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Shalahn

Authored by Julia Hager
Biographic Information
  • Species: Heleen
  • Weight: 121 lbs
  • Height: 5'7"
  • Age: 180

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Character Biography

The Heleen are a custom-made species I created: Short intro to the Heleen: http://www.juliak.de/stf/the_heleen.html
Shalahn is fully Heleen. She looks a lot like her younger half-Sister Laraan, only Shalahn’s tattoo-like designs (frillings) on her fair skin are azure blue, as are her eyes, and she is taller than Laraan.
Picture of Shalahn’s half-sister Laraan with her red frillings: http://www.juliak.de/stf/images/Laraan.jpg
Age: 260 (equiv. to Human age 36, looks like 26)
Built: Tall and well proportioned
Eyes: Very light blue with a black outer ring around the light blue, big eyes with an upward outer tilt
Hair: No body hair at all.

Distinguishing features:
Her scalp has the same azure blue, intricate tattoo-like designs (frillings) as her neck and complete torso. Only her face is free of them, the rest of her body is covered in them. The frillings look very beautiful, filigree and intricate, and make her appear clothed even when she is naked.

How she came to serve in Starfleet:
- Shalahn learned about Starfleet and the service in Starfleet from her half-sister Laraan, the CNS of the USS Athena, she was curious and when the Heleen needed a representative for a joint mission with Starfleet and the Athena, Shalahn applied for it. During this joint mission her half sister introduced her to the world of Starfleet and to humans
- Shalahn wanted to keep learning, so she applied for a short exchange program, the first one of its kind between the newly wrought alliance partners (Heel joined the Federation recently in 2392 after the Federation helped Heel with a conflict within their solar system) She spent some time on the USS Olympic as part of this learning program.
- Shalahn knew that she would only get a constant posting on a Starfleet ship if she was able to fulfill a job there. Since she was already a physician on Heel, she added a training course in Starfleet Academy to become a Starfleet-approved nurse and then applied for a posting on a ship in the Black Fleet.

Family:
Mother: Shaleah
She was joined to a Heleen Live ship when Shalahn was 105 years (Human age equivalent 20 years) old and no longer able to be a mother to Shalahn
Father: Vondahl, Master Vet, Grandmaster Psychologist, Adept Gardener. Channels energy into organic cellular growth
Half-Sister: Laraan, half Heleen, half Human. She is her half sister and the CNS on the USS Athena and also the reason Shalahn took an interest in Starfleet. She channels energy into life energy. She has reached no Adept status, because she mostly grew up on Earth.
Picture of Laraan: http://www.juliak.de/stf/images/Laraan.jpg
Laraan’s profile on the Athena: http://www.star-fleet.com/webb/node/615976
Grandmother: Shalohn (Heleen), she channels into healing energy. Adept Gardener, Master Designer, Grandmaster Healer
Grandfather: Bodahn (Heleen), he channels energy into creating a globe of light that also emits heat. Master Administrator, Master Brewer, Grandmaster Geologist

Languages:
Heleen and a few phrases in Federation standard that her sister taught her. The Heleen language sounds like extremely beautiful, ethereal and multi-layered singing to Humans, which is also due to the fact that Heleen don’t have teeth and more vocal chords than humans. Shalahn tries to learn Federation Standard, but without teeth this is difficult. She relies therefore mostly on the universal translator and her personal focus for channeling energy, which is creating a telepathic link.

Special Ability:
Shalahn has decided (like many Heleen) to channel energy into creating a telepathic link.
She is still young in Heleen standards so her telepathic link can go only to one person at a time (distance however is irrelevant as long as there had been a link to this person previously). Older Heleen, who have developed this ability over a longer span of time, can create a link with a group of people at the same time.

Special education:
Shalahn has reached the Adept status on Heel in: Adept Childcarer, Adept Administrator, Adept Physician
Adept status means a Heleen has been training in this profession for between 80 and 120 years. Due to their long life span, Heleen execute three jobs over their life time, not only one.

Medical file:
Shalahn has always been healthy, she only has one ongoing health issue that keeps bugging her from time to time.
She sometimes has aches in her bones, because she has the lighter bone structure of a Heleen.
She has the life span and aging pattern of the Heleen (max. life-span between 500 and 600 years), the physiology of the Heleen (so also no tear ducts and no teeth).

Biological details of the Heleen species:
Heleen have a life-span of about 500-600 years. They age with 20% of the velocity of humans.
Due to their short night, they require only 3 to 5 hours of sleep. Heleen have lighter bones, because of the lower gravity on their homeworld. Heleen have two hearts and a very slow heartbeat. One heart feeds the external organs (skin, eyes…), one heart feeds the internal organs. If one heart fails, the other can take over for a short amount of time (about three hours) until it fails too.
They have no teeth. Their nutrition consists merely of fluids. They communicate in a melodic language with many vocals in it. Heleen don’t shed tears when they ‘cry’. Instead, their tatoos start fading and reappearing in patches all over their body. A very weak or dying Heleen can be identified by his/her very dimly visible skin designs.

More about the Heleen Special Ability:
Channelling. Their talent is to ‘feel’ the energy that is the invisible glue of the universe, the energy that manifests in a planet, a starship, a cloud in the sky or anything else material. This energy is not a Heleen-specific thing, it is everywhere. And everything consists of it. They can learn to ‘collect’ that energy from all around them and channel it into a certain kind of energy. Every Heleen can choose in which energy he/she wants to learn to channel to. Some channel in healing energy, some channel into creating a flower, some channel into a sphere of light. But each Heleen can only channel into one kind of energy. They need to concentrate to do it and can uphold the channeling only for a short amount of time. However, they don’t feel depleted afterwards, as it is not their energy they are giving from. Although channeling energy is a latent talent in every Heleen, it has to be trained to perfection over 20 years time and as the Heleen grows older he can enhance this power, but not change the focus of his channeling.

Psychological File:
Shalahn’s driving force in her life has always been her curiosity, paired with an almost unhealthy amount of courage. While her younger half-sister Laraan is much more cautious, due to her up-bringing on Earth as a half-Heleen, Shalahn grew up on Heel and always had a loving home that supported her. When her mother left the two sisters to join with a life ship, Shalahn still had her father and her Grandparents, and since she had always had a closer bond to her Grandmother, the loss didn’t hit her half as bad as Laraan.
It brought the two sisters closer together though, and Shalahn would do everything for her little weird sister.
She has already had one bonding with a male Heleen, but after only 11 seasons, she decided to not continue this bonding at the yearly renewal festival.

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