Alan "Dutch" Schaefer

Dutch

Major **Alan Schaefer**, better known as "**Dutch**" was a Federation Marine and the leader of a Squad of Elite Federation Special Forces. In 2287, Dutch and his men were assigned a rescue mission to the planet Vel Verda. Dutch's squad came into contact with a unknown Alien at the time it that stalked and killed the elite mercenaries one-by-one.

Dutch was a specialist in guerrilla engagements and had been posted in many Hostile Area during the Four years War(Klingon War), alongside Al Dillon. He was one of only two survivors of the encounter on Vel Verda, the other being Diplomatic Officer Anna Gonsalves.

## Biography

### Background

In his school days, Dutch had been a football star. After finishing High School, he joined the Federation Marines and attended boot camp with Jim Hopper in 2253 and had a twin bother named John who ended up joining New Hollands Local Police force.

### Federation Marine years

Dutch went on to serve in the The Four Years War(Klingon War) alongside his close friend Al Dillon, seeing action on Multiple Planets At one point during the war, Dutch was captured and brutally tortured by the Klingons; the prolonged interrogation eventually caused him to become resistant to pain. Following the Klingon War, he served in various commando units, including a Top secret Mission in Romulan Space in 2279 with Hopper that nearly claimed both of their lives. He later reunited with Dillon for operations in Tholian and Gorn Space, and while serving there the men obtained matching lighters of personal significance.

In 2280, Dutch was Promoted to Officers Rank in the Marines and assigned his own Company

Dutch's team saw operations in Klingon, Romulan, Breen space More recently, the team dealt with a terrorist siege at the Bolian Embassy Bolia, assaulting the building and eliminating seven terrorists in under ten seconds. Not only did the operation in the center of the city go totally unnoticed by the Federation press, the terrorists were eliminated before they even had a chance to call in their demands.

A notable condition of his Team now was Dutch and his men were only ever operate as a rescue team, and he refused to take on any mission where the prime objective was the elimination of enemy personnel.

## Mission to Vel Verda

In 2287, Dutch and his men were deployed to Vel Verda a Planet just outside of Federation Space meeting there with Al Dillon, who now worked for the Starfleet Intelligence. The team had been assigned a mission to rescue a Trill Ambassador and his aide, who had been kidnapped by Gorn guerrilla forces. After being inserted onto Vel Verda aboard *Redbird*, Dutch's team quickly discovered the wreckage of the shuttle that had been carrying the captured Ambassador and his group and, later, several Federation Marines, who had been skinned alive and hung from the trees; one of the dead men was Dutch's old friend Jim Hopper. Dutch and his men pressed on to the guerrilla camp where the hostages were being held, arriving just in time to witness a Klingon advisor executing a hostage. Dutch's team launched their attack, wiping out the camp in short order, although they found that the other hostages except for one were also already dead

Dutch and his men quickly deduced Hopper's team was originally sent in to rescue the Ambassador and vanished during the attempt Dutch and his men angry they were not told the entire situation, confronted Dillon, he learned the previous Marines mission had failed and his team was next up Infuriated that a once close friend had betrayed him, Dutch and his men made for their extraction point, his team taking along the only surviving Hostage Anna Gonsalves.

### Last stand

It soon became clear something was stalking Dutch's team. Despite Dutch's improvised attempts to kill the creature, including an elaborate ambush involving traps constructed from the forest itself, over the next 24 hours Hawkins, Blain, Mac, Dillon, Billy and Poncho were all killed, leaving just Dutch and Anna alive, the latter apparently spared, because she was unarmed. After sending Anna on ahead to the extraction Shuttle, Dutch made a stand against the Predator that had hunted his team, although he was quickly outmatched and lost most of his equipment in a desperate escape over a cliff and down a waterfall. However, when he accidentally covered himself in wet mud, he unintentionally rendered himself invisible to the Predator's thermal vision, thereby learning a crucial lesson.

After constructing improvised traps and weapons, including a bow, spears, incendiary grenades and several explosive arrowheads, Dutch once again covered himself in mud to mask his thermal signature and confronted the Predator one final time. Though the creature fell victim to a number of Dutch's traps, they failed to kill it. The situation deteriorated when Dutch fell into a pool of water during the confrontation, stripping him of his camouflage, and he was forced to face the Predator in a hand-to-hand duel. Despite Dutch's impressive physique, he was no match for the creature and received a savage beating. In desperation, Dutch managed to lure the Predator underneath the counterweight for one of his traps, triggering it and causing the huge log to crush the creature. The Predator, mortally wounded, activated its Self-Destruct Device and Dutch narrowly escaped the resultant explosion, eventually being picked up by the extraction Shuttle

## Retirement(2287-2290)

After his encounter on Vel Verda Dutch retired from Starfleet, with the encounter haunting his dreams and the fact he was badly injuried and still recovering physically from it he spent several months in a hospital recovering. Once released he tried to stay away from it all, even moving to Earth to get as far away from it all as possible, eventually He learned that Starfleet covered the entire situation on Vel Verda, he began his own investigation of it and found out that Starfleet Intelligence was investigating the situation. Dutch eventually discovered that Starfleet Intelligence Officer Commander Peter Keyes was leading the Investigation now, Dutch knew that Keyes only cared about the Technology that was lost in the situation not that the creature was there to Hunt Dutch's team...that it only deemed them as Prey.

Dutch learned through continued investigating that there was several planets that had stories of "demons" that would hunt on their planets during the hottest times of their planets cycles.

Dutch was about to end his journey of research as he thought had learned everything he could and he was back at Vel Verda to see if he had missed anything else, and Hope was restored in Dutch as he witnessed Commander Keyes teleport down near the Village that Dutch started his research journey at all those years ago.

The two met up and Keyes shook his hand as if they were old pals, Keyes offered him a Job working for Starfleet Intelligence and Dutch at this point felt it was his best way to find out more of these unknown aliens.

## Return to Starfleet

### Hadley's Hope Incident

In 2296 Dutch shortly after being reinstated and given a small group of Highly trained Federation Marines the Starfleet Special Operations Division is what they are called now have been assigned a mission, a Recently discovered Starfleet Officer whom had been prior to now thought to be dead along with her entire ship she was discovered alive and in a Cryopod, The Federation learned while debriefing Ripley that her ship was destroyed by a unknown alien which fell right into Dutch's alley. His team was assigned to go to the Planet in which Ripley's ship the Nostromo picked up the alien which by this time is Federation Colony.

The Colony now no longer communicating with anyone, Dutch's team arrive on the planet where they find the colony damaged and seemingly abandoned, they find a Girl within a few minutes of arriving after which they soon learn that the unknown aliens are completely different then the aliens Dutch has encountered before but still posed a Threat. The Marines soon are attacked with most of them being killed quickly only leaving Dutch, Corporal Hicks, Privates Vasquez and Hudson also the Squad's android, Bishop, along with Ripley and Starfleet Intelligence officer Commander Carter Burke. Eventually most of them escape the planet and back to the USS *Sulaco.*

In late 2297 After Starfleet Intelligence was made aware of a situation that happened at a Starfleet Colony on the outskirts of Federation Space near the Klingon Boarder. At first they assumed it was a rogue group of Klingons that had been doing these attacks the first reports sent out fit the description of what Dutch had encountered 10 years ago, Dutch and his team arrived at the Colony too late and a Starfleet Commander had killed the creature, while the body of this unknown creature was not captured Tech was again recovered and Starfleet Intelligence could analyzed more of their species abilities. Commander Michael Harrigan now apart of Dutch's team they continued to grow their team and they continued to seek out these unknown threats against Starfleet.

## Near Death and "Rebirth"

In 2398 Dutch and his Team were ambushed unexpectedly by a Predator Female that Dutch and his team had not seen before, his squad was completely wiped out and he was severely wounded.

Clinging to life, Dutch was soon found by Ripley and the remaining team and was transporter to sickbay, where a team of surgeons desperately tried to save his life, although it was clear their efforts were coming to naught. His condition rapidly deteriorated the surgeons pronounced him dead, at the age of 62.

Having signed a waiver with Starfleet to do what they pleased with his body, Starfleet Intelligence placed Dutch's brain into a prototype cybernetic body. The silvery metal endoskeleton of the Prototype Combat Android body T8(7 Previously failed bodies) is a triple-armored hyper-alloy combat chassis and is constructed with frictionless bearings in its joints, and a servo-actuated control system. Its limbs are controlled by axial drive motors and clavicular trailing links, allowing the T8 to maneuver faster than the Previous bodies designed, as bursts of speed of up to 22 mph no longer threatened the joint assemblies. The T8 was also 20% lighter and 40% stronger than the T6 and T7. The armored frame is capable of withstanding most contemporary weapons . The Endoskeleton can with stand for limited amounts of time direct hits from Phasers and Disruptors

The T8 features a jack in the back of its head for plugging in a cable to receive information directly into the brain.

The T8 is covered with living tissue that includes human-like flesh, skin, hair, blood, and other bodily fluids.

The T8 has a circulatory system which is controlled by a tiny pneumatic pump which maintains a constant pressure. This allows the T8 to convincingly bleed when wounded.

As the living tissue heat-signatures match that of humans, scanners fail to distinguish T8 from real humans. Additionally, because the tissue is designed to mimic human flesh, it can accurately mimic bleeding, sweating, halitosis, and even aging. All those features allows a T8 to pass as a living body.

Furthermore, as long as its flesh is not wholly destroyed, a T8 can gradually regrow its tissue-covering over an unknown time.

Once Dutch was "reactivated" it had been nearly 5 years since his death, while he took it initially hard he realized going forward he could still continue on his life which was dedicated to protecting citizens from the threats of the Yautja and Xenomorphs