Ben Johnson

Born on the Lunar colony, in Copernicus City, his father served Starfleet as an enlisted Medic during the attack on Mars and the nearby moons thereof. He was KIA when Ben was 15, and his mother was never really the same after that. Both are Humans, and so is Ben. He has two brothers and a sister, all of which are also in Starfleet, though he is the only officer and only one to attend the Academy. He is the second-oldest child.

School was pretty easy-he was naturally smart and a hard worker, too. He excelled at math and science, but struggled a little with language and writing-he found those tasks time consuming and boring, though when forced to focus on them, he could present a well-written, well-argued essay or theme paper in a short deadline. His mother was a school teacher, though, and she held all five of her children to a high academic standard.

After school, he immediately joined the Starfleet Academy, knowing he wanted to, someday, command his own ship, like his father had once dreamed of. He worked hard to achieve the highest scores he could, graduating near the top of his class, and reaching cadet rank after cadet rank, taking on various student leadership roles as he did so, as they were offered to him,

His first assignment was on a far-flung Seabase, where he cut his teeth slogging through marshy waters to investigate and enhance communications with a new species. He has fought in small skirmishes in various enemy airspace (Romulan, and Breen, namely), and he’s hoping the Issy is his springboard to bigger and better.