Anton Cayde

## Appearance

Anton is tall. Standing at 6’3” with a pale complexion and fairly striking blue eyes. He has a pretty wide build. With broad shoulders and a decent amount of muscle. Some of his defining features include a mass of crescent shaped scar tissue near his left eye from where his ocular implant used to be, his dark brown hair, now streaked with grey. 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. The arm was upgraded on the planet of Mektaan-V. Receiving multiple structural upgrades in addition to all the necessary technology to allow it to look and feel like a normal arm. Including touch sensations.

## Personality

Anton is a fairly relaxed person most of the time. But when someone does something that he considers a hostile action, or something bad happens. He can become hyper focused on solving that problem as quickly and efficiently as possible. In his past, he has had problems with becoming something of a workaholic when exposed to particularly stressful situations for long periods of time.

### Ambitions

* Reach the rank of Captain and live a good life.

### Morals

* Always be the best person you can. No matter what.

## 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 thought “One day, I’m gonna be on one of those shuttles.” When he enlisted in Starfleet he gave himself 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, a woman named Shayla Jakhin. He also successfully passed the Command training program and became certified for use of Tactical systems. Anton is well-versed in multiple areas of Starfleet. But the one thing he has truly mastered is Engineering.

In his second year at the Academy, he was offered a position as a midshipman aboard the USS Righteous. One that would prove to end up in disaster as the ship was lost at Wolf 359 and he was assimilated into a passing Borg Sphere after his escape pod malfunctioned. 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 with permanent noticeable crescent shaped scarring next to his left eye, he could’ve had it removed. But he chose not to. He was then delivered back to Earth where he received therapy and finished his studies at the Academy. Strangely enough, he never heard from his girlfriend, Shayla ever again. He figured that dying for two years would do that, but was still hurt deeply by it.

In 2372 he was assigned to the newly commissioned Sovereign Class USS Victorious, NCC-1799-A as an Ensign in the Engineering department. He quickly proved his worth to the rest of the crew, rising through the ranks remarkably quickly. Becoming the ship’s Chief Engineer and Second Officer after only a few years of serving aboard the ship. During the war with the Dominion, the Victorious was at the front line of the effort. Pushing the Dominion out of Federation space. This, understandably, made it quite the task to be the ship’s Chief Engineer. During the tensions with the Romulans nearing the end of the war, Anton was captured and interrogated for Starfleet secrets. After he refused to talk, one of the romulans took a knife and jammed it into his left eye. Destroying it. Once he was recovered from the Romulans, he had an artificial eye implanted into him. It looks very similar to his old one, but when he uses certain features of the eye that allow him to have night vision or use it as a thermal imaging sensor, The eye will emit a noticeable, but dim glow. Not long after he was rescued, he was informed that the ship on which his parents were returning from an offworld vacation was attacked and destroyed by Jem'Hadar, which affected him greatly. Once the Dominion war was over, Anton spent several more years on the Victorious before taking an easier assignment teaching Advanced Warp Mechanics at Starfleet Academy. These were some of the more uneventful years, so we’re just going to move on.

In 2385, Anton took reassignment to the USS Archangel. It took some adjustment to get used to living on a ship again, especially one as cramped as a Defiant class. He was once again serving under Toshinori Yagi. He had been the First Officer aboard the USS Righteous prior to its destruction and Anton had believed him to be dead for the last thirteen years. So it was a bit of a shock to see him again. It was again on the Archangel that tragedy struck Anton once more. After the ship was ambushed by Orion slavers. The console that Anton was managing the repairs from exploded, causing the loss of his right arm. A prosthetic has been fitted, but he still struggles with the lack of sensations that come with it. Not long after these events, the Archangel encountered a Borg Tactical Cube and was destroyed, with Anton being knocked unconscious during the chaos and being dragged into an escape pod. The pod thankfully did not hit any debris this time and he, along with the rest of the crew, were rescued by the USS Everest and brought to a starbase. It was here that they would receive their new ship.

Anton is now serving aboard the USS Arcadia. He is still settling into this new ship, even after a couple weeks. It’s here that Anton has been faced with yet another tragedy. With the First Officer, Commander Dija Zera, dying of injuries sustained during an away mission. The feelings of failure caused by this event caused him to start spiralling down into a deep depression, causing him to become almost too focused on his work. It was during this darkest of times that what felt like the least likely thing happened. Anton found himself in love once again, this time with one of the Science division personnel. An xB, just like he is. A man named Oadel Akastren. Anton’s mental state has improved greatly after this, with him becoming even more outgoing and friendly with the rest of the crew than he was before. On the planet Mektaan 5, he received a set of upgrades to his arm. Allowing him to have his senses returned to the arm, as well as creating a holographic representation of the arm as it was before it was lost around the prosthetic. The arm also had enhanced heatsinks and integrity, as well as the ability to repair itself.

Anton transferred off of the Arcadia once the ship arrived back into 2385. He found a posting at Starfleet Corp of Engineers and would be involved in several high profile projects.

## 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

### Majors

* ENG101: General Electronics
* ENG111: Intermediate Electronics 1
* ENG112: Intermediate Electronics 2
* ENG121: Colossal Failures in Engineering
* ENG311: Starship Engineering
* ENG330: Bio-Neural Components
* PHYS350: Thermodynamics
* MATH250: Differential
* ARM101: Introduction to Weapons
* ARM110: Hand Phasers, Phaser Rifles and Artillery
* Command Training Program

### Minors

* ARM101: Introduction to Weapons
* ARM110: Hand Phasers, Phaser Rifles and Artillery
* LAW150: Non-Federation
* LAW200: Federation, Constitutional
* TAC210: Combat, Marksmanship
* TAC220: Small Units

## Trivia

* Speaks with a fairly typical midwestern accent.

### Likes

* Music
* Cooking
* Humour
* Reading
* Coffee
* Space
* Tinkering
* Oadel Akastren

### Dislikes

* Liars
* War
* Losing someone
* Rude people