Editing STA:Reac Crew Verdan (section)

==Home & Upbringing==
*Homeworld/Business & Trade (Rebelled)
*"I'm going to be the best"
Verdan Qet (previously Verdan Laum) is a twenty-nine year old trill scientist joined with the Qet symbiont. Verdan was born on the planet Trill to a wealthy family dealing in extremely rare and expensive off-world items, particularly unique artifacts from pre-space flight societies, both for cultures now involved in interstellar trade and those that are extinct. His parents planned for him to join the family business, and ensured his early education was carefully tailored to that goal. A perfectionist by nature, young Verdan excelled in his studies. However, while growing up surrounded by unusual items from distant corners of the galaxy peaked young Verdan's interest in history and xeno-ethnology, he was deeply disturbed by the fact that even the legitimate trade in such artifacts is de facto encouragement tomb robbing and looting of museums. Even worse, his family routinely dealt in items of "unclear" provenance, preferring opportunity for wealth and influence over protecting the potential knowledge to be gained from proper study.

Thoroughly disgusted by this family history of unethical behavior, Verdan left home as soon as possible. Unsatisfied with a definition of "success" that did not include honorable behavior and service to the greater good, he opted for a career in law enforcement. He briefly studied forensic science at the Trill Science Ministry, but while he was good at the work he soon learned that he did not want to continue in the field. Instead he left the Ministry and trained to become an elite Investigator for the Planetary Anti-Crime Bureau. Verdan was still a junior agent, less than a year into a career he had no plans of leaving and barely twenty-four years old, when he had the encounter that would completely change the trajectory of his life and eventually lead to his decision to join Starfleet.