Pilot Officer Aisling Quinn
Name Aisling Quinn
Position SG-2 Member
Rank Pilot Officer
Character Information
| Gender | Female | |
| Species | Human | |
| Age | 23 | |
| Weapons Layout | Colt Canada L119A2 & Glock 17 |
Physical Appearance
| Height | 5' 6" | |
| Weight | 135 lbs | |
| Hair Color | Copper Red | |
| Eye Color | Green | |
| Physical Description | Ash has a compact, athletic build—runner’s legs and climber’s forearms—with economical, purposeful movement. Her copper-red curls are naturally tight coils; on duty she keeps them braided or pinned into a low bun, off duty they loosen into a soft halo around her shoulders. Clear green eyes and expressive brows give her a frank, attentive look that reads “problem-solver.” Skin is pale and freckled; cold bites pink at her cheeks in Antarctica. Hands are deft and calloused from tools and range time, with a faint solder-burn scar on the right index knuckle. Uniforms sit neat and practical; off duty she favours warm layers, beanies, and a no-fuss style that still manages to look put together. |
Family
| Father | Ciarán Quinn (deceased, 2009 – London attack) Freelance embedded-systems consultant and hardware tinkerer. Brilliant, patient, and endlessly curious; taught Ash to label every wire and “measure twice, cut once.” Left behind notebooks, a beat-up Weller iron, and a workshop she still treats like a shrine. |
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| Mother | Siobhán Quinn (née O’Dwyer) Secondary-school Physics teacher in Athlone. Practical, warm, and organised; the family’s steady centre. Fiercely proud of Irish language and culture; pushed all the kids toward education and hands-on skills. |
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| Brother(s) | Eamon Quinn (b. 1993) Irish Naval Service, Petty Officer (Comms/Radar), Haulbowline. Protective eldest; taught Ash radio discipline and “comms before heroics.” Weekend sailor; deadpan humour. Declan Quinn (b. 1998) Cybersecurity analyst in Dublin (blue-team SOC). Playful rival and co-conspirator; built Ash’s first PC and quizzed her for RAF cyber boards. Ronan Quinn (b. 2000) Carpenter/Joiner (custom cabinetry). Quiet craftsperson; built Ash a workbench and taught her to respect tolerances and materials, not just code. Fionn Quinn (b. 2008) — Secondary-school student (Leaving Cert 2026), midfield for the local GAA side and robotics-club tinkerer. Ash is part sister, part coach; he’s the family optimist. |
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| Sister(s) | Aoife Quinn (b. 1996) Emergency Medicine registrar (A&E), University Hospital Limerick. Calm in chaos; big-sister tough love that shaped Ash’s crisis mindset and field triage basics. Bríd Quinn (b. 2005) Undergrad (Linguistics & Archaeology, UCC). Language nerd with a soft spot for ogham and Old Irish; swaps glyph notes with Ash and teases her about Ancient UI prompts. |
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| Other Family | Pádraig “Paddy” Quinn (paternal uncle) — Retired avionics technician (Aer Lingus) and licensed ham radio operator (callsign EI…). His shed—oscilloscopes, parts bins, and tea—was Ash’s second classroom. He gifted her the Weller iron. Seamus O’Dwyer (maternal grandfather) — Retired Garda detective sergeant. Dry wit, razor instincts; drilled situational awareness and the mantra “slow is smooth, smooth is fast.” Nuala O’Dwyer (maternal aunt) — Journalist (national newsroom). Taught media literacy and skepticism; “trust, but verify,” which Ash applies to lab data and field intel alike. Máire O’Dwyer (maternal grandmother) — Community seanchaí/storyteller and Gaeilge tutor. Keeper of family lore; gave Ash her love of language and quietly encouraged service beyond self. Family Dynamic (brief): Loud dinners, open doors, and a habit of fixing things before replacing them. The 2009 loss welded them tight; every graduation and posting is a family event, whether in person or over a patchy video call from Antarctica. |
Personality & Traits
| General Overview | Ash is a pragmatic fixer with a calm, engineering-first brain. She’s the person who starts labelling cables while everyone else is still arguing about the plan. RAF-trained and field-seasoned, she default to “measure twice, cut once,” but she can pivot fast when things go sideways. The 2009 loss made her resilient rather than reckless—she takes smart risks to keep people alive and the mission moving. Warm, wry, a bit guarded at first; once you’re “hers,” she is fiercely loyal. Antarctica suits her: clear problems, cold air, and work that matters. |
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| Strengths & Weaknesses | Strengths: Systems thinker; excellent fault-finding under time pressure Steady in crises; communicates clearly and concisely on comms Hands-on ingenuity (MALP/UAV hacks, field-expedient repairs) Team-first mindset; good at teaching non-techs just enough to help Endurance and cold-weather discipline Weaknesses: Can be blunt when triaging priorities; low tolerance for dithering Tendency to overwork and “do it herself” rather than delegate Occasional tunnel vision on technical solutions over political/soft factors Keeps feelings tightly compartmentalized; slow to ask for help |
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| Ambitions | Ash wants to be the reason SG-2 always comes home—with comms solid, power clean, and the DHD behaving. Short term, she’s building modular “grab kits” and fault-finding checklists so any teammate can keep systems alive under fire. Mid term, she aims to design a ruggedised mesh-comms package for off-world ops and certify as the programme’s go-to for DHD anomalies and Ancient UI integration. Long term, she’d like to stand up a training pipeline for new tech specialists, help write UEO/SGC engineering standards that actually work in the field, and eventually take a senior engineering post—turning her dad’s legacy into capability that outlasts her. |
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| Hobbies & Interests | Off duty, Ash gravitates to a bench, a brew, and something to fix: vintage radios, battered headsets, or tiny sensor drones she flies through maintenance shafts “for science.” She keeps her soldering iron sharp, logs ideas in a dog-eared notebook, and checks in on amateur-radio nets when she can wrangle the time difference from Antarctica. To clear her head, she runs in the cold, works stairwells, solves cryptic crosswords, and attacks a speed cube until her fingers ache. Home comforts matter: trad sessions when she’s back in Ireland, Gaeilge practice with her sister, GAA on the telly, and the occasional photo walk—auroras, ice, and long shadows on the snow. |
| Personal History | Her father worked in London as a technology specialist, the sort of man who took genuine joy in understanding how things worked and passed that curiosity on without ever realising he was doing it. When Aisling was young, visits meant dismantled electronics on kitchen tables, conversations about systems and logic, and the quiet assumption that if something was broken, you didn’t complain — you fixed it. That changed in 2009. Her father was killed during the alien attack on London, a loss that landed hard and stayed put. Aisling didn’t talk about it much, even then. What it left behind wasn’t anger so much as resolve. Systems fail. People pay the price. If you’re going to build something, it should work when it matters. She stayed in Ireland for her schooling, gravitating naturally toward mathematics, physics, and engineering subjects, but always with a practical edge. She was less interested in abstract theory than in how things behaved under stress — interference, degraded performance, real-world conditions that didn’t match the textbook. From 2020 to 2024, she studied Electronic and Computer Engineering at university. Her focus settled around communications, signal behaviour, control systems, and systems integration, but her aptitude extended well beyond her specialisation. Power routing, energy management, sensor arrays, and embedded systems all came easily to her, especially where multiple technologies overlapped or conflicted. She was known less for brilliance on paper and more for being the person you wanted beside you when something stopped behaving the way it should. After graduating, Aisling joined the Royal Air Force in 2024. The decision wasn’t about tradition or patriotism; it was about access. Advanced systems, real operational pressure, and the chance to work on technology that actually mattered. Assigned to Signals, Cyber, and Unmanned Systems, she quickly distinguished herself as someone who could keep communications alive in hostile or unpredictable environments, identify interference sources others missed, and adapt systems on the fly rather than freezing when conditions changed. Late in 2024, her work brought her into liaison roles adjacent to non-terrestrial technology through joint operations. While much of what she saw was compartmentalised, it was enough to confirm what she’d already suspected: Earth technology was no longer the most complicated thing in the room. Her strength wasn’t in knowing alien history or theory — it was in recognising design logic, power flow, and control behaviours even when the materials and interfaces were unfamiliar. That ability led to her selection for Stargate Command in early 2025. Assigned to SG-2 as a technical specialist at the joining stage, Aisling arrived with confidence in her engineering and a healthy respect for what she didn’t yet know. She understands alien systems not because she’s studied them for years, but because she understands how complex systems fail, how parasitic technologies behave, and how power and signals leave fingerprints wherever they go. She is still new to off-world operations, still finding her balance as an officer, but when something hums wrong, goes quiet when it shouldn’t, or starts doing things no one can quite explain — Aisling Quinn notices. And once she notices, she doesn’t stop until she understands why. |
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| Service Record | 2020 – 2024 BEng (Hons) Electronic & Computer Engineering University of Galway (National University of Ireland, Galway) Classification: First Class Honours Degree with a strong applied science focus, emphasising real-world system behaviour under interference and environmental stress. Concentrated on communications engineering, control systems, embedded electronics, signal processing, and systems integration. Final-year project examined resilient communications in degraded and contested environments, combining experimental testing with applied analysis of signal behaviour and power stability. Service & Technical Record Jul 2024 – Sep 2024 Initial Officer Training (RAF College Cranwell) | Cranwell, UK Officer Cadet → Pilot Officer Commissioned into the Royal Air Force Engineering Branch (Communications / Cyber). Completed officer training with a focus on leadership, operational decision-making, and applied engineering support within joint-force environments. Oct 2024 – Dec 2024 Engineering (Communications / Cyber) & Unmanned Aerial Systems Qualifications | UK (Training Wings) Pilot Officer Training in RF systems, cryptography, tactical datalinks, ISR integration, power distribution for deployed systems, and small-UAS operations in contested and degraded environments. Nov 2024 – Dec 2024 UEO Technical Liaison Cell (Gate-Adjacent Trials) | UK (Joint Facility) Pilot Officer Assigned to a joint technical cell supporting early gate-adjacent trials. Work included ruggedised communications and power hardening, systems integration across mixed-origin technologies, and development of a deployable “breadcrumb” mesh network prototype for environments where conventional infrastructure could not be relied upon. Jan 2025 – Feb 2025 Stargate Command Indoctrination | McMurdo Station, Antarctica Pilot Officer (RAF), Seconded Completed Stargate Command indoctrination covering gate safety and protocols, iris and IDC systems, DHD familiarisation, MALP and UAV certification, and applied diagnostics of non-terrestrial power and signal systems. Mar 2025 – Present SG-2 Technical Specialist (Engineering / Comms / UAV) | SGC McMurdo & Off-World Pilot Officer (RAF), Seconded Joining stage. Responsible for communications integrity, signal analysis, and field diagnostics; support of DHD-adjacent and mixed-origin technologies; development of degraded-link SOPs; grab-kit build-out and deployment support during off-world operations. |