Zebulon Tothe

Petty Officer Zebulon Tothe is a member of the Tactical Department on the USS Odyssey.

## Background

Zebulon was born to Astral and Mirvel Tothe on the Sandii homeworld. His parents were dilithium miners on a colony planet mostly populated by humans and Vulcans hoping to increase the supply of the material to their civilian transports. He was raised among seven other children, a family of average size for his kind. As he grew, he learned the trades of fixing up their shuttles with his hands as he earned his general education through digital subspace homeschooling.

He was dubbed ‘dumb’ for his kind as he matured, unable to master calculus at thirteen. He was being relentlessly stressed by his schooling and his mental health declined, so his parents decided to make a decision in his favor and enroll him in the colony in a majority human class where his mental strengths would be better catered to. The shock of being in an actual classroom and not around his parents all the time made him rather socially reclusive. His high school years were riddled with his inability to make friends or formally socialize with others. The lack of distraction paved the way for him to earn the top grades in his high school class, graduating near the top.

After his graduation, he was experiencing the maturation phase of his species. He was a man in his early twenties, forging out to explore the world. He made many decisions in his own best interest over his parents, who had regressed shortly after his graduation. He moved back to his homeworld to seek higher education with tactical weapon operations, succeeding rather easily with his knowledge of home shuttles. All phaser weapons were similar. He settled down after getting his degree, finding a suitable woman at a social center on his planet. He outgrew his social fear at this point, opting to ‘ask her out’ as the other kids did in high school. His slightly human mannerism was found to be charming by Ivvia, the woman he would marry in the future at the age of 25.

He raised his children at home for eighteen years, teaching them logic and pressing for academic excellence. He taught them in different ways that were not nearly as bad as the rigorous academic structure of the planet, making them actually enjoy their early lives. His steady parenting aided them with graduating and entering their planet’s higher education system. They eventually moved on to be warp core technicians and engineers with one becoming a simple medical doctor .

Zebulon, in the meantime, educated himself more and got certified as a weapons’ technician. As soon as his children went off, he went to serve on a local ship at the age of 43. His first posting was not Starfleet, rather a local civilian police patrol that orbited the planet in search of criminals. Two years in, he ended up captaining the vessel as a sergeant above after proving his worth with disabling delinquent criminal vessels.

He served on this vessel for another year before deciding to take an enlistment in Starfleet. He moved to a training academy on Mars and took up a few courses to get certified, emerging as a crewman.

He served on his first vessel, the USS Halifax, for seven years. He served admirably and ranked up rather quickly through the system after proving his worth as a leader and a good worker. His regression happened prematurely during his fifth year, resulting in his having to be hospitalized for a few months for safety reasons as Starfleet had never seen anything like Zebulon’s regression before; most Sandii returned home for the process.

He served for another two years afterwards, taking up more of a mentor’s role over the crewmen. Once he broke himself in with familiarization, he was like a kind of big brother that aided in their decision making processes and reprimands. He was eventually given the option to transfer off to a higher-risk opportunity for advancement, the USS Odyssey.

## Appearance

He stands at 5’1 and has ginger-gray hair. He appears to be about thirteen human years old with bluish-grey eyes, pupils hard to see in dark environments. His face is free of blemishes though he sports a pair of very bushy and manicured eyebrows. His hair is usually brushed nicely to the side.

## Personality

He is very, very outgoing to everyone around himself. He is seen as having tons of energy and few outlets to expel this energy, so he simply has little quirks like incessant foot tapping when sitting still for a while. He respects the chain of command, however, and is seen as a very intelligent and top-notch crewmate.

## Psych Evaluation

He faces no notable psychological conditions save for a tendency to overreact to physical touch.

## Other Information

* He knows the Sandii language, English, and a bit of German from his time on the mining planet. He has an American accent though he sometimes dips into a British one for no visible reason.
* Likes: Chicken fingers, meditation, sleep, weekend nights, parties, driving civilian shuttles aimlessly.
* Dislikes: Idiots, relentless stares, toe stubbing, people doubting his ability to do his job, biology.