Crew Biography For Dirays, Alana

Full Name:	Alana Dirays
Current Rank	Commander
Position(s) held	Executive Officer
Species	Bajoran
Gender	Female
Age	37
Height	5'9
Weight	150lbs
Appearance	Hair Color black Eye Color turquoise Physical Description Typical Bajoran nose ridges on nose, and a long scar running down the length of her right arm, which has since been partially removed by Dr. Barrington, former USS Chin'toka Chief Medical Officer. Skin pigmentation severely light due to forced treatment with Nausicann whitening agents. She has a intricate tattoo that takes up her entire back of ancient Bajoran language characters.
Personality	Family Spouse Lieutenant Daniel Walker (Deceased) Children Alana Kirulan (Adopted Daughter), Alana-Walker Tokar (Son) Father Alana Tokar (Deceased) Mother Alana Lynd (Deceased) Brother(s) Alana Jokand (Deceased) Sister(s) Captain Alexandra Cooper RET. (Adopted Elder Sister) Other Family Vespa Solange (cousin), Galis Ilaria (cousin)
Background	General Overview Alana Dirays is a very tempermental and fiercely loyal woman. A trait common to Bajorans and often misconstrued by others as easy to infuriate and quick to judge Strengths & Weaknesses Dirays is extremely resourceful and very independent. While these traits served her well in the Bajoran Resistance, it has had the adverse effect of making it very hard for her to trust anyone. Dirays also has a difficult time having any civilized discourse with any Cardassian.. a symptom common to those who witnessed the horrors of the Occupation but even more drawn out in Dirays due to witnessing the death of her entire family at the hands of a Cardassian legate. Dirays has also been known to be a fatalist.. she feels sometimes that if she can't do it.. it can't be done and no one will be there to help her. Ambitions She strives to reclaim her life in Starfleet, and to regain custody of her son. Hobbies & Interests She works very hard not to allow any interests or hobbies become known to anyone, but she has an interest in classical Bajoran dance and practices it in the holodeck as often and as discreetly as possible Languages Ancient Bajoran, Federation Standard, Vulcan Personal History Dirays was born in the Dharkur Province on Bajor, and grew up under the harsh conditions of the Cardassian Occupation. She mostly spent her childhood trying to stay out of the way. Keeping to herself most of the time, she never dreamt of joining the resistance movement. One day, Dharkur's Cardassian ruler, Likor, chose Dirays to be part of a group of Bajoran children raised to become military officers. Dirays for some reason excelled, even though she never really attempted to do so. She rose in the ranks and eventually at the age of fifteen, became the highest ranking military officer in Likor's staff. One day she was witness to a massacre at the Hohl Valley and was dismayed to find out that the soldiers committing the atrocities were under her direct command.. and that history would call her responsible. The real criminal, Likor, would remain innocent. She confronted Likor, and in a fit of rage, the Cardassian ordered her family's execution. Alana was stripped of all rank or privilege and sentenced to execution herself, but she escaped. By the time she reached her family's homestead.. the Cardassians had done their work.. Dirays held her father's hand as he died, cursing Likor's name. Alana Tokar believed in his daughter to the very end.. she could not be responsible. That view was not shared by many. Dirays moved on.. going from village to village, helping those in need, but never revealing her true identity.. Her legend grew and a small resistance cell formed with her as the leader.. she was only seventeen. The Dharkur Resistance cell fought Likor's forces and brought hope to the small farming province. All the time Dirays never took any credit.. nor shared her true identity with the other members of the cell.. they only knew her by her given name, Dirays.. not connecting her to the notorious, and murderous Alana Dirays. Then something miraculous happened that changed her life. The Cardassian Occupation ended. Alana spent the next year trying to make a life for herself in the Dharkur Province, but the pain of her family's slaughter and the ghosts in her past were still fresh. Likor, who had never forgotten Dirays, was now actively hunting her for his own twisted reasons. Dirays was forced to leave Bajor.. and looked to Starfleet. Dirays didn't have the education to be accepted normally. At the behest of a Bajoran vedek, the Academy made an exception in order to bolster diplomatic relations with Bajor and upon her promise to take remedial classes as well as her normal course load. But the vedek, fearful for Alana's life, lied to on the application to Starfleet Academy, omitting the record of a known war criminal, to make her acceptable. Alana worked hard and graduated from the academy, but she lived in fear that she would be found by the Likor or found out by the academy.. While she was by no means top in her class, she felt a genuine sense of accomplishment. She was stationed aboard the USS Lexington for a period of three years as Asst Chief Flight Control Officer. Her one downfall in otherwise brilliant career was being reprimanded for assaulting a superior officer. While she maintains that she takes full responsibility for her actions, the captain of the Lexington dismissed the charges as being unfounded due prejudice from the officer who made the charges. Dirays never forgot this charge and vowed never to let it happen to her again. She also vowed never to give anyone a reason to doubt her again. On her first mission on the Chin'toka.. she, along with her commanding officer, Alexandra Cooper, was abducted by a group of Klingons. Dirays, no stranger to interrogations.. knew that Cooper was in grave danger. While Cooper was unconscious, Dirays switched out their rank pips and masqueraded as Cooper. During the violent interrogation session that followed... Dirays was discovered.. and the ruse came to a dramatic end.. Dirays never forgot what happened to Cooper that day.. and never forgave herself for failing her commanding officer. While she felt like a failure.. she had earned a respect she had never known before.. the respect of one who was fully accepted into a family. Shortly thereafter, Dirays was abducted by agents of what appeared to be the Obsidian Order but in fact were truly agents of the same Cardassian legate that haunted her past, Likor. She was subjected to a cloning experiment that created a set of two duplicates of herself. It is unclear why this experiment took place. Starfleet Intelligence can only guess. After the events that led to the court-martial of Alexandra Cooper, it became clear to Starfleet Intelligence that the Alana Dirays found by the Chin'toka crew after her abduction was not the original Dirays but a clone. The clone of Dirays swore to find the original, but with no clue where to look, the endeavor quickly died and the clone lived everyday of her life never forgetting the great gift bestowed on her by her predecessor that shared her name. A year later, during the wedding of Dirays' clone and Lieutenant Daniel Walker, it was discovered that the real Dirays survived, but the clone was killed by those that were hunting for the real Dirays. During her captivity, the real Dirays was forced to marry her abductor to avert the imminent death of all her friends both from Starfleet and the Bajoran Resistance. She was reluctantly rescued by the Vulcan T'Plon and she became the hunted once again. Dirays suffered from a latent poison that affected her system shortly after her rescue. Her captor/husband was giving her the antidote secretly everyday in her food. When she was rescued the antidote was removed.. and the poison began to work.. A Bajoran doctor administered a treatment which removed the poison.. but left her skin virtually colorless and pallid. Dirays was soon found by Likor again, but she was also reunited with Alex Cooper.. She felt joy at the reunion, but for the first time felt abandoned by those she had come to consider her family. Compounding this is the past collaboration withthe Cardassians that continues to haunt her dreams and keeps her exiled from her home planet, Bajor. Shortly after leaving Bajor for the last time.. The Orion was ambushed by a group of mercenary pirates.. The First officer was killed.. And Alana stepped up to take his place.. Only to have Captain Cooper severly injured in a explosion on the bridge.. She was in command and came face to face with the decision that would destroy her soul.. She had to order someone to pilot a fighter out and distract the pirates long enough for the Orion to escape.. Her husband.. Fighter Squadron commander Daniel Walker volunteered.. and she gave her consent.. sending her husband to his death. Having to come to terms with the loss of her husband, Alana took the most difficult decision of her life. She gave her son up for adoption so that he would have a good life on Bajor.. Grow up like a normal kid. With no family ties Alana threw herself on her career and vowed to become the best Starfleet officer in decades. Professional History :2372 - Starfleet Academy 1st year :2373 - Starfleet Academy 2nd year :2374 - Starfleet Academy 3rd year :2375 - Starfleet Academy 4th year _____ :2376 - Asst Chief Flight Control; USS Lexington :2377 - Asst Chief Flight Control; USS Lexington :2379 - Asst Chief Flight Control; USS Lexington :2379 - Asst Chief Flight Control; USS Lexington :2379 - Chief Flight Control; USS Chintoka :2384 - Executive Officer; USS Orion _____ :2384 - MedLOA for 2 years _____ :2386 - Assigned Chief Flight Control; USS Exeter :2386 - Previous rank of Lieutenant Commander reinstated. :2386 - Promoted and assigned Executive Officer; USS Exeter
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