Beyond Alpha Centauri: Character Thread

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Use this thread to post your Character bios and pictures if you got them. As always use the discussion thread as the place for commenting on various things.

Since many factions will have new leaders and we have some new factions, I thought this would be a good idea to let us know what is going on as far as characters are concerned.

Remember. When you edit a post, I don't think that it allows you to attach a picture. It allows you to change it if you had one to start out with. So if you want to post a picture, make sure you post it the same time you write your bio.

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Colonel Marcus Kessel
Leader of the Spartan Federation

Born:
2312 at Birthing Center #4 Sparta Command. Son of Karl Kessel, Deputy commander of Spartan Armed Forces and Anna Kessel.

Education
Training Crèche:
12SC, Sparta Command, Chiron
Entered Advanced Child Placement Crèche in 2319

Basic Training:
045-2327 Spartan Security Base Alpha, Commanders Keep, Chiron
Graduated top of class and named Outstanding Soldier of that training cycle

Officer Training:
125-2329 Entered Spartan War College, Sparta Command, Chiron
Tied for title of High Achiever. (Only time in Spartan History)

Advanced training
Mobile Rover Units: Spartan Rover Academy, Defiance Freehold, Chiron
All Environment Marine Regiment: Marine Academy, Parade Ground, Chiron
Space Combat: Space Warfare Academy, Sparta Command, Sparta Prime

Command Positions
Commander 2nd Rover Unit
Commander 24th Environmental Marines Unit
Commander 5th Environmental Marines Unit (Explorer Group Alpha)
Commander 1st Environmental Marines Division
Commander Spartan Military Garrison of Tyndareus
Assigned to Spartan Central Command in 2460
Appointed to the Office of Military Governor of Tyndareus in 2480
Appointed Supreme Commander of Spartan Environmental Marines in 2518
Appointed Chief of Staff to Colonel Santiago in 2570
Assumed Temporary Command of Spartan Federation in 2634 (Promoted to Colonel)
Assumed Permanent Command of Spartan Federation in 2636

Bio:

Born 2312 at Sparta Command on the planet Chiron to the son of Karl Kessel who was Colonel Santiago‘s third in command. He singled out at early age to be trained in Sparta’s mobile rover units.

Kessel entered official service at the age of 12 by skipping the enlisted academy and entering directly into the Spartan War College. Kessel received high marks both in academics and in physical leadership. Kessel graduated from the Spartan War College in 2330 tied for the top mark in his class. As was tradition when this occurred , the two individuals fought hand to hand for the title and honor of high achiever. After two hours of fighting the Commandant of the War College called a halt to the fighting and proclaimed both men high achievers.

Kessel spent the next ten years in a rover regiment learning the ins and outs of Spartan military life. He fought in the Hive wars near the later half of the century always staying in the elite mobile rover units. Transferred to special operations in 2399, Kessel became a member of Sparta’s first all environment Marine unit. In 2401, Kessel’s unit participated in the attacks on the Morgan/University space station that gained Sparta two FTL capable ships.

Kessel was selected to be among the vanguard soldiers sent ahead to scout new planets for future colonization. After two years of searching, Kessel and his scouting party landed on Planet S-67 orbiting around the distant star Symra. Two years later Spartan colonist began arriving on the new planet officially named Sparta Prime. By 2450, the last of the Spartans left Chiron for the new planets.

In 2460 Karl Kessel was killed while on a covert mission to Peacekeeper territory. Marcus Kessel was recalled to Sparta Command to take a position in the Spartan Central Command. He was promoted to full Major and put on the list for more regular regeneration treatments.

In the 2480, Kessel was appointed military governor of Tyndareus (second planet in the Syrma system) and was given the task of turning the jungle planet into a major component of the Spartan system. Jungle was cleared, roads and magtubes were laid, and population centers were planned at the direction of Kessel. By 2500 Kessel had brought Tyndereaus up to the standard of Sparta Prime. Soon long lists of citizens wanting to relocate on Tydereaus swamped the central governors office. Colonel Santiago looked on with an approving eye.

In 2518 Kessel was given command of Spartan Marines as the Bree war flared up. Beginning in 2521, Kessel’s marines fought the Bree soldiers across three planets. The marines were able to hold back the Bree long enough for a combined Spartan and Drone fleet to relieve them. With the help of Sparta’s new ally the Spartan fleet and Marines successfully fougth the Bree until 2468 when hostilities ended.

Through 2611, Kessel served Colonel Santiago as her eyes and ears with local military commanders. Kessel logged countless hours in space traveling to meet local commanders and to be the visible symbol of Colonel Santiago’s continued power.

After the failure of Spartan forces to hold Coventry, Kessel spearheaded the weeding out of older ineffective military commanders. Most were forced into retirement and some were court-martialed for incompetence

[Alynzia]

Gaian Character

Gaian Character

Lady Deirdre Skye

The Gaians are a futuristic democracy. Lady Deirdre Skye is still the elected leader, with her physical body lying within a giant organic computer in an oh so secret location and a copy of her mind residing in the mainframe of the Skye Tower on the Gaian homeworld of Artilak. This mind is a perfect copy but develops independently of the dormant physical brain of Deirdre in the computer.

Needless to say, for the most part, Deirdre is just a figure head to the Gaian administration as all decisions regarding Gaian policy, except to do with Universal Gaia Theory are made by a series of ministers.

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Gaian Characters

Gaian Characters I

Gaian Senate

Aston Donane
Security Secretary

Karla Zawodny
Ecology Secretary

Ferdinand "Ferdy" McClusky
Trade Secretary

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Gaian Characters

Gaian Characters II

Gaian Senate

Elandriss Vecchio
Research Secretary

Armin Kuhler
Foreign Secretary

William Thamenani
Defense Secretary

Miye Yuki Tokubei
Home Secretary

[History Guy]

MORGANITE LEADERS I

The Top Bananas of Morgan Interstellar (First Part)

Nwabudike Morgan
President and CEO, Morgan Interstellar & Morgan Industries Combine

~ C.E.O. Nwabudike Morgan, the former Nambian diamond tycoon and CEO of Morgan Industries, now Morgan Interstellar. Though he is 500 years old, he has the money to get top-quality scientists to give him the best longevity vaccines. Born in 2005, Morgan gained his fame by selling weapons during the Sahara Burst Wars. He then became a hotel owner, and then bought several large diamond mines, founding Morgan Industries. He technically owned the Unity, as he had his own men build the ship and used his money to do so. His mind is still sharp, and his body is still in good condition. He makes all of the big decisions of Morgan Interstellar, but leaves the lesser decisions to his sub-ordinates. He is not as much a figure-head as some other ancient leaders, and like Zakharov still holds the keys in his faction.

Imran Siddiqui
President, Morgan Interstellar
Chief Advisor

~ Imran Siddiqui, Morgan's top advisor and second in control of Morgan Interstellar. He has also been kept alive on the longevity vaccines, and is Morgan's best friend. Siddiqui was born in 2018, son of an Arab millionaire from Iran. After receiving leg wounds from a mechanized infantry unit in the short-lived Oil Rebellion of 2038 while supporting the militaristic loyalist forces, who ultimately won. His father died the same year, and he (as the eldest son) inherited the business, a small oil company, and soon founded a large corporate empire through oil, and eventually sold it to the thriving Morgan Industries. He was smuggled aboard the Unity with Morgan himself. He is President of Morgan Interstellar. This means he makes the lesser decisions, although Morgan makes all extremely important ones.

Dr. Theodore Henry Temple
President, Morgan Industries
Chief Economics Advisor

~ T. H. Temple, quickly ascended corporate ladder of Morgan Interstellar to become one of the most trusted advisors of the CEO. Mr. Temple was actually born 150 years after Planetfall in Morgan Industries (the city itself), so he is one of the younger members of the Morgan Interstellar Board. He excelled in economics early on, and was one of Morgan's very best talents by the time he was voted into the Morganite advisor's board. He will become Morgan's right hand man. He is also the new President of the smaller Morgan Industries, which is a branch of Morgan Interstellar. It contains the Nessus and Alpha Centauri holdings as well as (eventually) the old Earth company.

Albert Marchand
General-In-Chief, Morganite Armies

~ Albert Marchand, commands Morgan's elite (though small) army. He was born in Morgan Solarflex 134 years after Planetfall in a militaristic family. His father was a militia captain in the city, and was quick to send his son to Spartan territory to learn the art of war. Albert got his fame through commanding the scout team that re-explored Chiron in the early 2600s. In this campaign, he defeated a small detachment of a scout team and a probe team under Datatech control and a mindworm attack from the Cult in two small skirmishes. He also engineered the exceptional defense of Morgan Mines during the Bree War. When the older General Maysfield died in 2632, Marchand was promoted to General-In-Chief by popular demand, as he was already a major hero to all of the common people and the well-to-do alike.

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Who is Who, Terran edition MLCC - 2700, Volume I, First chapter.

Tremaine, Henry Gerald (2643 - )
President of the Earth Coalition

Henry Tremaine, son of M.D. Richard and Chem. Engineer Julia Tremaine, was born in Glasgow, Europe (former Scotland) in the year 2643. Henry had an older sister, who passed away when Tremaine was two years old.
At the age of five, Henry attended the local public school at the suburbs of Glasgow. He grew up as an "intelligent" and "polite" young man, who, after second stage education, applied and was accepted to the faculty of Global Economics at Cambridge University. He graduated with good grades at the age of 23.
In 2665, Tremaine decided to join the Democratic Union of Earth, a right-wing party that at the time was in opposition, and favored open relations with other races and factions in Sol. In 2679, Tremaine was elected as a Regional Council member of Southern Scotland. The same year his father died to a heart attack.
In 2676, Tremaine married Gloria Hayworth, and in 2686 Gloria gave birth to Fiona Tremaine.
In 2684, with a landslide win, the DUE gained a large majority (176 out of 400) in the Earth Parliament. At this time Tremaine had achieved a prominent position as a member of DUE, and was appointed as the Minister of Economics, and the vice-prime minister after the Minister of Defence. Tremaine started to become a favorite political character amidst Earth population.
In 2693, the DUE candidate Darien Faloncé was elected president for second period.
In 2698, Faloncé announced that he was not going to rerun for a third period, as he had "personal problems", relating to the offworld colony Capella. Faloncé also told of plans to move to Terra Nova. Thus, a DUE meeting concluded that Henry Tremaine would be the DUE candidate opposing the Central Isolationist Party candidate Desdemona Skylark. Tremaine gained a full 59 % percent vote in the first round, and was directly elected as President.
In the beginning of the 28th Century, Tremaine is on the second year of his first five-year period as President. The President's powers are somewhat limited, but with a DUE Prime Minister and majority Parliament, it is predicted that Coalition will direct more of it's efforts into trading and conversing with other factions. But, not only peace is on their agenda, and more fund are being allocated to constructing new ships, especially the new Battlecruiser class that is expected to gain Terran Alliance a formidable momentum, as it is the first Terran ship utilizing Ion Cannon technology gained from the Scions.

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Characters for the Drone Republic:

Maxwell, Ethan:

Born Rotarua, New Zealand, Earth, 2010. A co-conspirator in Foreman Domai's drone uprising on the Unity, Maxwell was for many years the second man in the Free Drone faction. Stripped of his governmental position after the Civil War, he continued as a lobbyist and a voice for supporters of the old order. Sensationally elected to the Senate in the final phase of the Long-Term Plan; there he advocates many ideas characteristic of the Domai era, including anti-capitalism and the use of force to achieve national goals.

Adams, Kristy:

Born Free Drone Central, Chiron, 2555. Graduated from Galactic University in 2578; earned doctorate in political science in 2581, receiving special mention from the Vice Provost for her thesis, "The Effects of Religion on Politics Since the Fall of Earth". In 2589 became the youngest member of the Interim Council, representing the New Republic Party. Served as Ambassador to the Spartan Federation from 2603 to 2610. Chosen as leader of the New Republic Party in 2615. Elected President in 2632, promising economic prosperity and education reform.

Sorensen, Derek:

Born Anvil of Man, Chiron, 2499. Graduated from Galactic University in 2519; earned doctorate in astrophysics and advanced spatial mechanics in 2523. Taught these subjects at Galactic University between 2523 and 2531. Relocated to Vega Prime to study the ruins there in 2535. Widely regarded as the greatest scientist in Drone history.

[Kassiopeia]

Who is Who, Terran edition MLCC - 2700, Volume one, Second chapter

Drecaille, Elise Penelope (2659 -)
Prime Minister of Coalition cabinet
Member of Parliament (DUE)

Elise Drecaille is the Prime Minister of Coalition. The Prime Minister's powers are almost as great as the ones of the President, and co-operation of these two persons is vital to Earth goverment. The Prime Minister is selected to form the Cabinet by the president, and usually is the leader of his/her party, this time Democratic Union of Earth.

Coracao, Roberto (2645 -)
Chairman of Coalition Parliament
Member of Parliament (EDW)

The Chairman of Coalition Parliament directs speech in the Parliament sessions, and holds a resoluting vote should the vote go even. The Chairman is usually a member of some other goverment party then the largest one, this time Economic Development of World party, a prominent supporter of InEn.

Skylark, Desdemona Theresia (2651 -)
Opposition Leader of Coalition Parliament
Member of Parliament (CPP)

The Opposition is the element in the democracy of Earth that keeps the goverment awake. It usually makes proposals and even declares votes of non-confidency to be arranged, in order to gain support and possibly win the elections next time. Central Planetary Party has been in opposition for three elections in a row.
Desdemona Skylark, who ran in the presidential election opposing Henry Tremaine, is considered a very devious politician, and people expect her to do her best at questioning the current goverment.

[Kassiopeia]

Who is Who, Terran edition MLCC - 2700, Volume two, First chapter

Wakazashi, Michael Jonathan (2647 -)
Admiral of Coalition Navy
Supreme Commanding Officer of Military Forces (COMF)

Michael Jonathan Wakazashi is the son of the renown Marine Commander Jonathan Croydon and Professor Aki Wakazashi. Croydon and Wakazashi divorced before the birth of Michael, and Croydon allowed Wakazashi to take custody of Michael, as long as he would be sent to the Melbourne School of Naval and Marine Operations (MSNMO), one of the most prestiged military schools on Earth aside with The Military Academy of Earth at South Africa and the Navy Education Centre in Canada.
And so it was done. In 2663 he attended the MSNMO, in the area of Naval Navigational Studies, and graduated as a full-fledged astronavigator in 2671. Then he continued to study becoming a fighter pilot, but soon dropped out and instead enlisted to serve as an Ensign in Nav Ops on a patrol scout ECS Camelot in Capella system. In 2675 he was promoted to the rank of Navigation Officer on the Camelot after performing outstanding service, and was promoted to Lieutenant.
In 2677, after six years in Capella, he was transferred to the task of 2nd Navigation Officer on a Cruiser set to guard the Rhea monitoring station on Saturn region. Soon after starting, a renown marauder group called Outlaws launched a strike there, perusing mostly old, out-of-date stolen and illegally purchased Terran hardware, but in rather good condition and large numbers. Five Cruiser class ships were forced to fend off a force three times larger.
After some exchange of fire, the Captain and First Officer of Stratford, the ship Wakazashi served at, were killed in a targeted shot to the bridge. Wakazashi quickly assumed command, set up a temporal bridge to Nav Ops and directed the fleet of five ships to the rings of Saturn.
With his increased tactical skills, and the ability to carefully formulate three dimensional patterns in his mind, he was able to co-ordinate a very effective counter-attack on the marauders. When reinforcements arrived, there were only three marauder ships remaining, and they surrendered immediately.
This act earned Wakazashi a Medal of Combat Excellency, and, once Stratford was repaired and remodified to a Heavy Cruiser, the post of and promotion to Captain. This happened in 2681.
Captain Wakazashi was issued the duties of trade convoy patrols through rather turbulent unaffiliated regions of space, from Earth to Gaians and Cyborgs. In these missions, Stratford and other Heavy Cruiser class vehicles sustained a perfect combat record, and Wakazashi was soon considered the Commanding Officer of the entire Protectionate Fleet 22.
This allowed Wakazashi to both hone his skills as co-ordinating efforts of several ships, an ability he had succesfully demonstrated before, and could gain valuable colleague friends, such as Cpt. Heline (Later on Admiral). Wakazashi also started to bear a fame of a great leader, and was even approached by some small political parties to act as a vote-attractor.
In 2692 it was time for another refit of Stratford, and Captain Wakazashi returned to Sol. He was presented a promotion to Admiral, after seventeen years of field service, eleven of them as a ship's captain.
And, as if this would of not been enough, his excellent career finally reached it's peak as in 2697 the former Commanding Officer of Military Forces, the highest-ranking military officer in Coalition, appointed Wakazashi as his successor. The first thing after stepping into office was upgrading ECS Stratford to a Dreadnought class ship. It, ECS Melbourne and the commanding flagship Solaris are the only dreadnoughts and mainstays of the Earth Navy.

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Who is Who, Terran edition MLCC - 2700, Volume two, Second chapter

Heline, Andrew Zacharias (2657 -)
Admiral
Second in Command of COMF

Educated at the same school as the COMF Admiral Wakazashi, at Melbourne, Andrew Heline also served in the Protectionate Fleet 22 with Wakazashi. The two were promoted at the same time to Admirals, and are rather close friends. Thus it was natural that Wakazashi appointed Heline as his second in command.

Rosenberg, Suzanne Diane (2658 -)
General
Supreme Commander of Coalition Marine Corps

Suzanne Rosenberg is a student of The Military Academy of Earth at South Africa. She attended the Advanced Officer studies there, and joined Coalition Marine Corps in 2680. After getting promoted to Colonel, she directed and lead a Marine detachment to a very succesfull seek and destroy mission deep into a Bree territory in 2684, destroying an installation possibly producing genetical pathogens. She was secretly awarded a Medal of Outstanding Courage after that, and continued to rise in the chain of command, until in 2694 she became the Supreme Commander of the Coalition Marines. She directs all operations requiring boarding other ships and attacking planet surface with infantry, and acts as the medium between the Marines and the Navy, the primary fields of Earth Military.

Endo, Ferninand Alvarez (2655 - )
Admiral
Defense Operations Commander
Ferdinand Endo is from Asiatic and Southern European origins, and was a primus student of his class of Areal Combat Operations at the Navy Education Centre in Toronto, Canada. Admiral Endo is responsible of co-ordinating and mobilizing Coalition defense in Sol at times of hostile attacks. His spesific authority covers Static Orbital Defense Systems and DOS's (Defense Only Ships), which are not usually equipped with burdening FTL drives, but are heavily armed and nimble at non-FTL speeds.

[Kassiopeia]

Who is Who, Terran edition MLCC - 2700, Volume two, First chapter

Kvaerner, Craylen Ulysses (2642 -)
President of Interplanetary Enterprises Incorporated

Craylen U. Kvaerner is the man holding most power in the corporate hierarchy of InEn. He has two percents of the share, and with the twelve largest owner families set aside, the largest single shareholder in the entire universe. He was educated in the Scandinavian University of Helsinki, and graduated with an almost perfect degree of International Trade and Interplanetary Economics. He was then recruited by a "head-hunter" to InEn, and steadily rose in rank for some twenty years, until in 2690 he was the second youngest InEn president in it's long history.
The president does all decisions regarding the company. He must, however, consult the board accompanied by representatives of the shareholders, and if necessary, the board will separately decide on a proper course of action.

Fernovski, Kayla (2662 -)
Vice president of Interplanetary Enterprises Inc.

Advisor and probable successor of president Kvaerner. Helps Kvaerner in management questions, carries out president's orders and oversees company assets.

Hedsteedt, Soren Mitchell (2631 -)
Retired Admiral of Coalition Navy

Chief Military Advisor of InEn Inc.
Hedsteet is the leader of InEn space fleets. As a former Navy admiral, he has respectable expertise over space battle strategies and tactics.

Kirkendahl, Maurice (2638 -)
Retired General of Coalition Marine Corps
Secondary Military Advisor of InEn Inc.

Responsible of InEn Infantry operations, whether in space (boarding) or planet surface. Officially equal in InEn hierarchy with MO-2 Hedsteedt, but since Naval operations are of such larger concern, Kirkendahl's talents are rarely completely perused.

Note:
What remains to be told about InEn military personnel is, that they are designated by a easily memorizable system of rank. The lowest possible rank (Marine Recruit, in comparison) is MU-7 = Military Unit 7. There are seven MS ranks, then seven MO (Military Officer) ranks. These designations are then possibly elaborated by adding an extra letter to inform of the type of soldier, I for Infantry and N for Navy. For example, a person of rank MU-4/I is a MU-4 ranked Infantry personnel.
Usually, highest Infantry rank is MO-4, and Navy rank MO-3. Soren Hedsteedt is MO-2N, Maurice Kirkendahl MO-2I, and president Kvaerner is the only one with the MO-1 rank.

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Who is Who, Terran edition MLCC - 2700, Volume two, Second chapter

Stormhill, Daniel Richard (2657 -)
Secretary General of Terran Alliance

Daniel Stormhill is the leader of Terran Alliance. He has no actual control over the Alliance members, but oversees and ensures that Alliance regulations are controlled, and also takes care of organizing different Alliance operations, such as the Terran Alliance Joint Task Force military co-operation program, the Terran Alliance Combined Research Effort project, and many others. He also runs the sessions of the Alliance council at TA Headquarters in Geneva, Earth.

Notrovsky, Luka (2663 -)
Vice Secretary General of Terran Alliance

Personal assistant and second-in-command of Secretary General Stormhill.

Hassinen, Tuomas Johannes (2658 -)
Supreme Liaison Officer of Terran Alliance Joint Task Forces

Handles the efforts of the multifactional military co-operation program Terran Alliance Joint Task Forces. He oversees military operations and appoints different tasks to different factions. The Terran Alliance JTF is only used when the Terran Alliance's Seventh Article, the one about joint defense, steps into activity. That means an Alliance member is attacked by a non-Alliance member.

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The Gaian Senate Freak Show

This is the Gaian Senate...

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Spartan Federation

Cyan Solo

Probe operative for Spartan Federation

Born: Last Rose of Summer on Chiron. 2333
Gaian mother, Spartan father

Cyan was raised a Spartan and was trained as Spartan Probe operative.
Somewhat high empathic abilities
Considered to be highly dangerous
Further training by exiled Data Angel probes
Currently in Cryo sleep on Sparta Prime

More on Cyan later when I have more time..