Engineering Chief Avery Morgan

Character Information

Gender		Male
Species		Human
Age		45
Clearance Level (assigned by Command)		Gamma 5
Quarters Assignment (assigned by Command)		Private Crew Quarters, Deck 3
Roommate Assignment (assigned by Command)		Private Quarters

Physical Appearance

Height		6’1”
Weight		200
Hair Color		Blonde
Eye Color		Blue
Physical Description		Morgan carries a slim, fit, and muscular build that reflects a lifelong habit of staying physically active rather than anything deliberate about appearance. He has always found that keeping himself in good physical condition helps him think more clearly, a habit he picked up early and never saw a reason to drop. He moves with the easy confidence of someone comfortable in their own physicality without making a point of it. His build tends to surprise people who expect an academic to look like one, and he has never seen any reason to correct that assumption in advance.

Family

Spouse		NA
Children		NA
Father		Henry
Mother		Evelyn
Brother(s)		NA
Sister(s)		Samantha, age 40
Other Family		NA

Personality & Traits

General Overview		Morgan is a highly skilled engineer and former professor of Engineering whose background spans both the academic and the practical in ways that are not always easy to find in the same person. Avery began his career as an educator at Starfleet Academy, specializing in warp mechanics and propulsion, where he built a reputation for turning complex theory into something students could actually apply. He never enlisted in the service but earned degrees in mechanical, chemical, and electrical engineering, giving him a breadth of technical knowledge that most engineers who came up through a single specialty do not have. That combination of teaching experience and multi-discipline engineering background means he understands not only how systems work but how to explain them, troubleshoot them under pressure, and adapt when the textbook answer is not available. He is the kind of engineer who has seen enough to know what he does not know, which in practice makes him considerably more useful than someone who has not learned that lesson yet.
Strengths & Weaknesses		Strengths Morgan is the kind of person who shows up and keeps showing up and does not make a production of it. His loyalty is not something he announces or performs, it is simply present in how he operates, in the extra hour he puts in when something needs doing and nobody asked him to stay, in the way he keeps his word even when keeping it is inconvenient, in the fact that the people who have worked alongside him tend to seek him out again when the next job comes around. When he decides someone is worth his trust he gives it fully and the friendships that come out of that tend to last in ways that most professional relationships do not. He works hard in the straightforward sense of the word, not to impress anyone but because that is simply how he approaches things, and that consistency makes him reliable in a way that is genuinely rare. Weaknesses The same openness that makes him easy to work with makes him vulnerable to people who are willing to take advantage of it. He extends good faith before it has been earned and takes risks based on his read of a person rather than what the situation objectively supports, and his read is good enough often enough that he has not fully learned to distrust it when it is wrong. The line he draws around honesty and loyalty is real and firm and crossing it ends things completely, not with anger necessarily but with a finality that does not leave much room for repair. He does not make that line obvious in advance which means people sometimes cross it without understanding what they have done until the door is already closed.
Ambitions		TBD
Hobbies & Interests		History, archaeology, 20th century automobiles

Personal History		Avery was born April 10, 2345 to Henry and Evelyn Morgan in San Francisco, Earth. From a young age Morgan demonstrated interests in building things and then taking them apart. From toys to household appliances nothing was safe from young Avery's hands. As his hand eye coordination developed Morgan began helping out at home, repairing this or that with his father. Those early years working alongside his father gave him a practical foundation that would shape everything that came after. It was during his sophomore year at Mission High School when Avery decided he liked to work with his hands. He often enjoyed fiddling with his friends and classmates' chronometers and PADDs. By his senior year Morgan declared that Engineering would be his major should he be accepted to college or university. He graduated with honors and left high school with a clear sense of direction that most of his peers were still searching for. The years at Mission High had done what the best schools do, given him enough room to figure out who he was becoming. Morgan attended San Francisco State University after graduating with honors from high school. He completed his undergraduate studies in four years and was admitted to the graduate program. In the next four years Avery earned degrees in varied engineering specialties including electrical and mechanical engineering. The graduate program suited him in ways the undergraduate years had only hinted at, giving him the depth to pursue questions that genuinely interested him. By the time he finished he had built a foundation of technical knowledge that was both broad enough to be flexible and deep enough to be genuinely useful. In 2365 Avery completed his graduate studies at SFSU but with no clear goals in mind. The Masters Degrees he earned gave him flexibility to do different things. Research? Join a firm? Teaching? Starfleet? Space exploration had always held an interest for Avery and so did machines and transportation. He decided to try his hand at teaching at Starfleet Academy and Morgan accepted an Assistant Professorship in 2366 with a specialty in Warp Propulsion. He found almost immediately that he was good at it in ways he had not entirely anticipated. In two years time, Avery would find himself rewarded with tenure as a full time professor. This would enable him to delve into his own projects and research work. Morgan was given permission to investigate and build simulations for concepts including trans warp drive which represented exactly the kind of frontier problem that had drawn him to engineering in the first place. He would become department head of the Engineering program in 2369 taking on administrative responsibilities he managed with the same practical directness he brought to everything else. It was a period of his life that felt like things were moving in exactly the right direction. Morgan's experiments and simulations into trans warp drive were fruitless unfortunately. The technology was unstable and not safe for testing. He documented his findings carefully and shelved the research with the professional acceptance of someone who understood the difference between a problem that could not be solved yet and a problem that could not be solved at all. Unbeknownst to Morgan and the rest of Starfleet the Borg would develop and use trans warp technology almost a decade later. He would think about that more than once in the years that followed. The Dominion War began in 2373 and Avery was deeply affected by it. When Earth and San Francisco was attacked Morgan lost many colleagues and friends. Most of his research and data were lost in the attack but Morgan was still able to maintain his tenure and continued teaching until the war ended. He decided to resign his position and return home to his family. The war had changed things in ways that made the life he had built feel like it belonged to someone else and he needed time to find out who he was on the other side of it. Morgan is still very close to his parents and his younger sister Samantha. He keeps in touch as often as he can and regrets the fact he has not gone home in several years. The distance is not emotional, it is simply the result of a life that keeps moving in directions that make going back difficult to schedule. His family remains the anchor point he returns to in his thinking even when he cannot return to them in person. That connection is one of the things he carries with him wherever the next posting takes him.
Service Record		2345 - Born to Henry and Evelyn Morgan in San Francisco, Earth 2353- graduates Mission High School, San Francisco 2357- Begins studies at San Francisco State University 2361- Graduates with honors from SFSU 2361- Graduate studies begin at SFSU 2365- Completes graduate program with degrees in Electrical, Mechanical, and Chemical Engineering 2366- Accepts Assistant Professorship at Starfleet Academy, San Francisco 2368- Offered and accepts full tenured Professorship in Engineering Department. Becomes Department Head the following year. 2375- Resigns from SFA following the Dominion War. 238- Joins crew of the Dutchman in the Gamma Quadrant