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EDUCATION 2370-2374 - Starfleet Academy 2375-2377 - Starfleet Academy Command School - SERVICE RECORD 2377-2377 - Lt., USS Invincible,
Chief Helm Officer
DECORATIONS33 BC - 31 AD - Civilian, Ancient Adarra, Tempus IV 31 AD - DECEASED - None - |
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| Return to 2378 Bio As follows, is a bio drawn from an alternate timeline than our own. The events were experienced by Garrett Andrews and recorded upon his return to our own timeline. No other records exist to support this timeline. Point of Divergence: Late 2377. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Shortly after the 26 year-old Garrett Andrews was assigned to the USS Terra Nova in late 2377, the small Defiant class vessel was ordered to proceed to the distant Ryalli Sector and investigate the sudden loss of communication with the Archaelogical station on Tempus IV. Upon arrival it was discovered that the science station was abandoned. There remained no evidence as to the whereabouts of the 80 scientists and station personnel. While the Terra Nova away team (including helm officer Lt. Andrews) was investigating the disappearance of the station crew, a temporal event was triggered, inadvertantly sending the seven member away team over 2400 years into the planet's distant past. They arrived quite suddenly in the middle of an ancient Romanesque civilization. Garrett, as well as Terra Nova security crewman Matt Evanstone, awoke to find themselves captive within the local gladiatorial arena. Two days later, they were forced into their first public contest. By some stroke of luck, both men survived. Two days later, on July 18, a slave revolt took place among the local gladiators. Andrews and Evanstone were both involved. Garrett escaped with a few other slaves, but Evanstone was killed in the attempt. The revolt was later suppressed, but Garrett had managed to escape into the surrounding populace. Now a man without a local identity, he set out among the shadows of Adarra hoping to find the rest of his fellow away team, hoping rescue wasn't far off. Three months passed. Garrett didn't find his fellow comrades, but he did find work and a place to stay. An elderly farmer by the name of Katarus was in need of laborers in his mandaka root fields, so, resigning himself to his awkward fate, Garrett hired on as a laborer. He found housing as a hired hand and a job to earning a wage. When not in the fields he continued to hope for a familiar face. Strangely farming suited Garrett well. It was quiet work, often away from the bustle of the city. It was also hot tedious work. It was better than wandering. While there, he also seemed to be making a name for himself among his fellow laborers. He was a hard worker, resourceful, educated, and, growingly well liked among his peers. It was this environment that he began to call home. By mid-October of his first year in the past, returning to the present seemed less and less of a possibility with each passing day. It was apparent that a rescue by the Terra Nova, now hundreds of years in the future, was an unlikely event. This was his new life -- a farmer tending mendaka root just outside of the walls of ancient Adarra. One evening nearly a month later -- while finishing up shopping in the city markets -- Garrett was unexpectedly approached by two individuals claiming to be "Starfleet friends of Garrett Andrews". As it turned out, these two (Doctor James Gilbert, and Lieutenant Lana Markov) were actually surviving officers from the abandoned Starfleet Station that the Terra Nova had been sent to investigate. They had also been transplanted in time, although a month earlier, as had the other 78 station personnel. Over the five months prior to this meeting, Gilbert and Markov had helped form an underground movement seeking to find and reclaim their fellow Starfleet personnel from among the Adarran populace. Garrett was one of the last to be found. Unfortunately, half of Garrett's fellow Terra Nova away team was still missing, and by this point, presumed unrecoverable. The reunion with his own people after four months of assimilation into Adarran culture was a joyous event for the young Starfleet transplant... but saddening. His fellow survivors had all but given up hope of rescue. Most had already begun to settle into their new lives. Over the following six months, Garrett settled in among his fellow human friends, but still retained those friends he had first made among the Tempii. Friends got married, children were born, and families became commonplace. A few among the Starfleet circle even passed away. Life moved on. The ex-Federation personnel had assimilated into Adarran society. On October 12, 32 BC, Garrett finally put his Starfleet past behind him, one of the last to do so. He'd met a young woman earlier that year, and on this day she had accepted his proposal of marriage. Kathryn Engel, had been one of the anthropoligists from the Federation science station. Now, after many months of close friendship, she would be Garrett's wife. It was a joyous day for the former Terra Nova helm officer. He'd never been married before. On November 22 of the same year, an unexpected glimmer of hope entered the lives of the unwitting time-travelers. An unexplained probe of Federation design had been found. It's markings indicated that it had come from the USS Terra Nova, most likely on a failed mission through time to save them. Now, with a small bit of 24th century technology at their disposal, perhaps a return to the future would be possible. It would take time to determine how much of the probe was salvagable, but at least there was hope again. Two days later some sad news reached Garrett. The Vulcan Doctor, Sumek, had run some routine medical tests on Kate, and had found something alarming. She had developed Dataraks Disease, a presently incurable cancer native to the planetary population. There was little Sumek could do. The disease was apparently incurable in Humans. Two months later, in January, Kathryn Engel died. In just over a month, she and Garrett would have been married. Following Kate's death, Garrett began to slip into a deep depression. He had come to love Kate very much. She was his muse -- his other half. She was also the one who had given him the strength to let go of his past to which he had clung so long. Now, with her gone, and the longing to return to his old life again resurfacing, he became empty and alone. Very little had any meaning for him anymore. Even his studies in painting -- of which he had been apprenticed under the Adarran master painter Dumarta for the past six months -- had lost any importance to him. On March 11, 31 BC, he ceased those studies, and swore off painting. By April of that year, a new platonic friendship had entered Garrett's life. Marcus Meeks, another former anthropologist on the Federation science station had taken an interest in the young former officer. He was a lot like Garrett. They had a lot in common. He was saddened to see his new friend's lack of interest in the arts -- a field in which Garrett had a great deal of promise. So, as a gift, he offered Garrett a small ornately-carved Adarran flute. Reluctantly, Garrett accepted, and by June was showing a lot of musical improvement... and marked recovery from his depression. Two passed. On October 12, bad news struck the city-state of Adarra.... They were being plunged into war by the neighboring city-state, Trellus. The war would last four months, but in the end, Adarra would remain victorious. However, it would be this war that brought even more chilling news.... The military hero who had helped win the war, was one of their own -- Lt. Noah Torrus. He had been one of the remaining Starfleet survivors not yet located among the Adarran society, Unfortuantely, he had always been a bit of historical fanatic, and now, with the past as his present, he had found the chance to become part of the future. Torrus Maximus, as he began calling himself, would become one of the most notoriously influential military leaders in Tempus IV history. He would also play a big part in the eventual downfall of the entire Adarran civilization. By mid 25 BC, Garrett had been an Adarran citizen for nearly eight years. He was now 35 years old and still unmarried. Torrus Maximus, on the other hand -- now an untouchable military leader -- was sweeping through Adarra's enemies like butter, and the peacetimes Garrett had arrived in, had become war. Adarra was gaining a reputation, and Torrus Maximus was at the center of it. By May, 22 BC, Torrus Maximus had overthrown the Adarran Senate, and taken full control of the rapidly weakening nationstate of Adarra. Unopposed, he declared himself Emperor. Now the first sole political leader in the history of the Adarran people, Torrus Maximus turned his new-found control toward removing those who had sought to depose him the most -- his fellow time-traveling refugees. By the end of that year, Garrett had become an unwitting adoptive father. When his Starfleet friend, Marcus Howard, his wife and one of their three children had fallen victim to Maximus' deadly "Purgings", Garrett had taken Marcus' two surviving daughters, five-year-old Rowena, and nine-year-old Christine in as his own. Retreating from Adarra with the remaining Starfleet survivors to escape the "Purgings", he lived the next few years in hiding. Three years later young Christine fell victim to one of the native diseases. Time passed. Torrus Maximus had finally found the sharp end of a dagger in 11 BC -- murdered by one of his own dissenting soldiers -- and just like that, the "Purgings" were over. Unfortuantely, Adarra was left with a legacy of war, death, and constant political upheaval. Better leaders followed, but none were able to fully undo the damage Maximus had dealt the Empire. A few years after Torrus' death, Garrett finally moved back to Adarra with his daughter. In the years that followed, there were bad times, and there were good. Rowena grew up, married one of Marcus Meeks two sons, and Garrett finally settled in to a happy and productive life. After many years that life finally drew to a close for Garrett, and in 31 AD, at the wise old age of 91, he died. With that, the life of Garrett the Adarran faded into memory -- forever known only to the Garrett Andrews of our reality. Following his death, Garrett's body was interned in the tomb owned by his Starfleet comrades. - |
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| PERSONALITY PROFILE |
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| Garrett is
a friendly individual, though perhaps a bit on the quiet side of things.
He is a thinker, and as a result, usually quite ingenious and resourceful.
He enjoys meeting new people and is rather easy to get
to know. Those he becomes friends with, he is loyal to. He posesses a keen sense of when a situation
is likely to be dangerous and require caution. This often annoys his friends, but after the fact,
they usually respect him for his insight. Garrett is not in favor of unnecessary violence, though if the situation warrants such will not hesitate to defend himself or his friend. He is known to make wise decisions and rarely jumps into a situation prematurely. He retains the strong morals with which he grew up. - - |
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| PHYSICAL PROFILE |
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| Garrett is about
6 feet tall. His hair is light brown and his eyes hazel in color. He is usually
in good health. Most of his life he has sported an increasingly full beard. He has a scar on his left thigh from a deeply imbedded arrow wound when he was 58. The wound healed fully, but the ligament damage did not. He has a slight limp as a result. - - |
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| The
following are the direct links to the alternate story posts. These are listed
in chronological order. Please open the links in a new window so that you
can easily return to this page.
- "What Dreams
May Come..." - (2377 / July 14, 33 BC) |
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