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| ===LTM Charles Howden, Marine Company Commander===
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| * played by [mailto:col.howden@gmail.com Mark Mosher]
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| <pre>
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| PERSONAL INFORMATION:
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| NAME: Charles Michael Howden
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| DATE OF BIRTH: 15th of February, 2337
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| PLACE OF BIRTH: Rock Hill, South Carolina, Earth
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| SPECIES/RACE: Human
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| HEIGHT: 6'3"
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| WEIGHT: 228lbs
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| HAIR COLOUR: Grey
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| EYE COLOUR: Dark Brown
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| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Muscular, well-defined body features, in excellent physical health and condition for a man of his age
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| LIKES: Discipline, people that have good attention to detail
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| DISLIKES: Ignorance, rude behavior and individuals that don't know when they have crossed the line
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| STRENGTHS: Commanding presence, superior tactician
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| WEAKNESSES: Very quick tempered, impatient at times
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| HOBBIES: Working out, reading strategies from all manners of wars, spending time in the holodeck
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| STAR FLEET PERSONNEL FILE:
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| SERVICE RECORD:
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| 2355-2358: Marine Corps Officer Training Program
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| 2358-2360: Intelligence Officer, Intelligence Team XI (2nd Lt.)
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| 2360-2362: Weapons/Demolitions Expert, Intelligence Team XI (1st Lt.)
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| 2362-2364: Infiltration Expert, Intelligence Team XI (Lt. Maj.)
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| 2364-2366: Strategic Operations Officer/Second Officer, Intelligence Team XI (Lt. Maj.)
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| 2366: Acting Executive Officer/ Strategic Operations Officer, Intelligence Team XI (Major)
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| 2367-2369: Executive Officer, Intelligence Team XI (Major)
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| 2369-2370: Marine War College
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| 2370-2373: Executive Officer, Intelligence Team XI (Major)
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| 2373-2475: Assistant to the Starfleet Intelligence Director, Starfleet Intelligence Headquarters (Major)
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| 2375-2410: MIA/Presumed KIA (Metabolic Stasis)
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| 2411: Debriefing, Office of Star Fleet Intelligence
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| 2412-2414: Mandatory retirement from Star Fleet service
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| 2415-2418: Marine Platoon Commander, USS MONITOR, NCC-31849 (Lt. Maj.)
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| 2419: Marine Company Commander, Deep Space 13 (Lt. Maj.)
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| LANGUAGES:
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| Federation Standard
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| PERSONAL HISTORY:
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| Charles Howden grew up in the rural town of Rock Hill, South Carolina. His childhood was
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| rather normal for a child of such upbringing, with no unusual happenings occurring for
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| most of his first 18 years of life. While he spent a good majority of his time playing
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| sports, and otherwise building his body, Charles also spent a good portion of his time
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| in libraries, studying Earth history, mainly the history of Earth wars.
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| STARFLEET MARINE CORPS CAREER SUMMARY:
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| Charles Howden grew up in the rural town of Rock Hill, South Carolina. His childhood was
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| rather normal for a child of such upbringing, with no unusual happenings occurring for
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| most of his first 18 years of life. While he spent a good majority of his time playing
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| sports, and otherwise building his body, Charles also spent a good portion of his time
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| in libraries, studying Earth history, mainly the history of Earth wars.
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| During his four years at Starfleet Academy, Charles Howden showed remarkable skill for
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| managing personnel and planning battle strategies. His leadership skills were surprisingly
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| developed for someone so young, and his ability to garner results from anyone he was
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| placed with was the subject of much admiration.
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| Because of the unusual request made by Cmdr. Grindle to recruit the up and coming Marine
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| Cadet, several high ranking officials with Starfleet Intelligence approached 2Lt. Howden
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| with an offer. They suspected that Grindle had some ulterior plans beyond simple career
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| ambition; unfortunately all internal operatives had been discovered and ousted. Their
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| hope was that, having only recently come up through the Academy, 2Lt. Howden would be
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| able to effectively infiltrate the team's inner sanctum and if the need arose, prevent
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| Grindle from carrying out anything untoward. Because of Howden's fierce sense of loyalty
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| to the Corps and Starfleet, he accepted their 'deal' and waited for graduation.
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| Upon leaving the Academy, 2nd Lt. Howden was given the position with Cmdr. Grindle's
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| Intelligence Team. Upon actually meeting Howden, Commander Brian Grindle saw great
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| potential in the fresh faced young 2nd Lt. This being the case because of his superior
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| ability to garner trust and information from people he came into contact with. 2nd Lt.
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| Howden's first assignment was as an Intelligence Officer, a position that gave him
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| broad experiences and contact with virtually all the members of the large intelligence
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| team. After a few years serving as an Intel officer, 2nd Lt. Howden requested that
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| he be transferred to an area where he would gain a much more useful set of skills to
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| aid him in his mission.
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| His request was granted in the form of Weapons and Demolitions Expert, where he spent
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| several months training with some of the best operatives in the field. Because of his
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| desire to learn, Lt. Howden mastered most of what he was taught, though his level of
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| competence began to fall off after he was exposed to the most complicated and hard to
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| master weapons and explosives. This did not diminish his effectiveness, however, and
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| he went on to serve in the post with remarkable flair and style. Several notable,
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| though classified engagements with Federation enemies saw the inventive use of
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| explosives not only to distract and confound the enemy, but to aid the team in the
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| completion of their missions, something that greatly impressed Captain Grindle.
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| His next transfer was one that now 1st Lt. Howden never asked for. Because of his
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| undisputed mastery of all things destructive, Capt. Grindle decided to test Lt.
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| Howden's ability to use stealth and cunning to get a job done, rather than brute
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| force and a hail of weapons fire. Such a complete shift in roles was indeed a
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| challenge for the Marine, and though he would later succeed in mastering even that,
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| his early attempts proved less than masterful. His first mission as an Infiltration
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| Expert proved too much for his limited experience with the covert world. In the midst
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| of a rather important and highly classified mission, Lt. Howden inadvertently destroyed
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| a power distribution network, causing himself and several team members to be discovered
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| and captured after a lengthy battle against superior numbers. Thankfully a rescue
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| operation swiftly spirited them away before their existence could be made public and
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| their entire mission compromised. Subsequent missions proved far more successful, and
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| Lt. Howden's exploits soon earned him a promotion to Lieutenant Major.
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| A year after his promotion to Lieutenant Major, Maj. Howden found himself taking on a
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| role that he, in his mind, had been born to fulfill, that of Strategic Operations
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| Officer. His prowess for planning and effectively utilizing the strengths of the
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| individual members of a team to execute nearly flawless missions within enemy territory
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| earned him much respect among his peers and superiors. At the end of his third year as
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| the Strategic Operations Officer, the Intelligence Team found themselves faced with a
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| tragic loss. On a mission to infiltrate a Romulan outpost suspected of making raids on
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| Federation holdings near the Neutral Zone, the team's Executive Officer was discovered,
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| savagely tortured, and put to death. This sent shockwaves through the team, and morale
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| was crippled for months.
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| The news suddenly reached Maj. Howden that he would be filling in as the Executive Officer
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| until a suitable candidate was found. Such news seemed to instantly stave off the tide of
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| poor morale, though he did very little in the way of run the team as his duties as a
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| strategist took up most of his time. A year after his appointment as Acting Executive
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| officer, Commodore Grindle came to Major Howden with new orders. It seemed that his
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| service to the team in the dual role had garnered him much support and much admiration
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| for the Commodore's cause.
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| With the permanent title of Executive Officer, Major Howden was given the task of
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| removing agents that could not be trusted. The Major did the Commodore's bidding with
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| ruthless efficiency, sweeping through the large intelligence team in a matter of months.
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| The loyal ITXI members stood firmly behind their Executive Officer, and began to do much
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| of his work for him to prove their worth to him and Commodore Grindle. Within a year,
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| Major Howden had solidified Commodore Grindle's position within the intelligence community,
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| which gained him a class date to the Marine War College.
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| The year spent in the War College was mainly to learn the principles of commanding units
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| in the Corps, and had little to do with his duties as an Intelligence Officer, though
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| none but the Commandant knew that he was an intelligence officer of great skill and
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| prowess. Despite never having been a part of a standard Marine Company, Major Howden's
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| natural leadership abilities and adaptable nature gained him a graduation with honors,
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| something even the Commandant of the College thought was out of his reach given his
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| knowledge base.
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| Upon returning to Intelligence Team XI, Maj. Howden began to place the operatives he
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| knew he could trust in various locations to facilitate the culmination of Commodore
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| Grindle's plans. The Dominion War, which started three years after his return to ITXI,
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| greatly impeded their plans. Throughout the War, Maj. Howden and his team were called
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| upon to deal with the covert threats to the Federation, including the Changeling
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| infiltration. While Maj. Howden never saw any front line action, nor did he participate
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| in any of the more widely known battles of the war, he and his team did manage to impact
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| the war and secure their Commanding Officer the office of Director of the Starfleet
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| Intelligence Bureau.
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| With Rear Admiral Grindle in the position he had been seeking so very long, Maj. Howden
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| was finally given the orders to implement the plans that had been left on the back burners
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| while the Dominion threat was being dealt with. Over the next three years, various
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| diplomats, representatives, and covert operations outposts were replaced or re-staffed,
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| changes that were meant to bring about Admiral Grindle's domination of the Federation.
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| The sudden involvement of ITIV in the Admiral's grand scheme gave Major Howden the
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| opportunity he'd been waiting for since 2355, the chance to bring Grindle down. While
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| on the surface, he did all that he could to impede ITIV and their mission, once they
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| successfully ousted the Admiral from his position as Director of Intelligence, Major Howden
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| was able to pull his hidden strings and slowly cripple Adm. Grindle and his followers.
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| Using agents that were singularly loyal to him, and not the Admiral's true cause, Howden
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| instrumented dozens of mysterious accidents and disappearances of key allies to the Grindle
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| faction that began to slowly but surely strip the Admiral of his power base in the Federation.
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| The failed assassination attempt of President Jaresh-Inyo forced Major Howden to emerge
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| from his hidden position of opposition and take a much more active role in the capture of
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| the renegade Admiral. Together with ITIV, Howden managed to locate the man, who had fled to
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| Romulan space with the aid of some Romulan allies Grindle had kept secret, even from Howden.
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| Armed with the knowledge that the rogue Admiral was using Romulan help to carry out his plan
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| for domination, Major Howden approached the Federation Counsel and presented them with nearly
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| twenty years worth of evidence in an effort to secure a call for action. Such action was
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| indeed called for, and though Major Howden had played a key role in the Admiral's plans, he
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| was granted immunity from prosecution due to both his hidden efforts and the efforts he had
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| made in the forefront to stop Grindle now that he was nearing success.
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| Howden led the members of ITIV to Remus, where they encountered the Admiral and his Romulan
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| companions. The ensuing battle was chaotic and devastating, and in the process of Grindle's
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| capture, Major Howden was reported as missing. Starfleet records up to this point indicated
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| that he was presumed killed in action, as no evidence of his being alive could be found, and
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| he never resurfaced anywhere in the Federation.
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| Major Howden had not, however, been killed in the effort, successful as it was. He had,
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| however, been wounded severely and found by officers of the Romulan Imperial Navy, who
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| had been dispatched to clean up the mess made by the rebels who were helping Grindle.
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| Whether it was an act of benevolence or sheer luck, Howden was immediately placed in status
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| for his injuries, and somewhere in route was transferred to a medical facility where he would
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| remain, almost forgotten, for thirty-five years.
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| Sometime during 2408, Major Howden's status pod was returned to the Federation, however it
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| would not be noticed for a further two years. At the tail end of 2410, Maj. Howden was
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| finally revived and given medical attention for the nearly four decades old injuries he'd
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| suffered, as well as receiving life-extension treatment in an effort to give him back some
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| of the time he'd lost due to his stasis.
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| The following year greeted the newly awakened Howden with a battery of debriefings by the
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| current incarnation of Starfleet Intelligence. His entire life history was placed under the
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| microscope. While the investigation provided them with little information they did not
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| already possess, a recommendation was made to have the Major retired from service as a
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| precautionary measure.
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| Two years being away from the Corps seemed like an eternity for Howden. While his expertise
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| was of great desire in the civilian security sector, it didn't have the rigid discipline
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| that, to Howden, he had enjoyed and grown accustomed to all his life. To him, the last thirty
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| some odd years had gone by in an instant. And to add insult to injury, he had been forced to
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| retire well before he was ready.
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| Howden made several appeals to the Judge Advocate General's office, all but one being denied.
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| The very last attempt saw the uncovering of the Major's Presidential Pardon, while
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| post-humorously awarded, given his MIA/KIA status according to the records of the time, it was
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| still a matter of record and was enough firepower to see that the Major was reinstated. The
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| conditions given to him for his return to service were that he took a demotion to Lieutenant
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| Major, which Howden had very little problem with, and that he was not to reenter the intelligence
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| community ever again. Both conditions were immediately accepted by the man, and he finally was
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| allowed to don the uniform of a Marine once more.
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| His first assignment was aboard the USS Monitor as Platoon Commander; an assignment that Howden
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| made great efforts to excel in given his unfamiliarity with the 25 th century. To the Major's
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| surprise, the Marine Corps had had not changed much. The discipline demanded of a Marine was
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| identical to that of his time, and the methods of command were so close to his own that he
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| hardly needed time to adapt. The Monitor's Marine unit was nominated several times as one of
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| the best Fleet Marine Force units in Starfleet, and while they lost to larger units each time,
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| Howden considered it a point of pride that such a small detachment could be on par with the
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| battalions that won the award over them.
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| Given the great efforts Maj. Howden put forth to make his unit shine, Starfleet Command decided
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| to give him more responsibility. With a recent vacancy at Deep Space 13, Lt. Major Howden was
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| ordered to take command of Bravo Company, 2 nd Battalion, 1st Marine Expeditionary Unit, and
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| turn it in to one of the best in Gold Fleet.
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| ===CDR Adrian Makkedor, Executive Officer=== | | ===CDR Adrian Makkedor, Executive Officer=== |