Editing Susan Rivers

[[Image:susanrivers2.jpg|thumb|right|''' ''Susan Rivers'' ''']]

Her mother is Lei Janna, daughter of Kol Shakan and Lei Roma, two [[Bajoran]] resistance fighters who died when Janna was only 10 years old. Janna has been fighting her whole life - first to free [[Bajor]], then to free New Terra and the other [[Maquis]] worlds. She now holds a senior liaison post between the [[Maquis]] and the Federation.  

As an ex-Starfleet pilot, Susan's late father Thomas Rivers had many skills to offer the Maquis and rose swiftly to a position of leadership. He and Janna moved from colony to colony, setting up resistance cells then moving on to prevent detection and capture. Their son, Marcus, was 10 years old when Susan was born, and so although she was sent to live with her father's sister Luisa on Earth when the Dominion invaded, he was allowed to stay with his parents.  

Even after the defeat of the Dominion, Susan remained with Luisa (an archaeology professor) while her parents continued the fight for self-determination. By the time the Peace Accord was signed in 2388 and she could have returned home, Susan was 11 years old and in secondary education. It was decided not to disrupt her life by returning her to New Terra. Susan was bitterly disappointed at this decision, and felt as though her family was rejecting her. To forget her unhappiness she threw herself into her studies and graduated top of her class. She went on to study archaeology, but soon realised that she wanted more from life than the study of dead civilisations. She considered applying to the [[Maquis]] fleet, but eventually decided that she would have no place there that was not created by her parents and brother for her. She felt that only within the diversity of Starfleet could she make a place that would be hers and hers alone.  

Educated on Earth, in the care of her father's sister Luisa (a noted archaeologist), Susan's first degree was in archaeology. However, she soon decided that she wanted more out of life than following in her aunt's footsteps and studying dead civilisations, and after much thought (and a flaming row with her family) applied to and was accepted by Starfleet Academy.

Her three years at the Academy were notable for two things: her constant clashes with authority and her equally constant high marks in all her classes. She was on average in the top five students of her year each year, and graduated with honours. For three successive years she held the title for marksmanship, and has kept up her practice. She also gained high grades in hand-to-hand combat, with a distinction in unarmed combat. She has learned to control her temper on *most* occasions.  

She was assigned to the [[USS Nimitz]] as OPS officer with the rank of Ensign(jg).  

When Captain [[Aragorn]] married Louise Palmer, the Vegan invited his good friend Captain [[Remae Ktell]] and the crew of the [[USS Spectre]], the ship on which Aragorn had first served and where he had met Louise, to the wedding. Susan met up with Zintel again, he apologised for the way he had behaved, and they made up. Zintel gifted her a [[Bajoran]] friendship bracelet just before the wedding.

During the Federation/Cardassian war, the Nimitz CO Captain [[Aragorn]] took Susan with him on a mission to get the Maquis forces to throw their weight in on the side of Starfleet. They agreed and a Maquis fleet was despatched to Starbase 968, arriving in time to swing the result of what became known to historians variously as the battle for Starbase 968 (Federation) or the battle for Bajor (Maquis). During that battle, Maquis Captain Thomas Rivers, believeing his daughter Susan was aboard the Nimitz, was killed when he used his ship the MSS Gernoimo to protect the crippled Nimitz from a Cardassian Galor. Unknown to Thomas, Susan had been issued with immediate transfer orders from the Nimitz to the Spectre only hours before the battle began.

Learns of the death of her father from Captain [[Aragorn]].

Transferred to the USS New Victory, the temporary home of the Nimitz crew whilst the ship was being repaired after the battle for Starbase 968, as FO. Took part in the investigation of a [[Gulorian]] baseship, which the Nimitz crew managed to prevent falling into the hands of the Cardassians.

 

 

 

 

 

Captain, [[USS Nimitz]] until injured in the line of duty.

Although her injuries were not that serious, she did not return to the Nimitz but transferred to Admiral Ohlsson's staff at his personal request. Further information of her time with Ohlsson remains classifed until further notice, but is believed to have included some blackops assignments.

Ohlsson then gave her a special assignnment (see the Sub Rosa posts below), investigating a possible traitor on the Boudicca. To provide her with a cover-story, Susan used her previous record of insulting Admirals to provoke a court-martial for gross insubordination to Admiral West, resulting in a reduction of her rank from Captain to Lt(jg).  

Assigned as TAC/ASC to the [[USS Boudicca]] under her own former FO, then Commander but now Captain [[Caladryll Sevant]]. However, when the [[Boudicca]]'s FO, Commander West, was badly injured in battle, Captain [[Sevant]] made Susan his FO, promoting her to Commander.

Current assignment: FO, [[USS Boudicca]]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Susan makes a true and loyal friend once she gets to know you, but an implacable and unforgiving enemy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mission: To Live and Die in Starlight, Day -5

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Susan shrugged. "I know," she said. "It has to be not just believable

 

 

Ohlsson had not specifically said once this assignment was over, but

 

ring. If you can infiltrate it, so much the better."

 

 

"Ah, but that's the beauty of it. A Starfleet Captain, stripped of her

 

 

is also detailed on this PADD. Your assignment, Susan, will be as

 

 

"Name me one ship in this fleet where you *don't* know someone,"

 

 

 

Susan looked down at the PADD again and sighed. "Very well," she agreed.

 

 

 

exactly *did* you say to Admiral Weston to provoke him into

 

Susan told him, and Ohlsson gave a sudden bark of laughter.

 

 

He was still laughing as he walked down the corridor to the turbolift.

 

 

 

 

As she materialised, Susan recognised the operative and saw with a

 

 

 

 

"Thank you," Susan said. "Could you make sure my bags are taken to my quarters?"

"Yes, Ca- *Lieutenant*."

(USS Boudicca, Ready Room, Lt(jg) Susan Rivers, 0855)

Apparently oblivious to the stares of those on the Bridge who

She walked in and came to attention before the desk and the man

sitting behind it.

"Lt Susan Rivers reporting for duty, Sir!"

She handed him the PADD containing her reporting instructions and

waited for his reply.

(Reply by Sevant, anyone on the Bridge who might remember her, any)

Mission to Live and Die In Starlight, day 3

Stardate: 2407.02.03

(USS Boudicca - Unknown location - 'Emanon' - 1645)

The operative designated Emanon frowned. He had been pestered for most of the battle by requests for information and reports and whilst doing his best to slow down the stream of information sent to the Bridge and later the Battle Bridge, had been unable to really interfere in case someone noticed. He had had to try very hard not to show his true feelings when the Starbird had been destroyed early on. He smiled grimly to himself. A simple change to the orders transmitted to the Captain of that vessel and the result had been most satisfactory.

He had hoped to do more but had not dared. After that disaster, he knew all transmissions would most likely be monitored more carefully.

Tapping his console, he brought up the log of messages transmitted and altered the one sent to the Starbird so it reflected the original orders he was supposed to transmit. Simple, when you had his skills. And only if someone had actually thought to check in the thick of battle, which they had not, would the change have been detected. He knew this for a fact, since he would have known immediately. He had too many checks in place to be caught out that way.

Emanon was under no illusions of the penalty for treason in time of war. Though it was hardly treason to obey the rightful leader of the Federation, he doubted that these rebels would see it the same way.

He'd heard that LoDona and Ohlsson had sent someone here to look for him and the others. He permitted himself another grim smile. None of them, except for him, knew more than one or two others, so he was confident that even if some idiot further down the chain were to be caught out, his position was safe. And they all had their orders as to who to throw suspicion on in the event of being caught. Each one had something that could be held over them to ensure obedience. And he held the key to it all.

Besides, even if things went so badly wrong that the finger of suspicion were to be pointed in his direction, who would believe that he, of all people, could be a traitor. Perhaps his former CO, but no one else.

All the same, he decided not to take risks. If any of his cabal were to fall under suspicion, they would be eliminated before they could incriminate anyone else. He would inform his second in command of the changes to be made to their plans.

(Reply none, yet)

(Posted by Liz)

Mission: Reflections of Van Helsing and the Dragon, Day 4

Stardate: 2406.02.10

(USS Boudicca, Crew Quarters belonging to Warrant Officer Jerral Revan

and Warrant Officer  Kinton Hanwary, Warrant Officer Kinton Hanwary, 0700)

told them that Parker was his contact but they would, once they saw the

What Hanwary had heard had made him more scared of Emanon even than of

be. So he did the only thing he could do. He contacted Robespierre.

(USS Boudicca, Unknown location, Robespierre, 0704)

Robespierre cut the connection, then contacted Emanon.

"We have a problem," Robespierre said.

Emanon listened to Robespierre's report with a thin unpleasant smile.

=/\=Very good. What about Hanwary? Are we going to get him off the ship?

I don't trust him not to give him my name if they press him any more!=/\=

from me personally the unwisdom of giving names, even false names."

(USS Boudicca, Crew Quarters belonging to Warrant Officer Jerral Revan

The chime of the doorbell made Hanwary jump, then he realised it must be

Robespierre with the PADD. He opened it.

reading it avidly.

and put them on before taking out a wire garotte. With one quick

checked to make sure there were no signs of life, then to make sure he

pulled out a knife and slit Hanwary's throat. Blood leaked slowly from

satisfaction, then began to ransack the room, trying to make it look as

fingerprints and then wedged at the back of a half-open drawer, as if it

erase his presence from the computer record, and replace it with someone

else's.

=/\=The room-mate's on his way back. You'll have to hurry! He'll be

Emanon swore and hastily left the room. So hastily that he could not be

intended. Fortunately the corridor was empty and no one witnessed the

hasty retreat.

RPG:

                              ''Susan Rivers is played by Liz Geuken.''