Vexoriana-Lyss'ra Tarsi

Full Name

Vexoriana-Lyss'ra Tarsi

Common Name

Tarsi

Species

Andorian

Known Affiliation

Starfleet / Temporal Division

Known Rank

Commander

Associated Vessel

Tal'Kyr

First Appearance

Book I, Episode 44 - First Contact

Tarsi has an immediately distinctive presence. She may seem scattered, excessive, or caught off guard, but that mismatch hides an experienced officer able to react very quickly when a situation tightens around her. She observes, improvises, grows attached to people who reach out to her, and has little patience for injustice.

Her Andorian temperament gives her reactions a particular intensity: she distrusts, flares up, protects, provokes, then often finds her way back to the right action. Her apparent fragility does not keep her from taking decisive initiatives when the situation demands it.

Tarsi is never merely the group's temporal specialist. She is also a survivor who has already lost too much, a tactician trained in Starfleet discipline, and an officer capable of holding a crew together when the crisis becomes unreadable.

Tarsi is first perceived as a dangerous unknown: an officer from an impossible future, tied to a clandestine vessel and to information capable of overturning the entire understanding of 2024.

That suspicion changes quickly. For the Enterprise crew, Tarsi becomes less an anomaly to contain than an ally difficult to categorize: too involved to be neutral, too loyal to be simply suspicious, and too wounded to remain a mere source of information.

In her own career, Tarsi also carries a more professional reputation: a reliable tactical officer, attentive to others, able to communicate with very different crews and adapt to the environments or cultures encountered on mission.

Read after Book I, Episode 47.

Born in 2247 in the Prime Timeline, Tarsi receives tactical training at Starfleet Academy between 2267 and 2269. She is promoted to ensign in 2270 and assigned aboard the USS Pioneer, an exploration vessel commanded by Captain Garrett.

It is during this period that she first meets T'Met, then an ensign, on space station K-13. That meeting becomes one of the major anchor points of her existence, long before the Schak'Irra crisis.

Officially, Tarsi dies in 2270 during the destruction of the USS Pioneer at the Battle of Caleb IV. In reality, she is extracted to 2547 by Zaneth-Myra Lysana of Starfleet's Temporal Division, then requests temporal asylum from the Federation.

Her tactical skills and direct knowledge of history then lead her to join the Temporal Division. She rises through the ranks, serves aboard VSS Schak'Irra, then becomes first officer under T'Met's command before being removed from that position by Admiral Quihoui and assigned to monitor Schak'Irra from Earth's starbase.

• Starfleet Academy training from 2267 to 2269.
• Tactical specialization.
• Tactical officer trained by Starfleet, then integrated into the Temporal Division.
• Specialist in complex temporal situations and unstable historical environments.
• Skilled in the use of weapons and advanced tactical systems.
• Pilot and operator of Tal'Kyr, with practical understanding of time travel.
• Able to analyze a crisis quickly and turn improvisation into a workable solution.
• Capable of maintaining crew discipline and cohesion in critical situations.
• Strong interpersonal communication, including in cultural or temporal contexts far removed from her original frame of reference.
• Highly loyal to people she recognizes as crew or chosen family.
• Impulsive when her loved ones, her honor, or historical truth are threatened.

Read after Book I, Episode 47.

Tarsi reveals that she is investigating the disappearance of VSS Schak'Irra, a temporal vessel lost in 1954. Her presence in 2024 is therefore not a simple navigational error: it results from an investigation carried out against orders after her suspension by Admiral Quihoui.

By stealing Tal'Kyr, Tarsi crosses a serious line. Yet she acts out of loyalty to Schak'Irra and out of refusal to abandon T'Met, Lingua, and the other missing crew members to an anomaly Starfleet seems determined to bury.

Read after Book I, Episode 50.

Tarsi's implant and Tal'Kyr's data make it clear that the problem goes beyond a missing vessel. The Tholian presence in 1954 has contaminated the timeline and produced a reality in which the NATO Enterprise, Agnes, Angie, and their crew exist as consequences of an anomaly.

For Tarsi, the dilemma becomes moral as much as technical: repairing history could erase those who are helping her. Her relationship with Agnes therefore begins in deep tension, between the need to restore a viable temporality and the refusal to treat living people as mere chronological mistakes.

Read after Book I, Episode 80.

The mission in Russia marks Tarsi's concrete integration into Agnes and Robert Gomard's group. She is no longer only the time traveler kept in quarantine or consulted for her data: she accompanies Alpha Unit in the field, participates in the infiltration beneath the Kremlin, and acts among human soldiers who share neither her origin, nor her technology, nor her view of history.

In this arc, Tarsi becomes an operational ally. She helps Agnes understand the Russian stakes, recognizes historical elements that should not be there, faces The Grand Tsar in Putingrad, and stays beside Gomard, Eros, and the others when the mission collapses after Agnes is wounded. It is an essential stage in her acceptance by the group: she earns her place not through her revelations, but through her presence in danger.

The mission also has a major consequence for her own objective: in The Grand Tsar's bunker, the team discovers T'Met, reduced to slavery, along with other prisoners connected to Schak'Irra. For Tarsi, the Russian operation becomes the brutal detour that finally brings her face to face with the crew she has been searching for since the beginning.

The rest of the mission then opens another lead: after Agnes is wounded, the clue Angie, Koala, Area 51 sends the crew toward the remains of Schak'Irra preserved on Earth.

Read after Book I, Episode 86.

When the crew finds the remains of Schak'Irra at Area 51, Tarsi is no longer only the messenger from the future. She becomes one of the technical and human keys to the recovery: she knows the vessel, its systems, its history, and what every salvaged component represents.

Her presence alongside Angie, T'Met, Gomard, and Eros also strengthens her integration into the group. The isolated fugitive from the beginning becomes an indispensable ally in a team that no longer truly belongs to a single era.

Read after Book I, Episode 102.

On Tellar Prime, Tarsi takes part in the search for equipment and solutions to get the Enterprise operational again. The arc reveals a lighter and more explosive side of the character: she adapts quickly, grows suspicious even faster, and moves through negotiations, dubious plans, and absurd scenes with her usual mix of composure and exasperation.

These episodes settle her into the group dynamic: Tarsi is no longer connected only to T'Met or Schak'Irra. She now functions with Agnes, Angie, Lingua, Gomard, and the new allies met along the way.

Read after Book I, Episode 115.

The return to 1954 confronts Tarsi with the origin of the catastrophe. Tal'Kyr, Schak'Irra, the Enterprise, and Tarantula find themselves at the heart of a correction that requires irreversible decisions.

Tarsi participates in the attempt to restore the timeline, but the repair is not a clean victory. The death of Agnes and Angie in 1954, followed by the operation launched from 2554 to retrieve them just before their disappearance, is a reminder that every temporal correction leaves human debts behind.

Read after Book I, Episode 116.

The discovery of Zaneth-Myra Lysana turns Tarsi's path into an intimate paradox. Lysana is not merely an officer of Schak'Irra: she is Tarsi herself, older, born from the vortex incident that connects Tal'Kyr to Schak'Irra during the 1954 mission.

When Schak'Irra forms its wormhole, the crew picks up a distress call from Tal'Kyr inside the vortex. Lysana immediately recognizes Tarsi's voice and understands that the signal comes from herself. This moment reveals that Tarsi's clandestine jump depended on the initial catastrophe: if Tarantula had not been destroyed, Schak'Irra would have been targeted again and would have crashed at the North Pole, leaving the vortex open for Tal'Kyr's arrival in 1954.

In the corrected temporality, that outcome no longer exists. Schak'Irra is no longer condemned to the same crash, the vortex no longer offers the same entry point, and Tarsi therefore never arrives in 1954. Projected into 2484 instead of reaching her initial destination, she adopts the identity of Zaneth-Myra Lysana, enters the shadows of Section 31, then eventually returns to the Temporal Division.

This loop explains why Lysana knows Tarsi's files, Pioneer, Schak'Irra, and Quihoui's blind spots so well.

This revelation gives Tarsi's guilt a new depth. She does not discover a simple double or an abstract variant: she faces her own life, extended elsewhere for decades, with loyalties, memories, and pains that official chronology does not know how to classify.

Read after Book I, Episode 132.

Arrested by Starfleet Security, Tarsi is tried for her temporal violations and for the consequences of her clandestine investigation. The trial pits Starfleet's institutional logic against the evidence that Quihoui concealed or allowed to disappear.

The defense mounted by Counsel Touit'Air, the intervention of T'Met, and the recovery of Lingua place Tarsi's actions back in context: she disobeyed, but she also revealed a contamination that the chain of command refused to confront. The trial therefore marks less a simple absolution than a change in status: Tarsi stops being only the fugitive responsible for the chaos and becomes again an officer whose actions saved more than they destroyed.

Read after the end of Book I.

At the end of Book I, Tarsi is reinstated in the Temporal Division and joins the USS Outta Time as first officer. She remains bound to T'Met, Agnes, Angie, and Lingua by a shared history that neither Starfleet, nor temporal logic, nor administrative files can truly simplify.

Her arc takes her from disruptor to central witness of the Schak'Irra crisis. She remains one of the characters most directly exposed to the personal consequences of time travel: each mission can save an era, but also bring back a wound she thought had already been filed away.

Read after the end of Book I.

Tarsi is a character of rupture. She arrives in 2024 as a survivor from the future, but her story begins much earlier: Starfleet, the USS Pioneer, her meeting with T'Met, the Battle of Caleb IV, then her extraction to the 26th century all make her an uprooted officer even before the Schak'Irra crisis.

Her clandestine investigation is born from a loyalty that cannot be extinguished. Suspended, isolated, and faced with silence from the chain of command, she steals Tal'Kyr to find Schak'Irra. On paper, that act makes her guilty, but it also places her at the center of the revelation that will save several lines of existence.

In Book I, Tarsi therefore moves from temporal fugitive to de facto member of the Enterprise crew. The Russian mission, the discovery of T'Met, Area 51, Tellar Prime, and the return to 1954 gradually bind her to the survivors of the contaminated timeline. She is no longer only the one who brings the truth: she becomes someone who must live with the human consequences of that truth.

The Lysana revelation gives her path an even more intimate dimension. Tarsi does not discover only an administrative variant of her identity: she discovers the life she becomes when the corrected temporality prevents her from arriving in 1954. Her story therefore remains double, but not interchangeable: Tarsi and Lysana are the same person separated by a correction in time, decades of waiting, and choices each had to carry alone.

Read after the end of Book I.

Last Name

Tarsi

First Name

Vexoriana-Lyss'ra

Species

Andorian

Sex

Female

Date of Birth

March 14, 2247

Timeline of Origin

Prime Timeline

Temporal Identity

Vexoriana-Lyss'ra Tarsi refers to the officer followed in Book I, from her arrival in 2024 to her return to the 26th century.

Zaneth-Myra Lysana refers to the same person in the corrected temporality, after the vortex incident that projects her into 2484.

Temporal Transports

2270 > 2547: extraction after Tarsi's official death at the Battle of Caleb IV.

2554 > 1954: initial clandestine attempt to investigate the disappearance of Schak'Irra.

1954 > 2024: drift of Tal'Kyr in the contaminated temporality, after the impossibility of cleanly reaching the 26th century.

2025 > 1954: return with Agnes and the Enterprise crew to correct the contamination.

1954 > 2554: repatriation of the Book I Tarsi after correction.

2554 > 2484: outcome specific to the corrected temporality: the vortex no longer allows arrival in 1954 and Tarsi becomes Zaneth-Myra Lysana.

Civil Status

Single

Affiliations

Starfleet / Tactical Department (2270)

Starfleet / Temporal Division (from 2548 to September 23, 2554)

In custody (from September 23 to 26, 2554)

Starfleet / Temporal Division (since September 26, 2554)

Ranks

Cadet (2268-2269)

Ensign (2270)

Cadet (2547)

Ensign (2548)

Lieutenant (2549)

Lieutenant Commander (2550)

Commander (from 2551 to September 23, 2554)

In custody (from September 23 to 26, 2554)

Commander (since September 26, 2554)

Assignments

USS Pioneer (2270)

VSS Schak'Irra (from 2549 to 2553)

Earth starbase control and observation center, monitoring VSS Schak'Irra (from 2553 to 2554)

USS Outta Time (since 2554)

Superior Officers

Captain Garrett (2270)

Admiral Quihoui (from 2548 to 2554)

Admiral Censsukr' (since 2554)