Steven Reynart
Steven Reynart was a precocious teenager from the 26th century who became a companion to the Time Lord Rollo.
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
Early life[[edit] | [edit source]]
Steven was born on Earth in 2587, the son of the "noted archaeologist and historian" Michael Reynart. He was a child prodigy who, by the time he turned 15, had earned "earned the equivalent of four college degrees" and had an extensive knowledge of Earth history and archeeology besides.
One day, the Time Lord accidentally materialised his TARDIS at Michael Rynart's archageological digs in Old Sydney. Having gleaned from a few offhand references that he was looking at a time-traveller, the ever-curious Steven took his chance and stowed away on the space-time vessel, remaining his companion thereafter.
On one of their shared adventures, Time Lords Rollo and Volusa intervened in a Sontaran incursion in the 1800s. Though the Sontarans had killed almost the entire crew of a Royal Navy sloop, there was one survivor, none other than David Smythe, whom they rescued; with his help, they were able to defeat the aliens. Smythe and Volusa developed a mutual infatuation, and Smythe stowed away on Rollo's TARDIS after the adventure was done, subsequently becoming a companion to Rollo in earnest and increasingly proving to be "the perfect match" for Volusa despite — or rather thanks to — both young men's abrasive personalities. (GAME: "Player Characters" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, Loading...{"namedpart":"Player Characters","1":"The Iytean Menace (game)"})
The Iytean investigation[[edit] | [edit source]]
On one occasion, Rollo and his companions were summoned to Gallifrey to be briefed by Lady Rowella about a new assignment. The discovery of an energy weapon on 1980s Earth as an heirloom from its human owner's Victorian ancestor Colonel Malcolm Fraser had the Invasion worried about alien, and potentially time-active, activity in 1885 London. (GAME: "The Summons" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, Loading...{"namedep":"The Summons","1":"The Iytean Menace (game)"})
There, they discovered that Colonel Fraser had been buying a steady supply of alien artefacts from a pair of crooks called Jack Bannister and Bert Jenkins, who had secretly discovered a buried Iytean starship while trying to dig a tunnel into a bank two years prior. Unbeknownst to them, the ship had been a police vessel transporting an Iytean criminal. With the Iyteans being symbionts, the criminal had hitched a ride in Jenkins's body then transferred itself to Fraser's acquaintance Doctor Henry Jellicoe, causing him to periodically lose control of his body and adopt the malevolent persona of "Ned Hines". With the help of the Colonel's granddaughter Julia Fraser, and that of Thomas Carruthers, the son of his old friend Sir Reginald Carruthers (who had been murdered by Hines), the time-travellers were able to unravel the mystery and eventually neutralise the Iytean as well as ensure the starship would not be rediscovered and thereby derail Earth history any further. (GAME: The Iytean Menace [+]Loading...["The Iytean Menace (game)"])
Before leaving 1885, Rollo went on one last outing in the city, and had lunch with a writer called Robert Louis Stevenson, telling him about the adventure. It was only when he returned to the TARDIS and told Verika, another one of his companions, about the encounter that he learned he had just inspired Stevenson to write The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. (GAME: "The Hunters Home From the Hill" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, Loading...{"namedep":"The Hunters Home From the Hill","1":"The Iytean Menace (game)"})
Psychological profile[[edit] | [edit source]]
Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]
Steven was talkative and "insatiably curious", interested in knowledge for its own sake. Due to his "rather sheltered upbringing" combined with his unusual intelligence, he sometimes came across as supercilious or snobbish despite himself, guilelessly "parading his knowledge before his associates" and correcting any minor error he heard them make on historical subjects.
His certainty in what he had been taught led him to frequently be "slapped in the face by the reality of history" where it diverged with the accepted version of events as recorded under the Earth Empire's dominion. (GAME: "Player Characters" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, Loading...{"namedpart":"Player Characters","1":"The Iytean Menace (game)"})
Skills[[edit] | [edit source]]
Thanks to his ease of learning, Steven had mastered a wide variety of skills and area of knowledge by the time he turned 15. This primarily included academic subjects: Earth history and other social sciences, such as economics and political science, as well as agriculture, ecology, English literature, engineering, geology, and cartography.
He was also physically accomplished, becoming an expert climber and swimmer, a passable wrestler, and reasonably skilled at rudimentary construction work and wilderness survival in both warm and cool environments. He could steer both land and water crafts competently, was a masterful player of chess and poker, and was also adept at musical expression, having learned to sing with a synbox for instrumental accompaniment. (GAME: "Player Characters" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, Loading...{"namedpart":"Player Characters","1":"The Iytean Menace (game)"})
Physical appearance[[edit] | [edit source]]
A "slender adolescent", Steven had short, blond hair and large hazel-coloured eyes. He usually wore a white, form-fitting jumpsuit and carried a smaii computer box on his waist. (GAME: "Player Characters" [+]Part of The Iytean Menace, Loading...{"namedpart":"Player Characters","1":"The Iytean Menace (game)"})
