In 2388, when Alistar was twelve, his parents, sisters and his brother embarked on a family vacation trip to the planet Brax. Because he was attending school at the time, Alistar was left behind with his grandmother. During takeoff, the shuttle carrying his family exploded, killing everyone onboard. Crushed, Alistar spent the next twelve weeks in tears, eating little and saying nothing. Over the next two years, he grew more and more distant from his grandmother and friends. Those who knew him noticed a slow, but gradual, change in Alistar as he went from the uncaring little boy into a cynical, uncaring, unemotional and extremely cold person. His grandparents did everything they could think of, from talking to taking him to the best counselors they could afford. In 2390, Alistar finally vented his feelings and bottled up frustration and anger at school when one of school bullies pushed a new female student down a set of stairs. After the resulting fight, Alistar was arrested and sent home by the local police, where he would remain under house arrest with his grandparents until formal charges were made. That night, Alistar slipped out of the house and left Mars.

Over the next few months, Alistar spent over half of his family fortune in finding out why his family had died. It was discovered that a rival merchant guild, a group of mercenaries, had rigged the shuttle with high yield explosives. After several days of digging through records and files, Alistar compiled a list containing 36 names. Over the next two years, Alistar was seen frequently in starports, and always on the move. He never spent more than a week in one place before moving on, and a series of unexplained murders appeared in his wake. No one could pin the deaths to Alistar, though most suspected and several knew for a fact that he was involved. Only the Miltian Star System Government pressed formal charges, and on 2391, Alistar was arrested on Third Miltia. Before being transferred to Miltia Prime for trial, however, he vanished while enroute to the Third Miltia star port. He was later seen by witnesses on Second Miltia as he boarded a transport headed out of the system. He was not seen again until three months later, when another murder occured in the Klingon Empire. Even with the Miltian Government, backed by the Federation, pressing charges, the Klingons refused to arrest Alistar. He was not seen again until July 2392, when he was caught by a custums security officer on Earth. Dispite what everyone knew to be true plus the charges from the Miltian government, nothing could truely pin Alistar as the cause of the two year blood trail that had led across two quadrants and twenty two systems. Alistar was released, and three weeks later he applied and was accepted into Starfleet Academy.

> Starfleet Career

> Dispite the fact that no one could find evidence of his involvement in the chain of murders, Alistar spent his time at Starfleet Academy under close observation by the Starfleet JAG office. For a time, Starfleet Intelligence held an intreast in him as well, but after several months SFI dropped the case and refused to get involved. Starfleet JAG dispatched several officers to investigate the case, and as a result Alistar spent his first three years at the Academy under probation. He was still allowed to apply and be admitted to Command School, though he was also required to take twice as many other department related courses. In 2395, Starfleet JAG dropped the case and declared that Alistar was innocent of the charges.

During his time at Starfleet Academy, Alistar was one of the few students who was pegged with the Starfleet Starship Design Course. He found the class somewhat boring, though informative of the advantages, and weaknesses, of Starfleet ships. He was able to create several new design alternatives and combat tactics for most Starfleet ships, though most of this information was simply handed in and set to the side. A few admirals in Starfleet noticed Alistar's potenual and marked him for furture refernce. In his final year at the academy, Alistar and his class were given the chance to help design a new starship design based off of the well proven Defiant class. Most of his classmates went for adding more armor and weapons, and though Alistar and one other cadet protested, the ideas were aproved and put into use. The new class, desinated the Hornet Class, was a slightly longer variant of the Defiant class. It was well armored, and nothing short of a concentrated series of direct hits couls destroy it. As noted by Alistar, however, the ship was extremely sluggish and slow, as the engine and warp core designs used for the class were not powerful enough to handle the stress of moving so much massive armor. In the initual trials, the prototype, the USS Hornet, could barely reach warp 5.5, and was finally destroyed when an over eager cadet made a mistake during a combat manuver drill in the Sol System asteroid belt. The USS Hornet slewed out of control and spun into an asteroid, taking most of the design class, the instructor, and several admirals, with her. By chance, Alistar and five other students were on an Academy training ship being used for observation nearby. Afterwards, Starfleet cancelled its order for the new Hornet class ships, though they allowed the few ships already under construction to be completed.

After graduating from Starfleet Academy, Alistar was assigned to the USS Endeavour as a helm officer.

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