Commander Treyva, Commanding Officer

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TREYVA
48-year-old Denobulan male; Commander, UFP Star Fleet
Commanding Officer, USS Drake
17,615 experience points; 17 advancements
Starship Officer: Starship Command Officer, Starship Science Officer
Personal Development: Scientific Upbringing
Professional Development: Basic Science Officer

Attributes
STR 7 (+0)   INT* 10 (+2)   AGL* 8 (+1)   VIT 8 (+1)   PRE 9 (+1)   PER 10 (+2)
* denotes favored attribute

Reactions and Figured Attributes
Quickness: +2   Savvy: +2   Stamina*: +2   Willpower: +4
* denotes favored reaction

Courage: 3   Initiative: +2   Defense: 8   Health: 8 (0)(-1)(-3)(-5)(-7)(-9)
Renoown: 20 (+/- 3)

Species Abilities
Bonus Edge: Cultural Flexibility -- +2 to social tests with species other than his own
Bonus Edge: Curious -- +5 to academic tests when spending a Courage point
Bonus Edge: Excellent Metabolism -- +4 to Stamina reactions to resist disease and poison
Patience -- +2 to extended tests
Social Creatures -- Cumulative -1 penalty to all tests when isolated from social contact
Species Flaw: Intolerant (Antarans) -- Must spend 1 Courage to interact with Antarans
Species Flaw: Species Enmity (Antarans) -- -4 penalty to social tests involving Antarans

Edges
Command 2 -- Independent command. Subordinates get +1 to two professional skill tests once per game session.
Contact (Klingon Defense Force, Administration) -- Science Officer Sorval, IKS 'aw'Hegh
Meticulous -- +1 cumulative bonus per round to extended tests.
Promotion 4 -- Commander. +2 to social tests with subordinates.
Suit Trained -- No penalties for working in an environment suit.
Unyielding -- +2 bonus to Willpower reactions (figured in above).
Zero-G Trained -- No penalties for working in a zero-gravity environment.

Flaws
None.

Professional Abilities
Commanding Presence -- Roll 3d6 for Willpower reaction tests, keeping highest two dice.
Familiar Systems -- Performs Computer Use tests on Starfleet computer systems in half the base time.
Field Research -- Investigate tests get affinity bonus of half appropriate Science skill, rounded up.
Journeyman -- Can use all skills in Science group untrained. Free specialty upon acquiring a Science skill.
Not So Strange -- Specific World tests get affinity bonus of half his Planetary Science skill, rounded up.
Rounded (Observe) -- Gain a non-professional skill as a professional skill.
Scientific Protocols -- Automatic Science skill test to determine if an Investigate or Observe test will endanger himself or his crew.
Starship Duty (Science Officer, Command Officer) -- Substitutes for all prerequisites for any starship officer elite profession.

Skills (name, specialties, ranks, total bonus)
Computer Use (Retrieve) 6 (+8), Investigate (Research) 6 (+8), Knowledge: Culture (Denobulan) 6 (+8), Knowledge: History (Denobulan) 4 (+6), Knowledge: Politics (Denobulan) 4 (+6), Knowledge: Specific World (Denobula) 7 (+9), Language: Denobulan 6 (+8), Language: Federation Standard 6 (+8), Life Science (Genetics) 6 (+8), Negotiate 1 (+2), Observe 5 (+7), Persuade +2 (+3), Physical Science (Chemistry) 6 (+8), Planetary Science (Mineralogy) 6 (+8), Ranged Combat: Energy Weapons (Hand Phaser) 3 (+4), Repair 4 (+6), Space Science (Astronomy) 6 (+8), System Operation (Sensors) 7 (+9), Tactics 1 (+3)

Edit: Just tweaked the formatting slightly to (hopefully) make it a little easier to read.
Edit: Added bonus from Unyielding edge to Willpower reaction to save time later.

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Advancements

01. Add Hand Phaser specialty to Energy Weapons skill, Space Science +1, Investigate +1, Renown +1
02. Field Research professional ability, Stamina +1
03. Department Head School: Command 1, Promotion 1, Space Science +1
04. Rounded professional ability (to take Observe as professional skill), Observe +1, Physical Science +1
05. Renown +1, Specific World +1, System Operations +1, Energy Weapons +1
06. Familiar Systems professional ability, Computer Use +2
07. Promotion +1, Investigate +2, add Research specialty to Investigate skill
08. Not So Strange professional ability, Planetary Science +2
09. Scientific Protocols professional ability, Life Science +1, Physical Science +1
10. Suit Trained edge, Zero-G Trained edge, Repair +1
11. Command School: Command +1, Promotion +1, Life Science +1
12. Investigate +2, Observe +1, System Operations +2
13. Life Science +1, Planetary Science +1, Investigate +1, Observe +2
14. Promotion +1, Starship Duty (Command) professional ability
15. Enter Command Officer elite profession (Commanding Presence professional ability)
16. Add Contact Edge, Energy Weapons +1, Negotiate +1, Tactics +1
17. Buy off Shaky Flaw, Persuade +2, Observe +1

Cadet Cruise

Sophomore year at Star Fleet Academy (2269-70)
Military Mission (assigned to Larson-class destroyer USS Eylau)
Passed

Tours of Duty

Tour 01:
     Assignment: Exploration mission (Hermes-class scout USS Hermes)
     Length: Six years
     OER: As expected
     Renown: +6 (6 advancements)

Tour 02:
     Assignment: Exploration mission (Anton-class light cruiser USS Drake)
     Length: Seven years
     OER: Outstanding
     Renown: +9 (7 advancements, +2 for Outstanding OER)

[PGoodman13]

Treyva didn't start out in life to be a Star Fleet officer. He never intended to join Star Fleet in the first place. In fact, he hadn't made many plans at all. Brought up the child of noted scientists on Denobula, he had rather thought that he would just follow along in their footsteps...as they expected him to do.

That was really the part that galled him. He came to the conclusion that virtually none of his life choices had, in fact, been made on his own. Furthermore, he had little interest in his birth parents' specialties (both of them were experts in molecular biochemistry), and didn't really see much need for specializing in the first place. He loved science for its own sake, and was as likely to be found poring over a mathematics text as he was conducting an obscure warp physics experiment. Frustrated by the pressure to specialize and make his own name in Denobulan academia and science journals, he left home at 20 and wandered. His birth parents, assuming he lacked ambition and tired of arguing with him, largely wrote him off and let him leave, and his extended parents from their other marriages didn't argue their decision.

In 2264, at the age of 25, he was attending a scientific conference on Dekendi III and chanced to meet a personal hero of his...the elderly Dr. Phlox, perhaps the most famous Denobulan in recent history. The two hit it off, and spent the next several days discussing various aspects of things. When Treyva mentioned his parents' frustration with him, Phlox related some of his difficulties with his own parents as well as his children, and opined that the younger Denobulan should seek his own path. Patience and generalism, he said, did not mean a lack of ambition. He also mentioned to the younger man that his own experiences in Earth's Star Fleet a century earlier had made a profound impression on him.

Treyva took that to heart and pondered it for some time before applying to, and being accepted by, Star Fleet Academy at the age of 29 in 2268. He graduated near the top of his class in 2272, and was posted to the USS Hermes as a junior science officer. There, his generalist nature served him well, affording him a number of opportunities that would not have been offered to a more specialized scientist.

He also discovered that he excelled in the structured world of Star Fleet, and his personable nature made him a natural leader. He quickly became first the deputy chief, and then the chief, science officer on board the Hermes. In 2278, he was transferred to the USS Drake as the chief science officer. In 2283, after the death of the ship's XO on an away mission, Treyva was promoted to lieutenant commander and assigned as Drake's XO, though still maintaining the chief science officer position.

In 2285, his career and his life took an extremely unexpected turn. The Drake, coming out of a major refit, had been placed under the command of Captain Gregory Bong, a Star Fleet veteran with an extensive and illustrious record. Assigned to a shakedown patrol on the border of the Mutara Sector, they found themselves in pursuit of a stolen USS Enterprise into the heart of the Mutara Nebula, which had been transformed into a star system by the Genesis device some weeks earlier. As they were preparing to enter the system in an attempt to apprehend Enterprise and Admiral James T. Kirk, Captain Bong suffered a massive stroke, leaving Treyva in command of the Drake under combat conditions.

He succeeded in his first mission as the ship's acting captain, and was ready to return the ship to Bong's command when it was determined that the captain's condition was career-ending. Treyva was kept in the position of acting captain while a replacement for Bong was sought by Star Fleet Command. It was in that capacity that he reached an unusual diplomatic solution on Sigma Iotia II when that planet's leadership found itself in peril.

Shortly after that incident, Treyva found himself promoted to the rank of commander and officially made the captain of the USS Drake.

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Born: 02 April 2239 (Terran calendar; I didn't feel like coming up with a calendar for Denobula) in Biras, Denobula.

Height: 193 cm (6'4")    Weight: 97.5 kg (215 lbs)    Eyes: Brown     Hair: Brown

General Description: Tall, with an average-to-husky build.  Contrary to most Denobulans, even those in Starfleet, he wears his hair in a close-cropped military style.  Treyva is an amiable individual, and gets along with just about everyone. He tends to address his subordinates by their first names during most situations, reverting to a more formal form of address in crisis situations. It's said that Treyva addressing you as "Mister So-and-So" or by your rank is the easiest way to tell if you're in some sort of hot water.

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Treyva is a family man, though his frequent deployments with Starfleet keep him away from home for long periods.  As is customary with his people, he married three women, each of whom was also married to two other men.

Despite long absences, Treyva is a devoted family man who communicates with his family regularly.  He tries not to play favorites with his children, but dotes on his youngest daughter.

He married his first wife, Liera (2237-present), in 2261.  They have one daughter, Miral (2273-present).  Liera is a surgeon, maintaining a medical practice in their home city of Biras on Denobula.  Miral aspires to follow her father into Starfleet when she's old enough, and eagerly awaits stories of his travels.

He married his second wife, Asha (2239-present), in 2263.  They also have a daughter together, Anari (2276-present).  Asha is a geologist.  Anari is a talented musician, but she's only 9 and doesn't really know what she wants to be when she grows up.

He married his third wife, Sabra (2245-2283), in 2264. They had one son together, Tanis (2274-present). Sabra was a gifted artist, well-known in her region, who specialized in sculpture (though she was also a talented photographer and painter).  Tanis appears to have inherited her love of the arts and at least a portion of her talent.

Sabra was killed in a shuttle accident en route to a showing of her work in 2283.  Tanis was devastated, as might be expected, and has only begun to come out of his depression in the past six or seven months.  Treyva also took it hard, and nearly resigned from Starfleet to be with his family, but Liera and Asha wouldn't hear of it, and insisted that Sabra also wouldn't want him to sacrifice his career.  It's been three years, and all of them are beginning to think that perhaps it's time for Treyva to marry again and restore the balance of their marriage.  Her other two husbands have already remarried.  He rarely speaks of her death.  The only members of the crew of the Drake who know what happened are Lt. Natei Konastas, Lt. Paula Tyler, and Dr. Katrina Gordon.

A sculpture Sabra made of Treyva holding their infant son in his arms now holds pride of place in his quarters, which are liberally decorated with images of his entire family, to include the sister-wives and brother-husbands (some made by Sabra, some his own work, some the work of other family members).

EDIT: Amended list of people knowing about Sabra's death and Treyva's handling of it.

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Experience & Career Notes

Episode 1.1 - "A First Test" - 425 XP + 75 XP roleplay bonus = 500 XP
     Appointed Acting Captain, USS Drake

Episode 1.2 - "Scratch & Lugs" - 893 XP + 100 XP roleplay bonus = 993 XP
     Advancement

Episode 1.3 - "The Well of Dreams" - 1,109 XP + 100 XP roleplay bonus = 1,209 XP
     Renown +2
     Appointed Captain, USS Drake
     Advancement

Episode 1.4 - "First Response" - 688 XP + 125 XP roleplay bonus = 813 XP
     Advancement

Episode 1.5 - "A Lot by Design" - 975 XP + 125 XP roleplay bonus = 1,100 XP
     Renown +1
     Temporarily relieved of command pending results of Prime Directive investigation
     Advancement

[PGoodman13]

Courage Use

-1 point, "The Well of Dreams" reply #260 -- 2 remaining
-1 point, "The Well of Dreams" reply #363 -- 1 remaining
Refreshed at opening of "First Response" -- 3 remaining
-1 point, "First Response" reply #629 -- 2 remaining
-1 point, "First Response" reply #653 -- 1 remaining
-1 Point, "First Response" reply #741 -- 0 remaining
Refreshed at opening of "A Lot by Design" -- 3 remaining
-1 point, "A Lot by Design" reply #454 -- 2 remaining
-1 point, "A Lot by Design" reply #823 -- 1 remaining
-1 point, "A Lot by Design" reply #957 -- 0 remaining
Refreshed at opening of "Prime Suspect" -- 3 remaining

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Denobulan Pronunciation Guide

Anari - uh-NAR-ee
Asha - AH-shuh
Biras - BEER-us
Bogga - BOW-guh
Garris - GAIR-us
Klaban - CLAY-ben
Liera - lee-AIR-uh
Miral - mere-ALL
Moga - MOW-guh
Sabra - SAY-bruh
Stenna - STEN-uh
Tanis - TAN-is
Tikos - TIE-cohs
Treyva - TRAY-vuh
Vas - VOZ
Zorana - zo-RAH-nuh

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Family Tree (s)
(an on-going project which, for a Denobulan, is more of a tangled shrub than you might realize, and quite a chore)

This is going to be ongoing, mostly for my reference, and virtually impossible for me to graph properly here on the forums. I'll do what I can, however.

Treyva -- Liera       -- Asha        -- Sabra (dec.)
          (d) Miral      (d) Anari      (s) Tanis

Liera -- Treyva      -- Garris       -- Klaban
         (d) Miral      (s) Davos       (d) Losha
                        (s) Zaylan      (s) Bogga
                        (d) Lexa

Okay, from this we can tell that, as far as birth-matchings are concerned from Treyva's side of things, that all three of his children are "only" children. Each wife has two more husbands, though, so all three of the children are half-siblings with each other, and presumably each of the wives has had other children by her other husbands. This is where things get complex; I think that Treyva's family, while he focuses on his three direct offspring, is considerably larger than he lets on.

That's another reason that he can be gone for long periods of time without fearing for his kids: They've got an impressive support system. Tanis, for instance, splits time between Sabra's other two husbands and Treyva's other two wives.

Okay, for future record-keeping purposes:

Treyva -- Liera, Asha, Sabra
Liera -- Treyva, Garris, Klaban
Asha -- Treyva, Vas, Tikos
Sabra -- Treyva, Moga, Stenna

I'm not going to go in-depth at this point with the permutations of the ladies' other husbands. That would drive me nuts, I think. But I'm going with the assumption that all of the ladies have other children via their other husbands, and later I'll start mapping that out.

It's harder thinking like a Denobulan than you might believe.