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| image = [[File:Saurian Female.png]]
| name = Ciffao Tharc
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| name = Jalian
 
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| placeoforigin = [[MA:Tellar Prime|Tellar Prime]]
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| placeoforigin = Sauria
| species = Tellarite
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| species = Saurian
 
| gender = Female
 
| gender = Female
| dateofbirth = 2348
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| dateofbirth = 1 April, 2340
 
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| affiliation = [[Starfleet]]
 
| affiliation = [[Starfleet]]
 
| rank = [[File:A1-1.png|alt=Commodore|Commodore]]
 
| rank = [[File:A1-1.png|alt=Commodore|Commodore]]
| posting = [[Starbase 86]]
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| posting = [[Starbase 72]]
 
| position = Commanding Officer
 
| position = Commanding Officer
}}'''Commodore Ciffao Tharc''' is the current commanding officer of [[Starbase 86]] and previous commander of the [[USS Majestic]]. Her early career was in the operations division, but since 2380 she has been a command-grade officer. After seventeen years in command of USS ''Majestic'', Tharc moved from starship service to commanding one of Starfleet's most important frontier defensive stations.  
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}}'''Commodore Jalian''' is the current commanding officer of [[Starbase 72]], with authority over the base itself and ships operating in the surrounding sector that aren't attached directly to Task Force 72. She has had a long career spent both as an officer in the Judge-Advocate General's Corps, as well as on Starbase 72 itself. Friendly and gregarious, she's known for allowing meetings to go far too long when she finds something interesting or appealing about the conversation. She's partial to spending a large part of her day strolling through the station's public areas, getting to know the crew and residents when she's not attending to paperwork in her office.
  
== Starfleet Academy (2358-2362) ==
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== History ==
Tharc’s formative years at the Academy were defined by an acute sense of homesickness. Hailing from a relatively rural region of [[MA:Tellar Prime|Tellar Prime]], it took her the best part of two years to get used to the institution’s culture of inclusiveness and cooperation. Having grown up treating arguments as a sport, at first she found the even temperaments and agreeability of her academy comrades to be needless social niceties. This all changed in her sophomore year, when a particularly difficult spatial physics exam left her reliant upon a Vulcan classmate for help. Despite her icy, logical exterior, Cadet T’Shona was extremely patient. She showed Tharc through the entirety of quantum mechanical theory, from Planck to Varnegyxx. In later years the content of that exam would seem to Tharc far less important than the understanding of friendship she gained through her Academy years.
 
  
== USS ''Prince of Wales'' (2362-2370) ==
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=== Early Life (2340-2358) ===
As an Ensign in the Operations Department aboard the ''Prince of Wales'', Tharc would learn what makes a starship tick. Far from the theories and abstractions that characterised the academy, Tharc would be faced with real situations that demanded on the spot decisions. For her part in coordinating successful resupply missions to colonies along the Federation-Cardassian border, Tharc was promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade in July 2364.  
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Jalian was born on Sauria in 2340, one of many daughters in a large family. She was friendly and curious as a child, enjoying learning about the many cultures of the Federation in school. She knew she wanted to leave Sauria as soon as she was able to see the wider galaxy, if only just to talk to new and interesting species.
  
The USS ''Prince of Wales'' was reassigned soon thereafter to frontier patrol duty along the edge of what would, in 2370, become a [[MA:Demilitarized Zone|demilitarised zone]] between Federation and Cardassian space. Tharc was directly involved in devising a set of streamlined diagnostic procedures for a series of sensor buoys deployed along the edge of the zone. This greatly reduced the time required for the Prince of Wales to scan and check each buoy for signs of third party tampering. Despite the signing of the [[MA:Federation-Cardassian Armistice of 2367|Federation-Cardassian armistice agreement]] in 2367, interference with Starfleet sensor equipment from supposedly neutral entities such as the Xepolites was not uncommon. In recognition of her efforts, she was promoted to the rank of full Lieutenant and offered the role of Chief Operations Officer aboard the newly launched USS ''Clarion''.
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=== Starfleet Academy (2358-2366) ===
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At Starfleet Academy, Jailan decided to concentrate in interstellar relations, for a career as either a diplomatic specialist or a commander, but while there she found herself fascinated by the Federation’s legal system, given that it was the synthesis of many, many cultures’ beliefs about the law and justice. She saw how important it was to have strong voices within the legal system to continue to advocate for equity and equality, as well as to give the accused a proper defense. As such, she decided to enter the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, spending an extra four years at Starfleet Academy to earn her law degree.
  
== USS ''Clarion'' (2370-2376) ==
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=== Early JAG Career (2366-2373) ===
Tensions were beginning to ease in the Alpha Quadrant in the year the USS ''Clarion'' left spacedock. The [[MA:Federation-Cardassian Treaty|Federation-Cardassian Treaty]] had been signed, creating the demilitarised zone. It pained Tharc to learn that some of the colony worlds she had visited aboard the ''Prince of Wales'' had now been ceded to Cardassian control. Magnifying this sense of loss, it was in 2370 that Tharc learned of her good friend Kreylan Botthega’s defection to the [[MA:Maquis|Maquis]]. A colleague of hers since the academy and following a similar career trajectory, she had never considered the possibility that the [[MA:Kriosian|Kriosian’s]] loyalties could change in such a way. Tharc was confused, and feelings of betrayal crept through her. For a time, she struggled to understand how anyone could bring themself to go against the oath they had pledged to Starfleet. She worked hard to suppress her anger, and she dived deeper into her work than ever before. It would be the first great test of her resolve.  
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As a junior Judge-Advocate, Jailan was posted to the JAG office on Starbase 21 as a Lieutenant Junior Grade. A large and well-established base, Jailan was excited to be able to get to interact with even more races than she was able to at Starfleet Academy. She was seen as an effective litigator, with her skill really becoming evident in cross-examinations, when she was able to elicit honest and accurate testimony both through her own powers of observation but also because of the way she was able to put other people at ease through her friendly nature. After four years, she was promoted to Lieutenant and transferred to the still-under-construction Starbase 72 as one of its first crew members, where she helped to set up the brand-new JAG office for the area of space near to the Demilitarized Zone.
  
Then, in 2373, the [[MA:Dominion War|Dominion War]] came to the Alpha Quadrant. The ''Clarion'' was recalled from her five year mission of exploration beyond [[MA:Metron Consortium|Metron Consortium]] space, and once again Tharc found herself face to face with the Cardassians. Regularly deployed on scouting missions behind Dominion lines, Tharc was tasked with helping configure ship’s sensors to penetrate enemy subspace countermeasures. On several occasions the ship was caught out, detected by the Dominion’s own sensors forcing retreat at maximum warp back to allied controlled space. Tharc would come to think of those two years of war as the longest of her life. The constant red alerts, lack of sleep, chaos and lost comrades would haunt her for many years to come. In the war’s aftermath, Tharc was part of reconstruction efforts as the ''Clarion'' spent 2376 distributing aid to previously conquered colonies now returned to Federation governance. Later that year, Tharc and the ''Clarion'' would part ways on her acceptance of a posting to the USS ''Vanguard'' as Chief Operations Officer.
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Even with the base still under construction, Jailan found herself involved in dozens of cases where former Starfleet Officers who joined the Maquis were prosecuted for various offenses, ranging from theft of Federation property to murder. She served on both sides of these cases as they went on, serving equally well as a defense attorney and as a prosecutor. These cases would shape her psyche, though, as she developed a strong distaste for anything that could be seen as betraying the Federation, an institution that she believed so strongly in, but she also recognized that the Federation had betrayed the colonists of the DMZ in many ways as well.
  
== USS ''Vanguard'' (2376-2385) ==
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=== Dominion War (2373-2376) ===
Now a Lieutenant Commander, Tharc was thrown into an operating environment unlike anything she had experienced before. Under the command of Captain Th’enas, the ''Vanguard'' was assigned to skirt the edges of the [[MA:Romulan Neutral Zone|Romulan Neutral Zone]]. Its mission would include the interdiction and investigation of any vessels entering Federation space from the zone, and the covert gathering of intelligence relating to reports of Reman activity within the Romulan Imperial Senate. For the first time in her career, Tharc was required to attend briefings on the wider Federation-Romulan security situation. Despite these efforts, the [[MA:Shinzon|Shinzon]] incident of 2379 still caught Starfleet by surprise, resulting in the ''Vanguard''’s mission being supplemented with an additional four starships from the [[Fourth Fleet]]’s [[Task Force 86]].
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The Dominion War came as a shock to Starbase 72, as even though most of their defenses were operational already, the base was still years away from being finished. It was understaffed and vulnerable. As such, Jailan was pressed into service as an Officer of the Watch, taking many shifts in Station Operations, as the few senior crew who had already been assigned there were shifted to crewing starships. Though she was trained like any other Starfleet officer for such duties, it had been over a decade since she’d gone through her academy training before specializing in the law.
  
Increased shipbuilding efforts following the Dominion War had now begun to bear fruit, leading to the reassignment of the ''Vanguard''’s First Officer to her own command. Having taken the bridge officer’s test, Tharc became the lead candidate in the search for a replacement. In 2381, Tharc was promoted to the rank of Commander, beginning her tenure as First Officer.  
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Starbase 72 was the subject of numerous assaults and was a refuge for damaged Klingon, Starfleet, and eventually Romulan starships, some of which were venting plasma as they limped into the base, which was a major test of Jailan’s abilities to manage. She learned early on to trust the more junior officers who were specialized in tasks like docking starships, and career enlisted servicemembers who had decades more experience than she did in such matters. Delegation and a recognition of her own limits served her well during the war.
  
That was when everything changed for the Romulan Star Empire. Following confirmation that the [[MA:Romulan sun|Romulan sun]] was soon to go supernova, Starfleet began drawing up resettlement plans at the request of the Romulan government. This began a tumultuous time for the region as the once monolithic Star Empire began to lose cohesion. Factions hostile to Federation aid made good on their threats to harass refugee convoys in the early stages of the evacuation efforts. As Starfleet’s own rescue fleet continued construction, the ''Vanguard'' was assigned to coordinate convoys of transports requisitioned from civilian and other Starfleet departments in the preliminary evacuation waves.
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=== USS ''Athabasca'' (2376-2380) ===
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Following the war, Jailan continued in her temporary role for another year before the fleet stabilized enough for her to be offered her old role back, now that other officers were available to take over running the station. She declined this opportunity, though, as she’d enjoyed the challenge of doing something new. She managed to secure a posting to the ''New Orleans''-class USS ''Athabasca'', a frigate that had just gone through a post-war refit before being sent to aid colonies in the now-Former Demilitarized Zone. Her experience as a watch officer translated imperfectly to life aboard a starship at first, if only for the drastic change in scale of her surroundings, but she rose to the challenge, as her captain valued her ability to connect with the crew on a personal level, seeing their strengths and weaknesses and assigning them appropriately to different tasks.
  
As First Officer, Tharc proved herself time and again in her ability to liaise and coordinate operations across multiple vessels and crews. On one particular occasion, a convoy departing Romulus for the Meslan System was waylaid by two Tal Shiar [[Valdore Class]] warbirds. As the only non-civilian vessel attached to the convoy, the ''Vanguard'' was ordered by Captain Th’enas to engage its [[MA:Multi-vector assault mode|multi-vector assault mode]]. While this was enough to encourage the warbirds to stand down, the ''Vanguard'' would remain in this formation for the remainder of the journey to Meslan. Tharc’s leadership and bravery during the incident was noted by Starfleet Command, and her name was put forward to be considered for her own captaincy.  
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The ''Athabasca'' was largely spared from major combat during her time aboard, but it was involved with a number of skirmishes with the early grumbles of what would later become the renewed True Way in the 2390s, an organization that she would become intimately familiar in time. While on Starbase 72, she’d participated in the defense of the station against large Cardassian and Dominion forces, but the more intimate nature of ship-to-ship combat felt more personal. She found it inconceivable that any Cardassians wouldn’t want to be part of the Federation; her deep belief in the IDIC philosophy made it hard for her to understand why someone would choose independence at the cost of prosperity.
  
== USS ''Majestic'' (2385-2399) ==
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=== Return to JAG (2380-2388) ===
In 2385, the newly constructed USS ''Majestic'' was to become the flagship of the Starfleet’s Task Force 86 in the Fourth Fleet. It was well noted by Command that Tharc had significant experience in the area of operations to which the Task Force would be deployed for the foreseeable future. As a result, Captain Ciffao Tharc embarked on the ''Majestic''’s shakedown cruise at the beginning November of 2385. Then followed nine years of operations in and around the declining and transforming Romulan Star Empire.  
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Though she enjoyed her time on a starship, Jailan knew that her real passions weren’t ones that she could really pursue in that environment. She applied to take the newly-vacant Sector Judge-Advocate position based on Starbase 72, which she took over as a Captain in 2380. While the Maquis situation was long resolved (by simply being destroyed by the Dominion), the legal situation near the Former Demilitarized Zone was complex: agreements made between colonies based on Cardassian law had to be arbitrated under Federation law, and some former-Cardassian colonies struggled to adapt to the Federation criminal justice system as well. While there were civilian courts on Minos Korva, Jailan was the senior Federation judicial official in the region and ended up sitting as a judge for hundreds of minor cases in her eight years in the position, as well as a prosecutor for high-profile cases that required a flag officer to preside.
  
The explosion of the Romulan sun in 2387, despite the inevitability of the event itself, exacerbated the unpredictability of an already chaotic region. More suitable colonies were needed for the flow of refugees out of the area that had steadily intensified since resettlement operations had begun two years prior. The ''Majestic'' was assigned to scout out suitable locations for these colonies for the remainder of the 2380s. At the dawn of the new decade, the security situation on the Federation-Romulan border deteriorated further. Incursions into Federation became more frequent from within a new hive of lawlessness that had sprung up from what was once the Neutral Zone. The ''Majestic'' raced to put out fires. Detection of cloaked vessels was made somewhat easier by a series of tachyon detection arrays constructed by Starfleet from 2391-3. However, these still needed protection. The ''Majestic'' was stretched thin by border incursions, political wrangling and acts of retribution committed by Romulan state actors against refugees settled in Federation space. Tharc’s requests for additional support were heard by a Fleet Command reluctant to commit additional resources to an area in which it already felt bogged down. Eventually, after the loss of two tachyon detection posts in 2395, additional ships were assigned to assist the ''Majestic''. Tharc was vindicated and yet frustrated by a decision she felt had come all too late. Little did she know that Starfleet had other, more pressing concerns.
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Jailan had spent the majority of her career on and near Starbase 72, and she developed a positive reputation among starship captains and colonial officials in the area, which allowed her to take the relationship-building skills she’d developed on a one-to-one basis and apply that to a larger scale with chains of relationships that stretched across the entire sector.
  
In 2399, beginning in the [[MA:Archanis sector|Archanis Sector]], a deadly rampage erupted suddenly. Intelligence from within [[The Triangle]] region had been hard to come by, especially with the redeployment of Starfleet assets towards the Romulan border areas. Starfleet was taken by surprise as forces from the rogue Klingon house known as the [[Hunters of D'Ghor|Hunters of D’Ghor]] stormed out of the The Triangle, laying waste to several outlying Federation colonies. The ''Majestic'' and all other ships from Task Force 86 in the region were scrambled to push the Klingons back into neutral space. Heavy fighting ensued, culminating in a pitched battle at the Legera System. A Starfleet victory was secured, in no small part due to [[bfms_char:16756|Admiral Beckett]]’s last minute brokering of Klingon Defence Force intervention against D’Ghor. The ''Majestic'', heavily damaged, was recalled to [[Starbase 86]] for refit and repair.
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=== Starbase 72 Command (2388 to Present) ===
 
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Jailan’s abilities as a relationship builder and communicator combined with her wartime experience made her a perfect candidate to become Starbase 72’s executive officer. Technically, it was a step down in terms of her authority, but she welcomed yet another new challenge. Starbase 72 had finally reached its full population of 25,000 Starfleet officers and 50,000 civilians, so the role was somewhere between XO and Deputy Mayor. She held this role for eleven years, before being promoted to Commodore in 2396 and assuming command of the station itself and the surrounding sector.
== Starbase 86 (2399-Present) ==
 
This would prove to be the ''Majestic''’s final journey under the command of Captain Tharc. She and her crew were lauded by Starfleet Command for their actions in combat. Nevertheless, she was exhausted, and initially saw the promotion to Commodore and transfer to command of Starbase 86 as a welcome respite from fourteen years of frantic action along the Romulan border. This assumption would turn out to be very, very wrong.  
 
 
 
Later in 2399, Starfleet was rocked by the Omega Crisis. Together with Task Force 86 staff officers [[bfms_char:2187|Captain Erill’Yun Mek]] and [[bfms_char:2208|Captain Francesca Shilo]], Tharc was forced to lead a series of tense negotiations ascertaining the Klingon Empire’s knowledge of the Tkon and the power of the [[Omega molecule]]. The detection of one such molecule in the [[Azure Nebula]] further catalysed a perceived standoff between Starfleet and Klingon Defence Force vessels sent to find and neutralise the threat. The situation was later found to be a bluff engineered by Klingon Defence Force General Metraq, partly to show his dissatisfaction with Starfleet’s insistence on preserving the life of a [[MA:Gormagander|gormagander]] that had accidentally swallowed the omega particle. While an expert in dealing with Romulan subterfuge, Tharc was severely tested by the sheer recklessness and volatility of the Klingon representatives on Starbase 86 during this incident. She looked back to her academy days, and at how few solutions were brought about by her argumentative nature. Now a firm believer in the power of dialogue to resolve disputes, she pressed on.
 
  
 
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== Commodore Tharc In-Play ==
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== Commodore Jailan In-Play ==
* Commodore Tharc is a Task Force 86 NPC, so you can use her anywhere in your own writing, whether it be in your game (RPG) or solo fiction stories.  
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* The information in this bio is a rough guide only. You’re free to change up some details, as long as it’s not really key stuff like her rank, position, gender, species whether or not she is alive (i.e. don't kill her).  
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* As a Task Force 72 NPC, you are free to use Commodore Jailan in your own fiction writing or if your game (RPG) visits Starbase 72 during a mission. The information here is meant as a guide for folks to use this character consistently across different stories, but feel free to take some liberties with her exact characterization. Her rank, position, gender, species, and other mundane details shouldn’t be changed, though. Also, don’t kill her; that wouldn’t be nice.
* Tharc a level headed negotiator. Positions of command and negotiation have forced her to tame her argumentative Tellarite ways. She may appear gruff at times, but she is still approachable and polite to any character who might happen to run into her out and about around Starbase 86.
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* Jailan is not a stuffy desk warrior; she’s friendly, gregarious, and likes to mingle with the crew and residents. You’re just as likely to find her in the arboretum or strolling between the shops and restaurants in the common areas as in her office or in Station Operations. So, even as an Ensign or Lieutenant, you might meet the head honcho herself, while just out and about rather than formally reporting in.
* Diminutive, but nonetheless commanding, Tharc does not waste words. She is a busy person, always appreciative of those speaking with her getting to the point as quickly as possible. Having grown up on Tellar Prime, she’s no slouch when it comes to verbal jousting either.  
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* As a Saurian, Jailan’s natural voice uses lingual clicks and pops, so she uses a universal translator to speak to other species, as her vocal cords can’t produce the sounds that make up the English language. She is approximately two meters tall, but with a slender build, as Sauria has lower gravity than Earth does.
* As the commanding officer of Starbase 86, Tharc can most likely be found in station ops. A hands-on commander, it would not be uncommon for her to answer a starbase hail directly or personally give orders to ships outside the Task Force 86 chain of command (e.g. patrol ships, maintenance vessels, explorers passing through or freighters).  
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* If you have a thirty-minute meeting scheduled with the commodore, it will last an hour. She’s very curious, and easily fixates on small details which lead to personal questions, questions about family, hobbies, interests, etc., but this is how she gets to know people. This can be a little intimidating to junior officers.
* Tharc has spent a long time dealing with Federation-Romulan affairs, and is very experienced when it comes to their peculiarities and ways of doing business. During this time, she has developed a repertoire of etiquette and mannerisms with which she is able to quickly demonstrate her sincerity to most Romulans. She is working on achieving the same when it comes to Klingons, not without some hiccups along the way.
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* As the commodore of a starbase, Jailan has a lot of staff around her to handle the day-to-day operations, but she’s still someone who you might interact with if running missions on a runabout off of the starbase to get your orders and instructions. As someone who enjoys talking to people, it’s not unusual for her to personally be in Station Operations to answer docking requests. The starships in the area that don’t report to Task Force 72 (i.e. your basic border patrol ships, utility ships, and science vessels) report to her.
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* Jailan has a ''lot'' of experience not only with Starbase 72, but with the True Way and the Former Demilitarized Zone. She’s always happy to share advice to young officers looking for insight on the situation. She also built her early career on the legal aftermath of the Maquis situation, so she has a good understanding of insurgency groups in general, even though she’s not strictly speaking a diplomat.

Latest revision as of 09:31, 16 July 2022

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Jalian
Biographical Information
Place of Origin Sauria
Species Saurian
Gender Female
Date of Birth 1 April, 2340
Age 59
Career Information
Affiliation

Starfleet

Rank Commodore
Posting

Starbase 72

Position

Commanding Officer

Template:Character

Commodore Jalian is the current commanding officer of Starbase 72, with authority over the base itself and ships operating in the surrounding sector that aren't attached directly to Task Force 72. She has had a long career spent both as an officer in the Judge-Advocate General's Corps, as well as on Starbase 72 itself. Friendly and gregarious, she's known for allowing meetings to go far too long when she finds something interesting or appealing about the conversation. She's partial to spending a large part of her day strolling through the station's public areas, getting to know the crew and residents when she's not attending to paperwork in her office.

History

Early Life (2340-2358)

Jalian was born on Sauria in 2340, one of many daughters in a large family. She was friendly and curious as a child, enjoying learning about the many cultures of the Federation in school. She knew she wanted to leave Sauria as soon as she was able to see the wider galaxy, if only just to talk to new and interesting species.

Starfleet Academy (2358-2366)

At Starfleet Academy, Jailan decided to concentrate in interstellar relations, for a career as either a diplomatic specialist or a commander, but while there she found herself fascinated by the Federation’s legal system, given that it was the synthesis of many, many cultures’ beliefs about the law and justice. She saw how important it was to have strong voices within the legal system to continue to advocate for equity and equality, as well as to give the accused a proper defense. As such, she decided to enter the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, spending an extra four years at Starfleet Academy to earn her law degree.

Early JAG Career (2366-2373)

As a junior Judge-Advocate, Jailan was posted to the JAG office on Starbase 21 as a Lieutenant Junior Grade. A large and well-established base, Jailan was excited to be able to get to interact with even more races than she was able to at Starfleet Academy. She was seen as an effective litigator, with her skill really becoming evident in cross-examinations, when she was able to elicit honest and accurate testimony both through her own powers of observation but also because of the way she was able to put other people at ease through her friendly nature. After four years, she was promoted to Lieutenant and transferred to the still-under-construction Starbase 72 as one of its first crew members, where she helped to set up the brand-new JAG office for the area of space near to the Demilitarized Zone.

Even with the base still under construction, Jailan found herself involved in dozens of cases where former Starfleet Officers who joined the Maquis were prosecuted for various offenses, ranging from theft of Federation property to murder. She served on both sides of these cases as they went on, serving equally well as a defense attorney and as a prosecutor. These cases would shape her psyche, though, as she developed a strong distaste for anything that could be seen as betraying the Federation, an institution that she believed so strongly in, but she also recognized that the Federation had betrayed the colonists of the DMZ in many ways as well.

Dominion War (2373-2376)

The Dominion War came as a shock to Starbase 72, as even though most of their defenses were operational already, the base was still years away from being finished. It was understaffed and vulnerable. As such, Jailan was pressed into service as an Officer of the Watch, taking many shifts in Station Operations, as the few senior crew who had already been assigned there were shifted to crewing starships. Though she was trained like any other Starfleet officer for such duties, it had been over a decade since she’d gone through her academy training before specializing in the law.

Starbase 72 was the subject of numerous assaults and was a refuge for damaged Klingon, Starfleet, and eventually Romulan starships, some of which were venting plasma as they limped into the base, which was a major test of Jailan’s abilities to manage. She learned early on to trust the more junior officers who were specialized in tasks like docking starships, and career enlisted servicemembers who had decades more experience than she did in such matters. Delegation and a recognition of her own limits served her well during the war.

USS Athabasca (2376-2380)

Following the war, Jailan continued in her temporary role for another year before the fleet stabilized enough for her to be offered her old role back, now that other officers were available to take over running the station. She declined this opportunity, though, as she’d enjoyed the challenge of doing something new. She managed to secure a posting to the New Orleans-class USS Athabasca, a frigate that had just gone through a post-war refit before being sent to aid colonies in the now-Former Demilitarized Zone. Her experience as a watch officer translated imperfectly to life aboard a starship at first, if only for the drastic change in scale of her surroundings, but she rose to the challenge, as her captain valued her ability to connect with the crew on a personal level, seeing their strengths and weaknesses and assigning them appropriately to different tasks.

The Athabasca was largely spared from major combat during her time aboard, but it was involved with a number of skirmishes with the early grumbles of what would later become the renewed True Way in the 2390s, an organization that she would become intimately familiar in time. While on Starbase 72, she’d participated in the defense of the station against large Cardassian and Dominion forces, but the more intimate nature of ship-to-ship combat felt more personal. She found it inconceivable that any Cardassians wouldn’t want to be part of the Federation; her deep belief in the IDIC philosophy made it hard for her to understand why someone would choose independence at the cost of prosperity.

Return to JAG (2380-2388)

Though she enjoyed her time on a starship, Jailan knew that her real passions weren’t ones that she could really pursue in that environment. She applied to take the newly-vacant Sector Judge-Advocate position based on Starbase 72, which she took over as a Captain in 2380. While the Maquis situation was long resolved (by simply being destroyed by the Dominion), the legal situation near the Former Demilitarized Zone was complex: agreements made between colonies based on Cardassian law had to be arbitrated under Federation law, and some former-Cardassian colonies struggled to adapt to the Federation criminal justice system as well. While there were civilian courts on Minos Korva, Jailan was the senior Federation judicial official in the region and ended up sitting as a judge for hundreds of minor cases in her eight years in the position, as well as a prosecutor for high-profile cases that required a flag officer to preside.

Jailan had spent the majority of her career on and near Starbase 72, and she developed a positive reputation among starship captains and colonial officials in the area, which allowed her to take the relationship-building skills she’d developed on a one-to-one basis and apply that to a larger scale with chains of relationships that stretched across the entire sector.

Starbase 72 Command (2388 to Present)

Jailan’s abilities as a relationship builder and communicator combined with her wartime experience made her a perfect candidate to become Starbase 72’s executive officer. Technically, it was a step down in terms of her authority, but she welcomed yet another new challenge. Starbase 72 had finally reached its full population of 25,000 Starfleet officers and 50,000 civilians, so the role was somewhere between XO and Deputy Mayor. She held this role for eleven years, before being promoted to Commodore in 2396 and assuming command of the station itself and the surrounding sector.

Service Record

Date Position Posting Rank
2358-2359 Interstellar Relations Cadet Starfleet Academy Cadet Fourth Class
2359-2360 Interstellar Relations Cadet Starfleet Academy Cadet Third Class
2360-2361 Interstellar Relations Cadet Starfleet Academy Cadet Second Class
2361-2362 Interstellar Relations Cadet Starfleet Academy Cadet First Class
2362-2366 Law Student Starfleet Legal Academy Ensign
2366-2370 Judge-Advocate Starbase 21 Lieutenant Junior Grade
2370-2373 Judge-Advocate Starbase 72 Lieutenant
2373-2376 Officer of the Watch Starbase 72 Lieutenant Commander
2376-2380 Executive Officer USS Athabasca Commander
2380-2388 Sector Judge-Advocate General Starbase 72 Captain
2388-2396 Executive Officer Starbase 72 Captain
2396-Present Commanding Officer Starbase 72 Commodore

Commodore Jailan In-Play

  • As a Task Force 72 NPC, you are free to use Commodore Jailan in your own fiction writing or if your game (RPG) visits Starbase 72 during a mission. The information here is meant as a guide for folks to use this character consistently across different stories, but feel free to take some liberties with her exact characterization. Her rank, position, gender, species, and other mundane details shouldn’t be changed, though. Also, don’t kill her; that wouldn’t be nice.
  • Jailan is not a stuffy desk warrior; she’s friendly, gregarious, and likes to mingle with the crew and residents. You’re just as likely to find her in the arboretum or strolling between the shops and restaurants in the common areas as in her office or in Station Operations. So, even as an Ensign or Lieutenant, you might meet the head honcho herself, while just out and about rather than formally reporting in.
  • As a Saurian, Jailan’s natural voice uses lingual clicks and pops, so she uses a universal translator to speak to other species, as her vocal cords can’t produce the sounds that make up the English language. She is approximately two meters tall, but with a slender build, as Sauria has lower gravity than Earth does.
  • If you have a thirty-minute meeting scheduled with the commodore, it will last an hour. She’s very curious, and easily fixates on small details which lead to personal questions, questions about family, hobbies, interests, etc., but this is how she gets to know people. This can be a little intimidating to junior officers.
  • As the commodore of a starbase, Jailan has a lot of staff around her to handle the day-to-day operations, but she’s still someone who you might interact with if running missions on a runabout off of the starbase to get your orders and instructions. As someone who enjoys talking to people, it’s not unusual for her to personally be in Station Operations to answer docking requests. The starships in the area that don’t report to Task Force 72 (i.e. your basic border patrol ships, utility ships, and science vessels) report to her.
  • Jailan has a lot of experience not only with Starbase 72, but with the True Way and the Former Demilitarized Zone. She’s always happy to share advice to young officers looking for insight on the situation. She also built her early career on the legal aftermath of the Maquis situation, so she has a good understanding of insurgency groups in general, even though she’s not strictly speaking a diplomat.