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Name: Binky
Contact: notleonardnimoy at gmail dot com
Character Information
Name: Gaheris Rhade
Journal Name: truth_is_cold
Fandom / Series: Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
From When: Immediately pre-series / post flashbacks. From before his betrayal of the Andromeda, while he was still conspiring.
Function: He was the Chief Tactical Officer and First Officer aboard the Andromeda
Preferred Side: Militant
Abilities / Powers: Rhade is 10% stronger and faster than normal humans, and can think more quickly. He's immune to some poisons such as aconite, ammonia, antipyrine, arsenic, atrophine, camphor, hydrocyanic acid, iodine, lead, picrotoxin, and strychnine, and can breathe chlorine gas for longer than a human could. He's resistant to diptheria, hepatitis, the flu, measles, meningitis, mumps, pertussis, lyme, polio, rabies, rubella, tetanus, and varicella. He's a keen strategist and a competent officer when it suits him. He can survive longer in a slightly harsher environment. He can heal from severe injuries within a few days. He has an exceptional sense of hearing and smell, both noted as being more keen than a Magog's (which puts him up there with canines).
Personality: As with all Nietzscheans, Rhade's beliefs stem primarily out of self-interest. He values survival, not just his own survival but the survival of his genes, over all else. This means that he's able to write off his own self-destructive behaviors as for the greater good, as they're very un-Nietzschean. He's formed his own morality to greater benefit himself, but it also gives him room to assist his associates when it might be valuable to him to do so. In fact, he seems to go out of his way in some cases to find excuses over why an act is for him and not just an act of benevolence. His Pride and wives and children inevitably come first. He faces all obstacles and challenges with the intention of bettering himself so that he might be a suitable husband and father. He views himself as simply a vessel for a woman's ability to reproduce a superior child. While Nietzscheans have polygamy and Prides, a woman chooses her mate and has the option to reject a child if she finds her mate inferior. It's a very matriarchal society and often the matriarch of the Pride has to approve a coupling before it can come to pass. Because of this, he will always regard women with reverence, and unlike some later Nietzscheans isn't so committed to the Nietzschean race that he won't consider mating outside of his subspecies. Superior genes are superior genes.
Rhade personally, while saying that he is a realist as most Nietzscheans are meant to be, was more of a cynic. He often suspected the worst of people and himself, but still saw this as realism rather than pessimism. He is committed and earnest to his duties as an officer as another means to prove himself, even when he betrayed his Captain and best friend. His intentions were good, his means were extremely misguided. He tends more toward the bluntly honest when giving his opinions about things (of course blatantly lying when he had an agenda).
Rhade has a strange habit of presenting Dylan with his plans as a warning, such as telling the Captain to take him to the brig because he couldn't trust him, or during go warning him how many moves it would take before he won. It would seem that it wasn't in his best interest to do this, and he wouldn't warn any other person that he came up against before he attacked them. It's almost a bizarre way of showing respect and affection. That he wants someone to remain a challenge in order to keep their relationship interesting and stimulating, so he provides them with tactical advantages. This is even evident in how earnest he is in maintaining the crew drills. He is very strict and very adamant about them being able to efficiently perform their duties. When they couldn't, he presses them harder until they can make the time he required. He wants them to be competent against the Nietzschean fleet they were going against, and to be efficient game pieces for Dylan to use during the battle even if Gaheris would be his enemy. At the point that I'll be bringing him in from, he has guilt for an act that he hasn't even committed yet.
One of his individual quirks is that he loves Go and games in general. Being competitive like most of his kind, he enjoyed tactical games as much as athletics. He tends to cheat at both, but he does it in hopes that the opponent will too and will be doubly impressed if they catch him. Or if he can manage to cheat within the rules.
In Gray war, I suspect that he'll act as he's always been inclined to. He's been a soldier for a significant portion of his life and a competitor for all of it. He's career military, and will take whatever position he's place in seriously. But his loyalty depends entirely on the morality of his fellow soldiers. He will appear to be loyal, but if there are people that advocate rape and bully innocent bystanders, he will arrange for victories for the other side and lead his men into traps. Even if he has to go into the situation himself.
History: Gaheris Rhade was born on the Enkidu colony to Morgause of the Majorum Pride by Lot. He was raised well and received a formal education, and like most Nietzscheans was considered an adult by the time he hit puberty. He took his first wife soon after and went to the All-Systems University. He became a member of Argosy Special Operations soon afterward, and during the time between joining and his final Ops mission collected his other two wives.
Rhade (code-named Mr. March) first met Dylan Hunt (Mr. April) on a mission from Admiral Stark as a part of Argosy Special Operations to bring the dictator President Ferrin to stand trial for his crimes against personal freedom and to allow democratic elections. Rhade wanted to kill Ferrin, insisting throughout the mission that the efficient way to go about it was assassination. Dylan said that he wanted Ferrin to live and came up with every excuse to avoid killing him. In the end, President Ferrin attempted to shoot them the moment they entered his office, and Rhade killed him defensively. He helped an injured Dylan escape the facility and planet, received commendation and became the first officer aboard the warship Andromeda.
Rhade served under Dylan Hunt and the two began to regularly play go together, and became fast friends. It was during his service that the first Magog attack on Brandenburg Tor occurred, and the Andromeda was used to ferry victims away from the planet. Over 3 billion people died over a matter of days and Rhade bore firsthand witness to the devastation.
During this time caught wind of the first signs of revolt among the Nietzscheans, but Rhade at first refused to help the insurrection as he felt the Nietzscheans stood a better chance with Commonwealth resources. The first speech given by the Than Triumvir Spring Rivers Flowing insinuated that there would be countermeasures by the Commonwealth.
But then the Treaty of Antares was signed. The Nietzscheans felt the treaty was an insufficiently aggressive response to the Magog invasion, as many frontier dwelling Nietzscheans lost their worlds during the invasion and the agreement would allow the Magog to keep these Nietzschean settled worlds (even though the Magog had long since ruined them). Rhade decided to help with the revolt though his role would probably mean his death. He believed he would be helping his people continue on, that his children would be safe and the Nietzscheans would see a glorious victory. He found the Magog reprehensible and a scourge upon the face of they universe and hated that they lived off sentient beings and reproduced through rape (like wasps, using a host sentient to inject their larvae into and they would later erupt and devour the host completely). He began to conspire against his friend for the good of the Nietzschean people and as he thought the good of all the unified worlds. He saw the Commonwealth as weak and coddling, that the Magog should die and the Commonwealth should be destroyed before they would consider collaborating with them. Still, He didn't inform his wives of the treachery, wanting them to remain unaccountable.
If he's canon updated: He sabotaged the Andromeda, and during an emergency with a black hole the Commonwealth ordered an evacuation of a nearby planet in the Hephaistos System. The Nietzscheans set up an ambush, and he directed Dylan to send him to the brig because he couldn't trust him. Once the ship-wide evacuation began and he knew that his family had escaped, he resisted the officers escorting him and he returned to the bridge where he shot Refractions of Dawn, the Than Pilot, and then killed Dylan Hunt.
The Hephaestos System was chosen for the first Nietzschean battle because of the rogue black hole that was nearing it making a good excuse for an emergency beacon. The Andromeda neared it, and her artificial gravity caused a time dilation aboard the ship as it approached the event horizon. The ship became trapped at the edge, and Rhade was delivering Dylan's body to the Captain's quarters to lay in temporary rest when the final time dilation occurred, keeping him in stasis for 300 years.
The crew of the Eureka Maru claimed the Andromeda for salvage. Guilty over Dylan's death, he made an agreement with Andromeda that he would turn himself in if the ship that was rescuing them was from the Commonwealth, even though he knew the penalty for treason was death. When it wasn't, he killed the invaders that he found hostile or useless and used the others as crew to help him rebuild the Commonwealth. He had a hologram made of Dylan Hunt to play go with, but it ended up being his personal advisor.
Through a slipstream accident he became the Nietzschean Angel of Death, a mysterious force at the Battle of Witchhead that killed off much of the Nietzschean fleet sent to intercept the Commonwealth ships that were on their way to obliterate the Nietzschean homeworld. After discovering that he was the greatest single butcher of the Nietzschean people ever known, his attitude toward his own kind hardened considerably as he felt that his people had betrayed his confidence in them. He refused to allow Nietzscheans into his re-envisioned Commonwealth, and the Nietzscheans began to blackmail potential member worlds into not joining, or harass current ones into leaving.
He struck up a relationship with Beka Valentine, but after a particular stand-off with an infertile Nietzschean pilot that reminded her of herself, she decided that she couldn't be a part of the crew anymore and she left both him and the ship. Rhade also caught Tyr Anasazi with the remains of the progenitor on board. Knowing he was scheming to betray the ship and was using it as his own personal protection, he murdered Tyr.
After Harper was infested with Magog during their encounter with the Magog World Ship, he began work on a tesseract machine to remove the larvae without surgery by phasing them into a different portion of space. Beka returned to the ship to see Harper, but told Rhade she couldn't stay with him. When he activated the machine, it caused temporal rifts throughout the ship. Trance Gemini switched places with herself and informed Rhade he needed to use the incident to transport himself back to the past because there was no way they were going to be able to stop the Magog. He tried to insist that he could do it, but she said there was no option. He kissed Beka good-by and returned to the past. There, he killed his alternate self and put on his uniform. He again went to the deck and shot Refractions of Dawn, though this time he told Dylan his reasoning as he fought, purposefully giving Dylan the edge yet again. Hunt beat him in the fight, and he died saying "I'm proud of you."
Sample Journal Entry: When I became an officer, Admiral Constanza Stark spoke before my graduating class. She said, "Gentlebeings, I bid you welcome. Welcome to the blood, to the sweat, to the tears. Welcome to your places on the wall."
Well, that is what we're doing here, is it not? Finding our place on the wall, and finding our will to survive long enough to see our names there.
This seems like it could be entertaining, at the very least. Too bad there aren't more Nietzscheans.
Sample RP: Sinister Delusions about Banana Peels.
A Nietzschean tried not to be surprised. He would have to commend whoever was responsible for this when his head was more clear. And possibly kill them, depending on their reasoning.
He opened up his eyes finding only foreign ceiling, the smell of the room unfamiliar and sterile, the harsh light offensive, and the distant sounds curious. He rolled over first, glancing around the room, eyes wide, and then propped himself up. He patted himself down warily, checking for bruises or injuries.
He'd gone to sleep in the nude the night before, wives on either side of him.
He was in his clothes now. And very much alone.
The sheet tugged nearly off with him as he slipped off the bed, feet quietly hitting the floor despite the boots that he was wearing, and he started to started to look for exits. Had the Commonwealth discovered the plans of the Drago-Kazov? Did they know of his role in the upcoming rebellion? Did Dylan know? Had Dylan even supported this without speaking to him? If Dylan had confronted him, proven himself intelligent enough to survive the sheme, he would have been honest. He would have believed-
No. He couldn't make assumptions and have a slip of the tongue. Not when they were so close.
Name: Binky
Contact: notleonardnimoy at gmail dot com
Character Information
Name: Gaheris Rhade
Journal Name: truth_is_cold
Fandom / Series: Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
From When: Immediately pre-series / post flashbacks. From before his betrayal of the Andromeda, while he was still conspiring.
Function: He was the Chief Tactical Officer and First Officer aboard the Andromeda
Preferred Side: Militant
Abilities / Powers: Rhade is 10% stronger and faster than normal humans, and can think more quickly. He's immune to some poisons such as aconite, ammonia, antipyrine, arsenic, atrophine, camphor, hydrocyanic acid, iodine, lead, picrotoxin, and strychnine, and can breathe chlorine gas for longer than a human could. He's resistant to diptheria, hepatitis, the flu, measles, meningitis, mumps, pertussis, lyme, polio, rabies, rubella, tetanus, and varicella. He's a keen strategist and a competent officer when it suits him. He can survive longer in a slightly harsher environment. He can heal from severe injuries within a few days. He has an exceptional sense of hearing and smell, both noted as being more keen than a Magog's (which puts him up there with canines).
Personality: As with all Nietzscheans, Rhade's beliefs stem primarily out of self-interest. He values survival, not just his own survival but the survival of his genes, over all else. This means that he's able to write off his own self-destructive behaviors as for the greater good, as they're very un-Nietzschean. He's formed his own morality to greater benefit himself, but it also gives him room to assist his associates when it might be valuable to him to do so. In fact, he seems to go out of his way in some cases to find excuses over why an act is for him and not just an act of benevolence. His Pride and wives and children inevitably come first. He faces all obstacles and challenges with the intention of bettering himself so that he might be a suitable husband and father. He views himself as simply a vessel for a woman's ability to reproduce a superior child. While Nietzscheans have polygamy and Prides, a woman chooses her mate and has the option to reject a child if she finds her mate inferior. It's a very matriarchal society and often the matriarch of the Pride has to approve a coupling before it can come to pass. Because of this, he will always regard women with reverence, and unlike some later Nietzscheans isn't so committed to the Nietzschean race that he won't consider mating outside of his subspecies. Superior genes are superior genes.
Rhade personally, while saying that he is a realist as most Nietzscheans are meant to be, was more of a cynic. He often suspected the worst of people and himself, but still saw this as realism rather than pessimism. He is committed and earnest to his duties as an officer as another means to prove himself, even when he betrayed his Captain and best friend. His intentions were good, his means were extremely misguided. He tends more toward the bluntly honest when giving his opinions about things (of course blatantly lying when he had an agenda).
Rhade has a strange habit of presenting Dylan with his plans as a warning, such as telling the Captain to take him to the brig because he couldn't trust him, or during go warning him how many moves it would take before he won. It would seem that it wasn't in his best interest to do this, and he wouldn't warn any other person that he came up against before he attacked them. It's almost a bizarre way of showing respect and affection. That he wants someone to remain a challenge in order to keep their relationship interesting and stimulating, so he provides them with tactical advantages. This is even evident in how earnest he is in maintaining the crew drills. He is very strict and very adamant about them being able to efficiently perform their duties. When they couldn't, he presses them harder until they can make the time he required. He wants them to be competent against the Nietzschean fleet they were going against, and to be efficient game pieces for Dylan to use during the battle even if Gaheris would be his enemy. At the point that I'll be bringing him in from, he has guilt for an act that he hasn't even committed yet.
One of his individual quirks is that he loves Go and games in general. Being competitive like most of his kind, he enjoyed tactical games as much as athletics. He tends to cheat at both, but he does it in hopes that the opponent will too and will be doubly impressed if they catch him. Or if he can manage to cheat within the rules.
In Gray war, I suspect that he'll act as he's always been inclined to. He's been a soldier for a significant portion of his life and a competitor for all of it. He's career military, and will take whatever position he's place in seriously. But his loyalty depends entirely on the morality of his fellow soldiers. He will appear to be loyal, but if there are people that advocate rape and bully innocent bystanders, he will arrange for victories for the other side and lead his men into traps. Even if he has to go into the situation himself.
History: Gaheris Rhade was born on the Enkidu colony to Morgause of the Majorum Pride by Lot. He was raised well and received a formal education, and like most Nietzscheans was considered an adult by the time he hit puberty. He took his first wife soon after and went to the All-Systems University. He became a member of Argosy Special Operations soon afterward, and during the time between joining and his final Ops mission collected his other two wives.
Rhade (code-named Mr. March) first met Dylan Hunt (Mr. April) on a mission from Admiral Stark as a part of Argosy Special Operations to bring the dictator President Ferrin to stand trial for his crimes against personal freedom and to allow democratic elections. Rhade wanted to kill Ferrin, insisting throughout the mission that the efficient way to go about it was assassination. Dylan said that he wanted Ferrin to live and came up with every excuse to avoid killing him. In the end, President Ferrin attempted to shoot them the moment they entered his office, and Rhade killed him defensively. He helped an injured Dylan escape the facility and planet, received commendation and became the first officer aboard the warship Andromeda.
Rhade served under Dylan Hunt and the two began to regularly play go together, and became fast friends. It was during his service that the first Magog attack on Brandenburg Tor occurred, and the Andromeda was used to ferry victims away from the planet. Over 3 billion people died over a matter of days and Rhade bore firsthand witness to the devastation.
During this time caught wind of the first signs of revolt among the Nietzscheans, but Rhade at first refused to help the insurrection as he felt the Nietzscheans stood a better chance with Commonwealth resources. The first speech given by the Than Triumvir Spring Rivers Flowing insinuated that there would be countermeasures by the Commonwealth.
But then the Treaty of Antares was signed. The Nietzscheans felt the treaty was an insufficiently aggressive response to the Magog invasion, as many frontier dwelling Nietzscheans lost their worlds during the invasion and the agreement would allow the Magog to keep these Nietzschean settled worlds (even though the Magog had long since ruined them). Rhade decided to help with the revolt though his role would probably mean his death. He believed he would be helping his people continue on, that his children would be safe and the Nietzscheans would see a glorious victory. He found the Magog reprehensible and a scourge upon the face of they universe and hated that they lived off sentient beings and reproduced through rape (like wasps, using a host sentient to inject their larvae into and they would later erupt and devour the host completely). He began to conspire against his friend for the good of the Nietzschean people and as he thought the good of all the unified worlds. He saw the Commonwealth as weak and coddling, that the Magog should die and the Commonwealth should be destroyed before they would consider collaborating with them. Still, He didn't inform his wives of the treachery, wanting them to remain unaccountable.
If he's canon updated: He sabotaged the Andromeda, and during an emergency with a black hole the Commonwealth ordered an evacuation of a nearby planet in the Hephaistos System. The Nietzscheans set up an ambush, and he directed Dylan to send him to the brig because he couldn't trust him. Once the ship-wide evacuation began and he knew that his family had escaped, he resisted the officers escorting him and he returned to the bridge where he shot Refractions of Dawn, the Than Pilot, and then killed Dylan Hunt.
The Hephaestos System was chosen for the first Nietzschean battle because of the rogue black hole that was nearing it making a good excuse for an emergency beacon. The Andromeda neared it, and her artificial gravity caused a time dilation aboard the ship as it approached the event horizon. The ship became trapped at the edge, and Rhade was delivering Dylan's body to the Captain's quarters to lay in temporary rest when the final time dilation occurred, keeping him in stasis for 300 years.
The crew of the Eureka Maru claimed the Andromeda for salvage. Guilty over Dylan's death, he made an agreement with Andromeda that he would turn himself in if the ship that was rescuing them was from the Commonwealth, even though he knew the penalty for treason was death. When it wasn't, he killed the invaders that he found hostile or useless and used the others as crew to help him rebuild the Commonwealth. He had a hologram made of Dylan Hunt to play go with, but it ended up being his personal advisor.
Through a slipstream accident he became the Nietzschean Angel of Death, a mysterious force at the Battle of Witchhead that killed off much of the Nietzschean fleet sent to intercept the Commonwealth ships that were on their way to obliterate the Nietzschean homeworld. After discovering that he was the greatest single butcher of the Nietzschean people ever known, his attitude toward his own kind hardened considerably as he felt that his people had betrayed his confidence in them. He refused to allow Nietzscheans into his re-envisioned Commonwealth, and the Nietzscheans began to blackmail potential member worlds into not joining, or harass current ones into leaving.
He struck up a relationship with Beka Valentine, but after a particular stand-off with an infertile Nietzschean pilot that reminded her of herself, she decided that she couldn't be a part of the crew anymore and she left both him and the ship. Rhade also caught Tyr Anasazi with the remains of the progenitor on board. Knowing he was scheming to betray the ship and was using it as his own personal protection, he murdered Tyr.
After Harper was infested with Magog during their encounter with the Magog World Ship, he began work on a tesseract machine to remove the larvae without surgery by phasing them into a different portion of space. Beka returned to the ship to see Harper, but told Rhade she couldn't stay with him. When he activated the machine, it caused temporal rifts throughout the ship. Trance Gemini switched places with herself and informed Rhade he needed to use the incident to transport himself back to the past because there was no way they were going to be able to stop the Magog. He tried to insist that he could do it, but she said there was no option. He kissed Beka good-by and returned to the past. There, he killed his alternate self and put on his uniform. He again went to the deck and shot Refractions of Dawn, though this time he told Dylan his reasoning as he fought, purposefully giving Dylan the edge yet again. Hunt beat him in the fight, and he died saying "I'm proud of you."
Sample Journal Entry: When I became an officer, Admiral Constanza Stark spoke before my graduating class. She said, "Gentlebeings, I bid you welcome. Welcome to the blood, to the sweat, to the tears. Welcome to your places on the wall."
Well, that is what we're doing here, is it not? Finding our place on the wall, and finding our will to survive long enough to see our names there.
This seems like it could be entertaining, at the very least. Too bad there aren't more Nietzscheans.
Sample RP: Sinister Delusions about Banana Peels.
A Nietzschean tried not to be surprised. He would have to commend whoever was responsible for this when his head was more clear. And possibly kill them, depending on their reasoning.
He opened up his eyes finding only foreign ceiling, the smell of the room unfamiliar and sterile, the harsh light offensive, and the distant sounds curious. He rolled over first, glancing around the room, eyes wide, and then propped himself up. He patted himself down warily, checking for bruises or injuries.
He'd gone to sleep in the nude the night before, wives on either side of him.
He was in his clothes now. And very much alone.
The sheet tugged nearly off with him as he slipped off the bed, feet quietly hitting the floor despite the boots that he was wearing, and he started to started to look for exits. Had the Commonwealth discovered the plans of the Drago-Kazov? Did they know of his role in the upcoming rebellion? Did Dylan know? Had Dylan even supported this without speaking to him? If Dylan had confronted him, proven himself intelligent enough to survive the sheme, he would have been honest. He would have believed-
No. He couldn't make assumptions and have a slip of the tongue. Not when they were so close.