Lieutenant Narv bim Huffill
Name Narv bim Huffill
Position Engineer
Rank Lieutenant
Character Information
| Gender | Male | |
| Species | Tellarite | |
| Age | 52 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5'7" (170 cm) | |
| Weight | 240 lbs (109 kg) | |
| Hair Color | Dirty blonde | |
| Eye Color | Green | |
| Physical Description | Narv is a model specimen for a male of his species: rotund with a dense curly beard, prominent eyebrows, and perpetually suspicious deep set eyes. He is usually seen around the ship in his characteristic blue-and-white Tellarite coveralls, which the fashion conscious would call incredibly unflattering. He has a substantial tool belt that stretches across his equally substantial midsection and contains his highly prized, jealously guarded tools, a gift from the master engineer under whom he apprenticed at Telemachus Polytechnic University. |
Family
| Spouse | Vaosao glov Blorv is a remote preferred client services banker on Tellar Prime. | |
| Children | Theva bim Huffill is a second-year cadet at the premier military academy on Tellar Prime. | |
| Father | Bov bim Huffill is a retired nanotechnology engineer. | |
| Mother | Jinsh Trerav is a retired quality control analyst with Nalush, Khannorr & Haogges Integrated Pharmaceuticals. | |
| Brother(s) | Woss bim Huffill is the eldest brother and owns a civil engineering firm on Tellar Prime. Curg bim Huffill is an urban planner for the Tellarite Colonial Administration. Vevrak bim Huffill is an industrial design specialist for Beshnush Engineered Logistics. | |
| Sister(s) | None. |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Do yourself a favor and don't start an argument with Narv bim Huffill. Debate is a fine art on Tellar Prime, and Narv, like most Tellarites, has embraced it with gusto. Worse, he grew up with three brothers with similar attitudes, so he's guaranteed to have more practice than you. He begins every interaction with an insult or off-handed comment designed to elicit an emotional response. He is free with scathing commentary, insults, and generally irascible behavior. He is laser focused on details and minutiae, and, thanks to his eidetic memory, he has no problem reminding you of things like 12 UESF Regulations ยง 7.1256 on the commanding officer's authority to establish the limits of the quarter deck and the restrictions of its use during formal occasions other than official visits. Underneath his gruff exterior, Narv is a dedicated proponent of expanding Tellar's relations, a consummate outdoorsman, and generous to the point of charity with both his time and resources. |
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| Strengths & Weaknesses | + Detail oriented + Handyman + Eidetic memory + Mechanical aptitude + Sense of smell and hearing - Overly detailed oriented - Passive aggressive - Regular aggressive - Argumentative - Eyesight |
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| Ambitions | Narv strives to be known for his competent work and to be credited with furthering relations between Earth and Tellar Prime. | |
| Hobbies & Interests | sustainable agriculture & urban gardening; blacksmithing; stoneworking; home brewing; outdoorsman (hunting, fishing & camping). |
| Personal History | "There are two kinds of scientific progress: the methodical experimentation and categorization which gradually extend the boundaries of knowledge, and the revolutionary leap of genius which redefines and transcends those boundaries. Acknowledging our debt to the former, we yearn, nonetheless, for the latter." - Academician Daav bav Brokrov, founder of Telemachus Polytechnic University Narv bim Huffill is the youngest of four sons born to Jinsh Trerav and Bov bim Huffill. Through careful family planning the children were born at one year intervals, allowing them to grow up and experience life together. (It also led to a lot of fights, verbal and otherwise.) With his brothers granting the family sufficient prestige by pursuing more demanding careers, there were few expectations for Narv. Instead of feeling pressured into an engineering career, he was able to choose his own path in life. So, naturally, he decided to be an engineer anyway. "Optical drive networks, genetic catalogs, nanorepair modules--forget all of that. It's when you're standing behind a forcefield the thickness of a beard hair and a megaton of spinning trinesium goes flying by that you really find the divine in technology." - Anonymous Kera Shipyards Dockworker, TellarTelecom 3DVision Live Interview Narv graduated from the prestigious Telemachus Polytechnic University with a specialization in warp theory before joining the Tellarite Space Administration where he worked on several starship design projects, including a major redesign of the Phinda-class frigates. The majority of his career was spent at the massive shipyards in orbit of one of Tellar Prime's moons, Kera, where he eventually found himself managing interspecies construction contracts that placed him in close contact with the Arkonians and other species. "Once you've changed the relationship between yourself and your environment, you cannot return to the blissful ignorance you left. Motion, of necessity, involves a change in perspective." - Liberator Shallash, "A Social History of Tellar Prime" Near the end of his career, Narv requested reassignment to Tellar Prime to spend time with his family; however, after three years, he found it to be "too crowded" and "too full of Tellarites." Determined to enjoy a quieter community, he and his wife settled first at the colony on Tellemarkus to oversee the construction of an orbital cargo facility. But the air there was "too dry" and made his skin break out. Not to mention the atmosphere smelled faintly but persistently of Arkonian rutabagas. And there was something wrong with the water filtration system that made the water taste effervescent. Not that a little effervescence is bad, but this was too effervescent. There was also a local mushroom that had a really obnoxious habit of growing on metallic surfaces, which meant practically everything was covered in mushrooms.The sight of it being so highly offensive, the pair decided to relocate back to Tellar Prime, where Narv assumed an administrative position in the engineering corps of the Tellarite Space Administration. He later described his time as a desk jockey as "reliving the horrors of the Voice Wars on a daily basis." That position lasted no more than three months before he jumped at the opportunity to join a specialist exchange program, which saw him reassigned from Tellar to the United Earth Starfleet. He took a six month sabbatical to prepare for deployment during which he went through extensive language instruction and reviewed Starfleet rules and regulations. He sees the assignment as the ultimate challenge for those committed to Tellarite philosophy, for what better place to find new opinions and perspectives than outside Tellarite society itself? |
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| Service Record | 2103: Born 2116-2120: Telemachus Polytechnic University 2120-2151: Kera Shipyards, Tellarite Space Administration 2151-2154: Tellamarkus colony 2154-2155: Engineering Corps, Tellarite Space Administration 2155-Pres.: Reassignment to NX-Atlantis |