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Refusing to succumb to local superstition, and knowing how she had always wanted a child of her own only her career always came first, Chouling took the child in. She was a retired Doctor of Philosophy who had journeyed to the Himalayas to find a small corner of the world not overcome by technology where she could live out the rest of her life in peace. Although the child made things difficult initially, Chouling refused to alert the outside world to her new daughter’s existence – knowing that many in the modern world would consider the way she had decided to raise the child as archaic and irresponsible. Where Chouling only intended on having one goat to satisfy her simple needs, she now purchased three, etc…

But, Chouling did discover why the locals thought Yungchen had been possessed. Chouling had prepared a bottle for the infant, when she heard the impatient cries of the baby. Trying to position the child so that she could drink without choking herself before giving her the bottle, Chouling felt an incredible force pulling at the bottle. The first time it took her by surprise, and the bottle shot away from her and into the grasp of the crying child.

Resisting the second time, she couldn’t believe the strength the child possessed with her mind. And when the child added an impatient flash of fire to the demand, Chouling decided there and then that the child needed to learn both discipline and control.

During the times of study, Yungchen was encouraged to develop her gifts, but Chouling made it very clear her antics would not be tolerated at the wrong times. It was unfortunate, but during this time Yungchen’s own fiery temper began to show, and during her archery lessons (as an example) on the occasions when she didn’t hit the target, the target would explode into flames. This brought the keisaku into play, and Yungchen learned after many such disciplinary actions to curtail her temper.

For the next eleven years of her life, Yungchen and Chouling lived the simplistic life of Zen Buddhists. They would meditate each morning and afternoon, and train during the day. Chouling also taught her daughter to read and write in both standard as well as ancient, knowing the day would come when she would need to return to the rest of humanity and refusing to have her beloved child thought of as little more than an animal.

After eleven years, Chouling passed away, leaving Yungchen to fend for herself.

Yungchen did as she had always done after the burial of her mother, following the Zen tradition and refusing to grieve for her loss (as her mother was continuing in the great circle of existence.) She rose in the morning, meditated and continued honing her fighting abilities albeit alone. In the times away from the small thatch like hut, she would climb across the mountain, exploring further and further away as her own natural desire to understand the world around her overwhelmed her.

Until the day the ground shook with an unheard of roar. Curious, Yungchen moved towards the noise. Again it happened, and again the ground shook. Yungchen had never seen such power over the ground and moved closer.

Before she realised it, the ground around her erupted in a disastrous roar and fell away, causing the frightened young woman to tumble beneath the slide.

When she awoke, she found herself in a very VERY unusual room. It was all white, and a lot of strange things were around her. A woman appeared in a blue garb. She was then told she was in hospital and asked if she could remember anything.

For four years she was adopted out to Chouling’s only living relative, a niece by the name of Margareen Ivanhova and her husband Boris. Margareen was a mother of three already, and her husband was a civil engineer. Although they made every effort to make her welcome, Yungchen never felt completely comfortable invading their home. She went to school with Boris jnr, who was a year older than she was. Although it took a little while for the technical terms to finally file themselves into her memory, she not only excelled in the survival course, but she was able to make the lives of her colleagues quite comfortable with her innate abilities and pre-tech knowledge.

She went to the academy and after checking her schooling history, was sent directly into the security/command division. For ten months she learned the ins and outs of Starfleet from a commanding officer’s point of view. Her major was tactical warfare and combat with a specialty for ground movements and hand to hand combat.

She spent five years in a series of front line assignments with both the Romulans and the Bree, but was in her element during the Dominion war. Receiving the commission of Commander, she was given a full battalion and deposited on various world side locations to seek out and eliminate the enemy.

Her guerrillas, as she called them (after the earth term for a group that had a similar occupation), cleared a great number of sites and saw a lot of conflict. But, as they were often sent in behind enemy lines, they were required to live off the land and stay out of sight, a prerequisite that would have been virtually impossible if not for her special gifts.

After the Dominion war, she was kept in the firing line to ensure the Breen respected the ceasefire which the Dominion had agreed to. She was required to take back several war-claimed territories from them and did this with a lethal efficiency.But, even after all this conflict, she still had her Zen training to fall back on to keep her mind clear of the war-fatigue which was effecting other units and even some of her own people.

When she heard she was being reassigned shipside, she was more than a little surprised, but surprised didn’t even begin to cover the overwhelming effect the luxurious standard that the USS Providence offered her. (After killing rodents and cooking them over a pyro-kinetically lit fire on some wasteland-mudball that a bureaucrat somewhere in the Federation called a ‘Strategic World’, the concept of a galaxy class starship at her disposal was staggering.)

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