Admittedly I wasn't around when the Reorganization was written, but I made a character a year and a half ago I always pictured as being around since the earlier parts of PPC history?

Said character is Dr. Glocktopus, a professional enough Nurse that just happens to be a sapient giant Pacific octopus. I think it was supposed to be a one-off character at first, but I guess it grew on me and now it's in two missions. (It would probably be more, but procrastination's a Thing.) I think I even had an Interlude in the works at some point where some Agents found a box of old, torn-up Black Cat badges it kept as keepsakes or war trophies or something of that likeness.

Dunno if it'll work for what you're planning, but I guess it's available if you needed another Medical worker or something?

-OrangeFox

I believe they get killed in the Reorg? I can give you their 1st/2nd/3rd personalities and regeneration looks over DM.

Good thing I just came up with a name for the DIC agent who was in RC 999 before Nume! Catherine "Kit" Steever is a former redshirt from TOS. Notably, she's an engineering redshirt rather than a security one. Specifically an electrical engineer. She's the one who set up the Trekverse doors and replicator in RC 999.

The backstory Lily and I have hashed out is that she more or less caused a plothole just by existing, since for all the progress TOS made, women in STEM didn't have much of a showing. She chose Action rather than DoSAT because she actually wanted to live a more adventurous life than a job installing and maintaining control panels allowed for. I quote, "You mean they let women go on away missions here? Sign me up!" (I checked: there's all of five confirmed female casualties in the show, only one of whom was a redshirt. Of the others, three were blueshirts and one was a goldshirt who was later brought back to life.)

I don't have a physical description in mind for her, but probably Caucasian. She gets assimilated and killed in the "Tangled Web" fiasco and I don't wanna commit a "bury your minorities." >.>

You can also use Bogglish and Pablum from (current) FicPsych. I have no idea when they joined, or if they started in FicPsych or just Psych, but in 1999 they'd be 26 and 34, respectively. Freedenberg was probably around? Suzine could potentially be somewhere between "new" and "head nurse" at the time (or just "newly head nurse")? There's possibly also Dr. Kinkade, from a mention in one of Oracle's stories in 2003.

I'd consult Architeuthis for a list of agents who were around as of at least the early aughts and possibly earlier. I think Despatch refers to some older agents, too?

If I think of anything else, I'll let you know!

~Neshomeh

I guess it's because it's a verb, and so doesn't fall into the same category as all the short words that get lowercased, despite being shorter than them? To be honest I've probably made that mistake a lot.

When I wrote this, the intent was the all the tech was a bit clunkier, though it was in the middle of being upgraded (hence the DIS have shinier Remote Activators, for example). Having re-skimmed Reorg today, the portal frame I was basing this on is described as very old and obsolete, so I guess MAS have an outdated RC. (Makes sense; Fantasy only has like two teams, nobody writes fantasy fanfic in this day and age. ^_~)

(Incidentally, I suspect the other half of Fantasy is Jay and whoever her current partner is; she runs around using a bow in Reorg, while the likes of Nyx Nightingale stick to hi-tech weaponry.)

Re Alex and Sam: for those who don't know and are curious, these two originated in the PPC Playscriptes. They were written to be playable by people of any gender (and indeed species, though I think they're probably human by this point), so their genders have never been defined in text. They know what they are, but I don't, so I entertain myself by writing around the question.

hS

Sure, there are a few bad apples in the DIS, but that doesn't mean they spoil the whole barrel. All these rumours about their so-called "overreach" and "tyranny" are just conspiracy-mongering. It's probably coming out of Implausible Crossovers - who knows what those weirdos get up to, am I right? Bottom line is, whoever's in charge of this place, the mysterious Somebody the SO sometimes mentions, they definitely wouldn't let things get out of hand.

Right?

hS