character Aberrant: StarGate Atlantis - Captain Simon Tanner

[Sven Lorakson]

Captain Simon Tanner

stats

Str ***

Dex ****

Sta ****

Cha ***

Man **

App **

Int ***

Wit ***

Per ***

Abilities: 30

Academics 1

Favored: Animal ken 2

Art

Athletics 3

Awareness 3

Brawl 3

Command 2

Control 2

Favored: Craft(sewing) +1 Craft(traps)+2

Empathy

Favored: Fortitude +3

Favored: Integrity +2

Investigation

Larceny

Favored: Marksmanship 3 +1

Medicine

Melee 2

Occult

Politics

Presence 1

Science 1

Favored: Stealth 3+1

Survival 3

Thrown 1

Boons and Epics(select 6)

Epic dexterity

Epic perception

Epic Wits

Purview Animal

Purview Chaos

Purview Water

Purview Scire

Virtues:

Courage *

Valor ***

Harmony ****

Loyalty *

Backgrounds: 7

Ata genome: 3

Backing: 3 (rank of Captain)

Resources: 2

Willpower= 7

Bp: 10 on skills(all favored), 4 on willpower, 1 on Background

Captain Simon Tanner grew up the son of a Ranger. He was taught from early childhood to fend for himself in the wilds, but was also instilled with the strict code of honor his held to. It was a perfectly natural thing for him to follow in his father's footsteps and join the Rangers in turn. Several tours of duty later earned him enough recognition for valor, adaptability, and honor to get him recruited to the SGC, where he served as first a member of SG-14, and then later as leader of SG-17. When the opportunity presented itself for the mission to Atlantus, he was one of the first to volunteer. He had no family left excet his father, who he was permitted to tell only that he would be on an extended mission of as yet undetermined length during which he would be unable to contact home. Retired Ranger that he was, his father took the news with pride.

Simon has always felt a strong affinity for the wild places in the world and wild creatures in general, an affinity that he doesn't share as much with his fellow men. He prefers to operate alone or with people he knows he can trust, but knows that this is not always possible. He would die to save his men, but would also die to stop one of his men from becoming the kind of embittered soldier who started shooting children in Vietnam because they would eventually grow up to be the enemy. His code for his men is, "We are here to stop evil, not become it. We will always be the better men because we choose to not let ourselves be lesser."