Is the title dramatic enough? lol
Here's a book of all my various plot bunnies! All of my bastard children that I'll never legitimize. Most are posted on my Tumblr (lots born from a 'create a character on the spot' or the 'if they had a kid' games t...
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Dr. Rachel Finn née Riley Xander Finn & Talia Rhade
Thousands of years in the future, the Systems Commonwealth is a republic based in a distant star system, Tarn-Vedra, and spans across multiple galaxies. The Commonwealth is at war with the Magog. Peace talks lead the Commonwealth to cede a key world to the Magog, one which belongs to the Nietzcheans; in response, the Nietzscheans secretly attempted to usurp control of the Commonwealth. Dylan Hunt is the captain of the Commonwealth ship, Andromeda Ascendant. Caught by surprise in the first engagement of the Nietzschean uprising, the crew evacuates on his orders with the exceptions of his future sister-in-law and CMO, Dr. Rachel Finn, and his chief helmsman, Refractions of Dawn. Dawn, however, is brutally murdered by Dylan's First Officer and best friend, Gaheris Rhade.
Like most other Nietzscheans, Gaheris had begun to resent the Systems Commonwealth for its decision to make peace with the Magog instead of destroying them outright. Anti-Commonwealth sentiments in the community reached a boiling point until they felt the Commonwealth's betrayal of them demanded retribution. Gaheris voluntarily sabotaged the Andromeda and engaged in a firefight with Dylan. He ultimately died in this fight, and the Andromeda was trapped in the mouth of a black hole, where it, Dylan and Rachel were frozen in time for nearly 300 years. When the ship is removed from the event horizon, the two find themselves engaged with smugglers trying to take over their ship to sell it to the highest bidder. After subduing and recruiting a few of the smugglers -- ace pilot Beka Valentine, brilliant but loony engineer Seamus Harper, mysterious medical officer Trance Gemini, pacifist Magog Rev Bem, and Nietzchean mercenary Tyr Anasazi -- Dylan and Rachel set out to restore order and peace to the known galaxies by resurrecting the Systems Commonwealth.
Rachel spends most of her days in conference with Dylan, advising him on the best courses of action alongside Andromeda's AI, while training Trance in proper medical care as she's apparently self-taught in-between patching up whatever wounds the crew manages to acquire. In private, however, she mourns the loss of her son and husband. Dylan understands her pain all too well as his fiancée, her sister, has been lost to him in their 300 year absence but while his heals to become a dull ache, Rachel's pain is constant and never-ending. Rev Bem and Rommie, Andromeda in android-form built by Harper, take notice of this and begin to counsel her. Together, they set out to solve the mystery of what happened to her family after her son's evacuation from Andromeda and the fall of the Commonwealth 300 years ago, hoping it will help her find peace. Initially, Rachel is enthused and welcomes the help with great hope until they discover that both her husband and son are dead. Her son, Xander, had apparently never survived his evacuation off Andromeda, his escape shuttle having been shot and destroyed by the Nietzcheans; Christopher, a Commonwealth navigator and slipstream pilot, had been listed among the dead at a battle just four years later. After a series of missions where she exhibits death-seeking behavior, Tyr orders her to shape up or he'll see to it that she's dropped off at the nearest backwater planet because they have a hell of a lot of work to do and her death would do no one any good.
