Thaddeus O’Brian

Commodore Thaddeus O'Brian started his naval career at the Academy. After he graduated from the Academy he dinged a destroyer in a docking maneuver and Confleet pulled him off to transport command where he spent twenty-nine years before being sent back to an office on Earth. He had a hand in the design of the light escort carrier while with transport ship and design and helped in the change over of this model to the Wake Class Escort Carrier.

His knowledge of transports inside and out, and thinking it would be a quick tour of duty to get his ticket punched, a red combat tab in his file, and then he’d runs back to fleet HQ and continues his climb, he pulled an assignment commanding the TCS Tarawa. He was unaware of its upcoming role in Operation Back Lash as the heart of Strike Force Valkyrie. He faced his new command with cowardice and was known to drink on duty. He possessed a strong dislike for his Wing Commander, Lt. Commander Jason Bondarevsky and this strained the command relationship. He died at Kilrah when a Strakha kamikazed into the bridge of the Tarawa during an argument with Bondarevsky. O'Brian had elected to retreat when a Kilrathi carrier entered the system, thereby abandoning the Marines on the surface of Kilrah's second moon.

Physical description: His face is lined with deep set wrinkles with dark intense eyes. Balding on top with his hair combed over from one side in an attempt to cover it up. Bulbous nose, heavily veined and dark red. (A drinkers nose.) Over weight, shoulders slightly hunched, weak grip, clammy palms, and shifty eyes when uneasy.

Personality: He has a maddeningly inconsistent behavior: one minute almost too friendly with his subordinates, the next climbing up on his high horse to lecture and shout He knows nothing about the running of flight operations, has a big grievance with pilots, won’t take the advice of others and tries to make himself sound more important. Has been know to drink on duty.