Grand Admiral April Yamaguchi
Name April Marie Yamaguchi
Position Commanding Officer of Starfleet Operations
Rank Grand Admiral
Character Information
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | Human | |
| Age | 49 | |
| Birthdate | December 17th, 2344 | |
| Birthplace | Sickbay - USS Tecumseh | |
| Klingon House | None |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5'11 | |
| Weight | 145lbs | |
| Hair Color | Black | |
| Eye Color | Blue | |
| Physical Description | Svelte, willowy and generally attractive, she still has an excellent figure even in her late forties with three pregnancies. |
Family
| Spouse | Franklin Armstrong - Civilian, Chef | |
| Children | Natural Born Children: Paige Yamaguchi - Twins Kris Yamaguchi - Twins Kimora Yamaguchi - Twins Torilla Yamaguchi - Twins Daniel Yamaguchi Braden Yamaguchi - Infant / Twins Haiyan Yamaguchi - Infant / Twins Adopted: Achasa Yamaguchi Raymond Durden-Yamaguchi - Quick Shots only son. |
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| Father | Master Chief Petty Officer Benjamin Yamaguchi - Deceased | |
| Mother | Captain Rachael Yamaguchi - Commanding Officer, USS Warspite | |
| Brother(s) | Jake Yamaguchi Lee Yamaguchi Ian Yamaguchi Lee Antilles - Coral's husband Steven Johnson - Heather's husband Davijaan "Oddball" Yeager - Talon's husband |
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| Sister(s) | Coral Yamaguchi-Antilles Heather Yamaguchi-Johnson Talon Yeager Astrid "Alex" Yamaguchi Torilla Yamaguchi - Jake's Wife Julia Yamaguchi - Lee's wife Tienn-Yamaguchi Chesna - Ian's Wife |
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| Other Family | Many Others scattered around. |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | April has a laid back and 'can do' attitude, she tends to give those she knows are capable a wide latitude when she wants them to get things done, she has no time to babysit anyone. She has an English sense of humor so it cam comes across as dry and witty at times, especially to the unknowing and the uneducated Pissing this woman off is most unwise as she has an anger management issue, she calls it 'speaking her mind' and she has no tolerance for fools and the curious. |
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| Strengths & Weaknesses | Strengths: Excellent public speaker, good with tactics. she also has the ability to think creatively, she's laid back and easy to talk to as well as get along with. Weaknesses: has no time for those who waste her time, also people who think they are more important than her and those around them. |
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| Ambitions | This is a woman who is happy with the state of her life. she has everything she wants | |
| Hobbies & Interests | Hobbies: Reading late 20th Century Novels, Combat training, making new holoprograms, combat training, watching movies on a big screen, loud music, general exercise routines, drinking with friends, Hunting on the Holodeck and flying. Languages: Standard, fluent Cardassian, some Klingon and some Bajoran |
| Personal History | April Yamaguchi was born in 2344, the oldest of five children of Dr Rachael Yamaguchi and then Chief Petty Officer Benjamin Yamaguchi on a cold December morning, when April first saw the sky, it was dark with the stars scattered across the ferment of the cosmos, she would develop the love for the stars seen in all members of the Yamaguchi family. She was born in Sickbay, on the USS Tecumseh. Since she could not remain on the Tecumseh. Ben Yamaguchi went over to another posting. One where he could raise the kids. April was raised on Earth Spacedock with the rest of her family as her mother was assigned to the Starfleet medical facility. This suited April and her family fine as she grew up, a happy child with two loving parents that adored her, it seemed like nothing could go wrong until that fateful day in 2366 when her mother died. For the family, it was a very bitter blow and for April, it ripped out her heart but also set her focus on her main career in life, Starfleet as a Security Officer, partly to protect others and to also avenge her mother and then later to properly avenge her loss by helping to destroy the Borg. April graduated high school in early 2362 and applied right away for Starfleet Academy, she was accepted into that years fall semester as a student and then before the Borg scare and the destruction of the Fleet at Wolf 359, all the cadets and newly commissioned Ensigns were activated and placed on combat alert. April for her part, found herself being assigned to the USS Yellowstone, an older Excelsior class ship as she went off to face the Borg bravely, but still, she watched as the fleet around her were slaughtered down to the last ship with thousands lost to the Borg, including her own mother, Rachael who was lost with the destruction of the USS Goodson. April was recovered along with several thousand other survivors when the relief force arrived. April found herself meeting up with her various siblings including Jake and his girlfriend and to her everlasting joy, April was present when Jake proposed to Torilla, to her joy she watched as Torilla accepted her brother's proposal as they all prepared to do battle against a foe which never appeared as the starship Enterprise had appeared over Earth to destroy the cube at the last moment. The Enterprise had recorded the losses but it would be another couple of months before other Starfleet Forces would be able to start retrieving bodies from the debris, but none of these would be positively identified as Dr. Rachael Yamaguchi so she was assumed lost with the explosion of the Goodson's warp core. In December of 2366, April packed up her life and went off to the Starfleet Command College where she pushed herself to excel, graduating in early 2368. She was also offered her first choice of assignments and she went off to the newly refitted USS Roanoke which was now a proper Starfighter Carrier. April's time aboard the USS Roanoke was time well spent as she quickly developed her command and control skills in several missions of exploration as well as combat assignments. With the threat of wartime hanging over the heads of everyone in the Federation, whether or not they were in Starfleet began to gnaw at April, she was noted for having a truly excellent grasp of tactics and starship command as well as combat. April was soon reassigned to the USS Korolev as one of their relief pilots, she was quickly assigned to Alpha Watch on the Main Bridge during an engagement with a Maquis raider, this was what left her as the Chief Conn Officer since the current chief had been killed in the incident. Early in 2371, April was asked by Starfleet Intelligence to go undercover and to help the Marquis Operations in the Badlands but before she could deliver her weapons, she was caught up in a Cardassian raid on Raxus VI. The Cardassians took possession of her and threw her into a POW camp... where she was abused, tortured and systematically raped, a fellow prisoner was able to help her bear the abuse as she found solace in his arms and he gave her twins though she didn't know they were his and he was murdered not two days later, but she never even knew his name as she didn't have the heart to find out... the CO of the Cardassian guards realized that someone else was seeing his prized toy and so he was the one who murdered the officer April was with, right before her eyes, his blood splatted across her, it was meant as a gesture of cruelty and the message was 'you are MINE!' then the horror started again but a day later The Camp was liberated by the Klingons during their invasion of the Cardassian Union. April was able to obtain a Bat'leth and she let her hunger and thirst for revenge get the best of her. April went on a killing spree of the Cardassian guards turned prisoners, she snapped with all the pent up rage and fury, doing to her new captives, parts of what they had done to her and the other civilian prisoners. She had killed nearly 80% of the guards and it still wasn't enough as she wanted the Gul who had ordered all this done in the first place, she was able to corner the Cardassian Gul, it took him a while to die, even as she tortured him, his screams filling the valley, everyone could hear him and yet nobody bothered to stop her, to this day, April wondered why. She dug a hole and buried him up to his neck, she then sat by him and waited as she wanted to question him about events but she couldn't go through with it so she cut him up and let his blood run as he had let her's run, she turned and left as she left the animals to finish him off. After that, she was made a member of a Klingon house... House Kaang to be exact. April doesn't wear the bandoleer or the dak'tag like other members do....she'd not had the heart for it. She was transferred to the USS Apollo as the Chief Conn Officer and Second Officer, she had been marked as someone with an exceptional sense of tactics in combat and there were those in Starfleet who were eager to see her develop before the oncoming War with the Dominion. It was here when she decided that some new tactics were needed against the Dominion so she put the ship in for a refit and then ordered a rather sizable amount of supplies to be delivered, she then took a highly unusual battle-plan to Captain Sisko and General Martok, both of who liked what she had come up with "this is a warriors plan" Martok had said at the time "May you die well in battle Captain" he added as he addressed April. April was offered a posting of Executive officer of the USS Enchantress. She accepted and it was here where she would serve as the ships first officer but while fighting at one of the many battles she faced at the hands of the Dominion, her Captain was wounded in action. April was advanced to the rank of Captain and the posting of Commanding Officer. It wasn't what she wished for but it was what she was forced to deal with and deal with it, she did. April wanted to finish the fight with the Dominion and thus she would fight the Battle's of Getha and Cardassia from the bridge of her ship that had now become hers. The crew came through without issues but the Enchantress herself was very badly damaged during the fighting. She had to be towed back home after the end of the battle. However, the war was won. April was tired but she was also conflicted. Part of her was happy that the war was over, but another part was sad that the Cardassians had been the victims of a rather brutal act of genocide. So, she ordered all her mediucal supplies, all of her potable food and water be sent to the planet below, along with the aide from other ships present. Before the fleet towed her and several hundreds back to Federation space. April was reassigned since the Enchantress could not be restored so easily or so quickly. She quickly learned that this was the Enchantresses final flight. April had come to cherish the ship she had commanded. She didn't think that anything could replace her but Starfleet quickly proved her wrong when they assigned her, alongside her entire crew to the USS Asgard, a newly comissioned Akira clas starship which April would spend the next several years calling home. It was here where she would raise her eldest two children after her father had returned Kris and Paige to her. She found an excellent leader in Rear Admiral Daniel Grafton who had a very laid back and easygoing manner, he realized that the usual brand of therapy would not work with his new fire-breather of an officer so he decided to help in other ways, in that he wanted to draw her out of her shell. He wanted to encourage her as he was a father in his own right. He saw that she was settling into motherhood. So he decided that he would bbaysit and help her with her children. Grafton watched as April seemed to relish her responsibilities whilel commanding her own ship, as well as assiting him with duties around the battlegroup. Daniel Grafton realized that April had more potential when he watched her in simulations commanding several ships as the USS United States was one of the few ships at this time that was operating in a battlegroup. Daniel arranged for April to be transferred to Earth spacedock so she could develop these skills, she flourished here as a result of this. Among her various assignments was that she got to champion the cause of the new Obena class starship, which Starfleet was starting to build. Around the same time she ran into an old friend, one Franklin Armstrong, the two then started dating, with few issues they ended up in a relationship, he proposed to her in 2383, she accepted then they got married while she was pregnant with her middle child, a girl they both named Kimora after a family friend of the same name. Around the time of her promotion to Rear Admiral, she learned she was pregnant with twins and later that year, she delivered a healthy boy and girl, which she and her husband named Torilla, after her sister in law and Daniel, named for Vice Admiral Daniel Grafton. As the next few years went by, she gained command of her own task group and later was assigned to Starbase 24 as commander of the Nineteenth Fleet, it was only around the middle of 2392 when she was promoted to Admiral and made Commander of Starfleet Forces, Beta Quadrant because her record was clean and almost spotless. She found herself dealing with a lot of things going on in the fleet, she was appointed as COSFBQ, the long title was Commanding Officer, Starfleet Forces, Beta Quadrant. Partly because someone wanted a stool pigeon but this is a woman who will not be talked down to or used and controlled by anyone so she made something out of the posting rather than nothing. When Commander Torilla Yamaguchi requested assistance with her decrepit assignment, April sent a research and development team to assist USS Roanoke with her various issues. April was able to reunite with one of her brothers, Jake along with his family, she does maintain contact with her various siblings and their families as she found herself noticing a great many scandals going on, also she had been made aware of recent events which did not sit well with her not one bit. In Late August of 2391, April gave command of the Daedalus to her executive officer and she also promoted him to Captain. Now she only holds the position of Commanding Officer, Starfleet Forces, Beta Quadrant. April is settling into her assignment with relish, it's not often she gets to command ships and bases on a galactic scale. However, she knew her many enemies would like nothing more than to get rid of her so she has to be careful, more so now then she would in years gone by. When the Military reorganization act came into effect on August 1st of 2391, her rank remained unchanged because of her position but in 2393, her status was cemented with her being promoted to become the head of Starfleet Operations. She accepted the posting in late 2393. At the same time, the paperwork for her legan adoption of Raymond Durden came though. She had taken in this orphan as a request from his father that should anything happen to him. April and Franklin would take him in. |
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| Service Record | Starfleet Academy - Earth, SOL 2362 to 2366 - Pilot / Conn Student Cadet One - Four USS Yellowstone - Excelsior Class 2366 to 2366 - Conn Officer Ensign Starfleet Command College - Earth, SOL 2366 to 2368 - Command Student Ensign / Lieutenant JG USS Roanoke - Nebula Class Carrier 2368 to 2371 - Conn Officer / Chief Conn Officer Lieutenant JG / Lieutenant USS Korolev - Excelsior Class 2371 to 2372 - Chief Conn Officer / Assistant Chief Operations Officer Lt Commander USS Apollo - Excelsior Class 2372 to 2374 - Chief Operations Officer / Second Officer Lt Commander USS Enchantress - Excelsior Class 2374 to 2376 - Executive Officer / Commanding Officer Commander / Captain USS Asgard - Akira Class 2376 to 2381 - Commanding Officer Captain Earth Spacedock - Ournal I Class 2381 to 2384 - Commanding Officer Commodore Starbase 24 - Ournal II Class 2384 to 2390 - Executive / Commanding Officer - The Nineteenth Fleet Rear Admiral / Vice Admiral Starbase 12 - Ournal II Class 2390 to 2392 - Commanding Officer, Starfleet Forces - Beta Quadrant Vice Admiral / Admiral Starbase 105 - Ournal II Class. 2392 to 2393 - Commanding Officer, Starfleet Forces - Beta Quadrant Grand Admiral Starfleet Command - Earth, SOL 2393 to Present - Chief of Starfleet Operations Grand Admiral Dates of Promotions and Demotions: 2362 to 2366 - Cadet One - Four 2366 to 2367 - Ensign 2367 to 2369 - Lieutenant JG 2369 to 2371 - Lieutenant 2371 to 2374 - Lt Commander 2374 to 2375 - Commander 2375 to 2381 - Captain (Promoted due to wartime losses) 2381 to 2384 - Commodore 2384 to 2388 - Rear Admiral 2388 to 2392 - Vice Admiral 2392 to 2393 - Admiral 2393 to 2393 - Fleet Admiral 2393 to Present - Grand Admiral |