Doubtful
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Ship Information
Full Name: Doubtful
Class: Tramp freighter
Model: Confederation gunship
Port of Registry: Now registered at MU, formerly of Gilada
Original port/shipyard (City, Country, Planet): Confederation Shipyards, Gilada Prime
Manufacture Date (Earth CE Year): unknown
Number of crew: 18 minimum- 32 maximum
Brief ship description: Six decks; 1:Bridge; 2: Habitat, exercise room, galley; 3: sickbay and upper level engineering; 4: Lower level engineering; 5 and 6: Cargo bays and storage
Armament: Three phaser banks forward, two aft, one torpedo tube
Body Build: Military grade hull and shields
Color: gray with blast scarring
FTL: Yes
Faster than light method: Uses alien tech that generates wormholes for long jumps
Sublight method: Chemical propulsion
Distinguishing Body Features : Unique ship construction (only ship of her universe known to exist in MU space)
Universe of Origin
Fictional Source (Trek, BSG, B5, 4400, MU native, original creation, etc): Original Creation from the novel Horizon Shift
Is the character a transplant from his or her timeline, or is the timeline integrated? After a failed rebellion, the Doubtful, under fire from its own comrades, activated an untested alien device/weapon. The device unexpectedly caused a wormhole, shoving the ship into the MU universe.
Officers
Please link names of other characters in the ship.
Captain: Themes Rogers
First Officer: Liang-Chao
Helmsman : Kai Windthorp
Science Officer:Riviera Brown
Chief Engineer: Dani Jamar
Chief Medical Officer: A'non Boring
Communications Officer: Tasiq
Security Officers: Balthazar Griff and Kylie Sanderson
Crew
Medical Intern:Salamanca
Medical Assistant:Jacob
Engineer:Tusk
Engineer:Benzi Quinn
Engineer (JG) :Monty
Assistant Science Officer:Enick Tamala
History
When space captain Themes Rogers takes a stand against his Confederation and rebels against orders to conquer and kill an entire population of innocents, he finds he must attack the fleet he left port with as friends. His commander, Jal Burko, engages him in what is intended as a battle to the death. Desperate and under fire, Rogers’ crew uses an experimental alien device and they are thrown through a wormhole into a new universe.
When they come to, Rogers’ ship, the Doubtful, is severely damaged, two-thirds of his crew dead. His remaining crew is divided between those who rebelled with him, and those who were not part of the conspiracy, who have no clue what’s happened. Rogers must conceal the true story as long as he can to avoid civil war on his own ship.
He enlists new crew to help him rebuild and repair his ship: a runaway bride, a 17-year old navigation whiz sold into slavery, a cocky xenophobic engineer, a pair of genetically engineered lizard-humans. Each recruit brings a special talent to add to the professional and personal development of the staff. The MU universe welcomes Rogers’ open attitude and he makes business contacts that seem to smooth the way for their survival. He sets his sights on a new life, free from his hated former commanders and their oppression.
How the ship got its name
Rogers explains: “By Confederation tradition when first officers receive their own ship, their former captains choose its name.” It still burned him, that name. Rogers recalled late night sessions when the old captain would quiz him relentlessly on scenarios. If a cloaked force came out of a spacial rift, could they take the ship down before you would react? Would a mutiny by the crew leave you stranded on a lonely planet? Rogers had always been reluctant to give hard and fast answers. He wanted flexibility. He wanted to be able to make the best choice for the individual circumstances. His usual reply was, “Doubtful. This is why...” and he’d explain his thinking. In a tremendous joke that was understood by all who knew Themes Rogers, the captain christened the new captain’s ship the Doubtful. “Good luck, son. You’ll need it,” he’d said. As Rogers finished the story, the irony of the name in their current state was not lost on him. “She’s been the Doubtful since.”
