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YOU
NAME:Andrea
AGE:25
E-MAIL:rosebud15@northstate.net
AIM:feanorinnerflame
TIMEZONE:EST
OOC JOURNAL:n/a
PREVIOUS RP EXPERIENCE: I have been rping for over ten years and I am already a current member of the rpg.
CHARACTER
NAME:Gul Skrain Dukat
FANDOM: Star Trek Deep Space Nine
AGE: 56 +/-
ALIGNMENT (GOOD, EVIL, NEUTRAL):That often depends on who you ask. He is a complicated bad guy who sees him as a hero though he has done good things at times along with the bad.
SKILLS/POWERS/SPECIAL ABILITIES:
Dukat comes from a humanoid race called the Cardassians, who, like a large amount of humans, do not possess any so called ‘super powers.’ However, they do have extensive mental and physical training and schooling for their children that give them impressive skills as they mature. Dukat is no different. Though he has been referred to as shortsighted or careless, he has shown himself to have a brilliant yet somewhat devious mind. It is also a fairly strong brain, which is able to resist most mental invasions and torture by telepathic individuals.
Dukat is not only a brilliant commander but also is quite a warrior in physical combat. He has held his own against several powerful foes, including Klingons and the Breen in hand-to-hand combat. There is no doubt when seen in battle he is a formable soldier, using both his mental and physical strength against his enemies.
In addition, Dukat has a rather fondness for talking and he is fairly eloquence with his words. He has used his eloquence to charm others or at least try to while at other times he has used it to intimidate or belittle his enemies. After while everybody just wants him to shut up but shutting the arrogant gul up is a feat in itself.
Lastly, due to his quasi-reptilian biology he is highly resistant to high temperatures but as a draw back he is extremely vulnerable to the cold. As a whole Cardassians prefer must warmer and darker environments to those where the temperature is exceedingly lower. For example Earth to a Cardassian is relatively comfortable in places closer to the equator or the summer season but anything else would not be suitable for them.
BRIEF BACKGROUND SUMMARY:
Like most Cardassians Skrain Dukat was born on Cardassia Prime. His father Procal, who he adored, was a chief justice in the Cardassian Court System. Dukat joined the military service and was soon given the rank of glinn aboard the ship Kornaire. For his first duty he was forced to clean out a compartment where three men had died from explosive decompression. The effects of seeing that scene haunted his sleep for days. Save for this he was a good soldier and it wasn’t surprising that he rose to the rank of Legate, equal to admiral in Starfleet. But he soon lost favor and was so reduced to rank of gul. However, his career proved to fluctuate and he rose again in command but decided to keep his gul rank viewing it as more ‘hands on.’ During these times he married a Cardassian woman and had seven children with her but tragedy soon followed. He was broken hearted to learn that his father had been arrested by the Obsidian Order and had died during heavy interrogation by Elim Garak. Dukat tried very hard to have Garak get his just desserts but Garak was freed from any wrongdoing. From then on he swore eternal hatred for him and revenge on him.
In the year 2346 Dukat became perfect of Bajor and was assigned to help oversee the mining and slave operations on Bajor but he set up his headquarters on the space station Terok Nor. He had hoped to keep himself safe from attacks but of course that was an error, as he became a target five times. Of course all of them failed to kill him. Though they wanted him dead he wasn’t entirely uncaring towards them. He cut labor quotas by 50%, abolish child labor and approved medical and food conditions which reduced the deaths by 20% but the terrorist attacks still continued. The last straw was when the resistance killed 200 Cardassians by destroying an orbital drylock. Dukat had an enough and it wasn’t long before he was taking out his anger on the Bajoran people, earning him their eternal hatred. Though he hated them he took several Bajoran women as his mistresses, falling in love with at least two of them and impregnated one with his child. Sensing there would be danger for them he send them to Lissepia, unknown to him they never made it.
Eleven years after being put in charge of Terok Nor he finally came face to face with his nemesis Garak once more. He was exiled from Cardassia and put in his command. To humiliate him he made him the tailor but Garak turned the table and became quite a great tailor. That following year the Cardassian withdrawn from Bajor and Terok Nor. Dukat strongly protested this decision but he was soon given the position of Commander of the Second Order of Cardassian Guard and worked between the Federation and the Cardassians in their encounters, which mostly took place on his old post of Terok Nor, now called Deep Space Nine. His career was in trouble when he was accused of selling illegal arms in the demilitarized zone created by the Federation-Cardassian treaty. But the Cardassians were not the only ones thought to be breaking the treaty, Federation based colonists calling themselves the Marquis were causing difficulties as well. They even kidnapped Gul Dukat who was rescued by Sisko; he was also cleared of weapon charges. With this all behind him he was promoted once more to Legate and made chief military adviser after he sided with the victorious Detapa Council during the Cardassian Union’s revolution. He proved to be a good choice by rescuing them when the Klingons attacked the Union. Dukat, with help of the USS Defiant, transported them to safety but not before Dukat was forced to fight hand- to-hand with Klingons on DS9 with his nemesis Garak by his side.
Later that year he was forced to go with Kira to investigate the downed ship Ravinok that had been brought down by the Breen on the desert planet of Dozaria. That morning after finding the ship they ventured into the Breen prison camp and found Dukat’s long lost daughter Tora Ziyal. Secretively he had planned to kill Ziyal and her mother to protect his honor but he instead chose to take her with them. This choice turned out to be disastrous. His mother disowned him, his wife and children left him and he was demoted to command of a freighter, the Groumall. This didn’t stop Dukat from stopping and capturing a Klingon bird of prey that was attacking Cardassians. He took the ship for his own, naming it Naprem after his deceased mistress. He also helped several from DS9 to expose a Changeling in the Klingon Empire. But again he proved to be an untrustworthy ally, he turned on the Federation and those he once allied himself with by opening negotiations with the Dominion and named himself leader.
[His encounters in the RPG; He will remember all of it]
He was only the leader for a few hours when the Powers that be decided to pluck him from his universe and depositing on Earth’s Los Angeles. Life had taken a nasty detour for Gul Dukat. He was now exiled with Garak and without a ship to command, much to his dismay. But Dukat was not the type to sit still in a bad situation, so he decided to find somewhere to stay. It happened that he found Lana Lang, who allowed him to live in her apartment building until she decided to depart to places unknown. His living arraignments then fell to Cathy Hyatt, inviting him to live in the welcome center she was running. His circumstances did improve but only briefly, as he was kidnapping once more. He was held prisoner by the evil demoness Lilith and was physically torture by her until the combined forces of good in the city rescued him along with several other men. The Cardassian bounced back quite well from his brush with absolute evil, only to be transported back to his universe. Once he was back in his world he took up his leadership post again on Cardassia. Gul Dukat set himself to the matters of the state, believing that he was now done with his adventures in the City of Angels. Little did he know it had all just begun.
PB:Marc Alaimo
JOURNAL USERNAME:gul_dukat
WAS THIS CHARACTER HELD FOR YOU?no
EXAMPLE OF FIRST-PERSON ENTRY:
Just at the eve of Cardassia’s glory under my leadership I have been denied, as I have been denied many other things. Everything I have done has been in services to Cardassia. All my motives and love has been for my people no matter what others say. I am a servant of the state and I will always be loyal to them along.
I am not defied even if I am trapped on this miserable planet of that I once fought along side and the Federation I once allied myself until I found stronger allies that could give Cardassia her place in the universe as a formidable force. But I suppose all of this is moot now. I suppose it could be worst, it could have been Bajor I was dropped upon. Putting it mildly, I am not popular there.
EXAMPLE OF THIRD-PERSON ENTRY:
Plots had been carried out; plans had been made and were coming to fruition, much to the delight of Gul Dukat. Soon Cardassia would hail him as a hero and give him his must-desired admiration that he had so craved. These ‘happy thoughts’ swirled in his brain as sit in his captain seat of the stolen Bird-of-prey he had claimed for himself. His course was back to Cardassian space with his ‘new friends’ in toll. ‘If my father could see me now’ he mused. Even in that moment of success he thought back to his father’s demise and the man responsible, who had only recently allowed him to be allied. It was like his mind had become fixed on that thought and all else fell away. Something happened. All things literally fell aside as if the world around him was stripped away leaving him in darkness. It was like falling asleep but being aware of his surroundings yet unable to rouse himself from that dreaming state. His body was suspended in what felt to him like the void of space but without the unpleasantness of decompression. It was like emptiness.
Then it was as if the bottom was pulled out of him and he fell, endless it seemed until his body made contact with something hard and metal-like. But it wasn’t the fact he had fallen on a vehicle, no it was in fact the blazing alarm that followed his fall that made him growl in his agony. That sound! It was a deafening noise that made the already perplexed Cardassian to thrash about uncontrollably, causing to him to roll quite abruptly to the hard blacktop of the street. Luckily much of his two falls had been absorbed by his armor but that didn’t make it any less painful. The gul let his body roll onto his back, gritting his teeth at that high-pitch wail of the car alarm but that annoying sound seeming to be what the doctor ordered. It finally brought him to his senses much to Dukat’s disappointment. Using the car’s hood, he lifted himself to his boot clad feet and tried a few steps to make sure he hadn’t hurt himself to badly. Nothing major then a few bruises he concluded as he started to walk in his peculiar stride that was all Dukat. It became all too clear this wasn’t Cardassia.