NFS Personnel File - First Ltn. Thalen Sinjyn

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Name: Thalen Sinjyn

Gender: Male

Age: 495 (Appears to be in his late 30's)

Species: El Aurian

Height: 6’2

Weight: 170 lbs

Hair Color: Silver

Eye Color: Silver

YOB: 1887 (Earth Standard Year)

POB: El Aurian Homeworld

 

Family Information

Father: Kelain Sinjyn, NFA Intel.

Mother: Kiari Sinjyn, Professor of Music at Betazed University

Siblings: Various brothers and sisters. Entire list would take up half a page.

 

Wife: Jaolyn Sinjyn, Professor of Sciences at Betazed University

Children: Nikel Sinjyn, NFA Intel

Marei Sinjyn, Graduate Student at Betazed University

 

Service Information

Rank: First Lieutenant

Position: Science Officer

Assignment: N.F.S. Reaent NCC-3345-C

 

Starfleet Service Record

Details are not known but what is known is that he has served stints in NFA Intel and served previously on the NAS Exeter. Further information and any prior service assignments is highly classified.

 

Personal History

Early Childhood and Family History: Classified

 

Thalen was born on the El Aurian homeworld to Kelain and Kiari Sinjyn in what would have been the Earth year 1887. Kelain was, at the time, one of the senior Admirals of the El Aurian Defense Force and Kiari had just retired from the EADF and taken up a position as a professor in one of the El Aurian higher education institutes. Thalen spent his childhood..i.e. his first thirty years of life, helping care for his younger siblings and learning the basics of his education as well as being guided to control and use his mental abilities. It was during this time that he developed a love for the sciences and also developed his artistic talents. And thanks to his father's influence he also discovered a passion for space.

 

Upon reaching the age of thirty, Thalen entered the El Aurian educational system which he eventually graduated from with honors. He then moved on to the El Aurian University system which he again graduated with honors, focusing his education on the space sciences as well as graduating with degrees in music, engineering and the biological sciences.

 

Upon graduation at the age of eighty, Thalen followed his parents footsteps into the EADF and was assigned to a succession of science vessels, exploration ships and eventually the cruiser that was his father's flagship of the El Aurian Home fleet. He continued to remain in the EADF though every century or so he took a sabbatical to reenter collegiate education for five to ten years as is customary with El Aurians.

 

It was during one of those sabbaticals that he met Jaolyn who was also attending classes as a student. The two hit it off and shortly after he returned to service in the EADF the two were married and started a family. Life proceeded as normal for the young couple for the next few centuries.

 

And then in the 23rd century the Borg came. Thalen, who had by this time risen to the position of Commanding Officer on one of the cruisers in the Home Fleet, found himself thrust into the middle of a battle that every El Aurian knew couldn't possibly be won. Even with the technology at the El Aurians command, technology far beyond anything seen in the Alpha quadrant even to this day, the Borg simply were an overwhelming force due to their sheer numbers. If the El Aurians had had more ships or the Borg fewer then there was no way the Borg would have won but that was not the case.

 

The El Aurians fought back for one reason and one reason alone. To give time for as many El Aurians to escape the imminent destruction of their homeworld and their species. It was the job of the Home fleet to buy that time, even if it meant their total destruction. As it was a few ships of the Home Fleet, including the one that Thalen was Captain of and the one his father commanded managed to survive. But most of the fleet had been destroyed but that destruction had allowed 40,000 El Aurians to escape beyond the reach of the Borg.

 

The El Aurians escaped to the Alpha Quadrant...to the Federation, a body of worlds they had kept an eye on for several centuries. There in the Federation, on Earth and other worlds, the refugee EL Aurians took up residence and slowly began to acclimate to their new home and to rebuild their lives. The Sinjyn family was one of the fortunate ones. None of the members of the family had been lost during the Borg attack though that was more due to the political connections and influence the family wielded then to sheer luck.

 

Though the El Aurians acclimated to being members of the Federation they never completely adjusted. They seemed intent on keeping a certain amount of distance between them and their new neighbors, primarily due to the trauma of the Borg attack and also the recognition that because of their knowledge and the technology they could wield that they could potentially be detrimental to the Federation. There were El Aurians who sought to take a more active position within the Federation..the El Aurian known as Duren being one of them.

 

Duren and Thalen's father, Kelain, had been old friends for most of their adult lives, having served in the EADF together. But as it became evident that there was a war with the Klingons on the horizon thanks to the conspiracy that killed both the Federation President and the Klingon Chancellor, a split formed between Kelain and Duren. Kelain quite vocally objected to the declaring of martial law and also quite vocally disagreed with Admiral Cartwright. That put him on opposite sides with Duren who had by then become a Vice Admiral in Starfleet.

 

That split between old friends was only a microcosm of the split that was starting to form among the El Aurians themselves. A minority took the position that Duren did, that it was only right for them to be active participants in the Federation while a majority, like Kelain and Thalen, thought it best that while it was right that the El Aurians take an active role to some extent, that they also needed to still stick more to the shadows so as not to endanger the Federation or themselves. When Duren succeeded Cartwright it only sealed the split between Kelain and him. They no longer saw themselves as friends, at best they disagreed..at worst they considered themselves political enemies.

 

When Betazed and the other worlds that would form the New Federation Alliance seceded from the Federation Kelain saw to it that his family moved to Betazed from Earth. A significant portion of the El Aurian population, by that time numbering between 50,000 and 60,000, also left the Federation.

 

For a time after the split Thalen remained on the sidelines, living the life of a civilian retiree and doting on his children and grandchildren on Betazed. After a while though that grew boring to him and he joined the NFA Intelligence Agency along with his father. While in Intel he participated in several classified operations, some minor and some major.

 

As he neared his 500th year of life though he requested and was granted a transfer to the NFS and was assigned to the NFS Exeter as one of its science officers. Two years later he was transferred to the NFS Reaent where he remains to this day.

 

 

Psychological Profile

 

He maintains the typical El Aurian stoicness and has a tendency to come across as aloof. He is quite intelligent which is also typical of El Aurians and can at times appear arrogant because of that and the fact that he has been around centuries when everyone else around him on the NFS Reaent is far younger then him. To some extent that makes him feel a bit out of place. All in all he usually polite and respectful and is of even temperament. The one area that does seem to affect him emotionally..at least visibly, is the subject of the Borg. He loathes the Borg with a dark hatred and would, if given the chance, have no problem in wiping them from existence.

Edited November 5, 2005 by Thalen Sinjyn