Department Master Chief Petty Officer Laneli "Gearbox" Lasky PhD
Name Laneli "Gearbox" Lasky PhD
Position Command Chief
Rank Department Master Chief Petty Officer
Character Information
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | Halanan | |
| Age | 168 (Looks like she's 43) | |
| Birthdate | November 9th, 2349 | |
| Birthplace | Ixian City - New Hallanna |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 6'0 | |
| Weight | 180lbs | |
| Hair Color | Chestnut Brown | |
| Eye Color | Brown | |
| Physical Description | Tall with a willowy figure, generally good looking, often wears her hair pulled back into a ponytail or French plat. Also she sometimes wears her hair long as she considers herself an Engineer first and everything else second. |
Family
| Spouse | Captain Mathis "Payload" Lasky | |
| 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 | Nebris Unal - Deceased | |
| Mother | Selonis Unal - Deceased | |
| Brother(s) | None | |
| Sister(s) | Torilla Yamaguchi Plataea Lasky Korelii MacRae |
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| Other Family | On her side: Commander Jango'tat Nesbis Jaris Nesbis - Son Torilla Nesbia - Daughter On her husbands side: None |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Laneli Lasky was rather distinctive as she stood in at an even six-foot tall and weighing in at about two hundred pounds, facing off against this woman would be a daunting prospect. Laneli also is easy to deal with, she can be reasoned with and can calm down when angered, also she doesn't lose her temper easily or often either but when she does, she can become a frighteningly destructive force to be reckoned with. Laneli tends to prefer things as simple as possible, she likes being prepared for anything and everything. This attitude has served her well repeatedly as she has fought, first for the Federation and later the Akurian Confederation in some of their most bloody battles, she has a dark side to her personality which she uses to her advantage in battle many times. It has saved her life in the process. Also, Laneli has earned her flight Wings, she stays in shape by flying shuttles, runabouts and fighters when she can. Laneli has a highly defined sense of right and wrong as she had no problems defending those weaker than she is as she is lethal with any of her known implements of war. This is a woman who is no stranger to close-quarters battle and she regards it as highly as she does time spent with her husband is just as skilled as she is. Also, she has trained her children in the arts of war and now they are just as well-honed as she is because she raised them with a highly defined sense of right and wrong. However, it should be noted that Laneli has two skills most lack, her psionic abilities and her temper for when provoked, she can become almost a force of nature especially when lethal force is authorized and she is armed appropriately. Laneli has been told several times by various COs that she is a little too dedicated to the destruction of the enemy once the first shot is fired as she tends to stop wanting to talk when she gets shot at, it's not a serious concern but if pressed she will not wish to discuss terms while ordinance flies, also she has two none-punitive letters of caution in her file from combat during the Dominion War. this did not deter her from the destruction of the enemy when needed. |
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| Strengths & Weaknesses | Strengths: Laneli is many things. Reasonable and easy to get along with, she's pragmatic and easygoing, she has to be because of her massive family with some four dozen members. Laneli also operates well with others and can handle many tasks at once, she has an excellent sense of humour and can shrug off insults that would deeply offend others. She's methodical when assigned tasks, she is meticulous in her work as she will often check things several times in a short timeframe. Laneli is a true master of her craft. She is an engineering savant as she can make just about anything from nothing if given enough time. Weaknesses: Laneli tends to overwork herself and can get stretched easily with her various hobbies. When angered, she has a ferocious temper that a Klingon would admire and when the use of deadly force is authorized, she has no qualms about using force to deal with her opposition but this is only after all other options have been exhausted. To Laneli, the subject of her exile is not a good conversation to have, she will not discuss it with anyone except family and even then she'll only discuss it under protest. When the subject of her exile for choosing to mate with an offworlder is brought up when in this situation, she can become very angry and aggressive extremely quickly. Laneli is a woman who has no problems with death. In her ongoing struggle with the inherent chaos and strife in life, she has always tried to protect the weak and the innocent as she has tried to light the way for the lost and oppressed. This is both a strength and a weakness, both balancing each other out. |
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| Ambitions | To be a good mother to her children, a good wife to her husband and to be a good engineer for her crews. | |
| Hobbies & Interests | Hobbies: This is a woman with little time for hobbies so she takes pleasure wherever she can find it, in a long soak in the tub or a good home cooked meal. She enjoys hanging out with her cats. If one needs her she's either in three places, at home, on duty in Engineering of in one of the Engineering Machine shops, dealing with various issues. Interests: Cooking, history in various forms, flying, making Holodeck programs for various people and events. various forms of combat training. Languages: English, Halanan, a smattering of words in other languages. Sexuality: Hetrosexual |
| Personal History | Torilla Unal as she is listed on her birth certificate was born in Kalandris City, on the northernmost continent of the Halanan homeworld of New Hallanna on November 9th, 2347 on the Terran calendar, in the capital city to Nebris and Selonis Unal, the pair had been trying to have children for years and Torilla was their last attempt, the efforts almost killed mother and child but Selonis Unal was able to bring her baby to term before the delivery killed her. She grew up as the cherished child and while she wanted for nothing, she also learned tolerance, respect and humility as grew up watching as her colony world was terraformed around her from a polluted hellhole into a paradise, this made Torilla appreciate Starfleet and as result she would choose her profession, Engineering with a side of Operations. She entered Starfleet Academy when she was eighteen and proved herself a capable and diligent student, she excelled in classwork and theory and frequently scored extremely highly but often did poorly with Tactical so as it turned out she was good with her hands, she has taken extra tactical courses to cure her of these issues but she still replies on the computer for the bulk of her tactical work. She was just entering her second year when Wolf Three Five Nine occurred and the effects of that one battle were far reaching and devastating on many ways as the bulk of Starfleet's cadet corps was activated and placed on standby status, prepare to fight the Borg. Torilla was called up along with her classmates and her now boyfriend, Tom Lasky who gave her some training with bladed weapons to prepare her for the challenges that lay ahead, it was then when she realized she had feelings for the young cadet next to her on the line, what was a bigger surprise was when she found out these feelings were returned. Fortuitously, the USS Enterprise-D was able to pull a rabbit out of their hat and stop the Borg as they entered Earth orbit and Torilla as well as her comrades were all able to breathe a sigh of relief. Torilla graduated with honors and when she did so, she got married to her longtime boyfriend Jake Yamaguchi and she took his name as her own as the name had grown on her, also his entire family had all accepted her into their sizable family which by this point had over a dozen members. After joining Starfleet and going to the academy, her worlds elders had permitted it in the hope she would grow out of her dalliance and then return home to help save her people from extinction but when this proved not to be the case and after she mated with an outlander, they banished her from ever returning home. Unfortunately, this would end her ability to come back to New Halanna as the elders, upon learning what she had done, they proceeded to banish her for failing to uphold the teachings of her people in that she needed to think of them first before all others because her species was slowly dying off due to genetic damage sustained from centuries of stupidity and overpopulation of their homeworld. In rage she turned to her husband and her new family and rather then fight with her about it as she had expected, they united behind her as they accepted her into their number as they think of relatives and in laws as blood relations without exception. She was assigned as an Engineering Officer on the USS Roanoke, just after she was in the process of being refitted to become a Carrier from a general purpose explorer, here she served for three years as the issues with the Dominion began heating up. In early 2372, she was reassigned along with her husband to the USS Hyperion as an Engineer. Torilla meanwhile was not intrested in having children as she wanted to wait until things had settled down before she had them, citing the unstable climate in the Alpha Quadrant as her reasons, which were all valid in honesty. Torilla would follow her husband from the Hyperion to the Venture where they were for the second Borg attack and the start of the Dominion War, when they were suddenly both reassigned to the Ticonderoga after the battle of the Rutharion sector which cost the Eighth Fleet some fifty four ships in a single battle. Torilla later became Chief Engineer of the USS Courageous due to battle damage and casualties but rather then depart this ship, she opted to remain here when her husband gain her command after her Captain was killed at the battle of Coridan. 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 permanent at the end of the Dominion War, only because the paperwork had not caught up to him yet. Torilla would remain by her husband's side, at first welcoming a son and then a daughter while assigned to the Courageous but finally she accepted a promotion to the rank of Captain and was reassigned to Starbase 67 where she would continue to serve alongside her husband. Tom got the family together for a vacation in late 2395 and their shuttle ended up disappearing through a subspace anomaly that 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, Torilla Lasky was able to return home to a galaxy that she didn't recognize but it was close enough to her original, she decided to take her husband and return home. What she found was unusual. She would find a woman who wore her name and her face. Torilla Lasky was forced to accept the fact that she needed a new name. She selected her grandfather's name of Laneli as her new name. Her spouse was supportive of this but what was a surprise was the support of Torilla Yamaguchi and Korelii MacRae who both accepted Laneli as their sister, without hesitation or question. |
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| Service Record | STARFLEET MILITARY SERVICE RECORD: Starfighter Academy - Earth, SOL 2365 - 2369 - Engineering / Operations Student Cadet One - Four USS Roanoke - Nebula Class 2369 - 2372 - Engineering Officer Ensign / Lieutenant JG USS Hyperion - Akira Class 2372 - 2373 - Engineering Officer Lieutenant USS Venture - Galaxy Class 2373 - 2374 - Engineering Officer Lieutenant Dominion War Service: USS Ticonderoga - Akira Class April - June 2374 - Chief Engineer Lieutenant USS Hamburg - Akira Class June - November 2374 - Chief Engineer Lieutenant USS Courageous - Galaxy Class November 2374 to Mid 2376 - Engineer / Chief Engineer Lieutenant Dominion War service Ends: USS Courageous - Galaxy Class 2376 to 2392 - Chief Engineer Lieutenant / Captain Starbase 67 - Ournal II Class 2392 to 2395 - Chief Engineer Captain Went missing - Assumed Deceased in June 2395 His wife and child was with him. All are assumed lost. AKURIAN MILITARY SERVICE RECORD: Dates of Promotions and Demotions: Starfleet Career: 2365 - 2369 - Cadet One - Four 2369 - 2370 - Ensign 2370 - 2372 - Lieutenant JG 2372 - 2376 - Lieutenant 2376 to 2380 - Lt Commander 2380 to 2390 - Commander 2390 to 2395 - Captain Akurian Career: |