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==Personnel File==
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=====Hauk' Son of Haqar=====
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|'''Role:'''
|Explorer Squadron Commander
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|'''Billet:'''
|12th Explorer Squadron
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|'''Flagship:'''
|[[U.S.S. Beowulf (NCC-2701-A)]]
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|'''Rank:'''
|Fleet Admiral
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|'''Faction:'''
|Starfleet
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|'''Career Path:'''
|Tactical
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|'''Fleet:'''
|[[Malstrom Alliance]]
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|Race:
|Family / House:
|Klingon
|N/A
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|Father:
|Haqar (deceased)
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|Mother:
|L'Rilka (deceased)
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|Wife:
|Keltor (deceased)
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|Gender:
|Children:
|Male (he/him
|Thorgan (deceased)
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|Maral (deceased)
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==BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION==
===Another Life===
Hauk once was of the Klingon House of Rha.


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And although Hauk *is* a member of and leader of the House of Rha, he is not THAT Hauk and that House of Rha is not HIS House of Rha.


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You see, Fleet Admiral Hauk is from another alternate timeline where the planet Romulus never exploded and he was a Fleet Admiral in Starfleet who once served as Fleet XO of Starfleet's Ancillary Units before becoming task force commander of the Harbour Expeditionary Force, followed by fleet commander of SF Cassini Command and finally CINC of Starfleet itself.


==QUICK POINTS==
Quite simply .... In the end, he had Admiral Jorel Quinn's job ... at least in another universe.


*'''Rank:''' Captain
It was under his watch that it all seemed to fall apart.  
*'''Billet:''' CO - [[U.S.S. Avalon (NX-5347-A)]]
*'''Faction:''' Starfleet
*'''Career Path:''' Tactical
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*'''Species:''' Human-Efrosian
=== One Enemy after Another ===
*'''Gender:''' Male (he/him)
Not his fought, but still ... He did his best to hold things together in what can only be classified as the "end times" on a universal scale.


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As with this reality, there was one grand threat after another .... only they managed to stomp the embers of conflict before they became full-fledged five alarm fires.


*'''Heritage:''' Norse/Scottish
And yes, the enemies were sometimes the same, sometimes similar and other times ... completely different.
**Part of the Maitland family/clan
**Part of the Norse Vaegher family
*'''Father:'''  [[Ericksen Vaegher]]
* '''Mother:''' [[Annasechan Ra-Junarli Vaegher (“Anna”)]]
*'''Sister:''' [[Agnes Nashari Vaegher]]


== BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION==
The Borg were a given.  


=== Origins===
The Undine as well, however, they had to deal with a large breakaway faction of the Undine who referred to themselves as the Horvauk.  
Alan Rhys Vaegher … predominately Efrosian and Norse / Scottish human ,,, with a bit extra toss into the mix.


He was not raised in the lands of his forefathers, but in the cold northern regions of the planet Evigelys — a terraformed planet turned Federation colony.
They always knew there was some larger entity or group behind the scenes pulling strings, but in their universe ... the Iconians never revealed themselves.  


His family lived in a land best described as a unique blend of Norway and the Scottish highlands of Earth.
Just as the Terran Empire never became (or were seen as being) the threat they are in this reality.  


It was a land terraformed into a place where modern technology gave way to the natural world, embracing nature and the life introduced — life which was transplanted from Earth and other such worlds.
=== Another Galaxy ===
There was also another galaxy they had found a bridge to via spacefolding gateways ("stargates") that were portals large enough for ships to pass through.


Always making sure life introduced could exist in a harmonic balance with one another.
A lot like the Iconian gates of this reality ... yes.  


So to say Alan grew up to appreciate nature and its offerings would be an understatement.
That galaxy was called Ansolon.  


He also has always been a person fascinated by his ancestral origins with this becoming something of a hobby for him.
=== Same Regions, Yet Differences ===
When the gateway collapsed and travel between the two galaxies severed, attention turned to exploring a region called the Cassini Expanse ... similar to the Malstrom Expanse of your galaxy within a similar location, only a wee bit smaller ... yet still large on the grand scale.  


To begin, Alan and his sister are both of mixed heritage --- their father being primarily human and mother Efrosian.
Those differences are something Hauk spends many hours pondering ... considering and researching in a manner that borders on obsession.  


The given within their human ancestry is Norwegian ... evident by family name as well as the fact that many of the traditions and beliefs passed on to them stemming from the family’s ancestral roots weaving backwards to Norway on Earth.
He knows the two regions, although similar in nature ... are different for some reason.  


DNA offered other clues of other branches of the family history, pointing towards their also being of the Scottish clan Maitland ... yet the family’s historians could never trace their family’s heritage back beyond a Starfleet captain / engineer, named Rhys Allen Maitland (after whom Alan was named), who lived during the time of the First Klingon-Federation War.
It's like some cosmic supreme being took the region as exists in his universe shook it up in this reality .... scattering the pieces like a person throwing runic bones across a game board.  


Overall, Allen finds himself a unique blend of Norse, Scottish, Irish, English, Efrosian, and … Romulan.
Something told him the pieces were all there ... just moved about ... scattered differently and quite likely extra pieces added to the game board for good measure.  


There was no record, however, of how the Romulan DNA could have found its way into his family tree other than genetics pointed it towards being from BEFORE Starfleet even knew what Romulan’s looked like.
But then back in his reality, they had found whole star systems within and around the Cassini Expanse (and the Ansolon Galaxy) that all signs pointed towards being re-shaped,  re-engineered.  


Alan blames the Efrosian passion for auditory stories and histories for his love of not just learning old stories of family, history, and his ancestral peoples ... but weaving them into stories not written as much as tales to be shared verbally.
=== Speculations ===
So many things here are yes different, but so many are the same.  


Another gift of his Efrosian heritage deals with eyesight.
Consider the possibility that at some point in the past both timelines had been the same until something happened that caused a divergence in the timelines ... a splitting off.  


Most Efrosians have weak eyes but compensate with a heightened sense of smell. Some Efrosians who are blind can correct this disability with a type of special mechanical glasses. Interestingly, despite their poor eyesight Efrosians appear to have a greater range of vision than Humans, being sensitive to a wider portion of the spectrum.
From that point forward, things changed.  History re-shaped along with the bits and pieces of the who what what increasely different the farther steps led away from that moment of divergence.  


Special glasses help Alan compensate for the differences in his vision.
=== The End of Reality ===
But how did Hauk get here?


===Academy Years===
The real war for them came in the form of a war against a civilization of A.I. unlike anything ever encountered.  
Another item of interesting note, he had a classmate at Starfleet Academy, named Rhys Allen Maitland.


The pair always marveled at the similarity of their names with it even helping cement the pair as best friends, known for causing mischief and trouble (of the fun sort) on occasion.
Artificial Intelligence gaining sentience and life ... yes ... that's happened before.  


Of the Class of 2407, the pair were actually part of a trio back in those days with Rhys cousin, Elnyrr i-Rhys tr’Maitland, being their third.
But with this new race, they were in the form of living computer programs that went about assimilated technology like the Borg assimilate humanoids.  


Don’t let their fun carefree natures fool you, however, as they were at the academy to learn and succeed.
Whole starships when infected turned on their crews.  


All three were selected to participate in the captaincy candidate program as well as an immersive set of holographic missions set in the Klingon-Federation War of 2256.
With their crews purged, the ship itself became like an incubator ... a nest from which the program became programs as it split and multipled.  


The missions were to gauge his command performance and readiness to lead others in the field.
The programs in a short time went from dividing off, maturing and gaining sentience.  


===First Command, Personal Loss===
They would then spread however they could to other ships and physical forms of technology to begin the cycle over again.  
Following completion of the special training, Alan was given command of the U.S.S. Kashima, Gagarin-class Battlecruiser.


During the Borg invasion of the Beta Quadrant in 2409, the Borg boarded the Kashima and assimilated over half the crew before Alan and his people were able to hold the line and slowly drive the Borg from their ship which ended up being decommissioned due to the extensive damage received in the engagement.
The A.I. were hard to stop to begin with, but they evolved quickly and each step in their evolution made fighting them that much more impossible until all life and blood sentient beings within known space were systematically wiped out.  


Alan lost many friends to the Borg during that invasion ... including his best friend Rhys who had been assimilated into the Collective.
At least that was what seemed to be happening from Hauk's point of view.  


=== Time in the Shipyards ===
They'd already been forced to abandon advanced starships for those a few generations old (clearing out the ship boneyards) as new represented perfection for the virus to spread ... older tech harder for them.  
Instead of accepting command of another ship, Capt. Vaegher instead accepted transfer to the Bjorko Shipyards on the outer edge of the Malstrom Expanse.


His assignment was to oversee a project that sought to take older ship classes and see them upgraded to modern specifications as Starfleet was seeking to replenish its numbers following the Klingon Federation War and the Borg invasion.
Only problem was ... the A.I. fought with modern tech which out gunned anything the Alliance had.  


This included upgrades to the older Ambassador-class (leading to the a new Ambassador II-class) as well as the slightly newer Sagan and Excelsior II class cruisers.
=== The Hail Mary of those Doomed ===
In a last-ditch effort, the Alliance hatched a plan to go backwards in time and try to keep the A.I. from ever being brought into existance.  


During the trial runs of the U.S.S. Adventure (an Ambassador / Horatio-class hybrid) that Alan began to feel the old stirrings of joy that came from being in the centerseat of a starship.
Hauk was chosen to lead the missoin only they had no idea when they set out that it was or would have been an impossibilty as the A.I. had calculated their plan and had taken steps to safeguard their version of the timeline.  


Just weeks later came the Undine invasion with an Undine assault force attacking the Cordra Shipyards.
Battle ensued with the outgunned U.S.S. Temporal Storm seemingly destroyed in a resulting explosion.  


Capt. Vaegher organized a defense by launching any ship within the yards capable of flying and putting up a fight. Ships that could fly but not fight were used to evacuate as many civilians as possible from the yards.
What the A.I. did not realize was a momentary hole was ripped in the fabric of reality long enough for the Storm to fall through.  


Among the ships that could fight was a new Excelsior II-class cruiser that was considered ready for trials and actually the testbed ship for several upgraded systems being worked into the class … the U.S.S. Avalon which was christened with fire.
=== Dropped into a New Reality ===
Daniels, a temporal agent of this reality, watched the ship fall through into this reality from his temporal ready room and quickly worked to secure the new arrivals and ultimately helped them acclimate to this this reality.  


Alan used the Avalon to coordinate the defense of the Yards, pushing back and defeating the Undine invaders.
After careful study ... peakiong through the veil via the Storm's shielded temporal core ... He and his team determined that something else had happened ... a quirk in timing as some unknown even happened in that other universe that seemed to destroy that other reality.  


===His Golden Ticket / A Friends Return===
It is believed small bits and pieces (like the Temporal Storm and her crew) fell through the rips of the collapse, but where they landed or if they survived transit ... That could not be determined.  
Granted a “golden ticket” by the Starfleet brass for his actions that day, Capt. Sollace chose command of the Avalon, claiming its centerseat as his own.


And then as his life seemed to be spiraling upward once more, Rhys Maitland showed up at the christening ceremony very much alive — although appearing several years older.
It took several months for Hauk to come to grips with what had happened (survivor's guilt being one vaguely possible description) while others of his crew likely will never mentally or emotionally recover.  


It would seem the cube aboard which Rhys “served” after his assimilation was thrown back in time.
All they knew was gone and now .... now they are here.  


And although eventually liberated with others also on the cube by temporal agents, Rhys himself was made an agent himself and left in past … in 2230 … 26 years before the First Klingon-Federation War.
But as to what here actually and truly is ... THAT is what they get to discover as they are given a rare chance to reboot their lives from ones of hopeless dispair to once again onces with hope and life.  Yes, LIFE!


Rhys married another ex-borg Starfleet officer also from the past and turned agent and left in the past with him — a half Norwegian / half Romulan human.
Hauk thought about how his life's path before had steered from one as a Klingon warrior in the Defense Force to one as a Starfleet Officer that became a fleet administrator.  


The pair had twins before choosing to serve in the Starfleet of that era and fighting in the Klingon-Federation War of that era — an act sanctioned by temporal agent Daniels who stated it was all meant to happen as it was unfolding.
=== New Path Forward ===
NOW ... He has the chance to re-invent himself and is choosing to captain a vessel of exploration.  


Both were reported as having died in the Battle of Starbase One, defending the starbase from the Klingon J’ula and forces loyal to her.
Specifically, he has requested an assignment out in the Malstrom region as something tells him that answers are there for him.  


Both instead survived, thrown forward again in time to resume their past lives … only older and with lives very changed.
He just has to find them.  


Turned Alan’s best friend and his wife were Alan’s great-great-great grandparents with Freyja being the source of Alan’s Romulan heritage.
Until then, he looks to the horizon of his new life.  


It also all explained as to why the Sollace family’s origins with the Maitland line could not be traced back further than that one particular ancestor whom they now new had been a transplant from another time.
And for those curious, he and his counterpart of this universe have met with his counterpart welcoming him into this realities House of Rha ... But Hauk has yet to accept Hauk's invitation to do so.  


===Choosing Avalon===
More because he is still in many ways ... still trying to figure it all out and put the pieces of his life back together into something that works for him .... him ... here ... him.  
With regards to Avalon there was some debate on just which registry the ship itself should bear.


At first, she was to be given registry NX-45347, but as the one overseeing the ship’s final construction … Allen challenged it.
So it is, Hauk altered his name slightly to stand apart from the Hauk of this reality.


He pointed towards the original Excelsior-class ship that once carried the name … a ship many had felt for some reason cursed.
He chose to place emphasis on the last sound of his name, changing it in spelling and sound to ... Hauk'.


For a long time, many thought the ship simply lost with all hands.
Starfleet gave him command of the "Storm Chasers" --- the 12th Explorer Squadron, assigned to the Malstrom Alliance with the U.S.S. Artemis (Excelsior II-class) as his flagship.  


Yet two years prior, it was discovered the old version of the Avalon had perished in defense of the colony world Norta VI whereby ship and crew fought off invaders long enough for the colonists to evacuate.
Unfortunately, the Artemis was heavily damaged in an early engagement (during her shakedown runs) with the Voth ... scorched and damaged by an exploding Voth dreadnought taken out as they provided cover for troop transports.


The attacking force was an attack squadron comprised of several Romulan warbirds along with a pair of Nakuhl cruisers in support.
The Artemis went back into drydock for couple more months with the U.S.S. Tempest (also Excelsior II-class) reassigned as Hauk's flagship. 


As the last transport was about to escape into warp, it was already too late for the Avalon.
=== The Scars on his Face ===
Anyone looking at Hauk' will be quick to note the three rather large scars that run down the right side of his face, from lower forehead to over eye and nose.


The heroic ship instead found itself at the heart of an explosion caused by the death blows of a Nakuhl cruiser.
In fact, he was lucky to have not lost his eye in the moment receiving said scratches.  


What was known at the time was yes … lives were saved, but again the crew was lost with all hands.
They come from his time living in the alternate-timeline / reality in which he was born.  


Only they were not.
It was given to him by a warrior of the Horvauk (breakaway rebel faction of Undine) during the Second Battle of Centerpoint.  


The explosion opened a momentary temporal rift through which the Avalon fell through … cast forward in time to the year 2410.
The creature raked him with his claws just before Hauk speared it with his bat'leth.  


The remains of Avalon were discovered by the U.S.S.Highlander, commanded by Capt. Elnyrr tr’Maitland.
He continues to wear the scars as a reminder of that battle and out of respect for those who did not make it back.
 
And aboard the now desolate ship were the surviving captain and crew.
 
Allen pointed out that the ship had not been cursed and so neither was her registry.
 
And that ship was itself worthy of honor, respect and continuing recognition by having her registry passed on to new generations of starships.
 
So, it was the Excelsior II-class U.S.S. Avalon became the third ship to bear the name and the second to hold the registry as she was christened as NCC-5347-A.
 
===Choosing an Explorer's Life===
As Capt. Alan Vaegher took command of the Avalon, he relished in the idea of getting back to the life of an explorer.
 
But that’s when the galaxy at large was about to fall apart yet again ? not once, not twice, but several more times.
 
More recently, Alan and the crew of the Avalon have been helping coordinate the building of Federation and Alliance installations and fleet holdings within the Malstrom Expanse … in addition to helping explore the Expanse itself.


==BILLETS / COMMANDS==
==BILLETS / COMMANDS==
===='''CURRENT'''====
===='''CURRENT'''====
*Battle Group Commander
**FLAGSHIP: [[U.S.S. Maelstrom (NCC-71417)|U.S.S. Beowulf (NCC-2701-A)]]--- Constitution III-class Exploration Cruiser
====PREVIOUS====
*Commanding Officer
*Commanding Officer
** [[U.S.S. Avalon (NX-5347-A)]] --- Excelsior II-class Heavy Cruiser
**[[U.S.S. Artemis (NCC-57147)]] --- Excelsior II-class Heavy Cruiser
==CHARACTERISTICS==
Formerly a fleet adminstrator in his past reality, Hauk' finds comfort in sitting centerseat of his own ship of exploration.  Serving as Squadron Commander is an extension of this.  And both allow him to feed his obsession of unraveling the mysteries of the Malstrom Expanse and the differences between that region of space in this present reality vs. that of his past.


====PREVIOUS====
He also has a leap of faith in believing that others from his reality may have survived and the answers may just be in the Expanse.  
*Commanding Officer
**[[U.S.S. Kashima (NCC-91775)]] --- Gagarin-class Battlecruiser
*Project Maanger
**[[Bjorko Shipyards]]


== CHARACTERISTICS==
Hauk' does not have family of blood and noble Klingon house in this universe, but he has the family of his ship and in extension ... his fleet.
Was always impulsive in his youth, but that was tempered after his encounters with the Borg in 2409 and the loss of many serving under him.
==FAMILY LIFE==
In his previous universe, Hauk' had a wife, son and daughter, who were lost long before he fell from one burning reality into another.  


This gave him an air of caution where he no longer looks to leap before he looks.  
And although his house still existed back in that universe, he was not as tied to it nor it as big as it is in this universe.  


==FAMILY LIFE==
Without wife and daughter, he'd found his way to Starfleet and lost himself in his work there ... primarily serving as a fleet administrator after years of service as a former ship captain in th e Klingon Defense Force.  
On the humans side of his heritage, Alan Rhys Maitland is of the [[Scottish Clan Maitland]] and the Norse family [[Vaegher family|Vaegher]].


His parents are [[Ericksen Vaegher]] and [[Annasechan Ra-Junarli Vaegher (“Anna”)]]
Here in this verse, Hauk' does not have family of blood and noble Klingon house, but he has the family of his ship, those who fell through with him, and in extension ... his fleet.


Has a special bond with his younger sister, [[Agnes Nashari Vaegher]].
To these, he is completely dedicated.  
 
Of special note is that his best friend at the Academy, [[Rhys Allen Maitland]], turned out to be his great great great grandfather.  


==ITEMS OF NOTE==
==ITEMS OF NOTE==
*Successfully completed the Starfleet Captaincy Candidate Program (SCCP), which fast tracked him to his own command.
*Served as a ship's captain in the Klingon Defense Force for several years.
*Is a trained combat fighter pilot.
*His wife and their family were killed in a Borg attack that decimated the planet they called home during that time.
*Minored in Engineering while at Starfleet Academy.
*Found his way to Starfleet after their death and ended up serving in fleet administration, working his way up to fleet commander and finally Commander-in-Chief of Starfleet ... in his former reality.
 
*Is a survivor of a doomed universe / alternate reality.
== SEE ALSO==
*Wanted a change and so is now an explorer.  
 
==SEE ALSO==
*[https://malstromexpanse.com/2023/02/15/the-magic-of-avalon/ The Magic of Avalon - The Malstrom Expanse]  (Story)
*[https://malstromexpanse.com/2023/02/15/the-magic-of-avalon/ The Magic of Avalon - The Malstrom Expanse]  (Story)
 
==GALLERY==
== GALLERY==
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Personnel File

Species: Klingon
Gender: Male (he/him)
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Role: Explorer Squadron Commander
Billet: 12th Explorer Squadron
Flagship: U.S.S. Beowulf (NCC-2701-A)
Rank: Fleet Admiral
Faction: Starfleet
Career Path: Tactical
Fleet: Malstrom Alliance
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Family / House: N/A
Father: Haqar (deceased)
Mother: L'Rilka (deceased)
Wife: Keltor (deceased)
Children: Thorgan (deceased)
Maral (deceased)

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

Another Life

Hauk once was of the Klingon House of Rha.

And although Hauk *is* a member of and leader of the House of Rha, he is not THAT Hauk and that House of Rha is not HIS House of Rha.

You see, Fleet Admiral Hauk is from another alternate timeline where the planet Romulus never exploded and he was a Fleet Admiral in Starfleet who once served as Fleet XO of Starfleet's Ancillary Units before becoming task force commander of the Harbour Expeditionary Force, followed by fleet commander of SF Cassini Command and finally CINC of Starfleet itself.

Quite simply .... In the end, he had Admiral Jorel Quinn's job ... at least in another universe.

It was under his watch that it all seemed to fall apart.

One Enemy after Another

Not his fought, but still ... He did his best to hold things together in what can only be classified as the "end times" on a universal scale.

As with this reality, there was one grand threat after another .... only they managed to stomp the embers of conflict before they became full-fledged five alarm fires.

And yes, the enemies were sometimes the same, sometimes similar and other times ... completely different.

The Borg were a given.  

The Undine as well, however, they had to deal with a large breakaway faction of the Undine who referred to themselves as the Horvauk.

They always knew there was some larger entity or group behind the scenes pulling strings, but in their universe ... the Iconians never revealed themselves.

Just as the Terran Empire never became (or were seen as being) the threat they are in this reality.

Another Galaxy

There was also another galaxy they had found a bridge to via spacefolding gateways ("stargates") that were portals large enough for ships to pass through.

A lot like the Iconian gates of this reality ... yes.

That galaxy was called Ansolon.

Same Regions, Yet Differences

When the gateway collapsed and travel between the two galaxies severed, attention turned to exploring a region called the Cassini Expanse ... similar to the Malstrom Expanse of your galaxy within a similar location, only a wee bit smaller ... yet still large on the grand scale.

Those differences are something Hauk spends many hours pondering ... considering and researching in a manner that borders on obsession.

He knows the two regions, although similar in nature ... are different for some reason.

It's like some cosmic supreme being took the region as exists in his universe shook it up in this reality .... scattering the pieces like a person throwing runic bones across a game board.

Something told him the pieces were all there ... just moved about ... scattered differently and quite likely extra pieces added to the game board for good measure.

But then back in his reality, they had found whole star systems within and around the Cassini Expanse (and the Ansolon Galaxy) that all signs pointed towards being re-shaped,  re-engineered.

Speculations

So many things here are yes different, but so many are the same.  

Consider the possibility that at some point in the past both timelines had been the same until something happened that caused a divergence in the timelines ... a splitting off.  

From that point forward, things changed.  History re-shaped along with the bits and pieces of the who what what increasely different the farther steps led away from that moment of divergence.

The End of Reality

But how did Hauk get here?

The real war for them came in the form of a war against a civilization of A.I. unlike anything ever encountered.  

Artificial Intelligence gaining sentience and life ... yes ... that's happened before.

But with this new race, they were in the form of living computer programs that went about assimilated technology like the Borg assimilate humanoids.

Whole starships when infected turned on their crews.

With their crews purged, the ship itself became like an incubator ... a nest from which the program became programs as it split and multipled.

The programs in a short time went from dividing off, maturing and gaining sentience.

They would then spread however they could to other ships and physical forms of technology to begin the cycle over again.

The A.I. were hard to stop to begin with, but they evolved quickly and each step in their evolution made fighting them that much more impossible until all life and blood sentient beings within known space were systematically wiped out.  

At least that was what seemed to be happening from Hauk's point of view.

They'd already been forced to abandon advanced starships for those a few generations old (clearing out the ship boneyards) as new represented perfection for the virus to spread ... older tech harder for them.

Only problem was ... the A.I. fought with modern tech which out gunned anything the Alliance had.

The Hail Mary of those Doomed

In a last-ditch effort, the Alliance hatched a plan to go backwards in time and try to keep the A.I. from ever being brought into existance.

Hauk was chosen to lead the missoin only they had no idea when they set out that it was or would have been an impossibilty as the A.I. had calculated their plan and had taken steps to safeguard their version of the timeline.

Battle ensued with the outgunned U.S.S. Temporal Storm seemingly destroyed in a resulting explosion.

What the A.I. did not realize was a momentary hole was ripped in the fabric of reality long enough for the Storm to fall through.

Dropped into a New Reality

Daniels, a temporal agent of this reality, watched the ship fall through into this reality from his temporal ready room and quickly worked to secure the new arrivals and ultimately helped them acclimate to this this reality.

After careful study ... peakiong through the veil via the Storm's shielded temporal core ... He and his team determined that something else had happened ... a quirk in timing as some unknown even happened in that other universe that seemed to destroy that other reality.

It is believed small bits and pieces (like the Temporal Storm and her crew) fell through the rips of the collapse, but where they landed or if they survived transit ... That could not be determined.

It took several months for Hauk to come to grips with what had happened (survivor's guilt being one vaguely possible description) while others of his crew likely will never mentally or emotionally recover.

All they knew was gone and now .... now they are here.

But as to what here actually and truly is ... THAT is what they get to discover as they are given a rare chance to reboot their lives from ones of hopeless dispair to once again onces with hope and life.  Yes, LIFE!

Hauk thought about how his life's path before had steered from one as a Klingon warrior in the Defense Force to one as a Starfleet Officer that became a fleet administrator.

New Path Forward

NOW ... He has the chance to re-invent himself and is choosing to captain a vessel of exploration.

Specifically, he has requested an assignment out in the Malstrom region as something tells him that answers are there for him.

He just has to find them.

Until then, he looks to the horizon of his new life.

And for those curious, he and his counterpart of this universe have met with his counterpart welcoming him into this realities House of Rha ... But Hauk has yet to accept Hauk's invitation to do so.

More because he is still in many ways ... still trying to figure it all out and put the pieces of his life back together into something that works for him .... him ... here ... him.

So it is, Hauk altered his name slightly to stand apart from the Hauk of this reality.

He chose to place emphasis on the last sound of his name, changing it in spelling and sound to ... Hauk'.

Starfleet gave him command of the "Storm Chasers" --- the 12th Explorer Squadron, assigned to the Malstrom Alliance with the U.S.S. Artemis (Excelsior II-class) as his flagship.

Unfortunately, the Artemis was heavily damaged in an early engagement (during her shakedown runs) with the Voth ... scorched and damaged by an exploding Voth dreadnought taken out as they provided cover for troop transports.

The Artemis went back into drydock for couple more months with the U.S.S. Tempest (also Excelsior II-class) reassigned as Hauk's flagship.

The Scars on his Face

Anyone looking at Hauk' will be quick to note the three rather large scars that run down the right side of his face, from lower forehead to over eye and nose.

In fact, he was lucky to have not lost his eye in the moment receiving said scratches.

They come from his time living in the alternate-timeline / reality in which he was born.

It was given to him by a warrior of the Horvauk (breakaway rebel faction of Undine) during the Second Battle of Centerpoint.

The creature raked him with his claws just before Hauk speared it with his bat'leth.

He continues to wear the scars as a reminder of that battle and out of respect for those who did not make it back.

BILLETS / COMMANDS

CURRENT

PREVIOUS

CHARACTERISTICS

Formerly a fleet adminstrator in his past reality, Hauk' finds comfort in sitting centerseat of his own ship of exploration. Serving as Squadron Commander is an extension of this. And both allow him to feed his obsession of unraveling the mysteries of the Malstrom Expanse and the differences between that region of space in this present reality vs. that of his past.

He also has a leap of faith in believing that others from his reality may have survived and the answers may just be in the Expanse.

Hauk' does not have family of blood and noble Klingon house in this universe, but he has the family of his ship and in extension ... his fleet.

FAMILY LIFE

In his previous universe, Hauk' had a wife, son and daughter, who were lost long before he fell from one burning reality into another.

And although his house still existed back in that universe, he was not as tied to it nor it as big as it is in this universe.

Without wife and daughter, he'd found his way to Starfleet and lost himself in his work there ... primarily serving as a fleet administrator after years of service as a former ship captain in th e Klingon Defense Force.

Here in this verse, Hauk' does not have family of blood and noble Klingon house, but he has the family of his ship, those who fell through with him, and in extension ... his fleet.

To these, he is completely dedicated.

ITEMS OF NOTE

  • Served as a ship's captain in the Klingon Defense Force for several years.
  • His wife and their family were killed in a Borg attack that decimated the planet they called home during that time.
  • Found his way to Starfleet after their death and ended up serving in fleet administration, working his way up to fleet commander and finally Commander-in-Chief of Starfleet ... in his former reality.
  • Is a survivor of a doomed universe / alternate reality.
  • Wanted a change and so is now an explorer.

SEE ALSO

GALLERY

REFERENCES

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