Horatio's Questionnaire

Horatio lives in the lab at the rear of the ship to be closer to his work.  His office is a perpetual mess, and he showers in the decontamination unit.  His excuse is his genius is racing all the time and take the time to set up a proper quarters.

Horatio is obsessed with perfection of the human race.  He won't rest until everyone aboard The Odysseus matches his vision of physical, mental, and spiritual perfection.  It just so happens that Horatio thinks he is perfection incarnate.

Now he just needs to find a way to spread his perfection to everyone else aboard the Odysseus, and he'll be set.  That's all.

Horatio takes his salary from the trade of research for materials between Bioengineering and Command and Control.  Horatio mainly spends his stipend on furthering his research into physical perfection.  Well, his idea of physical perfection in the least.

Horatio thinks his current body is as close to perfection as he can make it currently.  He hopes to find a way to make himself immune to a number of physical aliments, and common environmental conditions found on The Odysseus.

Things on this to-do list include buy aren't limited too:

Vacuum

Extreme heat 

Extreme cold

High radiation

Lack of food

Lack of water

Horatio wants to achieve physical and mental perfection.  Not just for himself, but the entire crew of The Odysseus.  Sacrifices are bound to be made.  Horatio is interested only in results, and doesn't care of the means to get them.

Horatio will sacrifice his colleagues without hesitation if would bring him closer to his vision of perfection.  All others are just test subjects for his experiments.

Horatio regularly experiments with conscious clones, just to observe the effects on a live subject.  If a sain person where to visit his personal lab, they would be greeted with horrors only imagined as he works to achieve his vision.

Horatio's idea of a perfect being is one that's beautiful beyond reason, undying, no need for food, air, or water, and the ability to enforce their will on others without resistance.

Horatio's most defining moment was when his mentor used him as a test subject for an experiment.  The Mentor's experiment was to create a better being, better adapted to the riggers of space flight.

The experiment, unfortunately, failed to yield any useful results, but it resulted in Horatio's unusual height, and rail thin appearance.  Horatio was horrified at his new look, but that's when the culture of the Biogenetics Department really set in.

Deeming Horatio a failed experiment, Horatio's mentor abandoned him.  Thankfully, by that time, Horatio had already absorbed plenty of knowledge from his mentor, and was able to adapt to his new body, and the department at large.

Horatio's Mentor, Lazarus Adam, was a father figure to Horatio.  He showed Horatio nearly everything he knew when it comes to medical and biological sciences.  Horatio was only abandoned when Horatio himself was used in an experiment to create a most perfect being, and the experiment failed.  Horatio doesn't know what happened to Lazarus after the failed experiment, but it's believed Lazarus is still alive, working on other projects.

Horatio's now mentors and assistant as well, Thomas Horatio.  As part of agreeing to take on Thomas as an apprentice, Thomas had to change his name to match Horatio's.  Thomas himself hasn't been used in any experiments...yet, but it's not off the table.

Finally, there's Horatio's rival researcher, Otis How.  Otis How has been a thorn in Horatio's side ever since they both worked under Lazarus.  Otis was jealous Horatio was chosen for the experiment over him, and they've been sabotaging each other's research whenever possible ever since.

Horaito was raised from birth to both be a test subject and a scientist.  His toys were medical tools.  His bedtime stories were medical journals of past famous biological scientists, and the outcomes of their sometimes sick and twisted experiments.

Horaito's friends where also his test subjects.  His teachers subjected him to many vapid experiments.  This strange form of love and abuse shaped and tortured Horaito's mind.  Debates of what perfection is often raged between hiss teachers and his peers alike.

Horaito's school days were housed in medical theaters and lectures often had live subjects, mostly those of the Forgotten, but sometimes those who committed grave violations of the ship code.

Horaito's fears of blood and bile was long ago stamped out, now he only seeks to improve.  This desire isn't limited to himself, but also the ones he considers friends, family, and even enemies.

Only time will tell if Horaito achieves perfection as he envisions.

Horaito has had a few partners, but nothing has really grown serious.  Bioengineering's culture is so vain and vapid that it's hard to form lasting relationships.  It's safe to say Horaito has had many partners, but none of them haven't evolved past the physical benefits.

Horaito also doesn't have much of a desire beyond anything physical at this point.  It doesn't help that he's more obsessed with his own image then that of any potential, long lasting partner.

As for his preferences, as long as it comes close to what he would consider 'beautiful,' Horaito would be willing to hop in bed with it.

Horaito's worse fear would be to be considered an ugly abomination by everyone.  Horaito loves to be worshiped and told that he's the most beautiful person on the whole ship.  He doesn't need people to tell him this, but if Horaito starts to be called ugly, well his frail ego would quickly start to collapse.

Horaito views himself as a talented doctor and even better scientist, but this view isn't unique to Horaito.  Even the worst doctor amongst Bioengineering feels this way.

Another fear Horaito would have to be becoming a test subject himself.  Subject to the endless tests and mutations he's seen countless others undergo, even in his own labs would be enough for anyone to have nightmares for months on end.

Growing extra heads, arms, legs, cancerous blobs that become the person are a small side effect of some of the most ruthless experiments aboard The Odysseus.  Death would be a more merciful fate then the pain many subjects have undergone in Bioengineering's labs.

One final fear that Horaito has would be his lab being jettisoned off the back of the ship.  This has happened to some of his colleagues, and they've lost a lifetime of work.  So precautions have been taken.

Horaito's most prized possession would have to be his lab.  That's where all his experiments take place.  It's we're he sleeps, and eats.  He has been assigned a quarters outside the lab, but Horaito would rather be closer to his work.

Many unspeakable horrors hide in the laboratory.  The crazy thing is, most of them aren't his.  They're actually the results of the previous operator of the lab, who disappeared for unknown reason.

Command inspected the lab and found nothing inherently dangerous.  That is to say, everything dangerous was properly cryo logically frozen, seal, locked down, and otherwise contained.

The search for the previous operator of the lab is ongoing, but this far, turned prescious little of anything outside of the note left behind.

"I have achieved absolute perfection.  The mortals on this vessel are not worth my time.  I will return to claim what is rightfully mine when the time comes."