Post by Nishka on Nov 19, 2010 2:37:03 GMT -5
Name: Caitlin Davids
Race: Human
Gender: Female
Born: Stardate 59963.54 (11th May 2382)
Birth Place: Lunar One colony, Luna
Career: MACO officer
Rank: Major
Ship: USS Angel's Spirit
Ship Class: Oslo class
Fleet: The 12th Fleet
Specialization(s):
- Martial artist (Jiu Jitsu)
- Marksman
- Engineering turrets and deploying support drones
Major accomplishments:
- Graduated with honours with the rank of 1st lieutenant due to impressing her supervisors with a search and rescue mission on stardate 80047.75 (10th June 2402) in which she had to fight through several squads of Gorn with her team. The mission ended with the successful rescue of a Betazoid medical cadet and the recovery of the corpses from the rest of her away team.
- Captured a Klingon Captain on stardate 82385.37 (11th October 2404) on his own ship despite all odds, this earned her a promotion to the rank of captain.
- Lead a successful assault against a Borg invasion on Tri Canis VI on stardate 87956.94 (8th May 2410), this earned her a promotion to the rank of major.
Caitlin was born on stardate 59963.54 (11th May 2382) in the largest colony of Luna, Earth's moon. Her family had moved to Luna several generations ago and she truly considered herself a child of the moon. As a child she would often stare through the panoramic windows at the sky where she could see the beautiful green planet above her, wondering what life there would be like.
Caitlin was the only child of her father John and her mother Lucy. Her parents both worked on Luna in Lunar One colony. Her mother was a kindergarten teacher while her father was one of the many engineers that did his best at keeping the colony running, fixing broken equipment and replacing outdated technology. In short her parents weren’t high ranking officers and could be considered part of the working class in the Federation society, but did important work nonetheless.
Often Caitlin fantasized of what life among the stars would be like, but she never considered herself to be an explorer. She was curious to life on other Federation planets, but no more curious then what daily life on Earth was like where you could walk around freely, rather then being limited by the dome she called home.
She had a lot of friends in Lunar One colony, but being a tomboy she tended to play more with boys then with girls. She never really liked dolls and the rougher games that boys played were much more to her liking.
Especially hide and seek and playing war where games she loved where she had to search and capture her enemies, trying to avoid capture herself.
The conflicts between the Federation and Klingon empire that were broadcasted increasingly more had a big influence on this as well.
In her early teens this tomboy behaviour changed as her body transformed into that of a healthy young woman. She had to grow accustomed to the fact that her friends were starting to treat her differently, even though she still felt more at ease with them then with her girlfriends.
To make sure she’d keep fitting in with the guys and to tease the hell out of them, she started working out with them in the gym. This resulted in a healthy toned athletic body and a killer condition. While the guys were stronger then her she could outrun them any time and was far more supple then any of them. Her girlfriends often huffed about her attitude and her strict fitness regime, but they were unable to change her mind and teach her more feminine manners.
As a teen she had several boyfriends, but like the typical teenager she didn't have any long lasting relationships.
On stardate 74210.77 (8th August 2396) Caitlin kissed one of her boyfriends for the first time, the event was such a revelation to her that she became more interested in all the antics of her girlfriends and paid more attention to nuisances such as fashion, make up and how to date a boy.
With the incidents between the Federation and the Klingons becoming increasingly more aggressive Caitlin felt a strong calling to enlist and protect the Federation from harm. She wanted to join the Federation as soon as she was allowed to. Many of her friends felt the same, though several preferred an occupation as a scientist or engineer instead of a tactical officer.
Caitlin had had a romantic view on what life as a soldier for the Federation would be like and she regularly dreamt about fighting the Klingon Defence Force and kicking their asses back to where they came from.
On stardate 76063.61 (16th June 2398) her wish finally came true. Together with a handful of friends she signed up for the Federation and after a tough selection procedure she managed to get herself placed in the advanced tactical course.
Her physical strength was clearly lacking but she made up for that through martial arts where agility was more important to beat your opponent then raw strength. Next to her newly developed love for martial arts she also loved the use of gadgets that could help her in warfare. During her advanced tactical training courses Caitlin specialised in phaser turrets, quantum mortars and support drones.
Next to several boyfriends and even a short relationship with a girl she also became close friends with two Vulcans who taught her the benefits of meditation, in return she taught them how to shoot pool in the lounge.
Her meditation in combination with her martial arts allowed her to develop a natural calmness, which in turn greatly helped her when firing arms in stressful situations. This allowed her to become an expert marksman. She kept her emotions so well under check that she was considered uncaring and cold in combat while the opposite was true. Despite how outsiders treated Caitlin her Vulcan friends were very proud of her and she also managed to impress her childhood friends with her skills, who in turn became interested in Vulcan meditation too.
Once Caitlin tutors found out about the source of Caitlin's calmness in battle and the additional benefits of meditation they decided to make the meditation techniques a requirement of the advanced tactical training courses and forced all cadets to follow this.
On stardate 80047.75 (10th June 2402) Caitlin took part in a search and rescue mission as part of her exam. An away team had gone missing on an unexplored planet and was likely ambushed by a Gorn raid party. Caitlin's team had to deal with heavy resistance from the Gorn, but eventually found the only surviving member of the away team. She was a Betazoid medical cadet and appeared to be in good health, but it was clear that she had been through a lot the last twenty-four hours.
Her team also uncovered the bodies of the rest of the medic's away team.
On stardate 80317.66 (17th September 2402) Caitlin graduated with honours. Her search and rescue mission on stardate 80047.75 had impressed her supervisors so much that she was immediately promoted to the rank of 1st lieutenant. It had been Caitlin who located the sole survivor of that incident, her bravery and leadership skills had made all the difference between success and total failure.
She was assigned to the USS Thunderstorm a day later and was put in command of her own MACO squad.
With the increasing tensions between the Federation and Klingons her expertise was called a lot upon. On stardate 82385.37 (11th October 2404) her squad had to infiltrate the I.K.S. Korp'Cha to capture and interrogate its Captain about the whereabouts of an escaped Undine. There were four squads sent out to infiltrate the ship, but the mission ended in a total disaster.
The Klingons were far more prepared for the assault then expected, but due Caitlin's leadership her squad managed to capture the Captain and transport him off the ship. She did lose one of her squad members due to a bat'leth wound that the Captain had caused, but her calmness had allowed her to perform far better then expected under the given circumstances. The other teams never made it off the ship alive.
Until then Caitlin had always lead missions with a hundred percent success rate and she took the loss of her team mate very heavy. Mentally she was unprepared for this possibility and though she knew deaths of fellow crew members could happen at any given mission she didn't expect it would happen to her squad. In the back of her mind she always thought she'd be saved from such tragedies. Caitlin mourned the losses of her other fallen comrades too, but she felt especially responsible for her own team member.
For her bravery and achieved success during that mission she was promoted to the rank of Captain by Brigadier General Van Dijk. It was a promotion she received with mixed feelings and it took her several months and a lot of meditating before she accepted her failure. Her innocence and romantic ideals were lost forever though and in every battle that followed she was more careful from that point on then she used to be, doing her best to avoid more deaths.
In the report Van Dijk wrote about the mission he expressed his concerns about Captain Davids mental well-being, but also praised her bravery and command. He was aware that Caitlin considered herself reckless but couldn't see how she could have prevented that death had she acted differently. In fact, he concluded that if she had been more careful her entire squad would have probably died since it would have taken them too long to capture the Klingon Captain.
On stardate 88115.98 (5th July 2410) Caitlin transferred to the USS Angel's Spirit, an Oslo class escort, together with five squads of MACO for a top secret mission. After completing the mission Starfleet Command decided to keep the MACO officers aboard the USS Angel's Spirit and reassigned her former ship, the USS Thunderstorm, to patrol the Romulan border while the USS Angel's Spirit was reassigned to battle group Omega to help with the increasingly aggressive Borg.
On stardate 87956.94 (8th May 2410) the Borg infiltrated planet Tri Canis VI with a single sphere, six ships from battle group Omega were dispatched to evacuate civilians and military personnel. Since Starfleet Command received the distress signal very late the Borg were already busy with their assault on the outpost by the time the six ships arrived.
Caitlin had the command over four MACO squads and together they managed to hold the Borg off long enough to evacuate all civilians who were holed up in a compound. The Borg were relentless and Caitlin insisted on staying behind until all the others were beamed off the planet to safety. Her elite squad was the last to leave, but unfortunately the away team ended up being cornered by several tactical drones before they got beamed out. They fought valiantly but in the end Caitlin couldn't prevent getting infected with nano probes. Next to herself two of her team members were infected too.
Before she was completely assimilated her ship finally managed to get a lock on her team and beamed them off the planet. The brave doctor's aboard the USS Angel's Spirit immediately set themselves to stopping the assimilation process and removed the implants that had already formed. Since they caught her in the early stages of assimilation Caitlin made a full recovery with no visible implants on the outside. Her connection with the Collective was never fully initialised either and Caitlin suffered mildly from a post-traumatic stress disorder. After the incident she would occasionally wake up bathing in sweat after a nightmare, but overtime these dreams would grow less in intensity.
Her two team mates were not so lucky and though they made a full recovery too they did had a few implants that they would have to carry for the rest of their lives with them. Removing them could cost them their lives and would make them unfit for duty, which is why they opted to keep them.
On stardate 87963.01 (10th May 2410), two days after the events on Tri Canis VI and after Caitlin was discharged from medical bay and promoted to the rank of Major for the bravery she had shown and her excellent leadership skills. Reviews of the battle showed that she held her ground against all odds and accomplished her mission with minimal loss of life on their side.
Her victory had come at some cost, but it could have been far worse.
To be continued...