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Character Design Sheet
Name: Barbarossa Sisko
Rank: Captain, Commanding Officer, F.S.S. Defiance
Alias: "The Steel Captain"
Alliance: United Solhaven Federation
Birthplace: Mallowlyn, West Solhaven
Age: 52
Sex: Male
Appearance: 5' 7", 178 lbs; when on duty is wearing standard Federation Navy uniform, off-duty usually wears a tunic or robe; bald, mustache and goatee which are graying, slim build

Personality: Captain Sisko is a strong personality, committed to duty, honor and service to his country. Though he has a somewhat foul temper, Sisko is usually a fair-minded officer who is willing to see the good qualities in people over the bad. He is good to his friends, always willing to defend them to the letter. But, cross him if you dare, for Sisko is relentless in his dislike and hatred of those who wrong him, his family and friends, or his country.

Biography: Barbarossa Sisko was born in Mallowlyn to a restaurateur father and an engineer mother in 1648. In his youth, Sisko grew to admire his father's love of cooking but felt his passions were more inclined towards engineering. When he reached high school, he found himself working with his father in his restaurant and studying some of his mother's technical journals at the same time. Unfortunately, as war broke out between the Federation and the rest of Kvaenna in 1654, his mother was called into military service. Barbarossa and his father would never see their mother and wife again; she would be killed in the Third Battle of the Detectatian Sea when the F.S.S. Ironclad was destroyed. From that day on, Barbarossa took a vow of revenge against the Lagrain Union and the other power blocs that took his mother away from him. When he became of age, Sisko enlisted in the Federation Armed Forces in the Engineering Division. Though his father initially tried to stop Barbarossa, he acquiesced when the younger Sisko pleaded with him to join in order to honor his mother.

Sisko became a promising engineering prospect, and the thesis he wrote in 1670 regarding the Broda Small Reactor were highly regarded. While a third-year cadet, Sisko was fast-tracked to official duty aboard the F.S.S. Claymore as an engineering crewman starting in late 1670. Sisko impressed his superiors with his immense technical knowledge, and impressed fellow crewmen with his exceptional culinary skills. Due to his work on a new hydroelectric engine for the Claymore, Sisko would be promoted to Lieutenant in 1674. His work became essential, as the Claymore was one of the few remaining Federation warships still surviving as the Solar Wars erupted and Solhaven became a battleground with the Federation fighting for its life. The Claymore would suffer significant damage in several battles with LU and HPA forces, but because of Sisko and several other engineers, the ship survived long enough to get to Meadowgate Port. Sisko would be promoted to Lieutenant Commander and would be brought to Hyperion to work on a new line of airships and limited space-capable craft to counter the best of the Blocs' power. It was here that Project Defiance was born, and Sisko became instrumental in the development and construction of a multi-purpose airship similar to the Romulan Warbirds. This new craft, the Defiance, propelled Sisko to greater heights. He was granted a special dispensation in the Engineering and Command divisions of the Federation Armed Forces, promoted to the rank of Commander, and was also given command of the station Deep Sea Nine, where the Defiance would be completed. The F.S.S. Defiance would be completed in 1699, just in time for Operation Solaris: the LU-Federation war. Sisko led the Defiance into several pitched battles with LU forces, especially at the Battles of Westfield, Highwyn, both battles at Hyperion, and at Deep Sea Nine; at DS9, the LU tried to destroy the Defiance before it lifted off but were unsuccessful. The Defiance performed admirably, it and Sisko being credited with saving the Federation at several battles. Even the LU begrudgingly respected Sisko's tenacity and the strength of the Defiance. With the end of the LU-Federation War, Sisko was promoted to Captain and helped refit the Defiance to better handle the advent of the new "mobile suits" being built and developed by the LU, HPA and others.

As 1700 dawned, Captain Barbarossa Sisko was largely considered one of the Federation's finest officers and indeed a great hero. Still aboard the [I]Defiance[I], Sisko awaits a new challenge to come across his and the Federation's way.