Post by do on Oct 14, 2009 12:20:32 GMT -5
Character Name: Damien Finch
Height: 5'11"
Hair: light brown
Eyes: green
Age: 28
Gender: male
DOB: 31st October 2141
Place of Birth: Proxima Colony, Proxima Centauri
Race/Species: Human (Terran)
Distinguishing marks:
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MILITARY BACKGROUND
Rank: Corporal
Position: Explosives Expert
Assignment: SS Vanguard
Department: Starfleet Marine Corps
Qualifications:
MACO:
* Infantry and Special Weapons training
* Small Weapons Combat
* Demolitions
* Pilot: Shuttlecraft
* Tactics: Small Units
* Survival: Asteroid/Moons - Class I
* Survival: Adaptable Planets - Class K
* Survival: Terrestrial Planets - Class M
* Unarmed Combat (Anbo-Jytsu)
Languages: English, Vulcan, Romulan, Bajoran, some Orion.
Previous Assignments: Hadley's Hope, Acheron; SS Farragut; SS Antares
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Background:
Damien Finch was born to Peony and Wyatt Finch, metallurgical engineer and miner respectively, colonists on Proxima. He and his older brother Trey were born and raised on the settlement.
A world rich in minerals, the main reason a colony was established there was for mining purposes. Turned out Proxima, with its two massive oceans, offered a sustainable fishing industry as well. Only a few parsecs away from the Sol system, trade routes for import/export were well used and merchant ships often ambushed by Nausicaan interstellar pirates.
Right after the Xindi came and attacked Earth in '53, Trey left to join the MACOs, where he trained on Alpha Centauri. He was 17. Though until then the brothers had been inseparable, Damien, five years his junior, had to stay behind with their mother. Wyatt had been killed a year prior during an attack by pirates, who had boldly decided to go to the source, rather than simply hit transports.
Luckily, less than six months later, Trey was posted on the SS Farragut, under Captain Ishiyama, one of the ships often seen protecting Proxima Colony and its trade routes back to Earth. That gave the boys a chance to see each other as Trey was allowed to take his R&R on his home planet.
When the Xindi visited again in '55, this time destroying Earth and most of the Sol system, and working their way to each and every Earth colony on their way back, the SS Farragut as well as other surviving ships helped evacuate Proxima and Alpha Centauri before joining Teagarden, who led an exodus to a secret location, which would turn out to be the recently-formed colony of Hadley's Hope and her shipyards, on Acheron, rather close to Romulan space. So few ships and so many people, in the panic and confusion, no one realised that other refugees were headed in a totally different direction - Ceti Alpha V.
Both Damien and Trey survived the evac and the two long years to reach Acheron, but Peony never made it off Proxima, getting stuck down the mines and lost in the shuffle.
Pvt. Trey Finch
Sticking to his brother like glue, Damien started his MACO training and carried on his schooling (with a marked affinity for chemistry) whilst en route to their new home as Trey carried on serving as a Private. Often referred to as 'the kid', Damien got to know his brother's squad even if he wasn't officially part of it. Mercer, Edison, Sanjay (his brother's sweet heart), Marin and Doyle. There were others of course, all making a funky, dysfuntionally tight unit: the Great Whites.
Once they got Hadley's Hope in '57, Damien was once again separated from his older brother and put in boot camp.
Acheron was a harsh world. Much harsher than Proxima had ever been, and Proxima hadn't been a cake walk either. With its high wind and near constant rain, it made for terrible but effective training conditions and terrain. Damien counted the days until he could go back onboard the Gut, what had been his real home for the last two years, and the MACOs there his adopted family.
But it would never come.
After answering a distress call on Sestus III, the whole squad of MACOs died there, except for then 2nd Lt. Jake Mercer and Private Doyle. Damien lost Trey that day, and his brother's fiancee, Sgt. Maia Sanjay. With it all his hopes and dreams that rode on the coattails of his brother's.
When he was sent up to the Farragut as part of the replacement contingent, Damien had barely lasted a few months. Too many memories on that ship. Too damn painful. He put in for a transfer and he guessed that in all of this he garnered someone's pity because he got it. He got posted on the SS Antares, under Capt. Reynolds.
After the Battle of Acheron and the discovery of Gaia and her New Earth Colony, while most MACOs were all shifted there under Admiral Mesu, the Antares stayed with a small force to protect Hadley's Hope and her shipyards. Dealings with Romulans and Orion pirates were the usual fair.
It was only when the Xindi War came a couple of years later that the Antares got pulled to Bajor and then entered the fray at Azati. The spaceship got severely damaged, and Damien seriously injured. Taken to Gaia for treatment, he spent months convalescing there before getting his next assignment. With the SS Antares decommissioned, Damien found himself on the SS Vanguard, once again serving with now Capt. Mercer.
Psychological profile:
Quiet but observing. Finch misses nothing. He has a keen intellect and forward ways. Much like his brother, I am told, he tells it like it is. According to his CO, he is 'the voice of reason'. Other than that, he keeps to himself, and like most, whom have lost so much, he shirks making new relationships though he still seems to bond well with fellow Marines.
Dr. Alannah Sivkovic
Psychologist
Ceti Alpha V – Gaia