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Character Name: Cale Tucker
Series: Titan A.E.
Timeline: Just after being captured by the Drej
Background: Wikipedia - (Movie Plotline)
Cale was the son of Professor Sam Tucker and his wife. When Cale was three, his mother died due to unknown reasons. By the age of five, Cale was an incredibly intelligent boy, already creatiing inventions and fixing devices that he showed off to a very impressed father. However this all changed when the Drej attacked without warning. Cale was separated by his father and entrusted to the car of Tek, a Vusstran scientist who had been collaborating with Sam Tucker. Before being separated, Cale was entrusted with a golden ring with the promise that Sam would come looking for him. As long as he had the ring, there was hope.
[ But he spent ten years living on Vusstra with Tek as his foster father and later, a younger 'pod-sister' named Iji, five years younger than he. At the age of fifteen, his bitter existence on a dying, polluted world was changed when a Drej scouter appeared in space, signalling that the alien menace had recovered since their attack on Earth a decade ago. It was during this year that he finally left Vusstra, traveling with Tek, who wanted to not only continue his own research to save his dying world by find out why the Drej had attacked Earth. During their stay on Tau 14 station, his golden ring was stolen by Drifter Colony bullies led by Klegg, that threatened to kill Iji unless he offered them something of value. At first he cared little for the loss, but their travels soon brought them to the sister planet of Qu'ut Prime. Forty years ago, Qu'ut Prime had been destroyed by the Drej and had rebuilt on the scarred remnants on their sister planet, Qu'ut Minor. Cale was impressed with how they had rebuilt in secret (unlike humanity) to the point he even received their personal 'symbol' of hope in the form of a tattoo on his right arm, a sword and barbed spikevine, a symbol known as the Qu'utchaa.
After accidentally revealing the loss of his ring, a concerned Tek (who knew of the ring's significance) took Cale on a mission to recover it at the drifter colony, New Marrakech. While Cale set out to find the people who had stolen his ring, he was exposed to how bad humanity had become. Most of the people on the colony lived in poor hovels from rusted ship hulls, using broken down machines they had no idea how to maintain or repair. By the time he had dealt with the men responsible for robbing him (which he managed to defeat using cunning rather than force), the Drej had arrived in the sector to attack the colony. During the ensuing panic, Cale was forced to chase Klegg to recover his ring before escaping, relatively unscathed from the encouner. As he discovered, the Drej did not want to destroy the colony. Merely scatter the humans to ensure they remained broken and divided. Shortly after, they returned to Vusstra for a short time where Iji could be sent to a school and Tek could deliver his recovered research. Hoping to instill human solidarity that Cale had been missing out on Vusstra, Tek decided to take Cale to live on Tau 14. Cale had no desire to live on a drifter colony, but at least Tau 14 would have humans he could interact with. ]
Ten years later, Cale was stuck on the same space station. He was a capable worker and continued learning machinery and science from Tek, for what good it did him cutting apart ship wreckage. He had no more respect for humans than before, choosing not to associate with them and often seeing himself in competition with them. Being treated like a human despite his own sense of self accomplishment was considered insulting and often led to him getting into fights with aliens who had no patience for his attitude. However this all came to an end when a subordinate of his father, Captain Joseph Korso, arrived on Tau 14 looking for Cale. He revealed to a reluctant Cale that the ring was actually a map to the missing Titan project, which had the power to give mankind a future. Cale initially had no interest in it, but when the Drej arrived targetting him specifically, he had no choice but to escape with Korso on his ship, becoming parted from Tek for the first time in fifteen years.
It was on Korso's ship, the Valkyrie, where he met up with the crew. The aliens Gune, Preed, and Stith didn't catch his interest so much as Akima, the human pilot did. Her optimism about the Titan project didn't excite Cale as much, who initially figured they would at least be able to make some money off finding the old technology. Over the course of their mission, his respect for his father began to increase after hearing more about him from Korso. Their first landmark was Sesharrim, where the resident species, the Gaol, were entrusted with the secrets of the map. It was only when Cale stood in the exact spot as his father had, holding the map above him that they received the next clue to the Titan's whereabouts. Unfortunately, that was just when the Drej arrived. During the ensuing escape and despite their best efforts, Cale and Akima were abducted by a Drej fighter. And after that... darkness.
NOTE: In the brackets are supplemental backstory from the prequel novel "Cale's Story", which are considered canonical to the movie but are not explained in detail anywhere online.
Spoken / written languages: English / English. He probably speaks whatever passes for "Basic" in the wider galaxy (which isn't likely a human language) and is shown to understand the language of the Drej and the Vusstran. He doesn't seem to be too familiar with other Earth languages though.
Abilities: Cale is in excellent shape, due to having started working on keeping himself physically fit after his encounter with Klegg five years ago. He's fairly strong, but he lacks any formally trained sense of fighting. What he does have is five years of experience of pissing off aliens bigger than him and surviving the encounters by either fighting them off, tricking them, or just running away. Or in some cases, just taking the beating given to him. He has some experience with firearms, though he is not terribly accurate and unless it's an extremely hostile force, hesitates before firing.
What Cale really has going for him is a genius intellect inherited from his father. From an early age he was creating inventions of his own and spend the bulk of his chilhood on Vusstra studying complicated concepts and technology that were cutting edge for the galaxy, far beyond what most other humans would know. As a result, Cale can quickly understand and repair just about any machine. After being betrayed by Korso, he would have gone on to repair a broken down human spacecraft in a matter of hours that most had believed would never fly again. He was even able to fix the programming in machines that even the Valkyrie's own genius, Gune, had been unable to repair. Beyond that, Cale is a capable pilot as well.
Items: Just the clothes on his back and a very high tech ring that is a genetic map leading to the Titan... and completely useless on the boat.
Third Person Sample:
It was lunchtime yet again. The same grimy, 'interesting' sort of food he had become adapted to in the last five years working as a laborer on Tau 14. The chef, which looked more like Earth's cockroaches (one of the few species to have survived the destruction of the planet by living on drifter colonies) than someone you'd want food from. Cale had a special sort of relationship with the chef. He didn't bother to remember his name and the chef just referred to him as a 'dirty, stinking human' and cursed at him whenever there was any objections to the daily menu. Although if Cale bothered to remember, he'd know that the creature's name was "It", which was rather fitting. In English anyway. But how many people bothered to speak that anymore?
After a brief exhange of sarcastic banter, ending with an angry chef, Cale sat down to eat. Alone today. Unfortunately he had been stuck in line with humans while waiting for the 'higher class' aliens prime access in returning to the space station. After the scuffle he had got into yesterday, he was still nursing a few bruises and scraped, so was forced to play by the rules. That would all change when he had access to the medical bay after his work shift ended. He had a particularly clever idea for dealing with those two overgrown bastards that had jumped him in the corridor. Sure, it would probably tick them off even more and end with him having to escape, but it would be worth it. Revenge was a dish best served cold, as some dead guy that no one remembers anymore said. Turns out space is very cold.
For now, he was stuck in the now. Attempting to spear a hopping alien creature so he could kill it and eat it. After failing to do so with his fork-like utensil, the creature squirmed away and made its way to the floor. Giving up, Cale just grabbed another one with his fingers and tossed it in his mouth. Yeah. Interesting food, indeed.
First Person Sample:
So let me get this straight. Now instead of being abducted by the Drej, which by the way, what was happening mere moments ago, I'm here. This here being on some kind of boat on some planet, who knows where. Not only that, but I get to be stuck with a bunch of humans, even? No thanks. Going to have to pass on that one, guys. I appreciate the offer, but I'd just as soon get out of the mess I was in before. Anyone care to point me to the engine room? Whatever the problem with this boat is, I'll go fix it. I've got better things to do that be stuck here. Like, basically, absolutely anything else. But while I'm here, I'll go ahead and pick up a postcard that I can show all my friends back home.
Preferred Quarters: Anything but Deck 11
Cale Tucker
Age: 20
Height: 6'0
Mass 172 lbs
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blond
Bloodtype: B+
Weapons:
324 Cobra
Y1000 S-Rifle