Jason Smegg

Jason Smegg was the young, but talented, Chief Engineering Officer on the JMC Blue Dwarf. He was recognised for his talents, and was promoted through the ranks.

History
Jason is the only son of middle-class couple Charles and Lorrie Smegg, from San Jose, California, USA, Earth. From a very early age, he demonstrated both an aptitude and a fondness for computers and other electronic equipment.

At the age of four, he rewired his father's PC speakers to make them as powerful as a gigamatrix emitter. (The speakers exploded soon after.)

At the age of nine he designed an ethernet browser in Visual CocoScript 8.

At fifteen, while visiting the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to apply for early admission, he noticed a plasma leak in the chaotic fusion research lab and saved the entire northeastern United States and Quebec from nuclear annihilation, also suggesting a modification that improved the experimental reactor's efficiency by 20%.

However, Jason's early life was not all heroism. Due to his love of computers, he became a rabid video game player. His grades in school suffered when he brought an optical implant game computer to world history, his least favourite class. He also gained weight from lack of participation in activities.

Jason enrolled in the Space Corps Acacdemy at the age of 17, becoming the 923rd minor to do so. He immediately found resentment directed toward him because of his last name, which sounds exactly like a slang word commonly used among Space Corps members. This further reinforced his holosimulator habit. His two years in the accelerated program were uneventful, save for preventing several deadly antimatter leaks from taking place in training shuttlecraft.

When he graduated he requested an assignment on the EUT exploratory ship Intrepid. He was hoping to, as he put it, "explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations". He was, however, assigned instead to the Blue Dwarf by Admiral Q. Patrick Mahoney.

Appearance
Although Jason tended to over-exaggerate his weight, and under-exaggerate his height, he was actually 6'1'' and weighed 220lbs, making him quite a large young man.

Personality
Jason was teased during his time in the Academy, and as a result he developed a defence mechanism to became proud of his obesity. He was the only known human being to exaggerate his weight upward and height downward.

He also found trouble starting relationships with women, which only reinforced his holosimulator habit.

Perhaps tellingly, his favourite hobbies could be listed as holosimulators, video games of the 20th and 21st century and eating junk food. Although, he does also enjoy hacking into the ship's computer.

Alternate Versions

 * High-Jason: The version of Jason from the High-Universe was a slimmer and more relaxed version of prime-Jason. He mentioned wanting to assimilate prime-Jason, so it is unknown if he was more than human.

Biographies

 * Original