Name:Rick Tafner (Galan Khellian)
Race: Human
Age: 33
Birthplace: Fredricksburg, Texas
Physical Data:
Height: 1.95 m
Weight: 175 lbs
Sex: Male
Hair: Black
Eyes: Blue/Grey
Description: Rick is a large strong but lean person. He is a rough and harsh person but can be very precise and accurate.
History: As a baby he grew up the first year as an orphan and was then adopted by a Romulan ambassador who lost his son in an accident. His new parents gave him a Rihannsu name, Galan Khellian. Rick lost both his parents during an act of piracy on the ship that he and his parents were on heading for mining planet Veledor IV where his father used to work on.
During Rick's birth, his parents stayed at his grandfather's estate so Rick would not be born at the filthy planet his father worked on. Rick still had contact with his grandfather who could not support Rick at that time because of his age. Rick joined the academy when he became 18 years old. It was against the will of his father because he wanted him to join the Phi'lasasam at Ra'tleihfi, the capitol city of the Rihannsu empire at Romulus. His education was completely Romulan but he never really felt one off them, partly due to the fact he knew his grandfather too and had good contact with him.
After his decision to join Starfleet Academy instead off the Phi'lasasam, his stepfather and mother decided that it was best to let Rick go his own way and let him live his own life. Since then, Rick never had contact with either one of them, he just knows that they went back to Romulus.
Rick had in his youth a lot off trouble with the double culture he had to deal with. In regular life at school and other social gatherings he felt very much attracted to the terran culture but once at home he felt pretty comfortable with the Rihannsu traditions and culture. He never could choose until his 18th birthday, that was the moment he told to himself that he was a human, not a Romulan but his step father never accepted that. He also had problems with communicating with Cardassian people, the race that was responsible for killing both his parents. He often even had dreams and in his early youth even hallucinations about what happened at the transport vessel as the raid took place. Those things he saw were so cruel and hard he never could loose those images and every time he saw a Cardassian his blood started boiling. He had checked out the data on the raid and if he matched them with his images they matched perfectly and he knew that these images were real but he never could explain how or why. He just knew.
During his studies he learned a lot from Romulan fighting skills and he was very interested in their security protocols. At the academy he used that as a graduation project for a his side studies but his main faculty was command. He is very skilled in using various melee weapons, especially with a khellian-asi kaleh, a Rihannsu hunting dagger.
After graduation he served as a security officer aboard a Miranda class ship for several years, until it was destroyed by Klingons after the treaty collapsed. He was then captured and taken prisoner together with some other officers who survived. After a few months of imprisonment he managed to escape together with another officer and fled with a small shuttlecraft. He then was assigned to Shadow Operations due to his escape and experience in such situations.
He then had been member off a special operations team and the last year partially led a team due to the bad health of the team's commander. He recently promoted to commander after he completed a dangerous mission but lost his complete team due to betrayal inside the team. Rick had found out just in time to save his own life and turn the traitor in before he fled but could not prevent that his teammates were killed. He had to take some serious blows and was severely injured. Rick since then took some time off to get physically 100% and work things out with himself so he visited his grandfather's estate and get to ease. After he felt good enough to work again he reported back in for active duty and asked to go through training camp again because off the long absense so he can refresh his skills and get his sore bones oiled again before going into active duty.
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