Father: Terry McBrattonALIVE
Mother: Ashley McBrattonDECEASED
Brother: Terry McBratton JrALIVE
Brother: Louis McBrattonALIVE
Sister: Susan McBrattonALIVE

Timothy McBratton is the son of an Irish writer and his wife. Reared on a small plantation in the hills of Ireland, he was instilled with a cultural pride unique to the Irish people. He had been instructed in the histories of the great giants and classic heroes of the emerald isle, and found the stories fascinating as a child.

His family’s farm, dedicated mostly to vast countryside, was open for the child to play with his two younger brothers. The three boys were, for many of their youthful years, the centerpieces of a gang comprising most of the local children. Though not criminal, they were adventuresome and ransacked their local village with inventive practical jokes, often with Timothy at the lead. These antics stretched from the Mcbratton’s seventh year to his fifteenth, when a sister was born into his family.

Mrs McBratton, an aristocrat, had not handled her latest pregnancy well. During the delivery of her final child, Susan, she expired. With the death of his mother, Timothy would be forced out of necessity to leave his posse and pick up several of his mother’s duties in the household.

Though there was hired help on the plantation, taking the form of maids and the like, Mrs McBratton had taken upon herself the duty educating her children. Timothy began to do what he could for his brothers. This was limited, as he had only finished with her lessons himself. Their father entered a state of deep depression, and only showed joy when he spent time with his daughter. This was the way of things until Tim’s eighteenth birthday.

According to family tradition, every McBratton boy, within six months of their eighteenth birthday, was to leave the household and make their own fortune. Without much real world experience to speak of, and no formal education from an accredited school, Tim only saw one option. He decided to be the first McBratton in a generation to apply for Starfleet Academy.

While the boy’s maternal grandfather had risen to the rank of captain in Starfleet, most of the McBrattons to enter the fleet were the second sons who were not expected to eventually inherit the ancient estate. When he learned of his son’s decision to enter the service, Mr McBratton fell into a deeper depression. He knew that his legacy could not follow his eldest child if that eldest child were on the opposite side of the quadrant.

When being interviewed by academy representatives, Tim was approached by a Marine who began to pressure the Irish boy toward the Corps. Through his presentation with regards to the life of an average officer in the Marines, which reminded McBratton greatly of his youthful years leading the local boys about, Timothy was convinced that he belonged among the elite soldiers of the Federation. Within a month of his eighteenth birthday, Cadet Timothy McBratton was shipping of the Marine Academy.

The Marine Academy was less than blissful for the first several years for the aristocratic son of a famed author. DIs selected him for treatment above and beyond the intensity of what the average cadet received. This was particularly because of McBratton’s leisurely appearance and soft gaze. After nearly two years of harsh physical and mental conditioning, however, Timothy was able to present the rough exterior expected of a marine. The other cadets in the training platoon and their subjugated Irish comrade became a close-nit group. The support that Tim received from them is what he believed help him survive to his junior year in the Academy.

The final two years of training were dedicated to specialized training. While several of the members of Tim’s training platoon went of to train as pilots or intelligence analysts, McBratton wanted to lead soldiers. His courses introduced the cadet to tactics, leadership, various weapon, and so forth. None of it was familiar to him, which made him feel uncomfortable at first. Perhaps this was because no one he had known prior to these times was still with him. Tim was alone. He did graduate, however, from the Marine Academy, with full honors, and was shipped off to a fleet at war.