Ambassador Tal

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Thess, as his friends and associates call him, is a graceful and elegant Deltan who seems both demure and carefully respectful of others. He moves with a grace and ease of movement that belies an age that normally requires a bit more care. He is in excellent physical condition and has a few hair-thin scars on his body in odd places. He usually dresses in layered elegant robes or goes in sheer but modest ponchos and formal clothing.

Born on Delta IV, Thess was precocious even for the average Deltan child and showed empathic awareness even pre-natal. While not overly unusual, Thess was conscious and had a sense of personality prior to birth and was aware through the birth process. It took only a few weeks for him to begin speaking, a few months to have the muscular and motor skills to begin walking. To the Deltans it was as if he already knew these things and merely had to be reminded.

Needless to say, Thess entered primary educational crèche at a time when his peers were still in swaddling and struggling to develop basic language skills. Not a genius by any means, he seemed to assimilate information quickly and be able to turn it to practical use, lending the growing belief that he already knew these things.

By the age of fifteen Thess had already complete all of educational requirements and had become a Healer, showing a high degree of empathy and the spiritual strength to use his abilities in that discipline. He was allowed to practice medicine in his provincial House of Healing until the age of nineteen when the 'Am'Tet', or Priesthood of Experiential Ascension, approached him to become an Am.

It was a great honor and fewer than one in a thousand Deltans were chosen for some sort of duty as a Priest, a few of which became great spiritual and social leaders. Thess entered seclusion and began the long road of training that would make him an Am'Lat and earn him the Khaev'Lam, of the Art of Body Control. This Art, while far more than a simple Oath of Celibacy, allowed a Deltan to go amongst the races of the Galaxy and affect them very little. Like the deep Vulcan disciplines of the Adepts, the Khaev'Lam allowed Deltans to control their pheromonal production and to go on missions and travel about without being obviously Deltan.

Well, as inobvious as a fashion-conscious and elegant being can be.

At the age of 32, Thess emerged from the Halls of Seclusion, having recovered from his ordeals and was given a task. He would go to earth and apply to Starfleet to become an Ambassador.

Also, chocolate to a Deltan is similar as to a cat - deadly poison. It is addictive and highly pleasurable to the enhanced senses of a Deltan but it slowly breaksdown the neural linkages and can drive a Deltan mad.

Also as a Deltan, through his natural empathy, he can sense injuries and the nature of them, determining an illness and using the minimum amount of medicine to treat them. As an Am'Lat, Thess has learned to take that a step further and can use his own abilities in place of some medicines.

Also, Deltans have an innate sense of which direction "home" is. This is the source of their problem with Dysphasia because the effect temporarily knocks this sense out, driving them into shock.

His quarters are always decorated in the Deltan style, which are opulent but simply, elegant and yet functional. He seeks to build relationships with others to create a foundatio of community from which to operate.

1. Promoted to `Am`leth and given a field assignment that under Species Sovereignty Protocols is Sealed

2. Returned to Delta IV and after several months announced, took exams for and began Starfleet Academy Medical/Diplomatic School.

3. Starfleet Medical Neurological Research and Treatment Center, Daystrom Institute, Earth, Researcher and Instructor

4. USS Shrike – Chief Diplomatic Officer. Was assigned in experimental class ship under a CO best described as `difficult`. As Human and a bigot, the Captain and Thess clashed a few times until Thess was forced to guide him back; twice. The Captain was unfortunately a daring individual who circumvented regulations regarding his safety at every turn. After those events they seemed to share some of each others quirks which has taken Thess many years to suppress. The Captain, however, lacked the strength of discipline to block Thess's mellowing influence and has become nearly `pleasant`. Shrike was nearly destroyed during an action that is currently sealed by Starfleet under black-strike-strike-omega clearance

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Chapter 2, Post 79
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