RAASS GIRAATH

Physical Description
Name: Raass Giraath (which is a human mispronunciation of Rraass’giraath).
Position: Security.
Species: Gorn.
Gender: Male.
Age: 29 Terran Years .
Height: 7' 10.
Weight:   450 lbs.
Build/Body Type: Big Body, Raass is big-boned and very muscular, even for a Gorn.
Complexion: Green skin with dark brown stripes on back.
Hair Color:   None.
Hair Style: None.
Facial Hair: None..
Eye Color: Slate Gray.
Voice: Raass speaks with a low, dry hiss, especially when pronouncing s and sh sounds.  Raass also tends to roll his r 's.
Off-Duty Clothing Taste: When not on duty, Raass wears traditional Gorn attire, consisting of a thigh-length leather tunic, with a belt and fingerless gauntlets. Raass never wears shoes of any kind, and always wears bone-handled hunting knife at his side.
Distinguishing Features: Dark brown stripes running horizontally across back, starting at the shoulders. Each stripe is 3-4 inches wide and narrows to a point at each side. The horizontal stripes are connect by a three inch vertical stripe that runs down Raass’ back, starting from the bottom of the uppermost stripe and ending at the tip of Raass’ tail.

Personal History
Date of Birth: 17808.18
Marital Status: Single.
Siblings Name & Ages: Tor’giraath (older brother; deceased; died as the First Officer aboard a Gorn cruiser during a battle with the Romulans); Rraak’giraath (younger brother; deceased; killed during a Romulan raid)
Mother's Name: Sslrraassa’giraath
Father's Name: Torrek’giraath
Parent's Status: Both deceased; killed during a Romulan raid.
Pets: None.
Best Friend: Jarrak’ssalaassaarr (deceased; killed during a Romulan raid). Update (Stardate 20703.27): Rachael Granger and Rurik Feng.
Personal History:

Raass grew up on a fringe colony, near the Gorn-Romulan border. Gorn enjoyed a normal Gorn childhood, learning to hunt at an early age. While growing up, Raass was teased by his peers for being weak. Raass overcame this taunting by his peers by becoming the strongest Gorn in the settlement. Raass spent many hours a day building his stamina and endurance. He quickly became the strongest, most enduring Gorn in the entire colony. Raass hunted big game creatures with his father and brothers quite frequently. He earned the title of Hunter-Killer at the age of 12, the youngest Gorn to do so in the history of the colony. His life was otherwise uneventful and normal by Gorn standards.

That all changed when Raass was 15. A Romulan Warbird uncloaked in orbit above Raass’ homeworld, a fringe colony near the Gorn-Romulan border. The Warbird bombarded the colony, and then beamed assault teams to the surface. The Romulan assault teams proceeded to kill all the surviving colonists, save Raass. Raass managed to escape by burrowing into the debris of one of the settlement buildings. As members of one of the assault teams passed by, Raass broke from his hiding place and killed two of the Romulans. He then fled into the surrounding forests and waited until the Romulans had left the ruined settlement. Raass searched the wreckage for survivors, but found none. He built pyres for his family and friends, and burned their remains. He then piled the bodies of the other settlers and burned their remains as well. The bodies of the dead Romulans he left to rot. Raass then made his way to the planet’s spaceport. He arrived several weeks later.

After living on the streets of the colony’s capital for a few weeks, Raass met the Ship’s Mate of an Orion Pirate vessel. Raass, still suffering from the loss of everything he held dear and stirring with anger at the Romulans, joined the group of pirates. He served as a deckhand aboard the pirate vessel Icara’s Revenge for five years. Shortly after beginning his fifth year aboard the Icara’s Revenge, the ship raided a freighter, bound for Federation space, near Clanhaven. During the raid on the freighter, the Ship’s Mate ordered the boarding party to kill everyone on board. Raass followed the orders of the Ship’s Mate, and pursued on of the freighter’s crewmen into the ship’s shuttlebay. Raass caught up with the crewman and attacked him. The crewman tried to fight back, but Raass was the superior combatant. Raass grappled with the crewman, and slammed him into the bulkhead. Raass then stabbed the crewman several times between the ribs with his hunting knife. As Raass his knife free of the dying crewman’s body, he saw what he had done: he had killed a fellow Gorn. At that moment Raass realized that he was no better than the Romulans who had butchered his family and friends. Raass then loaded the dead Gorn’s body into one of the nearby shuttles, crammed himself into the pilot’s seat, and piloted the shuttle away from the crippled freighter. He set a course for Clanhaven. Upon reaching Clanhaven one of the shuttle’s engines failed, sending the shuttle into a corkscrew dive. Raass managed to regain control of the shuttle, but was unable to make a soft landing. The shuttle crashed-landed some distance from the nearest settlement. Raass survived, and used materials form the wrecked shuttle to build a pyre for the dead Gorn. While the last remnants of the funeral pyre smoldered, Raass began walking to the nearby Federation settlement, vowing to redeem himself in his own eyes, and the eyes of his dead ancestors. When he reached the settlement, he found a manual labor job, and became citizen of the Federation. Several months later he applied to Starfleet Academy, and was accepted. A year later he boarded a civilian transport headed for San Francisco, Earth.

Update (Stardate 20703.27): Raass, now a Lieutenant Commander in Starfleet, has faced and defeated his former pirate Captain.  With this specter from his past slain, Raass is now free to turn his life focus to more than mere redemption.

Personality
Academy Majors: Security, Tactical, Tactics.
Academy Minors: Operations, Navigation (Helm), Warp Theory, Ships Weapons.
Hobbies & Past-Times: Reading fantasy/mythological novels and historical novels/documents, training in hand-to-hand combat and in various martial art forms, hunting dangerous predators in the holodeck.
Short-Term Goals: Raass wishes to redeem himself in his own eyes and in the eyes of his ancestors. Raass is also focusing on completing his Starfleet training. Update (Stardate 20703.27): Raass has redeemed himself.  He is now focused on developing the new friendships that life on the Copernicus has forged. 
Long-Term Goals: (1) to become chief of security aboard his ship (UPDATE: This goal has been achieved), (2) to become a First Officer, (3) to become a Commanding Officer, (4) reach rank of Admiral before retirement, (5) to avenge the deaths of his loved ones.
Personality: Rugged, individualist; Raass prefers to do things on his own. Adventurous; bold; daring.
Sense of Humor: Raass has a broad sense of humor, though he usually does not show it.
Phobias: Being inside shuttles. He finds them to be cramped, and views them as danger and a nuisance.
Likes: The thrill of the hunt; combat; drinking, especially enjoys Saurian brandy and Klingon blood wine; decisive leaders enjoys drinking contests with fellow crewmembers.
Dislikes: Romulan ale; Romulan anything.
Bad Habits/Vices: Drinking with fellow crewmembers.
Pet Peeves/Gripes: Indecisive/incompetent leaders; liars; cheaters; diplomats.
Achievements: Becoming the youngest Hunter-Killer in his colony's history.  Being accepted at Starfleet Academy.  Graduating from Starfleet Academy.  His rapid rise to the rank of LCdr and appointment as COS of the Copernicus.
Disappointments: Disappointments:  Realizing that he was no better than the Romulans who murdered his family.  The death of LCdr Chirs Wylie, and the events surrounding Cdr Avark's desertion from Starfleet.
Illnesses: No serious illnesses.
Strengths: His features are virtually unreadable by non-reptilian species, has a good grasp of tactics and strategy, has high endurance and stamina, has a high pain tolerance, and is physically very strong.
Weaknesses:

He has a quick, harsh temper, and would rather kill his enemies than incapacitate them.
Fears:

None.

Prejudices: Raass holds that all Romulans deserve to die. According to him, the very existence of the Romulan race is an affront to the universe, and as such the Romulans must be totally eradicated. Raass also hates Orion Pirates, but to a much lesser degree than he does Romulans. His experience aboard the Icara’s Revenge instilled this prejudice in him.
Referrer: Yahoo.

Questions
Most Painful Experience: When Raass was 15, a Romulan Warbird uncloaked in orbit above Raass’ homeworld, and attacked Raass’ home village. The Romulans killed everyone in the village except Raass, including his family and friends. After the attack, Raass searched the wreckage for survivors, but found none. He built pyres for his family and friends, and burned their remains. He then piled the bodies of the other settlers and burned their remains as well. Raass has never told a living soul about what happened.
Best Time: The best time Raass has ever had was when he and his brothers went hunting in the vast forests surrounding their home. They had tracked a particularly large, carnivorous reptile (referred to by the colonists as “blood beasts”) deep into the forest. After weeks of hunting the beast, Raass and his brothers finally cornered the creature in a densely forested box canyon. The blood beast, with nowhere to run, attacked Raass and his brothers, slightly injuring Tor’giraath, Raass’ older brother. Raass and his brothers fought the beast for several hours, wounding it many times before the beast broke through a patch of dense forest, and tried making its escape. As the beast broke through the trees, it bowled over both of Raass’ brothers, leaving Raass directly in its path. The beast stopped for a moment before charging Raass. Raass held his ground as the beast charged, and killed it with his bone-handled hunting knife. Raass and his brothers then skinned the beast. Raass now wears part of the creature’s hide as his favorite tunic.
Most Crucial Experience: There are two most crucial experiences in Raass’ life. The first was the death of his family and friends at the hands of the Romulans. This event cultivated the prejudices Raass has against Romulans. The second was the day he killed a fellow Gorn. This experience has a rude awakening for Raass. He realized that he had become just like the Romulans that had murdered his family.
Role Model: Tor’giraath, Raass’ older brother. Tor’giraath served as the First Officer aboard a Gorn cruiser. He exemplified the Gorn Navy’s dedication to protecting Gorn space from hostile races, the Romulans in particular.

Career History
Stardate 20504.09 - Graduated Star Fleet Academy.
Stardate 20504.09 - Promoted to Midshipman, Assigned to USS Copernicus GSC-9035.
Stardate 20505.01 - Promoted to Ensign, USS Copernicus.
Stardate 20507.01 - Promoted to Lieutenant (Junior Grade), USS Copernicus.
Stardate 20508.01 - Awarded RPG'er of the Month, USS Copernicus.
Stardate 20510.01 - Promoted to Lieutenant, USS Copernicus.
Stardate 20512.01 - Awarded GS, USS Copernicus.
Stardate 20603.26 - Assigned as COS, USS Copernicus.
Stardate 20608.01 - Promoted to Lieutenant Commander, Awarded RPG'er of the Month, USS Copernicus.
Stardate 20712.01 - Awarded RPG'er of the Month, USS Copernicus.

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