Caleb Lukyanenko
Caleb Lukyanenko
Rank: Ensign (O-1)
Position: Former Engineer
Appearance
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Born: 12 August 2361
Place of Birth: Canada, Earth
Hair: Light Brown
Eyes: Green
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 195lbs
A mostly average build with focus on arm muscles due to being used to manual work and practice of Bojutsu. His short hair is a lighter shade of brown and has green eyes with a small goatee on his chin. He also has scarring on his right leg from a shuttle accident and a fight.
Personality
Caleb is usually an easy going and a reasonable person to get along with. Despite the fact that he likes to meet people, he also is unintentionally antisocial to a degree. As an example, he is often sitting quietly by himself in the mess hall reading on his free time, rather than introducing himself to his colleagues. When someone needs help with something, he usually offers a hand at what they need. He believes that this is common courtesy as well as it helps lighten the mood in places and makes the work go by faster.
As for work ethics, he will follow almost any order unless it questions his morality or he can suggest a workaround or improvement. When actively working, he has a tendency to zone out everything around him. This is yet to show as either hindrance or an improvement to his record.
Side note: Recently he has tried curbing his habit of cursing finally finding it a bit distasteful and unoriginal using only one word. This has lead to inane phrases that catches people's ear.
Hobbies and Interests:
Practicing bojutsu and immobilization techniques, reading 20th / 21st century comics and books, designing holodeck games and scenarios, cooking, toying with propulsion technology and original weapons.
History
Born in a small settlement in Canada, Caleb was the son of a farmer and the distance learning teacher Daniel and Serena Lukyanenko. Growing up in the isolated area wasn't overly a bother to him, as he always had something to do, whether it was helping his father with the fieldwork, repairing the equipment or, feeding the animals. And even when he longed for the need to talk to people other than his parents, he would log onto his mother's communication equipment to talk to her students or visit social networks.
He got his first taste of engineering at a young age. One day while strolling the outskirts of the woods, he happen to stumble upon, literally, an old manual shuttlecraft. Caleb approached Daniel about this aging machine and asked what it's history was about. Caleb learned it was his father's when he was younger, and after a malfunction that he couldn't be bothered to fix, left it to rust half planted into the ground. Caleb took it upon himself that he would see the bird fly again, had it trudged out of the earth and towed it into the shop. After rummaging through the workspace, he found the torn and greased up repair manual, which was about half useless as he learned his father had the shuttle modified here and there. After weeks of inspecting the ship, the only problem, other than the degrading body damage, was a simple fused EPS conduit that flooded the impulse drive. After having it replaced and restored, it flew like a bird.... Unfortunately when going to land after its maiden flight, he noticed a part that he forgot to install beside his feet and it soon landed like a rock.
Soon after while nursing his broken leg, he had finished his tutelage under his mother in 2379, he set out to see the galaxy. He used the contacts through his mother to spend a week here and week there with her students at the odd colony and space station. This went fairly smoothly with no real hitches until he visited the local bar at the station he was visiting. He was staring in space while listening to a Ferengi complaining about another Ferengi, who apparently was taking business away from him as well as always been mistaken for him. While content listening to the barkeep about his plight, he did not quite realize the space he was staring into wasn't so empty. Across from his gaze on the other side of the room just happened to be a Klingon who really had a distaste of being stared at. One thing led to another and Caleb ended up on the next Olympic class to earth with a broken leg.
Until this moment, Caleb never really knew what he wanted to do with his life. He thought about the possibility of taking over the farm, of working on a transport vessel. It wasn't till he seen the federation starship that he realized what his calling was. He wanted to work on a vessel like that and be damned if anything was going to stop him. Even another broken bone if it had to be.
Instead of going home when he reached Earth, Caleb went to San Francisco's Starfleet Academy to participate in the preparatory program. He passed the test despite the fact he almost failed the stress test. Let's just say it involved angry drunken Klingons. He figured the teachers were playing joke on him because when he was giving living arrangements at the academy, they bunked him with a half Klingon by the name of Gartath. Caleb was thankful for the fact that Gartath wasn't out for him and surprisingly enough had befriended him.
Gartath and Caleb were as thick as thieves. Whenever Gartath needed help on his courses, Caleb would help him, and whenever Caleb managed to accidentally make an alien angry, Gartath was there to basically act like a brick wall between Caleb and the assailant. Eventually after the odd battle though, Gartath figured Caleb should be prepared in case he wasn't around to protect Caleb's sorry hide and taught him some bojutsu and various ways of rendering a person harmless without hurting them.
While in the academy, Caleb didn't do well in xenobiology, biochemistry, archaeology and especially interspecies ethics, but he did manage to excel in courses like robotics, warp design, statistical mechanics, quantum theory, temporal mechanics and transporter theory.
In the graduation year of 2384, Caleb and Gartath went their separate ways. Gartath was to be off to a ship just leaving dry dock and Caleb is left to join the engineering crew of his future ship.
Family
Mother: Serena Lukyanenko
Father: Daniel Lukyanenko
Awards
Newcomer Award
Mission: There Goes God
Distinguished Service Cross
17 January - 17 April 2008
