Name: Jena Dorian
Rank: Commander
Position: Commander, Battlestar Myriad
Age: 25
Height: 5’2”
Colony of origin: Sagittaron
Other info: Left handed, green eyes, red hair.
Promoted to Commander: Exodus +487 (following mutiny)
Stripped of Command: Exodus +1217
Returned to Command: Exodus +1257
Jena Dorian entered Colonial Officer Candidate School at age 18, as an act of rebellion against her family’s traditional pacifist views. She hasn’t spoken to her parents since this and it caused a huge rift between them. She didn’t find the discipline of a military organisation particularly easy to deal with, but did discover an aptitude for fixing anything mechanical and this was certainly enough to see her through to graduation, despite her sometimes interesting approach to direct orders. She tended to see a better way of doing things and do it without asking, thus developing somewhat of a reputation for being difficult to command. Her instructors often talked about her as very bright but needing guidance to direct her creativity.
Her first posting was to the Battlestar Atlantia, where she earned a reprimand from her CO, Major Jonas Arkady, in her first week on board for making an unauthorised adjustment to the weapons firing circuits. It meant that the weapons had a greater yield but it could have led to overloaded systems. Several more reprimands followed and she was accused of recklessness on several occasions. Her CO described her as immature in her approach to battlestar combat engineering.
She had a hard time fitting in and began to wonder if she had made the correct career choice but came to regard her posting to Atlantia as a baptism of fire. Her CO recognised her potential to shine, and eventually became her mentor. Atlantia was where she finally learnt how to fit her way of doing things into the rank structure. Major Arkady later also described her as a brilliant engineer with a great future in the fleet, and predicted that she would head up her own department one day.
After her regulation three year tour on Atlantia, she transferred to Battlestar Charybdis for a year, but her CO was less than understanding of her unconventional style and she requested a transfer out before she was booted off. Myriad was rotating crew and needed a Deck Operations Officer. Unfortunately for Lt Dorian, Arkady’s statement about her career prospects was prophetic in a tragic manner when Myriad lost a large portion of her engineering department in the battle with the Cylons. Lt Dorian suddenly became the highest ranking engineer on board, and was the only person left to take charge of a severely damaged ship.
At this point in time, Lt Dorian has about four years experience and has just transferred on board Myriad when the Cylons attack Caprica. She compensates for her inexperience by working harder and sleeping less, and is continually surprised that the whole ship doesn’t come crashing down around their ears. Despite her own misgivings she runs things well, if a little unorthodoxly. She expects her crew to work as hard as she does, but has had some difficulties with discipline due to her perceived (and, in many cases, actual) lack of experience in the eyes of the crew. The NCOs have been a special worry as they do actually have more experience and occasionally do know more. Her superiors, although slightly more understanding of her problems, expect her to work miracles but still treat her as a green Lieutenant at times, much to her annoyance. If she’s honest with herself then she can be a bit of a pushover. She and the CAG have an ongoing feud about how he treats the ship’s main defence resources (the vipers), and how she and her crew maintain them.
As a Sagittaron she has a deep distrust of the medical profession, but doesn’t adhere to the religious beliefs of her countrymen (in fact she would regard herself as an atheist – people who believe all that Lords of Kobol mumbo jumbo are either deluded or selling something). She also has rather a leftwing outlook on politics. Although she doesn’t agree with how Tom Zarek went about things, she sees him as something of a hero for workers’ rights.
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