====Personnel Registry====
Geiben Folami
-Physical Description-
Geiben carries a light, amiable voice. His life on the Floridian peninsular before enrolling in the Union Navy has gifted him a well built stature and a tan, as a result of sailing during his adolescent years. Of both African and European descent, Geiben sports a well trimmed beard.
-Personality Description-
When off duty, Geiben prefers to spend his time talking to naval engineers and learn the basics of their craft, as he himself enjoyed crafting sea-faring ships on Earth as a child. As a naval officer, he suffers no small amount of stress. When times feel rough, he throws himself at the nearest VR pod to simulate navigation through turbulent waves on the coasts of Florida, making himself feel at home and soothing his spirits.
On duty, Geiben keeps a straight-face and maintains his professionalism, believing that by following orders and through hard work, he can move up the command ladder. That is not to say he is blind to the injustice that bureaucracy and politics can bring about, pains that he bottles up, choosing to release his anger through riding the waves and helping out the engineering crew with menial, mechanical tasks.
Participation in the Hawking rebellion has put heavy strain on Geiben’s mental integrity. On the outside, he’s more confident than ever, now in the captain’s seat. However, the disownment from his family and his very real betrayal of his country has left Geiben doubting his ideals.
Relationships
- Father: Anna Weinberg
- Mother: Xander Folami
- Siblings: Lisa Folami (younger sister)
- Best Friend: Erwin Shu, fellow sailboat hobbyist
- Divorced wife: Layla Clementine
-Advantages & Disadvantages-
+ Intelligent and able to follow through on a plan
+ Authoritative and a Capable Leader
+ Military Training
- Isolated from his family
- Disappointed with the Union and the Magnetic Assembly
- Only Human
History
Due to naval duties, Geiben retains only sporadic contact with his home, only able to send messages back and forth once a month or so.
Born on the shores of Florida, Geiben developed a deep loyalty to Earth and its oceans from an early age. Until he left to New England to attend college at 18 years of age, he spent much of his youth building his own sailboats and tested them on the waters, often venturing off far from the shorelines, into the blue beyond, much to the dismay of his parents. Ironically, it was this very passion that tore him away from Earth, as he chose to enroll the naval academies to one day command his own ship and take part in New Texas' orbital defense force. After a decade and a half between academics and naval training, he is now finally able to command his own ship, only to find out he is sent to helm a worn out geological surveyor owned by a man he could care less about.
Xander Folami and Anna Weinberg are natives of Florida. Geiben's father was a lieutenant on Union Earth navy, while Anna was a bio-engineer. After Geiben's birth, Xander became a bureaucrat in Florida's local government, specifically its education system, while Anna continued her work as a bio-engineer, researching adaptation of cereals and other food-plants to non-Earth environments. To their son, Xander imparted a strong sense of duty to family and importance of learning, while Anna taught perseverance and patience. However, neither were able to fully moderate Geiben's rebellious directions. It was only when Xander pushed his son through the New England’s education system, then encouraging him to enroll in naval academies of New Texas, that the boy's attitude was regulated, his energy shunted to more productive endeavors.
Geiben's childhood friend, Erwin, and his sister Lisa, have always been dear to his heart. In fact, it was often with their help that he would complete his sailboat projects, and again with their help sneak off in the night to venture off into dangerous waves. The to-be-captain was seen to have bawled his eyes out when he graduated through New England's education system, and about to be sent to New Texas. As of now, Lisa followed in her father's footsteps to work in education, while Erwin moved to the Atlantica to become an engineer in the energy industry, proliferating tidal turbines to take advantage of the system’s planets’ long coastlines.
One relationship Geiben has been trying to put behind him is his ex-wife, Layla Clementine, a civil engineer in training while Geiben himself was studying mechanical engineering. The two entered into a whirlwind romance in their sophomore year in college, resulting in marriage by the end of their education. The details of the breakup have been buried away by Geiben himself, but suffice to say, the divorce was rather messy. The unfolding of this short-lived relationship has remained the single stain on Geiben's professional career. Layla's fate has since stayed unknown. Presumably, she moved to New Texas, working in its public sector to help build up the infrastructure.
Once aboard the Edward Deming, Geiben formed friendships with the man that was Heram Wazu, along with the Epsilon soldier Corgan, the AI Dr. Knowledgebot, and Enid, who he started a romantic relationship with. He also got to spend time on Hawking, growing to see the system as a new home. However, his career on the Edward Deming was a turbulent one, with just as many successes as failures, with said failures culminating in humanitarian disasters. In order to save face, the Union forced a series of actions upon Edward Deming and its crew, including the Geiben’s resignation. Seeing the degradation of Union competence first-hand and realizing the negative implications on Hawking, Geiben begrudgingly spearheaded the system’s fight for independence in Operation Trustfall, removing his superior, Somnya, from the captain position on the ship and taking the position for himself.
Born on the shores of Florida, Geiben developed a deep loyalty to Earth and its oceans from an early age. Until he left to New England to attend college at 18 years of age, he spent much of his youth building his own sailboats and tested them on the waters, often venturing off far from the shorelines, into the blue beyond, much to the dismay of his parents. Ironically, it was this very passion that tore him away from Earth, as he chose to enroll the naval academies to one day command his own ship and take part in New Texas' orbital defense force. After a decade and a half between academics and naval training, he is now finally able to command his own ship, only to find out he is sent to helm a worn out geological surveyor owned by a man he could care less about.
Xander Folami and Anna Weinberg are natives of Florida. Geiben's father was a lieutenant on Union Earth navy, while Anna was a bio-engineer. After Geiben's birth, Xander became a bureaucrat in Florida's local government, specifically its education system, while Anna continued her work as a bio-engineer, researching adaptation of cereals and other food-plants to non-Earth environments. To their son, Xander imparted a strong sense of duty to family and importance of learning, while Anna taught perseverance and patience. However, neither were able to fully moderate Geiben's rebellious directions. It was only when Xander pushed his son through the New England’s education system, then encouraging him to enroll in naval academies of New Texas, that the boy's attitude was regulated, his energy shunted to more productive endeavors.
Geiben's childhood friend, Erwin, and his sister Lisa, have always been dear to his heart. In fact, it was often with their help that he would complete his sailboat projects, and again with their help sneak off in the night to venture off into dangerous waves. The to-be-captain was seen to have bawled his eyes out when he graduated through New England's education system, and about to be sent to New Texas. As of now, Lisa followed in her father's footsteps to work in education, while Erwin moved to the Atlantica to become an engineer in the energy industry, proliferating tidal turbines to take advantage of the system’s planets’ long coastlines.
One relationship Geiben has been trying to put behind him is his ex-wife, Layla Clementine, a civil engineer in training while Geiben himself was studying mechanical engineering. The two entered into a whirlwind romance in their sophomore year in college, resulting in marriage by the end of their education. The details of the breakup have been buried away by Geiben himself, but suffice to say, the divorce was rather messy. The unfolding of this short-lived relationship has remained the single stain on Geiben's professional career. Layla's fate has since stayed unknown. Presumably, she moved to New Texas, working in its public sector to help build up the infrastructure.
Once aboard the Edward Deming, Geiben formed friendships with the man that was Heram Wazu, along with the Epsilon soldier Corgan, the AI Dr. Knowledgebot, and Enid, who he started a romantic relationship with. He also got to spend time on Hawking, growing to see the system as a new home. However, his career on the Edward Deming was a turbulent one, with just as many successes as failures, with said failures culminating in humanitarian disasters. In order to save face, the Union forced a series of actions upon Edward Deming and its crew, including the Geiben’s resignation. Seeing the degradation of Union competence first-hand and realizing the negative implications on Hawking, Geiben begrudgingly spearheaded the system’s fight for independence in Operation Trustfall, removing his superior, Somnya, from the captain position on the ship and taking the position for himself.
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