Mason Leveque

## Family Members

**Wife:** Nia Stone

* **Daughter:** b. 2775
* **Sons:** Twins b. 2779

* The Wolf, the Goat and the Cabbage
* Kappa Sector 2788
* The End, and the New Beginning

## Biography

### Personality and Characteristics

Drago refers to his "enigmatic dark face" on first meeting him, and Jarra describes him as a "dark man with an angular, thoughtful face"

Highly intelligent and able to suppress his own emotions while on duty, so that he is able to calmly discuss threat assessments and rationale without influencing anyone with his own opinion.

Most of the time, everyone around him has a hard time understanding what he is saying as he tends to be overly ornate when he is in his Threat analysis persona and using the precise word, no matter how obscure, to make his point.

He is always looking for more information on the people involved, this way his threat assessments would be more accurate. Throughout the *2781 Sequence* he tries to get information from Drago about why Jaxon was always going missing from the Military Academy. Leveque also tried to find out more about Draco Tell Dramis, Drago's Grandfather, in particular why a whole series of General Marshals would excuse his behavior and prevent his arrest, even when he stole experimental planes. Drago becomes very good at deflecting Leveque's questions or not giving into his stares.

## Military

In the *2781 Sequence* Leveque is working directly with General Renton Mai, first with the Hera comet situation and then while he is negotiating a peace treaty on Hestia. He is a team leader with Gemelle Tell Feren and Royal Tar Destin as members.

Threat team leader for the alien contact program in *Earth Star* and *Earth Flight*.

At the beginning of *Earth Star* his rank is Commander. When the Alien Contact program goes into permanent status he is promoted to Colonel and is placed in charge of the twin research areas, the Light sculpture that the Aliens use to communicate with and with the search for the Alien home planet.

## Summary

### The Wolf, the Goat and the Cabbage

Year 2773 - He and his wife are introduced in the story. Leveque plays the role of Hostage negotiator when his wife as a Dart Ship pilot, picks up "Harbinger" who is holding Ramon as a hostage to facilitate his escape from Hestia.

### Hestia 2781

Leveque is a Military Security Commander in Alpha sector and working for General Mai in helping with the most recent Hestia crisis. He meets Drago at Adonis Off-world after the Hestia dissidents have been overcome, and introduces himself as in charge of the Security team assigned to keep Jaxon and himself from the newzies. He then takes Drago to meet General Renton Mai. During this meeting he tries to find out from Drago what is causing Jaxon's erratic behavior.

He is the commander in charge of the sting operation, where Gemelle Tell Feren and Royal Tar Destin are undercover operatives to prevent a kidnapping and to entrap the person responsible for the attempt.

### Array 2781

Leveque makes it perfectly clear that he will be moving to a Planet First operation at the end of the year away from Alpha Sector Security so that he can take on the role of primary child caregiver while his wife concentrates on her own career.

He is appointed in charge of hunting down the saboteur of the Earth solar arrays and the reason for the missing and lost supplies. He and his team are also trying to find where the illegal guns that are being used on Hestia are manufactured and to shut them down. His two investigations end up by merging when he discovers that the solar array supplies that are going missing is because before they leave the CAS facilities on Academy, some of the supplies are removed from the crates, guns are added and then the crates are relabeled. While tracking the crates, he also discovers an illegal portal on Earth being used by criminals to portal goods to other Alpha sector worlds. During his investigation he identifies that the portal is being run by one of the Hospital Earth main board of directors member.

### Sol 2781

While finding all of the damaged caused by Captain Hansen when he was sabotaging Earth's solar array they discover that he was also causing problems for Earth's Solar Watch team and that there is a satellite needed to predict solar storms that is damaged and the replacement wont arrive soon enough.

To fix the problem with the solar watch net, Leveque engineers a secret mission for Drago to fly. His mission is a success, but after the next solar storm, there are more problems with the same damaged satellite. Because of personal complications, Drago can't fly the second mission so Jaxon is enlisted. His mission isn't a success because the damage to the satellite is too bad and it has to be replaced, so a third mission that takes both Jaxon and Drago is needed. With the help of Gemelle and Betha it is finally a success and everyone returns without any injuries.

### *Kappa Sector 2788*

Leveque is Colonel Torrek's Threat team leader in his Planet First team on K21228 (subsequently Maia). He plays no significant role in the story other than looking pleased when Torrek joins the Beta Sector processional carrying the Tell Clan banner.

### Earth Star

Generally he is in the background giving threat assessment percentages until toward the end when he is the contact for Jarra and Fian as they ventured into the Alien installation.

### Earth Flight

He has a much bigger role besides his usual threat assessments. At the beginning he is promoted to Colonel and is placed in charge of the twin research groups, one group analyzing the alien installation at Earth Africa, Zulu dig site and the other, the laser light communications from the alien satellite.

He is responsible for the arrest and imprison Jarra to keep her from doing anything rash when Drago is unable to activate the device on Fortuna's moon. But when all of their other options fail, he discusses with her the option of experimental surgery to implant a full-body web which will artificially control her immune system. She volunteers, realizing that if she doesn't Leveque and possible Colonel Torrek would have to order the surgery without her consent.

It is obvious that by the end of the story, Leveque is feeling extremely guilty about his role in Jarra's surgery.

### The End, and the New Beginning

Mason Leveque is responsible for hunting down who is trying to kill Jarra and Fian so interrogates Major Mavin and Todd after the attempt on Jarra's life.
He portals to the Berlin Dig site to update General Torrek. When he discovers that Jarra insists on placing the tree at her Next of Kin grave site, he makes the arrangements with the custodian, so that he can ensure security for Jarra and Fian and others. Before Jarra has a chance to invite him, he insists to General Torrek that he needs to go along to the grave site for security reasons. But then Jarra invites both of them to attend so they would understand better the sequence of events and why.

## Footnotes

### Notes

*Further information: Illegal Portal and Hospital Earth*
*Further information: Alien Contact Program, Alien Probe, and Alien Artifact*

### References

1. ↑ Janet's website | Portal Future Questions
2. ↑ *Hestia 2781*. Chapter 15
3. ↑ *Earth Star,* Chapter 6