Name: Ke'nar'ek
Rank : Master Chief Petty Officer (Retired)
Position: Shop manager - Deridous IV
Gender: Male
Age: 48
Race: Amerindian (Miramanee)
P.O.B.: Mira - Restricted planet
Appearance: Tribal tattoo (crescent moon around outside of left eye), plasma burn on right arm from elbow to fingers.
Height: 6' 2"
Weight: 195 lbs
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Dark brown
Marital Status: Single
Talents: Musical instruments (drum, flute/pipes), Inventing/improving designs, Innate sense of direction, Low tech survival skills.
Likes: Tinkering, Reading (anything), Gardening, Maps/Charts (collects).
Dislikes: Weapons, People eager to fight.
Quirks: Minor pacifism (defend only - will never kill intentionally - a remanant of his time on Vulcan). He follows many of the Vulcan disciplines of meditation, but not the absence of emotions.

Racial Background: The Amerindian race was first contacted by the USS Enterprise (TOS: "Paradise Syndrome"). The inhibitants opted to remain isolated and as a response the Federation imposed restriction law number 976 Alpha/Gamma which prohibits contact or study except by remote/covert (cloaked) methods. The Amerindian race has been left to their own development.

Personal Background: Ke'nar'ek 's education on Miramanee consisted primarily in tribal ways; rituals, stories, hunting, and planting. When Ke'nar'ek was 8 a Starfleet vessel accidentally crashed near his village, he was near the site and was one of the first to arrive at the site. Seeing a pulsing glowing light he reached for it and received a severe plasma burn on his right arm from his elbow to fingers. He recovered with the assistance of a Starfleet officer who survived the crash, but it left him with many unanswered questions when the survivors departed.
Ke'nar'ek began a search for answers and studied any books and papers he could get. He developed primitive flying machines, and mechanical tools. His tribal leaders tried many times to prevent his attempts to alter traditional ways, but he persisted.

At the age of 16 he located a piece of the Starfleet ship that had crashed 8 years before. He hid it and began to perform tests on the metal, and after working for 2 years he found a substance on the planet that, when refined, resembles the metal from the ship. He began to make tools from the new metal for his people. The tribal leaders again stopped his activity, and now since he was of age, they brought him before the council. He was ordered to follow the traditions of his people and stop going against the old ways, but he refused. The council had no choice but to exile him from the tribe.

He packed up his belongings and left to seek his future. After several months he observed an odd light from the sky strike the surface. Supposing it to be a meteor, he went to investigate and take samples. When he arrived at the site he was surprised to find numerous people in odd clothing busily working. He crept nearer but set off a proximity alarm and the people quickly vanished in a blue light. He called after them pleading for answers to his search for truth, but there was no reply. He began to investigate the site, and found many alien tools and devices which he began to collect and study.

When items began to disappear from his campsite he began to suspect that the people were returning as he slept to retrieve their tools. He set a trap for them and late one night captured one of them. The alien removed his cloak-suit and spoke to Ke'nar'ek, saying they were friendly visitors who had been observing his planet for centuries. The alien answered many of his questions, then after contacting his ship in orbit agreed to allow Ke'nar'ek asylum.

They took him to Vulcan where he began his advanced studies in engineering, and helped him fit in to Federation life. When his studies were complete he joined Starfleet as a non-commissioned officer. After several years of service he retired to Deridous IV to manage a Music Store for an old friend he knew from his years on Vulcan.

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Ke'nar'ek remains an active member of Star Fleet as an undercover Intelligence officer assigned as a Liason with Vulcan Intelligence. His role on Deridous IV is to assist the Vulcan known as Sarat as needed. He will occasionally need to use his Star Fleet contacts to gain information or equipment. As a trained Engineer he is the only one Sarat allows to repair the Romulan Shuttle used for their teams covert missions.