Melody Leigh Haverstaad

Melody Haverstaad is a Senior Chief Petty Officer and Chief of the Tactical Interactive Holographic System aboard the USS Boudicca

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Melody Haverstaad in Dress Uniform

Authors Note

Melody is one of those fun lovin' gals I created along my standard lines… meaning she's a bitch who is not to be messed with :-P

I originally created her as a short-term NPC, just someone to explain the Tactical Interactive Holographic System to the security crew of the newly launched Boudicca. Of course, like most of my short-term NPC's, I fell in love with her attitude and kept playing her.

She is an on-again, off-again love interest to Trevan West, and she's my basic fall-back character on Boudicca when things are quiet and I want to post Lower Decks. She takes a hell of a beating, but hey, she's still cute! She is also one of the few characters I have where there are no forward plans, I have no grand design for her, she just floats where fate happens to take her…

And for a rarity, I can’t think of many authors notes I’ll have to type during her history. Huzzah!

History

Pre-Starfleet Life

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Crewman School

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Melody Haverstaad after Graduation

Melody entered Crewman School with an energy she hadn’t put into anything for years. The School itself is only six months long, with another 2 – 16 months depending on necessary job-skill training. A far cry from the 4+ years she would have had to spend in the Academy to become an officer.

Her time there was spent studying and raising hell, not necessarily in that order, and she was brought up on disciplinary action no less then three times, though for nothing more serious then breaking curfew, usually to jog beyond the campus limits in San Francisco.

She joined just before a scuffle with the Cardassians, which colored her view after the six months of boot camp, for she chose Starship/Starbase Security as her vocation. Security Training was another six months of high-intensity skill-training, most of it physical, and she excelled in it all. She was rated as a Master-Phaser by the end of her year at school, and she was further rated for Starship & Ground Combat with standard Tactical Forces. Her wanderlust set upon her after this year’s worth of training and she bypassed the extra Ambassadorial Guard training her marks qualified her for, though she would later qualify during her stint on the USS Destiny at her Senior-Chief’s urging. Upon finishing her schooling, she was immediately transferred as a Crewman 2nd Class to the USS Marlboro, which had put into Utopia Planitia for a standard 10 year refit and was nearly ready for redeployment.

Serving Onboard USS Marlboro

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Serving Onboard USS Destiny

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Serving Onboard USS Black Jack

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Serving at Earth

2404 Tactical Imaging School

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Serving Onboard USS Boudicca

After her transfer, Melody immediately began overseeing the refit of the USS Boudicca in terms of the Tactical Holographic Systems. She expected to have a full year, but her time was cut short with Admiral Robert LoDona’s pullout of Starfleet. The refit was rushed, though thankfully her systems were nearly completed by the time the Captain Caladryll Sevant was assigned as her new Commanding Officer and the Boudicca was given a launch date.

(psi-ders, broken bones from a ruptured conduit, multiple cuts and a sliced artery)

(broken ribs and ruptured ear-drums from being blown down 2 flights of stairs & being to close to concussion grenades during the time-mission, plus her dress)

(… as you can tell, lots more coming)

Biographical Information & Other

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Melody during darker times

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Melody Haverstaad is played by J Trout