on, once again putting her name out there, though this time she shot for the stars, quite literally. It seemed the perfect match was out there for her, another run-down station called Deep Space K-17… |