Lieutenant Rachael "Ripcord" Yamaguchi

Name Rachael "Ripcord" Yamaguchi

Position Former SB400 Crew member

Rank Lieutenant

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18 Mission Posts

Last Post

Sun Dec 20th, 2020 @ 9:52am

Basic Info
Personality
History

Character Information

Gender		Female
Species		Halanan/Human
Age		28 (Aged 8 years due to temporal event)

Physical Appearance

Height		5'7
Weight		115lbs
Hair Color		Black with caramel highlights, Just over shoulder length
Eye Color		Blue
Physical Description		Rachael has a slender but muscular build, she's rather dark skin from a great deal of sunlight she received while being isolated on Yeneer G's surface for eight years, she doesn't have an ounce of fat on her as she's never been able to put the weight on. This has garnered her a great deal of attention from others, some wanted but a great deal of it is unwanted.

Family

Spouse		None
Children		Saki Yamaguchi - Female (13 years old)
Father		Vice Admiral Jacob Yamaguchi - Commanding Officer, 16th Fleet
Mother		Captain Torilla Yamaguchi - Commanding Officer, USS Waterloo
Brother(s)		Lt Commander Gabriel Yamaguchi - Location Unknown Paul 'Nix' Yamaguchi - child Commander Kameron Yamaguchi - Brother in law - Married to: Elizabeth
Sister(s)		Commander Elizabeth Yamaguchi-Solusar - Commanding Officer, USS Thinin Diamond Yamaguchi - child Tressa Yamaguchi - child Lt Commander Savannah Yamaguchi - Sister in Law - DECEASED
Other Family		Many Others scattered around

Personality & Traits

General Overview		Rachael is pleasant to deal with and talk to, she has some telepathic abilities and some telekinetic capabilities, she can pick up large objects and hurl them considerable distances with a minimum of effort. However this doesn't mean she wants to, she's rather use her physical muscles rather then her mind. Her losses, however, have begun to gnaw at her as is her brewing hatred for the Typhon Pact.
Strengths & Weaknesses		Strengths: She has a profound sense of right and wrong, she also has an excellent regard for patience, also she has no trouble being told what to do. Vanity does not go far with Rachael. She also has no problems helping others or using her abilities and skills to protect the weak or the innocent from those who would harm them, she is capable of extended periods of work without rest. Weaknesses: She has a temper like everyone else in her family, however, she's working on it.
Ambitions		To be a good mother to her daughter. Also to develop her new skills in hunting, tracking as well as archery which she finds relaxing.
Hobbies & Interests		Many and considerable, flying, history in various forms, archaeology in various forms, combat training, and archery. This is a woman who will try anything once. Honing her new skills on the holodeck with her child by her side has become her new hobby of choice.
Languages		English, Halanan and a smattering of words in Bajoran.

Personal History		Rachael Yamaguchi was born on the USS Courageous to Lieutenant Torilla Yamaguchi and her father Captain Jake Yamaguchi, on the 15th of September in 2376. Rachael was the youngest of the then three children as she was regarded as the Captain's Daughter. Now because of the time dilation effects, she's the middle of all of Torilla and Jake's children but she is much older than earlier. Gabriel and Elizabeth welcomed this new addition to their family as they were both involved with their mother's pregnancy so neither felt they were being replaced but then Torilla and Jake were always close with their children. Torilla sensed right away that Rachael would be something different and she knew she needed to not make the same mistakes with her that she had made with her eldest two children. Elizabeth had introduced Rachael to her various hobbies and so did Gabriel and as Rachael grew older, she displayed maturity beyond her years because of an incident in which she faced her death at the hands or rather the gravity well of a Neutron Star. Torilla and her children could 'hear' the gravity well singing to them because it warped local space-time with the power of the gravity it generated, it was something Elizabeth considered painful but Gabriel considered interesting, Torilla liked it but Rachael hated it. It wasn't until much later that she came to understand what exactly she had faced. Jake and Torilla had taught their children to face their fears and never run from them, 'fear is meant to be respected for it teaches us patience and respect, but it is also to be conquered lest it conquers us. Sometimes fear is the greatest enemy we will ever face.' he taught all of his children this. Jake and Torilla were both were gentle with their children, never once did they ever have to raise their hand to them as they considered that to be beneath them and theirs so he set goals for them to meet and exceed, everyone else set the bar high as these three were the Captain's children. As a result, they were driven to excel and they did. Rachael meanwhile received a training program from the CAG - Commander Air Group for her ninth birthday after she got to see the inside of a Peregrine class starfighter. Since then she's been training in the program, using it on almost a daily basis for at least two hours at a time but sometimes that could go as high as five hours in one sitting so she's racked up over a thousand hours in Peregrines and another several hundred in Valkyries. Her time of bloom came to an end almost a year after she underwent the process of starting it and now her powers will diminish over time to about the same level as her older sisters. In about October of 2390, Rachael had become pregnant by accident with Paul Harrison's baby, Paul Harrison has not been informed about the child so Rachael was left to raise the child as her own which she was set on doing, in the first place. Her flight skills and combat skills had improved to the point where she was able to not only participate in a series of exercises for the Squadron Commanders but excel in that she was able to down several of them and one of them several times. Trouble was, the pilot in question left the simulators, got drunk and came back intending to kill both Lt Commander Wukari 'Desert Fox' Kalina and Rachael herself, she sustained serious wounds as she sustained broken arms and a broken leg, she almost lost her baby but she wasn't told about that little detail. However, her mother was informed and Rachael found out later about the matter anyway. Rachael also got to pilot the USS Roanoke herself out of spacedock which impressed everyone involved as Torilla realized that her baby had become a woman within her right and when second wing's fighters were delivered, she obtained two of the cats, a mother and child pairing as Wukari claimed the second child. Rachael slowly came to terms with recent events as she was unaffected by the hooch incident and as luck would have it, she was off the ship when the outbreak happened aboard the USS Roanoke. When she returned with the small task force of Runabouts with their fresh supplies, she was placed into medical quarantine along with everyone else, she took the time to catch up on homework and paperwork after finding out what happened to her mother and sister. She took nearly losing her mother rather hard, the choices her mother made and Rachael coming to terms only hardened her. She decided to go and finish her education in Starfleet and earn her Marine commission and earn her status as a Starfighter Pilot. Due to recent events aboard USS Roanoke, Rachael wanted to go and spend some time with her father aboard the USS Song of the East but Siaxx talked her into going to a medical conference on Deneva, Rachael needed time to process recent events which were quite trying for her. She never made it as she ended up in a subspace sinkhole with several others, also she gave birth to her daughter while inside the sinkhole. She named her daughter Saki instead of Jill which was her first choice. that happened after she was attacked by an Ambush Predator. It was a very sobering moment for Rachael who had come face to face with death, Rachael was not present when Siaxx finished her friends suffering with a merciful death, it was an act that Saki had requested of them both, then Rachael and Siaxx both shared the responsibility of burning their comrade's body, they then captured as much of her ashes as they could and they stored it in a rather large urn, they later returned this urn to Kishimoto's family. Rachael was the second of her group to spend time with Greywolf but this only happened after Saki became ill and very nearly died from complications, Greywolf saved her from losing her daughter with homemade milk which Rachael nicknamed 'Cocobread' Milk. Something that Saki would come to prefer over all other kinds of drinks, Almost flavored milk is the closest available flavor to drink. Rachael would also come to learn the language of Greywolf's clan as she was present when Siaxx was offered membership in Greywolf's clan, the invitation extended to Rachael herself and Saki as well, all three of them accepted the honor. Rachael also learned about Greywolf's people as she was impressed by how Siaxx had taken to the Wulgarish culture, history, and sense of purpose as well as their honor. Rachael would later lose Greywolf to old age as she watched Siaxx almost lose herself to a broken heart, her work on the matter was not in vain as both women would be reunited with Phoenix less than six months later. Rachael was present for Phoenix delivering her siblings later that year, she would also help Phoenix in looking after then until rescue came late the following year for everyone involved. When Rachael was rescued, she was a semi-feral woman raising a semi-feral child and now she needed to adjust to wearing real clothing again, as well as teaching Saki a lot of things in a short time. Once Roanoke got back to the Spacedock, Rachael went off to the academy to learn how to fly, she left her now eight-year-old child behind with her mother as Torilla took in Saki and raised her among her other children. Rachael went in for a mixed bag of classes including advanced flight training with a side of tactical training. Both on the ground and in space but where Rachael excelled was in Engineering and flight control. During classes, she would prefer to sit at range and blast her opponents to bits with her missiles. When forced to close with the enemy, her weaknesses would become apparent, she has a child that she will not leave as an orphan, and its a weakness to her. Telling that fact to Rachael, however, will only anger her. It was also during her flight training where she earned her first callsign of 'BUGS' which means 'Boobs Under G-Suit'. Rachael honestly didn't mind it though many of her squadron and wingmates could say otherwise. Her training was a great help to her as it gave her a goal she could chase rather than hunting for wildlife around a campsite which became a permanent home while she was stranded in Yeneer-G. Rachael earned a permanent callsign due to an accident in training, the event was during a class para-drop where the ripcord of her chute failed to work and she was snatched from death at the last second thanks to Commander Anthony Raynor who at great risk to himself, dove out the back of the runabout after her, the transporters were not available so it was him, or nothing. Upon graduation, Rachael was assigned to the engineering department on Starbase 12, where after enduring a major Typhon Pact attack, she would spend most of the Typhon Pact War fixing Federation and allied ships rather than fighting on the front lines, she was offered a chance to come and help with the rebuilding of Starbase 400. She would jump at the chance to maybe reconnect with someone from her past.
Service Record		USS Roanoke - Nebula Class Carrier Variant 2390 to 2391 - Trainee Cadet Recruit Exile in the Woods - Yeneer G February 2391 to March 2391 - Time dilation Effect This effect was ninety-six times faster inside the anomaly the outside. She was actually gone for a month in real-time, however, she aged eight years physically as a result. USS Roanoke - Nebula Class Carrier Variant March 2391 to April 2391 - Trainee Cadet Recruit Starfleet Academy - Centauri IV, ALPHA CENTAURI April 2391 to June 2395 - Student Officer Cadet One / Four Starbase 12 - Stardock Class June 2395 to December 2396 - Engineering Officer Ensign / Lt JG Starbase 400 - Stardock Class December 2396 to Present - Engineering Officer Lt JG
Simming History		Considerable, I have simmed off an on in PbeM sims for years, I have close to fifteen years of writing experience. I've been in several fleets but all of them are now defunct and closed down, I've spend much of the last ten years in independent sims because I saw many of the earlier fleets had too much politics going on in them between the various members which I felt was detracting from the sim's health. Torilla is a character I've thought about on and off for the better part of a year and a half, I decided on someone older with a good deal of experience because of my real life experience. I decided the idea of the younger officer was something I had done too much so I wanted something different. Also I wanted to break a few misconceptions of some races... I settled on the Halania because they were unusual and exotic. The idea was developed with the idea that Torilla had a family, that someone shaped and sculpted by war's ugly demands could raise children and help with her grandchildren. With a little help from a friend, Torilla was given form as was her family. Over time that development has proceeded and now Rachael and her extended family exist across three universe.
How did you hear about Starbase 400		I've watched this sim since she was the USS Pegasus and I've always found her missions and information to be detailed and well worth the read. Now I get to write them instead of just reading them.