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All this military and science talk and I'm just the Security gal.



"I ain't breaking up your bitch-ass fights, sort it out yourselves."
"CHIEF THEY'RE BREAKING THE BRIDGE APART."
"Hey! I don't get involved in people's personal issues!"
*red alert begins blaring*
"Keep it clean guys, I don't want to see any hair pulling."

Meanwhile Haruhi would definitely break that shit up. XD
After some researching it seems CQC and CQB are both legitimate terms that vary in various definitions. As one user online put it: "In the army, we used CQC to denote any TIC that involved hand to hand combat. CQB was any TIC that was a firefight at under 50 meters, such as most MOUT engagements." Not sure what that means to Ruby and Gunther, but the conversation inspired me to do some digging.
Gunther makes me snicker. <3

Got something to say on the Navy side of things? or are you just being crazy again? XD
I’ve heard ASAP pronounced both ways, so idk. I'm just a writer.

/shrug




“I will do whatever it takes.”








“I shoot people. They fall down. They don’t get back up.”



O V E R V I E W

N A M E
Errol Vahn

A G E
39

G E N D E R
Male

S P E C I E S
Human

H O M E W O R L D
Mindemir

C L A S S
Bounty Hunter

P O S I T I O N
Hired Gun

A P P E A R A N C E
Perhaps with another line of work, Errol Vahn would’ve been a picturesque spacer or colonist but unfortunately that is not how his life aligned. The mahogany-haired marksman’s body is littered with laser scarring, vibroblade gashes, and other noticeable scars that are the result of a war-driven life in addition to being a smug sarcastic asshole at the wrong time. Surprisingly, Errol’s face is generally unfazed with only minor knicks being apparent to the naked eye. Beyond this, Errol isn’t particularly tall or short (5’11”) and has a somewhat muscular and toned build due to his line of work.

T A L E N T S & B A C K G R O U N D

F O R C E P O T E N C Y
Errol Vahn is not conventionally trained in the force, although he unknowingly has a connection to it.

C O M B A T T A L E N T S
Marksman: Errol Vahn has been shooting people since he was sixteen years old— and most often against more experienced and deadly opponents. His experiences in the Mandalorian Wars led him to becoming a quick and dangerous shot or face the early consequence of sweet sweet death. At thirty-nine, Errol is one of the most skilled snipers that survived the conflicts. These skills are not unique to blaster rifles and carbines, but also pistols.

Saboteur: Errol Vahn is a skilled saboteur, grenadier, and demolitionist. This is clear in his adept knowledge and familiarity with various charges used in explosives throughout the galaxy. Errol is comfortable whether a detonator utilizes ion, plasma, thorium, baradium, or other more esoteric and experimental options as its core.

Field Medic: Whilst hardly on the level of the Republic’s finest doctors and field surgeons, Errol knows what stims do what and how to apply a treat injury kit with little mistake. If there is one thing Errol has learned is that if you don’t know how to counteract a Mandalorian toxic dart on the fly you’re pretty much dead.

Stealth: Rule number one of being a sniper— if they can’t find you, they can’t kill you. Errol fought in several battles and on one occasion even outwitted a Mandalorian searching party on Dxun. He knows how to be quiet and make his shots.

W E A P O N S
Aratech Sniper Rifle
SFOR Republic Carbine
Czerka T-3 Blaster Pistol
Grenade & Utility Belt
Vibroknife

D O S S I E R







This made me feel like I should say something witty.... But I got nothing. You just get an accepted stamp.

It's kosher if I add bullshit side hobbies and stuff once I figure them out though, right?

Also, do tell me how you like Haruhi. I do appreciate it.
H A R U H I



[ ] N A M E
Haruhi Manami Onizuka

[ ] B I R T H // A G E
1.06.2346 (28)

[ ] R A N K
Lieutenant Junior Grade // Security Officer

[ ] R A C E
Human

[ ] A P P E A R A N C E
Standing firm at five foot five with a toned build, Haruhi seems a decent average for the contemporary citizen of Japan in the twenty-fourth century with an individual presence that inspires confidence. Despite her relatively mundane height, Haruhi has a conditioned and hardy physique to her appearance with well-shaped muscles and a preference towards colder, rigid expressions. Beyond that her hair is long— running down beyond her shoulders when let down though such appearances are rare as she prefers to keep it orderly in a roughly strewn ponytail.

[ ] P E R S O N A L I T Y
Haruhi has three modes: deadpan snarker, by-the-books professionalism, and unapproachable storm.

At the cusp of it, Haruhi is difficult through and through. At her most sociable, Haruhi is amicable and jovial with deflections of sarcastic wit— the first “mode” of Haruhi Onizuka and probably the most likely to be found off-duty when she is enjoying the company of others. Haruhi has admittedly developed a jovial sarcasm as a coping mechanism since she was ten years old following the exponential depth of disappointment she felt from her father not being around in her life.

However, when Haruhi is on-duty she is on-duty and she will make it abundantly clear that she has no time for jokes, nonsense, or slip ups when she is in her second “mode” so to speak. The perfectionist attitude, the no nonsense attitude, the staunch stoicism, and nearly robotic sense of orderly manners can seem jarring for those who were more familiar to the jovial and friendly personality she exhibits in her downtime.

Then there is the emotional whirlwind in her final “mode” of personality traits— toxic snark, annoyed agitation, volatile anger, solemn sadness, and enclosed isolation. Whilst it is most rare this is the only mode that can supersede any of her aforementioned tendencies assuming she is emotionally compromised beyond a shadow of a doubt. Although this frame of Haruhi’s personality is indeed rare she has had fits of it in her life following the death of her father and the abandonment of her by her mother. She has been seeking ways to curb this facet of her personality for years though the results of such therapy is uncertain.

[ ] H I S T O R Y
Haruhi Onizuka is the daughter of Captain Kenichi Onizuka, the late Captain of the USS Melbourne, and an unknown mother.

Despite what it may appear, Haruhi was born and raised on the orbiting spaceport centered around the planet known as Midos V and for the bulk of her life has unsurprisingly considered herself equally as much as a daughter of Midos V as well as Japanese. As her father was a dedicated officer of the United Federation of Planets, Haruhi was raised largely away from the presence of her father and as a child felt a wayward angst believing that he had similarly abandoned her as much as her mother had when she was born— a melancholy that led to a series of awkward rebellions against her legal guardian as she became more decidedly unruly for many years. However, despite her emotional and physical outbursts taking control of her actions she was still exceptionally brilliant in academics despite giving the appearance of a delinquent as a growing hopeless call for attention.

After spending several years following her adolescent education, the appeal of a military career seemed to align with her wanderlust as well as a sense of unleashing her spite she held for the father she had barely known in her life and thus she decided to apply much like other individuals had in her situation— for Haruhi it seemed no matter what she did and wherever she went the interest in a career with Starfleet seemed to burrow into her mind in one way or another. This agitation, spite, and adventurous spirit collided and she was accepted into the Starfleet Academy at twenty years of age in the year of 2366.

Upon leave from the USS Melbourne her father took time to approach his daughter in earnest regret and to explain how proud he was of her; a sentiment that only seemed to agitate Haruhi at the time of their meeting. The last words she uttered to her father in said meeting would be the last words she told him before his untimely demise only a year later when he participated as part of the taskforce sent to halt the Borg insurgence in the conflict known as The Battle of Wolf 359, an unfortunate situation that led to the destruction of the starship. It would be a death that Haruhi would hold with her for the rest of her time at Starfleet Academy where she realized she had longed for her father’s attention and respect for so long to only have rejected him in anger. All anger she held in her gut turned into sadness and she focused intently on her aspirations as she went down the Security route in hopes of being able to protect others from unfortunate fates in the future.

Eventually Haruhi began serving on starships and beginning a prominent career— eventually leading to her settling as one of the principal security officer’s onboard the USS Yorktown (NCC-20045) by 2370 when the newly reinstated ship was looking for talented crew members for its return to service as led by Captain Herman Zimmerman. She spent the core of her years as an officer on the Yorktown achieving experience and accolades for her service for some time. As time would progress she was ultimately transferred to the service of the USS Orion and serves as one of the higher ranking Security Officers albeit not one of commanding clout due to her relatively young age and other factors.

[ ] S K I L L S
CQC: Haruhi had a turbulent and juvenile youth as she allowed angst to overtake her emotions in her teenaged years on Midos V— a fact that refined her physical conditioning as well as perception of fighting others bare-knuckled despite her being not particularly tall or imposing. In those years she focused on being smarter, faster, and tougher than her opponents when she got into brawls wherever she could find them and without concern for gender or species of the particular individual she offended. She was trained rudimentary martial arts as a child and extending it into these experiences only made it more apparent as she listened to no one and challenged everyone to try something against her person. This was refined and reworked during her time in Starfleet as more styles of martial arts and experiences forced her to be more capable.

Marksmanship: Haruhi’s time in Starfleet found her favoring simulations and situations where she had to be as quick with her fists as she was with a phaser; forcing her hand to be quick, accurate, and unfaltering. She enjoys utilizing phaser rifles but knows the standard phaser will serve her just fine.

Perceptive: Haruhi tries to observe situations to understand the best way to act which lends well to her talents in CQC and Marksmanship, but it also extends to her skills in creative thinking and adaptiveness in sticky situations.

[ ] O T H E R
— Really invested in learning about the culture of her ancestors which extends to cinema, music, traditional art, poetry, and literature.
— Utilizes kenjutsu as a form of therapy.

[ ] S A M P L E
No.

This wasn’t real— it couldn’t be real. After everything that had gone on in her life she had finally after all the years behind her begun to put things into perspective as she worked to put her life back on track. She had finally earned some sort of recognition from her father and despite her not talking to him for nearly a solar year she had finally been able to forgive him and she was ready to tell him that and apologize for her words she had said to his face when she had met. But… the universe had taken that away from her. How could the prospect even be real? Why could this be her reality?

No.

She kept reading the report. Captain Kenichi Onizuka. Killed in Action.
No.

He was gone.
No.

Haruhi let out a bloodcurdling scream in her dormitory as her shaking hands grabbed on to the metal tray as she swung it haphazardly before releasing it from her fingers— the metal colliding against her dormitory’s walls with a loud ‘clang’ as she began to lose her mind and her emotions along with it.

“FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!”
@Gowi I must admit, I often enjoy reading your prose. I recall reading some of your IC posts about 3-5 years ago on the old forums, but for whatever reason, I do not believe we ever wrote in the same thread together. Irrelevant now. Here we are.

Haruhi is a good read. I had a similar personal experience as she had with her father. When I was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenat in the US Army, my father was there to pin my "butter bars" on me. But due to his poor parentage and lack of presence in my life as a child/teen, I felt only contempt for him. I could empathize with Haruhi up through that part of her life. Fortunately, for me, dad was not killed by some Alien Life Form while on patrol in the outer reaches of space and our relationship improved greatly during adulthood.

As I read your description, I felt you nailed it pretty well. I look forward to working with you. I know you write exceptionally well regardless of the substance. I'm sure your Star Trek is not as rusty as you may imagine. Like anything else in this hobby, there are massive tomes written on this subject and the research is half the fun.

On a side note, are you British? I ask simply because you use the term CQC for Close Quarters Combat. I spent 21 years in the US Army, mostly in the Infantry and we always referred to it as CQB, Close Quarters Battle. CQC could also be a civilian thing, what do I know.

First of all, you flatter me. I assure you I am only really good at pretending to be a good writer.

I’m sure I’ll be okay as a security officer but all of my technobabble is something I’m incapable of right now despite my experience with Star Trek as a franchise. But my intent here is to make an engaging member of the crew and see where it takes me— it is really cool to see someone outright comment on my sheet outside of “accepted” which you and Orlan have already done. It’s great, I live for this shit. I agree with the research bit, too.

I’m 100% American in nationality, actually. As far as I know CQC is just how it’s always been explained to me in digital media (video games like Metal Gear Solid, certain televised dramas and films, etc.) so that’s where I picked that up on. So I’m not sure where the line of convergence between military and non-military with the terminology starts truthfully.
Family Guy sucks, glad it ended after Season 14.

That's why its getting a fifteenth season then?
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