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Vena Del
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| Vena Del | |
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| Species: | Betazoid |
| Date of birth: | Stardate 5296.178 (18/04/2328) |
| Home planet: | Neresia |
| Affiliation: | Unified Qvarne System Pryan Coalition United Federation of Planets |
| Occupation: | National Director of the Unified Qvarne System CEO: Freebird Rising Unlimited CIO: StarForge Industries Admiral, Pryan Starguard President of the United Federation of Planets Attorney General of the United Federation of Planets Neresian Representative to the Federation Council Resident, Cedars-Sinai |
Vena Del, or Ven'a Delukanasi, is at the very least a name known to anyone in the ATS universe. Her celebrity is on the level with the Unity's Trelesta Rowan or the Klingon Empire's Hovmempo'wI. Appearing on the galactic scene many years ago as a heavily influential Federation politician, Del eventually became the President of the United Federation of Planets. After a less-than-scandalous move to the Pryan Coalition, Del worked her way up the ranks of the Pryan Starguard, becoming an Admiral and leading the entire fleet beside Trelesta Rowan.
After civil war broke out on her homeworld, a former Federation/Betazed colony known as Neresia, Del left the galactic scene to attend to her people. Years later she re-emerged, founder of the Unified Qvarne Sector and corporate executive of StarForge Industries.
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Biography
Childhood
Vena Del was born Ven'a Resala Delukanasi, on April 18th, 2328. Her father was the Kevnei Gnerzii, or Monarch of Neresia, and her mother was of noble blood from Betazed. An only child, Del was lavished in the finer things for much of her life. Despite what one may generally consider the outcome of pampering a female child, Del was a tomboy. A Terran, childhood friend referred to Del as "Vena, Warrior Princess". Returning home filthy with great consistency, her mother's chagrin eventually led to Del's enrollment at an exclusive, Andorian all-girls school. Little was her mother aware of the tenets, rites and lack of specific gender roles of Andorian society, not to mention their warrior nature. The choice of school was that of Del's father, who loved her so dearly as to take advantage of his culturally-ignorant wife.
Del returned to Neresia at the age of fifteen, a much more responsible young woman but wholly unbroken of her love of action, adventure, and general playing in dirt. Incensed, her mother enrolled Del at her own alma mater, the Koraiia Young Ladies Preparatory Institute on Betazed. Despite Del's protestations, her father would not intervene in the matter, having been thoroughly chastised and manipulated via uncontrollable sobbing by her mother. It is, perhaps, of note that Del's future, manipulative nature while leader of Qvarne mirrors that of her mother to an uncanny extent. Del matriculated at her mother's school and found it not as terrible as she had expected, quickly becoming the "go-to gal" for any problems her fellow students may have been having. It was here she first tasted politics, achieving Class President each year until her graduation.
Young Adulthood
In 2346, Vena Del was accepted to and attended the University of Betazed. Having experienced freedom from her parents for some time, she was better prepared than many students in managing her social life and education. However, with all of the biggest choices in her life defined by her parents, when they gave her complete autonomy in choosing a major, she could not decide. Her love of the outdoors and wildlife and a general sense of curiosity in how-things-work, biology seemed a proper course to follow. Despite that, the love she found in politics while at KYLPI drew her to law and general social sciences. Seeking the council of her father, Del explained her indecisiveness and begged him to choose for her. Knowing his wife, he saw that Del simply wanted a target to blame should things go awry and so he responded, very simply, "Do both."
Those two words became a philosophy for the rest of Del's life: that when choices were not mutually exclusive, one did not have to choose. A law of excess, to be sure, requiring time and money, but these were easily provided by Del and so, she did both. It took her six years to achieve her degrees, and her love for both neither diminished nor overtook the other. To go on in either field, however, she understood that it would definitely require greater education. However, law and medical school attended simultaneously was not a challenge she was willing to take. As such, she chose to first attend Harvard Law School, graduating in 2355 and passing her flip, the Federation Law Practice Examination, on the first attempt. Although receiving many offers to work at several prestigious firms, she turned each down. Her love for biology remained and the thirst had to be quenched.
In 2356, Del began her attendance at the Daystrom Medical Institute on Mars. She disliked the setting and, nearly thirty, was the oldest in her class. Many of her fellows had already achieved their PhDs and quite a few were a great deal more intelligent and knowledgeable than her. At the time, Del felt that this was her greatest embarrassment. It took nearly two years of consistent studying without a social life for her to feel on the level with the rest of her class. When she graduated, she was glad of the original embarrassment: her arduous years and great work allowed her to take the valedictorian spot. Despite Starfleet Medical's exceptional offer, Del had little desire to conduct her internship in the military, instead joining the program at Cedars-Sinai on Earth. This was the greatest decision of her life.
Family
In 2361, a year into her internship, Del met Borin "Elten" Tainer at the Warp Core Bar in San Francisco. Tainer was a Starfleet lieutenant in the Engineering Corps. Their courtship was brief and by the end of that year, the two were married. Del found marriage an easy change of pace, Tainer was consistently away from home at the Antares Fleet Yard where, four years later, he would be a major contributor to the Defiant Project. His regular departures were a godsend to Del's long shifts at the hospital, also allowing her to keep up-to-date with law journals and cases when she had the rare block of free time. The absense of one another from the life of each was good for the marriage.
That was until, in 2362, Del became pregnant with twin boys. Considering how rarely the couple saw each other, and Del's own meticulous scheduling of her time which, of course, charted her menstrual cycle, this was a surprise. Del continued to work during her pregnancy, taking a leave of absense only one week prior to giving birth. On March 7th, 2363, Michael and Ethan Tainer were born in the hospital, in fact the very department, where their mother worked. Vena and Borin had decided upon these names in memoriam to two friends killed in the Setlik III massacre the previous year, much to the disappointment of Del's mother, who desired traditional Betazoid names.
Only three months after the birth of the twins, Del found herself again with child. Despite the assistance provided by her mother- and sisters-in-law, Del was disturbed by how quickly the vision of her future had been interrupted and she became convinced that her career was in jeopardy because of her children. Shortly after news of her pregnancy, Del slipped into a depression which lasted just over six months when, after several failed treatments, a prototypical pharmaceutical succeeded in stabilizing her mood. For the next four months, Del was excited over the prospect of a new child, a girl who she intended to name after her great-grandmother. On April 18th, 2364, Del's thirty-sixth birthday, Maera Hypatia Tainer was born, thankfully healthy despite Del's long depression and the bevy of drugs she took in order to end it.
Four months after Maera's birth, Del and her husband decided that three children were enough and both underwent surgical sterilization. For the next ten years, family life was mostly positive: Del was a resident at Cedars-Sinai and Borin a respected Commander in Starfleet. Once again, however, depression reared its head in Vena's life.
Escape
On July 6th, 2374, Vena's mother died due to complications during cosmetic surgery. Despite the antagonistic relationship Del and her mother had for much of her life, the death of Vena's maternal uncle in March of 2372 changed her mother's perspective on life and family. The two had made amends, and the unexpected death shattered Vena's life, already fragile due to long hours at the hospital and a growing chasm in her relationship with her husband due in large part to long absences from each other's lives. Depression immediately followed the death on a level far worse than it had been during Del's pregnancy more than a decade before.
For several months, Del attempted to convince her husband to reverse the sterilization they had undergone after Maera's birth, believing that another child would help fill the void left by her mother and, although unsaid at the time, the emotional distance between the couple. Borin would not concede and the arguments that followed over the next year simply sealed the end of their marriage. In November of 2375, Del filed for divorce and left earth, returning to Neresia and living with her father in Delland. She would not see her sons again for five years, her daughter for sixteen and would never see Borin again, who would die aboard the USS Prometheus in 2382.
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