Caladryll Sevant

Captain Caladryll Sevant is the Commanding Officer of the USS Boudicca.

Author’s Note

Sevant is my first and oldest character; he was first created before Star Trek: Freedom was even a consideration, back when most of the oldest players were still FGN (Federation Gaming Network). I first put him on paper as my joining character of the FGN in late 1998. That’s six, almost seven, years worth of gaming history… and as such, his history is twisted.

Most of the details I have to gloss over on his official gaming bio, the sucker is just that long, and thus the substance of his life is lost in a series of dates. This is my attempt to write out all the forces which have shaped him into what he is today. Watch for further Author’s Notes within the text that is to follow, which will explain much of the behind-the-scenes concerns.

So grab some popcorn, sit back, and enjoy the ride!

Pre-Starfleet Life

Sevant was born to a human mother and Vulcan father. His mother was a classical music composer and music teacher, his father a diplomat with the Federation Diplomatic Corps, they met on Earth during one of his fathers many visits to his to the Diplomatic Center.

He was born on Vulcan, where his mother had elected to move, and spent his first five years in her care as his father traveled the galaxy. This changed in tragedy just after his fifth birthday. And they were, until his marriage, the happiest of his life.

During a short jaunt out-system, on the return journey to home, Caladryll and his mother had the misfortune of being on a passenger liner that was taken by Romulan terrorists opposed to the reunification of Vulcan and Romulus. The only thing Sevant remembers clearly about this time is, after ten hours of terror, the craft coming under attack by Vulcan Defense Forces. The attack blasted a hole in the hull, causing a massive air-rush. His mother, in panic, managed to get Sevant’s belt secured but not her own, and the suction pulled her outside the hull to her death. Her final scream, along with those of a half dozen others unlucky enough to be caught before the emergency force-fields came on, still haunt his dreams. This event also left him marked as a piece of debris cut across his face moments after his mother disappeared, he now has a prominent scar running from the base of his hairline, across his left eye and down to the base of mouth. It serves as a constant reminder of his favorite parent and how she was lost.

So then began his life under the control of his father, who took a one year leave-of-absence to bury his wife and take his son under his wing. T’Valdec was a man who did his best for his son, though the strain of training a half-human son and trying to make him conform to the rigid logic of Vulcan society showed.

Sevant only went on one diplomatic mission, that shortly after T’Valdec’s return to service. It was during that one month set of negotiations that Sevant met Victoria Reighly, the daughter of another Federation Ambassador and Caladryll’s future wife, as a playmate.

Authors Note: Vicki was first played by Sal Hammond, perhaps my first and best friend from my first stint on the Boudicca. More will be found on Vicki when I write up her history, but almost all of Vicki’s habits mirrored Sal’s… right down to her love of Crown Royale on the rocks.

Shortly thereafter, T’Valdec left Sevant’s care and education to a series of Tutors and family members. Often was the time that one of T’Valdec’s personal friends or acquaintances would stop by on leave in order to teach Sevant something specific. One of Sevant’s favorites was a Klingon, a former Starfleet Officer who owed Sevant’s father a favor. This came at a time when Caladryll was particularly ill-at-ease in the rigid society of Vulcan, K’Ratoc was sent to teach the young half-Vulcan self-control. To do that, K’Ratoc trained the boy in multiple forms of Klingon Combat, from bat-leth and Mek’leth down to hand-to-hand. The technique worked, Sevant’s hot blood cooled as logic and self-discipline took root together.

These skills were put to the test years later when Caladryll was a teenager. The beloved Klingon had turned up missing months before, and he was standing armed in the Sevant family gardens when Caladryll returned from school. And as though it were a bad murder mystery, the Klingon attacked Sevant. Caladryll always carried his bat’leth with him as a child, he would practice with it at school and had even gone so far as to form a small squad for ‘practice’. Like poker, the Vulcan parents didn’t mind the oddity as it served to teach physical control… the bat’leth is deceptively difficult to use. A battle ensued, in which the Klingon was grievously wounded, and died in Sevant’s arms. Sevant, after years of immersion in Klingon society, bellowed for the fallen warrior… the sound of which brought the authorities. It was later determined that the Klingon had been captured and conditioned to kill Caladryll’s father, who was in the middle of tight negations. The culprits were never caught.

Sevant then attended the University of Vulcan, at age 16, with a Major in Federation History (focusing on Starfleet) and a minor in Race Relations. It was thought that he would follow in his fathers foot-steps, thus it was a surprise when he immediately applied for Starfleet Academy upon receipt of his diploma, at age 20. Many of the basic educational classes he opted out of due to his previous diploma, and he only spent one year at the Academy proper before being moved to the Meridian Advanced Undersea training facility to finish his Starfleet Training. His last three years were spent there, learning tactics, command and other related skills.

Authors Note: That was the basis for the FGN, that our cadets were ‘more’ then your average Starfleet Officer, that they went through advanced training under a mile of ocean in the Pacific and became the Elite… the best of the best. So I’m not just ringing my own bell here, Sevant was exceptional because that was the idea of the game :-)

Nothing significant happened during his college years except for a falling out with his father when he chose to take a Security Major. He spent his time studying, he made few friends, he applied himself to his position with vigor. And all the while he held onto his hard learned ideals of Logic and self-control.

He graduated on Stardate 2403.05.15 and was transferred immediately to Starbase 968 to wait the pleasure of Captain Susan Rivers as Assistant Security & Tactical Chief (TAC/ASC) of the almost-commissioned USS Boudicca.

Serving onboard Boudicca (Tour 1)

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Serving onboard Starbase 23

Sevant picked up his duties as Strategic Operations immediately upon arrival, and though not much happened, it should be noted that he made many contacts within Starfleet Intelligence and Strategic Operations.

His tour was cut short with the murder of his father and his new fiancée while on a diplomatic mission. Sevant was granted compassionate leave to set his family affairs in order, as T’Vanec was the last member of Sevant’s immediate family. While they were packing, Victoria told him that they were expecting a child, and they agreed to push forward the date of their wedding en-route to Vulcan.

Authors Note: This authors note is going to end up longer then the actual entry, doh.

This would be my second shortest time serving on a duty station with Sevant, though not by choice. I arrived mid-mission so I didn’t really get to do much with the new and unprecedented position of Strategic Operations of Starbase 23, hence the shortness of this particular entry. I had been serving on the station for nearly a year with Richard Ian Lee prior to moving Sevant, so I knew the crew well (Andrew Brannigan was the bomb).

The problem ended up being one of the reasons I moved to 23, which was hinted at in the above section. Me and another player developed problems, so I took the chance to leave my beloved Boudicca when an offer came from Thys Van Der Merwe (The TAC/SC) and Andrew (the CO). But the fight between us didn’t die, it only got worse. And it came to a head a month later when we had words back and forth on open IRC. I figured his baiting would be enough of a defense in my case so I didnt take my chance to send a defense any further then sending the IRC log, but it wasn’t enough, and I was removed from the FGN for flaming another member... I don’t remember what his punishment was anymore, but he remained. I left the game with one last post detailing that Sevant’s father had died and Vicki was pregnant... so bad news and good, all wrapped into one. I considered that a suitable ending to my gaming experiance, which I thought was at a permanent end.

Thus, I left the game at the behest of Steve Parker for something I didn’t consider in the least bit fair. I made no serious appeal however, I had enough other things to keep me busy at the time and I was seriously bummed about the whole situation. I did sneak in for a while, and played on the Wraith under my old friend Wes Harden, but it just wasnt the same when I couldnt joke around for fear of being discovered, and I left quietly. But none of it mattered in the end. Not much later the FGN split into individual games (FGN: Freedom Squadron, FGN: Phoenix Squadron, FGN: Vanguard Squadron) and that nullified the ban. Tony Keen, the CO of Freedom Squadron, took me back into Freedom Squadron and I rejoined the Boudicca as Sevant.

Serving onboard Boudicca (Tour 2)

After his Compassionate Leave was over, and now sporting a recently married wife and baby daughter named Jayne, Sevant was reassigned to the Boudicca as Assistant Tactical Chief. The ship was immediately beset by a mission, one in which they discovered a very old Constitution Class vessel, the USS Raven. Sevant was part of the boarding team, and he was beset by one of the ‘ghosts’ of that ship, a former crew member who had been turned incorporeal for some unknown reason.

It was shortly thereafter that an accident occurred and Sevant was killed, by striking his head against the edge of a table. The incorporeal energy found another body and Sevant’s was allowed to die. Vicki was there, however, and Sevant gave her his katra with his dying breath. Sevant was revived, soulless, after the mission and put on life-support. Vicki then took her husband back to Vulcan where his katra could be re-united by the Kholinar Masters. A period of re-education followed before his commission was re-activated yet again and he was assigned elsewhere.

Authors Note: This would be my shortest tour in the history of the game, even shorter then my time on Starbase 23. The Captain (Kevin Kenny) and I did not get along well, and it was thought best if I moved off the ship. This was not a fighting dislike, but we didnt like eachothers methods and it lead to some sarcastic remarks and tension that neither of us wanted to continue, it was a mutual decision. Anyway, the only way to remove Sevant quickly was to kill him; I knew I could bring him back ala Spock if I felt the need... And that is exactly what happened. Anyway, I switched my PC to Richard Ian Lee (a Marine on Nimitz) for about 5 months before Liz Gueken took the ship with our old favorite Susan Rivers, and I decided it was a good idea to bring Sevant back since the TAC/SC position had also been recently vacated. I beamed Sevant aboard with Captain Rivers and left Vicki ‘behind’ on a Starbase, that story of which is explained below in The Nexus.

The Nexus

On route to his new duty station with his family, the Sevant family (in a runabout) was swept up into a subspace phenomenon, something they didn’t have the time to explain before they slipped in.

After a brief flash of light, they found themselves in paradise, a tropical landscape that was unmatched in anything but imagination. They explored the place and found it to be an island, a place so charming that they just had to stay while Sevant recuperated and rebuilt his family ties. The reintroduction of his katra had been understandably hard on their familial ties.

Though they didn’t realize it, the place was a Nexus, a subspace pocket where time moved slowly, or not at all. They had a small house, they were alone, and they had lots of time. They initially spent it recovering what they had lost and watching their daughter grow up. But not long after they arrived, they conceived what would become their second child… another daughter they named T’Loren after one of Sevant’s relatives.

The years they spent there were idyllic, they ended up being there for at least a dozen years, although it could have been upwards of fourteen. This was the single happiest time of any of their lives. They would swim with the dolphins, they had a pet horse named Ambrose, and Sevant spent much of his time trying to craft plumbing that worked… something he did on his off-time as a stress reliever (which is probably why the nexus never provided him with working pipes).

They would be there to this day, except for Jayne asking an off-hand question about what it was like ‘out there’ (Outside the Nexus). This caused both Caladryll and Vicki to realize that they were stuck in a dream world, that they had been living there for so long that they had forgotten about the universe. After a conversation about what would happen if they stayed, they decided they had to go... and go soon. The nexus actively fought their thought patterns, trying to make them forget and stay. Sevant went to the runabout, which had been powered down and still had sufficient power to fly, while Vicki herded the children half asleep into its bay.

They left the Nexus amidst worries that they might be condemning T’Loren to death, though Sevant thought (and argued) that she was real for she was of their bodies. There was no conscious effort to direct how they came out, but they ended up leaving the Nexus two months before they had entered it, though in the same location. Caladryll immediately proceeded to the closest Starbase.

They did not explain the nexus however, there was no need. The local Quartermaster thought the orders he presented badly written, a clerical error, and reassigned him to the Nimitz as Security Chief. The presence of a daughter not in the records was put aside and Sevant quietly used his skills to apply for a birth-certificate that would accurately reflect the girl’s age. He used his skills to also change the birth certificate of Jayne, who was now significantly older then she had been before they had entered the Nexus.

The Sevant family stayed behind on the Starbase so Vicki could reacquaint the Children to the universe and introduce them to her family while Sevant rejoined the fleet. It was decided that they would join him as soon as their visit was completed. Sevant joined Captain Rivers in-transit, and they joined the Nimitz together.

Authors Note: This entire section was done as a series of Joint Posts between myself and Katherine Mazurok, who had elected to take the SPC position as Sevant’s wife. The Nexus started as a short something to explain the time difference; the Nimitz (where I was to be posted) was actually a couple month in time before his death. By the time you added in the trip to Vulcan and the reeducation, well, that was a good years worth of history to somehow explain. But it didn’t end up short… By the time we were done we had nearly 50 pages of text, a hella large series of adventures and not a few changes to how we were going to proceed as ‘husband and wife’. It was an interesting time, and it heralded what would become a history of writing massive sets between our characters (there ended up being many more on lots of different stations).

Serving onboard Nimitz

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Serving onboard Boudicca (Tour 3, Current)

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Physical Information & Other

Pictures through History:

The first picture I ever did for Sevant (and, the first I ever did period), while he was serving on the Boudicca.

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This picture I used for an age, and it went through several changes (mostly uniform color). It lasted up until the point he became a CO.

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This is his current, and my favorite. It shows his 'mood' the best, he wasnt a happy camper after his wife died. Although, now that she's back, I'll have to do a new one... hmmm.

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And the final, this is probably the one I'll switch to. The Boudicca is going to war, tensions are high, this picture just... works.

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“Caladryll Sevant is played by J. Trout (Papatrouter)