Eoin Cole Delancey

Eoin Cole DeLancey was born 2092 and living to 2121 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, then from 2128 to 2179 in Schronienie, which would become a part of the city of East Gideon, Vega Colony. He was elected to be in charge of the Clan Badi colony group and the DeLancey Foundation Investment Group in the absence of his father who had been killed in 2127.
Eoin DeLancey led his people in a productive, yet challenging time as they established themselves both as independent of Earth, and coexistent with the LDS Church colonists. By the time he retired in 2175, he had also established a world wide trade route between the LDS Church and Clan Badi of the North Eastern Continent, the Vega Concern of the North Western Continent, and even a tenuous trade agreement with the Triciatu colony on the South Eastern continent.
Eoin and his wife Damara shared his last four years of life in retirement peaceful on the banks of the Hiddekiel River.
== Biography ==
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Eoin grew up in the later days of what would be called in the history books as the [[startrekwiki:Post-atomic_horror|'Post Atomic Horror'. Society had begun to recover, but after eight centuries of being driven out, hunted or otherwise despised, the Clan Badi held strong to their desire to follow the elder DeLancey's plan to migrate to a new colony. Eoin grew up surrounded by the gathering Clan Badi, and as their community grew larger and larger while making themselves indispensable to the city fathers of Philadelphia. The combination of these factors made his life a relatively safe one.
As news came in from around the world with the gathering Badi, the truth of how bad things had gotten was hard to deny. Evidence of things getting better locally was believed to be largely their own doing, since his family was funding much of the rebuilding and his clan was doing much of the work. These were also facts that were hard to deny, and ones that made Eoin very proud.
The young of the Clan Badi were not sent away to school, but were taught by the elders of the clan. Many of them had advanced degrees, so the education was not lacking. Mixed with the theoretical was always practical learning, so Eoin learned to be hands on from a young age. It served him when he got older, as did working at his father's right hand in dealing with holding it all together.
When the first group left to go to Titan to join the relief crew that left in 2079 to on work on the DFIG Titan complex in Chrisopher's Landing, Eoin was not yet born. Every ten years another crew of twenty went, and joined the colony there, but these were not Badi until 2099. He was just a young boy, but he understood the one hundred and eighty young men and twenty young women who left were not moving to Titan, but going there to train for the colony ship his father was negotiating to buy. His father was not going to let this one go the way he did the Agata.
In 2105, he said goodbye over the communication system to the brave two hundred who had been training for more than five years for the flight. He was jealous of them getting to board the Hieronymus before anyone else, anyone else he knew that was. The ship had been built in orbit of the moon, and had a crew. They had been to Earth orbit already as it was loaded with supplies for the journey and the colony. Eoin would lay in bed at night dreaming of the day he would be boarding the ship himself for the crossing, for ten years.
In 2115, barely eighteen years old, Eoin joined his family and 215 other Badi Clansmen and women on the transport vessel Agafyato take them to Titan. He would work harder than he had in his entire life to make sure he would not be left behind when the Hieronymus would come back for them. He need not have worried though, his was a position guaranteed, but even if he had known that he would have worked no less hard.
In 2121, after 5 years of training, they boarded to begin their seven year journey. As much as he wished to get under way, he didn't sleep for almost three days as he explored and familiarized himself with everything he could. Captain Halloway had to have him pulled away by force twice from things deemed too sensitive for the colonists to touch. Eoin was in particular fascinated by the engineering of the ship, and the live embryonic livestock being put into a cold sleep of their own.
Eoin's parents Will and Mermeyí, and his sister Ellen were killed along with 12 others when their compartment onboard the ECS Hieronymus was struck, and holed by a meteor causing a complete and sudden loss of cabin pressure. The log reported the incident on October 27, 2127, still more than a year out of the Vega system. 
At twenty-nine years old, when he went into cold sleep, Eoin was not ready for the loss of all his family but his younger brother. The cousins tried to help, but the biggest blow to him was learning his sister Ellen had been pregnant with twins. After two days recuperating from cold sleep, and the painful blow of loss, Eoin stood up and took control of the mission.
In the vacuum of power left behind by his father, there was a need for a strong spirit to guide them. The loss of fifteen souls was a gutting blow to nearly all of them. Eoin got them moving together as a team, and back on tasks. They connected with the first colony group, and were pleasantly surprised that the Badi Transfer Station was not only fully operational but expanded a full five years ahead of projected possibilities.
Three month later, the entire colony group was settled into housing in Schronienie village just to the south of the Hiddekel River, with the LDS Church village of Gideon's Redoubt just across the river to the north. Eoin was pleased to know that the first colony group had been working with their neighbors for most of seven years already, trading and sharing company. It was something of an amusement to Eoin that while their first colony group was ninety percent men, the LDS Church mission was only thirty percent men. 
It had been painful to learn the reason however during what had been an enjoyable shared meal. During the purge performed by the Optimum Movement Zombies, a great deal of the men of their church died trying to protect their women and children. They chose to inform at the same time, that 26 of the Badi men had taken wives from the other colony. The Badi had been planning to erect a memorial to the fifteen lost. Eoin declared that the next project once that was done, would be a bridge over the Hiddekel to be constructed to provide more of a connection between them.
Eoin had considered himself to be spiritual, but not exactly religious. He was embarrassed have to ask, but he did not know why the LDS Church people had named the river Hiddekel. That was how he first came to know Damara Bailes, as she explained it was one of the two rivers known to have flowed from within the Garden of Eden. She was of marrying age, and while he had expected to marry within the Badi, he was immediately smitten. She was however, promised to another. Her betrothed was three, and it would be fifteen years before she would be married.
It was just after the memorial was in place that the Badi Colonists announced that they had taken a vote, and wished Eoin to be their Clan leader in Vega. He accepts, and sets about the duties expected of him. Still smitten, he did not pursue another wife for six years. Damara, the oldest child of the LDS leader, was smitten with him as well. She beseeched her father to break her betrothal and find another bride for her intended. This he did willingly, as he had four daughters, and let the now nine year old suiter choose from them. He chose the youngest, an eight year old whom he was more interested in as a peer.
Eoin and Damara were married in the fall. They lived together for fourteen years before a successful pregnancy provided them a son. Medical care was not as plentiful as it was on Earth prior to the war, and the quality was much less as well. Prenatal care was more akin to that of the mid-twentieth century, and it resulted in more than half a dozen miscarriages. Even so, with faith, they were able to persevere and live happily.
They raised their son Kayden, and the colony. Eoin DeLancey led his people in a productive, yet challenging time as they established themselves both as independent of Earth, and coexistent with the LDS Church colonists. By the time he retired in 2175, he had also established a world wide trade route between the LDS Church and Clan Badi of the North Eastern Continent, the Vega Concern of the North Western Continent, and even a tenuous trade agreement with the Triciatu colony on the South Eastern continent.
Eoin is buried with his wife in a family memorial plot with Parents, his Sister and her children under the Memorial Statue to his father and the crew of the Hieronymus.
==== Immediate Family ====
* Mother: Mermeyí Cambell (2072-2127)
* Father: William Isaac DeLancey III (2070-2127)
* Brother: Theodore Eoghan DeLancey (2097-2142)
* Sister: Ellen Hope Delancey (2100-2127)
** Spouse: Damara Bailes (2105-2215) - Married 2136
*** Son: Kayden Matthew DeLancey (2150-2228)
****Grandson: William Isaac Delancey IV (2208-2280)
****Granddaughter: Abigail DeLancey (2216-2263)
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=== OOC Information ===
This is Historical Information for reference concerning Dr. DeLancey
Ian Ogilvy cast as Eoin Cole DeLancey
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