Ensign Nusien
Name Nusien
Position Flight Control Officer
Rank Ensign
Character Information
| Gender | Male | |
| Species | Edosian | |
| Age | 35 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 6'8" | |
| Weight | 140 lbs | |
| Hair Color | none | |
| Eye Color | amber with flecks of gold | |
| Physical Description | To the unfamiliar eye, Nusien is a typical Edosian. Taller and more slender than the average human, with a comparatively wide and flattened head. his mouth is wide and further from the nose than many humanoid species. Nusien’s tough, leathery skin is a burnt-orange colour and his eyes are amber with gold flecks and wide, slit-like pupils. He stands about 6’ 8” but in a typical slouching, somewhat hunched posture. If given to stretch, Nusien would be well over 7”. Like all Edosians, Nusien is a tripod, having three legs around a complex hip arrangement and a third arm protruding directly from his chest. |
Family
| Spouse | Piret | |
| Children | Pibod, Buva, Jexa, Eutota, Bavi, Eutabn, Navi, Nexixn, Telad, Dito, Naxuxx, Dava, Pater, Boboxx, Wivulx, Lerax, Tila, Dela, Dubul, Darolu | |
| Father | Tobulx | |
| Mother | Bidain | |
| Brother(s) | Duvata, Podode, Dovil, Nobe, Daxaxx, Tire, Toda, Talula | |
| Sister(s) | Neleba, Tudav, Wave, Pirot, Taxedo, Juvuvn, Lubo, Loleli, Tixora, Texuxn, Tavubn, Notot |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Nusien is a social person, craving contact with others. he find the absence of his family the most difficult part of choosing a career in space, but being limited by the amount of room available on ship (i.e. not being able to take several cabins for one family), his bond-partner Piret remains on Edo, heading up the family. Nusien comes across as relaxed, especially in crowds and always strives to learn and remember details about the other entities he meets. He is not easily offended, nor is he given to reaction or outbursts. In crisis situations, he often assesses first and takes action only when certain it is the best course. This leads others to consider Nusien slow or ponderous, but it represents the effect of a tri-fold cerebral cortex in action offering three different judgements. Edosian minds are a conference room all by themselves. |
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| Strengths & Weaknesses | Compared to bipedal members of Starfleet, Nusien is not especially nimble. he often struggles with furniture and fixtures designed for creatures with a very different skeletal arrangement and find running a chore. However, his ability to divide limb control amongst the three parts of his brain allows a speed and accuracy of manipulation not seen in many other species. Nusien can operate a PADD, drink coffee and aim a phaser with pinpoint precision at exactly the same time. Nusien likes people and enjoys company, meaning that he is not at all comfortable in quiet places. Nusien is given to talk - a lot - often about not very much as he seeks to replicate the environment of home where families of nearly 30 siblings are under one roof. As such Nusien can easily be distracted by some interesting topic of discourse and forget what he was originally talking about or supposed to be doing. |
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| Ambitions | Since Nusien hatched he has looked to the stars, seeking out other cultures and finding fascinating and new discoveries has always been in his heart. However, following the recent years onslaught of other races attempting to bring down the Federation from within and without, his focus has changed to protection. he would like to see the Federation and Starfleet stronger than ever before, prepared with one hand reached out in friendship and the other ready to fire a phaser rifle at the first sign of trouble. Nusien would like his children to grow up and feel safe enough to go through his first Rebirths without worrying what awaits them on the other side. Nusien’s greatest wish is for a unified, peaceful Galaxy where each planet holds the interests of its neighbours close to heart. | |
| Hobbies & Interests | Nusien is an amateur musician, playing the two-necked guitar, the Edosian tri-flute and the drums to a reasonable level.he finds most bipedal sports difficult, but recently has taken to playing the position of running back in football. He also enjoys fencing on the Holodeck. |
| Personal History | Nusien was born 8th of nine brothers and eleven sisters, a relatively small family by Edosian standards. Father Tobulx was a navigator aboard a dilithium freighter and was hardly seen by the family for months at a time. When he did return, it was to a great fanfare and family celebration organized by his bond-partner Bidaln. Young Nusien remembers being puzzled by his father’s withdrawn nature and wondered why he took himself out of the family gatherings to be alone when he had spent so long away from them. Mother Bidaln was a gregarious and generous career of the family, the grandchildren, the nephews and various relations in and out of the homestead. She focused on the farm, ensuring her children received a good education and learned the value of hard work. She was a stern and often dismissive parent, usually demanding the children sort out their own squabbles rather than waste her time with petty disputes. When it came to what she deemed real issues though, Mom was a rock that any of her family could anchor to. Nusien spent a very typical Edosian childhood, climbing trees, surfing ion storms and generally enjoying the outdoor life. His closest friend was Piret, hatched the same day as Nusien and lived in the same hex-zone. She would call on him on the way to school and they would roam together in their free time, often egging each other into greater deeds and daring exploits. If Nusien was in trouble, it was often because he was covering for Piret and vice-versa. When Nusien won a place at the Edo Engineering Annex, Piret was applying for Starfleet Academy and the two parted ways, dismayed but promising to stay in touch. After graduating from the Edo Engineering Annex where Nusien specialized in plasma distribution and advanced molecular fabrication theory, he signed on with a merchant ship, Captained by an acquaintance of his father. he served aboard for nearly ten years until at the age of twenty-seven when the Freighter Captain, a Tellerite by the name of Gisolv, found Nusien apparently dead in his quarters. Nusien was returned to Edo and solemnly handed over to Bidaln who happily removed the shroud and placed Tivel in his old bedroom. Some days later, to yet another celebratory family get-together, Tivel Nusien emerged from a natural coma and sloughed off his first skin on his first “Day of Rebirth”. Ma Bidaln admonished him for being “fashionably late” as most Edosians experience their first Rebirth by 25. Aboard the freighter, Nusien experienced firsthand the horror and violence of the Dominion War, their freighter being the target of first Klingon inspection, ostensibly “searching for Changelings” and later running the gauntlet of Dominion/Cardassian expansion. More than once Nusien came up with inventive solutions to conceal the freighter, or evade Jem’Hadar patrols.. He became somewhat obsessed with protecting the freighter, putting in continual requests to improve defensive and offensive capability. Gisolv refused most requests on the basis of costs, but allowed Nusien as First Mate to revise the crew rota and improve emergency drills. On his return to Edo, his family noticed he was a changed man. Still chatty and sociable, but his eyes were always checking the room and his talk was always full of admonitions to be careful and alert. The only time, they noticed Nusien relax was in the presence of Piret. She returned to Edo during Nusien’s leave, on leave herself after losing her ship to the Dominion at Deep Space 9. Together they shared an understanding of the dangers and threat to the Federation that few other Edosians comprehended. They were married that summer and their first hatchlings were born the next spring. Piret felt she had seen enough combat, but Nusien could not leave things in the state they were in. He promised to protect Piret and their brood and signed up for Starfleet. He seemed intent on putting a shield of duranium around the Federation and nothing Piret could say would convince him otherwise. Starfleet life was hard for Nusien, the training grounds and unrelenting drills, exercise and assessments were, to an Edosian, highly biped-biased. Every vehicle he operated, every uniform he needed to adapt, just reminded him how rare the Edosian physiognomy is in the galaxy. Every time he fumbled something, or tripped on something it made him more determined to push through it. Though he was last in almost every physical exercise he developed a tendency to talk and chatter to keep his fellow cadets on side and keep good humour in even the most demanding of scenarios. Nusien was surprised when his career took him through the Combat Engineer role, but it seemed a good fit for his skills. He had expected to become somewhat heavy-handed, to lay down appropriate use of force and remind the galaxy of the might the combined forces of the Federation could bring to bear. Instead he found himself assigned to the aftermath of the Dominion War, assisting the provisional democratic Cardassian government in the repair and rebuilding of colony worlds affected by the war. The Edosian found that here, where the locals were distrustful of anyone with a phaser in hand, that he quickly had to develop new skills. You can’t set off a tri-cobalt explosive any old how in a colonist’s backyard, so he had to learn how to talk them down, assure them of their good intentions and demonstrate that by quickly re-establishing the necessities like power and water. Still it didn’t always work out. More than once he and his team were pinned down behind a newly constructed corn silo or aquifer, trying to work out whether it was a True Way battalion or just a group of over enthusiastic youngsters with ancient phasers, defending their homes. Piret noticed the changes, the need to joke and deflect true feelings when she talked to him on subspace comms. On leave he would throw himself into family life, playing, helping with homework and the like, but his stories were always about other people and not himself. Sometimes, Piret would find her bond-partner alone in a small room, staring out the window. Then he’d put on a smile and rejoin the family. His decision to apply for the Academy came as a shock to Piret and the children, the eldest five of which have just signed up for the Engineering Annex. Without guarantee of ship size, his family would have to remain behind on Edos and his assignment could take him far from Edo for a long time. All Nusien would say is: “this is something I have to do”. |
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| Service Record | 2369 - Ordinary Deckhand - TS Hervev 2370 - Able Deckhand - TS Hervev 2371 - Engineer’s Mate - TS Hervev 2376 - Chief Engineer - TS Hervev 2379 - Returned to Edos mistakenly believed dead (actually in coma shedding first skin.) 2381 - Starfleet Basic Training San Francisco Earth 2381 - Advanced Training: Starfleet Corps of Engineers 2382 - Twelve month assignment to Starfleet Engineering Corps, Utopia Planitia Yards - Combat Engineering Course 2383 - Crewman Recruit - USS Mayflower assigned to support Starfleet Engineering Corps in Cardassian border repair and reparations work as part of Treaty of Bajor 2385 - Promotion to Crewman Apprentice - Engineering - USS Mayflower 2387 - Promotion to Crewman - assigned USS Serengheti, Romulus Refugee relief effort. Tasked with getting power to the Romulan Refugee camps 2387 - Utopia Planitia Yards attacked by rogue Synths - The entire Engineering Corps that Nusien worked with is wiped out. His team is pulled from Romulan Space. 2388 - Assigned - Engineering Department USS Ticonderoga 2392 - Promotion - Petty Officer Third Class - Acting Assistant Chief Engineer 2392 late - Applies for Starfleet Academy 2393 - Academy Year 1 2394 - Academy Year 2 2395 - Academy Year 3 2396 - Academy Year 4 2396- Assigned as Pilot USS Firebird |