Lieutenant Vincent Cavendish
Name Vincent Cavendish
Position Alien Archaeologist/Anthropologist
Rank Lieutenant
Character Information
| Gender | Male | |
| Species | El-Aurian / Human | |
| Age | 533 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 6’ 0” | |
| Weight | 160 Ibs | |
| Hair Color | Dark Brown | |
| Eye Color | Dark Brown | |
| Physical Description |  |
Family
| Spouse | Wife: Lady Amity Cavendish, Countess of Salington (Human - died 1894) | |
| Children | Son: Clemens Cavendish (3/4 Human / 1/4 El-Aurian - died 1917) Son: Helios Cavendish (3/4 Human / 1/4 El-Aurian - 243 years old) Daughter: Aurora Cavendish (1/2 Betazoid / 1/4 Human / 1/4 El-Aurian - 21 years old) |
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| Father | Lord Francis Cavendish, Earl of Salington (Human - died 1890) | |
| Mother | Lady Silena Cavendish, Countess of Salington (El-Aurian - died 1865) |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Vincent can be an intense and thoughtful man, but he’s also warm and understanding. He’s a natural listener and has an unsatiable thirst for knowledge. Half El-Aurian, he can be empathic and has some strong instincts, although it can sometimes be hard to put it into words for other people. It also means he ages extremely slowly; he looks to be in his late 30s despite being over 500 years old. He’s a talented writer and historian, a trained archaeologist and psychiatrist and has a love for literature, art and antiquities. He has a need to travel and explore, but always returns back to Earth to get back in touch with ‘home’. Having served in so many wars, he has difficult episodes due to PTSD, but he takes each day as it comes. | |
| Strengths & Weaknesses | Strengths - writing, research, history, archaeology, anthropology, psychology/therapy, empathic. Weaknesses - aversion to fighting after serving as a soldier, PTSD episodes, can be obsessive with his work and research. |
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| Hobbies & Interests | Reading, writing, archaeology, cartography, history, research, evolutional theory, fencing, horseback riding, flying - both air craft and space craft. |
| Personal History | Vincent was born in England to Lord Francis Cavendish, Earl of Salington and Silena Cavendish. The year was 1842, Queen Victoria was on the throne, and Silena was a visitor to the planet. An El-Aurian, Silena had never intended to stay on Earth for long during her travels, but she fell in love with the dashing and very human son of an Earl who had a talent for writing. When she unexpectedly fell pregnant with his child, the decision was made. She married Francis and settled down with her new family. Vincent, named after a character from Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, was born into a wealthy lifestyle with the advantages to match. He was styled Lord Vincent Cavendish, Viscount of Harstowe for being his father’s son, and he was given the best education that money could buy at that time. Even as a child he had an appetite for learning. History, literature, music, people. He loved listening to stories, and read books about classical and ancient civilization again and again. He had a close relationship with both of his parents, but he remained an only child, much to Silena’s disappointment. The wealth of his family allowed him the freedom to pursue whatever he wanted, and Vincent decided he wanted to study history and follow in the footsteps of his father as a writer. Vincent was 16 when Darwin published On the Origin of Species, and he became fascinated by it. His studies and research expanded to all things evolution, fossils and archaeology. When he was 18, he asked to commence on a ‘grand tour’, an old tradition where young men travelled in Europe to see art and antiquities. His father thought it was an excellent idea so planned the journey. Before he left however, his mother decided it was time to tell him that she wasn’t human. She tried her best to explain that she was El-Aurian, and what that meant, for both of them. He didn’t believe her, but took it with good nature, thinking it just one of her fanciful stories. She asked how else his instincts were so good, how he often could sense things. It left him with food for thought, but he just smiled and shrugged. Vincent spent the next two years touring Italy with a tutor, immersing himself in history, archaeology, art and literature. He loved every moment, but he was ready to go home and see his family by the end of the time. It had a profound effect on his studies and writing, and indeed, his life. Things went back to normal for a few years, apart from his mother’s insistence of this story about her coming from the stars. She’d tell him stories, memories, facts about the universe...it all started to sink in, but he really didn’t know what to make of it. The stories were cut short when his mother was killed not long after Vincent’s 23rd birthday. Staying at a friend’s home, it caught fire in the night, for reasons unknown. Whilst many of them managed to get out alive, his mother, the sister of his friend and two servants were killed. Both Vincent and his father took her death hard, but they remained close, helping each other face the void left in her absence. It was only then that his father mentioned that his mother had told him the same stories of coming from another world...and that she was so remarkable a woman, he’d believed them. Vincent continued to write and learn, some of his stories taking on elements of other worlds. As the century marched on, the Industrial Revolution brought more and more excitement and progress, and it seemed like a miraculous time to be alive. By 1889, Vincent was 47, but he barely looked like he’d aged since his 20s. Much to his father’s delight, Vincent finally married, a fellow writer and women’s education campaigner named Amity Winchester who he had known for years. His father, although ill, survived long enough to see them married, but died the following year. They had their first and only child, Clemens, a few years later, but unfortunately Amity passed away the day after his birth. Despite his grief, Vincent poured all of his love and energy into his son. He took him travelling as soon as he was old enough, sharing his passion for art and literature with the boy. By the start of the new century, he had returned home with his son…but as he’d still not aged, he assumed the identity of a cousin. They lived in peace, indulging in their hobbies and interests, keeping mostly to themselves. They were shaken out of their serene lives with the start of World War I. Both father and son ended up serving as officers...Vincent came back alive, but his son did not. Vincent was lost in his grief for years and retreated to his books and writing on his estate, not caring much for anything else. When World War II started, he joined up again, not expecting to survive...but he did. Surprisingly, it strengthened him though. With all he saw there, it renewed his resolve to find all that was good in the world, not to let the evil win. He started travelling again, this time for decades, studying too. When he finally returned home in the early 21st century, still not having aged all that much, he came back under the name of another descendant, with a fresh archaeology degree and a psychology degree under his belt. When World War III broke out, he went to war again, but this time with grit, determined not to let his world be ripped apart by hate. Hell reigned on earth for almost thirty years and it seemed like a miracle to still be around to see the hard fought peace. It seemed like Earth barely had enough time to catch its breath before first contact with the Vulcans happened. It brought hope back to the old soldier...that maybe he would be able to go into space and find out if what his mother had said was true. By the early 22nd century, the Earth Cargo Service took to the stars, and Vincent joined up on one of the vessels. He travelled with them for some time, even having a brief encounter with a fellow crew member, Lorena Howard. She gave birth to his son, Helios Cavendish. He remained on the cargo ship while the boy grew up there, encouraging him to learn and explore. When he was grown up and old enough to go his own way though, Vincent also left the ship, staying out in space to travel the galaxy on his own terms. He learnt that his mother’s stories were true when he met El-Aurian travellers and spent time with them to learn more about his heritage. In the 23rd Century, he decided to join Starfleet. Initially, he served as a science officer, but after the Klingon war, he decided to move into psychiatry and became a ship’s counsellor. He served for decades, enjoying the freedom of exploration, first contacts, meeting new people and species and hearing their stories, learning about them. In the early 24th Century, he decided to return to civilian life and his writing and research. He spent time back on Earth, seeing a better place than he had left. When he returned back to space, he ended up on Betazoid for a time. After spending a beautiful moonlit night with a woman called Jalia Narix, he became a father again, this time to a girl called Aurora. He remained on Betazed for several years, to be with her as she grew up. When she was 19 years old, the Dominion War broke out, and Vincent was recalled back to Starfleet against his will. He went under tremendous protest, having had his fill of wars and fighting. His only control was to protest returning as a counsellor; having spent so many years out of the professional loop he claimed it wouldn’t be safe to practice. So instead, he was returned to Science, and acted as an anthropology expert. After the war, he was preparing to return back to civilian life when he was asked to join Project Concord. He was going to refuse until they decided to tell him their plan to go to the Delta Quadrant. They knew it would likely be an opportunity he wouldn’t want to miss, and they were right. |
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| Service Record | 1914-1918 – Second Lieutenant-Lieutenant, British Army, World War I 1939-1945 – Captain, British Army, World War II 2026-2053 – Second Lieutenant-Captain, British Army, World War III 2117-2152 – Earth Cargo Service 2249-2253 – Starfleet Academy, Science Cadet 2253-2257 – Starfleet Science Officer, USS Sol, Ensign-Lieutenant 2257-2260 – Starfleet Academy, Retraining as Counsellor 2260-2267 – Ship’s Counsellor, USS Thunderchild 2267-2273 – Ship’s Counsellor, USS Regent 2273-2281 – Starfleet Academy Instructor, Counselling 2281-2288 - Ship’s Counsellor, USS Horizon 2288-2296 – Starfleet Medical, Counsellor 2296-2302 – Ship’s Counsellor, USS Harbinger 2302-2312 – Ship’s Counsellor, USS Wellington 2312-2319 – Ship’s Counsellor, USS Verity 2319 – Resigned from Starfleet 2373 – Recalled to Starfleet, intensive refresher training 2373-2375 – Starfleet Science Officer, Anthropology specialist, USS Prudence, Lieutenant 2375-Present – Starfleet Science Officer, Archaeology & Anthropology specialist, USS Concord, Lieutenant |