Name: Arthur White
Age: 30
Height: 5'11
Weight: 170 lbs
Species: Terran
Place of Birth: Orlando, Florida, Earth
Languages: Klingon, Federation, Russian, Vulcan, Romulan, Trill, Cardassian,
Bajoran
Interests: Reading, writing poetry, and researching intelligence from intelligent
life-forms. He excells cellular structure and claims they have psionic emanations.
Education:
Siberia University
Science University of Russia
Service Record:
2 Years Ensign, Asst. Chief of Science, Project: Janu
1 Year Ensign, Science Officer, USS Rainbow
Present Ensign, Genetic Engineer, USS Darwin
Background:
Arthur was born in Orlando, Florida. His parents were president of a mining
company that gathered titanium among other resources for different companies.
Eventually they were fully sponsored by StarFleet and they began a long raise
into the higher confines of society as important people. In his youth Arthur
was a happy boy, fantasizing always about battling Klingons or Romulans or whatever
was the main threat at the moment. His smile was always broad and his feelings
for others even broader. His only weakness was being naive and believing most
of his peers who eventually lost him as a friend just for that. Being the 'nerd'
in his familiy gave him a reputation for quick thinking and even quicker vengance.
His brothers were soon to go up in the StarFleet scale. 'Admiral' this, 'Major'
that, etc.
Initially in high school he was not on the popular group. He was sometimes rude,
expecting everyone to be as hard to him as his former friends in younger days
were. But he began changing and by the end he was back to his happy, naive self.
His thoughts began to go towards computers and soon enough he found himself
taking a second programming class and acing it, getting a special medal from
his dedication if not for his grade, for he was never GREAT at it.
When Arthur turned 19 he went to Russia to study at the Russian University.
While there he met a lot of people and made quite a lot of friends. He became
easier to get along with and he involved himself in many activities. At first
his main goal was being a holo-programmer, but eventually he figured he excelled
in science, especially Biology and deeper still, Genetics. Over the years he
decided to make a minor as a programmer and finish Biology in full, reaching
the highest level available. He made quite a show for himself when he created
a few breakthroughs in bioengineering making computers and neural circuits contact
each other through engineered clones of neural axons. While his success was
short lived, since the whole programming behind it and the difficulty of keeping
neurons from sending the wrong signals failed, he began a revolution of the
thing. His book, The Neural Computer, was a bestseller in several Federation
worlds.
Some time later he began experimenting on plants and their reactions to neural
commands. This showed even greater promise as plants reacted to a few commands,
but lacked the ingenuity of learning. Upon further research he noted the plants
gave off some psionic emanations. While low, they had the ability to almost
comunicate themselves. But apparently they needed more evolution time. Arthur
then wrote his next book, To Speak with Plants. This one explained his whole
research and how plants had a way of talking and expressing themselves. Its
as if they were life-forms trapped in a body lacking a lot of capabilities.
With this background as a starting springboard he entered StarFleet at the age
of 27, figuring they had better equipment and he could further help the world
working for it. He also needed a job. As luck would have it he was sent as Asst.
Chief of Science for a project later called Project: Janu. All they told him
is that they needed a bioengineering expert. With that as a starting blank paper
he began his study of the life down in an unknown planet today known as Kirian.
Two years they were to be in the place. Apparently there was more to the whole
deal. StarFleet was hiding something. Kirian was infested with an odd plant-like
race. They had no name and were really not a problem at first. About 6 months
later the remains of a life-form, a woman called Janu Cloud, appeared. Apparently
the plant-like race was a normal race but hooked to the Earth, as all plants
were. After Janu Cloud was found she explained she had been trying to survive
along with her comrades. A Federation ship, the USS Kirian, crashed here and
only she and a few others had survived. No one knew what had happened to it.
The survivors died, some having odd deaths while others disappeared and still
others were "eaten alive" by a few species of plants.
The whole thing turned sour when the plant-like race found a way of using humanoid
features, giving them human-fast movement instead of the usual slow plant movement..
In a race for their lives, 6 months after finding Janu, the group met several
plant-giants with human forms. A few took insect form while others took indefinable
forms. Belinda, Chief of Science of the expedition, died in one of the plant
raids. Her Betazoid mind had been taken and soon enough Arthur registered psionic
emanations from several 'upgraded' plant life-forms. Arthur and Commander Gary
Haleon were hard-pressed to form a defense technique. In the end Gary revealed
he had an extremely powerful explosive and organic device able to virtually
destroy life on the whole planet. The device was stolen by the plant race and
threatened to destroy them all. By then Janu had been abducted and now the whole
race had called itself Janu.
In what seemed like an eternity Gary reported that Arthur spoke with Janu while
he was being tortured and fluids being taken out of him. They were experimenting.
Finally Arthur revealed his trump card and injected a serum, he had created,
inside Janu. Janu began to disintegrate itself, along with its minions, and
fall into a state of total turmoil. Arthur saved Gary and both escaped. While
escaping the deep confines of the Janu cave, they stumbled upon a baby who was
really Janu's son. Commander Gary Haleon gave strict orders of leaving the baby,
yet Arthur took it for some unknown reason. The USS Rainbow was nearby at the
moment and caught a distress signal from a short-band comm array Gary had.
The Rainbow saved the two men at the same time that Janu activated the explosive
device. As of why this incident occurred, both Gary and Arthur commented that
the thing had feelings, especially revenge. The USS Rainbow was severely damaged
by the blast wave that struck everything 100 miles from the planet, soon dubbed
Kirian by Arthur and Gary. One year passed as the Rainbow made its way from
deep space to a nearby starbase. Their core was completely damaged along with
communications and a lot of other things. The ship had shields down when the
blast hit, it was a miracle it survived.
Arthur brought a child from Kirian. The boy was named by him Aeron Cloud, since
Janu's last name was Cloud. He was taken in by StarFleet to train him and see
what they could learn. (StarFlet note: To view a report of Aeron's progress
contact StarFleet. If you have proper permission you'll be granted the information.)
Gary Haleon brought Arthur on trial over several factors. Apparently Arthur
knew more of the thing than he mentioned. Gary also mentioned the fact that
he didn't follow orders and might be jeopardizing lives for bringing that cursed
boy. The details of the trial are on the Court Marshall files. Case 1047388-J.
Arthur was given a year to prove himself by being put off any StarFleet vessel
or facility. During this year he met Liany Jacobson.
Arthur married Liany, an interplanetary journalist, and waited to finish his
year on probation. That year has just passed and he was issued to the USS Darwin,
a Science Vessel used for some battles as well. (StarFleet note: Arthur never
knew he was placed in Section 31 since the beginning in Project: Janu. He is
a Section 31 member an no one except a few know, not even himself.)
Special Notes:
Arthur later explained the whole Kirian incident as a flaw on StarFleet for
not telling them everything. Apparently they already knew the USS Kirian had
crashed there, or so he thought. He continued on explaining how StarFleet deliberately
sent them to their deaths. StarFleet countered saying most officers know they
are at risk of death as explained on Article 4.5A of the StarFleet Integration
Form which Arthur signed. With this as a low blow Arthur 'agreed' StarFleet
had a right and with lack of further details and evidence the case fell. Arthur
was given a one year probation. (StarFleet note: We were still studying Aeron
and wondered if Arthur possessed similar traits. We found out he was not injected,
as was Commander Gary Haleon and Janu Cloud.) After a year Arthur was given
back his job which he agreed to take. This time as Ensign on the USS Darwin.
Arthur owns a black cat named Shadow. He is male. He usually takes his cat to
where he is assigned. He has been married for 7 months now to Liany White, an
interplanetary journalist.
Appearance:
Arthur has black hair, hazel eyes which usually change color according to what
he wears, white little tanned skin, broad shoulders and is fairly well toned.
Personality Profile: Arthur has a bleak view of life. Being always the "nerd"
at his house gave him a reputation for swift vengeance and even quicker thinking.
He goes to incredible odds just to show he's worth what he's talking about,
even if it's a lie. Project Janu really moved his spiritual side and soon he
was back to his old joyful self. But sometimes something inside him stirs and
he's back to his introvert and vengeful side, this happens often. Fortunately
he is perfect as a friend and in turn goes through incredible odds to help someone
in need. He likes religious debates and literally hates God for some reason.
He has a good nature towards people and accepts all manners of ideas. He is
open minded to some extent.
Family Background:
Father: Syldan White
Mother: Ariana White Yarkon
Brothers:
Sturm White (deceased), Lt. Commander, Asst. Chief Tactical Officer, USS Jade
(StarFleet Note: Sturm White died protecting Betazed on the USS Jade)
Tanin White, Major, Chief Marine, USS Omen
Selion White, Vice Admiral, Orion Station (Jupiter's 5th Moon)
Favorite Quote: "No matter where you stand, space is always black...
as is life."
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