Bravo Fleet
Summary
Captain Roy W. Hardin, Starfleet, is the Commanding Officer of the Cyclone-class exploratory cruiser USS Cyclone (NCC-90001).
Appearance
Hardin stands 5’11” with a solid, weather-beaten frame that speaks of hard work more than vanity. His square jaw, lined face, and sharp, intelligent hazel-grey eyes give him a naturally commanding presence. His dark hair, streaked heavily with silver, is cropped short, and his skin bears the texture of sun and age.
Personality
Hardin is tough, sardonic, and utterly authentic. He is the kind of man who prefers a straight answer to polite talk and a stiff drink to ceremony. His voice carries the gravel of old scars and bourbon. He leads by example, not rhetoric, earning loyalty by standing shoulder to shoulder with his crew when things turn ugly. A soldier’s practicality defines him; he has no patience for vanity, but endless respect for competence. Beneath his dry wit and distrust of bureaucracy lies an unshakable belief in simply doing the job — no matter how rough, dirty, or thankless it gets. When pressed, he still echoes his father’s words: “You don’t have to like it, son, you just have to do it right.”
History
Born on March 14, 2340, in Helena, Montana, Roy Wade Hardin grew up working the family ranch under the vast skies of the American frontier.
The lessons of that life – endurance, self-reliance, and the quiet pride of a job done right- never left him. When most of his peers looked to the stars with idealism, Hardin saw a frontier not unlike the one his ancestors had carved from the wilderness. He earned an appointment to Starfleet Academy at age seventeen, drawn less by adventure than by the call of honest work in uncharted places.
Commissioned four years later in 2361, Hardin served over thirty-one years as a Starfleet officer, carving out a reputation as a dependable, hard-edged officer who got results without fanfare. His record was clean but unvarnished: commendations for valor tempered by reprimands for initiative that outpaced protocol. He was promoted to Captain in 2377 and was assigned command of the Akira-class starship USS Kearsarge.
By 2392, worn out from over three decades of service and disillusioned by Starfleet’s postwar bureaucracy, Hardin retired from active duty. He returned to the ranch, mending fences and rebuilding the quiet life he’d left behind, content to let younger officers take the helm. But when the Fourth Fleet began recalling veterans to command starships along the Federation’s unstable frontiers a decade later, Hardin didn’t hesitate. Duty, as always, outweighed comfort.
In 2402, he was recalled to active duty and given command of the Typhoon-class exploratory cruiser USS Cyclone (NCC-90001).