Characters that I created (Biographies)07:24 Jan 10 2007
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Security officer
Ensign Rachel Skarsten
Human, 1/4 Vulcan
Female
1.81m (5' 11"), 90 kg (197 lbs)
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Black hair, purple eyes
Born in: Aimee, Thailand
Quirks: Obsessed with black flowers. She often goes looking for a fight.
Personality: Fearless, Bitter and sarcastic, Rachel loves to rub people the wrong way. A fighter by nature, she is always ready to battle it out with her wits and fists. Rachel is a rebel with eccentric fashion sense, a strong woman with attitude. She set her own trends, has strong opinions and beliefs about everything, and "tells it like it is."
Body strength: She can bench-press up to 150 kg !!
HISTORY:
She had to grow up fast when her mother's boyfriend started looking at her differently shortly after she turned 10. His cruel advances - (dismissed by her mother who refused to believe her daughter's complaints) destroyed her faith and trust in everyone. She became a loner, a fighter. She took body building steriods (illegally obtained from an Orion trader), Rachel had tattoos and piercings done. She shaved her head. As her hair grew back, she dyed it black, and kept it short; just like her temper.
Rachel is very loud, vulgar, wild, sometimes adventurous and playful. At times she becomes outright aggressive.
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Commander Alice Brangwin
Former First Officer, USS Petawawa (on maternity leave)
Human, Female
1.75 m (5' 9), 60 kg (144 lb.)
Birthplace: Earth. Lynn Lake, Manitoba, Canada
AGE: 36
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Red hair, green eyes.
FAVOURITE FOODS: Fresh baked bannock covered in blueberries, Sushi, Donuts, lemon chicken
MARRIED: To Rakurai Stryker (10 years ago)
CHILDREN: Identical twins, Girls
Ael Grene and Olivia Hoshiko (11 months old)
LIKES: Being with family and friends. Being a mother, learning new things, reading, long walks, talking mother-to-mother with Laenia
DISLIKES: turnips, beets, dishonest people, lazy people, Diaper pails, demanding people, too much "advice" (from mom), thong underwear (never worn one since the one day she tried wearing one in high school)
ASPIRATIONS: To successfully juggle motherhood, her marriage, and soon returning to her career
EDUCATION: At age 6, Alice went to school with special classes for music students.
PERSONALITY: Wife, mother, child-at-heart. Alice never lost her childhood imagination, and she uses it to seek out the unusual and special aspects of her everyday life. Alice is affectionate, attentive, down-to-earth and content, yet a part of her longs for irresponsibility and adventure...but she doesn't really have the time.
Alice appears gentle and fragile, but possesses a strong unyielding will. She is cheerful, and while she appears rather feminine and perky, she is tomboyish and optimistic. Alice is a romantic, very friendly, and open-minded. She loves to read Dostoyevski.
She likes discovering new things. She thinks that if one cannot try all the things in life, then one should try as many things as one possibly can.
Tough at times, soft at others, she is an accomplished starship First Officer with a well-developed heart and mind. Alice is possessed of an incredible loyalty and dedication to both her friends and her duty. Alice has a quiet, gentle spirit ... just an all-round sweet personality. She's intelligent but doesn't flaunt it. She doesn't come across as pushy, more the sort of person who would get to know you at your own speed.
Alice is a capable leader, no matter how difficult a given situation may be. She is always determined to come out on top of it all. Driven by her ambitions, she can be difficult. However, contrary to her cool exterior, she occasionally has a difficult time coping with frustration.
She protects others, and fears losing them and fears being alone. She wishes she could fight the Cardassians and Dominion herself and hates them with a vengeance.
Alice is very headstrong in her approach to situations. She often chooses defensive tactics. She tends to lean away from blindly attacking and more to systematic methods, plans. Alice knows how to take charge. But she also fights very fiercely when a situation requires it.
She makes the decisions and speaks with authority in her voice. On the same note, she isn't a cold leader, she can show sympathy and be very caring at the same time.
When her temper explodes or is building fast: watch out for Harpy-Alice!
Her voice, soft almost lyrical, with a slight and enduring th when she says s
Alice's relationship with her well-meaning family continues to be a rich tangle of love, anxiety, togetherness, rebellion, devotion, frustration, friendship and mild hysteria.
Alice is (or was before her pregnancy) athletic, but part of what makes her so dangerous is that, on first glance, she looks like anything but a fighter. With the pretty face Alice has, many made an unfortunate mistake in the past to call her bluff.
Alice can knock down nearly any opponent in a heartbeat as she is well versed in martial arts, can handle every situation in true warrior form. Alice is an adept in Chinese Kenpo, Judo, Shinrai Ryu. As well as Aikido, being armed with twin escrima sticks made from polymer.
Musical talent: Alice can play the djembe drum and keyboards. 2369 to mid-2372, Their band was called "Wake up and Dream", and famous for Tziki's thundering Marabi horns, punchy swing rhythms, gumboots and pennywhistles. Alice was known for her haunting voice, she was singing the lead vocals and female harmonies. Alice co-wrote songs with Tziki, Deanne Elizabeth Patterson, Raymond Briggs and M`Ress.
Tziki, the silent but visually hypnotic founder of the band, decided to leave, setting out to stretch her wings and travel.
HOBBIES
- Singing, reading, playing with her daughters.
- Alice is currently trying to play the violin from Kathren Delore.
- Hanging out with Stryker, the Delores and Sammy Maxwell. Like her husband, she loves to fly small vessels, some of her favourite holodeck airplanes are Sopwith Pup and fighter/interceptor jet CF-288 Athena. The symbol on her flight helmet is the Phoenix.
HISTORY
Since that horrible day (2372) that claimed the lives of thousands including Alice's sisters, Alice went off like a loaded photon torpedo. The loss was simply too great. Her parents were hit equally hard and they started to become overprotective of their daughter.
Alice ran away from home with a new friend named "Mouse"
Two years of partying herself to death, using drugs, stealing medical supplies and weapons for the Maquis. Alice tried to run away from her past by being occupied at all times and engaging in dangerous and illegal activities.
Alice and Mouse were hiding from Starfleet Security on Betazed as the Dominion invaded. She protected nine families of Betazoids in hiding. They in turn was painfully honest and direct with Alice, even her thoughts were suddenly not private. Her hatred for Cardassians and the Dominion are less now, it is still there.
Since Betazed was freed, Alice has matured and now grown into a beautiful, responsible young woman.
SERVICE HISTORY
2376: Entered Starfleet Academy, majoring in Security.
2380: Graduated Starfleet Academy, with rank of Lt. JG
2381 - 2383: USS Lakota, as Junior Security Officer. Promoted to Lt.
2383 - 2384: USS Defiance, as Mission Specialist and Science Officer. Promoted to Lt.-Commander, reassigned as Security Officer
2385: USS Petawawa, as Senior Security Officer and First Officer-in-Training.
2386: Promoted to Commander, position of First Officer.
RECENT HISTORY
Alice was the first Officer of USS Petawawa for nearly a year. Three years ago, the Petawawa was nearly destroyed when it hit an old Cardassian subspace mine. Some of her friends were killed. Alice was traumatized, a fact she was been hiding from herself and others including Stryker, the trauma that the disaster had on her.
But she's recovered thanks to the relentless efforts of the Demi (the EMH), Kiya Black Wolf and her staff.
Alice befriended Sammy in a time when she was confused and crying alot. Sammy and Alice had since become best of friends. Eventually she told her husband the truth, the emotions she was going through.
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Commanding Officer, Captain Rakurai Stryker
Edenian, Male
BIRTH PLACE: Camineet, Edenia Prime (Gamma Quadrant)
AGE: 35
1.75 m (5 ' 9), 145 kg (318 lb.)
Family
Adopted Father: Nekise
Adopted Mother: Suelo
Sister: Laenia
Laenia's daughter: Eiko
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: No hair, Yellow / Black eyes. Physically well-built. Three fingers and an opposable thumb (He usually wears thin leather gloves so his talons won't damage surfaces and to prevent injury to other people). He often appears to be in a bad mood due to his stern facial expression.
STRENGTHS: Skilled shuttle pilot, experienced small unit tactics, high resistance to injury.
WEAKNESS: Aggressive
PERSONALITY: An imposing physical presence, Stryker speaks in short, declarative statements, and has a limited sense of humour to those he does not know well. Alice is a skilled reader of Stryker's minimalist emotional field.
While calm in appearance, the serenity that blanketed his world is merely a curtain over the turmoil that threatens to surface.
Most officers serving with Rakurai Stryker keeps their distance from him, and he keeps his distance from them. Shortly after the USS Petawawa's destruction when Alice returned to the Pretoria, she encouraged Stryker to "lighten up", his social circle has since expanded to include Liz Archer, Mike Anderson and the three Maxwells. He has also been curious about one Karen Coleridge, as he puts it "There is something ... interesting, unusual, about her. I just do not know what."
He enjoys living life on the edge. He is a man of action and strong emotion, but most crewmen think of him, as "Stiff" and inflexible. One is who impatient, easily agitated and gets angry quite fast. He is also aggressive, and often displaying outward gruffness.
Rakurai carries himself as a Starfleet officer and a Guardian: Strong willed, and doing so in such a manner that seems to carry over into his philosophy of life “hnalo-stev thllen-a” (meaning “I WANT RESULTS NOW!”)
Rakurai is not being one to think a matter through, he more often acts on impulse rather than reasoning. He is not afraid to bend or ignore regulations when a desperate situation arises. This has certainly made him unpopular with the majority of Starfleet brass, with few and rare expections like Admiral Rain Williams.
He remains ill-at-ease in social settings and diplomatic functions. He spends atleast two hours per day on the holodeck, swimming. When stressed (which happens often), he finds swimming relaxing. He also plays the African penny whistle. Stryker gets into arguments with Alice often because of her stubborn nature. Not to mention his own stubborn nature.
FAVOURITE HOLODECK PROGRAM: Zip Board Chase. Opponents chase each other on zip boards (flying skateboards)
LIKES: His wife's laugh, Desserts of any kind, teasing his sister.
QUIRKS: A notorious insomniac.
MEDICAL CONCERN: Injuries are slow to heal without medical assistance
HISTORY
Twenty years ago, An unprovoked attack against a neighboring planet, an assault by a strike team deep into enemy territory, and a declaration of war in the Gamma Quadrant plunges a previously peaceful existence into bitterness and chaos. Thrust into the ensuing madness is a young Guardian named Rakurai, a mere cadet. A lone wolf by the standards of others, Rakurai's relentless drive to become the best lead him into the Guardian Collective.
His final test as a graduating cadet (Level One) is to settle the growing hostilities between the neighboring planets of Aldabai and Lodlet. What was already a confusing set of events takes a turn for the worst when Aldabai began its invasion on the rest of Lodlet. For Rakurai, the turmoil of the universe around him is nothing compared to the turmoil inside of him; his encounter with a free-spirited young woman named Nei has turned his well-ordered universe upside down. As an intense man who thrives in the regimented discipline of the Guardian academy, Rakurai finds Nei's carefree attitude fascinating.
Edenian Federation of Worlds defeated Aldabai. Peace and sanity is slowly returning.
Stryker then served on a planet called Kitsilano, for two years as an peace keeper/police officer when his mentor was killed. He was very close to Guardian Ael Grene, her death left him emotionally destroyed.
He has a strong sense of justice, but he'd become tired of fighting the "good" fight. Bitter and cynical that he can defeat enough wrongs in the world around him. He then left Kitsilano, he started to train to become a career pilot. He graduated with an elite S-Rank. The best of the best.
Six years later, the Dominion attacked his homeworld. Millions died in the onslaught, including six friends and Laenia's husband (Stryker blames himself for his death). He was severely injured during the attack and spend three weeks in an infirmary recovering.
Upon returning to active duty, Stryker changed a lot. He was bitter, and at one point took over a heavy cruiser type starship and planning to attack the Dominion by himself. But the crew eventually overpowered him and regained control. He was forced to accept a year long absence in the Guardian Collective and lived on Edenia Minor in relative isolation.
But he was still permanently scarred, mentally and physically. In the past, he always had Laenia (his sister --- long story) as his conscious, and a voice of reason.
Two years later, a fleet of Dominion ships returned to the Gamma Quadrant after being defeated by the combined empires of the Alpha Quadrant. Stryker left for Earth immediately and entered Starfleet Academy in 2376. As a cadet, Stryker excelled as the helm, but also did extremely well at tactical. Being most happy when allowed to pursue his prowess, Stryker consistently asked for and received assignments of predominantly helm duty.
Stryker is the second of fifty five Edanians to enter Starfleet Academy. Excelling at the Academy's most formidable courses, Stryker spend the last year onboard the Aurora under Captain Marjean Holden. He graduated with the rank of Lieutenant, Junior Grade. A few days after graduating he married Alice Sharon Brangwin.
After graduating from the Academy, he was posted to the Lakota serving under Captain Joseph Weeder. Two years later he was transferred to the USS Pretoria.
Since arriving on Pretoria, then Lt.Khetrha and Lt.Stryker's personalities clashed often, with both wanting to be in charge all the time. Within a few months, they developed a grudging respect for each other.
Four years later, he was promoted to First officer. Five months later, Captain Jessica R. Williams was tragically killed at the signing of the Redeemer-Garubek treaty of peace, thrusting him into the position he was not ready for.
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