Captain Mathis "Payload" Lasky
Name Mathis "Payload" Lasky
Position Executive Officer
Rank Captain
Character Information
| Gender | Male | |
| Species | Human - Colonist | |
| Age | 170 (Looks like he's 50) | |
| Birthdate | March 11th, 2343 | |
| Birthplace | Las Vegas, Nevada - Earth, SOL |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 6'3 | |
| Weight | 230lbs | |
| Hair Color | Chestnut Brown | |
| Eye Color | Blue | |
| Physical Description | Tall, well muscled and very good looking for a guy in his mid thirties except the dark shadows around his eyes. He looks generally cheerful and does not have any real stress lines on his face or anywhere else. He still sometimes goes by his old callsign of "Payload", especially when on duty. |
Family
| Spouse | Department Master Chief Petty Officer Laneli "Gearbox" Lasky PhD | |
| Children | Tiliae Lasky John Lasky Elizabeth Lasky Stephanie Lasky Jeffrey Lasky Grandchildren: Eighteen in all Great Grandchildren: Forty-Nine in all. Great Great Grandchildren: Eighty-Six in all Great Great Great Grandchildren: One hundred forty in all. |
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| Father | David Lasky - Deceased | |
| Mother | Marie Lasky - Deceased | |
| Brother(s) | Tom Lasky - Starfleet Nigel Lasky - Deceased James Yeoman - Deceased |
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| Sister(s) | None | |
| Other Family | Helen Yeoman - Adopted Mother - Deceased Darren Yeoman - Adopted Father - Deceased No others. |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Lasky is easy to deal with and get along with, he has a good sense of humor even in the face of utter stupidity, he can handle many unusual things all in a days work, what would normally upset others, Lasky would simply shrug and carry on. Lasky is a man who's all but turned his back on his humanity in the wake of several devastating losses, any one of which would break a person of lesser strength. However, underneath all of his rage and pain, he does have a heart of gold. Lasky has recovered his humanity in finding someone he got involved with, got married to and settling down and lastly, starting a family with. Also finding a new home among the various realities has given him new hope. |
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| Strengths & Weaknesses | Strengths: Work attention is methodical, can be abrasive and hard-nosed at times but is generally quite knowledgeable. Weaknesses: He doesn't react too well after he's had a few pints. Both: He has extensive combat training and has several master level belts in several martial arts |
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| Ambitions | To be a good father to his children, a good officer to those under his command and to be a good husband to his wife. Torilla. | |
| Hobbies & Interests | Flying, Fighting, Working out in the gym, cooking, combat training. Spending time in his Forge, making armor plating and weapons Any kind of Winter sports, cross-country skiing, Alpine skiing, snowboarding, ski jumping, speed skating, figure skating. Languages English and German |
| Personal History | Tom Lasky was born in Las Vegas, Nevada on Earth, the youngest of two sons, to David and Marie Lasky and as the four of them were very close, he grew up well looked after and happy. One day that was all shattered on his seventh birthday when there was an accident on the transport ship, only a handful of people escaped from the doomed ship before its warp core went critical and collapsed under the weight of gravity like a neutron star. He was the only one of his family to escape and he was taken in by a husband and wife team of Starfleet officers, he was well looked after and the treated him very well but he never gave up the Lasky name but Helen and Darren Yeoman refused to take his last shred of his family away so they left it alone. Tom began developing a taste for speed and a need to channel his anger into productive areas but when pressed, he found he had little desire to do anything else then hurt the enemy so he enrolled himself into several martial arts classes. Around Late 2361, he applied to join Starfleet and was accepted into the fall semester of 2362 at the age of seventeen, he was by now, little more than anger and rage given flesh except he majored in Conn and Starfighters but since Starfighters packed a heck of a lot more punch then Conn did, he went off to fly fighters, within a year he had earned his wings but instead of acting like a cocky headstrong pilot who thought he was right all the time, he instead was the quiet guy in the corner, watching and evaluating. It earned him his first callsign: Iceman which nobody felt suited him and so they went with the last four numbers of his service number, it was the number Five, so... he became Fives, he also left his humanity behind, citing that he would be dead soon and that he no longer had any reason to care. For his last mission where he would finally earn his wings in a Peregrine, he was conducting exercises with his squadron by demolishing an asteroid in space when someone had mixed a live missile into the dummies that he and his squad mates were carrying and without knowing it, he had signed the death warrants of his squad mates by firing the missile. All fighters but one were damaged and it was something of a small miracle that only one pilot was killed, the survivors did not blame him for what had happened and he was also cleared by the review board, he had still earned his wings but he demanded a transfer out of the squadron. When he was refused, he punched out his Commanding Officer and was very nearly kicked out of Starfleet but it wasn't on compassionate grounds simply because the investigation was bungled by an incompetent investigator. Unfortunately, both of his adopted parents were both called away to fight the Borg but Helen was fortunate to survive the battle of Wolf Three Five Nine where her husband was not, he was serving on the USS Yamaguchi as their Executive Officer while she was on the USS Goodson as their Chief Engineer. She found out that she was pregnant after the battle and so she had a son which she named after her husband, Tom was devastated by this loss, he was twenty-one years old now and he wanted revenge, however he had a half-brother to spend time with and this was all that kept him from losing it altogether. While he was a walking rage care, he was able to handle flying relatively well, even if he couldn't do anything else so he earned a posting as a section leader and then as a Squadron commander, he was also reassigned to the newly converted Nebula Class light Carrier, Roanoke. It was here that he found a special connection, not to a certain someone but more rather to the ship herself, he began to calm and achieve a measure of peace he'd never had before. His third assignment was to the brand new USS Hyperion, an Akira class starship, she was a carrier that needed an escort everywhere she went as she couldn't defend herself very well. Lasky served on the Hyperion and he considered it one of his preferred assignments but his time there was a year long and so a year later after his first tour finished, he stuck in for a transfer request and he was sent to the USS Venture to command one of her three Fighter Squadrons. He was promoted to First Lieutenant and assigned to command three section of Third Squadron, this was a role he took seriously and as the war with the Dominion started, he survived battle after battle, being transferred between various ships, usually all Akira class ships, from the Hamburg to the Berlin, from the Ticonderoga to the Venture and lastly the Courageous. Lasky fought in almost every major fight in the war, coming through without a scratch but his war wounds were not in his body but they were in his mind as he was now a Wing Commander due to combat losses and he finished out his Dominion War service as CAG on the USS Courageous. His career was going fine until the fateful day when he was wounded at the skirmish over Chudala the week before the battle of Coridan. Fives had been wounded while his fighter had been crippled thanks to a chance hit from an ultridium concussion round During the operation to secure Coridan from a major Dominion attack that succeeded, Lasky was abruptly promoted to Captain when the Commanding Officer of the USS Courageous along with his Executive Officer and Tactical Officer was among thirty personnel killed during the failed defense of the vital Federation world. Lasky held the rank of Commander while he held the Captaincy of the Courageous, expecting to be reassigned back to Second Officer but Starfleet offered him permanent command of the Courageous, Lasky needed no time to think on his choice as he decided to keep the ship he had ended up with rather than wait for promotions so he could earn a command the traditional way, however, a week after the battle of Coridan, Lasky found himself being promoted to Captain and the permanent command of the USS Courageous. Lasky commanded the Courageous for the rest of the war and it was here he would make his home, he had Jake Yamaguchi as his Executive officer and Neban Hular as his Chief of Security and Tactical, Patterson was serving as his second officer and Operations Chief. When Tom Lasky was offered her command, he was promoted to Commander and later they year he was appointed to the rank of Captain with the promotion becoming determinant at the end of the Dominion War, only because the paperwork had not caught up to him yet. Tom Lasky finished the war assigned as Captain of the Courageous and it was here where he would remain for years afterward. He would end up becoming the commander of the Eleventh Fleet while assigned to the Courageous but by 2392, he could no longer keep the Courageous as his command so he accepted the assignment of Commanding Officer of the Eleventh Fleet while stationed on a Starbase and so Captain Neban Hular took over as Captain of the USS Courageous, while Captain Jake Yamaguchi went off to command the USS Unto the Breach. Tom got the family together for a vacation in late 2395 and their shuttle ended up disappearing through a subspace anomaly which collapsed after their passage through. An exhaustive search by the USS Unto the Breach and the USS Courageous turned up nothing and both Neban Hular and Jake Yamaguchi were forced to write off their friends forever. Their journey took them to a very different version of their home galaxy in another reality where they were simply forced to settle as they had no way of getting back home ever again. Fortuitously the natives of this region seemed welcoming enough, if somewhat strange in appearance. Several decades later, Tom Lasky was able to return home to a galaxy that he didn't recognize but it was close enough to his original, he decided to take his wife and return home. What he found was unusual. He would find a man who wore his name and his face. Tom Lasky was forced to accept the fact that he needed a new name. He selected his grandfather's name of Mathis as his new name. His spouse was supportive of this but what was a surprise was the support of Tom Lasky who accepted Mathis as his brother, without hesitation or question. |
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| Service Record | STARFLEET SERVICE RECORD: Starfighter Academy - Titan - SOL 2362 - 2366 - Flight Cadet Cadet One - Four USS Soval - Ambassador Class 2366 - 2369 - Conn Officer Ensign / Lieutenant JG USS Roanoke - Nebula Class 2369 - 2372 - Conn Officer / Pilot Lieutenant JG / Lieutenant USS Hyperion - Akira Class 2372 - 2373 - Conn Officer / Pilot Lieutenant USS Venture - Galaxy Class 2373 - 2374 - Squadron Commander Lt Commander Dominion War Service: USS Ticonderoga - Akira Class April - June 2374 - Squadron Commander Lt Commander USS Hamburg - Akira Class June - November 2374 - Squadron Commander Lt Commander USS Courageous - Galaxy Class November 2374 to Mid 2376 - CAG / Commanding Officer Commander / Captain Dominion War service Ends: USS Courageous - Galaxy Class 2376 to 2385 - Commanding Officer Captain / Commodore USS Courageous - Galaxy Class 2385 to 2390 - Commanding Officer Rear Admiral / Vice Admiral USS Unto the Breach - Pathfinder II Class 2390 to 2392 - Commanding Officer Vice Admiral Starbase 67 - Ournal II Class 2392 to 2395 - Flag Officer Commanding Officer of the Eleventh Fleet Vice Admiral Went missing - Assumed Deceased in June 2395 His wife and children was with him. All are assumed lost. AKURIAN MILITARY SERVICE: Dates of Promotions and Demotions: Starfleet Career: 2362 - 2366 - Cadet One - Four 2366 - 2368 - Ensign 2368 - 2371 - Lieutenant JG 2371 - 2373 - Lieutenant 2373 to Mid 2374 - Lt Commander Mid 2374 to Late 2374 - Commander Late 2374 to 2381 - Captain 2381 to 2385 - Commodore 2385 to 2391 - Rear Admiral 2391 to 2395 - Vice Admiral Akurian Career: |