Tervan Vehemus Leere

Once a highly respected family on el-Auria, the Leere family was reduced to Tervan and his daugher, Aurecinia, after the Borg incursion. His father, Alaress, was a Provincial Governer in the Foyo region of el-Auria. Alaress met Meranda while at a New Year's party in Capitol City. The two had a courtship that lasted two years while Meranda finished Art school and recieved a teaching certificate. Later, Meranda would become a private art tutor. They were married in 2078 on the moon of Uotre and had their honeymooon on Geosh. Tervan is the youngest child of the couple, born in 2151. He had eleven brothers and nine sisters, not to count the number of cousins he had from his fifteen uncles and twelve aunts.

Traditionally, the Leeres had served in the el-Aurian Navy as explorers, scientists, engineers, and commanders. Without reservation, the Leeres use their training to advance any particular projects they may have in their civilian lives. Alaress had lead the Northern Expansion into what they referred to as the "Vast Wastes". Later, Federation cartographers would mark it as the Void. He was commentated and retired as a Master Cartographer with a Septimus Friess Decoration from the Republican Geographic Society.

Meranda Troussard was descended of a line of bankers and militiamen, of whom she was fiercely proud. Before marrying Alaress, she showed aptitude in design and architecture. Later, she would design and construct the provincial manor in Foyo, where she and her family would reside for sixty years in contemporary architectural splendor. The building straddled a waterfall where two rivers merged. Inspired by tales from those who returned from the Earth expedition, Meranda improved upon the methods by using the flow of the water to help cantilever the foundation.

Though many of Leere's siblings would live in splendor as politicos after their decade of Naval service, Leere followed in the footsteps of four in particular; Kraln and Freel, Ilyana and Tatyana. The two pairs of twins opted to remain in the el-Aurian Navy, rising to the ranks of Half Commandant at least. Freel was present at the first encounter with the Borg, falling valiantly in combat with the menacing race. Later, Kraln and Ilyana, commanding Damascus-class super-cruisers, fought Borg cubes with devastating effect. The siblings worked together, utilizing rotating energy bandwidths paired with solid weapons, to keep six cubes stationary around the Second Defensive Line. Tatyana would die in the aft sections of the Hatarai Chii, attempting to keep the craft from disintegrating in the pull of a Borg tractor beam. This would be along side the rest of Tervan's family.

In 2170, Tervan was married to Ellicia Ayne, beginning a short, but passionate, romance which he would never be able to ignore. Ellicia's family came from the wealthy 'landed nobility' of the Capitol City region. Her father was a Grand Commandant of the Seventeenth Division of the el-Aurian Army while her mother was the latest in a long line of homemakers. The two hired the finest private educators to teach their children, amongst whom were Meranda Leere. It would not be, however, until the two children attended the Capara Academy of Science that they would meet. First contact with the cybernetic species would prove disastrous, leading to the development of regenerative shielding and adaptive metallurgy. Within two years, the Borg would attack el-Auria itself. In the midst of the attack, Tervan would assist the crewman of the Hatarai Chii in escaping their assailants. The heavy cruiser, with a skeleton crew, had taken on volunteer militiamen and filled nearly to bursting with women and children, suffered major damage. The captain, not actually commissioned but a member of the city council of Teririar, ordered abandon ship. However, the ship suffered critical damage before that could be effected. The aft end of the craft blew apart and, despite separating and sealing the bulkheads from each other, the Hatarai Chii's nose began to plummet into the gravity well of the planet. Acting and thinking quickly, Tervan assisted the militiamen and few Naval crew in activating the trans-warp engines on the ship. Without direction, the Hatarai Chii ended up nearly thirty parsecs from el-Auria and, consequently, the Borg attack. The ship, however, was beyond repair. Sixteen thousand five hundred ninety-four people died on the Hatarai Chii, including his wife and the twins. Tervan would never fully recover from the loss.

Now a refuge from the displacement of el-Auria, Tervan and Aurecinia fled into Krenim space. While there, Leere worked various odd jobs until finally ending up on an experimental Krenim battlecruiser, serving as an Assistant Engineer. Working with Master Theoretcian Commandant Serviote, Tervan helped establish many different theories within the Imperium, including magnetic resonance containment and regenerative shielding, which were later used in the defense of the Mawasi home-fief against an infraction from the Hirogen. During the conflict, Tervan and Serviote engaged the hunter race multiple times, developing and refining their shielding technology. It was during one conflict with the Hirogen that an Alpha got the drop on the duo. After a terrible struggle, Tervan had managed to invert the shields designed to protect them and inadvertently created a sea of Dirac, annihilating the Hirogen ship altogether. Left to face the alpha with just his Krenim counterpart, Leere managed to subdue the alpha. However, his attempts to save Serviote met with futility. The Commandant died before Tervan could get him back to the Krenim cruiser.

Tervan would eventually be recognized for his work and effort after he left the Imperium with his Master Theoretician status. He would spend the next several decades wandering from system to system, working as a freelance mechanic and power technician.

Leere spent a deal of time in Klingon space, studying power systems and warp theory on Praxis. Eventually, he would rise to become second hand in a shipyard, where he constructed K't'inga-Class Starships along side Klingons, Kriosians, and other Imperial races. Up until the incident in 2293. Amongst the survivors of the explosion, Tervan and Aurecinia would move to the Federation during the subsequent relief missions.

Once in Federation space, Tervan joined up with Starfleet. He graduated from Basic Training as a Crewman, First Class and was subsequently assigned to the frigate USS Justicar, NCC-1984 as her Chief Engineer's Mate. While his first twelve years were spent on various ships and stations, he spent a total of six years on the Oberth-class Starship. Rising in rank quickly through a series of quite impressive reviews, Leere always managed to impress his COs and Department Heads. His record was spotless and even the COs of the Justicar had recorded several incidents where Tervan went "Above and beyond the call of duty" and performed "unsurpassed acts of bravery and compassion".

However, tragedy was to strike again. The Justicar, while on patrol near the Romulan neutral-zone, responded to a distress call from an ailing civilian ship. Discovering the source of the signal, the Justicar began a rescue mission, only to discover that the signal was faked by Romulan agressors. The trap had been sprung, and the tiny Oberth-class starship was outmanned and outgunned by three Warbirds. Fighting off the Romulans as well as she could, the ship suffered heavy damage and losses before she could jump to warp and escape to Federation space. However, the parting shot killed the ship's engines, as well as destroying the impulse drive. As the ship dropped out of warp, she fired her remaining complement of torpedoes. Though the weapons destroyed the Romulan ships, the shockwaves from the enemy's destruction rocked and shattered what remained of the Justicar's systems. The ship went adrift, dead in space.

It was the quick and decisive actions of the surviving Second Officer, Lieutenant, Junior Grade Aleksandar Ikinesky, which kept the remaining crew alive. Tervan, at the time, was a Master Chief Petty Officer, and was the ranking NCO in Engineering. He received a field promotion to CEO and to Warrant Officer. Tervan began coordinating with the Operations officer, an ensign, on repairs to the impulse engines. It was then that a terrible accident occurred. They were working on the fusion manifold for the drive, when an unexpected power surge shot through the system. The manifold subsequently ruptured, venting plasma and destroying one nacelle. The OPS officer was lost in the accident. Leere took on the OPS duty load as well. On 3206.12, Tervan was working with the remains of the engineering crew, almost finished with repairs to the impulse drive. The power up sequence began, and Leere noticed that one of the safety bypass valves would not seal properly. In order to keep it sealed, he reached into a tertiary access shaft. Leere managed to activate the mechanism correctly, however the manifold promptly sealed, severing his left arm between the shoulder and the elbow. With the ship restored to full power, the Justicar made a quick return to Starbase 11, where she was decommissioned. Tervan, as well as most of the crew, were honorably discharged from service after recovering from their injuries. Leere's arm was reattached and he completed therapy that fall and returned with his daughter to planetside life. The whole mission was deemed classified due to faulty intelligence on behalf of the Federation.
Wandering the Quadrants

For the next several decades, Tervan would wander the three quadrants (Alpha, Beta, and Gamma) looking for work and lessons. First, Tervan spent some time on a world called H'atoria. Located near the Federation border, the Leere's felt relatively at ease there. A local by the name of Prohk hired the technician to work with him on a new hydroponics cooler. Eventually, Tervan learned that Prohk was merely using Tervan to get to his daughter. Scorned by Aurecenia, Prohk became enraged, getting rather inhospitable for several months until finally the Rha'Daran attacked Aurecinia, demanding she give herself to him. In the defense of his daughter, Tervan broke three bones in Prohk's arm, two in his right leg and one in his left, as well as shattering the deranged man's jaw. Finally, after being defeated in such a total way, Prohk revealed that he had taken super-stimulants in order to kill Tervan and take Aurecinia as his bride. Disgusted, the Leeres moved on.

Moving across the quadrants, the father and daughter team settled on a Breen planet, Portas V. Quickly enough, though, they opted to leave. Between the inhospitable conditions of the planet and rumors of weapons smuggling, Tervan and Aurecinia decided it better to be left out of such dealings. They opted instead to return back to the Klingon border and resume a life there on Tranome Sar. Tervan enjoyed a life there as equipment repairman, working with a Klingon named Basr'Q. Together with the elderly Klingon, the two could turn scrap into weapons and weapons into finances. Likely enough, the Leeres would have remained on the planet were it not for a fateful battle. The two el-Aurians were among the few civilians to evacuate the planet and system. Making their way back across the galaxy, Tervan and Aurecinia would eventually make it to a resplendant world about to be turned on it's side.

Tervan and Aurecinia lived in Tycho City, Luna for nine years. However, Aurecinia met a man while living there and fell in love. During a long courtship, the two were married, and Ellicia joined her husband, Marcus Finnegan, in New Berlin. With an "empty nest" finally, Tervan felt the call to space again. He contacted Starfleet Command and made queries into the Veterans Services about being reinstated on a Starship. With a hearty dose of commendations and a pristine record, Tervan was evaluated and reinstated to service aboard the USS Perseus, a refitted Nova-Class frigate. As a final gesture, Starfleet Command allowed him to study Officers Training and promoted him to Ensign.

He served for several years as the Nova-Class Systems Specialist, given how similar the Nova's systems were to an Oberth's. Serving under Bili Morguhn, Tervan actually acquired an 'apprentice' of sorts with his Engineer's Mate, Serra Lyones. Eventually, while on a classified mission, Morguhn would disappear, leaving Tervan to become Chief Engineer. This cap in position also came with a promotion to Lieutenant Commander, solidifying his place on the ship.

While on the Perseus, Tervan met many people, who he befriended. Amongst these were the late Gregory Ross, Operations Officer, Captain John McKnight, Sturnok Val, Angela Kren, and many others of the Perseus crew. He also began to open up from the loss of Ellicia here thanks to the flirtations of Chief Talea Vong, the half-Andorian Chief of Security. The two would have a whirlwind romance lasting for quite some time and even through three of his assignments; the Perseus, Broadsword, and Morgan Le Fay. The couple would ultimately go their seperate ways in 2384, after Leere's disappearance and alleged death.

While serving on the Perseus, Tervan was involved directly with a series of dire events that eventually led to his enlistment with Starfleet Intelligence. Beginning with a run-in with a Caitian agent, Praxton, on an away mission to the Lekia conference, Tervan became exposed to Starfleet Intelligence. When a clone of Praxton was beamed to Atlantis Station after apparently being attacked by Lieutenant Commander Val, Tervan went with the wounded man in order to see that he was treated properly. However, Commander Hammond, Chief of Starfleet Intelligence on Atlantis Station, had him removed. Captain McKnight, however, felt that there was a need to know about the relationship Praxton had with Val and what could be done bout it. In order to do this, John assigned Tervan to work with Hammond for a day.

Hammond, however, had Leere follow McKnight on his expedition to recover a Bajoran Orb. This Orb, however, turned out to be a ruse by a Pah'Wraith. Initially, after refusing to use the Orb, the members of the Perseus were returned. However, a Jem'hadar Gul and First was granted his wish to be the most powerful Jem'hadar. In a moment of redemption, Leere confronted, enraged, and killed the Pah'wraith in order to save the Perseus crew. However, the Admiralty didn't perceive it this way. Because of his part in the affair, Tervan was charged with Conspiracy to Commit Acts of Subversion Against the United Federation of Planets.

Just before Captain McKnight commandeered the Perseus out of Atlantis on a rogue mission, Tervan was summoned to the Admiralty Offices on the Station, where he was made an offer. Admiral Carter offered Tervan a way to save the careers of the Perseus if he would monitor a Starfleet Captain of questionable loyalty. Tervan, having worked so hard to keep the Perseus family together, decided it best to leave in order to save those he could. Admiral Carter had him transferred to the Broadsword in the same day.

While on the Broadsword, Tervan met his observational target, Captain S'Tev Pasteur, a half-Romulan. After initial conversations, Tervan came to a realization that S'tev was a fine Officer and that there was, indeed, a rather large deal of support in the crew for him. With this revelation in hand, he contacted Admiral Carter and gave his report. He also gave a resignation from Starfleet Intelligence, only to be turned down for another important duty. He was ordered to Morgan Le Fay Station where he was to begin an inspection of the aged Station. With Yrione, his assistant, he would catalog and tag various pieces of equipment on the Station and return them on an Intelligence vessel.

Also transferring to the Broadsword was Tervan's lover, Talea. She appeared there shortly after he and functioned as the ship's Chief Tactical Officer. In the end, however, the two discovered that their relationship may well have been a bit more difficult than previously anticipated. With a sense of resolution, the two spent one, last evening together before going their separate ways.