David Sommerville

[Captain Hesperus]

David 'Dave' Sommerville​

Vitals

Age: 32

Race: Human

Affiliation: Nominally UEF, Taskforce Salient

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Homosexual

Theme Song:

Appearance: 5'11", short brown hair, gray eyes, muscular build. Dave tends to wear clothes that could see and survive combat, cargo pants, close-fitted T-shirts and combat boots. He also habitually wears military issue webbing, even when he's off-duty.

Birthplace: Tranquility Base, The Moon

Profession: Ex-UEF Space Marine, Mercenary

Psionics or Cybernetics: None

Character Skills/Flaws

Character Skills:

• Major Skill 1: Military Training - Dave reached the rank of Master Sergeant in the Space Marines, meaning his level of military training includes the care and use of most current day weapons up to and including heavy weapons and anti-armor weapons. He is also trained in small unit tactics and the complexities of ship-to-ship actions (Space Marines often have to board and pacify pirate vessels).
• Minor Skill 1: Combat Life Saver - Dave learned to be Combat Life Saver (CLS), meaning he is competent at immediate triage and intermediate level life-saving interventions in a live-fire environment. Basically, if someone gets shot, stabbed or blown up, Dave is ready, willing and capable ofstabilizing them.
• Minor Skill 2: Motor Pool - Dave is trained in driving a variety of military vehicles, mostly trucks and wheeled or tracked APCs.

Character Flaws: (Things your character is unskilled in, things that are ether their weaknesses or limitations.) You need to have 3 minimum flaws but you can have more if you want.

• Disadvantage 1: Disaffected - Dave left the Space Marines after he learned there was no intention of regaining Tranquility Base or even attempting a foothold on The Moon. As a result of this, his relationship with other Space Marines and with the UEF Military in general is strained. He will work alongside them, should his job require, but he sure as hell won't be seen enjoying it.
• Disadvantage 2: Haunted - Dave's seen some shit. I mean, the world is being chewed up by nightmare-inducing beasties that consumed half the planet in less than a month. He rarely gets a good night's sleep without serious sedatives and could be said to have a drinking problem. Just no-one dares telling him to his face about the drinking.

Personality

Motivation: Take back The Moon, survive, find a nice guy and settle down.

Opinions:

• Aliens - Undecided. Some are good, like these Tessary, some're bad like the Tha'Kar. Dave's heard there are more out there, but he's neutral about them.
• The Union - Dislike. Dave feels The Union is content to just sit back and not try to take back what the Tha'Kar have stolen.
• AI - Neutral. Dave feels AI are useful, but has worries that they could be dangerous. But then so can guns in the wrong hands.
• Cyborgs/Psionics - Neutral. Dave's worked with both in the past. Some have been okay, some have been assholes. They're just people with extra shit.
• Law enforcement - Sympathizes. As an Ex-Space Marine, Dave recognizes the service and dangers of the job. He does his part, if a cop needs help, he'll be there.
• Criminals - Uncomfortable. Dave knows crime is getting worse with everyone's attention turned to the Tha'Kar Invasion and he knows that his mercenary company have been employed by organized crime syndicates in the past. He tries to keep his own hands clean.

Common Mannerisms: Dave habitually like to sit where he can see all the entrances to the building and prefers a seat with the back to the wall. He is always looking around, not nervously, but attentively.

Interests & Hobbies: Clubbing, drinking, rarely dating.

Overall Personality: Dave is a generally nice guy. He's funny, good-looking enough and polite. In a combat situation, he's quick to assess and calmly do the best thing for himself and those around him.

History

History:Dave came from a military family, father, grandfather and great-grandfather were all marines in their time and, when his time came, he took the opportunity to go a step further and joined the UEF’s Space Marine Corps (SNMC). He served with distinction, in operations against space pirates and, when they came, against the Tha’Kar capital creatures that disgorged their warriors onto Earth and its colonies. Dave’s greatest despair was learning that Tranquility Base had been lost in the early stages of the invasion and that the UEF had no plans to recapture the base, considering that a major Tha’Kar Queen had taken up residence on The Moon.
This despair became deeper as he watched the UEF become more unstable, Ganymede and Mars having military forces deployed against them as they became more openly separatist, the uprising and brutal retaking of Mercury and the various anti-Union movements on Earth. It all became too much for David and he finally resigned from the Space Marines.
But the military life did not leave him with him leaving the Corps. He signed onto the payroll of one of the largest mercenary companies, Taskforce Principle. As part of this organization, he was contracted to provide protection for merchant spacecraft, off-world property patrols and personal security. His current assignment has just ended, leaving him between jobs on Orbital Station: Gateway.