Tom Catze

Faction: Strife Alliance

Name: Tom Catze
Occupation: Strife Military - Staship Captain

Species: Mewi
Nationality: Neplusultra
Gender: Male
Age: 19


Description:
Tom is a relatively normal mewi, appearing as a blue cat with blue hair. He has green eyes and ever since his encounter with Dominus, Tom has a sliver of his left ear missing. Normally, Tom is found wearing a white space suit with dark aqua boots, belt, and backpack. But these days, he is wearing a Basic Training Strife Alliance Uniform.

Size: 3' 6"
Weight: 37 Lbs.
Fur Color: Blue
Hair Color: Blue
Eye Color: Green


Background:
Born in a rural area to a normal, loving pair of parents, Tom had a nice childhood. He always expressed an interest in outer space and exploration, so his dad worked with him on refurbishing an old explorer ship. But when his father died in a vehicle accident, Tom had to grow up fast. He needed to get a job to support his mom and sister. Thankfully, the very thing he and his father worked on together, his ship, was known to be a good money-maker and was nearly complete. So Tom finished fixing the ship, got his license, and went off to make a living as an explorer.

His explorer days were filled with many adventures on a wide variety of worlds. He made a number of good friends, so-so friends, and acquaintances. But one fateful day, a series of circumstances landed Tom in the same location Emperor Dominus happened to be. Dominus, being the jerk he was, fired on Tom, clipping Tom's ear. Tom's gun was bumped, moving it from the usual stun setting to the lethal setting and Tom got a really good shot in. As it happens, Dominus's personal force field was also on the fritz due to an earlier encounter he had, so the shot killed him.

Although Tom wasn't happy about killing someone, he was quickly caught up in the whirlwind of politics as the Strife Alliance made him their poster boy. Even as they begin to throw him through the media gauntlet, the Strife Alliance is putting him through a crash course of Basic and Officer Training. He is expected to be ready and captaining the Niven by April.


Personality:
Tom is a nice guy. Friendly, personable, approachable, and polite while having a dash of laid back. He has social agility enough to socialize just fine with most any kind of clique. Tom generally has rose-colored glasses, but he isn't naive. He knows evil is out there. But he believes even the vilest individual has potential for good.


Abilities:
1) Luck - For whatever cosmic reason, Tom seems to have incredible luck. He has faced numerous deadly encounters and come out alive and healthy. By all accounts, he should be dead. While Tom was smart about a lot of those encounters, sometimes there is nothing you can do. In Tom's case, that is when his luck kicks in and things just happen in a timely fashion. Tom is unaware of this being a power and just knows he has "good luck" like anyone else might say about surviving several encounters.

2) Mechanic - Tom has experience rebuilding a whole ship. Specifically personal-sized craft. Since then, from his exploring days, he has had to repair not only his own craft, but those of his friends as well. Although being a mechanic is not his job, he is intimately familiar with how to repair small to medium sized space craft and to some degree cruiser-sized craft.

3) Jack of All Trades - Tom has a little experience in a lot of different things thanks to his background. While he won't blow someone's mind with his cooking, he can cook and do a decent job at it (you don't want your food to taste bad when stranded on an alien world). He has decent aim with his phaser and knows enough about it to repair it. He knows words in many alien languages (specifically the words "Hello" "I love you" and "Friend") and knows conversational Blissian. He can repair an android well enough to get them to a real repairman. The list goes on...


Weaknesses:
1) Recklessly Loyal - Part of why Tom needs his luck is because when innocents are in danger, he acts before really thinking. Where his friends are concerned, he can seemingly be completely oblivious to any levels of danger to himself.


Weapons:
1) Trusty - This is Tom's main firearm that he has had since he first became an explorer. Trusty has a nine-button keypad that allows him to lock or unlock the gun, switch between different modes (power output levels, lethal, stun, so on). The gun also has a screen that displays information concerning his gun, such as battery level, current power output, and any potential malfunctions. Given this is the weapon that put down Emperor Dominus, the Strife Alliance had little problem letting Tom keep this as his side-arm.


Equipment:
1) Explorer Ship - Tom's ship is his most prized possession and he took very good care of it. It runs like a champ and holds any and all tools he needs for repairing the ship or helping others. This craft is small enough that it is meant to only have one person in it (the pilot).


IQ: 105
Title: Captain
Born: Memphose G, 6080 (Equivalent of February 26)
Familiar: Tom is most at home in the stars, but is familiar with just about every environment you can think of.
Picture:
Quote: "There is beauty in every person, place and thing. You just have to seek it."
Name means: "Innocence" or "Purity"

Strength: Average
Intelligence: Average
Endurance: Tough. From his explorer days, Tom is a lot more rugged than his appearances let on. He can run very long, stay up several days at a time, and can take a beating like a heavy.
Agility: Above average. This is partly his natural cat-like reflexes, but also some of that explorer experience.
Awareness: High. Again, explorer days. It is fairly hard to sneak up on Tom.
Charisma: Good. Tom has a way with people, is outgoing and friendly.
Willpower: Above average. He has seen some crazy stuff and now has a bit of confidence in his ability to survive dangers.