The Darkness Beyond: A Space Opera [signups]

Finally, my ambassador!

• Name: Mnhiri Alaura
• Age, gender, species: 34, female, theran.
• Appearance: Straight, black, neck-length hair. White-gray skin. Average height, lean build. Yellow, reptilian eyes, and a bronze-coloured, segmented, spearhead-tipped tail (that’s usually hidden), just like all therans.
• Personality: Ambitious but careful, Mnhiri holds herself (and others) to high standards of behaviour and professionalism. Although a stalwart advocate for Izera’s interests, she tends to prefer co-operation and multilateral action on the international stage. That being said, she is not afraid of confrontation, and will stand up for her beliefs.
• Belongings:
  • Miniature Hydroponics Garden: A common possession for Arakists. A 1 x 2ft square in the corner of her office. Grows a variety of common Izeran herbs, mostly tea leafs.
  • Sword: a decorative blade, though still sharp. Shaped like a rapier and rather opulently decorated. It was a gift from her family.
  • International Politics Monthly: A handful of hard copies of Mnhiri favourite issues of the scholarly journal. She also has a subscription to the digital version.

History: Mnhiri and one other girl were adopted and raised by a human family at a very young age. Though, not long after, while she was still getting to know her new sister and parents, the couple divorced. Thus, she and her sister were raised by her single, human father. He made very little money, and indeed, Mnhiri spent much of her childhood on welfare. While Izera's social safety net is robust, the experience stayed with her, and she often resented having to live such a bare-bones life.
Instead of pursuing a normal university degree, Mnhiri enrolled in a military academy. After attaining her degree, she spent several years as an officer in the Space Force, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Commander, before eventually cutting her promising military career short in order to pursue other things. Specifically, Mnhiri went on to become a lawyer, and soon found herself working as a prosecutor for the government. She gained a reputation among her colleagues as a dedicated individual with a penchant for nailing down her cases and always seeking the truth. After a quick evaluation and some additional training, she was offered a prestigious new job as a diplomat.

• Credentials:
  • Lieutenant Commander, Royal Izeran Space Force (8 years)
  • Fine Arts degree
  • Law degree
  • Crown Prosecutor, Izeran Judicature (5 years)
  • International Relations Theory degree
  • Political Economy degree
  • Ambassador for the past 3-ish years
• Trivia:
  • Loves very spicy foods and a specific brand of Sirian hot sauce.
  • Mnhiri’s sister occupies a fairly prominent role within the Arakist hierarchy.

Blackfire, your characters are Accepted.

Are my characters accepted? I don't think I ever got a answer on that. And if I did get a answer and I missed it, sorry about that.

Whoops, I'm an idiot. Yeah, Echoing Silence, your characters are Accepted.

Sorry, school caught up with me.

Ah alright, It's cool man School gets in the way.

Darkdestinysoul, if I haven't said this already, I forgot. Your characters are Accepted.

CHARACTER SHEETS

Ambassador

• Name: Cobalt Le-Wa
• A/G/S: 661/Male/Nomad, Leader Caste
• Appearance: Cobalt is a middle sized Nomad ship, gray in color and shaped like a rectangle with rounded edges. He has five decks, only a few of which are occupied by his staff and maintenance crew.
• Personality: ID's as male. Cankerous and irritable. Unlike many of his fellow Nomads, who live their lives at a very slow and steady pace, Cobalt needs to be doing something and doing it yesterday. He has a high opinion of himself and never forgets when someone wrongs him.
• Equipment: Exactly 102 non Nomads inside of him as staff and crew. 12 drones which he can control remotely. A plant given to him by a long dead Terran friend called Audrey for some reason.
• History: Cobalt is a third generation Leader Nomad, constructed by the Great One Wa. Leaders of this time were built in response to the increasing administrative responsibilities the Nomads found themselves with as they settled down and their numbers grew. He stood out from his compatriots by arguing for greater interaction with the galaxy while also being heavy handed with internal problems, making him opponents in several large factions inside the Nomad leadership. For his allies however, he was a rallying figure and spokesperson. He briefly served as the head of the Military Caste, and it was during his tenure that a rebellion broke out which he played an important role in stopping. Since then, he has helped expand the Nomads' alliances abroad and supported joining the Galactic Alliance.
• Credentials: Aside from literally being built to be a politician, he is a vocal supporter of Argon, the de facto leader of the Nomads, who in turn in responsible for Cobalt's current position.

Crew

• Name: Summer Breeze MilCy-Irma
• A/G/S: 27/Female/Nomad, Military Caste, Cyber war sub-Caste.
• Appearance: A small white oval shaped ship, normally. For the purposes of the mission, however, she is a tiny biomechanicle humanoid with white hair and gossamer wings.
• Personality: ID's as female. Like Cobalt, Summer Breeze gets restless very quickly. Unlike Cobalt, however, this isn't so much a personality trait as it is deliberately how she was hardwired. Ships of Summer Breeze's class were designed to be energetic about their work in cyber warfare, to keep them on their toes about new attacks. Whether this made them more effective is still being debated.
• Equipment: The synthetic body she currently inhabits is equipped to link with other networks and ship computers. Using this she can communicate and hack into other ships. She left her personal belongings in her ship body, except for a plant she bought from a Terran called Audrey for some reason. She does have a holo projector which can create images much larger than herself.
• History: By Nomad reckoning, she is very young. Summer Breeze was part of one of the latest series of military ships ordered by the Census Caste and came with four "siblings", ships of the same design. Their main purpose was not to fight with guns and lasers and missiles, but to fight on another plane f existence, the digital world. Hacking into enemy networks and uploading worms and viruses, or simply stealing on line secrets is Summer Breeze's purpose in life, which makes the Nomads current state of peace somewhat frustrating. When the Engineering Caste asked for volunteers for experimental body shell test runs, Summer Breeze jumped at the opportunity.
• Specialization: Cyber warfare. As stated, she fights from the computer world.
• Combat Specialization: None, actually. As a ship she had a handy array of offensive and defensive capabilities. Her current body does not have any built in weapons. While she does have near limitless access to downloadable files on martial arts, they have never been put into practice.

edited 28th Jan '16 12:21:36 AM by Parable

Done.

Looks good to me. Parable, your characters are Accepted.

• Name: Akk Rryphal.
• Age, gender, species: 100 years old, male, Ydyff.
• Appearance: most Ydyff look identical to aliens, so Akk took to wearing a bright white cord around his neck. That said, his beak is slightly crooked and his eyes are bright (compared to other Ydyff; the difference is negligible).
• Personality: Monastic. Even Akk's ambition — of which he has plenty – is disciplined and ascetic. He is known for being a hard bargainer, but, on the other hand, has a flexible mind and a tendency to think outside of the regular Ydyffan box.
• Equipment: Akk keeps a communicator and a small, hidden pistol on his body in all times; otherwise his equipment varies. His personal belongings are negligible; the only important one is a Ydyffan flue of sorts.
• History: Focusing on negotiation, Akk proved himself a capable negotiator. However, he proved himself a bit too capable, and so his Captain seized the chance to get rid of a possible competitor for the seat by nominating him to the position of ambassador. He's been the ambassador ever since and seems, for the most part, content in his job. Of course, it might be that he's aiming higher than "ship Captain". Who knows?
• Credentials: Akk is a very good negotiator. Also, nobody else wanted the job.
• Trivia: Akk is one of the misotheistic Ydyff. It (usually) doesn't show.

• Name: Yadda Onnat.
• Age, gender, species: 83, female, Ydyff.
• Appearance: Yadda is actually pretty distinctive for a Ydyff — her feathers are coloured like a hooded crow's, while most of the Ydyff are black. She has five appendages.
• Personality: Sarcastic. While Yadda is a professional, she snarks at everything and everyone, including patients and superior officers.
  "What, I thought all aliens are dumb catbrains. Aren't they?"
• Equipment/belongings: standard Ydyff combat medic gear adapted for caring for other species' wellbeing as well. A small datapad (she keeps a diary). Two feathers that she likes to to tie around her smallest hand when not on duty.
  "Yes, I can cure a hangover. I won't. Get AIDS and then come back."
• History: Yadda specialised in medicine and xenobiology. She showed remarkable bravery and drive in her reserve service, saving multiple shipmates when a negotiation with aliens turned violent. She was inducted into her ship's dirty ops team shortly afterwards as a combat medic and stayed there until she was nominated to man the Hermes' medical station.
• Specialisation: Medical officer. Deadpan Snarker.
  • Combat specialisation: Combat medic. No carrying bigger people unless it's under zero-G conditions, though.
• Trivia: Nothing, ATM.

We've discussed the characters. They're fine with me, though I would usually like more detail in signups.

Des, your characters are Accepted.

Hopefully we can start the RP fairly soon, I'm hoping to start some time in the next week or so.

Hooray.

I will try to start the RP very soon, but for now here is the captain's character sheet:

• Name: Captain Richard Callahan
• Age, gender, species: 45, male, Terran human
• Appearance: Callahan is a tall, imposing looking man with black mutton-chops and piercing brown eyes. His skin is somewhat pale and clammy from being inside most of the time, as well as from stress. He is toned, and typically wears formal Terran navy clothing when not in a combat situation.
• Personality: Captain Callahan is, to put it simply, a hardass. Very no-nonsense, serious and to-the-point when it comes to the mission of the crew. He takes his job very seriously and is not likely to slack off when a job needs to be done. For this reason, some of his subordinates find him rather irritating to work with, especially his brother Rodger, who is his first mate. He has no love for the Filiidei, who he blames for his wife's death. Regardless, he is a man of culture who, when not focused on the mission at hand, can usually be found in his quarters with a book.
• Equipment/Belongings: Callahan always carries his datapad, as well as a Terran A-50 laser pistol for self-defense. In his quarters he has several bookshelves full of thick books, usually old pulp novels, and classic literature like Moby Dick. Finally he keeps a picture of his dead wife Adelaide, the love of his life.
• History: When he was 18, Callahan enlisted in the Terran navy and quickly rose through the ranks, primarily dealing with Filiidei incursions into Terran space. While in the military he met Adelaide Patil, a navy intelligence officer, and fell in love. They married and had a son, Donovan, but when his wife died in a sneak attack by the Filiidei, he became a stoic man. His credentials made him one of the top choices for being the captain of the experimental Alliance vessel Hermes. He is now a single parent for his teenaged son, who works odd jobs aboard the Hermes, and is fiercely protective of the boy.
• Specialization: Callahan is the captain of the Hermes.
• Combat Specialization: Callahan typically acts from the ship as a commander role, since as the captain it is often too dangerous for him to leave the ship. When he does get into combat, though, he uses his pistol, as well as proficiency in Gaquan martial arts.
• Trivia: Don't call him Richard. He hates that. He prefers to be called Captain Callahan or simply Captain.

edited 14th Feb '16 9:28:23 PM by AllHailThrall

• Name: 29079818241656 ^note  Her entire name is 29079818241656, batch 42124, crèche 45-A, but this is a bit of a mouthful, even in her own culture
  • As an ambassador, 29079818241656 usually adopts a name from that culture to help put aliens at ease. For the past few months, she has adopted the name Athena- the god of communication and orators- after spending time on Earth. She also answers to her full serial number or the common abbreviation 2907.
  • A/G/S: 20, female, Ummat
  • Appearance: Physically, Athena looks like every other Ummat, although that shouldn't be much of a surprise. She can be distinguished from other Ummats by the color and shape of her palm implant ^note red and hexagonal, which immediately identifies her as a member of the diplomacy/bureaucratic corps. When 'on-duty', Athena usually wears traditional diplomat garb; a simple jumpsuit .
  • Personality: Athena is still fairly young, and trying to find her place in the galaxy. Due to the circumstances of her early upbringing, Athena has sometimes doubted her own skills as a diplomat or orator. Nevertheless, she remains dedicated to upholding the principles and ideals of the Ascendancy... even if it means life-threatening circumstances.
  • History:
    • 29079818241656 was grown on Uuumaaa, in Garden 112; a mid-sized Garden chiefly used to grow and train low-ranking bureaucrats and civil servants. The moment she left her artificial womb, she and two hundred other clones— Batch 42124 — were enrolled into Crèche 23-F- an intensive training program designed to indoctrinate and prepare them for their future careers as colonial bureaucrats among the Fringe Systems.
    • At the same time, however, the supervisors overseeing the education of the batch noted that 29079818241656 was displaying a greater degree of autonomy and intelligence than was needed for a simple 'desk jockey'. The supervisors took the matter to the Garden overseer, who recommended a transfer. 29079818241656 would be transferred up to Crèche 45-A, a smaller, elite class dedicated to training the next generation of extraterrestrial diplomats, a joint venture between all three of the Families.
    • Following the completion of her training, 29079818241656 was transferred to Earth, where she served as a liason to the Earthen government, even purchasing an apartment in downtown Manhattan and developing an affinity for Earth culture. Following a few years on Earth, Athena and her diplomatic retinue were transferred into the growing Alliance, serving as the primary representative for Uuumaaa.
• Trivia:
  • During her stay on Earth, Athena developed an affection for various Earth television shows and commercials, although she occasionally has trouble telling them apart. In particular, she enjoys sitcoms.
  • Her favourite human sitcom is the historical docu-drama Seinfeld, which she firmly believes to be the most accurate depiction of life around the turn of the millennium.

• Name: 998849867356194 (Anax)
• A/S/G 50, Ummat, female
• Appearance: Being a clone, like every other Ummat out there, she's identical. Like most space-bound Ummat, she wears a utilitarian orange jumpsuit while on duty, and a slightly baggier jumpsuit when not.
• Personality: Considered something of an eccentric by Ummat standards, Anax is studious and introverted to the point of reclusiveness. Those who were grew up in her crèche note that she displayed an aptitude for multi-lingualism, Galactic history, and cartography.
• Equipment/Belongings: Her room is furnished in the sterile Ummat tradition; containing no personal belongings except for a lone datapad linked into the Ummat network, accessible only by her palm implant.
• History:
  • 998849867356194 was raied on a small Garden on Paunope, a prosperous little Middle System world within the Ascendancy. Born into a small, specialized crèche of starship personnel, Anax quickly grew into her designated role. Originally assigned to the seed-ship Rainbow Spore, she oversaw several early colonization efforts on the outermost fringes of the Ascendancy. Ummat navy, serving in various capacities aboard light frigates and the like. After a stultifying year patrolling the outermost sectors of the Ascendancy, her government rotated her into serving aboard the Hermes ,as part of a pan-species effort.
• Specialization: Communications Officer
• Combat Specialization: As part of her crèche training, she can use and maintain most basic firearms.

edited 17th Feb '16 9:49:34 PM by Locoman

Athena and Anax are Accepted.

The RP will begin in the next few days so hold onto your butts!

My first post will be ready very, very soon. In the meantime, have the ambassador-side leader:

• Name: Koruuna-met-Alassh
• Age, gender, species: 40-year-old female Ashkathi
• Appearance: 5' hunched. Grey skin, pale blue spots on the flanks and up the outer sides of the arms. Royal purple skintight outfit that reaches her lower thighs. Waterbelt around her waist attached to a small water pump on her back. Long fingers, elongated face, pale blue catfish-like tendrils on the back of head.
• Personality: Koruuna is sweet, but quiet and somewhat shy towards those who she does not know yet. Regardless of her initial shyness, when she has met someone that she trusts that is a loyal and stalwart friend. However, as an Ashkathi she can be somewhat stubborn about her beliefs. She is a hard-working individual with a strong drive.
• Equipment/Belongings: Aside from her waterbelt and datapad, Koruuna keeps several books written by her sons on her shelves in her office. In the Ashkathi embassy, her pet torra Kusi lives in the tank.
• History: Koruuna was born to the Alassh clan on the planet of Tehlana, one of the first planets colonized by the Ashkathi. From a young age, she was extremely sociable, and eager to meet new people. This eagerness to get out into the world led her into the field of politics, and she applied for a council so she could make a difference. She first got a job as a council member in her local town, then moving to the provincial level. So many of the Ashkathi of Tehlana were behind Koruuna, that she was soon being chosen for the prestigious role as the representative of the whole planet on the High Council of Larine. She accepted and took a shuttle to Larine, but before she could take her position, she learned about the Point Grace Incursion. It was the Day of Remembrance, the day that signified the horrors of the Point Grace Incursion and the tragic deaths that occurred on that day. After finding out about it, she asked to be put in a position where she could speak with other cultures and keep them in good standing, so nothing as terrible as the Point Grace Incursion could ever happen again. The Council decided that, due to her strong morals and her skill at her work, she would be given the title as ambassador from the Ashkathi Union to the Galactic Alliance. Eventually she even worked up the ranks to become the Chairwoman of the Galactic Alliance itself. She will serve her term for ten years before stepping down.
• Credentials: Most Ashkathi have trouble speaking the languages of other races, but Koruuna is a competent speaker of several outsider languages, including English and Fasil. In her short time as Ambassador, she has brokered trade agreements with several other planets, including the Ashkathi colonies of Andarr and Soskella. Under her tenure as Chairwoman, she was most in favor of Skalan entry into the Alliance. She is the High Council representative from Tehlana, and was in line to become Vice Minister of the Beyond, chosen for her quick thinking and willingness to aid others, even outsiders.
• Trivia: She's my PC from the old game.

The RP is now up!

This first post was probably god-awful.

Chillax, AHT, it was good.