it is the year 2409, nearly twenty two years since the destruction of Romulus, tensions are still high and war is brewing in the shadows of the underground, however even as war brews underneath, today is still a day of celebration as the N.X.99064 U.S.S. Akula is about to make it's maiden voyage. the Akula is a Maelstrom class patrol escort, the first in it's class and it serves as the prototype for all future maelstrom class patrol escorts. it's mission is like many in starfleet, to visit strange new worlds, explore new cultures and ideas, though it has an added purpose, to defend and protect the people of the federation from harm, both foreign and domestic. to show that starfleet and the federation are still a group dedicated to peace and diversity, they have gone out of their way to ensure that this ship is not primarily staffed by a human crew. starfleet has included both federation races, and non federation races amongst the crew of the Akula in an effort to show good will and faith to the various other factions that reside in space. it's crew is made up from everything from tholians, to caitians, to vulcans, even clingon and other races have a proverbial face amongst the crew.

Now as the Akula prepares to get underway, it's crew boarding the craft for the first time as it sits in the shipyards above earth, it's captain cant help but wonder about what wonders this voyage will bring them.

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Username: Dasomen

name: T'osh

age:35

sex:Male

race: Caitian

Apperance: T'osh stands approximately 6ft tall weighing in to a standard weight of 150lbs. slim, almost scrawny, and lanky, almost the perfect example of feline grace or agility from an unfamiliar eye, and while he's able to provide and preform ample feets of agility and grace, among catians he's not exactly the alpha cat of the group and is considered only slightly below average in regards to physical prowis. tosh's body is covered from head to tail to toes with a soft golden fur and is accented with an assortment of spots scattered all over his body save for his chest and abdomine. his mane is pulled back and cropped neatly into a single pony tail in regulation with caitian standards for federation officers. his chin fur is somewhat longer than normal, giving the appearance of a goatee as well. his face is relitively unmarred save for three claw marks running down his right eye at an angle. records show this was from a bridge defense against Ferasan military aboard the steamship class ship U.S.S. Huston. the ship's doctor aboard the Huston noted at barely being able to save his eye and that dispite medical advancements, the cuts were too deap to avoid scars. cranial scans also show the lingering evidence of the claw marks. regardless of that, T'osh's icey blue eyes still rest in his head, a cold black slit going down them denoting a much wilder haratage some of his race would rather sweep under the carpet.

on any given standard duty day, T'osh can be seen sporting the standard federation uniform with minor alterations to accompany his race's distinct differences from most humanoids in the galaxy, namely the tail and the digigrade feet for the most part. tosh like most caitians tends to go barefoot as he finds footware a tad too restrictive. the only addition to his uniform is a single tholian silk scarf of the same federation red as his uniform.

Apperance Quark: Red Tholian silk scarf

Rank: Captain

Role: Captain of the U.S.S. Akula

Biography: T'osh grew up on the federation planet New Reo, his mother and farther both members of starfleet and avid scientists seeking to recherche and create new shuttlecraft technology as well as new aquatic submersibles for the federation in case it's captains ever ventured to primarily aquatic planets. to say he led an uneventful life up until he joined starfleet himself would have been a lie. T'osh was the president of his high school's yaut club and ended up getting into trouble with an old solar sail style starship when attempting to go out on their first cruse around their system. a group of would be gorn pirates intended to hijack the vessle with minimal damage and sell it to a less than reputable collector who considered the vessel an artifact of some sort. T'osh and the rest of the yaut club managed to fend off the gorn ships with less than standard defensive measures considering their ship was not equipped with any tangible weapons until an Andorran patrol three systems away noticed the skirmish by chance and intervened. according to the Andorran captain, the yaut club had repolorized their sales to turn them into fine tuned mirrors, reflecting 100% of the sun's energy and rays directly at the gorn ship and after refocusing the sails, managed to convert the sails themselves into a crude, yet effective primitive light based weapon for self defense. the Andorran captain made recommendations to starfleet for the crew of the yaut, though it would take additional prodding to get T'osh to join, the rest of his crew and class joined that year after graduating.

t'osh went on to get a job with his parents unofficially, assisting with the design and development of several aquatic craft. when the steamship class ship Huston entered orbit to retrieve one of the prototypes for use, T'osh was selected as the test pilot for the mission due to his in depth knowledge of the vessle itself and it's systems. after a successful mission, T'osh finally submitted his application to starfleet academy with an additional recommendation from the captain of the Huston which was just finishing it's tour of duty.

T'osh was lucky enough to gain admittance with his first attempt, scoring in the top three percent, bested only by a tholian and a vulcan during many of the tests. during his stay at the academy he majored in Advanced Theoretical Physics and even went on to place second in the starfleet academy marathon, many there still think he threw the race in order to let an vice admeral's son look good. however his highlight of his time at the academy was on his final year there, the Kobayashi Maru test. his first bout like anyone else was a failure. but this failure intreauged T'osh so much he became obsessed with it. T'osh went on to take the test sixteen times before he argueably passed it on the 17th.
during the final bout of the Kobayashi Maru, tosh hailed the vessel of the test's name, inquiring how long they would need to repair their warp capability and jump out of hostile space. the ship reported it would need seven hours, a figurative impossibility according to the computer and many there. taking command of the ship T'osh went on to act as a distraction for the vessle for the next seven hours playing a proverbial game of cat and mouse with the Klingon ships utilizing advanced tactics that had not yet been taught at the academy, and on several occasions, made use of Picard Maneuver and variations of it a total of 87 times during the 7 hours. the end result was the escape of the civilian vessel the kobayashi maru, tosh had also unfortunately lost one naessel and damaged the other beyond function. he'd also been forced to avert a warp core breach and jettisoned the core in battle as a battle tactic. tosh proceeded to cross the boundary line back into federation space, turn the vessel on it's side in relative view to the Klingon ships, and then jettison the entire crew in escape pods and shuttles, using the ship itself as a decoy. while he lost his ship, the civilian vessel did indeed escape and his crew survived in the escape pods and shuttles, the Klingons also believed they had destroyed the ship, thus tosh considers this a victory over the test. his bridge crew however was noted at being extremely exhausted after the test.

tosh graduated the academy, his first service was aboard the U.S.S. Huston T'osh served as alpha shift Helmsman and the relief for the chief of security during the "night shifts". much of the five year mission went without many problems. T'osh was well at home with the crew so to speak, and his captain made well use of t'osh's stellar ability at the helm. unfortunately during an envoy mission to a system wishing to join the federation, the ship was ambushed by Ferasan military who were laying in wait for the Huston. the ambush hit suddenly, the Huston came under fire from heavy cannon fire in mass as it rounded one of the moons to the primary planet in the system. Ferasan personnel boarded the ship and attempted to take it, T'osh was on the bridge during this event and made to defend his captain. unfortunately the captain had been incapacitated, receiving a sucking chest wound and a stab to the throat. with the first officer still in engineering T'osh took command of the ship temporarily during the skirmish while the captain was moved via transporter to sick bay where the ship's doctors tended to him. T'osh successfully shot down the Ferasan vessel, allowing the crew to mop up the remaining resistance on the ship with little trouble.

after the tour of duity, T'osh was nominated for his first actual command thanks to his captain. now in charge of a Akira class heavy escort Panzer t'osh began his next term, taking over command for captain dorn. the five year mission for the Panzer was mostly uneventfull. simple escort missions for dignitaries, guarding allies while they went on scientific expeditions, exactly what you'd expect relay. unfortunately that all came to an end with an unexpected push from Nausicaan pirates. the pirates had ventured deep into federation space, making their way all the way to the vulcan home system where the panzer was letting some of it's crew relax after a stressful time disarming an old gorn minefield. in a surprise attack the pirates severely damaged a civilian vessel, barely having any time to react the panzer engaged with a full salvo of proton torpedoes as well as an unrelenting storm of heavy cannon fire from it's phaser cannon arrays. the battle was quick and brutal. the panzer had lost one of it's engines and the pirate ship had threatened to fire on more civilian ships in the area. the vulcans were already scrambling thier ships but unfortunately none were in the immediate area. when t'osh's science officer discovered a subatomic charge of cascade particles building up, t'osh feared it would ignite the atmosphere of the planet or at least damage it. his next salvo smacked into the main deflector array of the pirates crippling the craft though it still decided tot put up a fight. realizing that the pirates were fighting to the death tosh made efforts to minimize casualties and promptly had his crew abandon ship. tosh then stayed behind and proceeded to ram the Nausicaans, pushing them into the planet. tosh stayed with the ship, steering them out of populated areas during decent before crashing in the middle of the vulcan desert, the vulcan cruiser T'Nol beamed him out moments before impact with the surface of the planet. T'osh ironical did this the same day their tour of duty was to end.

now after the investigation of the event has finished, T'osh waits as he's given command of yet another crew, and another ship