MtE Spacebase Alliance Team

The Systems Alliance negotiated an agreement with the Asari Republics whereby a team of their scientists would be admitted onto [Spacebase] and engage in research. The composition of that team is detailed here. It comprises two main sections. First, is the Science Team, comprising the specialists with expertise in those areas likely to arise as Prothean artifacts are uncovered. Second, is the Support Team, who provide all the support functions needed in order for the Science Team to be able to focus on doing their jobs without worrying about mundane concerns.

Science Team

Mission Director: Lieutenant Commander Jared Ibarra

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[Lab Tech 1]:

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Support Team

Team Leader: 1st Lieutenant Jessica Rai

Maintenance: Service Chief Lee Caruso

Communications: Serviceman 1st Class Yumi Takagawa

Logistics: Serviceman 1st Class Alex Bartovsky

Medical: 2nd Lieutenant Emily Vogel

Food Service:

Security: Gunnery Chief Preston Lau

Personnel Summaries

1st Lieutenant Jessica Rai

Role: Support Team Leader
Physical description: 5'9" tall and 150lbs. Has an athletic build and clearly spends a lot of time in PT. Fair skin, long black hair and dark eyes.
Background: Daughter of First Contact War veteran Rear Admiral Geoff Warrington and Nobel-laureate Chandima Rai, Jessica had every advantage in life. She grew up in the UK, went to the top education establishments and participated in sports at a high level. But rather than take the high-powered internship in the Alliance bureaucracy her parents had hoped for, she took a commission with the Alliance military. She wanted to give back in a much more meaningful way than pushing papers around. In order to avoid any special treatment linked to her father, she took her mother's name in service. On passing out she applied for command of a marine company, but was instead offered a logistics role in a high-profile assignment on joint exercises with the Turian Hierarchy. At every turn her attempts to get front line duties have been denied and she's been given career-enhancing, but safe roles instead.

2nd Lieutenant Emily Vogel

Role: Medical
Physical description: 5'6" tall and 130lbs. Medium build, with reddish-brown hair in a short bob, blue eyes and tanned complexion.
Background: A native of Terra Nova, Vogel always wanted to be a doctor from the earliest age she could remember. While she did well at school, her family was of modest means, and she could never afford to put herself through medical school independently. That left the Alliance as her best option for qualifying without picking up huge debts. Training to be a doctor was both hard and fulfilling, but she was surprised to find how much military life suited her. Newly-commissioned and on her first assignment, she's eager to see more of the galaxy and its inhabitants. While she's been diligent about spending the mandatory time on the firing range, she really hopes she'll never have to use her service weapon. In her mind she's supposed to save lives, not take them.

Service Chief Lee Caruso

Role: Maintenance
Physical description: 6'4" tall and 230lbs. Caruso is a big, brawny guy who knows his size intimidates a lot of people, but also comes in handy doing his job. He has a mop of curly black hair as long as regulations will allow, a close-cropped beard, green eyes and olive skin.
Background: A son of miners from Zorya on the Ismar Frontier, Caruso spent much of his childhood repeatedly repairing equipment overcome by fungi and humidity, and taking pot-shots at the local wildlife. While he grew to excel at the former, he was never more than passable at the latter. His preferred approach for dealing with overly aggressive fauna was to hit it with a sufficiently heavy tool. Having no interest in meeting an early end to an industrial accident or from some tropical disease, he signed up with the Alliance not long after reaching adulthood. His technical aptitude served him well, his issues with authority, particularly taking orders from anyone he felt knew less than him, less so. In spite of numerous insubordination charges and having been demoted a couple of times, he's made Service Chief and appreciates the autonomy NCO rank gives him. As well as the right to boss servicemen around. He has a gift for both repair and jury-rigging low and high tech, but doesn't play so well with others when he's not in charge.

Serviceman 1st Class Yumi Takagawa

Role: Communications
Physical description: 5'4" tall and approximately 100lbs. Sato is a lean woman of blended Japanese ancestry. She has short black hair that falls neatly just above her shoulders, fair skin and a thin smile. Her most striking physical feature is her violet cybernetic eyes.
Background: Communications officer Takagawa was born on her family's transport ship in 2157. Due to an accident involving an under protected view port and a solar flare she was left completely blind at the age of 18 months. Due to the initial rarity of ocular implant technology she didn't regain her sight until just before she signed up with the Systems Alliance Navy in 2175. Her family settled on the colony world of Amaterasu and setup a shipping company. Working for her parent's company her hearing became very keen and she learned how to sense a great deal about a person through their tone of voice; emotions, stress levels, honesty, etc. Her family traded with various aliens over the years and she took great pride in learning their verbal queues and idiosyncrasy. She showed great aptitude for verbal communications and was trained as a communications and signals specialist out of boot camp. Her ability to understand subtle verbal nuance was not lost on her commanders who put her in various roles that required understanding subtext behind official communications.

Serviceman 1st Class Alex Bartovsky

Role: Logistics
Physical description: 5'10" and 180lbs. Bartovsky is of average build; he doesn't spend anything beyond the mandatory time on PT but he isn't exactly bursting out of his uniform either. He has short buzzed brown hair, olive skin, dark eyes, a square jaw and a charming smile.
Background: Quartermaster Bartovsky was born on Elysium in 2150 and had an unassuming childhood earning mediocre grades and not really excelling at much of anything. He joined the Alliance Navy on the promise of a little adventure and some solid college money but stayed in once he got the hang of the Navy bureaucracy. He isn't that good at fighting or technical problems but he's amazing at 'working the system'. Previous commanders have said that Bartovsky always knows which form to fill out to either get what you need or keep people off his trail. Once he learned how the system worked, he started making it work for him. He's known to be able to obtain non-standard items from back channels and contacts outside of the Alliance. Need a 10 gage inverted pulse modulator right away? No problem, I'll be on the next standard shipment. Need a Salarian mono-molecular knife or a bottle of Turian brandy? No problem if you have the credits.

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