Anton Cayde

Chief Engineer

Anton Cayde is the Chief Engineer of the U.S.S. Odysseus, having fulfilled this role since the ship's launch.

## Appearance

Anton is tall. Standing at 6’3” with a pale complexion and bright blue eyes. He has a pretty wide build. With broad shoulders and a decent amount of muscle. Some of his defining features include a crescent shaped mass of scar tissue near his left eye from where his ocular implant used to be. And his mechanical right arm, which has a black paneled exterior rather than the more conventional implants that people will opt for. He sacrificed the ability to have sensation in his arm for the added features of this one, though.

## Personality

Anton is a fairly relaxed person most of the time. But can certainly go what I like to call “Full DI” when someone is hostile towards him or threatens his life. He can become hyper focused on solving that problem as quickly and efficiently as possible. In his past, he has even had problems with becoming something of a workaholic when exposed to particularly stressful situations for long periods of time. Really just a thought process of “This is a bad situation. If I keep working, we will get out of this bad situation.”

## Trivia

* Cayde plays multiple instruments! Those being the Guitar, Piano, and the Cello. He also sings.
* Cayde has a mechanical right arm. Its exterior shell is made of carbon fibre, with a couple gold accents here and there. The inside frame is mainly made out of tungsten-titanium composite. Making it quite the sturdy piece of equipment. The plates of carbon fibre on the forearm can be retracted, revealing a small storage compartment for… storing stuff. He himself hasn’t figured out a use for it yet.
* Additionally, he has a replaced eye. It looks nearly identical to his original eye, though it comes with certain advantages and disadvantages. Advantages being that it has switchable modes that allow him to perceive not only visible light, but also nearly the entire EM spectrum.

### Likes

Music, Cooking, Humour, Reading, Coffee, Space, Tinkering with technology, Trying- and often failing- to invent new technologies.

## Starfleet Courses

### Core Courses

* ADMIN101: Star Fleet Operations
* ADMIN110: Chain of Command and General Protocol
* DIPL101: General
* ENG221: LCARS Programming 1
* ENG231: Computer Memory and Personnel Interfaces
* ENG232: Replicators, Transporters, and Holodecks
* ENG233: Sensors, Communications, and Helm Systems
* HIST101: Birth of the Federation
* LANG101: Federation Standard
* LANG110: Major Species (Elementary) - Cadet's Choice
* LAW101: Federation, General
* MATH101: Concepts
* MED101: First Aid and Field Medicine
* PHYS101: Concepts
* PILOT101: Runabouts and Shuttles
* SURV101: Starship Emergencies
* SURV110: Environmental Suits and Zero-G Training
* TAC101: Combat, Unarmed
* TAC110: Combat, Small Weapons
* BIO101: Concepts
* XEN101: General

## History

Anton Cayde was born on Earth, in San-Francisco. He showed himself to be very creative at a young age, taking up the Guitar, the Piano, the Cello, and Singing. He would always see the shuttles coming and going from Starfleet Academy, and every time he caught sight of one, he couldn’t help but think, “One day, I’m gonna be on one of those shuttles.” This was something which stuck with him all through his youth. Giving him the inspiration to do well in his education, and learn as much as possible, preparing for when he could finally go to Starfleet Academy.

When he was 18, he enlisted into Starfleet. Immediately, he set himself up with a pretty stacked schedule. Completing courses like Advanced Warp Mechanics and even Advanced Temporal Mechanics. It was also in the academy that Anton had his first romantic involvement with another person, another cadet, specifically. A Bajoran woman named Kebi Ejiar. He also successfully passed the Command training program and became certified for use of Tactical systems while he was there.

In his second year at the Academy, Anton was offered a position as a midshipman aboard the USS Striker. A post that would end in tragedy, as the ship was lost at Wolf 359. Anton was assimilated into a passing Borg Sphere following the malfunction of his escape pod. After two long years of being one of their mindless drones, the sphere he was on sustained heavy damage in an ion storm and had to enter a regeneration cycle. It was then that the crew of the Olympic class starship USS Nobel happened across the sphere he was on and detected his combadge signal. Somehow still working after all those years. They transported him aboard during his regeneration cycle and, albeit hastily, removed most of his implants and separated him from the collective. This left him, well, without his left eye completely! The eye, of course, was replaced with an implant, closely matched to his original left eye as possible in appearance. The incident also left him with a large, crescent shaped scar next to his eye. He could’ve had it repaired, but chose not to, in spite of the warnings of potential complications with the scar tissue and his new eye. He was subsequently delivered back to Earth where he received therapy and finished his studies at the Academy. Strangely enough, he never heard from his girlfriend, Ejiar ever again. He figured that dying for two years would do that, but was still hurt deeply by it.

Following his recovery, Anton chose not to immediately return to service. Deciding to take some time to, well, figure himself out. During this time, however, he was part of a horrific shuttle accident that resulted in the loss of his left arm to severe plasma burns. This is how he got his mechanical arm.

Following recovery from that particular clusterfuck, he finally decided to return to active service in Starfleet. Getting assigned to service aboard the U.S.S. Odysseus.