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Character time!

Name: Philbert Sigismund Wolf
Skill: Xeno-Medicus
Rank: Doctor

Abilities:
Physical: 1
Dexterity: 3
Charisma: 1
Knowledge: 4
Wit: 3

Appearance:

Height: 193 cm (sorry I'm metric :p)
Weight: 68 kg (sorry, still metric)
Age: 39
Eyes: black
Hair: none

Looking at him you wouldn't think that Professor Wolf is a scientist. Tall and quite thin and with his head he shaves every three-four days he doesn't fit the stereotypical description of a scientist.

Background:

Philbert Sigismund Wolf, or Professor Wolf as he allows himself to be called by those unable to remember his given names, is the son of one of the best, now retired, neurosurgeons that the academy had ever produced. Not content to live from his father's name and ignoring his mother's wishes of him becoming a school teacher, he enrolled in the academy, but chose alien life as his speciality, much to his father's chagrin. He was still quite a good doctor and for several years after finishing the academy and while he still did not have the necessary funding he had to earn money by working in a private clinic.

He finally got funding and was able to abandon simple medical work and concentrate on research. He would have never told anyone but he looked down on simple medical work, which did not advance knowledge in the least and always preferred pushing the boundaries of known science through groundbreaking research. Considered one of the best in his domain of the studies of alien lifeforms he was a natural choice for the deep space voyages of the Arioch. With the 'helpful' hand of a rival interested in seeing him gone for several years he was offered a post on board the ship.


Personality:

Professor Wolf was never a very social person, always preferring the company of books and experiments to that of other people who could not comprehend him. Of course the problem of comprehension also comes from him. Being a very avid reader and having read works spanning centuries he has an extremely vast vocabulary and also likes to use it.

Phrases like "Deign to transfer the sodium-chloride?" are much more common in his vocabulary as "Could you pass the salt?" Apart from his trusted lab-assistant, who came with him on board, even some of the other scientist occasionally have trouble understanding him. And the common crew have already gotten to know him enough that it was almost impossible to have a normal conversation with him. If he really wants to tell something to someone he'll, with a good serving of disgust, lower his speech to the intellectual level of others. Otherwise it is quite common to see his assistant "interpret" for him.

He frowns on anyone calling him Doctor, even though it is his rank on the ship and prefers to be called Professor.