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===Hobbies and Pastimes=== | ===Hobbies and Pastimes=== | ||
* '''Non-Lethal Weapons Development''' - During his deployment on the [[USS Independence-A]], Nickels undertook a project to develop non-lethal weaponry that could be deployed against a group of pirates that had stolen a Starfleet vessel, the USS Phoenix. He was proud of the designs he created and deployed, and was all the more shocked when none were used. The incursion into the Phoenix was a bloodbath, with the Independence's Marines and command staff using lethal force at every opportunity. Since then, Nickels has become something of an obsessive materials engineer, a mad genius in his own way. He is constantly utilizing modern technology in new ways to develop ways to stun, baffle, batter, dazzle, befuddle, heckle and incapacitate. Among some of his more innovative ideas are a stun grenade called the ''Beatdown Ball'', a specialized gel round for the TR-116 that deploys a shock heavy enough to discomfit a [[Nausicaan]], an ocarina-sized sonic weapon called the ''Missile Whistle'' that creates a compressed audio wave that strikes with physical force, and the ''Tesserbat'', a construction of folded rodinium plates and a tektite core that uses kinetic energy to assemble itself into a regulation-length baseball bat when one swings the handle. | * '''Non-Lethal Weapons Development''' - Sometimes, a phaser just isn't enough, or it's too much. During his deployment on the [[USS Independence-A]], Nickels undertook a project to develop non-lethal weaponry as alternatives to phasers that could be deployed against a group of pirates that had stolen a Starfleet vessel, the USS Phoenix. He was proud of the designs he created and deployed, and was all the more shocked when none were used. The incursion into the Phoenix was a bloodbath, with the Independence's Marines and command staff using lethal force at every opportunity. Since then, Nickels has become something of an obsessive materials engineer, a mad genius in his own way. He is constantly utilizing modern technology in new ways to develop ways to stun, baffle, batter, dazzle, befuddle, heckle and incapacitate. Among some of his more innovative ideas are a stun grenade called the ''Beatdown Ball'', a specialized gel round for the TR-116 that deploys a shock heavy enough to discomfit a [[Nausicaan]], an ocarina-sized sonic weapon called the ''Missile Whistle'' that creates a compressed audio wave that strikes with physical force, and the ''Tesserbat'', a construction of folded rodinium plates and a tektite core that uses kinetic energy to assemble itself into a regulation-length baseball bat when one swings the handle. | ||
* '''Magic''' - Once upon a time, a student at San Francisco's Starfleet Academy saw Nickels Luciano crossing the quad, casually making his nickel appear and disappear from his closed fist, and asked if he was a magician. Nicky had no idea what the student was talking about, but looked it up, and shortly he began studying legerdemain and sleight-of-hand, and registered with the Galactic Brotherhood of Magicians as a close-up magician just before graduating from the Academy. Although he primarily focused on coin tricks, he is also adept with making other small objects appear and disappear and many forms of card magic. | * '''Magic''' - Once upon a time, a student at San Francisco's Starfleet Academy saw Nickels Luciano crossing the quad, casually making his nickel appear and disappear from his closed fist, and asked if he was a magician. Nicky had no idea what the student was talking about, but looked it up, and shortly he began studying legerdemain and sleight-of-hand, and registered with the Galactic Brotherhood of Magicians as a close-up magician just before graduating from the Academy. Although he primarily focused on coin tricks, he is also adept with making other small objects appear and disappear and many forms of card magic. | ||
* '''Pistoleering''' - Nickels is a crack shot with his antiquated .45 automatics, and enjoys target shooting and shooting skeet with them, although he has to be careful about using projectile weapons on a starship. He's become increasingly satisfied with simulated pistol shooting, though, and is a patient - if wisecracking - teacher for anyone who wishes to learn the old art. | * '''Pistoleering''' - Nickels is a crack shot with his antiquated .45 automatics, and enjoys target shooting and shooting skeet with them, although he has to be careful about using projectile weapons on a starship. He's become increasingly satisfied with simulated pistol shooting, though, and is a patient - if wisecracking - teacher for anyone who wishes to learn the old art. | ||
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===Ambitions and Goals=== | ===Ambitions and Goals=== | ||
Nickels has one simple aspiration: to make his family proud. Bound up in that is a complex Gordian knot of ideas, emotions, plans and scams. He wants to rise in Starfleet to make his mother proud and show that she was right to sacrifice so much to free her baby boy from the confines of the Living Museum. He wants to find ways to make his Starfleet gig as profitable as possible because if you're not breaking the law then you're not really having fun, as his father taught him. He wants to make himself as capable and feared a fighter as he can, to protect those he loves so no one he cares about dies like his brother Rocky. He wants to find a place for himself in the galaxy - he's a man out of time, a throwback to a distant era that even his own people see as a joke. | |||
==Family== | ==Family== | ||
*Parents | |||
** '''Father''': Joseph Nicholas Carlos Stefano "Joe Bananas" Luciano - Joe Bananas is a hard man. He's a 7th generation Bookie; his family changed their hereditary name, Zabo to honor Charles "Lucky" Luciano, one of the luminaries from the [http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Chicago_Mobs_of_the_Twenties Book]. Joe Luciano follows all the old ways; he is a robber, a protection man, a blackmailer, a leg breaker, and a racketeer. He smuggles, he exports, and he raises hell. He passed his steely old ways on to his children, raising them to be as hard and brutal as he was. When they showed skill, he used them as tools and weapons in his quest to become the most dangerous man in the Living Museum. This is a rather strange goal on the face of it - it's like becoming the most dangerous costumed mouse in the theme park, but the Okymyx Chicago Living Museum is like no other theme park. It is not the Happiest Place on Sigma Iotia. It is not a Magic Kingdom. It is a place where tourists come to see the past come to life and the past dies in alleys, living lives that are nasty, brutish and short. Joe Bananas exemplifies this. He was furious when he found that his wife and eldest daughter had smuggled Nickels off the planet and off to a fancy boarding school to get him ready for life in the Academy - Nickels had been a great money-maker for him, a clever thief and a ruthless street fighter. After years of seething, he finally struck on a plan to get Nickels back to Sigma Iotia. It was a plan that cost Nickels his position in Starfleet and cost his oldest brother his life. Nickels has sworn never to go back to Sigma Iotia again - but Joe Bananas knows that if he got him once, he can get him again. | |||
** '''Mother''': Mary Catherine Alouette "The Hellcat" Hellene | |||
*Siblings: | |||
** William Adiamo Charles Truffalo "Truffles" Luciano | |||
** Timoteo Bela Erasmus Mariano "Timmy the Wrench" Luciano | |||
** Peter Thomas Tarantello Nelson "Rocky" Luciano | |||
** Serafina Cindel Quintella Maria "Sarah Fives" Luciano | |||
** Tara Bridget Katerina Doncella "The Nail" Luciano | |||
==Personal History== | ==Personal History== | ||
===Awards & Commendations=== | ===Awards & Commendations=== | ||
* '''The Order of StarFleet Merit and Achievement 1''': 238701.27 | * '''The Order of StarFleet Merit and Achievement 1''': 238701.27 | ||
* '''B-Plot Award''': 238701.27 | * '''B-Plot Award''': 238701.27 | ||