Editing Ayehla Zyahn

! style="background:goldenrod" align="center" |<font color=maroon>'''Ayehla Zyahn'''<br><font color=maroon>Acting Tactical/Security Chief, USS Mithrandir</font><br>[[File:zyehlazyhan.jpg|center|300px|Ensign Palmer]]<br></font>[[File:Uss mithrandir b.jpg|center|300px|USS Mithrandir]]<br>

! style="background:black" align="center" |<font color=goldenrod><small> {{quote|Ensigns, feel free to sit....I prefer to be standing|Ayehla attending to her duties}}</small></font>

Ayehla Nodel (now Ayehla Zyahn) is born on Trill in 2386. Her mother, Leihla, is directing a well-known clothes company while her father, Tolas Nodel, is a politician. Ayehla is the fourth of five children and only women. Her brothers are : Toran (34), Jynas (29), Raifel (29), and Airon (22). When she was young, Ayehla loved to follow her older brothers. If they were hard on her, she quickly learned to deal with men which shaped her identity. Ayehla is a “tomboy”.  

She fight her way through and doesn’t mind being in a situation where she need to play it though. During her youth, everything her brothers did, she was doing it, even if it was considered a man job. She also inherited her father leadership and at school, she was a dominating figure, not afraid to speak her mind. It even often gave her some problems with her teachers. Nevertheless, part because of the importance and personality of her mother in her life, Ayehla always try to keep a feminine touch. She always preferred long hair, and everytime she has the chance, she were very sexy and feminine clothing. It was therefore not a big surprise to her family when she enrolled as a marine.  

She was joined in 2411 which affected a lot her personality. If before, she was afraid of nothing, the joining make her feel more worry about her health and life, and more conscious about the risk (including the risk to the symbiot). The change affected her enough to ask a change in her career. She quitted as a marine and become a security officer. Because she didn’t had all the skill necessary, she spent one year and a half at Starfleet Academy to insure the transition, but was quickly promoted to Lieutenant after only one year of active service as a security officer, in recognition of her experiences as a marine.  

Ayehla has still very great relations with the other marines of her platoon and they are close enough that they consider each other as a family. Her previous hosts were : Voran (Ambassador), Eldwyn (writer), Orihan (freighter pilot), Alaniel (psychologist), and Shahydra (cook)

Ayehla was a very intelligent student who had great marks. In fact, she already knew she wanted to become a marine when was 15, and considering the kind of intelligence and skill necessary to reach her objective, she trained consequently. Not only was she already working out every day at only 15, but she was studying a lot. It paid weel as she was accepted at 17 in the Starfleet Marine Corps Academy. At the Academy her skills, marks and high marks allowed her to be form in intelligence.  

She quickly learned gathering information, interrogation, cover operation, etc. However, the job available in intelligence were not as much in need and Ayehla finished her formation in reconnaisance and was assigned in the reconnaissance platoon in the Geneva Marine Company. She masters several hand-to-hand, melee weapons as well as several kind of phaser, pistols and explosives. She is also well trained in intelligence and interrogation.

At 23, however, after three years as a marine (she was then 2nd Lieutenant), she was accepted by the Symbiotic Commission and was joined to the symbiot “Darkahn”. The joining affected her considerably as she integrated new personality. Her new experiences and identity motivated a change from marine to commissioned officer. She joined Starfleet academy to have a basic in security and tactical. After eighteen months, she specialized in both security and tactical and was assigned back to a ship.

Ayehla joined Starfleet marine academy and became a marine specialized in reconnaissance. After the academy, she was assigned to the Geneva first company in the Gamma platoon, reconnaissance squad. She served there for three and a half years. Once joined, she asked for a change of career. She was accepted as a security officer conditional for her to join Starfleet academy and have a Starfleet officer training, what she did for 1 year and a half.  

At the academy, she specialized in tactics and security. At 26 (in 2313), she was assigned on the USS Tulsa as a security officer with the rank of ensign senior grade. She served almost two years there. She has now (late 2414) been newly assigned to the USS Mithrandir as the chief security and tactical officer, and was subsequently promoted to lieutenant junior grade.

Being a marine, she had several scars from her missions. Hopefully, she was never badly hurt during a mission and she is therefore still on one piece.

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