Nara has a tattoo on her lower back.

Nara's Father
Gareth Chandler Roswell is simply known as any other officer in Starfleet as far as the Federation is concerned, but he has a far more honorable name to the people of Sakaria. He has fought and won many battles. He was thought to be dead during one battle, but came back to life. The Sakarians know him as the Resurrected Hero. He was also implanted with cybernetic technology.

Nara's Mother
Allas Tris is a counselor. Her history is as common as most Starfleet officers. She is betazoid, but doesn't hold much honor to that. She was quite glad to instead adopt the Sakarian culture through marriage.

How They Met
Both were assigned to the USS Empire. They did not get along right away. Allas was unsure of what to make of this hardcore seemingly stone cold man. She could never relax except when Ros would massage her. They soon fell in love and they married using Sakarian marriage rituals. Allas was pregnant with Nara within the year.

Nara's Childhood
Six months before Nara was expected to be born, Allas and Ros got permission to go to Sakaria and live for at least 5 years. They lived in a small valley where Nara was born. As a small child she was quite annoyed at the adults adoration of her. Her father was anything short of an idol. The children would play with her, but Nara never trusted any of them to see her beyond her highly honored heritage. She would often escape to a misty hill above her village that overlooked a stream or by exploring the nearby caves.

Allas and Ros were assigned to Deep Space 8 after six years. Nara was relieved to be treated just as any other child. She met a young Klingon boy there. Actually he was only half Klingon. His name was K'Erin; a human name with a Klingon twist. Nara called him Erin, much to his father's dislike. Nara and Erin agreed they should be respectful and call him by his full Klingon name in front of his parents.

Ros was accepting of this friendship as Sakarians have many similar codes of conduct and honor systems as Klingons. Though Sakarians are a bit more rounded and are as just as accepting of their children becoming scholars or artists or even janitors as they are of the warriors. Allas wasn't sure what she though of her daughter spending time with K'Erin. Nara wasn't prejudiced and if a Klingon wanted to die in honor, that was all well and good for him, but she didn't want her daughter believing it was better to die for some silly (as it seemed to her) code of honor. However, Ros and Allas both agreed it was Nara's decision whom to befriend.

Growing Up
They were very close. Best friends to say the least. They would spar in the holodeck as well as sit and talk for hours about future dreams. Their relationship was always platonic; regardless of the rumors going around the space dock. Nara did feel jealous when K'Erin started spending more time with some female Klingon. She felt she was being replaced after 5 years of friendship.

She tried a few times to split them up. One night as Nara was in the holodeck fighting some hologram, K'Erin killed the beast and put a large hand around Nara's neck. He spoke to her in Klingon. He has taught her some words and made sure to use only ones she knew. “Why did you tell her I slept with the Commander's daughter!”

Nara pushed away and paused the program and through tears explained that she felt she was losing him. Erin explained he loved J'Lear very much and planned to marry her, but Nara would always be like a sister to him. Sisters cannot be replaced. One year later K'Erin and J'Lear were married and Nara had dinner with them a few times, but while they always had their bond, they were never as close as before. Nara was able to live with this. She had other friends, even a couple of girlfriends she spent time with. The day Nara left for Sakaria to attend the military school there, she learned J'Lear was pregnant. Nara congratulated them and went on her way.

The Academy & The War
After graduating the school at Sakaria, Nara was accepted into Starfleet Academy. Her academy years were pretty uneventful except for one incident she has all but been blocked from her memory. She vaguely remembers an incident with an instructor. She thinks it was rape, but does not allow herself to open the memory enough to fully know.

After she graduated she joined the ship builder's office as an assistant. One day when she got to her quarters she got a note from her father. A battle had broke out on Sakaria and he was just waiting on the permission to leave, but that could take months considering they were on a lengthy mission. Nara had no serious mission, so her application for leave was soon granted.

Nara had never been in war. Sakaria was still healing from the previous war when she was born, but it was peaceful. Nara found herself fighting with the very people she felt alienated from. If it was painful for them to see her higher than themselves, it was just as annoying for them to come to her about what to do; especially when there was a commander near. The commander was just as annoyed and not intimidated by her heritage. He often gave her a lot of a hard time. She smiled each time he gave her some menial task hoping to prove to the men that she was just a warrior like the rest of them.

All this is not to say she didn't have an arrogance about her. No, she thought she was quite capable and voiced her opinion over how to do this or that. She often had to be told to fall back because she was too eager to fight. She disobeyed this order once and received a reprimand. This helped some of her comrades to see her as just one of them.

Lessons Learned
One night during a scouting mission with her and three other men, they were ambushed and because of the other's overestimating her power to take care of herself offered no help and she was taken prisoner.

In that prison she met an elderly man who spoke riddles to her that she would later understand. He basically told her that if she went on with her arrogant “trigger-happy” ways she would die sooner than she should.

The old man died soon and she was herself lying starving and dehydrated, beaten almost daily. After a week she was rescued; her father leading the mission. She recuperated in a medical camp and while she was not allowed to fight for several weeks, the camp was attacked and she helped fight the enemy forces back.

This action was foolish, as she was still ill. However, she fought well even for her condition, so it was also seen as heroic. Through this and many other battles, the others begin to hold her in high esteem as simply a good warrior, no longer the daughter of some idol. She was promoted to Commander.

New Beginning
One day while waiting on orders from her higher command, she got a notice of assignment to the USS Galaxy. She talked it over with her father and the war was slow now and could do without him, let alone a mere “good fighter” as he teased her.

Nara prepared to leave and heard a beginning of rumors that she moaned inwardly over. They were calling her the Warrior Daughter of Sakaria. Her men tried to explain it was simply because she was not Sakarian by blood, but her blood is in the soil therefore binding her to the planet. Of that she was proud. She was as patriotic; if not more so; than any native born blood Sakarian. But the title made her sound too much like a princess. Her family lived just as any common Sakarian rather than in luxury as the Sakarians wished to give their hero, but much to Nara's thankfulness, her father denied it. If he hadn't, Nara was sure she would not only be arrogant in her fighting skills, but also in her social standing, of which she felt she had no right to. Until now.

Now she had proven her own tie to Sakaria by fighting for it in her own blood. But this made her no better than any other Sakarian; it simply made up for not having Sakarian blood, therefore she spilled her own blood into the soil, binding herself to it. She would be long dead before it would turn into a ritual for any non-Sakarian wishing to “bind” themselves to the planet. Years from now, it would take much more to be a citizen of Sakaria; it would require a ritual of spilling blood onto the soil. The Sakarians would forget that it was in the act of war; in the protecting of the planet that the Resurrected Hero and Warrior Daughter were bonded to Sakaria. If this had become a ritual in Nara's lifetime she would simply had thrown a fit.