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!
History
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 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)
Sevant served in a limited capacity aboard Starbase 968 under Captain Itano for approximately two weeks before his arrival on the USS Boudicca. After that, he immediately joined the ranks as Assistant Security Chief under Captain Rivers, Commander Suentar as FO and Sam Kaneshiro as TAC/SC/2O.
The ship was immediately launched into a war against the Borg when Phoenix Squadron’s Commanding Admiral was abducted by the Borg, which heralded an attack by a Borg Cube that the entire Squadron took part in destroying. Sevant was thrown ‘into the fire’ immediately as the ship prepared for battle with the Borg. He asked, and was granted, permission to carry his bat’leth as Borg were vulnerable to martial weapons when Borg had adapted to energy weapons.
It was during this time that Sevant was reacquainted with a child-hood friend of his, Victoria Reighly, while she was moon-lighting as a bar-mistress of Ten Forward under the command of Mei-Ling, the head hostess.. They met in Ten Forward while he was playing a game of Chess with another crewman. They immediately began to catching up, though she never told him she was also a Starfleet Officer. They met the next day on the bridge, where Vicki was an Operations officer. They happened to touch by accident, and Sevant found with a thrill that she was slightly telepathic… which made a major impression on him, for she was incredibly interested in him and his logical mind had no basis for accepting the wild emotion of the human/betazoid.
Authors Note: Sal and Liz (Vicki and Mei-Ling respectively) had fun with this scenario, it started with Vicki finding a move for Sevant’s opposition that ended up winning the game. And it started a habit of both ladies in messing with the personal lives of the PC’s, heh.
In the end, the Boudicca never engaged the Borg, but they took part in the rescue effort for the USS Athene, which had grounded itself on a planet's surface after being chased and seriously damaged by the Borg. This also marked the first time that Sevant had any significant exposure to then ACSO Trevan West. While on the Athene, running scans, Mr West was trapped under fallen wreckage. Sevant and one of his Tactical team, a Klingon, managed to lift the wreckage enough for Trevan to be pulled out. It ended up being the first of many disadvantages meetings with the Ensign, who later tried to commit suicide and was stopped by Trevan’s ‘fiancée’ Hailey and Sevant.
After this mission, Vicki tried to get Sevant to stay with her the night after a ‘date’ in which they caught up on old times. And though he managed to fight the impulse to go with her, it left him profoundly shaken and unable to function. He sought out the CSO, T’Sar, on the edge of a breakdown. In what was common for Vulcan’s in the last stage of breakdown when emerged in emotion, Sevant found that he could not bring his logic to bare and his was literally in a physical uproar due to those implications. T’Sar was a full-blood Vulcan, but one who followed the teachings of Sybok, who taught to embrace emotion. T’Sar then lead Sevant through a ritual to free him of the rigors of Logic, to ‘release his pain’. What followed was a series of images in which Sevant was shown as a child, the greatest sources of his pain.
Afterwards, however, his reaction was done and he found himself free for the first time since his mothers death, and he immediately sought out Victoria. Days later he asked her to marry him, which she accepted, and he formed the first stage of the marital bond... a mental bond in which they would always be able to feel the other. They both asked Captain Susan Rivers if they could be wed, and she responded “I do not approve of junior officers marrying.”
However, this answer was something of a personal joke to Captain Rivers. Sevant was promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade later that day at a staff meeting, and thus he was no longer a junior officer. Captain Rivers agreed to marry them if they desired, and both consented. The wedding would have to wait, however, until the ship was free of a mission. The Boudicca had been ordered to investigate a planet near-by after strange events had been recorded there.
Lieutenant Sevant was on the away team that beamed down to Medial IV, along with T’Sar, Suentar, West and many others. The planet was lush, tropical, and the mineral content of the planet made scanning very difficult past a few meters.
While on the planet, however, the base-camp was attacked. Lieutenant Sevant, along with Ensign T’Sar, were abducted by masked individuals and stunned. They both woke up in primitive surroundings, surrounded by instruments of torture... which their abductors then used on them. Nothing was asked of either officer; they were apparently tortured for no other reason then to be tortured. Both received numerous wounds because of these torture sessions, but it was worse on T’Sar who was also starting to go through Pon-Farr and had a Vulcan lack-of-control due to it. Sevant managed to keep his head and escaped by slipping a bond and killing one of the abductors. It was quickly discovered that the abductors were none other then Romulans wearing holographic masks. A quick search proved that none of their clothing, weapons or communications devices were to be found, and they left the torture centers, naked and hungry.
Author’s Note: I began having some creative problems with one of the players (The guy playing T’Sar) at this point, and it started to show in posting, we became very sharp to each other. It would color how the mission continued, the plan became ever more brutal as we described just what was happening.
Both officers escaped into the base they were held at and began alternately looking for a way out, a way to contact the ship, or a way to kill the Romulans who had abducted them. They discovered among their searching that the Romulans had also abducted many natives, and were using them to mine something deep within the base, a mineral of some sort. It was about this time that Sevant managed to contact his new fiancée through their fresh mental bond. They could not maintain contact, but it was enough to pass a message for the rest of the away team, namely that Sevant and T’Sar were still alive.
After a day of practicing guerilla warfare on the Romulans, including the unintended death of many local slaves after exploding a device, the rest of the Away Team arrived at the base and they all together managed to free the base of Romulan Influence. It wasn’t long after that they finally managed to contact the Boudicca and get beamed aboard, only to find that the Boudicca was in shambles after having been pounded for hours by a cloaked Romulan vessel. Quick thinking on the part of Captain Rivers had saved the ship and they captured the ship (Named the Ael Deletham) and put her crew in the brig.
Over the next couple weeks, they escorted the Ael Deletham to Starbase 23 and put in for repairs. In what would become known as ‘The Ael Deletham Affair’, Sevant won the first of his Captain’s Commendations and a Ribbon of Sacrifice for injuries taken during his torture and non-regular warfare conducted against the Romulans on Medial IV.
After their refit, Caladryll was offered a position on Starbase 23 as Strategic Operations Officer for Phoenix Squadron. After considering his near-death at the hands of Romulans and his new fiancée, he accepted and left the Boudicca.
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’Valdec 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.
While on Vulcan, his daughter Jayne Sevant was born not long after their wedding ceremony. The only people to attend the Ceremony were Vicki's parents and those few of her extended family who could make it from Earth in time. Caladryll only has two surviving uncles, neither of which he was close to, and neither opted to join the ceremony.
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 didn't 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 experience, 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 wasn't 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 didn't like each others 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 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.
This time would become his fallback position later in life when he needed to think of a quiet place, and nobody in his family would ever quite get over the time they spent there, mostly for the worst.
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
Sevant’s tour on the USS Nimitz began simply enough. After a short absence (officially) and a dozen+ year absence in reality, Sevant picked up his duties as Security Chief on the Nimitz, which was assigned to the frontier deep within the Beta Quadrant, with Freedom Squadron, and life progressed ‘normally’ for a time.
On the edge of space, however, the Nimitz eventually encountered a Romulan Warbird named IRV Red Claw, also on an exploration mission. Commander Talath, the CO of the Warbird, lulled the Nimitz into a truce for reasons unknown. What followed was one of the bloodiest times in Sevant’s career before the war. The Warbird fired and disabled the Nimitz, and then beamed aboard an invasion-crew with orders to subdue the ship as a Prize of War.
Sevant, Rivers and half the bridge crew managed to escape into the ready room, and then into the Jefferies Tubes, when a full away team landed on the bridge and began firing. All around them people were dying as the Romulans engaged. Sevant and Rivers split off from the rest in an attempt to get to the Sickbay, though they first stopped by Sevant’s quarters to get into his weapons cache. While there, Sevant also grabbed his bat’leth, and then both went through the Jefferies Tubes again until they had reached the area of Sickbay.
While they were there they were engaged by several Romulans at close range, Sevant took a knife cut to the face and a disruptor shot to the shoulder while in combat with them, Rivers sustained a knife-cut. With Sickbay then cleared they began to coordinate the defense of the Nimitz and the retaking of critical areas.
After undergoing a quick regen job on his arm to stop the bleeding of the disruptor strike, Sevant managed to make it down to Engineering with several other security members and sneak in through an upper-deck passageway while the Marines mounted a full assault of Main Engineering. Dozens of Category:Marines died before Sevant and his team could get into the room and start sniping the Romulans who were left.
With engineering secured, command of the ship was theirs again, and the IRV Red Claw withdrew from battle, having spent to many of their crew to go into battle against a battleship such as the Nimitz. After having his wounds fully treated, Sevant began the job of collecting and cataloging the dead crew, along with the dead invaders. Over 130 Nimitz crew were killed, and well over 200 Romulan invaders. It was the single most bloody conflict in the Nimitz’s history.
The ship had also been badly crippled by the Red Claw’s initial attack. She limped home for 5 months at low warp, the Nimitz’s engineers were unable to fix long-range communications or do more then patch the Warp Engines. A long distance probe was launched by the Nimitz with her logs and a message for Admiral Greely on Starbase Geneva. The Nimitz reached Geneva after those five months and immediately began refitting for duty, it was projected that it would take 3 months to make her space-worthy again.
For his actions in the Invasion, he was awarded a Ribbon of Sacrifice, a Squadron Commanders Commendation, and a promotion to full Lieutenant.
Authors Note: This was, to date, the most brutal mission I had ever seen or heard of in the FGN, or Freedom. The FGN/Freedom split came not long after this. Anyway, it set the stage for what would become an increasingly violent set of missions all around the fleet. The Red Claw would make another come-back a couple years later with the USS Spectre.
While at Geneva, there were two attempts to break into the Nimitz by Tal Shiar spies to either steal or destroy the sensor logs carried by the Nimitz, evidence that would link the Romulan Empire to the unprovoked attack of a Federation Starship. The last attempt was the most desperate and ended up with the murder of several individuals from both Starbase Geneva and USS Nimitz.. Failing to steal the data, the Tal Shiar agent attempted to sabotage the Nimitz and destroy her, and was only just stopped by the quick actions of Nimitz Security. After his failure to destroy the Nimitz, the Tal Shair agent decided to kidnap Captain Rivers and make a run for the Romulan Empire aboard a previously cloaked Romulan Scout Vessel.
Caladryll requested, and was granted, the temporary captaincy of the USS Mithrandir, the Defiant Class support vessel of Starbase Geneva. The Mithrandir quickly overtook the Scout, but was stopped from retrieving the Captain by the arrival of a Romulan Warbird. Harsh words were traded between the two, after which, Sevant engaged the Warbird. Romulan Warbirds are more powerful then Defiant Class ships, but the Defiants are far more maneuverable, and Sevant’s tactics managed to keep the Mithrandir alive long enough to do heavy damage to the Warbird. It withdrew after ten minutes of combat, leaving the Scout behind to fend for itself.
The Captain was beamed back aboard, and didn’t regain consciousness until after the Mithrandir limped back to Starbase Geneva. Caladryll offered his resignation to her not long later; he considered it likely that he would be drummed from the service for firing on a ship of the Romulan Empire and perhaps causing a war. His reasoning was dismissed by Captain Rivers due to all the circumstances however; she instead promoted him to Lieutenant Commander and made him the First Officer of the Nimitz as Commander Sovak was forced to depart for other duties.
After all the history with the Romulans, be it his mother, being tortured, his ship(s) being attack and now his captain being abducted. It was becoming very safe to say that Sevant was developing a real hatred towards the Romulans.
It was after this mission that Sevant was finally rejoined by his wife and children. But things were not well; his oldest daughter had not readjusted well to the Universe after their time in the Nexus. She had fallen in with a very bad crowd on earth while visiting Vicki’s parents and had become addicted to a high-ball mix of narcotics. Further, she had become a drug-runner for them, her youth and innocence made her a natural courier. While high, she had attacked Victoria and nearly succeeded in cutting her to pieces. Caladryll had words with her, showed her some of the Romulans he had cut to pieces during the invasion, and told her in no uncertain terms that she would never be allowed to hurt anyone again. She attacked him as well but failed miserably, he later took her to Sickbay where he discovered her addictions, and thus began her detox.
The Nimitz was visited just before she had finished repairs by Admiral Aragorn, former CO of the Nimitz and former Commanding Officer of Susan Rivers while she was Operations Officer on the Nimitz. He gave her new orders and commandeered the ship for a very special mission. Sevant supervised the loading of 40 civilian scientists, mostly archaeologists and anthropologists, and the ship departed in a veil of secrecy that none of them had ever sailed under before. Aragorn loaded special programs into the computer that controlled all sensor, tactical and Conn systems. It effectively locked the ship from her crew so they would be completely unaware of what was going on. The only information they had was that they were to deliver these 40 scientists to a far away planet, a full week down the subspace river.
However, one member of the crew, Zachary Falthgood, had seen (and used) these types of control measures before and was able to hack into the system. He got into the sensor logs and managed to find that they had a shadow, probably a Romulan or Klingon ship by profile. Sevant very quietly arranged for ships Security, Operations, Marines and Science to be prepared for an invasion. Having just gone through an invasion by the Romulans, the crew took to these preparations with vigor.
The Nimitz arrived at the scene unmolested, And most of the command staff beamed down to the planet to find the scientists who had been there to be under siege by a force they didn’t understand. It was apparently invisible, and it would kill if they wandered to far from camp. The Nimitz’s Category:Marines came under attack by those same forces and several were killed.
During the fighting, Ensign Oynx and Lieutenant Falthgood snuck away in another direction and came upon what they were there to study, the remnants of a gateway system used by the Inchon society (among others). Sevant and Security Chief Nishi Nakamura were tasked to follow and find them, and left approximately 30 minutes later.
Meanwhile, on the ship, an agent of Admiral Doenitz (they would find out later) was on a mission to prevent the Nimitz from delivering her scientists or returning alive. To make a point, this agent blackmailed another crewmember into murdering Sevant’s wife and two kids. It was also found later that this crewmember had also murdered Sevant’s unborn twins, Vicki had been pregnant again. Sevant felt the severing of their connection on the planet, and following a strong telepathic message by the Counselor informing him of what happened, went crazy, setting his phaser to level 16 and cutting trees down by the score, yelling, screaming, and then finally going silent. Nakamura forced the issue and they returned to base camp, Sevant was little more than a vegetable at this point.
When they were finally able to beam back to the ship, as they had been blocked by a T’Kon/Ichon Guardian, Sevant was able to read from the Counselor that the murderer of his family was still alive and flew into a murderous rage. He stripped security of access so they couldn’t stop him and made way for the brig, disabling several security guards in the process. He beat the blackmailed Officer nearly to death before reason seeped into his mind, that officer went to sickbay and Sevant was locked in the brig pending a conversation with the Captain. See: The Sevant Murders
He again tried to resign, having believed that he had lost everything left in attacking that crew member, but again his resignation was denied. He was promoted to Commander for various reasons, though he paid no attention to it. The Nimitz was headed for earth in order to talk personally with the head of Freedom Squadron and the 52nd Fleet, Admiral Robert LoDona.
Authors Note: Burial Grounds, the archeological mission, is what set the stage for our current Civil War. This was the first real mention of the Brotherhood, or of Admiral Rodrigo Doenitz. I would later go on with Falthgood, writing up a hell of a dark history to Doenitz and the Reverse Technologies group. And, as direct result of this, LoDona would begin an investigation that would end up with the 52nd pulling back and declaring war. Further, it was the start of Sevant’s delve into black depression following the death of his family, those who were telepathically linked to him, his last surviving loved ones. I was going through my own issues at the time; I wanted an outlet for my own black despair.
Sevant took his duties back after many months of compassionate leave, just in time for LoDona to declare Doenitz a traitor and pull his fleet out beyond territory long explored by Freedom Squadron.
They took up patrol while the fleet regrouped, along with several other ships from Freedom Squadron. Sevant slowly worked back into his duties. After a couple weeks they came across a strange set of readings from an unstable part of space. It was quickly decided not to risk the ship, so a runabout was prepared with Sevant in charge, along with Falthgood as a Subspace expert, the Counselor, and the Security Chief. They began a set of sweeps of the region looking for the source of the unusual readings they had discovered, and were quickly pulled into a subspace anomaly that lead them into a mirror universe.
They were abducted and their ‘doubles’ launched back into Sevant’s home universe. Sevant and his crew, meanwhile, were repeatedly tortured and questioned. After a couple days, another captured Captain, Captain Sash, managed to free the whole crew and take them back across to their universe. They found the Nimitz in chaos, having been taken over by the Mirror Universe officers. The ship was eventually cleared of their influence and two large ships full of troops and crew, meant to man the Nimitz, were destroyed before they could get close enough to beam over.
Captain Rivers had been injured in the scuffle however, and Sevant assumed command until she could recover. His temporary captaincy was cut short, however, by orders from Admiral LoDona. Sevant was promoted to full Captain and given command of the newly reactivated USS Boudicca. He was further ordered to hand command of the Nimitz over to Captain Sash and transport Captain Rivers to Starbase Geneva for further medical attention.
And so he bid farewell to his home, where he had gained and lost so much, and went to rejoin the Boudicca.
Authors Note: ‘Through the Looking Glass’ was fun, we got to play our dark and dirty sides. Since this bio is about Sevant and not just ship history, I can’t really say much of what happened on the Nimitz, Sevant was stuck on the wrong side of the looking glass for that. Though you will never know just how tempting it is. >:-)
Serving onboard Boudicca (Tour 3, Current)
Sevant took command of the Boudicca on Stardate 2606-06-07, but the ship wasn’t ready to launch. She had been rushed through her refit, in which she had gotten several weapons upgrades, a holographic main screen, and an interactive Tactical holo-command suite. Sevant was given two weeks to get her up to speed before he would have to start patrolling the border, to protect the 52nd fleet while they relocated to an area much further beyond the old explored grounds of Freedom Squadron.
His Captaincy kicked off to a rocky start when the Boudicca was found to have been infected by an altered version of the Marine BDU Nanites, maliciously put into place by agents of Admiral Doenitz. The Boudicca wasn’t the only ship affected, but the Boudicca was also on a skeleton crew at the time and it was a long time before they could bring the infection under full control.
Once that was done, however, she left after taking on crew for her two week shakedown cruise. What should have ended up as an easy fix-it cruise ended up turning into a nightmare after the Boudicca answered a distress call and came upon the remains of a civilian science vessel. The ship was a hulk floating in space with only a few compartments left with air and frame integrity. Sevant sent an away team aboard, mostly comprised of Marines, and that away team rapidly came under attack. At the same time, an enemy ship of unknown affiliation arrived and began pounding the Boudicca, which was hardly in position to fight back. What followed was an invasion by what have since been designated ‘psi-ders’, apparently mechanical creatures that responded and fed on psychic emanations.
A long battle ensued, Sevant fought especially hard as the psi-ders were attracted to his telepathic ability, and the ship was cleared of these invaders at high cost. High enough, in fact, that Sevant was forced to put the ship back into drydock for three months worth of repairs.
Near the end of his refitting he met with newly promoted Captain Winters as she took command of the USS Mystique. It had been then-counselor Winters who had counseled him through his troubles after the death of his family. By way of parting, he wished her luck and asked the same in return, that he should do his job well enough that she and her new ship would not need to see combat.
After the refit was finished and the Boudicca was fully operational, they were again put out on patrol. The fleet had already moved, so their new patrol zone was territory that had only been vaguely mapped. The Boudicca was given the task of mapping as they could, placing sensor pods on the Subspace River to watch for invasion, and to look for possible allies on the fringe. Sevant used this time to train his crew, but that training was cut short when they exited the river near a large multi-anomaly and were beset upon by two Defiant Class vessels.
The attack knocked out their engines, and the Boudicca was quickly sucked into the event horizon of the multi-singularity, which was being fed by rubble from a destroyed planet in a nearby star-system. Time slowed as they traveled further into the anomaly, and it was only quick work by Chief Engineer West that allowed them to turn their nose, fly ‘around’ the inside of the anomaly, and exit again. But once they had exited, they discovered that a specific mineral combination from the planet rubble, interacting with their shields, had actually created a time-travel scenario and they had traveled hundreds of years into the past. The planet which had been destroyed in their present was a fully functional society in the past; there was an entire 1990’s earth-style society in place.
The Boudicca’s scientists quickly discovered what had caused them to time-shift, and they figured out just what kinds and how many of these minerals were needed. So with the cloak engaged, Sevant authorized a retrieval mission for the necessary ingredients so they could return home. This mission included a ‘bank robbery’ because one of the metals necessary was found in greatest quantities in this planets coined money.
While this mission was going on, however, a very disturbing fact came to the attention of Sevant thanks to his astrophysicists. The anomaly had started fluctuating from the passage of the Boudicca, and thus was sending out gravity waves. ‘Ringing like a bell’ was the term that was used by the scientist. It wasn’t dangerous, but it would become so if the Boudicca passed through again. He considered it very likely that it was the Boudicca’s return trip which had caused the destruction and death of the planet and civilization. This was one of the hardest decisions of Sevant’s life, the prime directive and the temporal directive prevented him from staying and changing the timeline as he had found it, but by traveling home he would be condemning the multi-billions of people on the planet to sure-death.
In the end, he chose to preserve the temporal timeline and they traveled back home. The results were as predicted and they arrived back home (two days later than when they first flew in) and the planet was rubble. Sevant swore the scientist to secrecy lest it become common knowledge, Sevant himself told nobody, though he did dictate his decision and the consequences in his personal log… which wouldn’t be opened until 100 years later, for posterity.
The ship continued on patrol afterwards, and after a time, he received a message from Captain Suentar, the former First Officer of the Boudicca. The message appeared to be authentic and promised secrets vital to Admiral LoDona’s success, but only if the Captain arrived alone at one of a series of times. Sevant considered that it might be a trap, but set aside those concerns next to the possible benefits of such a meeting, if true.
He left orders for his absence, which should have been near 24 hours, and departed in a shuttlecraft. However, when he arrived, he discovered it was indeed a trap. He was captured after his runabout was fatally disabled by Federation weapons fire.
He awoke in captivity, originally highly drugged and in a chamber that very much resembled what he remembered from his captivity and torture on Medial IV. However, the illusion only lasted for a couple of minutes before logic took over and he realized that he couldn’t be in the hands of the Romulans, which was far in the past. The whole situation proved to be nothing more then an illusion created to test his reflexes and ability to cope, in preparation for interrogation by Starfleet Intelligence.
Before he could be more then superficially interrogated, however, he was brought to a temporary base not far from where he was taken and put to Court-martial for the charges of High Treason, Conduct Unbecoming, and a slew of others, all while in a time of war. They even went so far as to refer to him as Commander Sevant, his last held rank before he joined the defection of Admiral LoDona. Sevant fought the issue for as long as he could, including telepathically attacking one of his guards, but the mock-trial went on regardless and he was found guilty and sentenced to death in three days time.
One day before he could be tried, however, he was released from prison by a combined Nimitz/Boudicca extraction team which had battled their way through the temporary base. They quickly got him off the planet and onto the ship, from whence they sped back into controlled territory and into relative safety.
Authors Note: This is another one of those things where I really can’t say much about what went on out of Sevant’s sight. This mission was a Joint Mission between the Nimitz and the Boudicca, just imagine six months of wild posting… it was interesting. I will be describing what happened in more detail in the Boudicca history.
Sevant recovered from his time and interrogations and the boarder patrol continued until Admiral Doenitz declared himself President Doenitz and began forcibly attacking federation worlds suspected of harboring rebels. This was the final straw for all concerned, and Admiral LoDona ordered that a Task Force be formed around the USS Boudicca with Sevant as the Commodore. Boudicca was ordered to a near-by planet to rest and gather supplies for 2 weeks while Task Force 2 formed around them.
Authors Note: see Federation Civil War.
Just before they arrived at the planet, the first of the federation ships arrived as part of his task force and brought with them some much needed crew replacements. What was surprising about this is that Sevant felt a tugging on his mind, and he was called to the shuttlebay after the crew had arrived. Once he had gotten down there he was in for the single biggest shock of his life, his mental bond with his wife which had been so cruelly severed snapped back into place as he beheld a woman who was, but couldn’t be, his wife. They touched each others minds and discovered that she was from an alternate-universe, one exactly the same as his except for one significant fact: Caladryll and the kids had died in her universe, rather the Vicki and the kids. Sevant, completely unsure how to deal with this, broke away and left Vicki in the care of the quartermaster so they could proceed with the mission.
Authors Note: This was more than just my way of bringing back his wife sans kids. It took root on the USS Mystique, in a mission that dealt heavily with a temporal rift. The Mystique saved 20 people off a ship that was trapped in that rift, beamed them off before the ship was destroyed. Victoria Sevant was one of 6 major ‘dead’ characters that was beamed aboard, also included was Winter’s ex-husband David Dark. I decided to take this opportunity to screw with my PC’s head a bit. I mean, think about it… she was enough his wife for the unique, never to be duplicated bond to reform, but IS she his wife? This is a question I expect to wrestle with for many many months. Katherine Mazurok is/was unable to play the position, so I’m playing her myself, but the possibilities are still very real.
While at this planet, which boasted a very small stone-age population, Sevant set up a full rotation so all the crew could spend as much time as possible on the planet, either for R&R or so they could gather fresh supplies for what was likely to become a very hard set of months. Things did not go well at this tropical paradise however, and communication was almost immediately cut off between the ground forces and the Boudicca. The crew of a crashing runabout told the story of how an energy web had formed around the ship, forming something approximating a shield.
Some of his crew was attacked at near the same time by some locals, all of whom wore bits of advanced technology and preformed technological feats they referred to as Magic. By all indications, these inhabitants were living on the site of a former Inchon or Iconian civilization, and his crew had landed in the middle of what could only be called a War. Sevant was contacted by several of the ‘good’ natives, and after several of his crew was abducted, he made the decision to storm the enemy stronghold and use his ‘magic’ to bring an end to (at least) this part of the conflict.
Authors Note: About time I had to disappear for a few months, so I did almost nothing to guide the mission. Thus, Sevant had almost nothing to do with how it all turned out, more’s the pity.
After a hard battle, the crew was rescued and it was discovered that the controls for whatever was holding the Boudicca were also present, so they managed to put it out of commission and within minutes every crewmember was back on the ship. Sevant took command, ordered that all supplies be beamed to the Boudicca, and then declared the planet unfit for habitation and requested that supplies be sent via convoy.
For two weeks the fleet gathered and Sevant began preparing for war. While he did so, he also, inexplicably, began ignoring logic and visiting his ‘wife’ again, so who knows what will happen next... From this point on, we’re in our current mission, and the history will be written after it is over
Biographical Information & Other
Physical Information
(Coming)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Caladryll Sevant is played by J Trout
