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From: jimv@corsa.ucr.edu (james vassilakos)
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Subject: CHARACTER: ST-PBeM Character: Lt. Kristin St. James
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Star Trek PBeM - Character Record
Kristin St. James
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Player: John Brengman
Character: Kristin St. James
Rank: Lieutenant
Position: Chief Weapons Officer, USS Typhoon
Physical Description:
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Race: Human Sex: Female Handedness: Left
Age: 38 Height: 5'11" Weight: 127 lbs
Hair Color: Brown Eye Color: Light Blue Skin Color: Caucasian/Fair
Family:
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Born 22/2107.05 at Starbase 11. Father: Unknown. Mother: Capt. Anne St. James,
Retired Star Fleet.
Criminal Record:
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3908: Arrested for Narcotics Possession (Civilian Jurisdiction)
3909: Ditched bail.
4005: Arrested for Grand Theft (Star Fleet Jurisdiction)
4010: Convicted for Narcotics Possession. First Offense. Fined.
4011: Convicted for Grand Theft. Prison Sentence Waived by
Justice Division.
Service Record:
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4101-4112: Star Fleet Academy
Terra, Sol Cadet
Department of Security, Performance: Competent
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4501-4512: Cadet Cruise - Colonial Operations
USS Kirwin, NCC-2320 (Chandley Frigate) Midshipman
Security Trainee, Performance: Satisfactory
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4601-4612: 2nd Cadet Cruise - Merchant Marine
USS Moonbeam, NOO1233 (Sunshine Liner) Midshipman
Security Trainee, Performance: Satisfactory
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4701-4712: 3rd Cadet Cruise - Merchant Marine
USS Tanner, NCC-7132 (Ranger Scout) Midshipman
Security Trainee, Performance: Competent
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4801-5212: Galaxy Exploration
USS Farragut, NCC-1729 (Enterprise Cruiser) Ensign
Security Officer, Performance: Competent
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5301-5607: Colonial Operations
New Jerusalem, Zeta David III 2nd Lieutenant
Weapons Quartermaster, Performance: Outstanding
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5608-5711: Base Operations
Starbase 11 Lieutenant
Asst. Security Chief, Performance: Satisfactory
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5711- Fleet Operations
USS Typhoon, NCC-4762 (Baker Destroyer) Lieutenant
Chief Weapons Officer, Performance: No Rating
Personal History:
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Kristin St. James grew up on Starbase 11, the only child of a single-parent
family. Her mother, who had been promoted to Captain by the time Kris was
entering high school, was a strict disciplinarian, wanting her daughter to
enter Star Fleet and be the perfect officer. However, Kristin had a certain
hellbent attitude about her, an irresponsibility of sorts that provoked her to
fall into situations just to see whether or not she could dig herself back out
of them. Indeed, one of these situations led her into a serious confrontation
with the law. She had become somewhat of a computer hack (with her mother's
insistence upon early technical training), and had found a way to break into
her school's computer. She was soon making a business out of modifying the
grade reports of her fellow students. Of course, she was eventually caught,
however, because of her status as a minor, she managed to circumvent the usual
long-term repercussions for destructive-hacking.
Unfortunately for Kristin, that was one advantages that couldn't last forever.
A week after her 18th birthday, she was picked up on drugs possession charges.
She ditched her parole a month later, but was caught on Alpha Centauri with a
purse full of stolen dilithium (recently pilfered from Starbase 11).
Apparently, she had contacted a number of her high-school buddies and trained
them to cooperate as a team to steal the dilithium. They were all caught after
one of them had snitched to the military police.
Since (at her mother's insistence) she had already submitted an application to
Star Fleet Academy and had been accepted (pending the outcome of her parole),
and since the grand theft charge had taken place at Starbase 11, she was
technically under military jurisdiction. The judge presiding over the case was
so impressed with her leadership abilities and daring, that he decided to give
Kristin a choice. She could either go into the Academy (an idea she was not
particularly happy about), or she could do jail time. Needless to say, she
chose the Academy.
Service History:
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Kristin started Academy training when she was 19. Her emphasis immediately
became security systems and stealth/combat procedures (both of which she was
already familiar with). Her fore-knowledge of "standard operating procedures"
and the strengths and weaknesses thereof allowed her to set-up strategies which
made her a team leader at the Academy with a respected record of successful
trials. However, while she usually achieved the goals of the exercise, she had
a certain callousness about her, a disrespect for the "lives" of the people
under her, often placing them in suicidal situations so that the overall-team
could reach its goals. However, while the art of sacrifice (her favorite
tactic) worked very well in the simulation chamber where nobody was really
going to die anyway, her instructors realized that it wouldn't work so well in
real-life.
To prove the point to her, they staged a fake terrorist attack, making sure
that all the potential weapons available to the students were either mock-ups
or non-lethal. During the exercise, all the cadets including Kris were under
the assumption that the situation was a real one, not an exercise. As usual,
however, her instructors didn't count on Kristin's ingenuity or criminal
instincts.
Instead of trying to overpower the terrorists and steal their lasers in a timed
blitz (with the knowledge that even if successful, at least half of her fellow
cadets would probably be killed), she decided to rig an explosion in the locker
room of the building with some plastique she'd previously pilfered and hidden
beneath a drainage duct. Her hope was that the explosion would draw the enemy's
attention away from the cadets, and that they'd be able to escape during the
ensuing confusion. Not only did the plan work, but her team managed to
overpower and subdue the remaining "terrorists" without sustaining a single
casualty. In the aftermath, it was decided that her success was due to the fact
that the instructors didn't stay in character after the explosion. Either way,
however, she became a hero of the security college that day (mostly for
destroying lots of property in front of everybody and getting away with it).
After graduation, Kristin had to take three cadet cruises before she finally
rose to Ensign. The first was aboard the USS Kirwin where she served as a
boarding officer in training. In fact, her duties were more ground-based than
shipboard, and she was frequently called upon to run customs inspections of
colonial ports which the Kirwin visited. Her second cruise was aboard the USS
Moonbeam, a luxurious passenger liner used for transporting officers, support
staff, and regular passengers from one starport to another. Here, she was
frequently called upon to serve as a personal bodyguard for various
individuals. Other times, her duty was to attend social functions as a
"plain-clothes" security officer. Her final cadet cruise was aboard the USS
Tanner, where she served as a weapons officer for the Scout Ship's small
arsenal. Hence, while she didn't distinguish herself at any point, she did get
on-the-job training in a wide variety of security related duties.
After her promotion to Ensign, Kristin was posted to the USS Farragut, one of
the few Enterprise Class Cruisers in the fleet, for a five year mission of
galactic exploration. While on the Farragut, she served primarily in landing
parties, protecting the senior staff. At one point, she even found herself in a
combat situation, similar to the so-called "terrorist exercise" at the academy.
Only this time, it was for real. The landing party had been "kidnapped" from
the Farragut while in transport to a planetary surface. The ship, a Gothmog
(klingon-human) craft, fled the scene of the crime with its prisoners, hiding
inside the cloudy layers of a nearby gas giant before the Farragut even figured
out what happened. Then the Gothmogs cloaked and casually slipped away beneath
the scans of an assortment of Federation ships which had arrived on the scene,
taking their hostages to an asteroid base.
It was a bad situation, one which Kristin realized she couldn't cheat her way
out of. Nor could she sacrifice the lives of the senior officers in a blitz-
maneuver similar to those she'd honed at the Academy. She decided to accept the
situation and just try to keep the senior officers alive. In doing so, she
ended up getting into numerous physical contests with the Gothmogs as the
prisoners had to "play games" for the privileges of food, drink, and air, not
to mention freedom from pain-manacles. Meanwhile, a Federation diplomat by the
name of Sarin was brought in to negotiate for the release of the hostages. When
Sarin was finally granted the privilege of visiting the prisoners, he gave
Kristin the code to the cell doors (which he had learned via telepathy from the
guards). Using this, she managed to break free with a number of the others, and
although they couldn't escape the asteroid base on their own, they did manage
to take the Gothmog leader captive. With the tables turned from the inside-out,
the Gothmogs were forced to meet Sarin's terms and free the prisoners.
Kristin was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant and stationed at New Jerusalem, a
colony world and the site of a Federation supply depot. Serving as the weapons'
quartermaster, Kristin was in charge of the acquisition and distribution of
personal firearms and components for ship's weapons including photon torpedoes.
It was a prestigious position to be in, not to mention one of special trust, as
if she so desired, she could have made a lot of money in illicit arms sales. It
was at this point that Kristin realized that Star Fleet was finally placing
faith in her, and she was going to prove herself worthy of that faith. However,
when a shipment of p-torps turned up missing, Kristin was suddenly the prime
suspect. She knew she had to take it upon herself to investigate what happened,
or she'd soon find herself at a court-martial hearing by reason of suspicion.
She did, in fact, solve the case. Her personal assistant had diverted the
shipment, and had forged her authorization. She not only caught him, but she
personally tracked down the missing hardware and (when she couldn't regain it
by threat) promptly had it destroyed (along with the buyers).
Kristin's next assignment was to Starbase 11, the place of her birth and
childhood. Her mother had retired, by this point, but everybody knew who
Kristin was as well as what she had done in her youth. Many of her old buddies
came back to pay their respects, some of them ex-jailbirds, others professional
losers. They were all hoping to cash in on Kristin's "sudden" success. While
she did what she had to do to fulfill her duties, she also let the scumbags
walk too many times, remembering how life might have been for her if she hadn't
been given a second chance. Despite the lenience, she soon became one of the
most despised people on the Starbase, and after only a year, she found herself
asking for a transfer.
She ended up being stationed aboard the USS Typhoon, a Baker-class destroyer.
Her only significant encounter during her three years on board the Typhoon was
during a supply run to Alpha Fabian VI. The planet, a mining colony, had an
inordinate amount of geologic activity. It was hypothesized that the large-
scale mining (which was performed via the subterranean detonation of photon
grenades) had caused instabilities in the planetary crust to intensify. Kristin
was on the planet taking tricorder readings with a team of geologists when a
major earthquake occurred, killing several in the party. While she managed to
save a few lives, she wasn't completely successful. Some of the casualties died
of internal injuries. Others died as they tried to make a "climb" back to the
surface. Though the formal inquiry absolved her of blame, Kristin is still
unsure whether she would have made the same decisions over again. Recently,
they have picked up Ambassador Sarin who is on his way to the Rigel Cluster.
_ /| Jim Vassilakos
\`o_O' jimv@cs.ucr.edu
( ) jimv@wizards.com
U Riverside, California
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