Name:     Alaric Vage

Species: Vanir

Height: 1.78 m

Weight: 68.4 kg

Eyes: Luminescent blue or red

Hair: Black

Birth date: 27. May

Age (approximate): 2650

 

History:

 

Early History

 

                The Vaniran Empire launched a project, code named Progeny, in response to a growing need for a more well balanced soldier and more readily accessible soldier. The soldier was to have stronger psychokinetic and telepathic than their current Psions, soldiers specializing in mental warfare, and be a formidable match in martial combat to a Space Marine, physically imposing and equally strong soldiers, and as readily available as the conscript. 

                Progeny called for a quantum leap forward in the methods used for genetic engineering and cloning. Despite some minor set backs, the program proceeded under budget and slightly behind schedule. The progress made in the genetic engineering allowed things to occur that never could have before, the hybridization of Psion and Marine DNA. Furthermore cloning procedures and technology allowed what once took 20 years to do to be done in a matter of hours.

                With the newly developed technology, fourteen prototypes were made. Vage was one of these prototypes. As planned, the prototypes were physically stronger than expected. The average Progeny was about 37% stronger than a Vaniran of his or her weight, which is about the same when compared to Humans. The thaumaturgic rating, a Vaniran term for both telekinetic and telepathic powers, of the Progeny averaged 990, on a bell curve from 0 to 1000 with a deviation of 5.

 The Progeny project exceeded the scientists’ greatest expectations. However, the necessity of using uracil to create a being both mentally and physically as strong as the Progeny caused substantial problems. The chemical and neural alterations used by the Empire for brain washing and making sure their soldiers stay loyal did not work. In fact, they failed horribly. In the original tests, four of the Progeny were completely mentally cleansed after losing total telekinetic control and utterly eradicating the laboratory and much of the surface of the planet the laboratory was on.

Needless to say, the tyrannical nature of the Empire’s Oligarchs and ephors showed its head. The scientists were promptly executed for the mistake. And, as so many things in the Empire, the Progeny project was lost in the vast bureaucracy. The remaining ten Progeny were never eradicated or cleansed and allowed to progress, as a normal Psion or Marine would have.

                As such, Vage was quickly enlisted into the ranks of the Psions.  And due to his extreme power, he quickly rose through them. His position in the Psions was a Usurper. A man or woman specifically trained to use their powers to sow chaos and dissention in an enemy populous or army before invasion, basically a black-operations terrorist. He excelled at his job too. In fact, many offensives against the Intergalactic Concordium would have failed completely if it were not for him and the Vaniran Empire its self quite possibly would have been conquered. He became quite famous among the Vaniran population. So famous to the point that he could no longer be under cover.

                After the Concordium War, Vage retooled his thaumaturgics into more combat oriented powers. Essentially moving from being black-operations to being a shock trooper. His position was changed from Usurper to Paladin. He especially excelled at piloting, even with out using telepathy to discern enemy maneuvers he was one of the best pilots in the Empire. However, in the assault of Azor VII, Vage was captured and quickly disavowed by the Empire.

                It turned out that Azor VII was a front planet of the Breakaway Colonies, ex members of the Empire that revolted against Oligarchal rule and declared themselves independent millennia earlier which had since been lost in history. 

                Vage’s treatment by the hands of the Breakaways was unexpected. Instead of torture, they treated him as a citizen and a sentient being. Quite the opposite of what the Empire had done. He decided, by free will, to change loyalties to the Breakaways. And soon learned that he would have a chance to get revenge on the Oligarchs and ephors who created and oppressed him.

                The Breakaway colonies had technology considerably more advanced than the Empire’s and eventually launched a war to liberate the Vaniran from the Oligarch’s tyrannical grasps. Vage, despite having just changed loyalties so easily, was endowed with command of a task force. On hearing this, many of the proletariat of the Empire revolted. Despite being disavowed by the Empire, his population amongst the populace was still immense.

                In a conflict that only lasted months, the Breakaway colonies managed to seize power in one of the largest governments in the known Universe. Most of the Oligarchs and ephors were captured, however, some had fled. The new, democratic, free and peaceable government refused to hunt down the ones who fled and refused to execute the ones in custody. This would ultimate cause destruction.

                There was one hundred years of prosperity for the new Vaniran Directorate. Vage, though not involved in the government, was still a part of every day life. He knew the military tactics of the Vaniran Empire well enough to allow easily victory. However, the Oligarchs eventually returned. They amassed a force large enough to challenge the old Empire’s forces and the Directorate’s forces.

                The returned Oligarchs easily sacked the Directorate. They freed their imprisoned brethren and allowed them to decide what should happen to Vage. The Oligarchs decided that he was too much of a security risk to leave alive, but equally, if not more dangerous, dead. They put him in a small fighter crafter and transported him to the other side of the known Universe.

 

Middle History

 

                Vage’s fighter rematerialized in an uncharted area of the Universe, with no references to chart a course back home. But that would not have helped. Upon rematerialization, an asteroid struck the fighter. The damaged called for an emergency landing. The only nearby planet that had an atmosphere able to sustain his life was Earth.

                The fighter craft landed some where near modern day Berlin in the year 20 BCE. Due to a cloaking device that phase shifts the object, he was completely able to hide from the Humans. He lived in peace with the Germanic tribes, and was only mildly harassed by the Romans once they reached the Elbe some 10 years later.

                He stayed away from most of the civilized world, thinking that the humans were too primitive and docile to be of any concern. That is until the Romans laid waste to a nearby Jute village that he had developed a symbiotic relationship with. With no reason to stay, Vage brought the fighter craft to what would be later the eastern border of the Eastern Roman Empire. He waited there and bided his time.

                Using the sensors on the fighter he was able to find a human exceptionally mentally evolved. Though not a telepath, his brain was evolved enough to be sensitive to telepathy. Despite being only an infant, Vage seized control of the child’s mind. The precise year is not known, but it is around the year 370 CE. The child’s mind he seized was Alaric the Goth. Over the next 40 years, Vage, using Alaric as a cover, gained power and prestige both among the Goths and the Eastern Roman Empire.

                He waited until 395 CE, when the Emperor Theodosius I died. He led an army of Goths and other tribes on a frenzy through both the Eastern and Western Empires. All culminated in August 410 CE when Alaric sacked the Eternal City. Soon after, Vage left Alaric’s mind, but the length Vage inhabited Alaric’s mind and suppressed his consciousness caused severe damage days later Alaric died. Vage, feeling remorse for what he had done to Alaric, took his name as a sign of respect and gratitude.  Furthermore, he never so directly interfered with Human history again.

                After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Vage moved back near modern day Berlin. To pass the centuries, Vage studied science, especially genetics, literature and language. He was acquainted with most of Europe’s greatest leaders, writers and artists. Name a famous historical person and he has had conversation with him or her. Since great minds seemed few and far between, life for Vage was boring.

                In the early 1700’s, Vage moved to the southern part of the Massachusetts colony, still currently Massachusetts. There he lived from the time of the Revolution until Boston was annihilated in 2053. In 1970, he formed a company that backwardly engineered microchips from Starling and sold them to Governments and large corporations for less. He used the replicator systems on the fighter to develop the microchips. Most of the money he made, he gave to charity.

Since he never had to work, and already knew much about science, Vage devoted most of his life from 1970 to 2100 to learning to play music and the study of martial arts and fencing. Currently, he remembers how to play 23 different instruments and could be considered a master of Judo, Karate, Tae-Kwan-Do, and Ninjitsu.

 

Later History

            In 2150, Vage was with a diplomatic delegation from Earth’s World Government to Australia. He and the delegation were able to convince the Prime Minister and Australian Senate to join the government. In doing so, they formed the foundations of the Federation.

                The same year, Vage went on to join the newly formed Starfleet Intelligence. He served in SFI for nearly 150 years. However, the details of his operations have been sealed and declared confidential. Conspiracy theorists believe that he was one of the founding members of the supposed black operations group Section 31 and that he was involved with the alterations of other civilizations timelines to make their current Government “Federation-friendly”.

                On January 1, 2300, Vage resigned his commission from Starfleet Intelligence. He spent the next 77 wandering the Alpha and Beta quadrants of the galaxy. Like with Starfleet Intelligence, only a select few actually know what he did during that time span.

                Exactly 80 years later, Vage returned to the United Federation of Planets and applied to join Starfleet for a second time. Due to his past experience, he was quickly accepted. He also set a record being the fastest graduate of the Academy.

 

Medical History:

 

 July 2, 1863

Vage was stabbed by a Confederate bayonet below the left ocular orbit. The pierce wound damage the maturgen-gland, the part of the Vaniran brain, which controls thaumaturgic powers. He did not loose his powers, however he lost most control. He shortly after regaining consciousness and realizing what had happened, Vage built a device that inhibited most thaumaturgics. Currently, the only legal way for Vage to remove the device is by a direct order from his CO, or the CO’s direct proxy, Starfleet Intelligence, the residing President of the Federation, or by his own discretion should the chain of command be compromised or dire necessity.

 

December 11, 2053

Radiation from a nuclear device detonated above Boston, MA causes extreme radiation poisoning. Immediate effects and cancerous growths dealt with by medical programs on his fighter craft. Currently, however, fatal levels of radiation for Vage are half of what a Human would have, and one tenth of what a Vaniran would have.

 

October 30, 2166

While serving aboard the USS Tirpitz, an inter-dimensional species captured and did neural experiments on Vage. They used a tachyon and chronoton based sensors to probe his mind. Currently, if exposed to the same amount of tachyon or chronoton energy, Vage suffers from severe delirium, paranoia and psychosis. Effects are temporary; when the first time he was re exposed they lasted for 198 hours, and very in intensity from moment to moment.

 

No other records of importance are noted either by himself, pre-Federation Medical records, or Federation Medical Records.

 

 

Psychological Status:

 

Since humans have the nearest psychodynamic profile as Vage, humans were used as a comparison. If Vage were a human, he would be in perfect health. From a biological perspective, and using Betazoids because of the similarities in brain chemistry, Vage is in good health. However, due to the fact there is no comparison Vage can give us for Vaniran mental health we can only assume and hypothesize that he is in good mental Health. Quite often, he thinks aloud because for most of his life he lived alone so to keep from going insane. However, he is working on fixing that.

 

Personality:

 

On duty, despite what one may believe because of his aide in getting Australia to join the World Government, Vage lacks most diplomatic tact. In fact, on duty, he can be ruthlessly sarcastic and callously logical. Furthermore, he is quite reserved on duty. Off duty on the other hand he is quite the polar opposite. He is less sarcastic and more sympathetic and much more out going. He has very few friends. Mostly because of self imposed isolation. It is not so much he does not want friends, more so it is because of his long life. It is hard for him to get over the fact that the person will die in a hundred years and he will live for thousands more. And if there is one thing he cannot stand it is being called Al. He almost never gets angry, however calling him Al is one of the few things that will make him angry.

 

Hobbies:

               

                Vage enjoys playing guitar, violin, saxophone and piano. In addition