[EVENT] Captain Biography Contest!
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And this is my Submission
Name: Marojin Aikune
Rank: Admiral
Service No: X-96464
Assignment: Various
Vessel: Various
Species: Betazed-Human
Age: 30
One Little Monster
The Son of Mother Monster
He was Born This Way
Aikune was born on Betazed to a family whose progeny started on Earth. At a young age it was discovered that his telepathic and empathic abilities were far more superior to others even by Betazed standards. Early on these abilities tormented him as every one’s thoughts and emotions flooded him and overwhelmed him. Once his extent of his abilities was discovered he was admitted to a private institute operated by Starfleet Intelligence that gathered youngsters from various federation worlds with intense metal prowess.
Though separated from his family, Aikune counted the years spent at the institute his happiest. He was adept in his basic education and managed to develop rudimentary telekinesis and psychic abilities. He was specially skilled in Philosophy studying and everything from the Baghavad Gita and Amazonian Philosophy to Borg’s fascination with Omega and Voth’s Doctrine. He had many discussions with religious philosophers from Vulcan and even had a conversation once with a Vorta Defector about the Founders.
But to him the set of philosophy that touched to him was the Buddhist Religion of Earth. While he knows he would never be challenged, it always troubled him that he could never explain why Buddhism fit him so well. He spoke about this with the 23th Dalai Lama on a pilgrimage to Tibet and all the holy man said to him was, “Continue to study and to continue to be a scientist of your own spiritual existence”
At age 17 he graduated from the institute and was offered to continue his studies at Starfleet Academy. In a first for the academy, he was excused from having to Kobiyashi Maru test after he argued to the provost the flaw and the fallacy of the test. The provost later admitted that he couldn’t argue against someone who used logic against a Vulcan and won.
Other than that his time at the Academy was relatively uneventful aside from one incident that got him and his entire dorm 2 months of extra duty. It involved fire retardant foam, Ketracel white, Bajoran Bartaret incense and Orions.
After graduation he was first assigned to the Diplomatic corps and requested assignment to Vulcan. He requested Vulcan because he learned early on that his fiery tempter tends to boil very close to the surface and would sometimes explode. He knows that whatever happened this would be a liability to him and hoped being on Vulcan he would be able to learn and study Vulcan emotional discipline. He also hoped it would help him hone his telepathic abilities.
He began studying with a Monk named Tosak. Aikune and Tosak would often conduct verbal spars and philosophical debates trying to get the other to erupt emotionally. In one of these sessions Tosak struck a nerve which caused Aikune to fly into a rage and unleash a mental blast that sent Tosak to intensive care for a week and damaged the room they were in.
Starfleet then chose to reassign Aikune as his temper and powers which was once seen as an asset, is now seen as a liability in the Diplomatic corps. However they are still seen as an asset by Starfleet Intelligence. Aikune was made an instructor at the institute he studied at only now he was also working closely with the Vulcan Science Academy. And while being an instructor was his official assignment. Unofficially he was assigned to run reconnaissance, and covert mission for Starfleet intelligence.
One mission was to track and liberate a Borg drone acting as tertiary adjunct to the invasion force in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. The drone was designated Eight of Ten and after almost a year, using a team of telepaths, he was able to track down the drone. Using a device that made his telepathic abilities mimic Borg transmission, he was able to infiltrate the Borg ship, and disconnect Eight of Ten from the collective.
After that incident Aikune was on the team to acclimate Eight of Ten to being disconnected. He using the device to communicate with Eight telepathically and eventually Aikune became the sole person responsible for Eight’s acclimation. The emotional turmoil and intense connection of being telepathically linked with Eight for so long exhausted Aikune but it also seem to have tempered his rage. And the prolonged connection bonded both men. Eight made the first move and professed his feelings for Aikune.
It wasn’t that Aikune didn’t have feelings for Eight, who by this time chose to return to his birth name Dean. Aikune knew was going to be spending the rest of his life in Starfleet Intelligence and he did not want to put Dean through the emotional turmoil should anything happen to him. Eventually both men decided Dean was acclimated enough to return to active duty and was given command of several science ships to conduct deep space testing. Aikune returned to Starfleet Intelligence.
At this time there were reports that several derelict Jem’Hadar ships were found drifting from the Gamma Quadrant into neutral space. With the war with the Klingon Empire raging at full force, Aikune was sent to retrieve as many of these ships as possible. He encountered a Joined Trill defector name Ahn’dy Ko’hen. Aikune knew Ahn’dy from their time together at the Institute when he was a teenager, the two had a passionate affair before Ahn’dy’s defection. Though on opposite side of the war, the two briefly rekindled their passion and worked together to retrieve several Jem’Hadar attack ships for both the KDF and Starfleet.
Truth be told, Ahn’dy does not have much love for the Klingon Empire and was more of a gun for hire than a true KDF officer. Aikune worked with Ahn’dy for several months gaining intelligence on the location of several other ships with unique technology that would be of benefit to Starfleet and that would procure a nice profit from the KDF.
While outnumbered by Elachi ships in the Nimbus sector Aikune and Ahn’dy was rescued by a young Romulan Captain named Sondheim. Who destroyed the quarry that Aikune and Ahn’dy was trying to procure. In a rage Ahn’dy attacked Sondheim’s ship forcing Aikune to disable Ahn’dy’s ship. Sondheim profusely apologized and gave both of them a lead on an even better quarry, a 29th century mirror universe time ship. As Ahn’dy ship was disabled Aikune went with Sondheim to the Azure nebula and into the a nest of Tholians. Aikune contacted Dean and both of them with Sondheim infiltrated the Tholian base.
For the first time in his life Aikune’s telepathic abilities were useless as the Tholians were completely unreadable to him. The plan was to holographically mask their ships and through the universal translator and Aikune’s abilities to infiltrate the Tholian space dock and get the 29th century mirror universe time ship out. After the plan failed all three ships were heavily damaged forcing them to activate a special distress beacon. The U.S.S. Tina Fey, and the I.K.S. Yuko Ichihara came just in time rescuing the crew of the 3 doomed ships. Aikune, in a Hail Mary play, tracktored Dean’s and Sondheim’s ships and ram it into the Tholian space dock and beaming himself to the Tina Fey shortly before the moment of impact.
The damage allowed Aikune and a small team to beam to the space dock and get the ship out. When they beamed to the Space dock, they discovered it was not one but over 600 ships, they had Federation, Romuland and Klingon warp signatures. The team infiltrated both and pulled as many out. A mass of Tholian ships converged on them as a mixed fleet of KDF, Romulan Republic and Federation ships arrive to combat the Tholians.
While the first time ships was able to escape to New Romulus Aikune’s time ship was ensnared by a Tholian Tarantula. Aikune activated the temporal backstep but due to a damaged Chroniton regulator was sent to Earth on 23rd July 2020. Being in a mirror universe ship the timeline does not match, but he was able to patch through a terrestrial broadcast to get his berrings. There he saw a man who looked remarkably like him. The man was being interviewed on an Earth television stationed called CNN, by a man named Anderson Cooper. The man’s name was Tsar Agus, the then Director General of the IOC, Aikune’s 20th Great Grandfather.
The repairs to the ship was quick it was as if the ship repaired itself and the damage never happened. But the departure back to 2409 would be witnessed all over the globe and be picked up by the satellite technology of the time. The only way to leave undetected was to wait for the fireworks display the next day at the Opening Ceremonies of the Games of the XXXII Olympiad in Tokyo. Aikune debated himself but that night while his crew slept; he snuck down to Earth and had a conversation with his 20th Great Grand Father.
The two men talked for hours and Tsar took Aikune down to the floor of National Olympic Stadium where the ceremonies would take place. Aikune mentioned to Tsar that he doesn’t know why Buddhism fits him so well. Tsar said to Aikune “Continue to study and to continue to be a scientist of your own spiritual existence”. In that moment Aikune accepted that there’s always something that he can’t explain even within himself.
As a parting gift Tsar gave Aikune a torch from the relay. Upon return to 2409, he found the Tholians in retreat and the three factions retrieving a slew of time ships. Aikune returned to earth for a brief reprieve and an interview with the Department of Temporal Investigation. He took the torch and replicates it and mounts it on the Ready Room of every ship he commands. He keeps the original in his parent’s house on Betazed.
