So you said CO would be better huh? OK, challenge accepted ;-P

[b]Name:[/b] Alexis West

[b]Appearance:[/b]
Alexis stands 173 centimeters tall. While by no means physically weak, her frame seems rather skinny. She keeps her blond hair a few inches short of shoulder length, using it to partially cover the scar that starts close to her right eye and goes all the way below her ear. Her green eyes are always ticking checking out her surroundings and hardly ever still, only when she gives someone her trademark piercing gaze. She is not a fan of distinguishing herself from the rest of the crew and welcomed the uniform green jumpsuits worn on Earth ships, most of the time wearing one of those.

[b]Rank:[/b] Captain
[b]Role:[/b] Commanding Officer
[b]Unit:[/b] EX-305 HMS Tempest
[b]Age:[/b] 41
[b]Gender:[/b] Female

[b]Reason chosen for Tempest:[/b]
Previously a CO of a Trafalgar-class fleet submarine, Captain West is most capable of acting on her own without contact to higher ranks. Her record shows she is very good at utilizing the stealth capabilities of the submarine for precision strikes, a skill that was deemed very useful on a ship not primarily designed for combat. Taking a lesson from the US, the Royal Navy opted for a submarine skipper rather than a ship captain due to the three dimensional nature of combat in space. The fact that West has next to no family also played in her favor

[b]Personality:[/b]
Alexis is fairly silent person, preferring not to speak at all unless there is something of value to be said. She's calm under pressure and believes that optimism is caused by lack of information, giving her an overall cold personality. In private life, she only keeps a handful of true friends. As far as work relationships go, she can be tough and expects only the best from the crew, but in return she always fights for them and gives them relative freedom in their jobs, counting on her staff to know what to do. Captain West is rather fond of coffee, Swiss chocolate and and Sci-Fi literature, although her interest in the last has somewhat dropped with her new assignment.

[b]Short Biography:[/b]
A daughter of a Czech immigrant and English small company owner, Alexis' education options were limited by her family's financial situation. Her father died in a car crash in her early years, further adding to the need to support her family form early age. As such, she joined the BRNC at the age of 18 and graduated on the top of her class. Her first assignment was a sonar service on board a destroyer. During NATO war games, she was able to predict the movements of enemy submarines with astounding accuracy and her ship made the major contribution to the list of destroyed targets. Following that she took special interest in submarines, studying their tactics. This did not go unnoticed by her superiors. With her cold and calculating mindset, she was offered service on board one. In the next round of drills, she managed to help shed a pursuing destroyer by guiding the vessel directly between it's two propellers. With her good performance, she was permanently transferred to the submarine service. Initially West was not considered for command, but when her CO got incapacitated during an operation, she took charge and completed the mission, earning her own sub.