Elias Burke
Ensign Elias Joshua Burke, commonly known as Eli, is currently serving as a low-level engineer aboard the USS Gorkon in the Tyrellian sector. He graduated the StarFleet Academy on Earth in the spring of 2393, toured aboard the USS Centris-A for his required one year of field training, and was posted to the Gorkon in the fall of 2394 under the command of Rear Admiral Quinn Reynolds.
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| Elias Joshua Burke | ||
| Position | Operations Officer | |
| Rank | Ensign | |
| Species | Human | |
| Gender | Male | |
| DOB | 237001.18 | |
| Age | 31 | |
| Birthplace | Olympianus, Mars | |
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Appearance
- Height: 1.83m
- Weight: 86.2kg
- Hair: Dark Brown
- Eyes: Hazel
Personal Background and Career History
Eli was born at a Utopia Planetia medical facility on the northern slopes of Olympus Mons, in Olypianus City on Mars. He was born on star date 237001.18 to Joshua and Elizabeth Burke, Joshua was an employee of the Utopia Planetia shipyard in orbit above Mars. Joshua and Elizabeth had been unable to conceive children and as a last attempt the couple resorted to a new, experimental procedure to induce conception of which Elias was a product. The couple were devout Christians and considered the birth of Elias to be an answer to their prayers for a child, thus they name him Eli (Hebrew: Eliyahu, Jehovah is God).
Elizabeth was a passionate astrophysicist and worked aboard an orbital observatory above Deimos. For the first three years of his life Eli lived there with his mother while his father, Joshua, worked at the UP shipyards, but at age 4 Eli and his mother moved to the personnel level at the UP shipyard's hab-facility so that Eli could begin attending school there.
Eli excelled in all of his classes and at a young age it became obvious the boy had a passion for learning, the school was soon not enough for him. At age 12 Eli began working with his father after school on small projects for Joshua's deck manager; at age 14 Eli was working right along side his father and his father's fellow engineers as a veritable equal with dreams of one day becoming an engineer in StarFleet. At age 17 Eli enrolled at Columbia Mons' Ares University with a specialization in aerospace engineering.
Ares University opened Eli's claustrophobic mindset, raised almost entirely in the cramped quarters of Utopia Planetia space stations, and broadened his once very close horizons. He fell in love for the first time and made friends he thought he never would, particularly with a Ferengi philosophy major named Nebb. His friendship with Nebb revealed whole new philosophical worlds to Eli and soon his already unstable Christianity, inherited from his parents, began to crumble. When confronted by the great wealth of evil in the universe and its seemingly inherent meaninglessness - particularly the evils of the 2388 martian quakes responsible for the deaths of thousands across Mars and the heavy civilian casualties of the Dominion War and its make subsidiary conflicts - Eli revoked his Christianity and declared himself an evangelical atheist. His parents were devastated. They pleaded with their son to reconsider and to speak with academic Christian apologists on Earth, but Eli would not listen.
In the spring of 2389 Eli graduated from Ares University with plans of joining Utopia Planetia as an assistant supervisor in the core of engineers. However, when his three-year girlfriend broke up with his two weeks after graduation Eli had a shift in priorities. Intent on leaving Mars behind Eli looked back to his dream of joining StarFleet and signed up to attend the Academy in San Fransisco on Earth.
Service History
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| Insignia | Rank | Dates | Posting | Assignment |
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Cadet First Class | 239304.18 - 239409.26 | USS Centris-A | Engineer in Training |
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Ensign | 239409.26 - current | USS Gorkon | Engineer |
NPC Listing · USS Gorkon Crew Manifest · Crew History
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