Post by Marcellus Marino on Jun 19, 2013 22:42:40 GMT -5
Marcellus Marino
Gender: Male
Age: 38
Birthday: March 7th, 1966
Call sign: Ulysses
Nickname(s): Marcell, “Old Man”, “Professor”
Birthplace: Leonis
Occupation: Raptor ECO
Current Affiliation: Hyperion (formerly Theseus)
Rank/Title: Captain
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 175 Lbs.
Build: Lean/Athletic
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Distinguishing Marks: Large scar across his back from shrapnel from an explosion years ago.
Visual:
Play- By: James Purefoy
Mother: Franco Marino
Father: Rosa Serra Marino
Siblings: Carla, Angelo, Paola
Significant Other: Elana Vitale (divorced)
Children: Pietro Marino
Other Notable Persons:
Personality: Marcellus is generally friendly and congenial, always has been. He’s also fairly curious. Put together this makes him rather outgoing, daring, and adventuresome. Marcellus is no stranger to jokes, flirting, occasional drinking, and sport although as he’s now the “old man” of the group at the relatively old age of 38. With age comes limitations both imposed physically by a gradually aging body and socially as one drifts away from the youth that make up the bulk of the officers in the air wing, sometimes pilots half his age.
From a military standpoint, Marcellus can be rather strict and firm but he is always fair and remains a kind officer. Military protocol and rules are to be followed, and respect not fear or intimidation is key to that. He has spent more time than most in the service and is good at his job not by some prodigal skill or extensive training but simply by experience. As a result he takes on a bit of a mentor or teacher role simply by virtue of his experience. He knows how the Raptors work, what they’re capable of, the ins and outs of everyone’s job in near every possible situation. His time as LSO has only broadened that knowledge to see the air wing from the other perspective and now has added that to his knowledge.
Likes: Small and tightknit communities, his time in the service, flying, saving lives/protecting people, teaching what he knows, exploring space, Leonis, his son although he rarely gets to see him
Dislikes: Breaking in new and cocky pilots, those thinking themselves highborn (real or imagined), STO and other monotheists by extension, extreme weather (i.e. climates other than temperate), his ex-wife
Fears: Actually seeing what happened to Leonis and his home. He doesn’t want to face that reality.
Aspirations: Make major before he leaves the service. They get better pensions.
Equipment:
Anything Else?: Marcellus was intending to retire from service at his twenty year mark assuming there hadn’t been a miracle elevating his rank greatly in the interim… might be nice to command a ship.
Marcellus is a decent pilot but has never been given that title nor has he ever seemed to really want it and sought a transfer. ECO is what he knows and he’s damn good at it. In a pinch he can pilot pretty well but there is just no desire there. Better to let someone else do the “easy” part while he works his console and makes sure they don’t get killed.
History: Marcellus comes from a lower-middle class family on Leonis. His mother worked as a bartender at a local hotel and his father was a bus driver (I suppose you could say “bus” driver is the family business). As a child, Marcellus built up strong ties to the neighborhood that he lived in and both his parents worked in. After completing secondary school, Marcellus left this home really for the first time and spent over a year getting to really see his planet. From major tourist attractions to remote hiking trips, he crossed Leonis and the teen near saw it all. While travelling he also met a young woman, Elana, and spent the last few months of his journey with her.
If not for the high education standards of Leonis, Marcellus might never have furthered his education but he eventually enrolled in the Military Academy of Leonis at the age of 20 (figuring it better than some ivory tower intellectual place). Little did he know that he’d end up being a military man for the rest of his life, leaving the academy four years later as a commissioned officer in the Colonial Fleet. In the meantime, however, Marcelus and Elana were married and it wasn’t long before the two had a child. But the relationship soon began to break apart and they were separated before he’d even graduated the academy. A few years later and the two weren’t speaking at all and the divorce was finalized (apparently she was not “the one”).
Partly as a result of that rocky relationship, and perhaps also as a major contributing factor back to the destruction of the marriage, he turned his focus into his new career. Marino’s first posting was the Battlestar Galactica where he served for a total of four years first as an Ensign and not long after that as a Lieutenant Junior Grade. He was slated as a Raptor ECO in the air wing and would remain in that position for the majority of his career.
Marcellus was promoted to full Lieutenant and transferred to the Battlesar Odin where he served two years before then being sent to the Gunstar Hera for a year. In ’97 he finally found his way to the Gunstar Theseus. After three years there he was promoted to captain, the senior ECO on the ship though still not a squadron leader (he did not want the transfer to pilot). After another two years, Marcellus was transferred from the Air Wing to be one of the ship’s LSOs and from there potentially higher into the command ranks. Such a future, however, was cut short when the Cylons attacked two years into this new posting.
Marcellus served in his position as senior LSO of the Gunstar in the months after the attack all the way up to the Battle of Caprica. Marcellus abandoned ship when the order was given and eventually found himself on Hyperion. There he found that he was not needed as a LSO. There was a greater demand for his considerable talents and experience as a Raptor ECO so that is where he was placed.
Alias: Roger
Experience: Couple years
How you found us: The ‘Verse of course
Other characters: Only 10 others
How we should contact you: PM to Roger
Gender: Male
Age: 38
Birthday: March 7th, 1966
Call sign: Ulysses
Nickname(s): Marcell, “Old Man”, “Professor”
Birthplace: Leonis
Occupation: Raptor ECO
Current Affiliation: Hyperion (formerly Theseus)
Rank/Title: Captain
Height: 6’1”
Weight: 175 Lbs.
Build: Lean/Athletic
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Distinguishing Marks: Large scar across his back from shrapnel from an explosion years ago.
Visual:
Play- By: James Purefoy
Mother: Franco Marino
Father: Rosa Serra Marino
Siblings: Carla, Angelo, Paola
Significant Other: Elana Vitale (divorced)
Children: Pietro Marino
Other Notable Persons:
Personality: Marcellus is generally friendly and congenial, always has been. He’s also fairly curious. Put together this makes him rather outgoing, daring, and adventuresome. Marcellus is no stranger to jokes, flirting, occasional drinking, and sport although as he’s now the “old man” of the group at the relatively old age of 38. With age comes limitations both imposed physically by a gradually aging body and socially as one drifts away from the youth that make up the bulk of the officers in the air wing, sometimes pilots half his age.
From a military standpoint, Marcellus can be rather strict and firm but he is always fair and remains a kind officer. Military protocol and rules are to be followed, and respect not fear or intimidation is key to that. He has spent more time than most in the service and is good at his job not by some prodigal skill or extensive training but simply by experience. As a result he takes on a bit of a mentor or teacher role simply by virtue of his experience. He knows how the Raptors work, what they’re capable of, the ins and outs of everyone’s job in near every possible situation. His time as LSO has only broadened that knowledge to see the air wing from the other perspective and now has added that to his knowledge.
Likes: Small and tightknit communities, his time in the service, flying, saving lives/protecting people, teaching what he knows, exploring space, Leonis, his son although he rarely gets to see him
Dislikes: Breaking in new and cocky pilots, those thinking themselves highborn (real or imagined), STO and other monotheists by extension, extreme weather (i.e. climates other than temperate), his ex-wife
Fears: Actually seeing what happened to Leonis and his home. He doesn’t want to face that reality.
Aspirations: Make major before he leaves the service. They get better pensions.
Equipment:
Anything Else?: Marcellus was intending to retire from service at his twenty year mark assuming there hadn’t been a miracle elevating his rank greatly in the interim… might be nice to command a ship.
Marcellus is a decent pilot but has never been given that title nor has he ever seemed to really want it and sought a transfer. ECO is what he knows and he’s damn good at it. In a pinch he can pilot pretty well but there is just no desire there. Better to let someone else do the “easy” part while he works his console and makes sure they don’t get killed.
History: Marcellus comes from a lower-middle class family on Leonis. His mother worked as a bartender at a local hotel and his father was a bus driver (I suppose you could say “bus” driver is the family business). As a child, Marcellus built up strong ties to the neighborhood that he lived in and both his parents worked in. After completing secondary school, Marcellus left this home really for the first time and spent over a year getting to really see his planet. From major tourist attractions to remote hiking trips, he crossed Leonis and the teen near saw it all. While travelling he also met a young woman, Elana, and spent the last few months of his journey with her.
If not for the high education standards of Leonis, Marcellus might never have furthered his education but he eventually enrolled in the Military Academy of Leonis at the age of 20 (figuring it better than some ivory tower intellectual place). Little did he know that he’d end up being a military man for the rest of his life, leaving the academy four years later as a commissioned officer in the Colonial Fleet. In the meantime, however, Marcelus and Elana were married and it wasn’t long before the two had a child. But the relationship soon began to break apart and they were separated before he’d even graduated the academy. A few years later and the two weren’t speaking at all and the divorce was finalized (apparently she was not “the one”).
Partly as a result of that rocky relationship, and perhaps also as a major contributing factor back to the destruction of the marriage, he turned his focus into his new career. Marino’s first posting was the Battlestar Galactica where he served for a total of four years first as an Ensign and not long after that as a Lieutenant Junior Grade. He was slated as a Raptor ECO in the air wing and would remain in that position for the majority of his career.
Marcellus was promoted to full Lieutenant and transferred to the Battlesar Odin where he served two years before then being sent to the Gunstar Hera for a year. In ’97 he finally found his way to the Gunstar Theseus. After three years there he was promoted to captain, the senior ECO on the ship though still not a squadron leader (he did not want the transfer to pilot). After another two years, Marcellus was transferred from the Air Wing to be one of the ship’s LSOs and from there potentially higher into the command ranks. Such a future, however, was cut short when the Cylons attacked two years into this new posting.
Marcellus served in his position as senior LSO of the Gunstar in the months after the attack all the way up to the Battle of Caprica. Marcellus abandoned ship when the order was given and eventually found himself on Hyperion. There he found that he was not needed as a LSO. There was a greater demand for his considerable talents and experience as a Raptor ECO so that is where he was placed.
Alias: Roger
Experience: Couple years
How you found us: The ‘Verse of course
Other characters: Only 10 others
How we should contact you: PM to Roger