Hayden Reynolds

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Lieutenant Hayden Reynolds currently serves as a senior medical officer aboard the USS Independence-A. He is a personal NPC/secondary of Lieutenant Commander Lily Ventu.

Stats

Current Rank: Lieutenant
Duty Post: Medical Specialist
Current Vessel: USS Independence-A
Date Assigned: 2375
Species: Terran
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: January 31, 2354
Place of Birth: New York, Earth

Appearance

Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Height: 6'

Family History

Mother: Naomi James
Father: Matthew Reynolds
Siblings: Susie Reynolds (b. 2358)
Spouse: None
Children: None

History

Hayden was identified early on as extremely intelligent; he graduated high school at fourteen. He had several social problems; primarily, he had trouble fitting in with people his own age. Upon graduating, he decided to dual enroll at both Starfleet Academy and the California Institute of Medicine, as he thought the combination would be the most challenging of all the options presented to him. By nineteen, he had completed his sequences of study at both institutions, and he was assigned as a medical ensign to Starbase 515 in 2373. He stayed there for two years, contributing greatly to the medical research and leaving copious notes. In those two years, he was also advanced two ranks, making it up to full lieutenant.
In the last days of 2375, Hayden was reassigned to the exploratory vessel Kestrel as its CMO. As the CMO, he would have the chance to explore strange new diseases and medicines firsthand, and he quickly accepted.
Early in the morning of January 15, 2376, the Kestrel had just passed beyond Federation space - Deep Space 15 had gone to aft about twelve hours earlier. Half a day later, DS15 received an emergency distress call from the ship - the Kestrel had encountered an unknown anomaly that had caused massive damage, and they were experiencing a warp core breach. DS15 immediately sent ships to investigate, but there was nothing left - the Kestrel had vanished without a trace. There were no escape pods, no debris, no ion trail leading away, and no sign of the strange anomaly. With no conclusive data, Starfleet notified the families of the one hundred and eighty-six people aboard the Kestrel that they were 'missing in action'.
A year and a half later, Hayden's notes were rediscovered by another bright young ensign at Starbase 515, Nick Parks. Since Nick's interests lay outside of the medical field and more in the realm of subspace theory, he found most of Hayden's journals of little interest - until the Kestrel incident. Hayden talked extensively about perhaps seeing the anomaly that the Kestrel had reported before its disappearance. Nick researched the anomaly, and the Kestrel, until, finally, he discovered something....
The Kestrel had not been destroyed. The anomaly had acted as an extreme point of interdimensional fatigue, and the Kestrel had fallen into a pocket of antispace, a kind of bubble in subspace. It took him the better part of two years, but Nick eventually found a way to punch a communications signal through, and there he made contact with Hayden. Hayden reported that most of the crew had been killed in the initial pull-through, and those that hadn't had died in several attempts to punch back through. He, Hayden, was the only survivor.
Nick has, at Hayden's request, been attempting to find a way to bring him back. However, Nick's alone in the endeavor, as no one else will believe Hayden is real; in order for the communication to work, Nick had to operate it - the device works only because it is keyed into Nick's very thoughts.
In August of 2384, after the decommissioning of the Triumphant, Nick was able to focus all of his time on Hayden's problem, and figure out a way to bring him back. The experiment destroyed his lab and nearly killed him, but it worked; Hayden was returned to the land of the living.
He was debriefed for several weeks before being granted clearance to return to his duties. He was posted, at the urging of Nick and then at his own request, to the Independence, to assist the new CMO.

Previous Assignments

Rank at Time	Assignment	Post Held
Ensign	Starbase 515	Medical Researcher - 237311.05 to 237406.08
Lieutenant JG	Starbase 515	Medical Researcher - 237406.08 to 237412.29
Lieutenant	Starbase 515	Medical Researcher - 237412.29 to 237512.05
Lieutenant	USS Kestrel	Chief Medical Officer - 237512.21 to 237501.15 (missing in action)
Lieutenant	USS Independence-A	Medical Officer - Doctor - 238409.01 - present