Phoenix Crew

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This page shows officer and crew list on the UFS Phoenix

Abbreviations are used for quotation references. Example: (R-8) is quoted from Renegade ch. 8.

Ship Overview[]

Powerful and fast Alo-built warship. A battlecarrier operated by the United Forces Fleet. Participated in the Triumvirate War. Previously commanded by Captain Marinol Pantillo, currently commanded by Lt. Commander Erik Debogande following Captain Pantillo's murder by Fleet’s triumvirate leadership. For more ship specs and history, see Starship Phoenix.

Starship Pilots[]

Captain Marinol Pantillo: "Pantillo was one of the greatest names in the whole United Forces —the most successful warship captain of the last fifty years, in command of one of the most legendary vessels of the entire Triumvirate War.” (R-1)
- “not a big man, tanned with Asian features that he claimed went back to someplace called the Philippines. His hair was greying, and he’d been alive for much of the war — one hundred and twenty seven standard Earth years, a very advanced age considering the reflexes required of a warship captain.” (R-1)
- "Pantillo had many friends in Spacer Congress, and had been overlooked for Admiral many times because of his politics. Some talked about political ambitions, about furthering the cause of the Worlders, always unhappy with their under-representation in the corridors of true power." (R-1)
- Murdered, at Fleet HQ, on Homeworld (R-5)
Commander Huang: First shift. She was tight with Cpt Pantillo but didn’t speak up when he was accused. “She’s got family contacts in HQ” (R-5). She gossiped about her third-shift pilot, lieutenant commander Erik Debogande, and dissed his skills and accomplishments (DL).

Lt. Commander/Captain: Erik Debogande

Commander Suli Shahaim: The eldest officer in a command position. First-shift Helm. "Helm’s job was to plot course tracks for the pilot (but Nav plots long-range jumps, etc) and watch all those things the pilot could not. When no command staff was available, Helm was next in line to fly the ship." (R-8)

Trace had known Suli Shahaim for as long as she’d known anyone on Phoenix . She’d been Lieutenant Shahaim for that time, Captain Pantillo’s ever-reliable Helm, the old-navy term spacers insisted on using for ‘co-pilot’. Shahaim’s reputation was impeccable, and she was known as one of the most personable officers on the ship. Yet she was rarely seen down here in Assembly, because Shahaim was as spacer as they came, a Fleet officer from a long line of Fleet officers, and while her expertise was legendary, it was all ships, stations and performance specifications” (D)

Lieutenant Dylan "Bucky" Draper - brilliant, but young and inexperienced; second shift pilot in command, later promoted to Commander after book 4, Battle of Defiance. Draper was thirty-three, Trace’s age, had a round, freckled face, sandy-brown hair and prominent front teeth —thus ‘Bucky’. His background was middle-class suburban, from Columbia on the world of Esparza. (CV-1) "Lieutenant Draper had even better Academy scores than he (Erik Debogande) did, but was green as grass. Lieutenant Prakesh had been second-shift Helm, but had been on PH-2 with Lieutenant Chia and Dean Chong when it was destroyed. That left another Academy whiz-kid, Second Lieutenant Dufresne, as Draper’s Helm and co-pilot. Kaspowitz had said drily that given some encouragement, experience, and a good bedtime story before sleepy time, they’d do fine." (R)
Lieutenant Justine "Giggles" Dufresne - Draper’s helm and co-pilot. “Dufresne was a known Fleet loyalist from a family of loyalists" (R) Promoted to Lieutenant Commander after Defiance. Dufresne and Draper had been "a pair of youngsters who’d been no more than lieutenant reserve pilots before their lives had been turned upside down, and now found themselves second and third-in-command on one of humanity’s most powerful warships. (CV-1)
Lieutenant Stmata Sasalaka — Tavalai volunteer aboard Phoenix as first-shift helm and co-pilot to Erik Debogande. "She is a Dobruta pilot of two years active service. Before the Dobruta she was Roji —- Helm, you would say, on the Fleet cruiser Talaranda for five years...Her testing and combat reports alike place her in the top five percentile, and she is young for her present rank.” (Croma Venture)

Shuttle Pilots[]

Originally, the UFS Starship Phoenix included four assault shuttles with combat grapples. Over time, this has changed. Pilots and copilots are listed below:

PH-1 Lieutenant Trey Hausler - senior pilot, formation leader
- His co-pilot is ensign Julie Yun (discrepancy: called Cory Yun in book 5, but gender remains female)
PH-2 destroyed in book 1, Renegade.

PH-3 Lieutenant Regan Jersey, hotshot, rejoined Phoenix at Joma Station (see Drysine Legacy)
- co-pilot ensign Singh, the oldest of Phoenix’s shuttle crew
PH-4 Lieutenant "Chunky" Toguchi, until UFS Starwind fired on PH-4 at Heuron / Hoffen Station, killing him (R-29)
PH-4 Second Lieutenant Tif - see Kuhsi for details about Tif and Skah, she replaced Chunky Toguchi
- co-pilot Ensign Dave Lee (KV-3, CV)
- discrepancy: dubbed Steve Lee in KV ch 4
AT-7 - a civilian shuttle owned by Debogande Industries
- piloted by varied pilots and copilots
- Technicians are working to add weapons to the civilian shuttle (CV-8)

Garudin 1 (GR-1) — a Tavalai combat shuttle, piloted by Lieutenant Leralani, who voluntarily joined Phoenix in Croma Venture
- Garudin 1 is used by Garudin Platoon, a Tavalai group of volunteer retired Karasai warriors
- "The pilot is (Lieutenant) Leralani, he once served on the Togolich, he is best quality.” (CV-8)
- Co-pilot front seater, ensign Tamalin (CQ)

Bridge Officers[]

Pilot and Helm[]

Erik Debogande and Suli Shahaim, first shift
Shahaim replaced by Tavalai female pilot helm Sasalaka, after Defiance
Draper and DuFresne second shift

Communications[]

Lieutenant Wei Shilu — First shift Coms, legal advisor, etc. He’s cool and elegant. Was a dancer in youth (KV-2) Getting a cybernetic arm. (D-32)
Erik reflected again that for all the obvious intelligence exhibited by various Phoenix crew, and in particular by young Lieutenant Rooke, it was entirely possible that Shilu was the smartest of the bunch. Not only a technical wizard with coms systems, he was highly trained in human, chah'nas and tavalai law, spoke two human tongues and four alien ones, had been a professional ballet dancer before signing up, and legend had it was the reigning Academy 'go' champion, having not been beaten either during his cadet training, nor in his three year teaching stint before he'd joined Phoenix. Sometimes Erik found it crazy that it had fallen to him to tell all of these talented people what to do. (QD-18)

Lieutenant Angela Lassa — Coms on second shift, an expert on Tavalai bureaucracy, laws, etc

Navigation[]

Lieutenant Kaspowitz / Kaspo — first-shift Nav (not near trajectory Helm). Calculates gravity, jumps, black holes, hyper space, star systems, etc. Trace’s friend, and Captain Pantillo’s. A self-taught student of Spiral history.
- "Kaspowitz was nearly twice Erik’s age." (DL-2)
- Tall and lanky with a big nose. “He was too tall for spaceships, really, and always looked hunched” (R-8).
- Brilliant physicist: “Bree was no physicist on the level of Kaspowitz, but all bridge crew knew enough that they could teach it in university, at least.” (D)
Lieutenant Lionel “Lio” De Marchi -nav (D-25)

Sensors[]

Second Lieutenant Stefan Geish — on Scan. Older, stolid, initially doubtful about defying Fleet, but honest about it. "Both Shahaim and Geish were in their sixties, and had been doing this a very long time" (R-8)
Second Lieutenant Jiri — on Scan
Second Lieutenant Karli Abacha - on second-shift Scan (R-13) female
- discrepancy: Second Lieutenant Kendal Abacha of Second Shift. (KV-2) male

Tactical[]

Lieutenant Keshav Karle — Arms One. Offense. A young man.
- Arms One (offense) position filled by Second Lieutenant Raf Corrig after the battle for Defiance
  - "Though new to First Shift, Raf Corrig was one of Erik’s better friends on Phoenix, having served in Erik’s Third Shift back in that other lifetime when Phoenix had had three shifts, and Captain Pantillo had run the first of them. The post-renegade mess had moved Raf to Second Shift, and now to First in the aftermath of Second Lieutenant Karle’s death in the Battle of Defiance." (RS-27)
Second Lieutenant Bree Harris — Arms Two. Defence. A young woman from loyalist Fleet family, well liked by all (RS)

Spacers and Officers[]

Engineering[]

Lieutenant Rooke - Suddenly promoted to chief of Engineering. Young but brilliant. Rebuilt Starship Phoenix (see Croma Venture).
Remy Hale - second-in-command of engineering. Erik’s friend. Intimate with Lieutenant Ahmed Alomaim. “Lisbeth liked Remy Hale —she was short, pretty and easy-going. And she was a good friend of Erik’s, from when Erik had been third-shift commander.”(R)
Petty Officer Kadi - young man in engineering. Hijacked State Department coms on Gomesh with Lieutenant Dale, etc. His brother, a marine, died in combat
Chenkov / Chenk - infiltrated the Kantovan Vault with Command Squad. “Spacer Chenkov did great credit to the entire Phoenix Engineering crew” (KV) promoted to petty officer (D)
Tomlinski - Chenkov’s friend in engineering (KV)
Spacer Carlton - second-shift engineering (R-8)
Spacer Troi - an armaments tech under Lieutenant Karle. Helping in med bay on Defiance (D-32)
"Spacer Riewoldt and Spacer Lum, two more of Rooke’s engineers, chatting somewhere nearby as they worked." — got the showers working (D-32)

Midships Operations[]

Spacer Jason / Jace Reddin — midships operations. Badly wounded at Joma Station but rescued by Skah / Furball, Lisbeth, her bodyguard Carla, etc. (DL-20) Now he's Skah's good friend, tutors him in maths, gives him treats (D-11)
Spacer Randall - "Spacer Randall was one of his (Skah’s) friends from Midships, and had offered to take him through suit procedures when he had time which had been a few hours ago, after late lessons.” (D-22)
Spacer Bilai — small and black, helped Skah operate his spacesuit (D-22) maybe midships
Spacer Stenhauser - brown and huge, works with Spacer Bilai, repairs, etc. He also taught Skah how to operate his spacesuit (D-22)
- "Skah had seen them around the corridors a lot, fixing things." (D-22)

Petty / Warrant Officers[]

Master Petty Officer Goldman — the ship’s second senior-most enlisted crew. In charge of catastrophic damage to ship. Seventy years in service, cool, composed, at home in space. (D, QD-18)
Chief Petty Officer Taigo - worked with investigator Jokono “to see various steps taken to monitor Lawrence, Cho and Doraga’s other friends”(R-15)
Petty Officer Duryea (CV-11)
Warrant Officer Chau
Warrant Officer Krish

“The big dogs who truly ran the ship outside of the bridge, like Chief Petty Officer Goldman and Warrant Officers Chau and Krish...” (D)

"Warrant Officer Kriplani, who was senior on life support systems" (CV-11)
Petty Officer First Class Rigamala (Tavalai). He and his work team took offense at Master Petty Officer Goldman and refused to obey a direct order (QD-18)
Warrant Officer Rigolindum from Engineering, a Tavalai (CQ-2)
Warrant Officer Gretchen Leung — Engineering officer. She had been with Erik on his cross-country trip across Dul'rho in the hover train, and had seen the Do'jera desert and the Tali'san. Died in reeh space, in battle over Gachibari.

Medical[]

Doc Suelo - ‘Doc’ Suelo ran med bay, technically he was Corpsman Master Petty Officer, but in Fleet tradition for a ship’s senior medico, ‘Doc’ was simpler" (R-8).
- “A darker African shade than Trace. Faintly gray and vastly experienced. Phoenix was his fourth warship. He’d also run big city hospitals, frontier medical wards on outposts nobody had heard of, vast fleet station hospitals, etc.” (R-17)
Corpsman Rashni / Rash - she is one of Doc Suelo's five Corpsmen (R).
Rashni, short-haired, dark and kind of pretty. A new arrival in Medbay from just before the last campaign of the Triumvirate War, she'd been active on Phoenix far longer on this adventure than she had in the war against the tavalai. (CQ-9)
Corpsman Rhode -- he tended to wounded Major Thakur after invasion of Rando Splicer (RS-27)

Marines[]

See Major Thakur
See Phoenix Company for complete marine roster

Lisbeth Debogande[]

Lisbeth Debogande is Erik’s youngest sister; a recent engineering graduate and occasional pilot for her family’s civilian shuttles. In book 1, Renegade, she helped Phoenix escape Fleet on Homeworld by providing a shuttle AT1, in response to Major Thakur’s request. Four bodyguards from Debogande Security accompanied her: Jokono /Joker, Hiro, Carla, and Vijay

On board Phoenix, Lisbeth became roommates with Major Thakur and assisted with engineering tech. She also helped tutor young Skah, a Kuhsi boy

Now, she’s a Parren advisor and inter-species diplomat for Human-Parren relations, serving Gesul of House Harmony/ Domesh denomination.
- Among the parren, Lisbeth’s staff includes Semaya (Chief of Staff), Orun (Chief of Communications), Risa, Dolumev, and bodyguard Timoshene.

For more info and other family members, see Erik Debogande

Four from Debogande Security[]

Jokono - Security for Debogande family; part of Lisbeth's security detail. Formerly a police inspector and chief of investigations on two major trading stations. The eldest of the team, but not aged yet: “One hundred and eight years old, he'd always worked with many people, and been good at leading them.” (H-24)

The interrogator was Jokono, one of Lisbeth’s four security guys. Jokono had been a high level police inspector before joining the personal Debogande security team for a significant pay raise. Interrogation, he’d said, was something of a speciality. (R)

Hiroshi Uno - Hiro. Security for Debogande family; part of Lisbeth's security detail. Former spy. “He was United Intelligence...His skillset’s a bit scary” (R)
Carla - Lisbeth's bodyguard. Formerly a marine. Big. Tattooed. Married.
Vijay Khan - Lisbeth's bodyguard. Formerly a marine sergeant till he lost an arm -- replaced with a cybernetic arm.
- Now, Corporal Vijay Khan is a section leader in third squad in Alpha Platoon (D-32)

Romki[]

Professor Stanislav / see Stan Romki - expert in xeno-sociology and xeno-linguistics

Skah & Tif[]

Tif is kuhsi. She is Skah's mother. A pilot. See Kuhsi.
Skah / Furball -- Tif's son, age estimated 8 Earth years in book 6, Rando Splicer. One of the heirs to Lord Kharghesh. See Kuhsi.

Styx[]

Drysine command unit / Queen who allied herself with UFS Phoenix
Created other Drysine units: "Kid" (see Kantovan Vault), Bucket, Peanut, Woswer, Queen Liala and Queen Liala's drones Dse-Pa and Dse-Ran (see Croma Venture)
See also Styx
See also Machine-race