STARFLEET SERVICE RECORD:

Attended the Vulcan Science academy for two years. Graduated Starfleet Academy - Double Major in Science and Tactical Command. Accepted Commission as Ensign in Starfleet.
DS9 six months Security detachment, transfer to

USS Ahrens - Security After six months was called to testify against his friend, the Doctor Iyal Karasov, who was charged with aiding and abetting the enemy. The enemy being the Romulans. But Hunter was testifying only to what he saw, and was loyal to the truth of what he saw. He could not testify to what he did not know and did not see, and other witnesses for the defense were credible in creating a reasonable doubt that Hunter knew the whole story, and that what he saw could be interpreted in the Doctor's favor. The Doctor was acquitted of all the serious charges, and only found guilty of failure to obey a superior officer, and reprimanded.

Through a strong sense of friendship and loyalty Hunter and Karasov overcame Hunter being forced to testify against his friend. Hunter however was separated from his friend for the next two years, as Nathan Hunter was assigned to Starbase 32. One year into his assignment at Starbase 32, Lt. Hunter was promoted to Lt.Commander. Two years into his duty at Starbase 32, a Romulan dissident group briefly took over Starbase 32. During the attempt by the security forces of the Starbase to retake the base, several assault shuttles engaged an old RSE surplus Warbird that had been appropriated to assist the dissidents with the takeover of the base. Losing their grasp on the base, the dissidents were prepared to destroy it, and Lt.Cmdr. Hunter, in his assault shuttle, and with the help of five other assault shuttle pilots from the Starbase, helped save Starbase 32 from destruction by ramming his shuttle into the surplus Romulan Warbird making its last attack run, and beaming off at the last possible moment. The dissidents were repulsed, and the base was restored to Federation control. Lt.Cmdr. Hunter received a Cross of Silver for this. During his subsequent shore leave, Hunter realized he felt ready to serve on a starship again, and requested a transfer, and applied for any starship security chief openings. Assigned to USS Pacifica Served as Chief of Security. His old friend Dr. Iyal Karasov, was the current CMO on the Pacifica. The passage of time had healed any wounds due to Hunter's testifying against the Doctor two years prior, and their friendship was rekindled. Lt.Cmdr Hunter filled the SEC CHIEF position and after one year became a Commander and the XO on the USS Pacifica. Two years into his assignment on the Pacifica, Karasov and Hunter were on an away mission, when the Pacifica was sabotaged and destroyed. Returning from their away mission, their shuttle was within the blast zone when the Pacifica exploded in space. Their shuttle barely intact, it's distress beacon activated, they were picked up a week later, almost dead. Hunter spent three months in a hospital on Earth recovering from injuries. Karasov, one month. Karasov returned to SB 32 for rehab of his injuries, and after Hunter was released from the hospital and fully recovered, he was assigned as Tactical advisor to Juanita Suarez on SB 32.

Unknown to Hunter and Karasov, Karasov had a nemesis, intent on destroying Karasov. Since Hunter was his friend, he was targeted as well. Evidence was planted, attention was shifted; since Hunter and Karasov were the only known survivors of the Pacifica, the 'investigation', unknown to either Nathan Hunter or Iyal Karasov, had shifted all of it's energy to now focus on the two of them as the most likely suspects in the sabotage. But lacking a key piece of evidence to bring charges, they were not charged.

Karasov's nemesis was an officer in Starfleet, a Lt. Burk. Burk had access to the investigation, and knew the case was bogus. He had in fact been the saboteur, willing to sacrifice the Pacifica and its crew to eliminate his enemy Karasov. He worked behind the scenes to fabricate the crucial evidence that would seal the fate of Karasov and Hunter. But time was not on his side. Fully recovered, with no charges pending, Ilya and Nathan were ready for new assignments. Their assignments came in, Hunter as XO for the USS Iliad, and Karasov as her Captain. While the assignments were being authorized, Burk had planted his false evidence implicating the two men. Shortly after boarding Iliad, before leaving the Starbase, Karasov and Hunter were arrested.

Karasov resisted arrest and was severely wounded, taken to sickbay while Hunter was taken to the station's brig, Karasov enlisted support of the doctors there who knew him and believed he could not be guilty of destroying a Starfleet starship. Doctors who helped him and Hunter escape. Both men, with the handful of those who believed in Karasov and Hunter, commandeered the Iliad, and took off for the site of the Pacifica's destruction, with Starfleet hot on their tails. Desperate to clear their names, they risked their careers to commandeer the Iliad, as the only chance they saw to clear their names.

With some unexpected help from an unlikely ally, they recovered the evidence they needed to acquit themselves, and help convict Burk for the sabotage of the Pacifica. But they did not go unpunished. Despite the mitigating circumstances of proving their innocence of the crimes they had been framed for, they had escaped custody and commandeered a Starfleet starship. Karasov was forced to resign from Starfleet, and Hunter was reduced in rank from Commander to Lieutenant, and given one month suspension, without pay. While awaiting the formal hearing that lead to dismissal of all charges, Hunter was distressed to learn his brother Mark had been killed in action during a rescue attempt in Sattaran space.

His life disrupted by the recent events, now Lt. Hunter requested an extended leave of absence, to digest everything that was happening to him and his life. And returned to Earth.

He recently accepted a temporary position as an instructor at Starfleet Academy, and then requested a transfer to a Search and Rescue unit, to honor his brother, who died on a rescue mission.

Lt. Nathan Hunter accepted the transfer to the USS THUNDERCHILD to be her CHIEF TACTICAL OFFICER.