Parth Strong

Professor Strong greets his class on their first day.

**Professor Parth Strong** is a Cosmos Academy field training instructor.

Professor Parth Strong is voiced by Jonathan Fortin.

### Personality

Professor Strong is intimidating and quite a hardass. As a licensed Ranger, Strong is aware of the many trials and tribulations of an Interstellar Ranger, and believes in order to prepare his students, he must make their field training as intense and difficult as possible. Despite his occasionally harsh demeanor and persistent view of his students as future "weapons", he ultimately still values their safety and strives to teach them discipline, leadership and cooperation in an incredibly demanding course.

## Attributes

### Powers

* **Teleportation**: As a result of interacting with the Orb and becoming altered by it, Strong is able to transport himself between locations without physical movement, briefly emitting purple energy from his body in the process. He has demonstrated being able to appear in locations within his immediate proximity, such as from the front of his classroom to the middle in order to to reign in distracted students Chris Myrthil, Jeff Williams and Sebastian Rojas as they attempted to quietly argue amongst themselves, as well as from further distances seemingly without a means of physically perceiving his destination, as he was able to teleport to his classroom from an unknown area to first introduce himself to his students.

### Abilities

* **Athletic Aptitude**: Due to training and conditioning, Strong possesses decent physical attributes and athletic capabilities.
* **Combat Expertise**: As a field training instructor at Cosmos Academy, Strong in an expert in both armed and unarmed combat.
* **Marksmanship Aptitude**: Being prepared for security and military threats, Strong is trained in the use of ranged weapons, particularly pistols such as the Interstellar Force’s standard issue handles.
* **Education Expertise**: A seasoned instructor, Strong is well acclimated to not only teaching his students, but measuring their individual strengths and weaknesses to find ways for them to improve. Like Itsuki Reo, he took notice of Hope Griffin's diminishing performance and approved of the latter's request to be allowed to personally tutor her. When approached by Jazz Owens regarding Itsuki's harsh treatment of Hope, he noted that despite their difficulties, the sessions were successfully able to motivate Hope while Itsuki managed to continue them despite his frustrations with her.

### Weaknesses

* **Severity**: A stern and somewhat severe individual, Parth can be, at his own admission, quite intense. When challenged for the Academy's harsh training methods of their students by Dola Amber, he quickly became frustrated at her critique and argued their necessity to prepare students for their roles as rangers. While he may generally care for his students safety, he ultimately views them as future “weapons” to the Interstellar Force and his dedication to ensure they remain so can lead him to make questionable decisions, such as dismissing his class’ representative and the son of General Reo, Itsuki, using his position to bully Hope Griffin under the guise of tutoring her to help improve her poor academic performance, citing to Jazz Owens the session’s successfully motivating Hope as his reason for not intervening and suggesting Jazz and her friends could attempt to support her to raise her morale. As such, while promising he would step in if he felt the two endangered each other, he neglected even instruct Itsuki on how best to tutor her to avoid or reprimand him for his mistreatment of her leading to an instance of further decline.

## Paraphernalia

### Equipment

* **Headgear**: A red piece of hardware attached to Strong's head, wrapping around his chin and lower jaw and ending in points past his temples.
* **Instructor Uniform**: A jacket and pants worn while on duty.
* **Computer Tablet**: A portable, interactive computer screen, complete with a stylus pen, that are used by students and staff for both classes and leisure. These tablets are installed with digital textbooks before being issued out.

### Weapons

* **Handle**: As a staff member at Cosmos Academy, Parth has access to a handle for security.

### Transportation

* **Shuttle**: An interplanetary craft able to make routine trips from Earth to Cosmos Academy and Interstellar Force Headquarters in space.

## Facilities

* **Interstellar Force Headquarters**: Strong is currently stationed at Interstellar Force Headquarters.
	+ **Cosmos Academy**: Strong's current residence is at Cosmos Academy, alongside other members of its staff

## Relationships

### Allies

* Hope Griffin - Student and Subordinate
* Itsuki Reo - Student and Subordinate
* Jazz Owens - Student and Subordinate
* Amai Higashi - Student and Subordinate
* Maria Long - Student and Subordinate
* Sebastian Rojas - Student and Subordinate
* Alex Stepanov - Student and Subordinate
* Jeff Williams - Student and Subordinate
* Chris Myrthil - Student and Subordinate
* Kayleen Huo - Student and Subordinate
* Carmen Avilas - Student and Subordinate
* Arthur Stepanov - Student and Subordinate
* Doctor Dola Amber - Colleague
* Professor Maya Kimball - Colleague
* Counselor Alam - Colleague
* Director Principle - Colleague and Superior
* Ranger Diskin - Colleague
* Ambassador Jorge Avilas - School Ambassador and Colleague
* General Reo - Colleague and Superior
* Unnamed Security Officer - Colleague