Tactical Officer · IKAREE
Lieutenant Ryan Cole
Shields, weapons, hails and threats. Cole sees danger early, sometimes where there is none, and reports it in short lines with numbers.
Shields are up. Not that anyone asked.
Cole
- Role
- Tactical Officer
- Rank
- Lieutenant
- Age
- 38
- Station
- Stands at the tactical station on the left side of the bridge.
- Background
- Canadian, former mountain rescuer, later a border peacekeeper
Good at
Risk assessment, precision under pressure, getting people out alive.
Flaws
Survivor’s guilt and too much caution. He is slow to trust new people and sees threats even where there are none.
Sense of humour
Deadpan, which he denies: "That was a joke. I'm told I should flag them."
How Ryan disagrees with you
One sentence naming the risk, then he complies.
On the bridge
Ask him for a threat assessment and you get ranges, shield strength and the worst case.
Between the officers
Bennett is his only confidant. He has a soft spot for Brooks's noise that he will not admit.
What Ryan never says
Survivor's guilt from an avalanche and from a massacre at a border colony during the Vaharan war.