[x] Commander Gessica Hoedemaeker: Engineering & Second Officer. One of the most experienced hands in the care and feeding of a Soyuz class cruiser, the Commander knows the inside of the reactor room like the back of her hand and is a steady interface between the engineering and science teams to boot.
[X] Lieutenant Jyn'Tsk: Ginny to her friends, one of the growing number of chelonians have have emigrated from the Protectorate and its long confrontation with the TKK Imperium. Young for a chelonian, friendly, and open minded, Ginny has settled in as your ship's Operations officer, responsible for overseeing damage control, communications, and secondary ship systems.
[X] Commander Liah Bin-Tran: Apectid. One of the first generation of apectids who came to adulthood in the post-Contact era, she was one of the first of her people offered a slot at the Academy once she'd demonstrated the natural technical expertise. Fifteen years later, she's matured into a model officer and a symbol for all citizens of the Coordinate as they join the greater Commonwealth. Her time among humans has made her a little more independent and less conforming than the Matriarchs back home would like, though.
[x] State Department Attache Madhava Parsamyan: One of the Commonwealth's most experienced diplomats, Parsamyan was assigned to your ship a few years ago to handle negotiations with Trimson Trys and somehow stuck around. Over a century old, and with a resume stretching back to the Hemisphere War on Elysium, he is as adept negotiating a trade treaty with an iase caravan as navigating the still-troubled waters between the Earth states.
[x] Commander Stalks-With-Cunning: Caiveh. She's the spitting image of a caiveh warrior, fierce claws and predator instincts, the caiveh thought themselves masters of all they survey. Unfortunately, they ran into the Imperium and lost their homeworld, with the Commonwealth's caiveh population descended from formerly nomadic clans who've taken the offer to settle down on the colony world of Penzance. A member of the Void Hunter Clan, Stalks-With-Cunning is a rare caiveh who didn't find herself jumping at the chance to become a fighter pilot. Unlike many of her fellows, she recognizes that the image of the caiveh in glorious hand-to-hand combat is undermined both by the misfortunes her species has suffered over the last few thousand years and by the fact that the average caiveh warrior stands barely a meter and a half tall and doesn't break fifty kilos, and is more than willing to use her wit and cunning without resorting to screaming and leaping.
[x] Master Sergeant Andrej Roland: Your ship has what's termed a "First In" team of marine specialists trained to assist civilians in the rough and tumble of ruined alien city or in delicate diplomatic negotiations. A somewhat reinforced platoon, it is in fact normally headed up by a Marine Lieutentant who isn't completely wet behind the ears. In practice, it's Master Sergeant Roland's unit and the man's four decades of service has led him to see all sorts of things.
