Riak Torrek

## Family Members

* **Wife:** Jarra Tell Morrath**†** (triad marriage)
* **Husband:** Bard Tell ?**†** (triad marriage)

* **Son:** Marack Tell Galad**†**
* **Daughter-in-Law:** Gemena Ray Feren**†**
* **Son:** Benard Tell Galad
* **Daughter:** Seanna Tell Morrath
* **Daughter-in-Law:** Nadira Kar Munir

* **Father:**
* **Mother:**
* **Brother:**
* **Sister:**

* **Grandson:** Jaxon Tell Galad
* **Granddaughter:** Gemelle Tell Feren
* **Granddaughter:** Jarra (Reeath) Tell Morrath
* **Grandson:** Caius Tell Galad
* **Grandson:** Bard Tell ?

* Kappa Secter 2788
* The End, and the New Beginning
* I’ll Be Right Here Waiting

## Biography

Colonel **Riak Torrek** is the commanding officer of the Alien Contact program. He was married to Jarra Tell Morrath and Bard before they were killed in action in 2769. He is an adoptive Tell clan member, though he has been distant from the clan since his spouses' deaths.

### Personality and Characteristics

Riak is very calm in a crises and has developed a good reputation in the Military for his ability to stay calm and act with patience.

### Early years

He was from the planet Tethys, in Gamma Sector. A planet that very few people even those from Gamma Sector had heard of. The only thing it was known for is that carrots grew incredibly well there and the rabbits had no natural predictors so when they were smuggled in by a magician, they rapidly overpopulated the inhabited continent.

While at the Military Academy he met Jarra Tell Morrath a member of the Betan Tell clan and descendant of Tellon Blaze and an Bard another Tell clan member who was also a cadet, both grew up in Military families and attended Military schools. When Riak was ready to give up after his first disastrous week, the two cadets barricaded him in his room and wouldn't let him out until he agreed to try for another month. They then set out to turn him into a Military officer.

After Graduation the three of them were assigned to the same Planet First Team and during that assignment, they proposed to each other and ended up threeing, instead of the twoing that he wanted to have with Jarra. Riak was from a conservative Gamma family so resisted the idea of a triad marriage, but finally gave in.

### Military

Riak served on many planet first assignments and commanded even more. After nearly 40 years of military service and marriage, on 12 November 2769 the three of them were on an assignment when things went wrong and his two partners were killed and he was seriously injured. It took him 4 years to put on a military uniform again and sirens of any kind remind him of the evacuation sirens.

He was ready to retire when his son, Marack asked him to take a temporary assignment commanding the 5 Earth Solar Array's.

During this duty he had an extraordinary year.

First he is called in to do an Honor Ceremony for Jara Reeath, his deceased wife's honor child, at the New York dig Site.

Next, what was thought to be a normal Solar storm turned into a Super storm which brought the Portal network down 6 hours early, Stranding the personal on the 5 solar arrays. (*See Carrington Event*)

Than, an alien probe moves into high orbit over Earth Africa and Riak has to activate the Alien Contact program.

### Family and Relationships

Riak was in a betan triad marriage with Jarra Tell Morrath (grandmother of Jarra (Reeath) Tell Morrath) and Bard Tell (Unnamed) military officers. He became part of the Tell clan when they married. He never wanted a triad marriage, but a more conventional one with Jarra. Before the marriage he and Bard had an intense discussion over Riak's concerns about a Triad marriage while at Lake Galad on Zeus. This discussion resulted in some jail time where they decided the male surname for any children would be Galad.

Jarra's and Riak's familial relationship is complicated by his triad marriage. Marack may or may not be genetically Riak's son, but Betan culture makes no such distinction. Jarra makes a hasty decision that Riak is not her gentic grandfather based on incomplete knowledge.

When both of his spouses were killed, he was seriously injured, and Dr. Capria Kar Broussard, a newly qualified doctor saved his life, against his wishes.

During the 20 years after the death of his partners Riak isolated himself from most of the clan and Betan culture and only kept in touch with a few people.

Colonel Jarra Tell Morrath and Colonel Bard Tell \_\_\_\_\_\_ were killed in action in 2769

**Children:**

* Marack Tell Galad
* Benard Tell Galad
* Seanna Tell Morrath

#### Extended Family

* **Brother-in-Law:** Draco Tell Dramis**†**
* **Nephew:** Dragon Tell Dramis
* **Great-Nephew:** Drago Tell Dramis
* **Great-Niece:** Dracia
* **Great-Niece:** Persephone

## Summary

### Kappa 2788

Short story in *Earth 2788* October 2788

Planet K21228 was about to move into Colony Ten phase and Colonel Torrek is preparing for the handover ceremony. This would be his last one as he planned on retiring. His past memories of his wife and husband are strong as he comes to terms with retiring. Drago Tell Dramis is on hand to remind him that he is Betan and that it is time for him to remember the good times and to return to the Tell Clan hall.

As he is finishing up the last minute marriages for his officers so relationships wouldn't be abruptly ended, he receives a call from his son Marack Tell Galad asking him to fill in for him as the Earth's solar array's commander.

### Earth Girl

During Earth Girl, Colonel Riak Torrek commanding the Earth Solar Arrays was called upon to conduct an Honor ceremony for Jarra Tell Morrath. Which he did on New York Dig Site in their accommodation dome.

Shortly after that his son Marack and his wife were killed on their Planet First assignment at K19448.

Not long after that there is a Solar Storm that required locking the power beams and evacuating the Solar Arrays. Before they had a chance to evacuate, the portal network shut down and all 352 people stationed at the arrays were unable to leave. The solar storm turned in a Carrington Event. Because of the increase in radiation during a solar storm, they could not stay at the array's so special equipment was portaled in so they could modify the array's ships that were never meant to fly in atmosphere. The ships that they had were used to move supplies around as needed.

After a couple of hours work, they were able to launch Solars 1 through 4 to land at White Sands (New Mexico) with minimal injuries' and deaths, but Solar 5 had problems with the conversion and as they approached North America, knew they would crash. Since Riak had been to the New York Dig site, he knew the area contained no settlements so first he tried to land in the river but ended up by crashing into the center of the dig site.

This resulted in an amazing effort by the research and foundation classes that had not evacurated, to dig out the 67 people in Solar 5.

*See also: Solar 5 Rescue*

Their ship shields would protect them for 18 to 27 hours

> **Colonel Riak Torrek**"*This is Solar 5. We’re within five degrees of horizontal, and the shields are stable, but you shouldn’t attempt this. It’s our job to protect civilians, not put them at risk rescuing us.*"**Dig Site Command**"*This is Dig Site Command. We aren’t civilians, we’re archaeologists! You’ve already breached site regulations by entering New York Main without proper clearance, so we expect you to quietly follow instructions.*"**Colonel Riak Torrek** *(laughed)*"*We apologise for failing to get clearance...*"

> — Earth Girl (Earth Girl series Book 1) (p. 321).

### Earth Star

Colonel Riak Torrek was the senior most officer in the area at the time so he was the one that activated the first ever Alien Contact program and was put in charge of setting up a Military base on Earth and running the Alien contact program.

He calls in Commanders Nia Stone and Mason Leveque who had served with him on Planet First assignments. He also recalled Drago's team from Zeta Sector to assist with guarding and or watching the alien probe.

He drafted Jarra and Fian to use them as a way to test for prejudices among the attack teams that were in space with the probe. By having Jarra, who is handicapped, walking around base with the Artemis medal on her shoulder and with a norm boyfriend, he felt that it would be a way to determine if any of the pilots were unable to control their prejudices.

He regarded Jarra as his granddaughter. Later in the book when he was dealing with a xenophobic bigot he glorified Jarra as a way to provoke the bigots so they would behave irrational. This cause him a lot of personal anguish, but he also felt it was necessary and was relieved when Jarra understood and was willing to do anything for her world, Earth.

### Earth Flight

At the beginning of Earth Flight, Riak Torrek is promoted to General in command of the Alien Contact program. This position has become part a the General Staff reporting directly to the General Marshal.

Soon after Jarra has skunk juice thrown at her, General Torrek goes in for an extended rejuvenation treatment and isn't around until Jarra has gone in for her web implant.

### Earth Prime

In the Novella, *The End, and the New Beginning* Riak comes to the Berlin Dig Site to have a private conversation with Jarra and Fian about her sister and brother-in-law.

He stays for the Next-of-Kin ceremony and in *I’ll Be Right Here Waiting* he has a conversation about his triad marriage to Jarra's Grandmother and wonders if Jarra had ever mentioned it to Fian. He than orders Fian to take some time to get out of his impact suit and eat while he waits for Jarra's surgery to finish.

## Footnotes

### References

1. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth 2788: The Earth Girl Short Stories (p. 137). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
2. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth 2788: The Earth Girl Short Stories (p. 141). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
3. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Prime (The Earth Girl Aftermath Stories Book 1) (p. 265). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
4. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Prime (The Earth Girl Aftermath Stories Book 1) (p. 11). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Hesita 2781 (p. 211)
6. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Star (Earth Girl series Book 2) (p. 47). Prometheus Books. Kindle Edition.