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==Personal History== | ==Personal History== | ||
*Born in the year 2241, David Whale grew up in Scotland as the only child of a university history professor (Dr. Robert Whale) and the directory of a charity organization (Rebecca Whale). Enrolling in Starfleet Academy in 2259 and graduating in 2263, Whale was posted aboard the [[USS Ackerman]]. By 2266 Whale had attained the rank of Lieutenant and served the Ackerman's chief of security. In 2269, while responding to a distress call from a civilian freighter, the USS Ackerman was lost with all hands after an encounter with a spatial anomaly. | *Born in the year 2241, David Whale grew up in Scotland as the only child of a university history professor (Dr. Robert Whale) and the directory of a charity organization (Rebecca Whale). | ||
*Enrolling in Starfleet Academy in 2259 and graduating in 2263, Whale was posted aboard the [[USS Ackerman]]. By 2266 Whale had attained the rank of Lieutenant and served the Ackerman's chief of security. During his second year at the Academy, Whale met a fellow cadet a year ahead named [[Gianna Dacosta]]. The two became quite close over the years, eventually becoming romantically involved. Dacosta and Whale were still linked romantically at the time of the [[Ackerman Event]]. | |||
'''''Excerpt from first sim:''''' | |||
Back in his younger days -- his first stint at Starfleet Academy -- Whale had been a bit of a womanizer. He was | |||
fond of telling friends that he didn't have a steady girlfriend, but he had three or four unsteady ones. Not | |||
always accurate, but always funny to his buddies. Gianna Dacosta had been two years older than Whale and a year | |||
ahead at the Academy the first time he'd hit on her. He had been thoroughly unsuccessful and it was only that she | |||
rejected him with a good-natured smile that prevented it from being a complete crash and burn. She'd simply told | |||
him that she was too good to be just another notch on someone's bed post. | |||
So he'd spent the next three and a half years trying to convince her that he was worthy of her company. | |||
When the Ackerman popped out in the 24th Century, Gianna was the first person Whale thought about. But he still | |||
hadn't been able to bring himself to look up her personnel record. She'd be dead now, he darkly reminded himself. | |||
That he could accept -- everyone he had known in his old life was dead, so he was okay with Gianna being dead, | |||
too. Well, maybe not "okay," but certainly resigned to it. What he wasn't sure he was prepared for was to look | |||
into her file and find that Gianna had married. That some other guy had been able to spend his life with her. | |||
Maybe had kids. According to the universe, Whale may have been lost with the USS Ackerman for one hundred and ten | |||
years, but to him... to him he'd had dinner with Gianna a week before the Ackerman's disappearance. He'd had | |||
dinner with her, then a week later he stepped into the Ackerman's transporter to beam over to a freighter in | |||
distress... then woken up in a sickbay where they told him it was over a hundred years later. | |||
*In 2269, while responding to a distress call from a civilian freighter, the [[USS Ackerman]] was lost with all hands after an encounter with a spatial anomaly. This event is frequently referred to as the [[Ackerman Event]]. | |||
*In 2379, the Ackerman re-emerged from what has since been determined to be a temporal anomaly. There were only three survivours -- including David Whale. Biologically, David Whale will be 34 years old upon his second graduation from Starfleet Academy, assuming he does complete his current Academy curriculum. In terms of actual years since his birth, he will be 144 years old. | *In 2379, the Ackerman re-emerged from what has since been determined to be a temporal anomaly. There were only three survivours -- including David Whale. Biologically, David Whale will be 34 years old upon his second graduation from Starfleet Academy, assuming he does complete his current Academy curriculum. In terms of actual years since his birth, he will be 144 years old. | ||
*Due to the difference in eras, Whale was required to re-enroll in the Academy in order to continue with a career in Starfleet. Given that no time passed for him while trapped in the anomaly, he was not happy about giving up his hard-earned rank and counselors at the Academy have reported that Whale frequently feels himself to be better than his classmates due to his previous experience. Though Whale was a very good Academy student in the 23rd Century, his performance currently is rather middling, possibly due to a feeling that his re-entry into the Academy was uneccesary and "forced upon him." Academy counselors have recommended that regular visits to the nearest available counselor be made a requirement of any Starfleet duty placement for David Whale. It is believed that Whale chose to re-enter Starfleet Academy because he sees Starfleet as the only connection that remains from his earlier life. It is also felt that the loss of, essentially, his entire world combined with what Whale may see as an unwarranted reduction in his Starfleet status may have long-term psychological effects that have yet to be observed. | *Due to the difference in eras, Whale was required to re-enroll in the Academy in order to continue with a career in Starfleet. Given that no time passed for him while trapped in the anomaly, he was not happy about giving up his hard-earned rank and counselors at the Academy have reported that Whale frequently feels himself to be better than his classmates due to his previous experience. Though Whale was a very good Academy student in the 23rd Century, his performance currently is rather middling, possibly due to a feeling that his re-entry into the Academy was uneccesary and "forced upon him." Academy counselors have recommended that regular visits to the nearest available counselor be made a requirement of any Starfleet duty placement for David Whale. It is believed that Whale chose to re-enter Starfleet Academy because he sees Starfleet as the only connection that remains from his earlier life. It is also felt that the loss of, essentially, his entire world combined with what Whale may see as an unwarranted reduction in his Starfleet status may have long-term psychological effects that have yet to be observed. | ||
==Professional History== | ==Professional History== | ||