Born in one of the larger cities of Libran, as the youngest of two children of a wealthy banker named Martin Malone and his wife Laura, Thomas Edward Malone grew up in a quiet family of the upper class. His older sister, Molly Felicia, was two years when he was born, and the siblings grew up to be quite close. His childhood was rather uneventful, and both the children was set to do well in school, something they did.
Thomas, or Tommy as he preferred to be called, early started to get a love of sports, and Pyramid in particular. He even started playing the game, a game he showed good talent in. His father had loved the sport as a child, and backed his son, and his son’s team, which was one of the best equipped children’s teams of the area.
Growing up, he went off to the University of Phoibe and Koios, studying law there while playing for the pyramid team of the school. Student life took a little time to get used to, as he was used to have his family around him. The first month or so was especially rough, since he did nothing except for schoolwork and sports, but after that, he started to make new friends, something that helped him through his years in school, where he graduated in the top 25 percent of his class.
When he was through school, he surprised his family, by not going for a job in law, but instead joining the Colonial Navy, aiming for a career as a Viper pilot. It was something he had been thinking about for a few years, partially because he didn’t feel like he was ready, as a person, for a career in law.
He got through his training, thanks to hard work of the same kind that made him both a skilled athlete and a student, and about two and a half years after he joined the military, he had become an Ensign, and a pilot, like he was hoping for, and was assigned to Colonial Fleet Airbase Argo on Aquaria, where he spent his first assignment. He got a few good friends there, including Lieutenant Charlie “Chicken” Eggert, who became sort of a mentor to the young rook.
His time there wasn’t without incidents, including when he experienced some engine trouble in flight over the ocean, and although he could have flown back to the base, he ended up crashing into the water. From that, he gained the nickname Splash, since those watching claimed that’s how the Viper hit the water. He also spent some of his spare time learning to do some rock climbing and so on, finding it a great way to relax.
After having served at Argo for three years, he has recently been transferred to the Battlestar Cerberus’ squadron One Five Four, where he has just arrived, and is in the process of settling in.
