Bio -- Evan Yearling

USS Raider - NCC 42558

Evan Yearling

Race: Human

Gender: Male

Age: 32

Height: 5’11’’

Eyes: Grey

Hair: Black

Weight: 160 lbs

Service Record up to, and prior to joining the Raider:
Year	Rank	Position	Posting
2365-2369		Cadet	Starfleet Academy
2369-2370		Cadet	Starfleet Academy (Experimental Studies)
2370-2372		Warp Propulsion	Starfleet R&D
2372-2373		Asst. Systems Engineer	USS Akidna
2373-2374		Warp Propulsion	USS Soverign
2374-2378		Starship Design	Starbase 74
2378-Current		Chief Engineering Officer	USS Raider

Awards received whilst with the USS Raider
Technical Medal (02/11/2001)	Library Excellence Ribbon (10/12/2001)
Distinguished Service Cross	Crew's Choice Award (03/02/2002)
Obsidian Fleet Service Citation	Obsidian Fleet Merit of Time Served

Promotions for Evan Yearling whilst with the Raider
Date	Previous Rank	To (New Rank)	Position
25/03/2002			Chief Engineering Officer

Born: 2347, New Berlin, Luna, Sector 001

Father: Thomas Yearling

Mother: Ellian Hayes-Yearling (incarcerated)

Siblings: Bernard (d. 2373) Michael (25) Michelle (25) Tristen (20)

Bio:

Evan Yearling was born on Earth’s only natural satellite 30 years ago into a rich business family dealing primarily in isolinear chips and their next generation counterparts, bio-neural circuitry. His father, a former Starfleet engineer, had inherited much of the daily running of the business after the rightful heir, his mother, was incarcerated for conducting illegal genetic experiments based on eugenics technology banned in the Federation. When he was little older than 6 she packed her bags and left the Federation with him in tow, and for almost 5 years they toured the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, but upon returning to Earth to retrieve a significant portion of her vast inheritance she was located and apprehended by the authorities.

With the responsibility for the company laying solely on his shoulders, Evan’s father retired from the service and took up the reins. For a time Evan had intentions of joining his family’s company until advances in the bio-neural technology his family had not yet invested in came to his attention. After arguing long and hard on the subject, he rejected his father’s views that they should wait until the new experimental technology was tried and tested and left. Furious, Evan joined Starfleet in the hopes of staying abreast of new advances and proved himself to be an excellent engineer.

When it came his time to graduate, however, he instead opted to remain in the Academy for another year to undergo supplemental training in experimental studies, from where he went on to R&D for two years to work with warp cores and, on occasion, helping to refit older vessels. In 2372 Evan was offered a place as assistant systems analyst aboard the USS Akidna, one he took gladly as the Akidna was a prototype starship that showed much promise on paper but had yet to be tested in practice. For a year the Akidna travelled through space, testing new weapons, warp cores and nacelles.

In 2373 Evan’s eldest brother died in a factory accident on Earth and the young officer returned to Earth. His father asked him to come back into the fold, to resign his commission and carry on the work his brother had been doing, but Evan refused. Seeing that his family had finally elected to invest in the new technology, he moved away from his research career for a time and joined the crew of the USS Sovereign as a warp core specialist. Staying for a year he transferred to Starbase 74 in order to employ his experimenting skills on new classes of vessels under construction there.

Personality:

Evan Yearling does his best at whatever he puts his mind to, and is always astonished when others remark how well he has done in a field outside his chosen profession. He sometimes chooses to remain apart from others, for reasons of personal comfort more than anything else, but will involve himself with group activities if invited. He has a sharp mind, and is at his happiest when he is working on revising his warp field designs or experimental subspace field theories.

Irregularities:

Strangely, Evan’s time with his mother while she was on the run for conducting her illegal eugenics experiments is little more than a vague memory in his mind. What he does remember amounts to little more than scattered fragments about laboratories, ships and a few flashes of his mother at a console. His father refuses to say anything further on the topic and Evan has never wished to visit his mother in prison. Another oddity about Evan is that, as with engineering, he is good with virtually everything. Besides being an extremely skilled technician, at the Academy he exceeded in medicine, tactical evaluations and physical training, and shows a greater aptitude for a number of other subjects than would normally be expected for an officer in his chosen field.