Karl Graylock

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Karl Graylock was a human male serving in United Earth's Starfleet in the late 22nd century. Graylock was from Austria on Earth.

By 2156, Graylock had attained the rank of Lieutenant and succeeded Charles Tucker as chief engineer aboard the Columbia (NX-02). After a disastrous surprise attack on the Columbia by Romulan forces, Graylock proposed detonating a photonic torpedo and making a micro warp jump to make the attackers think they had self-destructed. The plan allowed them to escape from the Romulans, but left the vessel crippled, and was forced to make a high impulse journey to the nearest class M world. The chief engineer was part of the away team to beam down to Erigol and made first contact with the Caeliar.

Karl found the forced residence on Erigol to be unsatisfying, and allied with MACO commander Major Stephen Foyle to formulate a plan of escape. As the MACOs set off explosives and attempted to force the Caeliar to do their bidding, Graylock worked with one of the scientists to open a tunnel for the Columbia to escape through. After a massive feedback pulse through the Great Work caused the planet to destabilize, his meddling threw the entire system for creating subspace tunnels off, resulting in the destruction of a significant portion of the Caeliar's city-ships. The city Graylock was in, Mantilis, managed to escape and crash land on an unknown planet in the far reaches of the universe, but all but twelve Caeliar gave their lives to protect the away team members. (ST - Destiny novel: Gods of Night)