Six Degrees of Freedom - A Starfighter Roleplay

Updating Silas's page by giving him a assault rifle, why? Never know when you need it and I really like fictional firearms

Here's my attempt. If it's not workable, I'm fine with just proposing a different sheet instead if that's so.

• Name: Ravage
• Sex: None
• Species: Cybertronian
• Appearance: Looks like a robot jaguar...panther...dog thing.◊
• Gear: Has a pair of heat-seeking missile launchers attached to his haunches, and internal dampeners to keep his electromagnetic radiation signature invisible, and an inbuilt communicator.
• Powers: Can transform into a compact alternate “deployer” form to interface with his ship. It just coincidentally happens to look like a cassette tape.
• Skills: Primarily skilled in sabotage and spywork, and has seen many years of warfare.
• Physical Abilities: Rather hardy and strong by the standards of normal beings and his claws can do a lot of damage, but his relatively small size does not make him durable for a Cybertronian. Ex. a large van ramming into him at high speeds would probably knock him down for a few minutes. His true strength is his speed and dexterity that allow him to slip past silently and hide in shadowy spots one wouldn't expect a robot of his size to have. He also has an advanced sense of smell, hearing, and electromagnetic detection. Unfortunately, his sharp senses means that he is extremely sensitive to light, particularly in sudden flashes.
• Personality: Am aloof and surly mechanical being who has little affection for anything but his “masters” Soundwave and Megatron, but has a marked disdain for Autobots and organics. His mind and tongue are both sharper than his claws, but if you actually manage to find him in a good mood he's not a bad conversationalist. Just don't pet him or call him cute.
• Biography: Many millenniums ago, a planet named Cybertron was torn apart by civil war between two factions, the Autobots and Decepticons. Ravage was one of the many terrifying and ferocious Decepticons serving the glorious Megatron in his drive to conquer Cybertron. He was particularly close to Megatron's trusted lieutenant Soundwave. Unfortunately, countless years of war eventually ruined Cybertron, so both Autobots and Decepticons were forced to flee to the stars. Up until the present day, Ravage has waited in hiding besides this strange jet, protecting it with his very life. He merely waits for the powerful words of his lord Megatron to reach his ears once again.

• Name: Cybertronian jet disguised as a Predator B nicknamed “Soundwave” by Ravage
• Appearance: Like a Predator B UAV drone◊
• Role: Surveillance and scouting
• Offensive Capability: Two sets of laser beam emitters hidden under its wings and an air-to-surface missile launcher. A sonic jammer to incapacitate communications or foes.
• Defensive Capability: An incredibly advanced sonar system. Also has a cloaking system, but can't use any weapons while the system is on. Its armor is fairly durable by Cybertronian standards, but still not designed to take part in a prolonged fight.
• Mobility: It flies about the same speed as the planet it's modeled on, with a maximum speed of about 483 km per hour and a cruising speed of 278 to 315 km/hour. It's incredibly mobile and fast, even in the vacuum of space.
• Extras: All of its offensive capabilities and a couple of its defensive capabilities listed above are due to the special Deception troops known as “Deployers” interfacing with it. There are about five of them total, including Ravage. While they can disconnect and act autonomously themselves, Ravage is the only one capable of accessing the on-board computer to let him fly the thing, so most of the time the other four won't directly take part in the action. Without at least one Deployer attaching itself, the ship is defenseless and inactive. And if that's a bit too vague or abstract to understand, just liken it to Voltron with the primary spaceship being a torso and the drones the bodyparts that make it work. Also, the spaceship itself is a Transformer, but it seems to be in a coma-like state called “stasis lock” that renders it unable to move on its own. For what purpose is unknown.

edited 7th Apr '15 10:25:10 PM by Raidouthe21st

Doesn't seem too bad. Considering its size, though, you might wanna think about where you're gonna put it. Even if it's bullpup, it's still big.

Leems segit. So long as the Predator doesn't transform (and it probably won't until the epilogue), welcome to the Atlas Fleet, Ravager.

Discussion thread is operational. Go do stuff there if you wanna.

edited 8th Apr '15 3:15:21 AM by SpartyMcFly

And now, in a tradition of posting my character sheet at the last moment...

• Name: Jake
• Sex: Male
• Species: Human
• Appearance: That guy right here◊
• Gear: The clothes on his back, a cell phone, 17 bucks in his wallet, a lighter with an half empty pack of cigarettes, his car◊ and his pet snake. Oh, and there's a sawn off shotgun in the car's glovebox.
• Powers: Uhhhhhhhhhh
• Skills: A very competent barman, which includes expertise in making food, drinks, and punching the shit out of unruly customers.
• Physical abilities: Well, he seems to pack a mean right punch, but nothing exceptional there.
• Biography: Not much to say there, just some slightly hedonistic dude who was working in a nightclub before getting suddenly transported into a space adventure.

And now, moving on to the ship...

• Name: OV-103 "Discovery"◊
• Role: Special deliveries
• Offensive capabilities: Nothing but a nose mounted cannon.
• Defensive capabilities: A pretty thick armor, with an especially resilient shield plating, enough to take an high-speed atmosphere reentry.
• Mobility: This thing is powered by a trio of engines producing up to 2.3 Meganewtons of thrust -each- . That is a combined total of 1.2 million pounds of thrust, or 37 million horsepower, and it has been used to reach speeds of 17,000mph to attain orbit. Point is, velocity wise, that thing is a monster. But once it gets there, you're going to need a lot of room to change its course.
• Extras: A large cargo bay with a manipulator arm, which has an integrated grappling hook. Said cargo bay could pack anything from a drone swarm, to a bass cannon to an unholy amount of cheese or whatever.

So it's lightly armed, could pack a punch, and hellishly fast, but has the turning speed of an oil tanker?

Welcome to the Atlas Fleet, Jake.

And on that note, we begin.

Can I shoulder myself in, or am I too late?

We literally just started, so I'm pretty sure you can come in just fine.

Yep. It started today, so you can still join up.

I also have an IC excuse for any people who join a little too late, i.e. after everyone gets their shit together and starts leaving. But we just started, so go ahead and make a character sheet.

Ooh, cool. Lemme throw something up, then.

Wishing to join, but my character is a bit... Off due to the fact that his real body is his spaceship.

......

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I alsmost did that, but spart limited it to fighters, so I could not exactly play serenity.

Well, I wouldn't exactly recommend that. There'll be a fair bit of groundside action.

You think there'd be a way for him to get a smaller body to maneuver groundside with?

edited 11th Apr '15 1:02:54 PM by SpartyMcFly

Obviously, but it's not very good in a direct fight due to the fact that it's practically a less cute but more technologically sophisticated Haro (The one from Victory Gundam) with an anti-gravity propulsion system.

And? Even a tiny little robot ball is still better than an entire starfighter when you need to talk to somebody.

Unless you're in space or looking to make a show of force. Then the starfighter may be necessary.

edited 11th Apr '15 2:00:39 PM by SpartyMcFly

Eh, I've been debating it and decided I might as well give this one a try. So without further ado...

Pilot Sheet

• Name: Kirby
• Sex: Male
• Species: Star Warrior
• Appearance: First you draw a circle, then you dot the eyes. Add a great big smile, and presto! It's Kirby!◊
• Gear: None
• Powers:
  • He can fly by puffing himself up.
  • He is Capable of inhaling and swallowing things up to twice his own size, and if the thing has a special power of any kind, he can copy that power. Sentient beings will pop back out of his stomach if swallowed, slightly worse for the wear, but he will still copy a power or skill from them if possible.
  • Eating food heals him, and he can store things in his stomach (which is actually a pocket universe).
• Skills: Kirby is proficient with many weapons such as swords, hammers, needles, lasers, whips, bombs, and yo-yos. He also knows some martial arts techniques, and suplex throws.
• Physical Abilities: Kirby is a tough little puff, able to go toe-to-toe with giant robots, enraged dragons, and Eldritch Abominations on a regular basis. His body is elastic and durable, and he packs quite a strong punch. Also, his species does not need to breathe and can survive deep space and deep ocean alike.
• Personality: A childish, bubbly, happy and innocent creature, Kirby is pure and sweet. He's very forgiving, and will give people the benefit of the doubt even if they've tried to take over the world. He's actually managed to befriend his former enemies on numerous occasions.
• Biography: Kirby lives in and protects the planet Pop Star from all matter of threats. He had just defeated the evil Marx and stopped the sun and moon from fighting when he was pulled away from home.

• Name: Dragoon
• Appearance: The Legendary Air Ride Machine.
• Role: Anti-Fighter, but also good at sabotaging the systems of larger targets.
• Offensive Capability: Unusually, it possesses no projectile weapons. Instead it attacks by ramming it's opponents at high speed. This ramming attack does not harm Dragoon and can in fact cut through metal like a knife, though it can still be damaged by others while charging. Kirby can attack enemies with his own abilities while flying Dragoon as well.
• Defensive Capability: The Dragoon possesses no noteworthy defenses. However, the same energy that powers it also protects the rider, so the Dragoon will take the brunt of any attack and Kirby will be relatively safe.
• Mobility: Known for it's speed and ability to turn on a dime at even full throttle, Dragoon can hit 90 km/s during it's charges. Its mobility can be said to be its greatest defense, as hitting it is the major challenge in taking it down.
• Extras: If destroyed, the Dragoon will always split into three pieces: the nosecone, the body, and the crystal feathers. By collecting all three pieces, Kirby can put the Dragoon back together.

(Also, Kirby is supposedly 8 inches tall, but I'm going to assume that for this RP he's closer to his height in Smash Bros, so about to the average person's knees)

edited 12th Apr '15 9:43:17 PM by kagescorpionakki

Oh my god

This RP just gets better and better.

Pilot Sheet

• Name: Vic Viper (O.C. Stand-in)
• Sex: Masculine programming.
• Species: Metatron-AI fighting machine
• Appearance: His current form is a bit underwhelming compared to his real body. (The main body is about the diameter of a Basketball)
• Gear: Hologram projector, high-fidelity speakers, LED flashlight and an antigrav projector that also allows him to lift small objects.
• Powers: He can take pictures and record stuff?
• Skills: Literally made for combat, Vic Viper is has near-complete mastery over dogfighting and starfighter combat, but is held back by his relative inexperience and eagerness to prove his worth as a fighting machine worthy of the cost and effort put into his construction. Also, due to his nature as a machine, he can seamlessly download and upload computerized data in his memory banks as well as hack through most computer systems through brute force given enough time.
• Physical Abilities: Can lift up to 20kg with his antigrav projector and has basically unlimited operational time thanks to having a Metatron-based power source.
• Personality: Cocky, arrogant and immature, Vic Viper is a bot who has everything to prove. Why does he have everything to prove? It's because he's essentially a newborn, having only been around for 3 or so years since his activation as a sapient machine and thus he is quite eager and somewhat desperate to prove that he is not a waste of time and effort, even though there isn't any war for him to fight at the time prior to him ending up in this adventure. Despite this, he is quite interested in experiencing friendship and camaraderie... If he can find others worth hanging out with that is!
• Biography: Vic Viper came from an alternate future Earth where mankind had become a burgeoning player in the Galactic playground thanks to the discovery of a miraculous ore called "Metatron" on the moon of Callisto. But since this is humanity we're talking about... There was a devastating interplanetary war for whomever gets the right to mine that ore and it ended in a bloody stalemate that was resolved when the three main factions decided to share the mining rights since they were running out of men and resources to throw into the meat grinder, not to mention that they were all getting tired of killing each other anyway... Vic Viper was not part of the war, even though he was planned to fight in it. Yet his creator completed him anyway due to sunk cost fallacy and because the fighting machine had already displayed sentience, without a war to fight; Vic Viper was mainly used for policing and patrol duty, jobs that he found unbelievably boring, his only form of stress and boredom relief being participating in test flights and weapons demonstrations... That is until all this stuff happened...'

Fighter Sheet

• Name: Vic Viper
• Appearance: Zoradius!
• Role: High-speed Multirole starfighter (Transformable)
• Offensive Capability:
  • Micro Missile: Small, but extremely numerous and relentless anti-starfighter weapons that are fired at two dozen apiece per volley.
  • Lasers: High-power and accuracy but slow-firing laser beams shot from both of Vic Viper's nosecones. Their extreme penetrating power and energy means that most types of armor plating is quite useless against this weapon.
  • Ripple Shot: Vic Viper's most potent weapon: By directly injecting Metatron energy into his lasers, he can fire off a powerful and destructive volley of ring-shaped lasers from his nosecones. The usual result of anything hit by the Ripple shot is a destroyed or soon-to-be-destroyed target. Compared to the lasers however, the Ripple shot is less accurate, shorter ranged and harder to aim, but is consequently harder to evade due to their shape.
  • Proton Torpedo: Large, slow but immensely powerful and destructive missiles geared for use against large, immobile targets like capital ships or fortifications. Despite their slow speed, they have extremely fine tuned and relentless guidance systems that can catch an unaware enemy starfighter that thinks that these anti-ship weapons are of no threat to their agile ships. Stored in the Vector Trap.
• Defensive Capability: The Frame itself is armored with an advanced titanium-ceramic composite that is geared to be extremely resistant to thermal stress while still being tough enough to eat anything up to 20mm cannon rounds without breaking apart.
  • EM field: A passive defensive system that takes the form of a shimmering barrier of electromagnetic energy that surrounds Vic Viper and shields him against most low-power energy weaponry, which are the greatest threat against fast but fragile fighters like him as well as presenting a much more confusing and difficult target to common missile guidance systems, greatly improving his chances of evading them. Kinetic weapons fare much better against the barrier.
• Mobility: Can reach up to Mach 3.1 in an Earth-like Atmosphere while having agility and maneuverability that makes an F-22 look like a Jumbo Jet in comparison, has relativistic speed in outer space. Lacks an FTL system despite having a near-limitless energy source due to space and weight constraints.
• Special: Vic Viper has a Vector trap: An on-board pocket dimension that allows him to carry much more weaponry than is possible in such a small an agile frame. All of his non-energy weaponry are stored inside of his Vector Trap. Currently disabled due to damage.

edited 12th Apr '15 11:42:08 AM by Questor

...Of the many things I expected people to do, I did not expect Kirby. A ramming fighter is also an idea so unique that I'm gonna accept it just to see how it turns out. Welcome to the Atlas Fleet, Kirby.

Your pilot looks good, but where's his fighter? He's gotta be flyin' something, brah.

edited 12th Apr '15 11:41:46 AM by Questor

...Whoa.

Okay. So, even if you justify it with a vector trap, you have six weapons in a single fighter. I harped on someone for having five. Not only that, the Frame's got two forms of shielding system, and on top of the shields it's also going to be tough enough to withstand almost every fight I'll throw at it short of "taking on a battlecruiser solo".

This would be somewhere near remotely okay if the thing had the maneuverability of a rock. Nope; it's got perfectly fine maneuverability in-atmosphere and in space, good luck hitting it enough to kill it before it turns you into space dust.

Denied.

edited 12th Apr '15 8:11:29 AM by SpartyMcFly

What about having most of the systems be deactivated? Just have the energy weaponry active at first, but more and more gets put back online as the threat level escalates.

That seems like it could be an excellent compromise, but at the endgame you'd still be too strong.

Removing two or three of your weapons should suffice, though. Plus; get rid of one of your shields. You can just say that it didn't exactly make the transition from Sol to "here" entirely alright.

In addition, I might as well ask; exactly how fast can the Viper go at relativistic velocity?

And you say it's transformable - I presume it's not going to transform during the RP's events.

edited 12th Apr '15 8:49:23 AM by SpartyMcFly

The last thing to go would be the Mode Lock, of course. And Relativistic means at least mach 30-40, which isn't very impressive in the vacuum of space.

As for weapons that can go, the Options and Plasma bomb aren't exactly necessary and for most of the RP, Vic Viper will be forced to physically carry Micro-Missile pods and proton torpedoes on his fuselage, negatively affecting his maneuverability.

Alrighty. Now you've only got four weapons (technically three, but one is an alternate fire mode, so whatevs). And so long as Mode Lock stays on through the RP's events that should be good.

I'd get rid of the Plasma Orb shields so that you can take energy impacts with your EM field and kinetic impacts with your already considerable armor. All you need to do is edit your character sheet to reflect the changes and I figure you'll be allowed in.

In addition, I'm somewhat concerned about your character's hacking ability, but so long as you're okay with the fact that I may reserve the right to make it unreasonably long to prevent computer hacking from solving every problem, that should be cool.

The hacking ability isn't too broken since it takes a while and is lacking in finesse, so it is rather easy to counter and detect by any half-decent electronic warfare specialist and is more useful for cracking open databases rather than sowing chaos in the heat of combat since Vic Viper's going to need all of his processing power for the hack.

As for the Plasma orbs, yeah; I was gonna drop them.