Lt.CMDR
Mathew Bowman
Chief of
Science
Species;
Human
Sex;
Male
Age;
Character History;
Mathew
Bowman was born on the Corvis IV terraforming station to Rebecca Bowman and
Mark Freidman. Rebecca Bowman
was director of the terraforming project, while his father was part of the team
responsible for the stabilization of Corvis IV’s planetary atmosphere.
While the technical challenges of terraforming Rebecca Bowman continually
referred to herself as a simple farmer.
Mat
grew up following his parents initiate various terraforming projects until his
parents separation when he was eleven years old.
Mat’s father followed a career that took him away from the terraform
command, and several lightyears
away. Mat
continued to live with his mother, with sporadic contact with his father until
he joined Starfleet. For
the majority of his adolescence, Mat lived aboard starships and planetary outposts,
and spent more time in environmental suits than most teens spend hanging out. Community is strong amongst terraformers
and as Mat matured he was drawn into the community.
Dragging seismic stabilizers across the frozen glacier plain of Pacee
III, to riding shotgun aboard shuttlecraft modified to herd comets in Bormis
system.
Mat worked closely with the
terraformers and Starfleet
crews, and made several close friends in Starfleet.
Mat was fascinated by the stories and experiences that the Starfleet
crews discussed. Encouraged by them
he began working towards the Starfleet entrance requirements.
Bowman began learning protocols, Starfleet systems and sciences. Bowman worked closely with the Starfleet
crews, and was continually supported in his decision to apply at Starfleet. Much to his mother’s
dismay, it was during this time that Mat picked up orbital skydiving from a
few crew aboard the U.S.S. Livingston, who after taking Mat for a few simple jumps over Pacee III,
had a extended jump into the Pacee’s system turbulent gas giant, with a transporter
recovery when the atmospheric pressure reached the threshold of the entry suits.
Captain
Lorok, commanding officer of the U.S.S.
Sheshatshiiu,
sponsored bowman’s application to Starfleet. When he was of age, Bowman took
the entrance exam and interview and was accepted into the Academy. Bowman
threw himself into the sciences, and based on his efforts was rewarded with
a cadet cruise aboard a deep space survey under the command of Captain Voxan
Rostars,
the Andorian Captain of the U.S.S.
Alexandria
(NCC-45231-Excelsior-class).
The mission was a mapping expedition along what
the crew began calling the deep-range.
Bowman was assigned to the stellar cartography, and met Tamara – whirlwind
romance J.
When Bowman’s assignment ended, so did the relationship, and both followed
there careers to different assignments.
After the Academy, Bowman looked
for another deep-space assignment, and was assigned to the U.S.S. Valdemar on a long-range core-ward
exploration mission along the fringes of the Alpha and Beta quadrant boundaries. Mat Bowman was promoted to full Lieutenant
at the end of the mission and transferred to the U.S.S.
Pharos at Starbase 217.
Aboard the Pharos, Bowman finds himself on the bridge more than he ever had
before.
Working closely with the Pharos’s science officer Cmdr. Gregore Charlois. Also Bowman met Alica
Tyler,
a civilian specialist aboard the Pharos.
When Bowman first met Alicia at an operations
meeting, little did he know that in just over a year they would be getting married.
It was a small
ceremony, held at the Big, Blue Marble on Spacedock.
With the brilliant blue white Earth below them, Mat and Alicia where
married by Captain Voxan Rostars. The Bowman’s spent their
remaining tour together aboard the Pharos, and were transfer
to the U.S.S. Quinixitis when
the Pharos returns to Earth for
upgrading. Like the Pharos,
the U.S.S. Quinixitis was a Nebula-class vessel.
The
Quinixitis
was
a new ship, and during the shakedown cruise Bowman is teamed with an engineering
detail to assist with final system integration and maintenance.
The Quinixtis served along the frontiers of the Federation, establishing
several outposts, re-supplying others, and updating navigational charts for
the region. The Quinixtis
also visited several worlds as the Federation flagship during their inauguration
to the UFP, and had a wide range of diplomatic and dignitary crew aboard.
Captain Martin Underhill rotated Bowman and
his team through various duties aboard the
Quinixitis
and they became known as the troubleshooters onboard the vessel. Bowman became very good friends with
the Chief Engineer, Lt. Cmdr Brozam Herat, a tellerite, who gave the Bowman’s
an elaborate Tellerite winding clock that he had designed and built himself. While
onboard the Quinixtiis, the Bowman’s talked
about transferring back to Earth, or somewhere else in the Federation core. Alicia Bowman accepted a position with
the Daystrom Institute, and the Bowman’s were making arrangements for transport
and transfer. Lt.
Cmdr Herat transferred to the Galaxy-class U.S.S. Odyssey in 2369, as her chief
engineer, and was killed aboard the Odyssey
in 2371, when a Jem’Hadar attack fighter rammed the vessel in the Gamma Quadrant. The Bowman’s had last seen Herat, while visiting him
and his family on Tellar in early 2371. With the Odyssey Incident, Starfleet began a
rapid period of change and expansion.
Bowman was transferred from the U.S.S. Quinixtis, and after a
few rapid placements aboard various starships and starbases. Arriving at Starbase 375 to met a transfer
vessel to Earth, Mat Bowman was offered a position as the Science officer aboard
the U.S.S. Akron, a newly commissioned Steamrunner-class. Alicia
Bowman would have no part of the assignment, having grown tired of shipboard
life, and continued to Earth, pleading for Mat to follow.
Mat refused, focused on his responsibility, and what he felt was a real
need for experienced officers on front line vessels.
Alicia continued on to Earth, while Mat accepted the transfer to the
Akron. Under the command of
Captain Quinn Garis, the Akron was assigned to border
patrol along the Cardassian border.
Briefly involved in several skirmishes with Klingon forces during the
dissolution of the Khitomer Accords, the Akron was involved in several
engagements during the outbreak of hostilities.
Operating along the frontier, communications with Alicia were few and
far between. Mat continued
to tell Alicia that he would be coming home to her, as soon as he “finished
up”.
The hostilities with the Klingon
abated, only to be replaced by the threat of the Dominion.
The Akron was assigned to Starbase 375, and participated in several
fleet maneuvers, and while Deep Space Nine fell to Dominion and Cardassian forces,
was involved in the attack against Cardassian shipyards.
Alicia
continued to ask Mat to get a transfer off the front lines, even to the point
of moving from her placement, to a transfer he would enjoy.
Mat continued to refuse, and telling her to be reasonable during the
war. Shortly after that, Mat received
the divorce papers, delivered courtesy of subspace.Bowman spent the rest of the war
aboard the Akron, participating in several
major engagements of the war, as well as the following occupation, and rebuilding
of Cardassia Prime. It was
under the suggestion of his commanding officer that he transferred to the U.S.S.
Venture, when his Captain Garis indicated that his talents where being wasted.
Game Stats:
Attributes:
Fitness
4
Coordination
4
Intellect
5
Logic
+2
Presence
4 Willpower +1
PSI
0
Skills:
Administration
(Starship) 2 (3)
Athletics
(Orbital Skydiving) 1 (3)
Command
(Starship) 2 (3)
Computer
(Programming) 2 (3) (Simulations/Modeling)
(3)
Culture
(Human) 2 (3)
Dodge
1
Energy
Weapons (Phaser) 1 (3) (Phaser Rifle)
(3)
History
(Federation) 1 (2)
Language
Federation Standard 2 Klingon 1 Cardassian 1
Law
(Starfleet Regulations) 1(3)
Mechanical
Engineering (Structure/Spaceframe)
2 (3)
Medical
Science (General Medicine) 1 (3)
Personal
Equipment (Tricorder) 2 (3) (Environmental Suit) (3)
Physical
Science (Physics) 2 (3) (Mathematics)
(4)
Planetside
Survival (Mountain) 1(2)
Propulsion
Engineering (Warp) 2 (3)
Shipboard
Systems (Sensors) 3 (4)
(Mission Ops) (4) (Science) (4)
Space
Science (Astronomy) 3 (4)
(Stellar Cartography) (4)
(Subspace Field Dynamics) (4)
Starship
Tactics (Federation) 2 (3)
Systems
Engineering (Sensor) 2 (3)
Planetary
Science (Planetology) 2 (3)
Unarmed
Combat (Starfleet MA) 1 (2)
Vehicle
Operation (Shuttlecraft) 1 (3)
Advantages/Disadvantages:´
Innovative
+1, Promotion +6, Department Head +4 (Galaxy-class), Code of Honor (Defender)
–3, Mathematical Ability, Intolerant (Dominion) -2,
Courage:
6
Resistance:
5
Renown:
64
Aggression: 12 Discipline:
10 Initiative: 12 Openess: 10 Skill:
20