Lieutenant Commander Lukas Carter
Name Lukas Carter
Position Chief Engineer
Rank Lieutenant Commander
Character Information
| Gender | Male | |
| Species | Human | |
| Age | 34 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 181 cm | |
| Weight | 88 kg | |
| Hair Color | Graying Brown | |
| Eye Color | Green | |
| Physical Description | Lukas Carter's physical fitness lies on the margin of United Earth Starfleet requirements. With a bit of paunch and a round face, Lukas's features compliment his jolly and approachable demeanor. Despite his less than athletic appearance, Lukas's physical stature doesn't keep him from doing his job, albeit with a little more huffing than some of his colleagues when scrambling through a jeffries tube or up and down the ladders in engineering. He keeps his sandy blonde hair short and his full beard well within Starfleet regulations. He bears a tattoo of a pouncing Eurasian Wolf on his right arm from his service in the European branch of the United Earth Defense Forces (UEDEF). |
Family
| Spouse | Sabine Carter | |
| Children | One, Gunter Carter 13 | |
| Father | Jonathan Carter | |
| Mother | Anna Meier | |
| Brother(s) | Francis Carter |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Lukas greets everyone with a smile and rarely offers a complaint when asked about his day. His good nature and easy demeanor make him a popular man in the ship's mess and off duty, but the pivot to leadership and senior officer status has forced Lukas, albeit reluctantly, to put barriers between him and his shipmates. While he maintains his cheery attitude on duty, he adheres to the formalities of rank and address despite Starfleet's insistence on its non-military nature. Despite these changes, Lukas does his best to remain approachable to his subordinates, but he doesn't suffer fools. He still demands the same competence and dedication that a hard-nosed, dyed-in-the-wool MACO would demand of his own soldiers. | |
| Strengths & Weaknesses | Strengths Lukas's time in the UEDEF European Command (UEDEF-EC) as a field engineer and maintenance supervisor provided the foundation for his training and education. He possesses a keen sense of discipline, military doctrine, and making do with what's available. Capable of cobbling together a tool or piece of gear for any situation, Lukas excels at field work and jury rigging a solution to a seemingly unsolvable problem. His University and Graduate education after his military service focused on faster-than-light theory application and warp engine construction. While he may not be able to develop a new warp engine, if you give Lukas the blue prints he could built it with twine, a paperclip, and a sheet of duranium. His friendliness has made him few enemies in the United Earth Starfleet. With a friend in every port and on every ship, Lukas can get any part or piece of gear he needs for an assignment or project. These connections even afford him access to information he may not be ordinarily entitled to. Weaknesses Where Lukas excels at building and repairing things, he falls behind his peers in the design and development of warp field systems. His difficulty grasping theoretical principles delayed his assignment to warp five vessels and relegated him to more primitive Intrepid-series vessels and near-earth defense vessels. In addition, his friendly nature comes across as passive to some superior officers. He appears seemingly content to remain in his post when, in reality, he desires more. Yet Lukas struggles to engage in competition or direct conflict with colleagues or shipmates if it risks jeopardizing their relationship. As a senior officer he's had to learn the hard way that Starfleet and personal relationships don't always get along. |
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| Ambitions | A small part of Lukas desires his own command, but when he considers the personal sacrifice a Captain must make, Lukas realizes he'd rather he in charge of a dry dock or assembly yard. Building is his passion in Starfleet, and he would relish the opportunity to oversee construction of United Earth vessels. | |
| Hobbies & Interests | Lukas's first hobby was imposed rather than discovered. Like many parents, Jonathan and Anna wanted their son to play an instrument - something to develop his creativity. His mother pushed for the accordion and his father the violin. For a while, Lukas struggled through both in primary school until finally choosing the accordion out of frustration (and to rebel against his father), an instrument more closely associated with his mother's heritage than his father's. He continued to play the quirky instrument through secondary school and university. It had a dubious reputation on campus for either adding flair to a gathering or groan inducing disappointment from his friends. Outside of his musical interest, Lukas enjoys a good game of football (European) and reading the latest engineering and technical periodicals. |
| Personal History | Lukas Carter was born to Jonathan Carter and Anna Meier in Saarbrucken, Germany. The child of an Englishman and a German woman, Lukas had the privilege of growing up in the idyllic post-war European Community. His father was a lawyer and his mother a journalist. Neither expected their son to pursue a career in Engineering or the military. The Saar basin was once a thriving industrial hub, but in the post-war order it had fallen into a deep depression. The former states of France and Germany abandoned the region and left its citizens to live in squalor while the weak central governments attended to their core constituents. The advent of warp technology, however, revitalized the Saar. The old factories and machine shops found new life building warp engines, fabricating hull plating, and building torpedo casings. This new economy brought Jonathan and Anna together. An interview with a foreign lawyer for a British manufacturing firm brought two unlikely people together. From their chance meeting came marriage and eventually Lukas. |