Senator Varyet was a female Romulan and a member of the Imperial Romulan Senate by the time of the Dominion War. In 2374, she had a meeting with her distant relative Ruanek. (ST short story: "Blood Sacrifice") Her son and aide-de-camp was Delnek who went on the frontlines during the war where his life was saved by the Reman soldier Mekrikuk. His actions resulted in him being accepted into the Senators household where he was given an unprecedented amount of freedom, as long as he remembered his place as a slave in public.