Master Warrant Officer Yerin Di'Ara
Name Yerin Di'Ara
Position Nurse
Rank Master Warrant Officer
Character Information
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | Orlanian | |
| Age | 36 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5'7" | |
| Weight | 141 lbs | |
| Hair Color | Brown | |
| Eye Color | Brown | |
| Physical Description | Fully fitting her secondary role as a combat medic, Yerin has a toned physique that clearly reflects her strict adherence to her stringent personal fitness standards. Yet despite her slender build, she has an abundance of generous curves that sometimes makes fitting into standard uniforms a little troublesome. She keeps her hair in a ponytail to keep it out of the way, but uses a more severe hairstyle like a bun when she has to work a shift in emergency triage or when she’s in a combat medic role. |
Family
| Spouse | None | |
| Children | None | |
| Father | Aeronn Di’Ara (Orlanian) | |
| Mother | Nimue Yarawad (Orlanian) | |
| Brother(s) | Samir Di’Ara |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Yerin has a gentle and cheerful personality, and a self admitted people pleaser. She genuinely likes to help people and make them feel better. People who know her wouldn’t imagine her to also be a combat medic with extensive experience. However, when she isn’t needed on the battlefield, her primary role is still a nurse and spends most of her time in sickbay or doing house calls to take care of patients in recovery Very little fazes her, and she’s the type who would easily revert to her usual optimistic personality even while covered in blood as soon as any danger has passed. Her cheerful, unflappable outlook is an advantage in emergency medicine as she’s able to treat patients with a calm, even pleasant demeanor, but some people have expressed concerns about her mental health, though she has yet to be diagnosed with any disorder. |
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| Hobbies & Interests | Yerin is fascinated with all forms of culture, from entertainment and especially food. Some of it stems from a personal curiosity, but a large part is because she finds the information useful when she needs to bring comfort to her patients. She’s not much of a replicator expert but she’s a gourmet and has excellent cooking skills, able to actually cook real meals from scratch, even with limited ingredients. On her off hours, she likes to read history and cook books, and playing various kinds of games with her friends from popular mainstream titles to indigenous traditional games. She might not be the best player but she finds the unique experiences fun. The rest of the time she does holodeck training simulations from emergency medical care to tactical scenarios, preferring to keep her skills as sharp as possible. She’s not much of a sports fan but she works out a lot at the gym and continuously trains in Qa’yun; a traditional Orlanian martial art emphasizing speed, leverage, and precision with kicks, strikes, and grappling to defeat the enemy as quickly as possible. |
| Personal History | Among her family, she was the only one who had the gift to be a traditional healer and after graduating from the temple at Iais, she spent her first few years taking care of the ill and wounded at various temples throughout the Orlanian system before her first encounter with Starfleet. An Oberth class science vessel was slated for retirement and was on its way home when it was struck by a freak spatial anomaly that damaged its navigational and propulsion control systems just as they were entering warp. This caused the ship to emerge several light years off course and right at the edge of Orlanian space where they were rescued. The ship had suffered damage and several of its crew had been injured, especially as the inertial dampeners had failed and functioned intermittently during warp, causing them to suffer increased G forces throughout various parts of the ship. Yerin was one of many healers who were sent to provide care for these offworlders and this is when she was introduced to the idea of Starfleet and exploring strange new worlds. The Orlanians had become well known as mediators and diplomats within their local sector, so much so that they had become the favored arbiters for settling disputes between two groups and even conducting trade fairly without fear of being scammed. However, their species didn’t really have much of a desire to venture beyond their corner of space. That description didn’t apply to Yerin at all. As someone who was always fascinated with other cultures and worlds, and experiencing new things, the idea of adventuring through space and helping people was very appealing to the still young healer. With federation ships now visiting their world more frequently after opening diplomatic and trade relations, the idea of going to Sol sector became more feasible. And after gaining permission from her parents and her mentor at the temple, Yerin left Orlania Prime and headed for Earth to join Starfleet. Life outside her homeworld required a lot of adjustments and wasn’t always as pleasant or interesting as she thought it would be. Yet she persevered, determined to accomplish things on her own. She lacked the credentials to apply for medical school and become a doctor, the notion of such complicated higher education involving the various sentient physiologies was alien to her. However, she was a very smart person, and she managed to study and qualify to enter the academy as a nursing student, which she actually preferred more than being a doctor. Her final year of nursing school was fraught with so many upheavals within Starfleet. A new threat called the Borg had appeared right on the Federation’s doorstep. Tensions rose towards the Romulans after the destruction of the USS Yamato in the neutral zone. And the echoes of war had begun to resonate throughout the quadrant. Yerin and her friend Kiara would be assigned to the USS Chekov, a Springfield class starship. Two years later, the Chekov will become one of forty starships that would face off against the Borg at Wolf 359. Yerin would be one of the fateful few who would manage to survive the encounter. Her friend Kiara would not be so fortunate. This incident would leave a lasting impression on the young nurse, the sense of loss was her first and most profound. And the memory of seeing her colleagues and fellow crew members on the Chekov, all dead or dying, hoping to escape before a fate worse than death could befall them, would be burned into the back of her mind forever. However, it wasn’t until a few years later when she had seen enough of the aftermath of battles that she decided that being a nurse wasn’t enough for her anymore. She felt the need to take control, to be able to help more directly, even in the heat of battle. So upon her return to Earth, she applied for the advanced tactical medic course and spent the next year earning her qualifications to serve as a medic on Marine units and Hazard Teams. Her new training would come in handy as her next assignment was the USS Bellerophon, a newly launched Intrepid class starship that would see the next few years amidst the heaviest fighting as the Federation did its best to win when it counted despite constant losses. When Yerin wasn’t going with the Marines and Hazard teams as their Medic, she spent her time assisting in sickbay with the numerous casualties that they suffered after every battle. Despite numerous setbacks all along the front, the Bellerophon and her crew would distinguish themselves in constant frontline combat and supporting actions such as evacuations and reconnaissance. However, their luck would eventually run out as the ship would be one of several that would participate in the ill fated Battle of Vulcan where the Dominion would claim a massive victory and deal a crippling blow to the Alliance. Yerin survived the battle, along with a dozen of her patients, being ultimately picked up by the USS Denver as they fled for safer ground. And this is where her story continues… |