Leonal Drizzt

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"Spider" Drizzt

'Spider' Drizzt (Pronounced Drist) is the Marine Executive Officer & Chief Combat Engineer aboard the USS Boudicca

Authors Note

What, you expect an Authors Note? I don’t really have much to say about Drizzt, so you luck out here. ;-)

History

Pre-Starfleet Life

Spider was born of two civilian contractors on Andoria, both of whom worked in a factory that produced weapons components for Starfleet weapons, items such as power-cells and coils for handheld weapons. A young Leonal would often see Starfleet security patrols as escort for the finished weapons, and as he grew up, he was often allowed (quietly) to try out some of the weapons as they came off production as they were put onto the testing range. It gave him his first taste of the Tactical side of the fleet.

Leonal was always hot blooded and physical, even by the standards of a warrior race such as the Andorians. He spent most of his teenage years in competition, hand-to-hand and kojoki-stick (something like a dull sword) mostly, where he, more often then not, came out as the winner.

He had a tendency toward regional history and technical classes while he was in school, though he excelled at anything he put his mind to. And with his graduation from secondary school at age 17, he put in his application to Starfleet Academy.

Starfleet Academy

Leonal’s time at the Academy was mostly without note; he arrived and immediately took to continuing in competition. His chose a Tactical major in his first year, though he also took a heavy course load in engineering classes, coming within a few credits of qualifying as a level 1 engineer. His time on Andoria, watching his parents work and further his classes, had taught him all the basics and more and thus he found that engineering came to him naturally.

But Engineering wouldn’t cool his fiery blood, and by his third year at the Academy he had signed up for all the Marine prep-courses with every intention of joining the Marine Corps.

He passed the Academy with flying colors, and after a one month personal leave to visit his parents on Andoria, he went back to earth and joined the Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island.

Marine Boot Camp: Parris Island, Earth

Parris Island is a masochists dream, a one year primary program where fresh boots or crewman out of either the Academy or Crewman School are thrown together without any previous rank and whom find their heads stuffed full of deadly ways of making war. Cadets find themselves run into the ground, brought up at all hours for watch, and taught the intricacies of basic combat tactics and all the advanced weaponry which separate the Marine Corps from ground-based Starfleet Tactical forces.

Leonal took to it like a babe to milk. He was already a very athletic man, and his competitive edge had been honed by years worth of training in hand-to-hand and stick combat. With the physical aspect behind him, something most boots were having the most problems with, he had the mind-space to watch the Marines around him and pay special attention to the classes and demonstrations of each basic class. Like any boot, he had the right to test for any Marine position he chose, and with only two months left of Boot Camp, he took the necessary physical, mental and psychological testing and passed all for Combat Engineering… what was perhaps the single most difficult and dangerous job the Marines had to offer.

Combat Engineering was, for lack of better definition, the special forces of the Marines. They cleared landing zones, engaged in Counter Terror and a slew of other jobs that varied from noble to malicious. The entire concept intrigued Leonal, and he got his entire boot-squad drunk the night he found out he had been accepted to the CE Training program on condition he passed Boot Camp… much to their displeasure the next morning.

The last couple months of Boot Camp flew by, and he found himself a newly christened Marine, ready to stand the Line for Starfleet and the Federation.

Starfleet War College & Marine Advanced Training: Parris Island, Earth & Ravhivik, Tellar

Unlike most Marines, Leonal went into the multi-tear Combat Engineering program immediately after he graduated from Boot. Standard procedure would have the Marine in question take a tour on a ship and achieve many of the necessary pre-requisites by correspondence. Leonal, however, was fully qualified from the get-go, he’d taken all the necessary engineering and tactical classes during the Academy, the few credits he needed were easily taken on the side during the course at Parris Island and the Starfleet War College.

With the exception of the accelerated engineering classes; he split his time evenly between the War College at San Francisco, where he learned advanced combat tactics, games & theory and other applied courses that would apply to his position: And Parris Island, where he learned Counter-Terrorism, Explosives, Explosive Ordinance Disposal and applied combat tactics in a hot-zone. In one years time he learned all the necessary skills that would turn him from a standard Mod-Zero Marine into a highly motivated Combat Engineer.

As electives, he took courses in sniping and guerilla warfare at Parris Island. At the War College he took extra classes in guerilla warfare, intelligence and counter-intelligence.

Also included in the basic training of a Combat Engineer was a tour-of-duty on the planet Tellar, in the city of Ravhivik. There was a standing Marine base in that city, but it was also a fleet training facility. It was there he and his other presumptive Combat-Engineers memorized the deck plans, and carried out mock attacks, against all known designs of Starship. CE’s are, in theory, tasked to know how to find their way through and destroy any type of Starship known to Starfleet. This training took six months, and allowed him exactly two short leaves-of-absence for one week each. He used that time to leave the planet Tellar, since Tellarites were his racial enemies from time-out-of-mind, and visit his parents on his native Andoria.

He graduated all the advanced courses with honors and was immediately assigned to the fringe, to a Roger-Young class ship named Drestier which had some openings in its Combat Engineering section. He left Earth two days after graduation to rendezvous with his new ship.

Serving Onboard USS Drestier

Leonal joined the Combat Engineering squad ‘Backbreakers’ and, after one minor mission which had nothing to do with using his given skills, was accepted whole-heartedly into the Unit. Because he hadn’t been a bloodied Marine from the time he joined, he had been watched closely to make sure all the psychological tests he had taken hadn’t been mistaken, and the Squad CO and CCE of the Drestier had made very sure to run him (and the squad) through multiple exorsizes to make sure his technical skills weren’t lacking.

It was during these first few months that he was given the moniker ‘Spider’, for his small size and dexterity. He was quickly identified as the ‘crawl man’, the Marine who crawled around the smallest of the corridors to place charges and etc.

(Coming: Xenolithe Invasion & second mission the USS Pinochet, serving with Straton)

Serving Onboard USS Plutonian

(Coming: longest single duty station, moving from the backbreakers into the Fallen Angels, eventual Command of the Fallen Angels)

Serving at Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards, Sol

(Coming: CCE of the Utopia Planitia standing Marine regiment, part-time instructor at the Advanced War College/Advanced Marine Training Center)

Serving Onboard USS Spectre

(Coming: Temporary Transfer to the Spectre as MCO & the Xenolithe attack after her arrival at Utopia Planitia, temporary stayover at Starbase Geneva after the war starts until reassigned.)

Serving Onboard USS Boudicca

(Coming: All the Good Stuff)

Biographical Information & Other

Notes on ‘Spider’

‘Spider’ was a name first given to him on the Drestier, mostly because of his small size and very dexterous frame. He can crawl in and out of tight holes ‘like a spider’, hence the name.

Biography

Name: Leonal 'Spider' Drizzt

Race: Andorian

Sex: Male

Age: 36

Eye Colour: Red

Hair Colour: White

Height: 6 foot 4

Weight: 155 Lbs

Blood Colour: Blue

Skin Colour: Light Blue

Physical Description:

Spider is Andorian, meaning he has blue skin, white hair and antenna. Beyond that, he is thin and built with corded muscle from his years within the Marine corps. Various scars criss-cross his body, detailing a legacy of violence within his chosen profession.

Education:

Standard Education until joining Starfleet Academy

Starfleet Academy - Tactical Track with Engineering courses

Post Academy: Starfleet War College, Marine Training at Paris Island, Advanced Engineering & Combat Engineering courses at Starfleet Academy and on Paris Island (Including the standard Counter Terror courses)

Medical History:

Various scars and broken bones from a long history of combat action.

Skills:

Combat Engineering, Fully skilled Engineer, Explosives Ordinance Disposal, Explosives handling, Counter-Terrorism, Brilliance in Strategy and Tactics for single squad and mid-sized forces. Starfleet Hand-to-Hand Combat. Master Phaser. Average Piloting skills, with the most hours logged aboard standard Marine dropship craft (though he is not rated for anything larger then a Stallion Class Marine runabout.)

Hobbies: Spider collects ancient martial weapons, primarily those of his home-world, although he does have a smattering from other cultures.

Otherwise, like most Marines, he is a bar-rat and can often be found in ten-forward.

Awards:

Awarded Cross of Fire, Awarded Combat Action Ribbon, Awarded Squadron Commanders Commendation

Leonal 'Spider' Drizzt is played by J Trout