Max Ritter

General Information

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Character Name: Maximilian Sigmund Ritter
Face Claim: Jeremy Renner
Homeworld: N/A
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: 9th September 2364 (36 years old)
Height: 5'10
Weight: 165 lbs
Hair Color: Brown
Eyes Color: Blue
Political Affiliation: Starfleet
Assignment: Intelligence
Billet: Starbase 12
Rank: Lieutenant Commander

Although the stereotype of a spy is of someone who doesn't have to try very hard to maintain the image, Max secretly does try very hard. So far it's worked. The fact that he has always been so devoted to his career has helped, but now that he has started to consider other goals in life things have become more complicated. Still, he is determined to use his new position as a means to achieve bigger and greater things, just as he has always done in the past.

Physical Description

Max strives to maintain a balance between brains and brawn, just as his instructors at the Academy always cautioned him. He also does his best to look unobtrusive and nondescript, something he learned the hard way in far less prestigious places than the Academy. Having done his best to eliminate any unusual habits or tics over the years, he may still be occasionally caught chewing his fingernails when lost in thought over some problem.

Psychological Profile

Career is everything to Max, since he believes that a successful one will be the only true way to show all those who ever doubted him that he was right in the end. Because creating and maintaining good contacts has been such an integral part of Max's career, he is well-versed at social interaction and schmoozing, possibly enough to give a Starfleet diplomat a run for their money.

Family

Father: Wolfgang
Mother: Renata
Brother: Karl
Sister: Carolina, Diana

Strengths and Weaknesses

+ Friendly when necessary
+ Good liar too
+ Attention to detail
+/- Pessimist
- Obsesses over minor details
- Susceptible to flattery
- Overanalyzes irrelevant social interactions

Skills

- Intel Analysis
- Deception detection
- Infiltration
- Computer network monitoring
- Unorthodox problem solving

Languages

Federation Standard
Romulan
some Cardassian


History

Born to a fighter pilot and a xenobiologist serving aboard Starbase 428, Max was part of a family with a long history of Starfleet service. However, while his siblings were for the most part able to follow in their parents' footsteps, Max broke with family norms at the Academy and found himself drawn to a career in Starfleet Intelligence instead. Although his skills were more relevant to the work being done, his parents were nevertheless disappointed in his choice not to pursue 'honest work.'

This subtle disapproval only reinforced his determination to succeed, and eventually he joined the ranks of the gray-shirted men and women guarding the Federation from the shadows…even if those shadows were only from the flickering lights of an LCARS console during a long night of painstaking information collation. Still, contacts made during the Academy allowed Max to move up quickly to loftier positions in support of Starfleet Intelligence's executive functions, and contacts made there soon facilitated his posting to more interesting assignments.

Most 'interesting' amongst these was a brief posting as a Starfleet Intelligence attache to the Tal Shiar. His activities and observations there remain classified at the insistence of the Romulans, as do the reasons necessitating a lengthy medical leave following that, but after a night of drinking he will gladly provide a glamorous, riveting, and highly exaggerated tale of his exploits during that time.

Following that Max served a quiet starbase posting until the Shrangi incident, during which the Federation was once again shaken from its slumber and forced into a flurry activity. Whatever 'flurries' he participated in during this time are severely classified, and Max will never get drunk enough to disclose details of that. As the incident wound down he was able to secure a shipboard posting, but found he was growing tired of the wayward life aboard a starship and wanted to settle down and achieve more on a professional and personal level. When a senior position aboard Starbase 12 became available, he jumped at the chance, and his contacts in the upper echelons were only too happy to assist him with the application.


Service Record

2364: Born, Starbase 428
2383-2388: Starfleet Academy
2388-2390: Intelligence Officer, USS Nathan Hale (Promotion to Ensign)
2390: Admiral's Aide, Starfleet Command
2390-2391: Intelligence Attache, Tal Shiar (Promotion to Lieutenant)
2392: Medical Leave
2393-2394: Assistant Chief Intelligence Officer, Starbase 39
2394-2397: Specialized assignment (classified)
2397-2400: Assistant Chief Intelligence Officer, USS Talleyrand (Promotion to Lieutenant Commander)
2400: Chief Intelligence Officer, Starbase 12