Post by Scribe on Sept 28, 2009 7:22:07 GMT -5
Player Name: Jennifer
Character Name: Reagan 'Ray' Jeremy Rigby
Height: 6' 2"
Hair: Dark Brown
Eyes: Blue
Any other distinguishing marks?: A burn scar on his right calf from a Xindi bug; the occasional mark here and there from combat or hobbies.
Age: 24
Gender: Male
DOB: 1/17/2146
Place of Birth: Vega Colony
Race/ Species: Human
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MILITARY BACKGROUND
Occupation: MACO/Starfleet Marines; Rank - Lieutenant.
Qualifications:
Marksmanship: Expert - Rifles; Expert - Phasers; Sniper at 1400 yards; ground combat and close quarters combat certified.
Languages: English
Previous Assignments: USS Athena
Current Assignment: USS Vanguard; Starfleet Marines XO
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Background:
Life started simply enough for Reagan Rigby. Born on Vega Colony, where 50% of Earth's food supply was raised, Reagan was the second of two children, five years younger than his sister, Rachel.
Reagan and his sister grew up fairly average, basic 'All-American' kids (as much as they could be born on another planet) that were popular and very involved in sports and school activities. As siblings went, he and his sister were very close. Even tempered, Reagan was a fairly laid back kid, whose world did not yet involve girls. Only sports.
And as inevitable as time, their idyllic existence was destroyed over the course of a day. Word had come that the Xindi had attacked Earth, that it was... gone. Simply.. gone.
In a panic, the officials of Vega Colony heeded the evacuation warnings and in line with their COOP plan, the children were evac'd first, right out of school, right off playgrounds and the lunchroom. The children would go first, and would be sorted out later to the appropriate parents.
Ray was in school that day, having just started 7th grade when he gathered with the others in the gym. Taken up by grade, the official plan called for the oldest to be sent up first, so they could meet any younger siblings and therefore assist the adults assigned to caring for the children until claimed by their parents. Ray joined several friends on the USS Beaufort, helping them round up their siblings. Having a knack with the younger ones, Ray also 'adopted' several other youngsters who had no big brother or sister.
As days turned into weeks, and then into months... Ray's parents nor Rachel had appeared. He still held onto hope, with a tenacity that stood out among the unclaimed children. The Starfleet officers on board the Beaufort encouraged this, finding in him strength when their own flagged. For one officer in particular, a newly tapped lieutenant and security officer named Siobhan 'Shay' Houser, Ray was a a 'ray of sunshine' to the young woman, who like him, was now alone in the world. Having lost her mother and her fiance (and with him, all their hopes and dreams) in Earth's destruction, Shay was operating on autopilot, grieving like the others who were all just barely managing. Many of the officers, Shay included, would later credit their own strength to Ray and his calm, easy manner and that will with which he hung onto his beliefs.
So when Security was called to the ward due to a fight, Shay and the others were surprised to find it was Reagan they were pulling off an older boy. A savage Reagan, cussing and going after the other kid relentlessly, even though he was already on the ground and blooded.
When he was finally hauled, spitting, cursing and kicking into Security, Ray refused to speak to anyone about what had transpired. For an entire day... and those 24 hours were some of the darkest on board the ship. Everyone seemed to suffer from the fact that it seemed as if, as one officer put it, 'the sun had finally set'.
Shay refused to believe it and over the course of an hour, coaxed the story out of Ray. By the end, she was crying and holding him. Mostly because while he was a young gentleman, in every sense of the word... he was still very much a boy, who missed his parents and sister so very much. Chris, the other boy, had started the fight that Ray tried to walk away from but couldn't. Not when Chris shoved it in his face that he was all alone, that no one's parents were coming back for them.
Right then and there, Shay promised Ray he'd never be alone again. In four weeks, the adoption she initiated later that day was final and Reagan Rigby wasn't alone anymore. And neither was Shay.
Twelve years on, he calls her 'Mom' and loves Shay dearly. Even when she mothers him. Though he half-suspects she's behind his assignment to the Vanguard (she's the CO of the ship), Ray is glad to be there...and thanks to Shay, he's still the gentleman easy-going soul he was.