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|fullname = Jude Connelly
 
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|dob = 5 June 2023
 
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|birthplace = [[Persephone]]
 
|birthplace = [[Persephone]]
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|gender = Male
 
|gender = Male
 
|hw = 1.78 m (5' 8") / 70 g (154 lbs)
 
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|education = None
 
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'''Donna''' started out as an engineer, working on various ships until she found a home on the [[Guan-Yin II|Guan-Yin]]. After establishing herself there and rising through the ranks, she reluctantly took over as captain just before her twenty-fifth birthday. She led the crew for four and a half years, then stepped away from the ship for a while. She is now exploring new career territory: as a nurse and a mother.
 
 
 
===Donna's Story===
 
 
Records show that Donna McKellen was born on [[Osiris]], to parents who ran a moderately successful business together.  They were middle class, especially by [[Core]] standards, but did well enough.  The family moved back and forth several times between Osiris and [[Beaumonde]], where they had a few factories, and Donna went through public education on both worlds (through high school level).  She also received training and worked at the factory's machine shop, repairing hover-lifts and other equipment. 
 
  
Her parents died when she was seventeen, and some time after this she began working on one of the company's cargo liners as an assistant engineer.  Both Donna and the company foundered however, the latter eventually closing down entirely.  Donna drifted from one job to another, her life falling further off track until she was finally forced to pull herself together and turn things around.
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===Background===
  
[[Image:Donna.jpg|120px|left]]
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Jude is old enough to remember that he had his Mom to himself until he was around six and that they lived on [[Persephone]], but he never knew who his father was. According to his Mom he was dead. When Jude was six, Charlene met Dean, a young farmer from [[Jiangyin]] who had come to Persephone to buy produce. They hit it off and she agreed to move to Jiangyin with him. Dean accepted Jude as his own and he even grew used to calling him Dad, but then more children arrived. First Cian, then the twins Morag and Megan. Dean couldn't help preferring his own son Cian and Jude felt pushed aside more and more. He grew into a rebellious teenager who hung out with other bad boys in the nearby larger settlement. He began imitating some sort of rock star chic with lots of leather, dyed his hair and learned to play the guitar. Charlene didn't know how to make him feel better about anything or convince him that college would be a really good idea.  
Donna was hired on the [[Guan-Yin]] as an engineer in late September of 2522. A month later, the Guan-Yin crew began the process of trading in their ship for a [[Trans-U]] model vessel that was rechristened the [[Guan-Yin II]]. Donna and the other engineers began several months of work refurbishing and restoring every system to full working order.
 
  
By Christmas, Donna was dating [[Robert C. Forge|Robert Forge]], an [[Alliance]] liaison and security hand on board the shipHe left the crew in January to join another ship, and they tried to keep things going long distance for a while, but finally broke up three months later.
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In autumn 2541 [[Donna]] appeared at the farm on Jiangyin and the whole story finally came out. In her youth Charlene had a brief love affair with the shepherd [[Stephen_McManus]] that left her pregnant. But while he was willing to support her and the child financially, he wasn't ready to give up his vows for them. She raised the child on her own for the first years, naming him for Saint Jude, the patron saint of lost causes and when Jude was old enough to ask questions, decided it was better to tell him that his father was dead rather than that he wanted nothing to do with him. As the years went by Jude lived his life on Jiangyin, unaware that his father was alive and racked with guilt. When the shepherd caught a deadly virus, he confessed everything to Donna and asked her to find his son and check on him. After digesting the initial shock, Jude was happy to accept Donna's invitation to spend some time on the [[Guan-Yin II]] to find out more about his father from people who had known him and also get to see something of the verse that way.  
  
In February 2524, following the disappearance of [[Jansen|Jansen Vincent]] from the crew, Donna was promoted to XO.  In the summer and fall of 2524, Donna learned to fly first the [[LRS Tereshkova]] and then the Guan-Yin herself, from [[Eyvindr]].  She then left the ship for the first half of 2525 to take some business courses, wanting to better fulfill her responsibilities as XO and help out with running the ship.
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===A New Career===
  
Donna returned to the ship at the end of July to find [[Xian]] gone from the ship, [[Olivia Piper|Olivia]] and [[Eyvindr]] announcing that they would retire, and then soon after [[Cennaire]] leaving the crew to settle elsewhere. Having each of these friends move on from the crew affected Donna deeply.  It also meant that the ownership and captaincy of the ship passed into her hands, at the end of August.  She at first struggled with this, not sure she could manage to fill the position, but started to grow into it and build her confidence as the ship went through a long hiring and rebuilding period.  It took several months, but the ship was eventually fully staffed and once again traveling the Verse doing good works.
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After a while, Jude got himself involved in helping out in the Guan-Yin's Med Bay and decided that a career in nursing might be just the thing for him. For the first time in his life he studied hard for someting, so he would pass the entrance exam for Nursing School on Persephone and get a place there. He is now dividing his time between studying there and learning hands-on from Donna and the other nurses on the Guan-Yin II.  
  
[[Image:Karn.jpg|120px|left]]
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He makes some money on the side by busking around Eavesdown Docks or play gigs in pubs and restaurants. Along the way he's made several new friends beyond the Guan-Yin such as the young mother [[Sanoh]] Nk and her children Nim and Dao and his fellow musician [[Ambrose]] both off the [[Jia]], the supportive Lady [[Lirin]] Dumont-Fist and even a bonefide Alliance Admiral [[Charley_Wong]]. Unfortunately he's also made a mortal enemy, the young overzealous Ensign Wendolin Spindler, who wastes no opportunity to come after him and even arrested him for his Browncoat tattoo (some say it was for crimes against music, but that's an entirely unfounded rumour).
In May of 2526, Donna began dating [[Karn Dalton]], one of the Goddess's new engineers.  She was also shot in the neck that same month, during an attempt (which was thankfully successful) to recover [[Stephen McManus|Shepherd McManus]] from a group of thugs who had kidnapped him.  A month later, [[Scrubs]] was gifted to the ship by [[Damian Carmichael]]. The kitten moved into the captain's cabin with Donna and Karn, who looked after him on behalf of the ship.
 
  
In July, the Guan-Yin was on [[Hera]] for the Midsummer Festival when the "[[The_Blight_of_Hera_TP|Blight of Hera]]" broke out.  The ship's crew was heavily involved in responding to the situation, and this is the point at which Donna truly began to see herself as a leader.
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===A Trial and its surprising outcome===
  
At the start of 2527, Donna expanded the business setup for the [[Guan-Yin Corporation]], passing ownership of the ship and all of the equipment on board to the corporate entity.  A month later, the crew was celebrating Valentines Day on [[Ezra]] when several bombs went off at a [[The_Coming_Storm#Episode_2_--_My_Bloody_Valentine|masquerade ball]], and once again the crew provided medical aid.  That summer, the crew had some interesting adventures on [[Three Hills]].  However, most of the ship's work under Donna's leadership was ordinary, honest medical care provided throughout the Rim and Border worlds, with occasional cargo runs into the Core to pay for crew salaries and the ship's upkeep (for more about the ship's adventures, see the [[Guan-Yin_II/History|Guan-Yin history page]]).
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Eventually things came to a head when Spindler disrupted a date with the lovely [[Ava]] Arnett, in which blows were traded, a girl ended in hospital and a boy in court. The judge sentenced Jude to 500 hours of community service, a weekend with the Feds and a fine, but it was all worth it because it also earned him a girlfriend! He was able to do his community service at Hope House on Bernadette, a charity institution run by Ava's godfather [[Aubrey]], who had no idea what she saw in the scruffy boy from the Rim and told Jude in no uncertain terms what worlds of pain he'd find himself in, if he hurt her. An encounter with Blue Sun and their evil machinations sent Jude and Ava on a secret mission to Ariel, in which he seemed to earn Aubrey's grudging respect (less so for being found naked and stoned on a hotel roof on Osiris later). Ava finally came aboard the Guan-Yin as a computer techie to be closer to him and whenever they can get away, she joins him for his music gigs, supporting his rock star dreams.
  
On 26 April 2528, Donna and Karn were married in a small civil ceremony on [[Greenleaf]].  The ceremony was held at a riverside spot that is a favorite of the Guan-Yin crew, conducted by [[Zachary MacAbrams]] and attended by the crew and close friends.  By fall, she had determined that she wanted to train properly as a nurse so that she could offer better help as the ship served its medical mission.  She began a long distance program with Osiris City MedAcad, focused on emergency nursing.
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===Appearance===
  
The first half of 2529 was a difficult period for the ship, and for Donna.  Several crew members left and the ship had to close its doors to patients for a while, until finally they hired new crew. Donna's health began to suffer, especially after [[Anise Seymour|Dr. Anise Seymour]] disappeared under dire circumstances in August. By the end of the year, Donna and Karn took an extended leave from the ship to tend to her health and that of their relationship.  After much soul-searching, Donna determined that she needed to step down as captain... the stresses of the job were taking too heavy a toll, and they wanted to be able to start a family.  When they returned, it was to announce that she was stepping down from command and leaving the ship.
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His weedy built makes Jude appear taller than he really is. He has a thin face with full lips and a pair of large green eyes, flecked with gold. He has an impressive mop of -very- blonde hair though one closer look is enough to realize that it's growing black at the roots. Skinny legs in very tight fashionably ripped black denim are stuck in clompy black biker boots. He's wearing a nearly white tank top that exposes some cheaply done tattoos on his shoulders and upper arms, including a very visible one of the Browncoat's logo on his right upper arm and one of Che Guevara on the left upper arm.
  
Donna and Karn bought a house in Accendo City on [[Paquin]].  Donna began a nursing residency at the city's General Hospital and Karn took a job at a ship repair yard.  They had barely settled into their new life when a daughter, Marie Caitlin Dalton, was born in December 2530.  As soon as Donna's residency was complete, the family returned to the Guan-Yin for a while, under the leadership of [[Cody A. Martin|Cody Martin]].  Donna was quite happy to explore her new role on board as a nurse.  After about six months, she and Karn returned to their home on Paquin.  Their son, Louis Orion Dalton, was born there in January 2533.
 
 
Following a number of troubles, Donna and Karn separated in 2536 and divorced the following year.  In 2539, she moved with the children to [[New Melbourne]], taking a job at the capital city's hospital.
 
 
Stay tuned for more...
 
 
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* Donna is one of the Guan-Yin's "Aunties", counting among her "nieces and nephews" the children of [[Olivia Piper|Olivia]] and [[Eyvindr Bjarnarsun|Eyvindr]] (Gawain and Freyja), [[Cennaire]] (Jass and Joss), [[Anissa Bracken|Anissa]] and [[James Bracken|James]] (Shawn and Samantha), [[Erin Ashley|Erin]] and [[Odell]] (Erica and Ella), Erin's adopted sister Jane, and [[Blake Lassiter|Blake's]] daughter [[Guan-Yin II/NPCs#Aurora Lassiter|Aurora]].
 
* She has a tattoo of the Chinese character Jia just above her right shoulder blade.
 
* She used to wear glasses whenever she was off-ship, but no longer wears them.
 
* In her younger days, she frequently dyed her hair and changed around its style.
 
* She drinks tea by choice, coffee only when she really, really needs it.  She does not drink alcohol.
 
* While she ran the Guan-Yin she was often mistakenly addressed as a doctor.
 
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Latest revision as of 01:08, 20 October 2018

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Jude
Jude.jpg
Full name Jude Connelly
Date of Birth 5 June 2023
Birthplace Persephone
Parents Charlene Connelly, Stephen McManus
Siblings Cian, Morag & Megan (half-siblings)
Gender Male
Height and Weight 1.78 m (5' 8") / 70 g (154 lbs)
Status Active
Education Information

None

Employment History

Farmboy


Background

Jude is old enough to remember that he had his Mom to himself until he was around six and that they lived on Persephone, but he never knew who his father was. According to his Mom he was dead. When Jude was six, Charlene met Dean, a young farmer from Jiangyin who had come to Persephone to buy produce. They hit it off and she agreed to move to Jiangyin with him. Dean accepted Jude as his own and he even grew used to calling him Dad, but then more children arrived. First Cian, then the twins Morag and Megan. Dean couldn't help preferring his own son Cian and Jude felt pushed aside more and more. He grew into a rebellious teenager who hung out with other bad boys in the nearby larger settlement. He began imitating some sort of rock star chic with lots of leather, dyed his hair and learned to play the guitar. Charlene didn't know how to make him feel better about anything or convince him that college would be a really good idea.

In autumn 2541 Donna appeared at the farm on Jiangyin and the whole story finally came out. In her youth Charlene had a brief love affair with the shepherd Stephen_McManus that left her pregnant. But while he was willing to support her and the child financially, he wasn't ready to give up his vows for them. She raised the child on her own for the first years, naming him for Saint Jude, the patron saint of lost causes and when Jude was old enough to ask questions, decided it was better to tell him that his father was dead rather than that he wanted nothing to do with him. As the years went by Jude lived his life on Jiangyin, unaware that his father was alive and racked with guilt. When the shepherd caught a deadly virus, he confessed everything to Donna and asked her to find his son and check on him. After digesting the initial shock, Jude was happy to accept Donna's invitation to spend some time on the Guan-Yin II to find out more about his father from people who had known him and also get to see something of the verse that way.

A New Career

After a while, Jude got himself involved in helping out in the Guan-Yin's Med Bay and decided that a career in nursing might be just the thing for him. For the first time in his life he studied hard for someting, so he would pass the entrance exam for Nursing School on Persephone and get a place there. He is now dividing his time between studying there and learning hands-on from Donna and the other nurses on the Guan-Yin II.

He makes some money on the side by busking around Eavesdown Docks or play gigs in pubs and restaurants. Along the way he's made several new friends beyond the Guan-Yin such as the young mother Sanoh Nk and her children Nim and Dao and his fellow musician Ambrose both off the Jia, the supportive Lady Lirin Dumont-Fist and even a bonefide Alliance Admiral Charley_Wong. Unfortunately he's also made a mortal enemy, the young overzealous Ensign Wendolin Spindler, who wastes no opportunity to come after him and even arrested him for his Browncoat tattoo (some say it was for crimes against music, but that's an entirely unfounded rumour).

A Trial and its surprising outcome

Eventually things came to a head when Spindler disrupted a date with the lovely Ava Arnett, in which blows were traded, a girl ended in hospital and a boy in court. The judge sentenced Jude to 500 hours of community service, a weekend with the Feds and a fine, but it was all worth it because it also earned him a girlfriend! He was able to do his community service at Hope House on Bernadette, a charity institution run by Ava's godfather Aubrey, who had no idea what she saw in the scruffy boy from the Rim and told Jude in no uncertain terms what worlds of pain he'd find himself in, if he hurt her. An encounter with Blue Sun and their evil machinations sent Jude and Ava on a secret mission to Ariel, in which he seemed to earn Aubrey's grudging respect (less so for being found naked and stoned on a hotel roof on Osiris later). Ava finally came aboard the Guan-Yin as a computer techie to be closer to him and whenever they can get away, she joins him for his music gigs, supporting his rock star dreams.

Appearance

His weedy built makes Jude appear taller than he really is. He has a thin face with full lips and a pair of large green eyes, flecked with gold. He has an impressive mop of -very- blonde hair though one closer look is enough to realize that it's growing black at the roots. Skinny legs in very tight fashionably ripped black denim are stuck in clompy black biker boots. He's wearing a nearly white tank top that exposes some cheaply done tattoos on his shoulders and upper arms, including a very visible one of the Browncoat's logo on his right upper arm and one of Che Guevara on the left upper arm.