Vervi grew up on Thonolan IV, daughter of Isyhr Th’etiarriq, Bevoth Ch’thyrhahr, Throllaa Zh’evaorhan, and Zati Sh’ravaq. Father Isyhr sculpts methylated ices and embeds aluminum ingots into statues that sublimate over days or week; he is famed throughout Andorian worlds. Vervi learned patience and an appreciation of detail from her famous father, which she carried into her holo programming and holo sculpting.
As a child, she bent her will to beating the nanny programs that kept her from the answers she sought, and downloading weeks of texts from the library. A childhood illness kept her confined indoors more than her peers; her warlike peers’ ushaan-tor skills led to humiliating defeats, driving her indoors and toward cunning ambushes where she could dictate the confrontation.
Vervi was accepted to Starfleet Academy, and thrived as she dove deep into science and began learning the engineering required to improve sensors and test hypotheses. Vervi was eager to get out to space, but her career was detoured by Admiral Oshrerir Ch’vaohrarh, who took an interest in the science savvy graduate and recruited her to serve as his aide. The admiral served as liaison to Starfleet Research; the young Vervi was thrust into world of advanced starship research, translating the researchers’ progress to the Admiral – and relaying his course corrections for the direction of research, to prevent the researchers from pursuing dead ends, or systems too sophisticated to implement in non-specialist crewed starships.
After two years, Admiral Osherir acceded to Vervi’s request to transfer out to serve on starships; she was thrilled to transfer to the USS Clement, NCC-12537, an Apollo class light cruiser. Her precision and intuitive problem solving led the Clement to some creative discoveries, and her neutron star sampling technique proved significantly safer than previous approaches, promising a revolution in ultra dense matter production.
The Dominion War was a terrible challenge to her ideals; the Clement was ordered to stand in harm’s way to protect Betazed from the surprise Dominion thrust out of the Kalandra Sector. During the fight, the Clement took extensive battle damage, and suffered substantial casualties, including injuries to several friends and colleagues, and the death of Doctor Phrelix, head of the science division, who was something of a respected rival and bastion of the old ways.
Admiral Osherir visited Vervi while she recovered from broken ribs resulting from the Breen broadside that followed the energy dissipator barrage. Under cover of a “complicated recovery,” Osherir persuaded her to develop a worm infested holo program tailored for Cardassian tastes. The Trojan holoprogram was swiped by Starfleet Intelligence and further weaponized with dangerous biofeedback, before being released by assets into Cardassian military networks. The worm failed to gather much information, but ensured that the weaponized holo programs spread throughout their training simulators and resisted corrective memory and data purges. A dozen Cardassian officers suffered near fatal feedback, resulting in the elimination of holo training in Chin’toka System and several safeguard cycles throughout the Cardassian Union before resuming holo assisted training.
Vervi still sweats at night, awakening with stilled screams as her nightmares deliver vivid confrontations with Gul Trepar and the other officers facing a lifetime of paralysis and compromised motor function. Sometimes, in her nightmares, she’s the one subjected to the near lethal feedback…
