On the first day of February in 1977, there was a note in those parts of the Boskirk papers that followed news about celebrities that on the evening before, actor and director Richard Springthorpe jr. and his wife, jazz pianist and singer Yulya Springthorpe, had become parents for the second time, to a healthy little boy named Jason Evander. From before, the pair had a three years old daughter, Wilhelmina, or Mina for short. The family resided in an estate just outside of Boskirk.
Since Richard was out and about making his movies most of the time, it was Yulya that the children was closest to of their parents, although the relationship between Jason and his father was quite well most of the time during Jason's childhood.
The boy grew up as a fan of Pyramid, and had childhood dreams of getting to play for the Boskirk All Reds when he was older. But his life took a different turn, as his sister's did, in 1984, when their father made the movie 'The Life of Anton Krombley', a drama about a well-known poet, where they both played the children of the main person of the movie. And from that moment, they had roles in quite a few films.
His film credits over the next nine years included a few different roles, both minor ones, and larger roles. His most well-known roles were as a boy called Edgar Abercrombie, the title character in four adventure films about a peasant boy in a time very long ago, that had to fight for survival after his own parents died from sickness. The films, "Edgar(1988), "Summertime"(1990), "Winter's Day"(1992)" and "Back to the World"(1993), which turned out to be the last film role he ever had.
Much of the reason for this was his declining relationship with his father. After years of rumors about the bad relationship between Richard and Yulya, things finally fell apart and the two divorced, with Richard getting straight into a new relationship with a much younger woman. Jason blamed his father for this from that point, and broke off as much contact with his father as possible. Most of the remaining contact came through Mina, who didn't give up her career in film, and has continued on ever since.
Going back to being a normal school child now was a bit hard, especially since most of the other children knew the films he had been in, something that he no longer wanted that much part of. It was during this time that he took an interest in the Colonial Navy, and especially the Fleet Aviation parts of it. From that day onwards, he knew what he wanted from life, and through the help of an old friend of his mother, he managed to secure his place at the Colonial Fleet Academy's campus on Virgon when he was 17.
The first few months at the Academy were rough for young Jason, especially since most of the other plebes knew of his past as an actor. Some of them decided to give him a hard time about it, some even tried provoking him into fighting, but he showed himself to be an even-tempered person, with a solid dedication to getting through the schooling, and also a loyalty to those he called friends, always willing to help those of them in need of it through their own schoolwork. During his years at the Academy, he chose education in physical geography.
Getting through the four years at the Academy, he continued into flight training. Individual Flight Training was met with the same enthusiasm and energy as the Academy had been, and he managed to get through that part quite well. The Aviation Pre-Flight Indoctrination was a bit harder, but he knew he had to get through, and through hard work, he got through that as well. When he came to the Primary Flight Training, he realized there was far more to the flying than he had thought, but he had also found something he loved doing. After that, he went down the Raptor pipeline, a bit disappointed that he didn't end up with a Viper, but all in all very happy as he learned more about the craft and how to use it properly.
And so, about two years after he started the flight training, Ensign Jason E. Springthorpe found himself assigned as a Raptor rook to the Battlestar Triton, which has been his home since then until very recently. From before, he's had a tendency to make a bit of sarcastic jokes when under pressure, and it was because of one of the situations he made one of those jokes that he received the callsign Stand-up. A few months ago, after having served well since he arrived at the Triton, he was promoted to Lieutenant Junior Grade.
Not too long ago, his mother became ill, and he got leave to go home to be with her. The illness went bad, and within a few weeks, she passed away. Wanting to go far away with his grief, Jason got the chance to volunteer for taking part of a long-term deep space mining and exploration program serving aboard the Battlestar Orion. Eager to get somewhere without too many memories, he agreed, and was transferred to the Orion when the ship was briefly in port.
