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Minor Written Character BIO

 

Minor Written Character BIO

Drone: N.E.D. (Natural Environment Drone) 


Xenobiologist Bio: William McManus 


Age: 38 


DOB: 3rd September 2155 


Home world: Earth 


Species: Human 


Job: Xenobiologist 


Crew Assignment: The Endeavor 


Wants: To explore the unknown, discover and observe previously undocumented creatures. 


Fears: large Invertebrates, Aswell as most social situation. 


Character:  

William is an eccentric Genius in all forms, his encyclopedic knowledge of creatures and their evolutionary chains made him a standout xenobiologist when training for the fleet. However due to his poor social skills he was unable to ask for a reassignment, leaving him in a position on a non-exploratory ship. This has made him sluggish and monotone in nature, however, explodes out of this shell when dealing with creatures. As such he finds himself over excitable and brash when dealing with the unknown, even when being self-restrained by addiment professionalism. Due to his intelligence, he can be seen by his peers as quite cold and logical even with his great love of all creatures. 


Background:  

Assigned onto an exploratory vessel, as the fleets youngest Xenobiologist, Willian McManus was full of hope. His dream of venturing into the unknown and documenting the weird and wonderful started as soon as it could. However, with a string of misfortune William ended up serving on the Endeavour as the ship made its rounds as a support ship and not a true exploratory vessel. For the last 20 years William has been to no unknown parts of space, instead his expertise has been used to maintain ecosystems on planets of known interest as well as aid the medical team in surgical operations on studied creatures. 


During his 20th year serving on the Endeavour, the ship was ambushed while responding to a distress call near the edge of known space. What William first thought was an opportunity to final go into the unknown quickly turned into a survival situation. Making it to an escape pod William survived the destruction of the Endeavour. Williams escape pod spent 3 days floating in space before getting caught in the gravity of a passing asteroid. This asteroid slingshot his escape pod deep into unknown space eventually crashing of the planet Willian has Nicknamed “Hell”, He named it this after crash landing. Equip with a Brocken N.E.D. his training and know how William must survive this planet until he is able to signal help from the fleet. 

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