Warrant Officer Eitan Tuscadero

Character Information

Gender		Male
Species		Human
Age		31

Physical Appearance

Height		6'0"
Hair Color		Brown
Eye Color		Brown
Physical Description		A gangly Human man in his early thirties, Eitan A. Tuscadero (“Tully” to those who get to know him) is not exactly what most would characterize as an attractive specimen for a male Human. He has facial features which are unflattering to some such as somewhat large ears, a wide mouth with very full lips, and a nose that only a mother could love. His parents always told him that he would ‘grow into’ his facial features, but truth be told, he has not. However, some may find his almost cartoonish features appealing, especially paired with his gentlemanly charm, good sense of humor, and youthful enthusiasm. On duty Tully has a tendency to push or roll up his sleeves. He isn't too fond of wearing dress uniforms, but will wear them when formal functions demand it. Off duty, he wears plain clothing usually consulting of jeans, a tee, a jacket and sometimes a baseball cap. A chain is often seen around his neck, attached to it is a pendant of Saint Christopher. Tully wears it wherever he goes, hardly takes it off, and will not leave the ship without it.

Family

Personality & Traits

General Overview		An extremely extroverted individual, Tully Tuscadero will be found in a cluster of people whether he knows them well or not. He makes acquaintances faster than he can get his uniform on properly, but he is slow at establishing true friendships. He typically finds himself being the heart and soul of a crew whether he does that intentionally or not. People will gravitate towards him when they need someone to keep them happy or lift their spirits a bit because he is fun, expressive, and free; however, there is an underlying sadness to him which he does not express nor share publicly. He takes it upon himself to crack jokes and help others find moments of happiness when surrounded by an oppressive wave of pain though he himself remains emotionally trapped and arguably stunted in a way. Rules and regulations were never his cup of tea and he was always bucking with family traditions and resisting everyone’s attempts to straighten him up. He did not plan on becoming the black sheep of his family, but that was what happened before he even was able to realize it. Raised in a divided home that were still profoundly religious even in the 24th century, the maternal side of the family long rooted in Judaism and the paternal side staunchly adhering to Catholicism. How his parents even managed to hold their marriage together for as long as they did still baffles him. Tully is a creative individual with a lot of energy and he needs space both physically and mentally. He has always tried to get postings on space stations and larger starships. Smaller spaces make him feel trapped and he does suffer from claustrophobia. His initial plans of being a shuttle pilot were derailed when he learned of his claustrophobia and his acute space sickness which became very evident during zero G training. He tried his hand of course at getting into Starfleet Academy like any wide-eyed child aspiring to travel the stars does. However, as one of the examination proctors noted in his record: Brilliant on paper, but a mistake in practice. One of Tully’s biggest obstacles is his impulsiveness. He often goes with the flow, trusts his gut feeling, and relies too heavily on emotion. This has been a hindrance professionally. He has been fortunate enough to have enough people believe in him and see his potential to get a foot into Starfleet service, but he is not what many would consider ‘officer material’ and for various reasons is often benched from away teams, simply providing tech support, monitoring situations, and operating the transporters for quick extractions. At only thirty years of age, Tully still has a lot of maturing to do, but losing friends in the war has matured and hardened him quickly, arguably too suddenly. His sometimes childish antics are a coping mechanism.
Strengths & Weaknesses		Sharp mind and nimble fingers, Tully Tuscadero can disassemble and reassemble parts of a starship faster than most humans. He’s ‘gifted’ in that way but lacks the ambitiousness of most officers. His response time is quick; however, his quickness borders on impulsiveness meaning he may make mistakes if he does not take adequate time to think before he acts. What really makes him stand out is his unyielding energy and enthusiasm. He is often de facto morale officer in an unofficial capacity aboard starship, lifting spirits, and keeping those serving underneath him on task. He has spent more time in any one particular Jefferies tube than he has on an away mission on a planet, moon, or asteroid. Excellent at providing technical support and ready to extract an away team with transporters at a moments notice, but severely lacking filed experience. He is claustrophobic and experiences acute space sickness. Though he’s a workhorse and more than competent with his technical skills, he is hardly anyone’s first pick for a mission. He does have a rebellious streak in him and can be highly emotional and buckles under too much stress.
Ambitions		He has more goals and objectives than he does actual ambitions. He’s not much of an ambitious sort, does not aggressively pursue what he wants, and tries not to set unreal expectations for himself. In general, he simply wants to make friends and become a reliable part of the crew. He is hopeful that in a few years time, he will be able to make Chief Warrant Officer and acquire enough experience for a department head posting on a small starship like a Defiant class.
Hobbies & Interests		Tuscadero is a fairly well-rounded individual with a years of experience handling transporters. Computer systems and programming are at the forefront of his technical prowess, and he is constantly tinkering with something to keep his skills sharp. Though he does prefer more physical activities for a recreational time such as hockey and has recently taken up Anbo-jyutsu. He is also a classically trained cellist, enjoys karaoke, and has a baritone voice. Other than Federation Standard, he was raised to learn Hebrew albeit he’s rusty now, can comprehend Latin, and is currently learning Ferengi and Klingon.

Personal History

Born in Staten Island on Earth but raised on Luna, the son of a laborer on the Orpheus Mining colony and his school teacher wife, Tully knew what hard work looked like from an early age. Both his parents were committed to their work, his father often working opposite shifts as his mother so that at least one of them could be home for him. They were a strict family and disciplinarians that kept Tully in line, but they struggled with his energy and forced him to put it towards outlets from an early age that were not what he wanted to do. He was forced to learn to play the cello from an early age when he wanted to learn the drums instead. They would not relent. He was pushed into playing hockey, but over time he grew into enjoying the sport. It allowed him to be part of a team and he was pretty good at it. Because of his parents’ split faiths, Tully had to divide his time attending a small Catholic Church some weeks and going to temple other weeks. They did not trust him in a public schooling system. So, from his childhood years through his teenage years, Tobey was placed in a private ‘all boys’ school on Luna. When he was of age, he applied to Starfleet Academy. He travelled to Earth a few months later to participate in the entrance examinations. He made it through initial screening, but a few days into the lengthy exam process he was discarded by one of the proctors. He had scored high marks in technical areas, but his claustrophobia and space sickness surfaced. They did not feel he would be suitable as an officer in Starfleet, turning him down from academy acceptance. Instead of throwing in the towel, however, Tully Tuscadero marched his way to the nearest Starfleet recruiter’s office and enlisted in Starfleet. He may not have been ‘officer material,’ but Starfleet was hard pressed to turn anyone away from enlisting. So long as the induvial could pass the physical examination and were of sound psychological state, they would toss any warm body into the mix and whip them into becoming another cog in a well-oiled machine. Ten weeks of physically demanding basic training included everything from simple defensive hand-to-hand combat to several weeks of standard type II phaser training and discipline. More physical fitness and psychological evaluations came at the end of the ten weeks to ensure that Starfleet’s newest Crewmen Recruits were ready and prepared. His aptitude towards technology and engineering was what propelled him into pursuing Operations division. Though he had good grasp of the hardware of a starship, it was the software that was his true calling. Crewmen Recruit Tuscadero was sent off to Starfleet Technical Academy for several additional weeks of technical classes in starship operations and auxiliary craft maintenance. He became intimately accustomed to taking off access panels, crawling through Jefferies tubes albeit this was difficult to do without breathing exercises to help keep his claustrophobia at bay, and ripping out food and beverage replicators and repairing faulty party. This escalated over the weeks to partially dissecting Federation shuttlecraft and runabouts. Tully Tuscadero had nearly broken the record for recalibrating navigational sensors but was fifteen seconds short. Finishing in the 97th percentile of his class at the Technical Academy, he received a fairly good first posting for a young and green enlistee. With his technical training and the rank of Crewmen Apprentice upon completion of the program, Tobey was assigned to the USS Goddard, a Federation Korolev class impulse starship. The Goddard was a cutter primarily used as a diplomatic transport escort and occasionally as a courier within a system. Aboard the Goddard, Crewmen Apprentice Tuscadero was a navigational electronics technician, often assigned to a team under the supervision of Ensign Morgan Fletcher. Three years aboard the Goddard, Tuscadero’s work was sufficient and his behavior was exemplary. He was given a good conduct medal and was well liked by his fellow enlisted shipmates aboard the starship. Ensign Fletcher, however, saw there was more that Tobey could give than simply replacing isolnear chips and recalibrating navigational sensors from time to time. He found himself reassigned, receiving new orders. By then he had made Crewmen and was sent by transport to Deep Space 3 where he waited sixteen days for the California class USS Fresno to arrive. His orders were to report to the USS Fresno for his next assignment which saw him added to the starship’s manifest in the Operations department, a beta shift transporter operator. It may have not been the most glamorous job, but it allowed him to learn more about starship operations, disassembling and reassembling transporters was just one aspect of the position. He often was in transporter room one alone but was under the ever-vigilant Bajoran eyes of Senior Chief Petty Officer Arel Kessarus. Senior Chief Arel checked his work meticulously. There was no getting passed the Chief. He took his position damn seriously, and rightfully so. Though transporters were proven to be far safter than shuttle as means of travel, one miscalculation, an accidental push of a control, and you would be scrambling not to literally scramble one of the crew as they rematerialized. He would put in five solid years aboard the USS Fresno as it charted the Alpha Quadrant’s ‘Black Cluster’, earning the difficult to earn praise of Senior Chief Arel and standing out in the routine performance evaluations which were conducted by the Chief of the Boat (which by Tully’s third year aboard the Fresno had become Senior Chief Arel) and shared with the Fresno’s First Officer and the Ship’s Counselor. He had surpassed the rank of Petty Officer 3rd Class and was well into Petty Officer 2nd Class by his fifth and final year aboard the USS Fresno, no longer simply a Beta shift transporter operator, but the Beta shift transporter supervisor. It was with the Senior Chief’s encouragement and support that Tully put in for transfer, wanting an opportunity to prove himself. Arel felt he was ready. Tully was reassigned to a smaller starship, a Nova class light explorer frigate, the USS Pulsar tasked with a surveying mission of the treacherous Talos system and repairing and replacing the Federation buoys put into place around Talos IV to keep spaceships away. It was a three year mission and Petty Officer Tullyy Tuscadero was stationed aboard the Pulsar as Chief Transporter Operator, an admirable position to hold at his age and rank even aboard a small eight deck starship. A deep friendship was born aboard the Pulsar between Petty Officer 2nd Class Tuscadero and Lieutenant JG Cortez, Chief Flight Controller for the USS Pulsar. Cortez and Tuscadero spent a lot of their off duty time together in the holodeck and Cortez gave Tully flight control operations lessons. By the time the Pulsar completed its three year surveying mission, Tully knew his way around the flight controls of a starship and had logged some seat time piloting the Pulsar’s auxiliary support craft, and earning promotion to Petty Officer 1st Class. With the appropriate sponsorship of the Pulsar’s Commanding Officer, Tully Tuscadero was back on Earth taking examinations and being enrolled in Starfleet Technical Academy for a two year program in Advanced Starship Operations with a specialized concentration on aeronautical engineering. He completed program, passed his examination for shuttlecraft piloting certification, and pressed onward with an additional twenty two weeks of flight school. Upon completion of flight school, he had the education and time logged in flight simulators and academy training craft to merit duties as a relief conn officer should the need arise in future postings. Now in his thirties, Tully Tuscadero received the designated rank of Warrant Officer, commissioned by warrant as authorized by the Federation Council and signed by the Secretary of Starfleet in recognition for his education and technical expertise. Fresh uniform and single ‘hollow’ rank pip on his uniform, replacing the enlisted rank patch from his collar, Tully Tuscadero was assigned to the large Galaxy class starship USS Resolution as a transporter specialist taking the position of Chief Transporter Operator in the starship’s Operations department. After a brief period of time aboard the USS Resolution, Tully transferred to the USS Quebec.