Theo Whittaker: Difference between revisions

*'''[[Missing In Action (Columbia)]]''': Newly promoted to Captain, Theo is reassigned to command his beloved [[USS Columbia]] along with the crew of the [[USS Blackwell]]. After two separate confrontations with Professor Olivia Sellards over the defensive emplacements installed during the construction of [[Dehner Base]] leaves him restless and annoyed, Theo- over the initial objects of new first officer Lieutenant Commander [[Jarred Thoran]]- takes his captain's yacht, the [[USS Kumari]] out for a test drive arguing that he has not logged an hour of space flight in an auxiliary vessel for over a year. Several hours after departure, the Kumari crash lands on a Class M moon in orbit of a gas giant close to the Solerian Rift. Theo is not that injured by the rough crashing landing, but his security escort is and needs urgent medical attention back aboard the USS Columbia- who have only just begun to search for their missing CO. Shortly after coming to, an unknown human-looking stranger rips the outer doors off of the Kumari and then boards her, knocking Theo out once again. Regaining consciousness in a cave, he discovers he is now under guard and separated from Lieutenant Haneer and Crewman Skalvok and encounters Adlynn Verne, the leader of a group of humans that he comes to realise are Augments descended from the genetic super-soldiers who ruled much of Earth during the Eugenics Wars of the 20th century. He repeatedly denies her request for Starfleet technology, even going as far as to lie to her. She refuses his explanation that Starfleet is on a mission of exploration and continues to do even when is backed up by members of a rescue team from the Columbia. He orders [[Luna Walker]] to stand down when she becomes hostile towards Verne and allows Mirra to remain in command given his compromised state.