Command Crew

Darryn Thyte, Lieutenant

Player: Scott Hill

Thyte is the FarStar's bitter bridge operations officer, in charge of maintaining order and efficiency for the starship's command center. He is the captain's eyes and ears to everything outside the ship, from communications to sensor readings. He functions as the ship's navigator as well. The bridge is his responsibility and his home, and he's fiercly protective of his territory.

Thyte is a former X-wing pilot. Several months before the New Republic task force liberated Kal'Shebbol, he was flying air support for a ground action in the mountiains of Vaenrood. Imperial artillery fire clipped his fighter's wind and he crashed. In the accident, his canopy buckled and snapped, shearing off his right hand and most of his arm. Medics were able to replace the arm with a clunky cybernetic model, the only thing available at the time. The less sophisticated cybernetic hand doesn't have very precise sensitivity and function, but it has a computer interface that allows him to maniuplate data if a visual interface is also available.

He was taken off the active duty pilot roster after his crash. Given Thyte's changed attitude, his squadmates were more than happy to see this dour man go. He continued to travel with the task force he was assigned to, serving as a bridge officer aboard one of the capital ships. When word of the FarStar's mission spread through the New Republic fleet, Thyte demanded to be assigned to the ship. Here, he figured, he could prove his own worth and perhaps escape his personal demons.

Thyte's tall and pallid form haunts the FarStar's bridge at all hours -- he's rarely seen elsewhere unless his duty requires it, and he loathes leaving the FarStar on missions, possibly indicating a fear of flying in small craft. The skin on his face has little color to it, and seems to hang under his dark eyes. Still, Thyte is a strong presence on the bridge. He can be very forceful and imposing when dealing with other bridge crewmembers and is not one to let others push him around.

Thyte is very independent and protective of his duties on the bridge. He should be. If anyone knows the FarStar's bridge -- her instruments and her sensors and communications capabilities -- it's Thyte. He's also the only one with any experience as a captial ship astrogator. And Thyte knows it. He's the type of officer who doesn't take orders, he merely "accepts command suggestions" from his superiors. He knows the FarStar crew needs him enough to tolerate his attitude. Thyte always seems to be walking the edge between undisciplined brilliance and a slap in the face.

Thyte often takes the offensive, making presumptive strikes to inflict his biting opinions on those around him, and can work behind the scenes to cause a great deal of turmoil aboard the ship. Thyte hates Lieutenant Gorjaye, the starfighter squadron commander, mostly because she's on active flight duty and he isn't.

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