FULL NAME
Dr. Charles Jones
DESIGNATION
1083431
DATE OF BIRTH
10-6-1991
SPECIES
Human, Earth born
NATIONALITY
English
ETHNIC BACKGROUND
Caucasian of Scottish, English and Irish Descent
PREVIOUS OCCUPATION
Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Cambridge
VOCATION
Higher Education Teacher specializing in Earth religions
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Professor Jones stands at 156 centimeters in height in shoes, with a lean frame. Charles is an active jogger and biker, as such he is in good physical shape. His complexion is slightly tanned, devoid of scars, tattoos or other blemishes. He has short medium brown hair which is beginning to turn gray, styled into a simple crew cut. He is clean shaven with neatly kept eyebrows and an overall well groomed appearance. The middle aged man's choice of clothing is typically business casual, often with collared shirts, darker shaded slacks and loafers or rarely, polished Nike sneakers.
Charles has hazel colored eyes, which he often wears thicker framed black eyeglasses over to correct his farsightedness. While he could have easily gotten surgery to correct his eyes he has worn glasses for so long he's gotten too used to them. His facial features could be considered attractive, with a firm jawline, aquiline nose shape, hollower medium height cheekbones and smaller ears. His lips are thinner, with hints of aging creeping onto his features.
PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION
Professor Charles Jones is a typically calm minded man, with a noted dislike of the aliens. He speaks with a composed Manchester accent. He finds it perplexing that the extraterrestrials would pay any mind to humanity, with human's perchance for constant war over trivial reasons, long history of prejudice against one another and the self caused destruction of Earth. Jones is deeply suspicious of the aliens' intentions, a sentiment known to many. His choice of job is something which he will speak about at lengths, despite openly admitting to be an atheist whose simply always held a deep fascination with the idea of religions. In class he's known to possess a mind open to ideas, with an inclination for total honesty with his thoughts. Charles speaks of fascination with the concept of going beyond Earth, but does not talk fondly of Eden. Though he finds the name particularly humorous, if unoriginal considering his profession.
Charles finds his assigned role fitting and is comfortable in it considering its similarities to his former Earth job. His daily life on Eden has been comfortable, too comfortable for his liking due to his suspicions of the aliens and the Democratic League of Planets. The Englishman has made some friends and has taken to visiting pubs at night for socializing. Charles is noted with his dislike of Eden, finding it disturbing in a way, speaking of it more as a zoo than a new homeworld. He had little family to speak of, aside from a dementia ridden father and a few distant cousins, while having no children of his own. Charles does have an arrogance to his word when speaking of himself and his life, that can be offputting to some. Though he does not seem as if he is trying to be pompous with his words.
CHARACTER PROFILE
Born in west Manchester before the current millennium, Charles grew up in a comfortably middle class home. His father, Arthur was an electrician and his mother Danielle was a secretary. His family were proud Catholics and the young Charles was raised much the same, attending church every weekend. He was the third and youngest child, preceded by two sisters. Amanda, five years his elder and Mary who was two years older than him. He was close with both of his siblings, particularly Mary. The young Englishman had a simple, happy childhood for the most part. He had a good amount of friends in high school, while maintaining high grades, enough to be near he top of his class.
He does not speak too much of his pre university years, aside from one traumatic incident during his junior year of school. His mother and Mary were involved in a head on collision involving a drunk driver, resulting in the instant death of his mother while sending his sister into a coma. Charles states its the day he fell out with his faith, but not his lifelong fascination with religion. He'd graduate from school and go on to a higher education, choosing to major in Religious Studies at the University of Manchester. The intelligent Charles enjoyed his time at university, finding the work at first challenging but progressed quickly. He would graduate with his bachelor's degree, then take a year off before pursuing his master's. In that gap year he would publish a couple of editorials on religious relations which would gain him praise in the field. His chase for a master's degree would take him oversees to the United States, where he would attend Stanford University in California. He looks back fondly on his time in America and would graduate in just under two years with his masters.
Following this latest success he would elect to travel the world a bit, visiting mainly religious sites such as the Vatican, Jerusalem, Mecca and Varanasi. During this time he'd author more published columns, essays and begin to write his first book, further building a name for himself. After this three year expedition he'd return to England where he would be accepted into the prestigious University of Cambridge, pursuing his doctorate degree. It was the most difficult higher education task yet, but one the well traveled man was ready for. Aided by his recent travels and deep knowledge he would pour his effort into earning the final degree, snatching his Ph.D. in just under five years of hard work. The next chapter of his life involved traveling throughout the United Kingdom, frequently speaking at colleges while publishing more books and columns.
Around his thirty ninth birthday he would apply to work as a professor of religious studies at his alma mater, the University of Cambridge. After being accepted for the position he would stay in it until the arrival of the aliens. A day which fundamentally changed his outlook on life, like it did so many others. Their arrival would change the foundations he had learned, but he was not lost. Even more than before religion was discussed and debated, with these non human arrivals appearing from the stars. The professor was very curious of aliens, but this changed to a deep suspicion as they revealed the reason they had arrived. He was a noted critic of their 'mission', which was partly why he had been surprised when they offered for him to make the journey to Eden. It was if the name was chosen to taunt someone so deep into the field of studying religion, but he would accept it over dying on a doomed world.
In the months since then he has settled in quaintly in a similar position to one he had on Earth, albeit with more paranoia and suspicion over the entire thing than he'd ever had in anything before. Charles would take a leading role in the formation of Terra Primum, a human rights group which has been declared by some as xenophobic, fearmongers, radicals and conspiracists.