Post by Aleksandr Kamarov on Mar 16, 2012 4:26:11 GMT -8
"In Communist Russia, engine fixes you."
PUBLIC INFORMATION
NAME:[/u] Aleksandr Kamarov
NICKNAME:[/u] Alek, Ruski, Comrade, The Russian Ninja
AGE:[/u] 38
SPECIES:[/u] Human
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PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
HAIR:[/u] Dark and often messy, many assume he using some sort of styling produce to achieve this look which is true... if you classify the various engine fluids that he gets covered with on a daily basis 'styling product'.
EYES:[/u] Brown-hazel. They aren't a rich mahogany within which one could lose themselves for days on end, instead they are quite normal. Almost 'too' normal you could say.
SKIN:[/u] Somewhat darkened due to his Russian heritage, and often not well maintained. Being up to your elbows in hyperdrives all day will do that to you.
BODY:[/u] While he is still a member of the Russian armed forced and maintains a certain level of fitness, his role as a engineer relies more on the application of his mind over his body, and as such he is rarely described as being overtly muscular.
ATTIRE:[/u] Alek is typically dressed in his enlisted crewman coveralls, bright orange and yellow in colour and designed to keep him safe while crawling around the innards of the Oedipus. In downtime he prefers to wear the expedition's uniform, and is rarely seen in civilian clothing.
FACE CLAIM:[/u] Justin Theroux
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MEDICAL
MEDICAL HISTORY: Thanks to working as a mechanic and engineer for almost three decades, poor Kamarov has experienced almost every injury related to his line of work. He's been electrocuted a number of times - thankfully never seriously - been the recipient of heat and chemical burns, and bashed every part of his body against a hard surface at some point. The back of his head appears to be a favourite, and sports a number of lumps and scars from coming into unexpected contact with overhead bulkheads. For the most part he is in a state of good health, and the injuries he had sustained so far in his career have thankfully only been superficial.[/u]
STRENGTHS:
- Highly skilled mechanic & engineer
- Quick to learn alien technologies
- Natural leader
- Loyal beyond belief
- Sense of humour - sometimes lost in translation..
- Poor English
- Lacks combat skills & experience
- Quick to lose his temper
- Known to bite off more than he can chew
- Often bumps heads with his capitalist co-workers
- Slight fear of heights
- Communism – all working together for a common cause!
- Working with his hands – Kamarov can’t stand sitting back and watching
- Innovation & problem solving – he refuses to let dilemmas get the better of him
- Civilians and NCOs – he can better relate to them
- MOTHER RUSSIAN – anything and everything associated with his homeland
- His ‘team’ – Alek prefers to work with those he’d had dealings with in the past
- Alien technology –he finds nothing more satisfying that figuring out how to work foreign equipment
- Humour – having said that, his Russian brand of comedy is sometimes lost in translation
- The Russian tongue – particularly conversing and cursing with it
- Those furry KGB hats – you know, the ones with the red stars on them. Seriously. Awesome.
- Insects - thanks to the Nidhogg!
- Capitalism –and corporate greed in general. Share the wealth!
- Junior officers – typically arrogant and disrespectful, in his eyes anyway
- Duties of middle management – Kamarov would rather be working than filling papers
- Waste – unless a piece of tech crumbles in his hands, it can still be salvaged
- Aggression – seriously, an M16 can’t solve all the world’s problems
- Americans – at least initially. Some have gotten under his armour
- Politics – foreign affairs have held back the Stargate program for far too long
- ’Talkers’ – Alek is a man of few words, and appreciates this in others
- Unsafe heights – don’t ask. Seriously. He’ll zat you twice.
PSYCHE EVALUATION:[/u] Kamarov considers himself to be a fish out of water. When he first joined TF Ida he was the only Russian among a crew of Westerns, with which whom his broken English made communication difficult. As such he is often seen as quiet and withdrawn, a man of few words often grumbling under his breath in his native tongue. He takes some time to warm to new people - especially capitalists - though once someone makes it past his tough exterior, Alek quickly proves himself to be a loyal friend.
Stress is not something the engineer handles well. His approach to technology to to first try and fix it, then try again, try a third time, then find the largest and heaviest wrench he can and beat said technology into submission. His frustration often boils over into an abusive bilingual rant, directed at the cause of his anger, interspersing his efforts to fix whatever is broken. This approach more often than not leads to the problem only being made worst, but old habits do die hard.
Considering himself to be a 'do-er', Alek is happiest when up to his elbows in alien technology, never able to sit back and shuffle paperwork while other get all the fun. While a man of action he prefers to use technology over weapons, owing in part to his lack of combat training and experience. Over-aggression by his superiors and co-workers is something he doesn't handle particularly well.
As an engineer, Kamarov is adept as problem solving and applying logic to any obstacles that confront him. Maybe a like OCD in nature, he likes to see things in order and sequence, allowing him to grasp what is wrong and what needs to be done to correct a dilemma. This need to understand both the big and little picture often causes him to bit off more than he can chew, which in turns leads back to him taking out his frustration on inanimate objects.
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RESUME
OCCUPATION:[/u] Senior engineer
RANK:[/u] Senior Praporshchik (Senior Warrant Officer, pay grade: E-9)
ORGANIZATION:[/u] Russian Federation Air Force (VVS)
SKILL SET:[/u] It is Alek's aptidude for engineering and mechanics that has landed him a position within Task Force Ida. His brain works in a very systematic way, allowing him to take a complex problem and break it down into it's smaller components, seeing the ways in which they interact with one another in order to see what is wrong and how it needs to be fixed. He is well versed in the working on Earth-built Stargate and space flight technology, with his analysitcal mind proving itself capable of tackling the issues possed by alien devices.
EQUIPMENT:[/u] Kamarov is rarely seen without his engineering equipment. A varierty of tools and test devices are often observed sticking out of his overfiled pockets, most of which have seen better days. A battered and dusty laptop is usually in his posession, and while he perfers mechanical to computerised problems, he is able to use to device to conduct diagnostic scans on damaged machinery and interact with alien systems. While he is not a frontline trained soldier Alek is known to carry an the AK-102 when needed, a Russian built carbine rifle chambered with the 5.56 NATO round used by TF Ida.
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PERSONAL BACKGROUND
FAMILY:[/u]
Father: Yakov Kamorov, retiree
Mother: Larisa Kamarov, deceased
Older brother: Yuri Kamarov, smelter
Older brother: Victor Kamarov, unemployed
Younger sister: Natalia Kamarov, whereabouts unknown
PERSONAL HISTORY:[/u] Born on August 10, 1974 in the resort town of Gelendzhik, near the Black Sea. Despite his large family and low socio-economical background, Aleksandr did enjoy his childhood, and attended a local high school where he excelled at maths, physics and practical subjects such as metal work and construction. Father Yakov is a smelter, mother Larisa is a waitress at a local resort. Two younger brothers (Yuri and Victor) and a younger half-sister Natalia, who he is yet to meet.
Knowing there was little future ahead of him at home, Aleksandr enlisted in the Russian Federation Air Force (VVS) in 1987. Upon graduation of basic training he was assigned to the 6th Air Army, and carried out technical training in aircraft engineering and maintenance. His first posting was at Kilp-Yavr with the 9th Fighter Aviation Regiment, working on the Su-27 air superiority fighter. During this time he was promoted to Gefreiter (E-3), and reassigned to the 159th Fighter Aviation Regiment at Besovets Airport, continuing his work on the Su-27.
In 1990, Aleksandr was promoted to Junior Sergeant, and moved to the 120th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment at Domna, part of the 14th Air Army. Here he was introduced to the MiG-29 multi-role fighter, and served as a maintenance detachment crew chief. By 1992 he had again been promoted to Sergeant, and 12 months later he was working on MiG-31's at Sokolovka with the 530th Interceptor Aviation Regiment. He served six years with the 530th, before return to work with the Su-25 at Galenki with the 11th Air Army's 18th Assault Air Regiment.
Come 2000, Aleksandr was promoted to the rank of Senior Sergeant, and upon finishing his tenure with the 18th Air Regiment he was introduced to the Russian involvement with the Stargate program. His lack of combat experience stopped him from serving on the short-lived Russian SG team, though he was a key part of Russian technical involvement in Stargate program. In 2004 he was commissioned as a Russian Warrant Officer - Praporshchik - in recognition of his highly developed technical skills and experience. He served aboard the Earth battle cruiser Korolev, given to the Russians by the US, and was one of the lucky few to escape with his life following the ships destruction at the hands of the Ori. He later missed out on initial Russia deployment of the Icarus that was captured by Ba'al en route to Delian expedition base due to delays with training aboard the Aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov.
In December 2006, Alek found himself aboard the USS Icarus as the deputy chief engineer, and the only Russian crewmember to serve with Task Force Ida during its second tour of duty. He was with TF Ida during the resurgent Nidhogg invasion of the Ida Galaxy, with his technical knowledge coming in very handy when it came to dealing with the bugs. Along with other expedition members - particularly Abi Ely - he was able to create an interface to allow human and Nidhogg data systems to be interfaced.
It was during this time he received the nickname of 'The Russian Ninja' from none other than Abi, whom he grew somewhat close with. In June 2007 he was a part of the crew that was captured by the Nighodd and held for five months before being freed by SD-5. With the Asgard now gone and the Nidhogg close to conquering the whole galaxy, Alek and the rest of TF Ida were pulled out and reassigned to the Delian Expedition.
Appointed as a senior engineer, Alek served at the Delta Site for approximately six months before requesting a transfer back to Earth. With his experience he was reintegrated back into the Russian Stargate program, where he moved between Russian, the SGC and other IOA countries. When the US agreed to construct a 304-series cruiser and hand her over to Mother Russia, Alek was sent to Area 51 to help oversee construction. The end result was the RFS Chekov, named after the former commander of the Russian Stargate program.
Following the launch of the Chekov in early 2010, Kamarov served on the vessel, bringing his experience from the Ida expedition. A year later he was approached and offered the position of chief engineer aboard the latest Oedipus-class supercarrier, a large ship set to be part of TF Ida's third tour of duty, which he quickly accepted.
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CREATOR
NAME:[/u] The Jay
EXPERIENCE:[/u] 6 years
CHARACTERS:[/u] Brodie Mayes
REFERRAL:[/u] This seems redundent.
SAMPLE RP:[/u]
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