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| Both of Lutz's parents rose quickly from modest roots to become Stellar Navy captains who never rose to the Admiralty, but fought and died helping to successfully drive the Fist from Breadia during the Great Rise. Lutz's ultimate goal is to achieve what they could not - achieve Admiral - preferably before his bitter rival, the moneyed, aristocratic Captain Squab. Lutz is known throughout the fleet for his affable nature and the often relaxed, casual atmosphere of his command, the Apex. His belief that a watch too tightly wound will break has borne scrutiny in his three years in command: ship and crew performance ratings are second-best in the fleet each year (just behind Squab's.) Having come of age right at the start of peace following the Rise, Lutz is an explorer first and a soldier second. While he will utilize the Apex to fiercely defend the Republic from any foe, he also understands that for Breadian civilization to endure and flourish, the discovery of new worlds and new forms of life is of crucial. Unfortunately, he has developed a weakness for Pepto-Bismol, which may be affecting his judgement of late. |
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| Chief Engineer Age: 32 Birthday: July 14 Breadtype: Pumpernickel Loaf Favorite Food: Sushi With an intrinsic ability to put an ear to a machine - any machine - hear what it's saying, and learn exactly how it works, Nichols is one of the finest engineers in the fleet. The youngest of eight children in a family of sworn landists - Breadians who won't go into space - but Pumper’s lifelong obsession with the stars led to his break from family tradition. His primary pastime is tinkering, inventing, and building model ships in his workshop a deck below Engineering. |
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Chief Medical Officer Age: 56 Birthday: May 2 Breadtype: White Loaf with doctor’s headlamp Favorite Foods: Virginia ham, Texas toast , bourbon As far as he's concerned, Dr. Quicke is aboard the Apex for one reason and one reason only: as a doctor. Serving as a field medic in the Great Rise dissolved any romanticism about the military he might have harbored, and led to his dependence on the bottle. Despite his Hippocratic Oath, Quicke has no qualms about exposing his patients to second-hand smoke. Despite that, he’s good all-round physician. |
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Chief of Operations Age: 28 Birthday: December 20 Breadtype: Matzo Favorite Food: schav As fastidious, dependable, efficient an officer as one could ask for, Lt. "Matzo" (a nickname his mother gave him) is the quintessential overachiever. He also happened to attend academy the same time as his XO, Lt. Cmdr. Greenhorn. Matzo cultivated a silent competition and rivalry toward Greenhorn, and when weighing his hard work against Greehorn's amazing luck, he can't stop himself from resenting the fact that he has to take orders from him now. That competitive spirit mirrors that of his father, a wealthy, successful music executive. His self-appointed and willing adjutant, Petty Officer Sakemanjyu, further enables his often overbearing, bossy manner. |
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Master-at-Arms Age: 31 Birthday: September 20 Breadtype: Naan Favorite Food: Gulab jamun Many peers will say the officer in charge of security and discipline aboard the Apex is ironically one of the more fun-loving, lighthearted crew members. Lt. Naan is a crack shot and avid weapons collector and dealer. Some say he deals in things other than weapons, but such talk is merely scuttlebutt. What isn't rumor: Naan is also a crack gourmet chef, having learned the gastronomical ropes from his grandmother. |
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Chief Science Officer, Ship's Psychologist Age: 28 Birthday: May 27 Breadtype: Swirl Rye Slice Favorite Food: tofurkey Though her flower child persona can grow exhausting, Dr. Cohen is without doubt the sweetest and most kindhearted member of the Apex crew. She founded the Apex Women’s Association to ensure an open dialogue amongst the female members of the crew. She also has the distinction of holding no less than five doctorates: in psychology, biology, physics, chemistry, and geology. She joined the military for the science, not the violence, and she plays a mean violin. |
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Flight Officer Flying ships may be Lohan's day job, but she has other pursuits. She's a part-time model, most recently appearing on her first cover, that of New Loaf magazine, as well as the upcoming Girls of the Stellar Navy Calendar. She is also trying to launch a singing career, evidenced by her frequent pestering of Lt. Matzo, who has his father's ear. |
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Bridge Tactical Officer Age: 20 Birthday: Unknown Breadtype: Breakstick Favorite Food: Unknown Ensign Styx is an enigma. He almost never speaks, except when on duty. When off duty, he virtually disappears. When a question is asked of him, he often responds with one word, if at all. His impressive height parallels his aloofness. He is rarely invited to social functions. |
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Operations Officer Age: 21 Birthday: February 29 Breadtype: Steamed Sweet Bean Paste Bun Favorite Food: Yakisoba A card-carrying goody-too-shoes, Mizuki was valedictorian in both high school and university, and her love of order, hierarchy, and rules carried over into the service with all their potency. Her father is the Chairman of Sakemanjyu Industries, a powerful defense and media conglomerate. Shortly after gaining her MBA, her father decreed that she and her twin brother, Ichiro, must play a game of Shogi to decide who he’d appoint CEO and heir to the company. Ichiro won the heavily-televised game. Rather than play second fiddle in the company, a humiliated Mizuki enlisted in the Stellar Navy, stuck with it, and quickly found a kindred spirit in Lt. Matzo. Serving as Matzo's ruthless sidekick, Mizuki ensures his operational edicts are carried out to the letter, and that any violations in ship regulations result in punishment, or in most cases, idle threats. Her rank allows her to order crewmen and lesser petty officers around, and she does...a lot. She also maintains an intense aversion to games, particuarly Shogi. |
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| Yeoman Age: 19 Birthday: June 16 Breadtype: Slightly bloated White Loaf Favorite Food: Venison Rumors that Crewman has bun in the oven have proven unfounded; an excessive intake of food causes her to only sometimes appear pregnant; a phenomenon known as a ‘food baby’. Hers just happen to be extreme in scale. She serves as administrative assistant to Captain Lutz and senior staff, as well as an unofficial public relations officer. Captain Lutz often mistakes Palin for an ensign, when she is in fact a Petty Officer First Class. |
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| Science Officer Age: 18 Birthday: February 29 Breadtype: Sliced White Bread Favorite Food: Skittles Crewman Third Class Slices’ nose is almost permanently glued to the touchscreen of her Banana oPhone 6G, and as a result her superior officer Dr. Cohen has deemed her an utterly useless scientist. She apparently sometimes takes her eyes off the oPhone long enough to do lab work, but evidence of this is purely anecdotal. |
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| Flaky on the outside, dense yet tender on the inside, the Admiral lives up to his name. From his massive flagship, the Tychopotamic, Brioche surveys his Seventh Armada as it branches out on various exploratory and scientific missions and military exercises (his favorite.) Brioche is close to outgoing President Whigs, but is barely acquainted with the President-Elect. Like most Admirals, Brioche gained his position not exclusively through merit, but through his family's influence and cash. | |
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| Commanding Officer, SNS Retribution Age: 37 Birthday: August 2 Breadtype: Pale Blue Loaf Favorite Foods: Beef Wellington |
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| Salvatore Squab came from a rich and immensely powerful aristocratic family with a storied military past. Squab can trace his lineage to a time long before the Fist ever arrived, when Breadia was a monarchy, and ancient royal blood still courses through him, hence the bluish hue. And with that pedigree comes boundless vanity, arrogance, and entitlement. When he arrives on the bridge, a brief fanfare is played, and his custom uniform is crafted from the rarest and finest materials known to breadkind. Squab has rather effortlessly played a twenty-year long game of one-upping Laurel Lutz at every turn. Squab was first in his class; Lutz was second. Initially serving on the same ship, Squab beat Lutz to lieutenant, then commander, then captain, and beat him to a command, that of the SNS Retribution. Squab's crew perennially ranks first in performance and endurance; Lutz's crew is second. Squab was even born two days before Lutz, and has vowed to be the first to make Admiral and command a fleet. So confident is he of achieving this, he has promised Lutz half his fortune if he loses to him. Squab's crew worship and fear him, as do many other captains. His Retribution is one of the most advanced and heavily armed warships in the Stellar Navy. He also commands a sizable and very active cohort of lady admierers, is often hounded by photographers and reporters, and is almost always surrounded by an entourage (his 'court', as he calls it.) How much of this gratuitous pomp is orchestrated through the use of his bottomless bank account is not fully known. Despite his obnoxious, overbearing persona and vast-as-all-cosmos ego, Squab is actually a brilliant tactician and natural born leader of bread. And he never, ever lets anyone forget it. |
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12th President of the Breadian Republic |
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13th President of the Breadian Republic (Inaguration Date: February 3) |
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Ex-General Director, Bonpain Orbital Science Facility |
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