Elias Vaughn

Elias Vaugn is a longtime Starfleet Officer with a history of work in special operations. He joined Starfleet with the intention of becoming an explorer, but found that his talents lef him elsewhere(TLE novel: Serpents Among the Ruins).

After a decade of deskbound analysis with starfleet special operations, Vaughn, holding the rank of lieutenant was sent on his first major field assignment. He was to accompany Captain John Harriman and Commander Drysi Gravenor, a woman he thought of as a mentor, on a mission to capture the Romulan flagship Tomed. This was remarkably more interesting than his previous two assignments which were shadowing a benzite engineer eventually found innocent of trading stolen technology and the infiltration of a tellarite mining facility (TLE novel: Serpents Among the Ruins). .

Vaughn's responsibility during the Tomed mission was to steal a shuttle for the three operatives to escape in. Vaughn was nearly killed when the shuttlebay was decompressed, and later had to fight Renka Linavil to the death inside the shuttle. He was later somewhat distraught that he was forced to kill her (TLE novel: Serpents Among the Ruins).