Star Wars: Mercs of the Old Republic - Signup Thread

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Hey everyone. I've decided it's about high time another Star Wars RP pops up, so here we are. I really love the Knights of the Old Republic style of story where it's just a group of people, zipping around the planet and eventually the galaxy to do missions, getting in and out of trouble, and helping or hurting people along the way. There's also a lot of room for character development and improvement along the way, as your characters will have nothing but their wits, natural abilities, and what they're carrying to start with, and will eventually be able to get all sorts of fancy toys.

The story itself starts out simple: The Nal Hutta mercenary group known as the Rough Rancors recently had a big job go pear-shaped and take out almost all of their men, so they happen to be hiring. Damage to their reputation means that they had to be willing to take all sorts of folks, ranging from actual mercs to criminals, undesirables, and rogue droids. The promise of free room and board was pretty appealing, too. Your characters are the new members, and you can choose between taking jobs, collecting bounties, or whatever else comes to mind as you carve out a place for yourself in the galaxy. For those of you who want specifics, this takes place around 3750 BBY, but for those of you who just want a rough picture, it takes place a couple hundred years after the KotOR games.

So here's the character sheet, you can have one character for now, and make sure to stick to the limits so we can start on equal footing. The main rule I have for this is to treat everyone else in the RP with respect.

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• Name:
• Sex:
• Age:
• Race: Pretty much everything is on the table, the only exceptions are things that are just outright too much like a Gen'Dai or Hutt. But otherwise it's pretty loose, so you can have that ewok bounty hunter you've always wanted.
• Class/Title: What they are, for example a Bounty Hunter, a Scoundrel or a Trooper, to name a few. It's what someone might call them if they don't know their name but can see their equipment. I'm not accepting any Jed/Sith/Force Power Users since it would really mess up the existing balance in the game, unless you PM me first to work things out.
• Alignment: Light, Dark, or Neutral, as well as how strong of an alignment it is. I want to be clear, this does not lock your character into acting like a robot only doing one type of action, it's more for a picture of what their current alignment at the start of the RP is, and will pretty much only be used for events that specifically rely on knowing what alignment someone is.
• Appearance:
• Personality:
• Primary Weapon Type: Your character's main weapon, which they are skilled at using. If you are using a Jedi with a lightsaber, then mention which form they use. If you don't want your character to be skilled at using a weapon, then you can feel free to leave this blank and give them an extra ability below.
• Armor Type: The armor they start out with, none/light/medium/heavy. As expected, increasing armor provides more... armor... while less armor allows for more speed or agility.
• Starting Abilities: Remember, you will all be able to gain more abilities as the RP goes on. Your character starts off with three "abilities" (plus their main weapon skill) which I will just define as something they are 'good at', or it could be a force power for a jedi. This could also include extra equipment they are skilled at using. If it's a weapon/equipment ability, then they can have one of those items in their starting equipment, or if they're a droid you can have that as module of theirs (that is, only if the equipment can be carried on your person. If you pick something like piloting, you won't be able to carry a ship around with you). The choices are limitless, but if you need a few examples of abilities, there's things like a jetpack, wrist rocket, rocket boots, Force Push, Force Pull, Saber Throw, slicing, lockpicking, treating injuries, demolitions, energy shields, armor construction, weapon construction, etc.
  • [Ability 1]
  • [Ability 2]
  • [Ability 3]
• Equipment: Everything your character has on their person. Should just be the things tied to their weapon/armor and abilities, maybe a communicator or knife. If your character isn't skilled at using any weapons, you can feel free to give them a simple blaster pistol, they just won't be very good at using them. Just keep in mind that you're not starting off with much beyond what your abilities require, as part of the RP will be about getting new equipment and items.
  • [List of Stuff]
• Credits: Leave blank for now, I'll give you your starting amount once your character is accepted.
• Brief History: Doesn't have to be too in depth, just mention why they've decided on the glamorous career of mercenary work.

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Accepted Characters:

• Laira Orlan: A human trooper played by daltar.
• Nith Gando: A nautolan gunslinger played by guyshane.

• Fera Dianiss: A human assassin played by RedSavant.
• Hob Kayson: A n'manian scoundrel played by Fantasy Liver.
• Hiro Gai: A human con man played by Sarcastically Insane.
• Kal Res: A human bounty hunter played by Clawthewolf.
• Amos Jenns: A human thug played by mantlemask.

edited 20th Jan '14 2:44:47 PM by nman

I'm torn between creating an outcast Jedi or a Chiss sniper D:

Time grows thin, the past's a riddle; The Tower awaits you in the middle.

I wish I had more time so I could participate

-dramatic music ensues-

Hm. I might toss out a character or two- god knows I have enough SWTOR concepts sitting around doing nothing to spare one- but I'm not sure if I will have enough time....

"You are never taller then when standing up for yourself"

• Name: Callista Devarian
• Sex: Female
• Age: 31
• Race: Human
• Class/Title: Outcast Jedi
• Alignment: Dark
• Appearance: with emerald lightsaber
• Personality: Somewhat of a libertine, since the Jedi Order bans falling in love, and since she's no longer part of the Order, she's free to fall in love with whoever she chooses, gender be damned.
• Primary Weapon Type: Lightsaber, Form IV: Ataru
• Armor Type: Light
• Starting Abilities:
  • [Force Jump]
  • [Saber Throw]
  • [Lockpicking]
• Equipment:
  • Emerald lightsaber
  • MK-45 Protective Vest
  • DL 44
• Credits:
• Brief History:

She was exiled from the order after falling in love with a another Knight, who reported her advances to one of the Council members. In a closed-door session, the Council quickly came to the verdict that she was now exiled for falling in love with a fellow Jedi and forced her to surrender her lightsaber.

She refused and fled into the underbelly of Coruscant, taking care to conceal her Force presence from any pursuers. She fled off-world on a shuttle to Nal Hutta, figuring that the Jedi wouldn't find her there. After spending a few days on Nal Hutta, she noticed that a mercenary group was looking for people, and she signed up to relieve her boredom.

edited 5th Sep '13 7:39:36 PM by SixthSaint

Time grows thin, the past's a riddle; The Tower awaits you in the middle.

Ignore this.

edited 6th Sep '13 6:11:38 PM by SixthSaint

Time grows thin, the past's a riddle; The Tower awaits you in the middle.

Would it be possible to create a rogue Jedi capable of using dark force?

Good to be back

For you guys talking about time, this shouldn't move anywhere near the speed of the faster RPs on this site, and this isn't one of those games that require you to post some 500-word navel-gazing post each time. If you guys can manage five to ten minutes to catch up, and then you have a few minutes to post something that's descriptive and clear, maybe once every day, then you should be golden.

Rejected. Players can only have one character, you aren't even finished with either, and both of them have several problems with their equipment. Please don't post again until you have a completed sheet so it's not clogging up multiple posts in the thread with all this under construction stuff.

I'm not exactly sure what you mean, you need to be clearer. If you mean powers based off of that Dark Force religion thing, then no, since that didn't exist until almost three thousand years later. Dark side force powers are okay.

edited 4th Sep '13 10:07:53 PM by nman

I think he's referring to Dark Jedi- it's a bit complicated but they are basically Sith, who still consider themselves Jedi. They tend to be somewhere in the middle in ideology ("for the greater good" and "I Did What I Had To" get thrown around a lot), but they are functionally Sith with the "Lord" or "Darth".

As to Sith- technically if it's only a few hundred years after Kotor they do exist. It's just the Sith Empire is hiding in Unknown Space (A largely unexplored sector at the edge of the galaxy)- particularly Dromund Kaas- and concealing itself from the Republic and the Jedi.

"You are never taller then when standing up for yourself"

I know all about Dark Jedi, I was referring to Dark Force, which is what he said.

Oh. I actually wasn't aware that there was a religion called Dark Force. No, it's a wandering, slightly unscrupulous Jedi who can use the abilities of the dark side of the force.

Good to be back

Yeash. Every time I think I've got down pat all the various Dark Side-Aligned Orders another one crops up to surprise me. (I consider myself pretty well versed in the EU, but still....)

My apologize then- just a touch of confusion on my part.

Speaking off though, any rules on the acceptability of Sith (my personal favorites). In hiding/secret of course, as a Imperial forward agent or spy or some such- of course given the time frame. If not that's fine, just wondering :P.

"You are never taller then when standing up for yourself"

I don't see a problem with it, but you just have to make sure to explain a couple things. Namely, why they're working for some cheap merc company and not working as a banker on Coruscant. For example, I know that many of their deep cover operatives were meant to just start the process of getting into positions of power, and then elevating their children, and so on, so if they're just at "Stage One: Get Known", that could work.

I'm interested. Think I'll work on a crafty type, myself - close-range, precise blaster and maybe a vibroknife.

It's been fun.

That's what was I thinking as well- a fairly recent Sith plant that's slowly looking to build prestige/power/influence in mercenary corps, through slow machinations. Possibly with some additional seditionist/sabotage agenda.

There is also The Children Of The Emperor, Sith plants hidden at every strata of Republic society (From lowly grunts to powerful politicians etc etc.)- though I'm not sure for how long those existed.

edited 4th Sep '13 10:30:42 PM by LMage

"You are never taller then when standing up for yourself"

That could work then. I'm not so familiar with the Children of the Emperor, the wiki says it came a bit later, and I wouldn't really know how to implement that anyway, but since the first option works it doesn't matter too much.

• Name: Rahm Vill
• Sex: Male
• Age: 35
• Race: Human
• Class/Title: Bounty Hunter/ Mercenary/Jedi/Wanderer
• Alignment: Light
• Appearance: Rahm has scruffy, neck length brought n hair and five O clock shadow. He is of medium build, with Green eyes, he wears a sandstorm and battle scarred Mark 2 custom painted clone armor, the left armor is covered with a Crtosis Cestus on his left arm and often has a tattered long robe against the Tattoine Sand.
• Personality: Rahm, is jaded, cynical and sarcastic. While he believes there is good and evil, he believes the code if Jedi morals to be flawed,as they restrict him. As such, Rahm is unafraid and willing to do things most Jedi would consider.unspeakable such as.Torture, Threats, and murder. However, he hates Sith with a passion. While often considered a traitor to the ways of the Jedi, Rahm simply believes that he is doing the necessary evils against the sith.
• Weapon: Rahm weilds his two lightsabres, preferring to use Vapaad when he is weilding a single one and Niman while dual weilding.
• Armor Type: Rahm wears customized Clone Trooper armor, which is medium type armor.
• Starting Abilities:

◦Force Lightining: Rahm is capable of using force lightning, using his deep rage to fuel it. ◦ Force Choke: Rahm is also easily capable of using force choke, capable of fueling it just like Lightning. ◦ Diplomat: Rahm, despite what you may think, is a clever diplomat though he only truly uses it in terms of pricing.

• Equipment:
  • Two standard Lightsabres, one green, one red.
  • Dl-44 Heavy Blaster Pistol
  • Portable Holovid
  • Mark 2 Clone Armor
  • A cortosis cestus.
• Credits: Leave blank for now, I'll give you your starting amount once your character is accepted.
• Brief History:Growing in the army, Rahm had spent life training in combat, his force affinity becoming recognized during a meal room fight, in which he used force lightning, alarming those around him. So, he was taken to Coruscant, and taught. However, Rahm was not a fan of the Pacifistic Creed, nor was he annoyed of being constantly warned of his anger, seeing it as a boon in it's allowing him to use the Dark Force abilities. Rahm rose through the abilities of combat, however, he hated being restrained and told the abilities of Faith, peace, and the ilk. He learned Vapaad, further worrying the council and so, he left. Sick and irritated of the talk of peace, he spent some time Meditating in Tatooine, before deciding that rage was the perfect, fight fire with fire weapon against the darkness. So, he took a job as a Bounty Hunter and a mercenary until he got his first taste against the sith, Dark Alcolyte Vim Forzz, outside Mos Eisley, after a brutal fight, Rahm managed to kill her, taking her lightsabre as a trophy, with it, he returned to Coruscant and learned Niman, however, he did not loose his violent streak and opted to return to a life of Bounty Hunting instead of becoming a Jedi Knight, however, He knows that many Jedi regard him as being closer to the Sith, he simply regards himself as the necessary evil. Now, he has opted to see wether or not these Rough Rancors are a good way to make some Credits.

edited 5th Sep '13 8:08:45 PM by TroyandHawk

Good to be back

Alright based on what I'm seeing I'll whip up a character sheet.

-dramatic music ensues-

• Name: Laira Orlan
• Sex: Female
• Age: 29
• Race: Human
• Class/Title: Trooper
• Alignment: Neutral - eighty points of a hundred to get to Light.
• Appearance: Laira is human woman of around 173 cm of height and with an athletic build of compact muscle. Her hair is a dark brown in color and reaches roughly only barely past her shoulders. She has dark eyes, high cheekbones and a couple short scars on her face.
• Personality: Professional, Driven and loyal. Laira is a woman that wants a slice of the good life for herself and is not afraid to get her hands dirty and work hard for it. She is a no nonsense kind of woman who endeavors do things right and proper since in her mind this is the way to ensue success. She values loyalty not only out of a sense of goodness or duty, but because trust is a valuable commodity in an environment of cutthroats. Sticking by your word and using teamwork is to her the best way to go about things. She wants the good life but more than that she wants security and power. She is a long term planner who likes to enjoy her luxuries when capable of truly affording them. She has a good head above her shoulders and tends to be good at planning and tactics, maintaining a cool head even in a crisis. Finally, past the professional facade and the occasional wisecrack one can get a sense that despite some disillusionment, she is a good person with some strong principles. Finally, she is rather evasive and adamant about speaking of her past, refusing to pursue the topic no matter what and only allowing herself to give small hints about it.
• Primary Weapon Type: Blaster Rifle - Accurate and powerful, the weapon of a marksman with the alternative of rapid fire at the cost of accuracy.
• Armor Type: Medium Armor
• Starting Abilities:
  • Piloting - From inputting light speed coordinates, to dogfighting to riding a swooper bike.
  • Demolition - Knowledge of the use of grenades, mines and detonation charges.
  • Physical Conditioning - Training a soldier undergoes to hone their body. Making them stronger, faster and more resilient.
• Equipment:
  • DC-15A blaster rifle equivalent of the era: A rifle meant for accurate fire at a distance, with the ability to hold the trigger for rapid fire at the cost of accuracy. Large and unwieldy at short range unless you're trying to bash someone in the head with the back of it. Equipped with a scope.
  • Republic Trooper Medium Armor◊: Medium armor, offering the best balance of protection and maneuverability for a Republic Trooper. The color has been scrapped off and replaced with a black line instead. Helmet included with a comlink in it.
  • Two Physical Concussion Grenades: Good for blowing up enemies.
  • Two Flash-bang Grenades: Good for stunning and incapacitating enemies.
  • Ascension Accessory.: An accessory for her rifle, allows her to shoot a cable and grappling hook to scale buildings.
• Credits: 1988
• Brief History: A relatively new mercenary in the business. Wearing the armor of a Republic Trooper in the wrong side of the galaxy, one would think she stole it off a kill if not for the woman having the skills to go with the uniform. Highly professional and efficient, she has done a couple jobs on the sector before answering the call of the Rough Rancors for new mercenary work.

edited 29th Oct '13 12:46:42 AM by daltar

If I'm sure of something it's that I'm not sure of anything.

Interest! Possibly will recycle my character from The Rats and the Mynocks.

The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground

• Name: Kal Res
• Sex: Female
• Age: 20 years old
• Race: Human/Mandalorian
• Class/Title: Bounty Hunter/Mercenary
• Alignment: Neutral.
• Appearance: without armor
• Personality: Generally cold towards outsiders and employers, especially those who are not part of the Mandalorians. However she can get a little fangirly when checking out weapons or reading about great hunters and deeds. She is also very much warmer towards those she sees as friends and very affectionate towards those she sees as her family. Kal is also a strict adherent to the Six Tenants and desires to be a model mandalorian, always trying to fulfill the mission no matter what. oh, and she despise Dark side force users.
• Primary Weapon Type: Blasters.
• Armor Type: Light
• Starting Abilities:
  • Mandalorian Swordsmanship training
  • Jetpack
  • Gunslinging
• Equipment:

  • 2x Heavy blaster pistols
  • 1x Vibrosword
  • Armored jumpsuit
  • 1x Vibro-knife
  • Jetpack

  • Credits:
• Brief History: Born and raised the third child in a mandalorian family in the minor clan Res on the planet of Carcan, a planet of challenge and variety with thick jungles, arid and rocky deserts and vasts forests and large beasts. Using the beasts there as practice she became a very skilled hunter and once she got old enough her family set off into the galaxy, making a living as bounty hunters, mercs and throphy hunters, untill one mission where they were hired to explore an ancient complex. However someone else had gotten there before them. strange characters wielding red lightsabers and using the dark side of the force. Pretty quickly it turned into a game of cat and cat, with both sides hunting each other through the deep underground mazes. Eventually though the mandalorian family got cornered and picked off one by one until there was only Kal Res and her mother remaining who as her last actions blew a hole in the roof, forcibly activated her daughters jetpack and blew up the charges the family had placed as traps, burying her and the sith under many tons of rubble. She fled to Nar Shadaa but broke as she was having spent the last of her credits she was forced to sell her valued Mandalorian armor and blasters to a hutt named Lobba. Since then Kal have survived thanks by joining up with a variety of Merc groups.

edited 8th Sep '13 1:03:55 PM by clawthewolf

• Name:Nith Gando
• Sex:Male
• Age:26
• Race: Nautolan
• Class/Title: Gunslinger
• Alignment: Neutral, solidly in the center
• Appearance:Average height for his species,darker green skin than normal and the head tentacles. He wears a tan longcoat which is paired with a tan wide-brimmed hat, under that he wears a simple shirt and pants with a gunbelt.
• Personality:Nith is really friendly and talkative. Hes exactly the sort that you want around for drinks and the party afterwards. However he will sleep soundly after killing someone be it for money or what have you.
• Primary Weapon Type: Blaster pistol.
• Armor Type:Light
• Starting Abilities:
  • Quick draw
  • lockpicking
  • Knife combat skill
• Equipment:
  • Custom heavy blaster pistol
  • Hold-out blaster
  • Vibroblade
• Credits:177
• Brief History: Nith was taken from his home planet by slavers when he was a teenager. He was bought by someone hoping to use him as underwater labor, eventually he escaped and ended up on Nar Shaddaa. While there he gained a job as a smuggler and learned gunfighting as a way of survival (as he lived on a hive of scum and villainy). However his last job went south and so he's doing mercenary work to pay for food and such.

edited 9th Sep '13 5:54:20 PM by guyshane

-dramatic music ensues-

I'm interested.

I created two characters because I wasn't sure which one I'd be using.

Time grows thin, the past's a riddle; The Tower awaits you in the middle.

• Name: Adriac Thalesh
• Sex: Male
• Age: 20
• Race: Human
• Class/Title: Sith Inquisitor/Sorcerer
• Alignment: Strong and almost fervently Dark Side, but his views and ideas have never been challenged, and he has taken the words of his masters at face value
• Appearance: A human male of slightly sub standard height- 5, maybe 5'2- he is pasty faced with wyspy dark hair lean features and narrow eyes, lined with faded barely vissibly scars. In The Dark Temple he dressed in flowing dark robes, rarely removing his hood if ever. Since slipping in among the "main stream" galaxy he has forsaken this style as his mission requires, instead dressing in a black synth weave hoodie over a mesh shirt, with synth weave leggings and strapped boots. He has piercings along his collar bone and in his lower lip, as well as black and red triangle tattoo along his neck.
• Personality: Adriac is a quite one, he keeps mostly to himself and rarely steps to the front. He hides a fierce and deadly intellect in his seaming apathy, and when his fury is aroused he is a terror to behold. He is intentionally closed off- his wall built up to create a separation between him and the "cretins", but those walls are far from impossible to break down...
• Primary Weapon Type: Trained in Lightsaber combat, specifically the Makashi style (to best compliment his Force-centic talents) focusing on fluid movement and sweeps attacks. In it's place he uses a vibrosword that he keeps slung over his shoulder.
• Armor Type: Light synthweave clothes- almost those of a common street thug.
• Starting Abilities:
  • Force Lightning
  • Force Clouding
  • Dark Side Mind Trick
• Equipment:
  • Lightsaber (Red, sewn into his synthweave jacket. Used only in the most dire of emergencies)
  • Vibrosword
  • Holocom
• Credits:
• Brief History: Raised on Dromund Kaas while the Empire waited in it's quite exile for return, Adriac dosen't recall a time when he wasn't being trained by the Sith. The Dark Side and the life an Acolyte and then an Apprentice was all he ever knew. Extremely sensitive, with a skill in the finer aspects of The Dark Side and a lust for it's secrets. Content in his quite life of study and occasional murder of rivals, but it was not meant to be. His master became engrossed in a power struggle with a Darth and the inevitable conclusion was the Lord's execution and the eradication of his power bases- starting with his apprentices. But Adriac was not without friends, and another Darth that he had once found a holocron for bargained for clemency on the ground of Adriac's complete disocation and apathy to his former master. The enemy Darth was not to be dissuaded however and instead decided to confer upon him an "honor": He would be sent to serve with the noodle Sith spies and plants that where slowly worming their way into the galaxy at large, peppering the way, bit by bit for the Sith's return. An effective death sentence at worst, an forever exile at best, Adriac has decided to- in true Sith fashion- rise to his challenge. Attack his task with passion, fury, and unyielding determination. He might fail, but he will die screaming and spitting first.

edited 5th Sep '13 8:19:29 PM by LMage

"You are never taller then when standing up for yourself"