Lt. Paula Tyler, Chief Science Officer [NPC]

[PGoodman13]

TYLER, Paula Lucilla
30-year-old Human female; Lieutenant, UFP Starfleet
Chief Science Officer, USS Drake
8,000 experience points; 8 advancements
Starship Officer: Starship Science Officer
Personal Development: Orphan
Professional Development: Basic Science Officer

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

Reactions and Figured Attributes
Quickness: +2   Savvy: +2   Stamina*: +3   Willpower: +1
* denotes favored reaction

Courage: 4   Initiative: +2   Defense: 7   Health: 8 (0) (-1) (-3) (-5) (-7) (-9)
Renown: 8 (+/- 1)

Species Abilities
Adaptable -- +2 bonus to one Reaction (Stamina)
Skilled -- +2 skill points during Personal Development
The Human Spirit -- +1 Courage point

Edges
Command 1 -- Subordinate command. Subordinates get +1 to one professional skill test once per game session.
Curious -- When spending a Courage point on an academic test, gains a +5 bonus instead of the standard +3.
Promotion 2 -- Lieutenant. +1 to social tests with subordinates.
Shrewd -- When spending a Courage point on a Savvy reaction test, gains a +5 bonus instead of the standard +3.

Flaws
Coward -- May only spend 2 Courage points in a round instead of the usual 4.
Thin-Blooded -- Suffers a -5 penalty to Stamina reaction tests to resist the effects of extreme cold.

Professional Abilities
Familiar Systems -- Performs Computer Use tests on Starfleet computer systems in half the base time.
Fundamentals -- +4 to Physical Science (Mathematics) rolls.
Get Your Hands Dirty -- +2 to Repair tests to repair any piece of equipment on their own starship.
Journeyman -- May use all science skills untrained. Receives a free specialty when learning a new science skill.
Scientific Protocols -- Automatic Science skill test to determine if an Investigate or Observe test will endanger herself or her crew.
Starship Duty -- Allows entry into a starship officer elite profession.

Skills (name, specialties, ranks, total bonus)
Computer Use (Retrieve) 6 (+7), Craft: Sewing* 2 (+2), Knowledge: Culture (Federation) 5 (+6), Knowledge: History (Federation) 5 (+6), Knowledge: Politics (Federation) 5 (+6), Knowledge: Specific World (Earth, Luna) 5 (+6), Language: Federation Standard 6 (+7), Life Science (Microbiology) 5 (+6), Physical Science (Mathematics) 7 (+8), Planetary Science (Planetology) 5 (+6), Ranged Combat: Energy Weapons (Hand Phasers) 3 (+3), Repair 4 (+5), Social Science (Archeology) 1 (+2), Space Science (Astrophysics) 7 (+8), Survival 2 (+4), System Operation (Sensors) 8 (+9), Unarmed Combat: Brawling 3 (+3)

* = Non-professional skill for purposes of advancement

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Advancements

1. Add Hand Phasers specialty to Ranged Combat: Energy Weapons skill, Ranged Combat: Energy Weapons +2, System Operations +2
2. Fundamentals professional ability, Repair +1, Survival +1
3. Planetary Science +1, Space Science +1, Physical Science +1, Life Science +2
4. Department Head School. Command 1, Promotion +1, Physical Science +1
5. Social Science (Archeology) +1, Get Your Hands Dirty professional ability, Computer Use +1 (Specialty in Social Science received free due to Journeyman professional ability)
6. Brawling +1, Space Science +2, System Operation +2
7. Scientific Protocols professional ability, System Operations +1, Physical Science +1
8. Add Familiar Systems professional ability, Physical Science +1, Computer Use +1

Cadet Cruise
Senior year at Star Fleet Academy (2278-79)
Flagship Mission (Constitution-class heavy cruiser USS Exeter)
Passed with High Honors

Tours of Duty
Tour 01:
     Assignment: Military mission (Starbase 17)
     Length: Two years
     OER: Excellent
     Renown: 3 (2 advancements, +1 for Excellent OER)

Tour 02:
     Assignment: Exploration mission (Anton-class light cruiser USS Drake)
     Length: Four years
     OER: Excellent
     Renown: 5 (4 advancements, +1 for Excellent OER)

[PGoodman13]

Born: 12 December 2256 (Old Terran calendar) in Houston, TX, Earth.

Height: 161 cm     Weight: 56 kg     Eyes: Brown     Hair: Auburn

General Description: Slightly shorter than average, curvaceous, with "Bambi eyes" that tell of an innocence that may or may not actually be there. Considered very pretty by most of the crew. Wears her hair in a relatively short style that allows for ease of maintenance. Unrepentantly feminine, favoring the skirt over slacks when in uniform and flowing, slightly-to-moderately frilly dresses and skirts (many of them hand-made, or at least hand-modified) when off-duty.

[PGoodman13]

Paula Tyler's life could have been a tragedy. The makings of tragedy were certainly there. Her mother Carla died in childbirth, a rarity in the 23rd century, though sadly not something entirely unheard of. She was raised by her father, Andrew, who never recovered from the loss of his wife and blamed his daughter for her death. In 2259, shortly after she turned three, Andrew Tyler took his own life, leaving Paula in the care of relatives.

Sadly, her mother's side of the family didn't particularly care for her father's side of the family, and the feeling was mutual. There were several years of custodial battles in the Terran legal system, and Paula found herself being shuttle between her paternal grandmother's home in Houston and her maternal aunt Genevieve on Luna. Through it all, as she grew up she began to see fault in herself for the whole situation. The bright spots of her childhood were the times she got to spend with her Aunt Genevieve. The only relative she had who didn't seem to blame her for the tragedy of her parents' lives, Genevieve did what she could to mend the little girl's injured self-esteem.

The custody battles wouldn't resolve themselves for the better part of a decade, by which time Paula had already decided that, no matter where she wound up, she was going to strike out on her own as soon as she possibly could. In spite of Jenny's best efforts, Paula was still plagued by doubts about her role in the deaths of her parents and the animosity that existed between both sides of her family. On her 12th birthday, Jenny was awarded final custody of Paula. On her 15th birthday, Paula sought (with Jenny's blessing) legal emancipation, which was granted eight months later. She continued to stay with Jenny, but began making her own decisions.

A precocious student, she graduated from high school at the age of 15, shortly before her legal emancipation. She worked with Jenny, a seamstress and tailor on Luna, for a while as she tried to figure out what to do with her life. On her 18th birthday, she applied to Star Fleet Academy, again with Jenny's blessing, and was accepted in April of 2275. Reporting for classes in August of that year, she excelled at mathematics and the sciences, and found herself promoted to lieutenant junior grade immediately after her cadet cruise on the U.S.S. Exeter in 2279.

Her first assignment was as a junior science officer on Starbase 17, located on the Organian Neutral Zone between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. She served there for two years before her transfer to the U.S.S. Drake. There, her tendency to generalize and approach the sciences with broad strokes caught the eye of the ship's chief science officer, Lt. Treyva. She moved from section to section within the department, becoming the physics section chief within a year of coming on board. In 2284, she applied to become the deputy chief science officer when Lt. Jeff Coleman left the ship to become the chief science officer aboard the scout ship U.S.S. Camelopardus. Treyva, by then a lieutenant commander and the Drake's CSO and XO, quickly approved her application.

With Treyva's promotion to captain of the Drake, Paula has become the ship's permanent CSO.

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Courage Use

-1 Point, "The Well of Dreams", reply #84
-1 Point, "The Well of Dreams", reply #241
Refreshed at opening of "First Response" -- 4 remaining

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Career Notes

Episode 1.1 - "A First Test" - Appointed Acting Chief Science Officer, USS Drake
Episode 1.3 - "The Well of Dreams" - Appointed Chief Science Officer, USS Drake