Gold Fleet- T'Silva, Commanding Officer USS CIRCE
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T'Silva, Commanding Officer USS CIRCE NCC-27000
I. Personal Data ---------------- Name: T´Silva Current Rank: Captain Current Billet: CO, USS CIRCE Species: Vulcan Gender/Sex: Female Age: 43 Terran Years Place of Birth: Vulcana Regar planet Vulcan Parents: T´Nau (Accountant, residing on Vulcan) Sopek (Merchant, residing on Vulcan) Siblings: 2 younger brothers Sonak and Soval, both residing on Vulcan Spouse: none Religion: Teachings of Surak Height: 1.80 m; Weight: 72 kg; Eyes: blue; Hair: dark brown; Complexion: fair; Blood Type: OO negative -------------------------------------------------------------------------- II. Educational Background --------------------------- A. Academic Institutional Background: -- Elementary School and High School on Vulcan -- Merchant Academy of Shi´Kahr -- Starfleet Academy B. Service Schools Attended: -- Starfleet Academy of the Diplomatic Corps -- Starfleet Advanced Space Warfare School C. Qualifications (MOC's) -- Junior Bridge Officer -- Senior Bridge Officer -- Operations Management -- Tactical Officer D. Star Fleet Academy Record: Academic Major(s): - Astronomy, - Political Science. Professional Major: - Linguistics - Diplomacy Activities: active member of the Starfleet chess club, volunteer for the Academy Romulan Cultural Research Corps ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- III. Biographical Notes ----------------------- A. Chronology (tabular form): ----------------------------- 00-18: Lived with parents on Vulcan 18-20: Entered Merchant Academy of Shi´Kahr 20-24: Entered Starfleet Academy 24 Graduated from Starfleet Academy ------------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. Official Starfleet Record ----------------------------- A. Promotion History: --------------------- 020901.0000 Commissioned as Ensign (O-1). 040401.0000 Promoted to Lieutenant, junior grade (O-2). 060501.0000 Promoted to Lieutenant (O-3) 110701.0000 Promoted to Lieutenant Commander (O-4) 130901.0000 Promoted to Commander (O-5) 170501.0000 Promoted to Captain (O-6) B. Service History: ------------------- 980901.0000 Entered Star Fleet Academy 020901.0000 Graduated Star Fleet Academy 020901.0000 Assigned Assistant Tactical Officer, USS WELLINGTON 040619.0000 Assigned TAC, USS HERODOTUS 061001.0000 Assigned OPS, USS HERODOTUS 110901.0000 Assigned XO, USS VALDEMAR 170501.0000 Assigned CO, USS STARFALL 211013.0000 Assigned CO, USS CIRCE -------------------------------------------------------------------------- V. Skills Profile ----------------- Trained as a Tactical Officer and Operations Manager, T´Silva capitalized on her upbringing in a merchant family to hone her skills of diplomacy and politics along with her leadership abilities and plain old mathematics. Aside from Vulcan and Federation Standard she speaks Romulan and has studied Romulan culture and history since her Academy days. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VI. Recent Fitness Report ------------------------- " Captain T´Silva is fit for duty mentally, psychologically and physically. Mentally her average IQ is around 137 points, psychologically she is as stable as a Vulcan can be and physically she subscribes to a demanding regimen of Vulcan martial arts that I cannot pronounce properly but it seems to work fine." LCDR Marquardt, CMO, USS STARFALL -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VII. Psychological Profile -------------------------- "Since we speak of a Vulcan here, it should not come as a surprise that officer Silva is a calm, balanced and rational individual who can function with great efficiency under the most horrid circumstances. Since we speak of a Vulcan here, it should come as a surprise that a high ranking Starfleet officer of that extraction can be a practical joker. I for one will never look at Ploomek soup the same way again." Dr. Balthasar Rains Senior Counsellor, SB ALPHA -------------------------------------------------------------------------- VIII. Current Recreational Interests ------------------------------------ Two- and Three-dimensional chess Poker and Bridge Romulan history and culture Suus Mahna (Vulcan martial art) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Background: --------------------------------------------------------------------------- T´Silva was born into a large family of Vulcan traders who had amassed an astonishing fortune with their huge cargo ships that travelled into every corner of the Federation. Naturally, T´Silva like her two younger brothers was expected to become fully integrated into the family business. All three siblings were bright even by Vulcan standards, excelling in mathematics and basic economies from an early age. Everything seemed to go as planned. T´Silva would be the first of the three children to graduate from the prestigious Merchant Academy of Shi´Kahr, she would bond with her designated mate and assume a key function in the families local warehousing business. In later years she would then be in charge of her own trading ship. T`Silva did indeed enter the Merchant Academy. After two years she went hone and explained to her parents that despite excellent grades she would leave Vulcan to join Starfleet Academy. In fact she had already completed the entrance exam successfully. What followed could not be described as a family clash. After all, Vulcans are in control of their emotions. It was a perfectly rational and logical discussion between intelligent grown ups. The discussion ended with T´Silva leaving for San Francisco on Earth after her father had disowned her. Cadet T´Silva never disclosed the reasons for her decision to her fellow students, just stating that it had been a perfectly logical decision from her point of view. Whatever the reason was, T´Silva wasted no time, neither at the Academy nor in her first assignment as junior tactical officer of the WELLINGTON. Many officers with a tactical specialization could recite the teachings of Sun Tzu but T´Silva could actually apply them against the pirates and marauders the WELLINGTON was chasing at this time. Convinced that it was not logical to expect to find pirates during a routine patrol she instead blackmailed or bribed known criminals into helping the WELLINGTON crew find pirate hideouts thus following Sun Tzu´s advise that spies were invaluable in war. After being transferred to the TAC position of the USS HERODOTUS T´Silva refined her methods and engineered a trap that eventually lead to the capture of the renegade Klingon warbird IKS BLOODFEUD. According to some sources she was transferred to OPS afterwards because her superiors were developing an uneasy feeling about a Vulcan with too many disreputable contacts. The next five years as Operations Manager were not marked with such dramatic highlights as T´Silva´s tactical career (perhaps to the secret relief of some Captains and Admirals) but she routinely delivered above expectations which eventually earned her the position of First Officer aboard the USS VALDEMAR. Before long the ships away missions were vibrant with her own brand of applied logic. On a newly discovered idyllic class-M world she found it illogical that well- fed herbivores would attack crewmembers without being provoked or threatened. Telepathic contact with the animals established the fact that they were in fact pawns of a native sentient race - psionically gifted plants who felt threatened by the invading biped mammals. The planet was quarantined and T´Silva was credited with averting a disastrous colonization attempt before it could even begin. Her blend of tactical and diplomatic skills went a logn way to eventually secure the center chair aboard the USS STARFALL. She saw the ship through several encounters with marauders from the Klingon Confederacy and later through the Gorn War before she was now offered command of the CIRCE.
