Mackenzie Collins

Lieutenant Collins is a noteworthy member of TNH’s Intelligence department.

 

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Table of Contents:

  1. Spec’s
  2. Life Summary
  3. 2540s Update
  4. Original Play-by (Images Begin)
  5. Teenification in Progress
  6. New Play-by:  After the Auz Effect

 

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—[Dossier]—

Birth Name:  Mackenzie Taylor Collins
Age:  29 (in 2517)
Planet Of Birth:  New Melbourne
Place(s) of Upbringing:  New Melbourne

—[Appearance]—
Height / Weight:  5’5”, 122 lbs. (at 1G) 
Hair / Eyes:  Brown / Brown
Ethnicity:  Caucasian Melbournite
Complexion:  olive-skinned, mildly-tanned (evenly; no tan-lines)
Markings / Piercings:  None / None
Scars / Prosthetics:  None / None 
Garb / Attire:  military uniforms

—[Alignment]—
Affiliation:  UAP 
Nationality:  New Melbournite

Astrological Signs:  *New astrological signs have yet to be established for the newly colonized Verse; all the stars look different from here; the old constellations of ETW don’t exist where he is.

—[Fitness]—
Stamina:  Athletic 
Physique:  Toned, moderately built
BFI:  17%

—[Vocation]—
Occupation:  Intelligence Service, Commissioned Officer
Employer:  UAP Space Navy
Employer Location:  The New Horizon spacecraft carrier

—[Identity]—
Blood Type:  TBA
Aliases:  TBA
Call Signs / Code Names:  TBA

 

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Life Summary:

  • 2487:  Mackenzie is born to a normal middle-class family on their homeworld, New Melbourne.
  • 2490-2502:  age 4 – 16, She grows up playing sports and doing well in school, and gets into a good university.
  • 2503-2507:  age 17 – 21, Studying a variety of subjects at first, she chooses her Major a year later, and then her Minor.
  • 2508-2509:  age 22 – 23, Near the end of her senior year, she decides to become an officer in the Alliance military, even though the Unification War had just erupted out on the edge of the 34 Tauri “Core” where she’d grown up.
  • 2510-2516:  age 24 – 28, She distinguishes herself in the service, earning a couple promotions before she is noticed and flagged as compatibility-potential by the ICVs who are routinely mind-surf scanning the entire human population of 34 Tauri.
  • 2517:  age 29, Sometimes she can’t help but hurry over to Auz‘s hangar-parked shuttle-like ship and knock on his ‘cabin’ door –and he, of course, obliges.  They both love to help her blow off some steam that way.  Once or twice, he even made a “house call” to her quarters.

 

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2540s Update:

Mackenzie worked with Auz aboard that super-carrier for a number of years, growing very close with the man, marveling that he had both designed and issued the command to assemble (3D-print in Space, no less) it all.  Perhaps more than that, she marveled at how humble and approachable he’d remained –and, despite his busy schedule, how available.  Auz was a gifted man; that much was sure –and not just because of what he was able to imagine and draft detailed plans for, but also for how balanced he was, always prioritizing loving interaction and loyalty to those who had earned it from him.

When it was time for them to part, her eyes ached, and more than a few silent tears fell.  Her heart pounded its protest, not wanting to let him go; they’d connected so many times, opening up to each other and bonding on just about every level.  She felt like she was losing a lover or a brother, even a husband, though they had not yet married or even talked of the thing.

She stayed in the military, going on to other assignments after TNH, but always had part of her mind on it and the amazing Inisfreeans she had met and teamed up with there.  As her new stations and deployments made the months fly by, turning into years, she felt like she had to reach back out and see where that man she still had feelings for had gone.  What amazing project was he working on now?

Auz flew out to see her at her place on New Melbourne.  He’d traveled in style this time, too; no longer in the little Firefly he’d piloted in and out of TNH during their years there together, he was in his much more massive version of the Air Force One planes which had inspired it centuries ago.  She just shook her head and smirked, saying to herself, “I should have known…” (that he had yet another awesome custom vessel all his own)

“What?” he grinned, almost chuckling.  “I’m not trying to impress you; …I just like this plane.”

They made love after he gave her a quick tour of its insides.  Afterward, they both huffed out their great and long-overdue relief; they’d both missed each other a lot, and felt like they had some closure –and rekindling– now.  He’d spend the night with her, and then she’d hold his hand while showing him around her favorite parts of the nearby city.

Having practically grown up in the Intel and SpecWar community, it was in her blood not to ask about anything; OPSEC had been her life, and protected the lives of many others she knew and felt akin with.  Not once did she let her curiosity get the best of her; she never pried or asked a single question about what Auz had been up to during their years apart.  She had a feeling he’d share plenty of it with her, anyway –which he, on their walks into town, and during their numerous lovemaking sessions this visit, did.

“Am I going to lose you for years again?” she asked, draped over his chest after their latest round back at her place, his Air Force One parked outside, in view out her bedroom windows, the sunlight of her world, slightly different than it was on Earth, keeping it gleaming in the afternoon sky.

“No,” he softly rumbled, shaking his head a couple times just as casually, and then he squeezed and kissed her again, so she remounted him and resumed.

 

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Original Play-by:

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Teenification in Progress:

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New Play-by:  After the Auz Effect

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