Talef Argon
Personel Record:
Rank: Commander
Age: 45
Race: Edoan
Gender: Male
Position: Executive Officer of the
U.S.S. Ark Royal
Marital Status: Single
Parents: Edef and Dora Argon (dec.)
Siblings: Odex Argon, brother
Children: None
Service Record:
USS Amistad
U.S.S. Ark Royal
Personality:
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Being Compiled
History:
Talef grew up on an Edoan colony world.
He had always had an interest in tinkering with things, building
a bit of this, a bit of that, making it all out of whatever he could
find. He had an honest living as such in a quiet sector of
space. That was until the Dumari came to "settle"
their "colony world". Since Edos was not officially
part of the Federation, and neither was this particular colony,
they found themselves at the mercy of the Dumari, at least temporarily.
Edos, immediately appealed to the Federation,
which responded with a political maneuver designed to persuade Edos
that the Federation was better than the Dumari, the USS Kongo was
sent to retrieve the colonists.
The Dumari, a race with no home planet anymore,
had become more nomadic and warlike as their population had dwindled.
They proved their own untrustworthiness soon after the Kongo arrived.
They allowed the Kongo to beam up the colonists, and then attacked
once its shields were down. The ship became chaos within moments.
Talef was in the first load of colonists, and seeing the chaos,
did his best to pitch in to help everyone.
His help was instrumental in securing the ship.
His civilian clothes did not deter the crew from accepting his suggestions.
His casual, natural way with others allowed the chaos to pass and
order to be restored in engineering, even after the chief had been
killed. He had a knack for seeing the easy answer to a problem,
if not necessarily understanding the physics of making it work,
instantly. He had a way of understanding technology intuitively.
Not the technical specs, but the flow of it, the logic behind it.
An almost intuitive sense of how machines were meant to function.
He remained aboard after the colonists had been
returned to Edos, fascinated by the new technology, and it's potential.
He had been helpful in working with the crew to understand their
engine room a bit better, as a functional whole, not as the collection
of pieces and astrophysics they took it for. He actually managed
to improve their normal efficiency. The captain insisted he
stay on, preferably as an engineer, but Talef, content to tinker,
declined, staying on board only as a consultant.
Once the Kongo put in for repairs and refitting
Talef had seen enough of shipboard life to be enamored with it's
own flow, and felt good to be an influential part of a great machine
that was a starship, seeing it as systems within systems.
The captain used his pull to get Argon sent to engineering branch
school, where he got mediocre evaluations. His interest was
always more on the flow than the specs, which got him through, but
a little differently than his instructors had in mind. He
graduated with a good rank and was given a posting. His efficiency
reports staggered the captain and thrilled the crew. After
a short time proving himself, a posting came up aboard the USS Amistad.
Sorry to lose his engineer, but looking to furthering his career,
the captain made him take it.
Admiral D’Tral Nimmon commanded the USS
Amistad, which served in Liberty Fleet. Admiral Nimmon took
to Argon’s efficiency immediately. Argon served there
until the destruction of the USS Amistad in 2373. Admiral Nimmon
died to save his ship, and the USS Ark Royal from destruction at
the hands of the Romulans. The Captain of the USS Ark Royal,
one John S. Renalt was a long time friend of Admiral Nimmon.
He offered any crew that wanted to stay onboard a place, in memory
of Admiral Nimmon. Argon, never before having seen a ship
like the Ark, agreed enthusiastically. While not initially
familiar with Quantum Technology, he picked it up very quickly.
Argon became known for feats of engineering which scared some people,
but which ultimately worked. When the Executive Officer moved
on in 2374, Captain Renalt chose Argon as his XO.
Argon served as Exec on the USS Ark Royal until
Renalt’s daughter went missing in 2375. Renalt left his
command and his commission and began a quest to find her at all
costs. Argon was granted Captaincy of the USS Ark Royal.
Argon remained the CO of the Ark until a conspiracy
came to his attention. The very ideals of Starfleet were being
threatened by a mystery organization called Section 31. They
supposedly were part of Starfleet Intelligence, but Argon could
not believe what they had been doing. His own XO had been
a part of them at one point, and had terrible tales of his own as
to what they had been doing. Argon took a personal leave
of absence to investigate the matter more fully. What he found
led him back to his old Commanding Officer. Renalt’s daughter
had been sacrificed to the Borg as part of an experiment to destroy
them. Argon informed Renalt and, now teamed up, did more investigation.
By this time, the organization had decided to
try to recruit another officer on the Ark Royal. They had
dispatched a pair of operatives to the Ark to retrieve him.
Argon, Renalt, and the old Tactical Officer of the Ark, having come
across this information in their diggings, intercepted them and
faked their deaths to be able to interrogate them. Renalt
made sure to keep Argon out of anything too illegal, or unsavory.
S31 sent another team to the Ark, and they retrieved
the officer. By this time, Renalt had a confession from one
of the agents. They sped to the Ark to reveal the information
that this agency was not actually part of Section 31, though the
real S31 did exist through SFI. Together again, they chased
down the agents, and in a dramatic showdown, defeated them and saved
the USS Ark Royal from self-destruction.
The ship needed repairs, and was ordered to dock
at Starbase T’Plana-Hath while investigations were carried
out, and personnel interviewed. Argon was removed for deposition,
and the records regarding the matter were sealed. Argon was
discredited for the action he took in league with Renalt and Rhoon,
and demoted to the rank of Lt Commander. Not without friends,
Argon was allowed to return aboard the Ark Royal as the Chief Engineer,
where he had had such success before.
He now has the stigma of having lost a captaincy
and a two-rank demotion, the circumstances of which he cannot discuss,
even to present his own side of it…the tell-tale signs of a
cover-up. For now, he is happy enough to be able to be where
it all started. In the Engine Room.
He was recently promoted to Commander again and
given the position of XO for the USS Ark Royal,
