StarBase Leviathan's crew is a mismatch of differenct races, personalities and disorders. The following descriptions were written by Ross O'Brien and Dawn Hazle.
Captain Robert Reuben Gauthier, CO (Ross O�Brien)
At fifty years of age, Gauthier has seen the destruction of fleets and the deaths of worlds. His path to command has taken him through the helm, stellar cartography, counselling and combat experience � for which he won medals during the Dominion War and elsewhere.
His command style is hands-on. He knows his crew, and what they can do (and since there are only just over a hundred on Falchion, he knows them all at least by name). However, Falchion is no ordinary ship, with no ordinary crew. Gauthier knows he has authority; what he seeks from them is respect. His daily reminder of this is a dagger in his ready-room desk, which Sharkey planted there at Falchion�s launch. He also seeks to prove himself to Starfleet, since he is certain they have more reasons for assigning him here than have been revealed to him.
Gauthier, along with Ternasky, is one of the only two living survivors of the planet known as Strori IV. Since his first visit there sixteen years ago he has been unable to fire any kind of ranged weapon, including those controlled from a tactical console. At all times he carries with him a seven-foot extensible pike with which he is very skilled. Its last use was in a duel with Sharkey; the encounter ended in agony. Gauthier now has a new prosthetic right leg. He is a qualified field medic and a lightweight drinker, always preferring synthehol. He will take any chance he can get to sit at the helm, especially since the Falchion is now equipped with a captain�s yacht, which Gauthier has christened Reload.
Lieutenant Commander Taylor Natalie Ternasky, XO (Ross O�Brien)
Technically, she�s thirty-nine. In appearance, she�s about thirty. There�s a lot to Ternasky which most people don�t see or understand, because she�s not as good around people as a first officer might be required to be... perhaps as one might expect from someone trained as a chief of security, who survived Wolf 359, who was a Maquis and then a mercenary...
Ternasky is often distant, likes reciting quotations, speaks in the third person under extreme stress, and has a tendency to break the rules. She�s also engaged in a �full-on� relationship with Wedge Lyall at this time.
Lieutenant Gary Dimond, COO (Dawn Hazle)
Gary Dimond is an unassuming officer who mostly sits at his post on the bridge, either at Ops or at the command chair whenever Gauthier or Ternasky can�t be present (as Falchion only has a small crew, typically one of these three will always be present on the bridge at any time of day).
Commander Jora Kisaiia T�brun, CEO (Dawn Hazle)
T�brun is probably the highest-ranking of the few Romulans in Starfleet. Self-exiled from her homeworld, she�s no-nonsense at work, likes dragons and Sharpe stories outside work, and enjoys mercilessly taunting people like LaFleur. She distrusts M�Att (because of his racial heritage) and probably everyone else outside the engineering crew she has assembled and trained (Wedge Lyall notwithstanding); especially since being kidnapped and mind-read by Admiral Putney, who�s still out there somewhere.
First and foremost, of course, she�s Romulan.
Doctor (Lieutenant Commander) Fredrick Von Harld, CMO (Andy Brown)
Von Harld is a Time Lord without a home. When Gallifrey was destroyed he made his way to our galaxy. Another Time Lord named Azrial shot his ship down over the French Alps in 2372, causing him to move into his second incarnation, during which he appeared to be human, serving in Starfleet as a medical officer but with no knowledge of his past life. Upon the launch of the Falchion, and his second assassination at the hands of Azrial, Von Harld regained his memory.
Von Harld combines nine years of Starfleet service with nine hundred years of experience as a Time Lord. As a result he now shares some of his expertise in temporal mechanics with Starfleet, but obeys the Temporal Prime Directive as a principle for life. To a limited extent his technology has been applied to the ship, increasing the size of the sickbay and shuttlebay by several degrees (to the point where the shuttlebay can now fully service the Revolution), but he works to find a balance, applying his advanced knowledge of xenobiology but refusing to employ his advanced medical technology in order to heal his patients.
He�s made it known, if only to the captain, that he has access to his time ship. However, no-one is aware that the ship is disguised as a crate in cargo bay 2, and dire consequences will befall any who try to access it without authorisation.
The crew does know, however, that he likes steam fairs and real alcohol.
Lieutenant Commander Phil King, CSO (Phil King)
Phil King arrived from the year 1996 as a result of an incident involving a gene-splicer and a cucumber. No-one�s dared ask for more details. King survives the twenty-fourth century by maintaining a social commentary from his perspective as a member of the twentieth century. He�s also developed an unhealthy fascination with tribbles (for example, during the battle against the Borg, he put a bomb inside one).
Lieutenant Xanith, former COS/CTO (Adam Curson)
Like Von Harld, Xanith is not of this galaxy. No-one�s been able to get anything more specific out of him than that. He appeared randomly in our galaxy during the Dominion War and joined Starfleet, though in place of a Starfleet uniform he wore a black encounter suit which doubles as a space suit if necessary. He likes guns. And he recently disappeared.
That�s all we know about him.
What the crew doesn�t know is that he has his own vessel (most of the crew do, we�re unintentionally building a fleet). The cloaked vessel usually stays within a certain radius of Xanith�s location, close enough for him to transport to it but not sufficiently close that it will interfere during a combat situation. On board this ship are contained the remains of a woman for whom Xanith has feelings; the ship also has the ability to create a wormhole large enough to travel through, powerful enough to reach his home galaxy and still capable of being undetected.
He disappeared from Starbase Leviathan when his ship informed him that someone who was pursuing him was in the vicinity. Who this someone might be, and what qualifies as within range, remains unclear.
Xanith is currently somewhere in sector 746-S, recruiting for his new empire, but shush, no-one knows about that yet.
Lieutenant Bob Smith, CCO/FCS (Matt Spencer)
Bob Smith was assigned to the Falchion as a civilian First Contact Specialist, even though the Falchion�s patrol area is pretty well known already. His first assignment was to greet Von Harld, recently discovered as a Gallifreyan. Since Sharkey�s departure, he�s returned to Starfleet service as the chief counsellor (it�s therefore his responsibility to look after morale, so if you�re not having fun, Bob�s to blame).
He has his own ship too... it�s called the Discovery, it�s a converted Klingon vessel, typically cloaked. Its crew consists of one hologram (none of our personal ships has a large crew of its own, you�ll notice) who stays aware of events happening in Starfleet and spends its processing time analysing new and old technologies which Smith discovers.
Recent items on this list: the Necrontyr archaeological site; a robot found aboard the Falchion; the technology Von Harld supplied for increasing internal dimensions. The latest invention is a cowboy hat with hidden inner dimensions, serving as an emergency life-pod. Smith also keeps his weapons in this hat (katana, mostly).
He�s also a member of Section 31. Yes, you heard me, we still have one of those on board. Finally, he�s currently making romantic overtures on Commander T�brun, but he�s not made much progress so far.
Ensign Wedge Lyall, COTR (Tom Mannering)
Wedge Lyall joined the Falchion as a final year cadet, and only recently returned to Earth to take his final exams and graduate. Technically he�s an engineering officer, with no particular speciality � he tends to deal with broken doors or revolutionary science rather than ordinary engineering things like warp field harmonics. He�s the resident wiz-kid, and seeing as there�s no way to stop him, Gauthier chose to keep him on board and work on keeping him responsible for his actions.
So: Lyall owns a bright purple (with uniforms to match) runabout-sized vehicle in the Falchion shuttlebay. The steering is based upon that of twentieth-century motor vehicles, and it�s called the Revolution. It also sports an illegal cloaking device. Future developments include a phasing-cloak device (also illegal), and a transwarp drive. The rules are simple: Lyall is its Captain, and he has his own crew (M�Att, Mark Turner and Eddie). He gets to use the vehicle in his spare time, though he can maintain it as part of his ordinary duties. Though the vehicle isn�t Starfleet, Gauthier may ask Lyall to use the vehicle as and when needed, and no-one outside the Falchion crew is permitted to know that the vehicle has a cloaking device (as this would lead to complications with the current Romulan-Federation peace efforts).
Lyall is flighty and fancy-free, doing mostly what he wants when he wants. His flirtatious tendencies, rejected by T�brun and most other female officers on board, have finally been accepted by First Officer Ternasky. It�s fairly clear to all that the relationship requires almost no thinking and plenty of sex.
Lieutenant Timothy Walker, COS (Ross O�Brien)
This member of the Falchion crew is a Zaldan officer, whose heritage leads him to ask blunt questions and be distrustful of anyone exercising good manners (as he thinks they�re hiding something). So far, this is sufficient for a working relationship with the new chief of security, but some may wonder if there�s more to him than meets the eye: he is, after all, the only person to have requested an assignment to the Falchion (insanity personified, perhaps?).
Crewman Jason Badden, Bartender (Simon Vallance)
Jason Badden facilitates the Falchion as a chef and bartender, catering for all those occasions when the replicators just can�t cope, or when someone really needs a good strong drink (that would be pretty often, then). His background seems rather murky at the moment; he�s had combat experience involving a lot of Klingons, and he�s currently bedding a Romulan councillor (well, not right at this moment, but between missions) who goes by the name of Rhian. He�s good friends with Edward O�Reilly.
Lieutenant Edward O�Reilly, COT (Jim Clokey)
Edward Miles O�Reilly is a man of many responsibilities. He�s second in line to the Chief-of-Ops seat on the bridge, is Chief Transporter Operator in the meantime, is also the Armourer, and manages to do natty things like build air-guitar gloves in his spare time.
If you want someone to recite tons of technobabble, he�s your man, though at any moment we expect him to say something the way Brian Blessed would say it, so most of the time the crew stays away from him.
Lieutenant J.G. M�Att, CHO (Matt Spencer)
M�Att pilots the Falchion. He also pilots the Revolution. He�s half-Vulcan and half-Klingon. �Nough said.
Mark Turner (Paul Spencer)
Mark Turner is a human civilian from the year 2003. He never asked to be here, he rarely knows what�s going on, and what�s worse, he�s usually armed with 20th-Century style guns. So far he�s not got into much trouble.
Officially, he�s an apprentice first-contact specialist, assisting Bob Smith, who brought him to the future; he also functions as an assistant bartender for Jason Badden, and as the security officer on the Revolution (though what precisely needs to be kept secure on a cloaked twenty-metre shuttle is anyone�s guess).
Consider him confused and dangerous.
Eddie (Matt Spencer)
Formerly a copy of the hologram on board the Discovery, Eddie�s personality protocols seem to have malfunctioned... since he starting hiding out on the Falchion, he�s absorbed all records of Lyall�s alternate self, and the Falchion�s EMH (which has since been replaced). So far, only Lyall, Turner and M�Att know he exists, and consider him the Revolution medical officer. He�s equipped with a mobile emitter, and is generally irresponsible.
The Penguin (Adam Curson)
This robot is insane, and so far untraceable. It started life on Xanith�s ship. On board the Falchion, it absorbed corrupted data regarding the vessel�s security protocols. It is therefore capable of entering otherwise secure areas of the ship such as personal quarters, the ready room and the counselling office, and causing chaos (in its last visit to the ready room, it superglue�d the table and chair to the ceiling).
It�s capable of changing its shape, though typically it looks like a penguin with a red rubber glove on its head. It is mischievous, totally out of control, but will not kill.
More to come when Dawn gets around to writing the rest.
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