Petty Officer 1st Class Mateo Wright
Name Mateo Wright
Position Shuttlebay Manager
Rank Petty Officer 1st Class
Character Information
| Gender | Male | |
| Species | Human | |
| Age | 28 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5'11" | |
| Weight | 165lbs | |
| Hair Color | Dark brown | |
| Eye Color | Light brown | |
| Physical Description | Mateo is of an athletic built, something he maintains with exercise. His eyes are light brown and his dark brown hair usually curls when it gets to a certain length. He usually has some sort of facial hair, although has never gone ‘full caveman’ according to himself. |
Family
| Father | Enrique Wright, Ecologist | |
| Mother | Lillian Wright | |
| Sister(s) | Lieutenant Maribel Wright, Science Officer USS Davenport, KIA |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Reckless, opinionated, easily bored, sulking and doesn’t always play well with others. These words have followed Mateo around since he was a kid and have at times echoed in his counselling sessions. Mateo is an intelligent man who does indeed get bored easily. He has a passion for space travelling and how shuttles work, from the hull designs to the engines and has never felt as free as when he is piloting. However, his experiences in the war have taken that away from him and he is a man trying to regain something he feels he has lost. He has PTSD, although his triggers are more difficult to come by and as such he is cleared for duty. Outside of that he usually gets on well enough socially with people and follows orders, even if he will let everyone know exactly what he thinks about it. | |
| Strengths & Weaknesses | Strengths: Mechanical knowledge, Engineering knowledge, piloting, survival Weaknesses: Temper, loss of focus |
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| Ambitions | Mateo wants to be able to pilot again and is currently in therapy to get past the block. | |
| Hobbies & Interests | Mateo is a good rider, from growing up with horses. He likes having something to do with his hands and will usually find an excuse to work on a shuttle. He also makes model planes, although he has broken more in a fit of temper than he can remember. |
| Personal History | Mateo was born on Earth, his mother an equestrian who would later breed horses and his father an ecologist, who specialised in terraformed ecosystems. He was the oldest of two children, his sister Maribel born a year after he was born. With them so close in age, Mateo often found himself having violent arguments with his younger sibling, usually only ending when one of them ended up crying. As a child, Mateo was bright and fascinated by two things: the stars and the family legends of being related to the Wright Brothers. That, of course, was debunked when Mateo did a school project and traced the real family line. Even so, it got Mateo interested in flying. His childhood was marked by his parents’ careers, and while his sister was more into science than Mateo was, he still managed to keep up. He got into a bit of trouble as a teenager, due to boredom as the family were stuck in a small town in New Mexico, where his father was doing studies in the mountains. His mother was taking up breeding horses rather than competing with them and his sister was excelling at every class. Mateo still scored well in school but his time was spent hanging out with others his age, causing minor disturbances and breaking and entering. He did get caught a few times but managed to talk his way out of it, or charges not being pressed because his parents promised to watch him. In the shed, he started building his own shuttle out of spare parts. As he got closer to becoming an adult, he started thinking about what he wanted to do with his life. Truth was, he wasn’t sure, but when his sister was accepted into Starfleet Academy, he got curious. He took the exam but failed it. The following year, he flew there himself, in the shuttle he had built and landed at Starfleet HQ, breaking several security protocols on the way by not having his shuttle registered. It was a miracle he wasn’t shot down. It did catch the attention of Commodore Ross, who found it hilarious that a 20 year didn’t have the common sense to register a shuttle he had built. He went to the brig where Mateo was being held and, having read his assessment from when he had applied, explained that the mistake Mateo had made was thinking he needed to be an officer. Mateo had scored well on everything, but it was the gaps in his grades and his personality assessment that had gone against him at the Academy, where everyone competed for a few places. He explained that going the enlisted route, while not as glamorous, could give him a chance to get in. And once in, he could after a few years apply for an officer’s programme. Mateo, who had taken odd jobs to keep busy and to avoid his ever-disappointed parents, liked the one-eyed Commodore’s view on life. Especially when he confided that he too had been too hot-headed to be an officer and had come up as an enlisted from Engineering. Mateo enlisted and this time, with Commodore Ross’ voice behind him, got accepted. He did the courses needed to be a pilot, although as an enlisted he would not fly any starships. He ended up being a pilot on Mars, shuttling supplies to ships when it was too delicate to be transported over. When he war began, he was still a pilot, but ended up as a search and rescue pilot, to look for any survivors after battle if conditions were safe enough. He was one out of a three-person team: medic, security and him, a pilot. They rescued survivors and at times, collected the bodies still floating in the vacuum from ships lost. In 2374, his sister died in battle while serving on the USS Davenport and Mateo found himself seeing her in every casualty they came across. He kept in touch with his parents from that point on, something he hadn’t done before, but each conversation got harder and harder until he stopped receiving messages from them. He realised that they needed space to grieve, and he was a reminder of the other child they’d lost. Towards the end of the war, their shuttle collided over a moon with a Jem’Hadar vessel. Both were pulled into the gravity of the moon, which thankfully had breathable atmosphere. Mateo survived, but his teammates, O’Leary and Pasha, died. He was wounded but managed to patch himself up enough to try and repair the shuttle. He was there for three weeks, alone, rebuilding a shuttle that he suspected might never fly. He killed the last surviving Jem’Hadar soldier when he came across him and used their ship for spare parts. When he thought he had the shuttle in good enough condition to fly, he got in the pilot’s seat…and instead of flying away, he had a flashback to the crash. Unable to cope he managed to get a message out, hoping to be found. When he was rescued, he was severely dehydrated, having run out of rations two days earlier. After he recovered, it was clear that he would need to work through the trauma of the crash before he could fly again. He was offered to get re-trained but refused, as he wanted to be able to fly again. He became a Shuttle Bay Manager, a glorified deck chief in his eyes, but it was a way to still be close to shuttles. Ross, now a Rear-Admiral, heard about Project Concord and recommended Mateo, hoping that the mission would give him time to get to grips with being a pilot again, as well as encourage the spark of the young man who had once built and landed a shuttle at Starfleet HQ. |
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| Service Record | 2366: Failed Starfleet Academy Entrance Exam and Assement 2367-2368 Starfleet Enlisted Training, Piloting 2368-2373 Mars, Supply Shuttle Pilot 2373-2375 Starfleet Search And Rescue Pilot 2375-2375 USS Hidalgo, Shuttle Bay Manager 2375-Present USS Concord, Shuttle Bay Manager |