Drauc T'Laus (MIA)

Personnel File
Name:	Drauc T’Laus
Rank:	None
Position:	Former Position in Starfleet: Security Officer, Former Rank in Starfleet: Lt. JG
Species:	Romulan
Age:	33
Gender:	Male
Orientation:	Asexual
Birthplace:	Romulus
Height:	6’2”
Weight:	201 lbs
Hair:	Burgundy
Eye color:	Brown
Played by:	Mads Mikkelsen
Interests
Redemption Quietude Renewed Purpose Battle Empathy
Education
2353- 2366 Mind War Division, the Tal Shiar
Service Record
2368-2372 Starfleet Academy 2373-2374 Ensign, Security, USS Vanguard 2375 Lieutenant JG, Security, USS Vanguard
Decorations
N/A

Drauc T’Laus was a mercenary imprisoned at Starbase 84. Drauc aided in the opposition against the parasites that compromised Starfleet Command in the end of the 24^th century.

Biography

Romulan children born with physical deformities or attributes that impeded their ability to serve the Romulan Star Empire were not allowed to live. The development of the child was monitored closely until the age of five. If the child was fit then they entered a rigorous training program of schooling, cultural indoctrination and physical training for fifteen years.

Yet since Drauc and Kraun had just turned five years of age, their father had seen it convenient to dispose of them, unable to raise them himself. Their lives would have ended that day, unless a tall Romulan had pulled them out of the termination program, offering them osol twists and asking them if they wanted to play. The man was a collector of the Tal Shiar, hand-picking subjects for the Mind War Division.

Romulans were not typically telepathic, this being a very rare trait, but the two brothers were taken into the Tal Shiar's secret training program that sought to hone them instruments of mind warfare. The first thing that happened was that Drauc and Kraun underwent extensive brain surgery, opening their cranial ridges and being experimented upon - the idea being to awaken dormant psionic abilities. Since Romulans had a shared ancestry with Vulcans, the Tal Shiar believed they could restore these abilities artificially. The collector had picked the two brothers because he knew that they would depend on each other, and have a higher chance of survival when their conditioning began. Their father didn't know that they were still alive, and Drauc recalled his mother only by a fading face and a false name. A name through which they had been able to contact her before she vanished; T'Mei. Later in life, Drauc sometimes wondered where their mother had gone, and if she had known what befell him and his brother since she had been an operative of the Tal Shiar at that time.

Under the guidance of their chief training facilitator, the brothers quickly learned the mantra that “emotions will cloud your judgement and pain will keep it sharp”. What little emotion they had were for each other, and that they kept carefully hidden from their teachers. To say the two brothers were content would be a stretch, yet they were indoctrinated to the abuse. When their minds were not honed, they underwent physical conditioning as well, meant to some day become field operatives. On a regular basis, new surgeries were preformed upon them, making them suffer different side effects each time. Still, they would have complacently carried on with their training with nary a word of disobedience had Kraun not developed a rare blood disease. Worse, it was one that was potentially easy to spread in a training program where blood was commonly spilled. Kraun would have been killed, but luckily for the two, they managed to escape the program by using their psionic abilities and stealing a shuttle. While they had been taught of the world outside the training facility, it was the first time they stepped outside it. By that time, in the year 2366, they were eighteen years old, and had been subjects of the Tal Shiar for thirteen years.

Knowing they would not be safe in Romulan space, they made their way to the Federation border. There they encountered the USS Apollo, to which they surrendered to before their pursuers could stop them. Aboard, the ship's doctor was able to use a new form of treatment that gave Kraun a new chance to live. He was not fully cured, but he was able to take medicine that would sustain him for many years. Due to their personal code, the two brothers vowed to repay the help they were given. They decided the best way to do that would be to enter Starfleet, and help protect the people who saved them.

Though their Romulan heritage made them objects of suspicion for some time, they were eventually allowed to enroll in Starfleet Academy in the year 2368. As Romulans it was difficult for them to earn the trust of others, but by working diligently, and proving themselves to be absolutely loyal, they were eventually accorded the respect they deserved. One year after they graduated from the Academy, after having served on the USS Vanguard, the Dominion war began in 2373.

For three years the brothers fought in defence of the Federation. It was three years of hellish war, composed of seemingly never ending strings of battle. Even though the brothers thrived under such conditions, it quickly began to wear on their brittle mental state. Then, Kraun fell in battle.

They had been fighting back to back when a Jem’Hadar kar'takin pierced Drauc's left side and went into his brother, severing his spine. So chaotic was the fight that Drauc did not notice for a few moments that his brother had fallen, and by the time he reached him, his brother was dead. The next few hours were a blur of red that Drauc never could remember. At some point, he had cauterised his wound with his phaser. He must have been screaming with such madness and loss that he permanently damaged his throat, leaving him a harsh whisper of a voice.

He woke up in sickbay on one of the starships, disoriented and confused, asking for his brother. When the memory of his death came, his mind shut down and he was left catatonic for a full month. His mental trauma was to the point that he could not even use his telepathic abilities, as whenever he reached out, when he did not feel his brothers mind, he would shut down completely. He ended up back on earth, treated at Starfleet Medical, but showed no improvement.

It was not until the plight of Nurse Vojona stirred him, suffering the attention of a Klingon in the same ward as his own, that Drauc mentally returned to the living. He took out his grief upon the Klingon, killing him by striking his head until it broke. In compassion and gratitude, Jovela helped Drauc escape justice for his crime. She helped him with clothing, and he stole a transport from the facility's shuttle bay. After that, Drauc vanished from all records. Much of the following time remained a mystery. Rumours had it that Drauc acted as a mercenary for years, as well as a raider for six months near the Atavan Straight. In all, he was gone for five years.

Then, in 2381, a raiding party exited the Romulan Neutral Zone. It was made up of former members of the Orion Syndicate and Romulans who had deserted Romulus because of the Romulan Civil War. Drauc was in that raiding party, and he was captured by Federation authorities after a raid against an abandoned mining facility. He was sent to Starbase 84 to await transport and his pending trial. By the time the USS Resolve came to Starbase 84, he was the last member of the raiding party that had yet to be shipped away from the starbase.

Personality Profile

Drauc was even tempered to a fault. The mental trauma he endured at the loss of his brother created a defense mechanism that keeps him from experiencing strong emotion. This used to make him an exceptional soldier, but a very difficult person to get along with. Should something actually manage to pierce this defensive shell around his mind, he reacted violently, removing the ‘threat’ at all costs, using any means at hand. While Drauc's heart was a cold and scarred thing, he was no longer without empathy as of 2381, when he came aboard the USS Theurgy. For how could he stay the way he had been made by the Tal Shiar, when he had learned to feel through others? He might also have become more sympathetic to the plights of others because his father handed over him and his brother to the Tal Shiar, becoming test subjects for the Mind War Division.

He viewed sex with a some detachment. Sex was merely a means to an end; procreation. While on one level he could understand the appeal, his lack of passion precluded him from truly enjoying the act. His loyalty was still strong, but had shifted. Organizations couldn't earn his loyalty, only people, and very few at that. But those who he felt had earned it would find him a staunch ally, willing to help in any way possible.

Physical Profile

As typical for a Romulan his ears are sharply pointed, though he failed to develop the distinctive brow ridges. Whether this is because of his genetic makeup, or some form of manipulation as a child is not clear. There are a number of minute scars all over his body that resulted from the surgeries that worked to enhance his telepathy. As such, he was, when he was able to use the power, able to read the thoughts of anything sentient within about 15 feet of him with ease.

After he fought in there Dominion War he was tattooed with the names of people he fought alongside who died in the conflict. These tattoos are located on his back and not visible when he is in uniform. In addition rather than simply painting on the Romulan grief markings he chose to have them tattooed to ensure that he would never forget what he had lost.

He has a wound from his bellybutton to his side. Though the wound could have been healed he has chosen to keep and regard the scar with pride and respect for his fallen brother. Because of this he walks with a slight limp. On cold nights he still feels the pain of that blade.