hello all! i'm hoping to finish this guy up for adds to add to the space folk roster and figured i'd toss up one of these posts while i fiddle with his survey. but this is weston kober, and he's one of the physicians on the ship. he's originally from a very middle class family (i think from mars but i'm still tweaking things). he worked his butt off to pay for transport and tuition for college but was kind of at a loss as to what to do once he realized his true calling was medicine. enter the adf, who offered to pay for his schooling if he agreed to work for them. and since he's a good boy who believes in his government, he did just that. he spent the next part of his life working wherever they needed him, whether it was at station hospitals or in the field when the rebels decided to act up. which is actually what he was doing two years ago (think army field hospital during an ongoing skirmish with glf forces) when one of the glf folks thought it would be a good idea to walk a bomb into the treatment area. wes took a good hit from the blast, which resulted in several regrown organs, a lengthy hospital visit, a fake kneecap that still doesn't agree with him and left him with a limp, and a shiny new cybernetic arm to replace the one that was pretty much blown off.
fast-forward a year, and his wife kuong was tapped for the astraeus project and convinced the adf to let wes go along too, thinking it would be an easier assignment they could use to help him with getting back into the swing of things and mental recovery. it was a nice idea, right? he's still an amiable, nerd and dad joke kind of guy 98% of the time, but he can be more than a little short and unexpectedly angry at times or when his nerves are stressed for a little too long. he's a very capable doctor still, even if he's still plagued with a lot of doubts.
and that's longer than i intended, but i'd love to figure some stuff out! people he might have run into before the project, during training or during their space time.