Name: Ardon (Formally Tyler Forge)
Rank: Ensign
Race: Maran
Eyes: Silver
Hair: Black
Height: 5'9"
Weight: 175lbs

Physical Description:

Born to the Maran scouts that were gathering information on the Federation, Tyler has spent most of his life living among humans.  His mother was a weapons designer and his father a security expert. He, like the rest of the Maran population was taught combat skills from a very young age. Tyler showed exceptional skill with a phaser, and any other sidearm he was given.

His parents saw action at the Battle of Wolf 359. Unforantly, they would not survive. His parents where killed, and he was shipped back to Earth. Although the Maran Navy knew of this, they decided to let him continue living among the friends he had made. When he was old enough, he enrolled in Starfleet. Tyler has vowed to make sure that no one else suffers at the hands of the Borg like he has.

Starfleet Career/Background:

Tyler raced through the academy at a near record pace. He excelled in all areas, but his natural strength and physical prowess made him ideal for the security division of Starfleet. He also seemed at home in control of the weapons of a starship.

Tyler took every single hand to hand combat course the academy had to offer, and did quiet well in all of them. Although, like Josh he developed a love for the ancient fighting style known as kick boxing. He also developed a love of the gym like Josh, and is rarely seen not doing some sort of physical activity in his off hours.

His first posting was aboard the Saber class starship, the Firefly.  The ship saw action in several skirmishes with Breen privateers,  but her true test would come when the Federation was brought into the war with the Dominion.

The Firefly saw action in several minor battles, and several major ones as well. She was part of the evacuation force that attempted to flee Betazed when it fell to the Dominion. The ship was caught in a firefight and destroyed, but Tyler and half of the crew managed to make it to escape pods. They crash landed, and evaded Dominion search parties. They ended up causing major damage to the Dominion forces stationed there.

Because of his brave actions, Forge was inducted into the Knights a very elite set of warriors on the Maran home world. At the time of his induction Tyler had yet to choose a new name for himself based on the Maran Gods, like most Knights do.

When the war was over, Tyler was promoted to Lt. and assigned to help with the re-arming of Deep Space Nine. About that time, the Maran's made themselves known, and many were surprised to find that Maran's were in Starfleet, including Tyler. When he heard about the opening on the Navajo for the security chief he applied and got the job.

Shortly after his posting to the Navajo, the ship came in contact with the Borg and Tyler was on the strike team that went after the Navajo's commander. He lost his arm in duty and while re-cooperating choose Ardon, the Maran Angel of Protection and Mercy for his new name.

Though unbeknownst to most members of Starfleet, including his commanding officer, Ardon was selected to begin training for a brand new elite commando team compromised of Maran/Klingon/Federation personal. During a mission to stop a Romulan renegade; Ardon was presumed dead. He was really beamed out of the doomed Romulan vessel moments before it exploded.

During his two year hiatus from the Navajo, Ardon received additional combat and intelligence training. He also underwent intense physical conditioning as well as mental conditioning, tunning his mind and thoughts to that it would be harder for a telepath or a empath to sense his feelings or thoughts.

Ardon also undertook advanced piloting training, adding another skill to his already impressive bank of abilities. After his training was complete, the elite commando shadow ops units, no known as simply the ?Shadow Walkers? were dispatched to various ships and units.

Hoping to rekindle the relationships that Ardon had on the Navajo, he requested that he be transferred their under the guise of the ships new chief flight operations officer. The only ones that know his true purpose for being aboard however, is the CO and the chief intelligence officer.

Service Record:

Current Assignment: U.S.S. USS Navajo, NCC-77993-A; Chief CONN Officer, Ensign