Ro Laren

Bajoran Starfleet Lieutenant Ro Laren was born in 2340 on Cardassian occupied Bajor. She served aboard the USS Wellington, the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), and starbase Deep Space 9.

Early Life
Ro was was raised in Bajoran re-settlement camps under the watchful eyes of the Cardassian overseers. When she was seven, a Cardassian lured her into a tent with a piece of candy, and she was forced to watch as the Cardassians tortured her father for hours until he died.

She eventually escaped her oppressors and re-located to the free worlds of the United Federation of Planets, where she enrolled in Starfleet Academy. Upon her graduation, she was considered to have a promising career in Starfleet.

Starfleet and the Maquis
Ro's Starfleet career turned out differently than expected. Her time as an ensign aboard the USS Wellington was riddled with disciplinary measures, and after dis-obeying orders on the planet Garon II, eight members of an away team were killed.

Ro was subsquently courtmartialed and imprisoned at the penal facility at Jaros II. One of the officers presiding over her courtmartial was Admiral Leonard James Akaar.

In 2368, she was offered a deal by Admiral Kenelly; her freedom in exchange for her assisting the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) in finding the Bajoran terrorist Orta, who was believed to responsible for attacking Federation targets.

When Ro discovered that the attackers of the Federation facilities were actually Cardassians, she turned to Enterprise captain Jean-Luc Picard to uncover the truth.

After the encounter with Orta and the Cardassians, Ro served aboard the Enterprise for over a year, before returning to the Academy for Advanced Tactical Training.

Upon her return to the Enterprise in late 2370, Ro- now a full Lieutenant- was assigned to infiltrate the Maquis, a group of Federation citizens and former Starfleet officers who were fighting off the Cardassians in the De-militarized Zone in defiance of a recent Federation treaty with the Cardassian Union. Ro found that she both symapatized and fit in better with the Maquis more than she ever did in Starfleet, so she once again defied orders, betrayed Starfleet and joined the Maquis. (''Star Trek: The Next Generation) episodes: Ensign Ro, Pre-emptive Strike)

In the year 2373, just before the destruction of the Maquis by new Cardassian allies, the Dominion, Ro found herself injured and alone on the planet Sindorin. She was nursed back to health by a tribe Ingavi that had colonized the world escaping the Cardassian occupation of their own world. (DS9 novel, Section 31: Abyss)

After the destruction of the Maquis, Ro and a few other Maquis survivors fought their own, independent, war effort against the Dominion and their allies. After the war ended, Ro returned to Bajor, where she was given the rank of Lieutenant in the Bajoran militia. Starfleet had originally wanted to have her arrested, but did not after the behind the senes urging of Jean-Luc Picard. (''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novels: Avatar books one and two)

Deep Space 9
Her superiors in the Bajoran militia assigned her the job of Chief of Security aboard the space station Deep Space 9, under the command of Colonel [[Kira Nerys.

Shortly after her arrival at the station, Ro discovered a book of prophcies written the heretic Ohalu some 20,000 years previously thta had been removed from the ruins of the city of B'Hala by murder victim Prylar Istani Reyla.

Reyla was killed because the Vedek Assembly, led by Vedek Yevir Linjarin, wanted the book suppressed. Ro, stating the book was evidence in Istani's murder investigation, refused to turn it over. Kira interceded by giving the book back to Vedek Assembly, but uploaded the contents of the book to the bajoran comnet, making them public. For thisn act of defiance, Kira was attained from the Bajoran faith. ([[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novels: Avatar books one and two)[[Image:Avatar2.jpg|thumb|Avatar'' book two]]

Ro returned to Sindorin a few week later, when it was dicovered that a rogue agent of the independent intelligence agency Section 31named Ethna Locke had re-furbished a Dominion Jem'Hadar factory, and was creating his own army. Ro travelled with Dr. Julian Bashir, Ezri Dax and the Jem'Hadar observer Taran'atar to Sindorin where they Defeated Lockes plans and rescued the Ingavi tribe from Lockes Jem'Hadar troops.


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