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Family:
Born of the very poorest of parents, learned rapidly how to obtain all his needs without spending a dime. His parents abandoned him at age 12, shortly afterward he was caught stealing from a retired Starfleet officer, who, rather than turn him over to the authorities, made him work off the price of what he stole, eventually hiring Darian on as an employee. Although Darian at first hated the man, over time a friendship grew between the two, after many evenings listening to tales of his "adopted" father's time in Starfleet, Darian, knowing full well the challenges involved, applied to Starfleet, barely making it in let alone into the Academy.
History:
A thief by necessity as a child, joined Starfleet against the vehement opposition of his "adopted" father, who didn’t think Darian would make it. Darian, being somewhat stubborn just HAD to prove the old man wrong. Eventually was accepted to the Academy, excelled in engineering, astrogation and biotechnology. *side note, although Darian doesn’t realize it, his "adopted" father recommended him quite highly*
Service History:
Served as an ensign aboard the Lexington NCC-61832, then was transferred to the Rutlege, where he honed his engineering skills under Miles O'Brian, has spent the last 2 years on an extended leave of absence, on his last assignment, aboard a prototype of the next generation of the Intrepid class, the ship encountered a Borg cube, the ship suffered severe damage, Darian, in the engineering section, managed to use the transporter to get the captain and himself into an escape pod. Due to the extensive technological advancements aboard the vessel Darian set the warp core into an overload state, rather than letting the ship fall into enemy hands before launching the pod, the ship, as well as the borg cube were totally destroyed. Starfleet is still trying to discover how he managed to get the power grid on line enough to operate the transporter, as well as activate the self destruct, and have spent the last 2 years trying to duplicate it. It was later revealed that he literally had to go into the Borg cube to rescue his CO, he had gotten to his designated escape ship (the pods were all deployed in an attempt to get the families on board to safety, the ship he was assigned upon abandon ship orders was a wicked little 2 seat fighter craft) and upon seeing the ship being drawn into the cube managed to infiltrate the cube and extricate the lone other survivor, his CO, just as the Borg were preparing to assimilate him. Barely managed to get to the safety of a large moon when the highly advanced warp drive system on the USS Boise detonated, vaporizing the cube as well as a few small asteroids.
Transferred from LOA to active service on the USS Athens, where he rapidly attained the rank of Lt, then LtCmdr, eventually becoming a full Cmndr Became XO of the Athens after the battle of Mintanka III where Drake was severely injured. Recently led an Away Team into a Borg cube in search of the kidnapped Odo, who was rescued from another cube. With the help of LtCmdr Shields and one other they managed to knock out the navigational arrays on the Cube. Is currently avoiding sleep at all costs, as going back into a Borg cube has caused him severe nightmares.
Skills: Scrounge, Engineering, astrogation and biotechnology. Also skilled in hand to hand fighting styles as well as being an expert on archaic weapons
Hobbies: collector of archaic weapons (swords and the like), as well as having an obsessive interest in alien vessels and their technology
Dislikes: Has a strong dislike of Synthahol, as well as a very deep-seeded dislike of any who would harm a child barely tolerates Ferengi and borg just tick him off to no end
Surface Personality: Always the cheerful sort, rarely has an unkind word for anyone.
Personaltiy:
Very insecure, the loss of his parents affected him much more deeply than even he will admit, often troubled by thoughts that his parent's abandoning him was his fault. Has gained more self confidence since his posting to the Athens Thrives on pressure, being addicted to the adrenaline rush that is induced.
Quote to Live By:
Given enough time I can make anything
work, at least for a short time, or another of his favorites
"whaddaya mean I can't?", and his latest "by the beard of
Oghma Captain, I am going to need more than ducttape for
this one, gimme some bailin wire"