Selene Varon

Selene Varon

Title: High Director of Biomedical Sovereignty, Varon Industries
Affiliation: Varon Domain | Varon Industries | Federation-Aligned Civil Authority
Homeworld: Zath V (Coreworld, Varon Domain Capital)
Species: Human (Varon Bloodline)
Current Residence: Varon Arcology – Meridian Spire, Zath V Prime

Biographical Overview

Once presumed politically irrelevant after an unexplained disappearance from the Varon family’s central dynastic spire, Selene Varon was discovered aboard the USS Heimdahl as a fugitive—emaciated, desperate, and presumed lost. After her rescue and subsequent return to Federation space, her rehabilitation was swift but strategic. Upon confirmation of identity through biometrics and Varon DNA codices, she was quietly reinstated into the hierarchy of her House.

Following what is now referred to as “The Eclipse Years,” Selene emerged as a far more assertive, resourceful, and ideologically sharpened figure than the sheltered noblewoman once known in high society. She did not return to her family’s holdings to be coddled or reclaimed; she took command—leveraging her exile as a badge of survival, insight, and inner strength. Rumors persist that her removal was a calculated exile driven by internal Varon power struggles. She has not denied this.

Current Role & Influence

Selene now serves as High Director of Biomedical Sovereignty within Varon Industries—a title created for her and now synonymous with the Varon Domain’s cutting-edge biomedical and xenogenetic programs. She oversees:

• R&D on Adaptive Genotherapeutics, including post-Borg neurostructural regeneration.
• Cybernetic-mind interface development, including legal offshoots of old Section 31 biocybernetic research.
• Post-organic transplant innovation (biological-AI hybrid systems, including legally grey research).
• Medical refugee humanitarian corridors under Varon's flagship program, Aegis Grace.

She commands entire research flotillas, deep-space observatories, and containment biolabs embedded in subspace-isolated zones. These facilities are nominally under Federation sanction—but it is Selene who sets the operational tempo.

Personality Profile

Selene Varon walks the knife-edge between Federation idealism and dynastic pragmatism. She speaks softly in public forums, often invoking the preservation of life, dignity of growth, and the sanctity of biological evolution. But in private, she is razor-sharp, calculating, and unafraid to leverage personal debts—including the one owed by the Heimdahl.

She is a chessmaster, not a gladiator. Influence, not force.
Her demeanor is composed but never weak—imbued with the unshakable confidence of someone who survived the void and came back stronger. Her daughter, Caeli, remains closely guarded, now being educated under private Varon protocols.

Relationship with USS Heimdahl

Selene owes her survival to the Heimdahl—something she neither forgets nor speaks of lightly. She refers to the crew not as “saviors” but as "the fulcrum of my reclamation." As such, she maintains a secure comms line accessible only to Heimdahl's senior staff, encoded via a translinear phase cipher that registers as stellar background noise.

She has, on occasion, routed missions, information packets, and even untraceable medical prototypes through unofficial Heimdahl relays—some of which may skirt legality. She sees Heimdahl as a trusted neutral entity: not Federation regulars, not Section 31 lapdogs, not mercenaries—but operatives with autonomy and principle.

Selene is not above “calling in a favor”, but she always couches it in philosophical framing—about balance, about necessity, about protecting the fragile life-systems that bind civilization together. Whether that’s sincere or political camouflage remains unclear.

Resources & Power Base

• Varon Industries, Biomedical and Xenoscience Division
• Political Leverage within Federation medical committees, and behind-the-curtain access to Starfleet Bioethics Council
• Black Archive Access (sealed S31 assets buried inside Varon’s private R&D holdings)
• Private Interstellar Courier Corps, with clearance to operate in multiple Neutral Zone corridors
• Medical Starhold “Aevum’s Eye”, stationed near the Romulan frontier (rumored to house a Borg-derived artifact)
• Legal Immunity within six systems due to inherited Charter Diplomatic Protections