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These two missions were the first time Sam witnessed, first-hand, people in his crew dying. The first time was on the science station, on an away team, and was bad enough for being an ambush situation. However, the next deaths were in his department while he was its Chief - and again, he was helpless to prevent them.
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|Gender= Male
|Age= 27
|Height= {{feet|5|10.85}}
|Weight= {{lbs|176.3}}
|Voice=Smooth tenor
|Taste=Simple, minimalist shirts and khakis
|Features= Dimple in right cheek, symptomatic of his semi-permanent lopsided smile. A faint disruptor scar runs the length of his back from the left shoulder to the left hip.
|Dateyr= 187
|Datemth= 03
After a mission to the science station orbiting Calder II, later classified by Star Fleet Intelligence, Sam was elevated to Chief Engineer of the Dauntless. It was a promotion he wasn't expecting for some time, and it came with a temporarily-inflated Engineering complement courtesy of Star Base Bravo. The challenges inherent in organising 300 people would have been bad enough, even without the time-pressure of flying towards a warzone while repairing the ship from the last engagement, over Calder II.
These two missions were the first time Sam witnessed, first-hand, people in his crew dying. The first time was on the science station, on an away team, and was bad enough for being an ambush situation. However, the next deaths were in his department while he was its Chief - and again, he was helpless to prevent them.
Sam was reprimanded for his actions, but saved from a court-martial for murder by Caldecott. He worked out his conflicting emotions - he'd basically gotten away with it, but he felt that he shouldn't have - on the holodeck, causing considerable damage to one of the ship's holodecks and nearly getting himself killed in the process. He was left with a large scar on his back, one that he was reluctant to go to Sickbay for, in case uncomfortable questions about how he came to acquire it were asked.
The senior crew of the Dauntless were next sent on a black op into the Klingon Empire, using the first-of-her-class USS Apparition. En route, the ship was revealed to possess a phase cloak, and an experimental triple power plant configuration consisting of a traditional matter-antimatter reactor, a quantum singularity core and a prototype intertemporal generator all mated together to provide enough power for the prodigious needs of the cloaking device. Sam found it difficult to get along with their SFI liaison, but appreciated her skill and clear love for her ship. He was sent on an away mission, an assault on a KDF intelligence base, in order to steal information related to a terrorist attack on Earth. The fight was brutal and bloody, and no better in orbit. Overall, the crew suffered seventy percent casualties, and the loss of the Apparition. The survivors were lucky to escape in a captured B'Rel-class Bird of Prey. If Sam hated SFI before, he wouldn't spit on a greyshirt if one were aflame in front of him now.
|Majors=General Engineering training
|Minors=Matter/antimatter systems, Propulsion
|Hobbies=Martial arts, kal-toh
|Short= Complete Command Training |Long=Design a modular warp system that can be easily scaled between ship classes|Long=Repair his relationship with his home crew|Personality=OutgoingMainly outgoing, but most personal things are off-limits. He'll try and deflect the conversation to more comfortable territory. Easily makes friends just the same. If he believes he's right, he'll never back down - a trait which has brought him into conflict with some of his colleagues more than once. Lately, his demeanour has soured somewhat - a symptom of too many crew casualties in too short a time; something he finds difficult to cope with.
|Humor=Dry, deadpan. Sam tends to use humour as an emotional barrier to things he finds upsetting or uncomfortable, leading some to believe him callous or uncaring.
|Phobias= Spacewalks. Sam prefers having bulkheads between him and space rather than some flimsy EVA suit.
