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<h3>{{LCARS-bar-left|Appearance|150|COLOR=SteelBlue}}</h3> | <h3>{{LCARS-bar-left|Appearance|150|COLOR=SteelBlue}}</h3> | ||
Taelon is extremely tall, the first thing most notice about him - he stands at 6’8, and with not being fully grown yet, there’s the possibility he might grow even taller. His features are generally equine, with an elegantly tapered nose and sharp features. His lips are full and his eyes are large and bright blue, his skin dark and ruddy. A line of freckles traces over his nose and cheeks. His build is slim but muscular, the general build of a runner or swimmer. | |||
Taelon is extremely tall, the first thing most notice about him - he stands at 6’8, and with not being fully grown yet, there’s the possibility he might grow even taller. His features are generally equine, with an elegantly tapered nose and sharp features. His lips are full and his eyes are large and bright blue, his skin | |||
He looks young, despite his age - because, for his species, he is. Taelon is technically not fully grown, currently in his late adolescent phase and on the cusp of full adulthood. It shows in his slightly more childlike features and mannerisms. | He looks young, despite his age - because, for his species, he is. Taelon is technically not fully grown, currently in his late adolescent phase and on the cusp of full adulthood. It shows in his slightly more childlike features and mannerisms. He doesn’t dress well, and usually wears his uniform even when off duty. While his personal clothing is generally passable, most of it is tattered and old, and he’s yet to get around to buying new ones. He wears plenty of jewelry, most noticeably his nose bridge piercings. | ||
Taelon also bears a tattoo on his forearm. It started simply when he joined the Academy; he’s enhanced it since joining (and leaving) Starfleet, as is traditional for his culture. | |||
Taelon also bears a tattoo on his forearm. It started simply when he joined the Academy; he’s enhanced it since joining | |||
<h4 style="text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 15px;">Mannerisms</h4> | <h4 style="text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 15px;">Mannerisms</h4> | ||
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On the positive side, Taelon is intelligent, dedicated to his work, and very adaptable - he’s a mutable sort who tends to mold himself to fit whomever he happens to be with. He’s eager to learn new things and tell others about them, and has a core of considerable energy that he pours into his work and personal life. He has a good (if somewhat dark) sense of humor and a warm regard for the universe as a whole. | On the positive side, Taelon is intelligent, dedicated to his work, and very adaptable - he’s a mutable sort who tends to mold himself to fit whomever he happens to be with. He’s eager to learn new things and tell others about them, and has a core of considerable energy that he pours into his work and personal life. He has a good (if somewhat dark) sense of humor and a warm regard for the universe as a whole. | ||
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He assumes the worst of himself and of his social interactions. He sees even minor mistakes as disasters and struggles to overcome them, and in a new situation like his recent deployment tends to assume even the slightest failure will ruin any chance he has of being thought well of. Even assuring words don’t help, as he tends to see his fears as fact - any assurance is just others being polite and not wanting to put him on the spot, but they must all think he’s useless. He doesn’t recognise his anxieties as something treatable, but rather as a personal flaw he should hide. | He assumes the worst of himself and of his social interactions. He sees even minor mistakes as disasters and struggles to overcome them, and in a new situation like his recent deployment tends to assume even the slightest failure will ruin any chance he has of being thought well of. Even assuring words don’t help, as he tends to see his fears as fact - any assurance is just others being polite and not wanting to put him on the spot, but they must all think he’s useless. He doesn’t recognise his anxieties as something treatable, but rather as a personal flaw he should hide. | ||
Being naive and more or less desperate for affection, he’s quite easily manipulated - quick to trust and cling to anyone who appears to notice he exists and quick to | Being naive and more or less desperate for affection, he’s quite easily manipulated - quick to trust and cling to anyone who appears to notice he exists and quick to rationalize away nearly any action they take. He might even take such actions as a lesson about how the universe works. | ||
Somewhere under his layers of self-defeating depression is a warm, caring person who wants to make the galaxy a better place. Taelon has the capability to be brave and self-sufficient, but hasn’t had the courage to learn that about himself yet. | Somewhere under his layers of self-defeating depression is a warm, caring person who wants to make the galaxy a better place. Taelon has the capability to be brave and self-sufficient, but hasn’t had the courage to learn that about himself yet. | ||
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[[File:Cestus_III_remastered.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Cestus III]] | [[File:Cestus_III_remastered.jpg|300px|right|thumb|Cestus III]] | ||
<h4 style="text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 15px;">Life on Cestus III [2358 - 2388]</h4> | <h4 style="text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 15px;">Life on Cestus III [2358 - 2388]</h4> | ||
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He graduated from the Academy in 2393 with several accolades in his classwork, which he’s proud of. While most might not consider his time at the Academy ideal, he thinks of it fondly and often misses it, especially when things on the Starbase aren’t going well. | He graduated from the Academy in 2393 with several accolades in his classwork, which he’s proud of. While most might not consider his time at the Academy ideal, he thinks of it fondly and often misses it, especially when things on the Starbase aren’t going well. | ||
<h4 style="text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 15px;">Starbase 118 OPs [2393 - ]</h4> | <h4 style="text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 15px;">Starbase 118 OPs [2393 - 2394]</h4> | ||
After graduation and his cadet cruise, Taelon was assigned to the Operations of Starbase 118. It wasn’t the sort of assignment he expected to get, and the crew isn’t what he’d expected either - what with the Gorn, a gaggle of Risians, and the sheer flood of Betazoids. | After graduation and his cadet cruise, Taelon was assigned to the Operations of Starbase 118. It wasn’t the sort of assignment he expected to get, and the crew isn’t what he’d expected either - what with the Gorn, a gaggle of Risians, and the sheer flood of Betazoids. | ||
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Taelon was promoted to the base's Chief of Science on 239311.03, alongside his promotion to Lieutenant and after the [[Dig Two Graves]] mission. It remains to be seen if he'll be effective in the role. | Taelon was promoted to the base's Chief of Science on 239311.03, alongside his promotion to Lieutenant and after the [[Dig Two Graves]] mission. It remains to be seen if he'll be effective in the role. | ||
<h4 style="text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 15px;">Transport to the Past [2374 - 2394]</h4> | |||
During the mission “Shadows of the Past", Taelon was in charge of creating a time portal device to help save the senior staff who had been displaced in time. He succeeded in opening a portal to the past, but it required that someone stay behind to operate it before heading through. Taelon stayed behind, intended to go through the portal last, but he was thwarted - the shuttle he and the device were on was drifting near the exploded past Starbase, and the evacuating ships beamed him out before the station exploded and destroyed the shuttle. | |||
He was beamed away from his ticket home, and thus became trapped some 25 years in the past. He had to spend most of these years in hiding, and chose to do so in Klingon space - leading to him eventually joining up with a Klingon Huntress named Kaskis Ril and her team of bounty hunters, working with them and supplying them with his tech. He even had a daughter with Kaskis - accidently. | |||
He was found by the Starbase crew when they visited Kaskis's cousin, Counselor Dempok, and he and his daughter, Cyri, were taken back to the Starbase. | |||
<h4 style="text-transform: uppercase; font-size: 15px;">Back to the Future [2394 -]</h4> | |||
Once back with Starfleet, he was quickly shipped to Earth to be debriefed and retrained, and was set before the Department of Temporal Investigations. There his actions were scrutinized in extreme detail, and he was found to have violated several of Starfleet's regulations - namely, supplying those in the past with tech considered futuristic, aiding in the identification and assassination of Federation informants, and actions unbecoming of an officer. He was stripped of his Lt. Commander rank and offered a civilian posting in the Sagittarius Reach. He took it, bitterly. | |||
Given Taelon had spent his time in the past struggling to survive and largely mistreated by the Klingons he was with, his punishment seemed to him to be excessive. It's made him rather bitter towards Starfleet, and he's struggling to find a place for himself and his daughter in this new world. | |||
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