| USS Charon Crew | |
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| Ian Lamont | |
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| Rank: | Commander |
| Position: | Diplomatic Adviser |
| Race: | Human |
| Gender: | Male |
| Age: | 35 |
| Hair Color: | Light Blond |
| Eye Color: | Emerald |
| Height: | 6' |
| Weight: | 175lbs |
| Father: | Deceased |
| Mother: | Deceased |
| Siblings: | None |
| Marital Status: | Single |
Family Motto
"Fortis cadere, cedere non potest" (The brave may fall, but cannot yield)
Biography
Born on the east coast of America, Ian spent his early life on the grand Lamont family estate. Owned for generations by the Lamont family dating back to times before First Contact the Lamont estate was well known for its huge old world mansion, lush gardens, and historical significance. Ian was raised among society's privileged and wealthy elite. The Lamont family had a well known lineage who had been important historical figures as soldiers, generals, doctors, and diplomats in a family tree the reached back nearly 400 years. Instilled with the heroic stories of his family's impressive past, Lamont attended to finest schools and was expected to uphold the Lamont family line being the only remaining male heir to the family legacy.
Lamont spent his teenage years socializing and making friends with among the aristocratic elite paving the way for his eventual decision to choose politics and diplomacy as his career. During this same time Lamont was deeply involved in the campaign of his father who was running for election to a coveted, and hotly contested seat on the Federation council. The campaign turned ugly when a staunch political rival of his father produced unsubstantiated evidence of brutal atrocities and war crimes committed by Lamont family members shortly after World War III and the collapse of most of the world nations. With records from that era incomplete, scant, and scattered, Ian's father tried desperately to clear his family's good name despite the false evidence. The resulting family struggle and stress resulted in his mother and father ending their long marriage in divorce. Mounting legal fees and public outcry forced the Lamont's into bankruptcy. Unable to sustain the heavy debts incurred in defending the family name and honor, Lamont's father was forced to sell the family's long time home and land to help pay off his creditors. Ruined financially and politically, Ian and his father were forced from their life of opulence falling off the societal ladder to its lower rungs. With little money, Ian's father, a now broken and ailing man, took to bed with increasingly severe medical problems. As his health deteriorated, Ian's father charged him with the daunting mission of restoring the family name and honor to its former stature and glory. Lamont accepted his father's last request vowing to him that the family honor would be avenged and that those that had wronged the Lamont name would face retribution for their despicable and dastardly actions.
Ian's father died at an early age leaving Ian the sole survivor of the Lamont name and one charged with disproving the lies that had so tarnished the family reputation.
Starfleet Career
Ian enrolled in Starfleet shortly after his father's death and went on the achieve high honors in his classes at the academy. He served for several years in various command roles in administration duties. He was eventually posted to the USS Lexington during the outbreak of the Second Dominion War.
Second Dominion War
Lamont served with distinction aboard the USS Lexington as its second officer. Despite his sterling service and record, Lamont did not possess the instinct and skills needed to wage a total, relentless war against a determined enemy. Sensing Lamont's impressive administrative and social skills could better server the common good elsewhere, the Lexington's captain pushed Lamont to accept a posting within the Starfleet Diplomatic Corps. Reluctant to leave the fighting, Lamont eventually accepted under pressure from his commanding officer who saw his skills as being wasted in endless battles. As the war continued to go badly for the Federation, Lamont transferred to the diplomatic corps which were badly in need of skilled politicians and negotiators to help strengthen ties with regional allies and Federation aligned worlds.
In the closing months of the war, Lamont was assigned positions all over the quadrant successfully negotiating treaties, agreements, and pledges between the major powers in the Alpha Quadrant. A string of quick successes and tough negotiations earned him a promotion in Starfleet to the rank of Commander and an official promotion to that of a full Federation Diplomat by the Diplomatic Corps. Well liked and respected by his peers, Lamont slowly made a name for himself reclimbing the social ladder from which his family had fallen.
War's End
As the war ended, Lamont honed his skills as a rising diplomatic dynamo. The success he had so fervently craved was finally beginning to elevate him back into circles of influence and power. As his influence expanded old enemies took note and again rose from the shadows to put an end to the Lamont family once and for all.
After a particular negotiation nearly fell apart but was salvaged by last minute political maneuvering, Lamont soon discovered the secretive activities of old family rivals attempting yet again to discredit and destroy Ian Lamont's reputation, influence, and name. Infuriated by his rival's petty goals, Lamont made powerful friends and allies within the NeoDyne Defense Corporation with the intention of using his ever expanding network of power brokers, executives, contacts, and governmental officials to insulate himself from his enemies and finally fulfill his father's wish to go back on the attack with the goal of restoring the Lamont name and reclaiming the Lamont legacy.
Reassignment
Lamont was well into planning his revenge against his political enemies when he was suddenly assigned to a deep space mission aboard the USS Charon. In a partnership with the Romulan government, the Charon was to be dispatched to the far side of Romulan space near the Typhon sector to explore uncharted areas. With the Charon's commander a former soldier of the Romulan Star Navy, the diplomatic corps insisted that an experienced Diplomat with full diplomatic authority and skills be assigned to the mission in the event of a first contact scenario or to help smooth any problems that might occur with the tenuous joint Romulan-Federation venture.
Furious at the posting, Lamont protested, but was overruled and dispatched as the Charon's Diplomatic Adviser aboard the USS Charon.
Personality
Ian is a extremely proud, proper, and well mannered individual the result of his upbringing. He has difficulty befriending some individuals due to his rigid and aristocratic nature. While considered prudish by some, recent events have softened his personality resulting in one that is slowly becoming more tolerant and understanding of those around him. Finding his original goals of revenge against his family's enemies now petty and lacking merit, Lamont seeks to repair his damaged relations with members of the crew while working to constructively find ways to research his family's past and secure the facts that he hopes will finally clear his family name.
U.S.S. Charon
Lamont's time aboard the Charon has had its share of ups and downs. Isolated from his elements, his network of allies, friends, and contacts, Lamont has few friends aboard, but seems able to make his share of enemies. His relationship with the Charon's commanding officer, Commodore Shiarrael t`Rehu, begins poorly and eventually degrades to a point where the two officers have little tolerance for the other. Lamont, loosing his temper with the Commodore during a heated argument, ends up in a substantial fist fight with the Commodore which has lasting ramifications to their working relationship.
A first contact mission involving a race known as the Lyrillians forces Lamont to reevaluate his position having grown too accustomed to his elitist habits and inflexible social views. The near fatal events during the Lyrillian mission cause Lamont to rethink his position and his place in the universe. Humbled by his experiences his rigid elitism fades somewhat having been granted a different view of life and reality far from the politics and intrigue he left behind in the Alpha Quadrant.
Test
This Character is played by Tav.