Jaseb Chevalier
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"By way of deception thou shalt do war." - Ethari proverb
Ensign Chevalier is currently serving as Operations Officer aboard the USS Artemis-A.
Appearance
- Height: 192cm (6' 3”)
- Hair: White
- Eyes: Blue & White
- Build: Athletic/Slender
Personality
Jaseb is a little measured when dealing with other people. He expects the worst from others, rarely shows his true self hidden behind the wall he built between himself and the surrounding world.
But, if you crack the wall, and then peel the onion, you can find a sweet, attentive, and sensitive boy, a direct opposite to cold, efficient, result focused men who present himself so.
Quarters
Jaseb's quarters are located on Deck 5, Sector 07, Compartment 12. The quarters are shared, although the second berth happens to be empty.
As of yet, he keeps his half quite startan. He has a couple REAL PAPER books on the shelf, a holographic altar of some kind and his Starfleet Academy diploma on the wall. He often listens to Bayran music in the privacy of his quarters.
Background
Jaseb was born on the non-Federation Human diaspora colony on the border of Tholian and Makus Sector, as a third child to the family of public servants. He had a happy childhood, but as he grew up, he started to realize what it means to be born as a third. His planet is a bare, resourceless place, and a population of the colony is heavily controlled to curb the colony population growth. Jaseb was destined to become a pilgrim - the one who is expected to leave. When he finished his primary education, his future was already written. He, altogether with other "third", was taken out of his family, and educated (someone would say conditioned) by their transhumanistic church - Sanctum Transpoli - about the "life outside".
At the age of 17 he was expected to leave, and he left. He spent the next two years among the stars, while trying to find his meaning in life. There he firstly came across something he hadn't seen before. Misunderstanding of his religion, condemnation for his looks, slanders and insults whispered behind his back. Even though he was third, he was never bullied nor offended by others before. Firstly, he was terrified and lost, but he hardened to the outside world quickly enough. He survived and decided on the only one career that made sense to him - and applied to the Starfleet Academy.
In 2400 he graduated Starfleet Academy with a major in Intelligence – with focus on data analysis and extraction - and a second major in Engineering - Cybernetics.
After graduation, he was assigned to the USS Artemis-A as one of its operations officers as his first official posting.
Service History
The mission was mostly played with alternate characters. See mission log - Both Sides Now (Artemis) - for details.
After the catastrophic drill, the Artemis was ordered to a research mission. During the intense scanning mission, the Artemis conducted deep-level sensor sweeps across the Borderlands, with the sensors running around the clock.[1] This being her first mission as the Assistant Chief Science Officer, Jovenan wanted good results, but was too eager and approved more research proposals than their resources allowed. Trying to fill in, Jovenan worked several shifts a day, exhausting herself.[2]
The nature of the mission changed dramatically, when a group of vessels crossed over from another universe. The research mission ended, and the Science Department administrative assistant Ailata Milath told her the science officers blamed her for the cancelled studies as well as the chaos before the events.[2]
One of the people that had crossed over was her counterpart, whom Jovenan went to meet. After the counterpart seemed to refuse to open the door of her temporary quarters, Jovenan introduced her through the door. Almost immediately, the alternate Jovenan rushed to hug Jovenan and pulled her in. The alternate Jovenan asked her which universe they were in, but Jovenan couldn't answer. The alternate Jovenan further questioned her of Divine Fleet (which Jovenan didn't know about) and Starfleet. The alternate Jovenan quickly determined that the Edo in the Prime universe were “nothing but sex-crazed hedonists who are too afraid to leave God’s Claims”, which Jovenan was ashamed to admit. The alternate Jovenan moved to reveal details of the Edo God, which she claimed were the same in different universes, surprising Jovenan. When Jovenan insisted her counterpart to assist her in finding out how to send them back, the alternate Jovenan instead interrupted her and requested her assistance, appealing to their shared faith.[2] After Jovenan refused, the alternate Jovenan tried to appeal to her rank as a mediator, making Jovenan pull out her community leader's necklace, indicating her status over her. The alternate Jovenan, however, took notice of the fact that Jovenan was hiding the necklace under her uniform turtleneck. This lead to her mocking Jovenan of her abandoning their culture.[3]
Jovenan resumed to study the "prismagons", devices that had caused the alternate universe ship to travel to their universe, working long days and nights to find a way to send them back. Despite the pressure to finish the research quickly, Jovenan was interrupted by Dakora, who asked her to join him in his office. There, Dakora and PO Xandeus Filistrien told her that they had intercepted a message, transmitted by fluctuation in the Desdemona's system, and was apparently written in her language. Jovenan quickly identified the text of the message as her native dialect, but since the message was only partial, she could only make out "somebody is going to do something to a deer vessel".[3] Jovenan informed Dakora of what had happened during her meeting with her counterpart, believing her to be deceitful and manipulative. Just then, Dakora found out a group of the Desdemona crewmembers had beamed over to the Artemis, including the counterparts of Jovenan and MacKenzie. Based on what they had learnt, they decided to warn the Captain and the security.[4]
The Captain ordered Jovenan to cooperate with Doctor Genkos Adea to try and find the ending for the message. She went to the Sickbay trying to find him in his office but was informed by Doctor Gila Sadar that Adea hasn't been there that day. After being asked, Sadar told that Adea hasn't been doing his normal shifts and has appeared busy since the arrival of the Desdemona. Jovenan began to suspect that Adea's odd behaviour might be Desdemona's crew's doing, and she informed Sadar of the possible attack.[5][6] They began to investigate Adea's odd behaviour and concluded that he might have been replaced by his counterpart. They believed the real Adea might be held in his quarters, and decided to enter there to find out.[7] They found Adea bound and gagged in his closet, alive and in relatively good condition.[8]
After freed Adea had joined Jovenan and Sadar, they learnt through the communications system that the crew of the Desdemona were claiming to have taken over all essential locations on the ship. Adea began to plan attacking the bridge with Jovenan and Sadar, who reluctantly accepted his orders.[9] Before just the three of them could leave for the bridge, they were contacted by Captain MacKenzie, who joined them together with Lt Silveira. The larger group planned that some of them would pretend to be their counterparts and others would be "captives", so that they could all go to the bridge without immediate resistance from the Desdemona crewmembers occupying it. Silveira pleaded them to fast so that he could go and rescue the alternate Jovenan.[10] Jovenan learnt that Silveira and her counterpart had started a romance, and was initially weirded out by it and refused to believe her counterpart was sincere in that relationship. She also worried how this might affect her collegial relationship with Silveira.[11]
The team procedeed with their plan. Jovenan, Adea and Sadar played the roles of their counterparts while MacKenzie and Silveira pretended to be their captives. The team was allowed to the bridge, where they found Silveira's counterpart Vitor Olivera, Ensign Flint Kader in role of his counterpart, and another Desdemona crewmember. Olivera initially fell for their ruse, but then contacted Colonel MacKenzie, the Captain's counterpart, asking if Jovenan's counterpart wasn't in her team. The team learnt that Mediator Jovenan had died after betraying the Desdemona crew. At that point, Jovenan realised she had been wrong on her counterpart. Meanwhile, Silveira became rageous and attacked his counterpart. Their ruse discovered, the team took over the bridge after a brief fight. Silveira planned to kill his counterpart, but they were interrupted by an approaching vessel and they took their stations. Kader informed it was nothing to worry about, and soon their deflector fired an energy burst and the approaching vessel, a Shint ship, disappeared, presumedly back to their universe. While she didn't know how Kader had acquired this information, he told them how they could send the Desdemona back to their universe. Jovenan however learnt that the Hazardous Materials Lab had been breached, a scientist working there killed and the prismagons stolen. Before they could do much more, Ensign Savel informed them that Hiro Jones had been severely injured in an explosion in the Sickbay.[11] This information nearly devastated Jovenan, and Doctor Adea left the bridge to help him.[12]
The bridge crew began to track down the attackers and report the status around the ship to the Captain. Jovenan found the stolen prismagon container using its locator beacon.[12] Genkos Adea, Doctor Adea's counterpart, escaped with a stolen shuttle while the Artemis was holding the Desdemona from fleeing. Meanwhile, Commander Dakora and his team secured the prismagons.[13] After a while, Ensign Kawarda informed Jovenan that he might have made an accidental breakthrough in the study of the prismagons, and Jovenan asked the Captain to join him. By this time, they had already located and detained or killed all remaining Desdemona crewmembers on the Artemis. A few hours of research and installation work later, the Captain ordered the crew to create an opening between the universes and send the Desdemona back to their home reality.[14]
The Artemis spent the shoreleave near Betazed.
Jovenan was invited to a ritual held to the alternate universe counterpart of Jaseb Chevalier by Petty Officer Damien Black, together with Doctor Adea. Chevalier's counterpart, Jaseb, had died during the previous mission and had apparently addressed Jovenan's counterpart as his friend before his death. The event consisted of a ritual washing of the body. Jovenan felt discomfort about touching a dead person, but when on with the ritual nevertheless. They discussed matters of spirituality and religion.[15][16]
Dakora visited Jovenan at the Artemis Science Centre. He wanted to talk about how Jovenan was feeling after the mission, but Jovenan could tell that the mission had been challenging to Dakora as well. They tried helping each other, and they became closer as a result.[17][18]
Jovenan also had a medical checkup done by Doctor Sadar.[19]
Relationships
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| Timothee Father |
Jaseb's relationship with his father could be described as strained at best. His father is a man of few words and many expectations, but as Jaseb was a third child, there was little to none for him. | |
| Ana Mother |
Jaseb's mother always loved him, and helped him to grow into a man he's today. In contrast to his father, Mother never saw him as a burden that third children are considered to be. | |
| Thomas Oldest brother |
Thomas, as a first child in the family, was always the one on the pedestal, Jaseb as third, overlooked and ignored. Thomas path was to become Thanata, as their father was, Jacob's path was to become a pilgrim. Their social status divided them more than nine years of age difference. They never grew up to be close to each other. | |
| Damien Older brother |
Damien was always close to Jacob's heart. They both were free children, unbound by family obligations and traditions. They could always be what they wanted to be. And they both always enjoyed it to the fullest. | |
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Current Crew
NPC Listing · USS Artemis-A Crew Manifest · Crew History
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- ↑ The mission to scan stuff, LtCmdr Yogan Yalu, USS Artemis-A, 240009.29
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 We are not so different, LtJG Jovenan & MdJG Jovenan, USS Artemis-A, 240010.09
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Linian vajos ren, jialon res, LtJG Jovenan, USS Artemis-A, 240010.29
- ↑ The war against bad poets, LtJG Jovenan, USS Artemis-A, 240011.02
- ↑ Somebody’s playing truant, LtJG Jovenan, USS Artemis-A, 240011.04
- ↑ Paranoid rambling, LtJG Jovenan, USS Artemis-A, 240011.05
- ↑ Nobody trusts a panicking leader, LtJG Jovenan, USS Artemis-A, 240011.08
- ↑ Out of the closet, LtJG Jovenan, USS Artemis-A, 240011.12
- ↑ Leaving the closet to join the fight, LtJG Jovenan, USS Artemis-A, 240011.13
- ↑ Catching up, LtJG Jovenan, USS Artemis-A, 240011.16
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow" -Tolstoy, LtJG Jovenan, USS Artemis-A, 240011.19
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Sad days feed themselves, LtJG Jovenan, USS Artemis-A, 240011.21
- ↑ Desperation, this time not from us, LtJG Jovenan, USS Artemis-A, 240011.25
- ↑ Opening the Gates of the Universes, USS Artemis-A, 240011.30
- ↑ The New Acquaintance with Death, LtJG Jovenan, USS Artemis-A, 240012.06
- ↑ In the deep end, LtJG Jovenan, USS Artemis-A, 240012.09
- ↑ I wish I knew the words, LtJG Jovenan, USS Artemis-A, 240012.05
- ↑ From shadows to sunshine, LtJG Jovenan, USS Artemis-A, 240012.13
- ↑ Bumps and bruises, nothing serious so far, LtJG Jovenan, USS Artemis-A, 240012.17