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One of the newest members of Vident Obscura right after graduation and member of Gold Team, Lieutenant Commander Sarah Marine Aruana is a notable Solas Tempus officer mainly known for the research of ancient artefacts and the derelict ship DSC Starsailer. Currently assigned to Nimbus Station for deep space observation and support. She also graduated for general science and medical assignments if required, not being a temporal specialist.
Personality
In a nutshell
Sarah is Intelligent, caring, joyful, persuasive, kind, brave, resourceful, vigilant, faithful and agressive when pissed off.
More details
She is a good willed and enlightened girl with a big sense of curiosity about everything. Insecure and a bit fearful when young, she becomes more confident and brave as she grows up. She doesn't like it, but gives her best to do what she is expected to do. Oftenly, she demonstrates her wish to have only a normal life like the other dragons and perhaps become an explorer. Just like her sister, Sarah oftenly demonstrates to have a strong motherly instinct over the others even if they are completely strangers for her. This makes her good at dealing with children, to interact with teenagers and blend in with them. But there are also times when she acts as the adult of the situation to try solve conflicts only with words.
It is not rare when Sarah joins a conversation and speaks too much, often about the dragons, science or any matter she knows at least a good portion about what the matter is. If not, she may ask a lot of questions due to her curious way of be. Because of this and the will to know the truth only, she is a terribly bad liar, being easy to tell when she is not saying the truth or hiding something. When the matter is about the dragons, she says she does not speak in name of them, but is easy to know that she will defend in an argument if necessary after some minutes in a conversation with her. Other than that, she has plenty advices to give as a counselor. She is also not arrogant, trying to stay as humble as possible.
Although Sarah prefers solve conflicts with her words alone, the time will come when she needs to defend herself or the others. For this matter, Sarah possess the mental and physical strength to overcome hostility, but not emotionally. Sarah believes that the evil is not worthy of mercy and she is capable, even of killing, to ensure "the end of evil". But murder is hard for her, as it is for any other normal person. She is not homicidal.
As consequence of her origin being related to the Ancient Dragons of the Before Time, her behavior and customs are characteristic of this culture, comparable to old chinese and the bedouins from the desert. She almost never touches someone, not even for a handshake. She's polite, and know very well how to behave in front of authority, royality, or any other sort of important or famous people. She is also very expressive, often using hand gestures or making clear what are her feelings about a matter when possible, trying not to look disrespectful or insubordinate. She may yell if angry but she won't hold personal grudges.
After some time living on Earth with her friends, Sarah learned to behave more like them and started to not think that much about touching. In a few years, she learned how to live like the humans as if she were one. This does not affect the way she behaved before, however, being only something she got used after some time.
Sarah has a good ear for music, aspiring to be a great musician someday. She likes many musical styles and to play many instruments. Sarah got this taste for music after listening to several songs on Earth. Her favorite genre is Jazz, but enjoys to play a bit of everything. She plays a relic from twenty first century, a Music Man Bongo 6, signed by John Myung. She also plays a regular acoustic guitar for songs that she cannot play with the bass and she can also play drums. Sarah also knows the basics of piano but cannot play any classical songs or anything too hard.
She also likes to write her thoughts, what she learns and her logic involved in a paper notebook along with some drawings of objects, people and places. She has many of those notebooks, one for each adventure or matter of study. She says it is easy for her to learn and/or remember things when she writes or draw it by observation.
Biological Analysis
Sarah is a Humanoid Dragon of Water Subspecies. But her overall biology is much similar to the one of humans, like being a mammal and reproducing in a similar way, although some features are reptilian or amphibian, such as being an egg laying creature instead of the regular baby bearing.
Skin
Her skin is similar to the one of sea mammals from Earth, like dolphins and whales, being smooth, impermeable and always hydrated, unlike the skin of humans which would often give a dry and rough feeling. It appears turquoise blue due to light refraction and with a slightly lighter tone on specific regions of her body, signaling the melanin level differences, similar to some terran ethnicities. It does not have a way of letting water out in the form of sweat given its impermeable nature. Instead, it saves water and lets small bits of the upper layers of the skin to flake off. If suffering from dehydration, the amount of skin flaking off may cause some wounds and the skin may lose a bit of its blue coloration to become more pale. To avoid this, she must keep herself hydrated by drinking water, avoiding places of low humidity levels and high temperatures and bathing regularly. The skin also does not allow growth of body hair except for the existing hair on the head and tail.
Muscles
The muscle fibers are more dense than it is for humans, resulting in bigger average strength not only for Sarah but for the other dragons as well, being three times the strength of an average human. Her strength is comparable to the one of vulcans, as those are in similar range.
Head and neck
From the top of her head, two pairs of horns come out, the center ones being long and a bit curved, and the ones on the sides being shorter and straight. The horns are solid, not hollow, and weigh four pounds in total, or about one kilo and eight hundred grams. The extra weight and difference of change in mass on her head results in a neck with well developed muscles to support them. The horns are made of the same material as all her bones but the surface of the horns is made of the same material as her claws, having a bit of a shiny look.
Her ears are similar to the one of humans but are fin shaped and much bigger than the regular human ears. The tragus has been replaced with a membrane that closes on the ear canal if the pressure is very high, like underwater, allowing for easier ear pressure regulation when swimming and preventing water from getting inside. When outside water, it keeps a distance of about five millimeters or 0.2 inches from the ear canal, allowing nearly indistinguishable audition if compared to a human.
Her hearing is very well developed, allowing for accurate sound identification, on the same levels of perfect pitch, though the pitch range is the same as for humans, being no different as to how high or how low she can hear.
Her eyes are purple colored and have an additional set of lids that are very thin and transparent, allowing her to see underwater if it’s saltwater, without harming the eyes. Later the lids can be washed normally to remove the excess of salt if any is remaining. As for the color range she can see, it is the same as it is for humans but with additional cones and rods for higher color sensibility.
The face takes the shape of a short reptilian muzzle, with separated nostrils instead of a nose. The mouth has additional teeth and long canines like fangs. The tongue is pointy, of the same shape as the muzzle, and is slightly longer than a human tongue. The lips are flexible, unlike reptilian lips. She is capable of the same facial expressions as humans.
Her voice is contralto and has a nice sound to it, perfect for singing.
Torso and arms
Sarah’s torso is comparable to the one of humans, with few biological differences.
Despite the initial reptilian or amphibian impression, she is a mammal. She has two fairly sized breasts similar to humans, fit for a 34E size. They can be stimulated for milk production by hand expression, even before or after laying an egg or the proper breastfeeding period.
Her respiratory system is binary, allowing her to breathe in an atmosphere of nitrogen/oxygen as well for extracting oxygen from the water. She cannot, however, filter the salt in the water if in large quantities like in the sea and oceans due to an insufficient development of the organs responsible for filtering the salt from the water. She describes it as similar to breathing air with too much smoke.
The respiratory system is also more efficient, able to assimilate the triple of oxygen if compared to an average human. This reduces the resistance required for physical exercises and energy production, although the body can equally use oxygen and energy on the same pace it is produced or even higher.
Her hands used to have claws instead of nails, but she has trimmed them to look like human nails. The claws/nails are also more resistant, comparable to her horns
Pelvis, legs and tail
The pelvic bone is slightly wider than for human females, to allow the egg to come out. The reproductive system is also similar to the one of human females, with the only difference being during the development of the baby. All the necessary organic material for the development of the baby is deposited inside the uterus in the first three months, along with the formation of the calcium layer to create the egg. It is then laid out and the development continues outside for seven more months. During the first three months, it looks like a regular pregnancy but set faster.
The legs are more developed and fit for intense repetitive movements at faster speeds, allowing her to run much faster than the sprint recordists with relative effort. For Sarah, she is right on average for her species.
The tail is an extension of the spine, replacing the coccyx and is fairly longer than the legs but as heavy. It is used for balance in many positions and its movement is fully voluntary, staying still for most of the time except when walking, running or swimming. There are no involuntary movements to express emotions, for example. It is also the only other part of the body other than the head that grows hair or fur due to how the skin is structured.
The feet are no different from human feet, with the exception of toe claws being similar to those of nails and the aforementioned development of muscles and bones for mobility and resistance.
General Appearance
Sarah’s skin is sea blue and her cobalt blue hair is very long, going as far as the waist. Her ears are fin shaped and have a membrane instead of the tragus that can close on the ear canal. Her face has a reptilian-ish muzzle instead of a nose. She has fangs replacing the canines and a pointy tongue.
Her physique is on average, not being skinny or fat, although her legs, hips and breasts are fairly sized but on average. Regular physical exercises granted her a well toned and somewhat muscular build, not being excessive but being firm.
Her hands and feet have trimmed claws to look like human nails. The tail is also fairly longer than the legs, often resting on the ground when she is standing up but not walking and taking an extra space when she is sitting, either resting on the chair if wide enough or on her lap.
Sarah is 5’11” tall or 180 centimeters and weighs about 168 pounds or ~76 kilograms. Her bra size is estimated to be 34E.
Medical conditions
Other than the previously stated need for hydration and incapability to hydro respire in saline environments, her first medical exam pointed about how Sarah is more susceptible to hypospray overexposure given how she has more interstitial fluid than most humanoid species. Epidermal treatment are also less effective given the impermeable nature of her skin.
Not really a medical condition but actually a reality for all dragons, unlike humans, dragons synthesize Vitamin C, which, along with other factors, explain their longevity.
Special Skills
- Self Defense Combat Skills
- Sarah received training in several martial arts styles during academy, such as Karate, Mok'bara and Suus Mahna to know enough for unarmed self defense.
- High Degree of Intelligence
- Sarah likes logic games and conundrums are her favorite. She also knows a little about everything and is a quick learner. An IQ test during the academy resulted in a score of 150. Not a genius but certainly above the human average.
- Highly Perceptive
- Sarah often makes notations of what she learns, being very detailed about her subject. Because of this attentive look about the world and her surroundings, Sarah has a trained sight and attention about everything, even if her memory might fail sometimes.
- Skilled Linguist
- Sarah's native language is not the English, but one which is the root for many languages and dialects on Earth and outside it. She can decipher and speak almost any dialect by simply referring to her native language. It is not perfect and she may make mistakes. Naturally she adopted an estuary accent as it seem to be the least conflicting way of speak english if compared to her own language. This ease to learn other languages is reduced considerably when analyzing texts and glyphs.
- Command Training
- As requested by Sarah, she took the formal command training program, starting with a simulation test on Tranquility Station set up as evacuation, without her knowledge, to test her performance in trying to save a xenophobic representative of an alien species. Putting the safety of the representative above her own feelings, she evacuated the representative and its delegation, even if against their will, but completing the simulation.
- Theoretical Physicist
- One of the courses she attended in the academy but that she continued to refine her knowledge in the area even after sworn in and sent to service. This comes in useful when in scientific missions. This does include basic temporal operation training but only enough to support, not being a temporal operative.
Special Abilities
- Superhuman Speed, Dexterity and Endurance
- She is able to run great distances without suffering fatigue. Her anatomy allied of physical development allows Sarah to run faster than the recordist sprinters from Earth and outpace vehicles when pushing her limits, although this is off the record.
- Physical Strength
- Compared to the physical strength of Vulcans, Sarah's strength is of about three times the strength of a human. She can almost double her strength if going through extensive physical workout, which she has not done.
- Perfect Pitch
- Sarah can identify or re-create a given musical note without the benefit of a reference tone. This helps her mainly while playing a musical instrument or singing.
- Water Affinity
- As a Water Dragon, Sarah can breathe underwater and is relatively fast swimming. She possess attributes that makes an extended stay underwater easy. She seem to lack the capability of filtering the salt in the water, requiring a filter in her nostrils for breathing in the ocean. She is also more vulnerable to drastic temperature changes, not having a big resistance to arid places due to her higher need of hydration than other known species.
- Partially Telepath (Detection)
- Similar to the abilities of Deanna Troi. Sarah is always empathically aware of people, even if she is not able to sense their emotions. Her study on the teachings of Surak through the Kir'Shara also granted her the ability of performing the vulcan mindmeld flawlessly. This allows her to detect presences by sensing their thought patterns and emotions.
Early Life
Sara was born in 2361 on Dragon of the Seas, from Keiko Yamauchi and Shiro Hayashi, in orbit of Venthur III. Venthur is located in the Gamma Quadrant. The star reduced the radiation emissions to a point the planet was slowly becoming inhospitable. Without light or radiation to warm the planet, the dragons started to develop ways to keep the planet alive using their advanced technology. One of them was a climate control station, using the planet’s thermal energy to heat up the atmosphere, seeing how there wasn’t enough radiation to be kept inside with the greenhouse effect. Another of them was to create gigantic arkships to evacuate the planet and hopefully find another home. The one Sara was born on, Dragon of the Seas, would head to the Beta Quadrant when it was intercepted by the Dominion and severely damaged in combat. Because the arkship had not enough firepower compared to the Dominion, they launched all the dragons in shuttles in an attempt to escape.
Escaping Death
Sara was found in one of those shuttles by the USS Hyperion in 2377, adrift near the bajoran wormhole. With life support failing and structural integrity below 20%, a distress signal was activated automatically by the shuttle’s systems. Sara was later taken to Deep Space 9 by USS Hyperion for medical attention. It’s the first contact with this species, requiring the use of the universal translator and experts in xenobiology to help the doctors.
After being taken care by the doctors, she met Lieutenant Commander Thomas Aruana, who was kind enough to be responsible for her well being as well as introducing her to what the starbase could offer, as well as some of the ideals of the United Federation of Planets and Starfleet. In a way, Thomas was like a second father for her. With Sarah demonstrating interest in joining Starfleet, Thomas brought her case for the Commanding Officer of the starbase but for her surprise, she was convinced not to by the commander, with the argument of how Sarah just survived the war and it would not be healthy for her to get right back to it.
Because of that, Sarah stayed for a little longer on Deep Space Nine until another ship would come and take her to Earth, where she could recover from the trauma and go through rehabilitation, as well as to learn English, something she didn't yet learn as the universal translator was what allowed her to communicate so far.
A date with the devil
After a few years on Earth for recovery, rehabilitation and also learning the language and culture of Earth, Sara goes by the name of Sarah Aruana, with the last name of the officer who was so kind to her. She also finally sets off to travel with USS Legacy as passenger. Later on, Legacy was assigned to the neutral zone, and Sarah wasn't allowed to remain as passenger onboard until they come back, so she was asked which place she would want to visit while they were out and would be on their course. One of the programmed stops before going to the neutral zone was near the Schatten Star System. Naturally, after hearing about the place, Sarah got curious about it and asked to drop her off right there.
After proper communication between the captain of the Legacy and the commanding officer of Nimbus Station at the time, Sarah got clearance to visit the station. This is where she met the Admiral Lance Thomas at the Finnegan's Tavern during the Night, with only the two at the tavern. See Sarah & Lance PSL
Overshadowed
After informally told about Vident Obscura, Sarah got interested in the artefact hunting area and later applied for Solas Tempus Academy. She completed the cadet course in the science and research division and was assigned to many outposts throughout her career, the last one being Nimbus Station to actively work as science officer for Vident Obscura but also occasionally at the sickbay as nurse and lab assistant for the station scientists in her free time.
Graduation
Sarah still studies to become a specialist in areas of her interest, though most of it aren't for professional reasons but self development. Areas like linguistics, science archaeology and metaphysics, as well for history and a bit of psychology to better understand what the emotions she sense could mean, as she can't read people's thoughts except through a mindmeld.
Gallery
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Sarah on the forest
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Sarah on the beach
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Sarah's Reference Sheet Default Outfit
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Sarah's Reference Sheet Swimwear Outfit
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Pixelart in the style of MegaMan ZX
