Ekkridai

Crew of USS Victory
Chief Warrant Officer 2nd Rank
Gender: Male Position: Chief of Cetacean Sciences Ship: USS Eagle Rank: Chief Warrant Officer 2nd Rank Race: Dolphin PNPC of Katy Orman Edit this nav

Ekkridai is a PNPC on board the USS Eagle.

Stats

• Full Name: a frequency-modulated narrow-band signature whistle that humans can't hear most of, much less produce. But Ekkridai will do fine.
• Current Rank: Chief Warrant Officer 2nd Rank
• Race: Pacific Bottlenose Dolphin
• Age: 11 years
• Place of Birth: Earth, Pacific Ocean, near the Emperor Seamounts
• Gender: Male
• Telepathic status: 0

Appearance

• Length: 8'10"
• Weight: 526 lbs
• Colour Pattern: silver-grey, white underbelly.
• Eye Color: Dark grey irises, horseshoe-shaped pupils

Family

• Pod: 3 other males in the cetacean tank onboard the Eagle.

Backstory

Ekkridai was born to a pod in the South Pacific. He first encountered humans while still at his mother's side, and was fascinated by the way they used so many tools to aid them. This fascination, once he left his mother's pod, led him to the Cetacean Center at the big island of Hawaii. It was there that Ekkridai learned to communicate with humans, through the use of translation machines. By a happy coincidence, not long after Ekkridai arrived there was a call for a group of cetaceans to join a Federation research project, and Ekkridai jumped at the chance. Thus began his Starfleet career. Since then, he has done many projects, and has taught himself as much science as he could. Currently his pod (himself and 3 other anthrophilic fen) is conducting a long-term study onboard the Eagle, and he has several side projects of his own as well.

Important notes

1. A cetacean brain is somewhat different from the brain of a humanoid, and their way of thinking rather different as well. As such, while telepaths can read their thoughts and emotions, the foreign brain structure and nonhumanoid perspective makes them often very difficult to understand or interpret.
2. Dolphins like Ekkridai use sound imaging, not reflected light, as their primary sense. As a result, they have casual access to information that humans do not. When Ekkridai encounters a person, he can tell that person's relative densities (the practical upshot of which is that he knows your anatomy, your heartrate, any implants or tumours you have, whether you're pregnant, whether you're hiding a weapon, what you've got in your pockets, what you're holding behind your back, etc., and will have known this long before you turned the corner and saw him.)