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Raleigh

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Name: Raleigh
Terran Age: Unknown
Height: Varies by host
Weight: Varies by host
Species: Unknown
Place of Birth: Unknown
Languages: Terran, Vulcan, Klingon, Romulan, Cardassian, Jem'Hadar, others
Interests: Science, Emotions, The Fine Arts

EDUCATION:

  • Prior to 2329: No record
  • 2329-2335: Starfleet Academy, Science doctorate

SERVICE RECORD:

  • 2334-2335: Cadet, Soyuz-class USS Phialtre
  • 2335-2338: Ensign, Science Officer, Excelsior-class USS Enoch
  • 2338-2339: Ensign, Science Officer, Akira-class USS Yawgmoth
  • 2339-2343: Ensign, Science Officer, Miranda-class USS Benighted
  • 2343-2345: Lt JG, Science Officer, Miranda-class USS Benighted
  • 2345-2349: Lt JG, Science Officer, Oberth-class USS Rotheringhamshire
  • 2349-2355: Lt JG, Science Officer, Starbase 23
  • 2355-2361: Lt JG, Science Officer, Nebula-class USS Roulette
  • 2361-2362: Lt JG, Assistant Science Officer, Nebula-class USS Roulette
  • 2362-2362: Lt, Assistant Science Officer, Nebula-class USS Roulette
  • 2362-2368: Lt, Assistant Science Officer, Excelsior-class USS Princess Grace
  • 2368-2369: Lt, Science Consultant, Starfleet Headquarters
  • 2369-2374: Lt, Chief Science Officer, Trepidation-class USS Five Sheckels
  • 2374-present: Lieutenant, Chief Science Officer Ambassador-class USS Casablanca

DECORATIONS:

  • 2330: Haunes Cross
  • 2362: Metal of Valour

BACKGROUND:

In 2328, a man walked into the applicants office at Starfleet Headquarters and announced his intention to join, identifying himself by the name Raleigh. A quick background check revealed that the man was a colonist from Maige III, but that there was no record of his arrival on Earth. After submitting to a massive battery of tests and investigations, which resulted in nothing whatsoever, and passing the rigorous entry examinations with apparent ease, he was finally granted admission to the next year's entry, chiefly on the grounds that they had no possible reason to prevent it. In Raleigh's class were two other rather unusual cadets, a Vulcan called Yatoh Derch and a Gnalish Elt by the name of Gordall Kalln. In the latter half of 2330, during a routine antimatter experiment as part of the physical sciences course, a terrible accident resulted in a breach of one of the containers. An explosion was prevented by the heroic actions of Raleigh, who managed to seal the container but during the process received a fatal amount of radiation. Raleigh was posthumously awarded the Haunes Cross, the highest award given by the Starfeet Academy science department. The briefly mourning Derch and Kalln resumed their studies, but on the eve of the 23rd of November that year, a stranger entered their academy quarters, claiming to be Raleigh. Derch and Kalln were not young, green or stupid, and they put the man through a grilling interrogation before they finally came to the conclusion that he must be who he claimed to be. Raleigh related to them that the man they had known before was simply a host body, and that he was himself a free-floating entity, able to possess and control sentient beings. When this fact became public, a month-long legal proceeding finally resulted in Raleigh being allowed to continue his studies, provided that he never harm a sentient being through use of his powers. The body that he now controlled had died as a result of brain haemorrhage without intervention, and the previous colonist had been killed by toxins on his world. Of his origins Raleigh would say nothing, save that the colonist was the first being he had 'been inside' for a very great length of time. In 2335 Raleigh served as an Ensign with Derch and Kalln on the USS Enoch, before transferring away across a series of ships. Throughout his career Raleigh has suffered greatly from prejudice, and has been promoted only twice despite his exceptional abilities and performance. In 2362, however, he received the Metal of Valour and was made Assistant Science Officer for his part in saving the lives of the eight million people on the world of Nein XII. In 2365, on the world of Bryn, Raleigh learned how to synthesise new bodies for himself, and since then he has experimented with a variety of host forms. In 2374, Raleigh requested a transfer to the brand-new USS Casablanca, and received it.

PERSONALITY PROFILE:

Despite his utterly alien being, Raleigh has an identifiable psych profile. What is immediately apparent is his respect for life, comparable to the most Hippocratic of doctors. It is not so much that he is pacifistic; he believes that the war with the Dominion is preferable to being the subjects of conquest, but that he will go out of his way to prevent others from suffering or dying. On several occasions he has lost host bodies through the rigours of saving others’ lives, though he has always managed to emerge in another after a time. Little is known about his true form, though several of his closer shipmates have claimed to see him appear in his quarters as a thin black mist. In any event, he is intelligent, knowledgeable and wise beyond his apparent years (though rumours persist that he has existed for centuries, perhaps millenia, he has never discussed this). His physical abilities tend to vary by host body, but he can sustain far more damage to his form and exert effort exceeding a mortal’s capacity. This is due both to the complete control he has over his functions and also the improved biological forms that his later grown host bodies have taken. Recently, he seems to have started a bizarre practice of making the eyes of his hosts completely black. There is no record of him performing this feat earlier in his career, though it may be again something to do with the genetic construction of the hosts.

SPECIAL NOTES:

Raleigh currently maintains five distinct bodies. He (or she) is able to control any of them, but generally only one at a time. They can be left to perform simple functions on their own, and with a considerable amount of will Raleigh can control more than one at once, but he prefers not to do so as it is a great strain on his powers.

  1. A medium-sized, medium build man with plain, nondescript features and dark hair. This is Raleigh’s default body, and the one he uses the most often. It was one of his first successful vat-grown bodies, and therefore does not age or suffer disease. He refers to the shell as Camberwick.
  2. A short, attractive woman with dark hair. This was the first female body Raleigh managed to grow, and he is very proud of it (the genetic structure is that much more complicated, don't you know). He refers to it as Veeya.
  3. A tall, muscular man, with a handsome face and dark blonde hair. This body was grown for those occasions when physical strength was desirable, and Raleigh refers to it simply as 27G, for no discernible reason.
  4. A tall, beautiful woman with long blonde hair. Developed for its obvious benefits in social situations, Raleigh refers to this body as Susan.
  5. A small, rather worried-looking man with messy hair and a scar on his face. Unlike the other four, this body was not grown but was taken from a suicidal scientist who aroused Raleigh’s interests. The scientist’s name was Randal Shroud, and he refers to the body with this same moniker.

Raleigh's science specialisations are exozoology and the various social sciences, particularly focused on the area of human emotion. His reasons for this are unclear, but it has been theorised in the past that he subsists, like other creatures who have been encountered like him, on the emotions of the creatures around him. Raleigh, presumably, feeds on the more positive emotions because his behaviour encourages these and not the more negative emotions of hate, fear and such like.

In his quarters, and the adjoining private laboratory, Raleigh has three distinct large pieces of equipment. The first is a multi-chambered facility, looking vaguely like a series of Borg regeneration alcoves, though lacking most of the pipey-lighty shenanigans. This is where the host bodies are left when not animated, and it can be quite a macabre sight for those who do not know Raleigh well. The second item is a large chamber, looking very much like a cryogenic capsule, which is the device used to generate, through a process of advanced replication, the bodies that he inhabits. The third piece of equipment is a small, cylindrical metal container, with homeostatic controls and an osmotic portal. This object is not fully understood, but on equipment manifests Raleigh lists it as a 'sleeping chamber'.

CASABLANCA SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

  • Lieutenant Icon (Pandemonian, female)
  • Lieutenant Charlotte (Pandemonian, female)
    Icon and Charlotte are Pandemonian sisters, and specialists in the fields of Theoretical Physics and Social Science.
  • Lieutenant Jonathon Christopher Roughhouse (Terran, English, male)
    Jon is a Stellar Cartography expert.
  • Lieutenant, Junior Grade Sapek (Vulcan, male)
    Sapek is an Exobiology specialist.
  • Lieutenant, Junior Grade Siobhan Richards (Terran, Irish, female)
    Siobhan works in the area of Physics.
  • Lieutenant, Junior Grade Nereel (Saurian, male)
    Nereel is the best Chemist in Starfleet and expects to transfer to his own Science Department soon.
  • Ensign Chatta (Heep Mantis, female)
    Chatta is a Zoology expert. On her homeworld she was a Brrkanth herder.
  • Ensign Linda Mattheson (Terran, Australian, female)
    Linda is a Biologist.
  • Ensign Tollport (Vorgon, male)
    Tollport is a Temporal Theorist. He has yet to contravene any Starfleet General Orders.
  • Chief Petty Officer Makuma (Terran, Polynesian, male)
    Makuma was foretold in prophecy. He doesn't have a face, and occasionally manifests psychic powers. Brr.
  • Warrant Officer Annabella Profotuliov (Terran, Russian, female)
    Annabella has a four-month old daughter called Anastasia.
  • Yeoman Rebecca Lakes (Terran, American, female)
    Rebecca is Raleigh's personal assistant.