Lieutenant Commander L'Ran

Full Name: L'Ran
Species: Vulcan
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: February 5th, 2257
Place of Birth: Raal, Vulcan
Affiliation: Utopia Plantia Shipyards / United Federation of Planets / Starfleet
Current Rank: Lieutenant Commander

Physical Description
Height: 5 feet, 7 inches
Weight: 145 lbs.
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown

Family
Parents: Vloran and T'Hathel
Siblings: None
Marital Status: Married, Husband: Huron

Starfleet Academy Records:
Attended 2279 - 2291
Degree: Starship Design with Honors, Starship Engineering with Honors, and Warp Theory with Honors.

Career:
Previous Assignments (oldest to newest):
Engineering Ensign aboard the USS Maine(2291 - 2293)
Starship Designer at Utopia Plantia Shipyards (2293 - 2402)
Head Designer of the Saturn Project at Utopia Plantia Shipyards (2402 - 2409)
Chief Engineer aboard the USS Saturn (2409 - 2409)
Currently Chief Engineer aboard the USS Tethys

Lieutenant Commander L'Ran was born on Vulcan in 2257 to her parents Vloran and T'Hathel. At a very early age, L'Ran's parents noticed that their daughter was very interested in making and constructing things, L'Ran constantly constructing new gadgets and inventions as a kid. As a final project in her last year of basic education, L'Ran constructed a minotare repulsion device. While the devic and output was small, L'Ran concluded that if it was to be sized up to a starship level, the repulsion technology could vastly increase the current tractor beam levels on Federation starships. This discovery caught the attention of Starfleet Academy, who sent a representative to Vulcan to talk with L'Ran on attending the academy. After a length discussion, both L'Ran and her parents agreed it was the most logical choice and L'Ran enrolled at Starfleet Academy.

L'Ran arrived on Earth on 2279 to begin her Academy years. During her years there L'Ran devoted all her time to her studies, taking the most allowed classes at any point in time that they would allow her. L'Ran also viewed her time at the Academy as a time in which she could further educate herself, and decided to stay at the Academy for 12 years, earning 3 degrees in Starship Design, Starship Engineering, and Warp Theory, all with honors.

After the Academy, L'Ran was assigned to the USS Maine for a 2 year deployment as an Ensign in the ships Engineering section. While stationed her, L'Ran used her skills to work on various projects in further increasing the efficiency and function of many of the USS Maine's, often to the determent of her other duties. While it was stressed that she needed to focus more on her actual duties, the Captain of the USS Maine sent a message to a friend he had at Utopia Plantia, asking if they were in need of a brilliant young engineer. Utopia Plantia agreed, and L'Ran was transferred after her two years in 2281.

From here L'Ran began her tenure at the Utopia Plantia Shipyards, serving on many projects over the many years she served. While many of her colleages jumped at promotion opportunities, L'Ran wished to have nothing of it and turned down promotion after promotion, noting that a promotion would take her away from the things that she really enjoyed doing, and that was starship design and construction.

Most of her projects she served as assistants on, however on 2402, Admiral Cortland, who was serving as head of a project called Saturn Project at Utopia Plantia, selected L'Ran as chief designer and director of the entire project. L'Ran took it as a great honor and quickly created a team of engineers to begin work. Her designs, however, were not ideal for the first ship to be created, the USS Saturn. Many design flaws caused the ship to be prematurely recalled and decommissioned, a failure that L'Ran personally blames on herself for being over ambitions on several features. L'Ran personally wanted to make it up on her and took more careful calculations on the construction of the USS Tethys. Early success reports have confirmed to her that this design is far superior than the old USS Saturn.

L'Ran currently serves aboard the USS Tethys monitoring it's situation during it's trials. During this time she also doubles as the ships' Chief Engineer. She keeps in constant contact with the Utopia Plantia Shipyards to keep the Saturn Project on track, often using the Tethy's holodeck to hold meetings with the Shipyard.

Lieutenant Commander L'Ran has an upbeat attitude, for a Vulcan. She has been known to make several 'jokes', even if they are rather dry, and enjoys many human sports such as Tennis. She deems herself a bit of a guru on human interaction from her long tenure at the Utopia Plantia Shipyards, and tries to be more sociable to them, as she recognizes some human's dislike of Vulcan stoicism.