Lieutenant Adélie Anders
Name Adélie Anders PhD
Position Chief Science Officer
Rank Lieutenant
Character Information
| Gender | Male | |
| Species | ½ Vulcan, ½ Human | |
| Age | 43 | |
| Date of Birth | 1/1/2352 | |
| Place of Birth | Interplanetary Research Station, Cape Royds, Antarctica, Earth | |
| Sexuality | bi-sexual |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 6’1” | |
| Weight | 175 lbs | |
| Hair Color | Black (dyed White) | |
| Eye Color | Dark Brown | |
| Physical Description | Adélie is not somebody that you would look at and think “he’s half Vulcan.” Maybe a quarter Vulcan, at most. Beyond his Vulcan-like brow, middling complexion and pointed ears, his carriage and demeanor are quite human. He is very cheerful and easily excited, almost always with a smile on his face. He keeps his hair rather long and shaggy – in fact, half the time it even covers said ears – and usually dyes it silver or white. Depending on how long it’s been since he remembered to dye it, the roots and base of his hair might be black as well. Adélie likes looking pretty. When off duty he wears relatively flamboyant clothing. He also has a tattoo of Euler’s Identity on his left shoulder. Despite being half Vulcan, Adélie is not particularly strong, not nearly as strong as other Vulcan hybrids. That is probably because he is lazy. What need does a mathematician have for exercise? Also despite being Vulcan, Adélie has not so far appeared to have any telepathic sensitivity. |
Family
| Status | single | |
| Children | T’Mar (10, living on Vulcan. Adélie does not know about her) | |
| Father | Ivan Anders (78, retired, living in Australia) | |
| Mother | T’Pas (98, penguin researcher, living in Argentina) | |
| Other Family | Former “friend”: Vonna (43, half-Vulcan, living on Vulcan with her daughter T’Mar) |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Adélie really, really likes math. That’s it, that’s his personality. Adélie believes that everything in the world follows rules and patterns. And he believes that all it takes to discover these patterns is math. He can find math everywhere he looks – in the way people react to each other, in the way a spilled drink spreads across a table, in the way that diseases take over. He loves it. He is absolutely fascinated by nearly anything, and loves asking for details about it from anyone. He will allow himself to be dragged into anything if he thinks it will let him see something new. He thinks that everybody wants to hear and learn about this math, and the best way to disappoint him is by not seeming interested. Outside of math, he is a slightly clumsy person – both socially and physically. He follows rules because that’s all he has ever done and all he knows how to do, but that doesn’t mean he won’t complain about the rules if he disagrees with them: notably, the Prime Directive. He’d never even think of acting against it, but he often complains that withholding scientific and mathematical knowledge from certain races only hurts the progression of science and math in the end. And that progression of science and math is all Adélie cares about. He thinks math is bigger than any one of us, and that it will be through math that sentient races will eventually grow into a higher plane of being, as they are meant to. Growing up, Adélie used to be a bit of a handful. His mother was Vulcan but he was raised more or less human. He was also an only child and home-schooled. When he was young, he was proud and he didn’t play well with others. He was competitive and didn’t take loss very well. He did math because he was good at it and he liked being good at things. It wasn’t until he was captured by an enemy, in his thirties, and held prisoner for a couple months that he began to mellow out. Sure, that experience left him with a plethora of issues: he now has some PTSD, is scared of going places alone and doesn’t necessarily trust easily – but it also got him to realize the beauty in the world. While a prisoner, it was math that kept him busy and sane. He made a mental model of everything and he discovered that math is beautiful, there is math in everything and therefore, everything is beautiful. |
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| Strengths & Weaknesses | + Math. Adélie eats, drinks and breathes math. + Optimism. Adélie can find the beauty in things and loves trying to teach others to see that beauty +/- Strength. While stronger than a human, Adélie is weaker than an average Human/Vulcan hybrid and far weaker than a Vulcan - Carefree. If a responsibility is outside of the scope or math or science, it might be best to not entrust Adélie with it. - Fear. Adélie is a self-described coward. He can’t finish his math works if he dies young, after all. He has had some traumatic experiences in the past and doesn’t wish to relive them |
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| Ambitions | Adélie is looking at the large picture. He wants his math to contribute to society as a whole; he wants to contribute to the foundation that future mathematicians and scientists will further build upon. But even to him that feels a bit hollow. A part of him wants some more concrete, tangible results. He wants to teach other people, and share in his passions. He finds nothing more satisfying to helping a young science officer find their way. | |
| Hobbies & Interests | Math. Besides math, Adélie takes on many different hobbies. He plays the cello, though he is more interested in music theory and math behind it than the actual sound he produces so while he is technically good, he doesn’t put much emotion in it. He enjoys classic strategy games like chess and kal-toh. He enjoys poker and card games, if only because that was one of the easiest games to fit in the crowded research station he grew up in. He also enjoys baseball, to everybody’s surprise; that was one of the first games that humans really modeled mathematically, and he finds a special interest in that. Beyond his many hobbies, Adélie has a few simpler interests as well: he likes penguins quite a bit. |
Personal History
| Personal History | Childhood – raised by penguin researchers on Earth Adélie was born in an Antarctic Research Institute to a human, Ivan Anders, and a Vulcan, T’Pas. The two were not as unlike as one might think. Both of them were very into penguins. They lived in Antarctica to study penguins. T’Pas had specifically moved to Earth to study penguins; Vulcan, being a desert planet, did not have a similar life form. The two were stuck together in the small, cold research facility for years a time, and nobody was surprised when they fell in love. They even named their son after their favorite species of penguin: Adélie. Adélie grew up among researchers. There were no other kids his age in the research station, and he was perhaps a bit spoiled by all the bored scientists. His mother did not try too hard to raise him as a Vulcan – he was half human, after all, and born on Earth. So Adélie got to do pretty much whatever he wanted to, and had a whole herd of scientists home schooling him. He was very intelligent. And he liked it when they called him intelligent. Even at a young age, he found himself gravitating towards math because that was what earned him praise. Was he exceptionally good at math, or were the scientists just not used to see how quickly a young Vulcan picked it up? Who knew. Either way, their praise pushed Adélie firmly onto the path of studying math and by the time he was ten years old he was regularly traveling away from the station to compete in math competitions. When Adélie was 14, the research station decided that they only needed one penguin researcher, and gave away his father’s spot to a narwhal researcher (note: Adélie hates narwhals still to this day). His mother protested, and refused to let them pull Ivan from her, so they kicked her out as well. The two found another penguin research position in the Southern part of Argentina; however, it was only a year before that research station itself was closed down. Out of options, the family moved back to T’Pas’s home on Vulcan. They lived there for two years. T’Pas taught biology classes at a small time school, while Ivan mostly stayed home and looked after Adélie. This was an interesting time in Adélie’s life: he had mostly ignored his Vulcan heritage growing up, but now living here he had to face it head on. He found the transition surprisingly easy, and got into the habit of meditating, and even learned how to pretend to be a “proper Vulcan”, though the moment he was alone or off planet he let that facade drop. He was happy to be done with it when the Antarctic research station called his parents back when he was seventeen. He much preferred being a human. Adélie spent the next three years living at the research station. As he was home-schooled, there was really no schedule to his life. He studied for the fun of it. He got even further into math competitions; not only in competing in them, but also in helping host them. He traveled more often to help run math competitions for kids. He liked that very much. Not only did he feel like he was giving back to the hobby that he so loved as a child, but it also allowed him to really get to know the others who were into math. Much easier to meet them when working alongside them than when competing against them. Foremost among these was another half-Vulcan named Vonna. Unlike Adélie, Vonna was raised on Vulcan as a Vulcan. Still, as the only half-Vulcans at most of these competitions they gravitated towards each other. They had an interesting friendship; half the time they were best friends, and half the time they were bitter rivals. One of the things Adélie looked forward to most about these competitions was seeing Vonna and seeing their mutual friends. He let this childhood drag on until he was twenty, when he finally decided that he had learned all that Antarctica had to teach him, and he moved away for college. Education – finished his undergraduate on Earth, and his PhD on Vulcan Adélie started his undergraduate program with a dual major in math and physics. Frankly, he was overqualified. Not that he was a genius, but he had some advantages, starting off. First: he had chosen an “easy” school. Considering he had never been to school before, he didn’t want to worry about competing with Vulcans and geniuses. Second: he was older than most of the other kids. While a lot of the humans took to college when they were eighteen, he was twenty. And Third: He had spent so much time training for math competitions that these tests seemed easy. Physics was basically math. Adélie acted as sort of a know-it-all, and while he scored well on tests he was generally disliked by his instructors and peers, and did poorly on groups projects, not trusting any of the other students to do any of the work. The best part of college was seeing Vonna and his friends at the occasional math competition. At this point, Adélie realized that she treated him with a sort of contempt. She embraced the Vulcan side of herself after all, while Adélie embraced the human side. He went to a human school, known more or less as a party school, while she studied at a prestigious Vulcan Academy. So when Adélie finished his undergrad he moved to Vulcan and started a grad program the Vulcan Science Academy mostly out of spite, just to prove to Vonna that he could. (Well, that wasn’t the only reason – he also thought that they had more interesting research projects going on there, and that is the reason he gives if anybody asks). Adélie struggled at first, but he caught on quickly, especially with Vonna’s help. The close proximity and spiteful competitiveness deepened their relationship in a way; while they still considered themselves rivals on one hand, on the other hand they were a bit more than friends, though they never put a label on their relationship. It was only when Adélie finished college that things started to go downhill. With no better plans in his life – he was too full of himself to work as a teacher, and his personality had left him a few enemies among the math and physics research department, Adélie enlisted in Starfleet. Vonna thought that that was absolutely beneath him, and the two didn’t talk for a couple months. They worked out their issues though, right before he left for bootcamp. Adélie had no interest in the ranks or people management that came with being an Officer, and frankly after seven years of college he did not want to spend another four at the Academy. So he had enlisted. That way he could work as a science specialist, and advise people on math. A simple job. Or so he thought. Enlistment – spent seven years as an enlisted scientist before Officer Candidate School Dr. Adélie Anders started bootcamp when he was twenty-seven years old. Honestly, it was rough on him in a way that college never ways. Adélie was used to things coming easy to him. He never really did any physical labor. Nor followed many rules, save the cultural rules of Vulcan. He had still not learned to respect authority. The man hated bootcamp. When he left bootcamp and finally got to see Vonna again, he was more than glad to be done with it. He was assigned to the USS Patagonia to work as a crewman apprentice. Adélie did well at this task. Despite being less than pleasant to be around, he was remarkably good at his job. If anybody needed a model done, they knew who to talk to. Frankly, he had been raised among scientists. He had been cleaning beakers and helping with experiments since he could walk. Personality aside, he did these tasks as easily as breathing and was quickly recommended to be sent back for further training as a Petty Officer. Adélie excelled at this as well. A-School was easy for somebody who had finished a doctorate at the Vulcan Science Academy. He soon rejoined the ranks as a certified Science technician and a petty officer third class. He was assigned to the USS Redstart where he continued to excel at his job, despite not putting his full effort behind it. Vonna thought that he should have become an officer instead. The fact that Adélie seemed content with less responsibility than he could take on bothered her, and it was the source of more than a couple arguments between the two. Still, Adélie looked forward to seeing her whenever he took leave for a math competition, or went to visit Vulcan. And he did go back to Vulcan for a month when he was thirty. Adélie’s human father, Ivan, was retiring. He was getting old, no longer the young scientist who was willing to spend the winter in a remote Antarctic research station. This was unacceptable to T’Pas. She filed for divorce. Adélie helped her move back to Vulcan while she looked for another penguin job, while his father moved to Australia. Adélie chose to help his mother move, out of two, partially because Vonna was also living on Vulcan, working at the Vulcan Science Academy. After that month, Adélie went back to the Redstart for a couple years before being promoted and moved to work on a Starbase. Living on a Starbase was different. For one thing, it allowed Vonna to visit more often. And she did. At one point Vonna brought Adélie a pet cat. He was not a big fan of pets, and was not sure why Vonna did this. He gave the cat away after about a month, and Vonna was very disappointed in him. They spoke less and less over those next couple months, until Vonna stopped speaking to him entirely and stopped showing up for math competitions. The competitions were different without Vonna. Adélie stopped attending them too, even though lately he had mostly taken part in helping run the contest for kids. Adélie had his own idea of why Vonna had stopped speaking to him. She was raised Vulcan, on Vulcan. She had been betrothed to another full-blooded Vulcan from a young age. Considering that, the relationship between her and Adélie was most definitely not appropriate. Adélie assumed that it had come time for her to actually address her future husband, and that having Adélie in the picture would complicate things. He could accept that. He didn’t have to like it, but he understood it. Vonna was a logical being, and Adélie wouldn’t jump in to mess that up. What Adélie didn’t know, and never found out was that Vonna moved away because she was pregnant. She did not deem Adélie a suitable father, no matter how much she liked him. He couldn’t even take care of cat. He regularly avoided responsibilities, and was content with a low rank. But most of all – he was raised as a human. Vonna did not want this child to raised with human influence, despite her own heritage. So she thought it best if she cut off ties with Adélie altogether. And she did. In 2385, Adélie’s daughter T’Mar was born, and her mother never told him. She ended up marrying another Vulcan a few years later, and the two currently have a three year old son, a half-sibling to T’Mar. Without Vonna and without math competitions, Adélie had less to entertain himself with. He turned a sullen attention to his work. He was stationed back on the Patagonia, and about a year later was recommend for Officer Candidate School. Officer – has spent the last nine years as an officer in Starfleet Unlike most officers, Adélie never went to the Academy. Instead, in 2386 he started officer candidate school, an alternative path towards becoming an officer. As he was already very familiar with his job, here he could focus on the officer aspects of it. A lot of such was people management and organization. As a petty officer, he did research. As an officer, he organized research. Here, all his time organizing math competitions came in handy. He liked teaching people, even back them. Adélie received his first officer posting in 2386, on the USS Rosalind Franklin. He did well. His station here was rather textbook, despite the fact that he had a bit more experience than the other Ensigns, considering that he had already been serving on ships for seven years. Because of this, he found himself giving advice to the other, younger Ensigns quite often. He took on a bit of a leadership role, and because of such he was promoted and transferred to another ship, the USS Voice, a couple years later. The Voice was a small ship, and on that ship he had the role of Assistant Chief Science Officer. Unfortunately, soon after being assigned to the Voice Adélie ran into a predicament. He and an Ensign, a young pilot, were sent in a shuttle to pick up some scientific samples. That shuttle was taken by pirates. The pirates found little of value there, except for the shuttle itself, but they saw the use in having a source of Federation intel. They killed off the brave pilot – a young human named Sarah Kim – and kept Adélie, the higher ranking member, and less fire-hearted of the two. In his defense, Adélie told them nothing of value. But that didn’t mean he got out without incident. He was kept in a mostly solitary cell for two months. He hid behind math and models, using them to entertain himself. He swore if he got out he would be a better person. And he got out, when the Federation found the pirate outpost a couple months later, looking for somebody else entirely, and found him. Adélie spent the next couple months in therapy. He still has PTSD, quite a few fears, and a lack of trust. But he had learned the value of life, something that he had before taken for granted. He found a new beauty in everything, and a sort of optimism. He was out. He was free. That was all that mattered. He became the cheerful, big-picture sort of scientist he is today and took a new sort of enthusiasm for his work. He went back to the Voice. A few years later he received a promotion in rank, but the Chief Scientist thought he would do well with his own ship. Although the Myogi wasn’t exactly the ship of exploration that Adélie had hoped for, when the position had opened up, his superiors convinced him to apply for transfer. |
Starfleet Record
| Commission | officer | |
| Service Record | Starfleet Service Record: 2379-2379 – Bootcamp 2379-2380 – Crewman Apprentice, USS Patagonia 2380-2381 – Further training for promotion to Petty Officer 2381-2384 – Petty Officer Third Class, Science Technican, USS Redstart 2384-2385 – Petty Officer Second Class, Science Technician, Starbase Neil Armstrong 2385-2385 – Petty Officer Second Class, Science Technician, USS Patagonia 2385-2386 – Officer Candidate School 2386-2389 – Ensign, Science Officer, USS Rosalind Franklin 2389-2393 – Lieutenant JG, Assistant Chief Science Officer, USS Voice 2393-2395 – Lieutenant, Assistant Chief Science Officer, USS Voice 2395 – Current – Lieutenant, Chief Science Officer, USS Myogi Full Timeline: 2352 - 0 yrs old – born in Antarctica 2366 - 14 yrs old – moved to Argentina 2367 - 15 yrs old – moved to Vulcan 2369 - 17 yrs old – moved back to Antarctica 2370 – 18 yrs old – met Vonna at a math competition 2372 - 20 yrs old– started college on Earth 2376 - 24 yrs old– started grad program at the Vulcan Science Academy 2379 - 27 yrs old– got PhD 2379 – 27 yrs old - enlisted, started bootcamp 2379 – 27 yrs old – finished bootcamp, placed on the USS Patagonia as a crewman apprentice 2380 - 28 yrs old– Further training in New York for promotion to petty officer third class science technician 2381 – 28 yrs old – USS Redstart, petty officer third class, science technician 2382 – 30 yrs old – Parents divorced 2384 - 32 yrs old– Promotion to petty officer second class; stationed on Starbase Neil Armstrong as a science technician 2384 – 32 yrs old – Vonna quit math competitions and stopped talking to him. Adélie quit the competitions too. 2385 – 33 yrs old – T’Mar born. Adélie was never informed. 2385 – 33 yrs old – USS Patagonia, petty officer second class, science technician 2386 - 34 yrs old - Officer Candidate School, promotion to Ensign 2386 – 34 yrs old – USS Rosalind Franklin, Ensign, science officer 2389 - 37 yrs old– USS Voice, Lieutenant JG, Assistant Chief Science officer 2389 – 37 yrs old- Captured by a mixed group of pirates, kept prisoner for two months before being found and rescued 2393 - 41 yrs old– Promotion to Lieutenant 2395 - 43 yrs old– Current posting |