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Oh cool. While my first instinct was to roll with an electronic-warfare craft, EA-18G Growler style, I'm seriously considering running a Yuuzhan Vong coralskipper, with the appropriate storyline justifications as to why he's willing to fly alongside machine-using nonbelievers.

I finished my sheet. After making the pistol, I've realized that it might be a little OP.

Might wanna fix that then.

Sorry to fall silent for so long, that Backstory actually was still a bit WIP as I wanted to expand it, I already did just now though might expand it even further in the near future.

edited 30th Apr '16 1:28:30 PM by Sergey_Smirnov

Arik is approved.

I'm pulling very heavily indeed from the Star Wars Extended Universe (the old canon) and especially the New Jedi Order books. Unfamiliar events and terms should be researchable from Wookieepedia.

• Name: Riestvor Dom
  • * Species: Yuuzhan Vong, from the Star Wars Expanded Universe timeline, circa 42 ABY (well after the war). Ex-Warrior Caste, then Shamed/Extolled.
• Age: 43.
• Sex: Male
• Appearance: long black hair, pale-skinned, tall and muscular but with a nearly cadaverously-thin facial structure. Careful examination of his face reveals old long-healed scars and erased tattoos—the markings of the Warrior identity that he rejected. His right arm appears to have been wounded in the past, moving sometimes stiffly, sometimes with an unnatural range of motion. Medical examination would reveal that the arm is mechanical, covered in synthetic flesh.
• Background: "No. Riestvor Dom, the young warrior who flew his beloved fighter with such pride, died in the battle. Riestvor Dom, Old One-Arm, exiled, shamed, and now extolled, with a foot in either world, is another man."
  • Warrior identity: Prior to the Vong invasion of the galaxy, Dom was a pilot, flying infiltration, reconnaissance, and exfiltration missions from a long-range scout carrier in advance of the Vong main force. This gave him a higher degree of familiarity with mechanical technology than most other warriors (as the Yuuzhan Vong only used biotech, regarding nonliving tools as heretical), as well as encouraging his streak of independence and initiative. When the invasion began in earnest, Dom's tasking as part of the long-range scouts meant that he largely avoided participation in the great fleet battles, but instead took part mostly in skirmishes and raids, as well as miscellaneous ferry and escort missions.
  • Fall from glory: It was on an escort mission that Dom performed what he regarded as a feat of bravery and skill, the rescue of a crippled light transport full of Shamed Ones from a New Republic attack. Using his coralskipper's gravity generator, he managed to tow the much larger transport to safety while fending off opposing starfighters, though not without sustaining very serious injury to one arm. Post-battle, the arm had to be amputated—and, crucially, Dom's body rejected the transplant, marking him instantly as a Shamed One, no longer a warrior, despite whatever glory he might have earned.
  • Shamed One on Coruscant: for the next four years, the duration of the Yuuzhan Vong war, Dom lived among the fallen ones, the very bottom of the barrel; as far as his former comrades were concerned, he was less than dead. Still a warrior at heart, Dom tried his best to redeem his name, whether on one of the great worldships or on the conquered Coruscant—and when the warriors continued to reject him as cursed by the gods, he joined the heretical resistance against them. In the Coruscanti underworld, amidst a raging insurgency waged by the survivors, Dom pitched in against the Yuuzhan Vong occupiers, along with the other Shamed Ones who took up the Jeedai heresy (who looked to the Jedi Knights as their saviours). The resistance culminated in an uprising, concurrent with the Jedi-led counterattack, that destroyed the Vong command structure and brought the war to an end.
  • Post-war: Not content to rejoin his former comrades and oppressors in post-war life on Zonama Sekot, Riestvor Dom joined the galaxy at large as an itinerant adventurer and mercenary pilot. Leftover coralskippers from the war are easy to find, and while he will never completely fit in, there is plenty of room for a skilled pilot along the edges of the galaxy—even for an ex-Yuuzhan Vong.
• Personality: having been unfairly ostracized from his home society and finding his new purpose among the marginalized, Dom's independent streak has never quite faded. Rejecting the dogmatism of the Yuuzhan Vong and their opposition to technology, Riestvor Dom's bitterness has softened over the years, and he takes a newfound pride in molding unpromising recruits into warriors—but thinking, independent ones who will seize the initiative. As he will make violently clear, he is not a Yuuzhan Vong warrior: he is a warrior, who happens to be a Yuuzhan Vong.
• Personal Equipment: standard YzV personal weapons: thud bugs, amphistaff, breastplate and helmet (all living), in addition to a utility belt and survival pack (non-living): knife, rations, first-aid kit, water distiller, radio, et cetera. Mechanical right arm, acquired from contacts and friends he made while living in the Coruscanti underworld, covered in synthetic flesh, that can also function as an electrical power source if needed.
• Skills/Training: extremely skilled in close-quarters fighting, whether unarmed or with his personal weapons; a Vong warrior can go toe-to-toe with a Jedi and Dom is no exception. Combat trainer and guerrilla fighter: in the Coruscanti under-city during the occupation, Dom did a lot to train up Shamed Ones, workers, and non-YzV survivors alike to be more than just cannon fodder, a real threat to the under-resourced occupation force that he was formerly part of. Natural empathy of a sort with living things and biotechnology. Although he no longer regards mechanical and electronic technology to be inherently evil and in fact has developed an interest in it, he is still much slower to grasp their workings than a human.

yorik-et coralskipper.

• Role: short-range frontline combatant.
• Armament: biological short-range plasma cannon, x3. Powerful and has a nasty secondary effect: on a hit, the plasma will continue to melt through the target's hull.
  • Secondary: dovin basal point gravity generator. The coralskipper's main form of propulsion and defense all in one; the gravitic singularity generated functions both to drag the coralskipper through space and to act as a point-defense shield, absorbing enemy fire almost without limitation. Still, it's possible to fool or to overwhelm with fire from multiple directions—and the dovin basal cannot accelerate the fighter and defend it simultaneously. (During the Yuuzhan Vong war, Alliance fighter pilots discovered that rapidly firing multiple, divergent streams of weakened shots helped to counter the dovin basal: some would get through, and over time enough shots would add up to seriously damage the coralskipper. Long-range missile volleys also worked, since the coralskipper lacks guided missile equivalents. Finally, coralskippers lacked the capability to seriously damage capital ships. It's possible to jury-rig bomb releases to get around that, though, so long as the bomb can guide itself, since the coralskipper would lack any ability to guide the bomb.)
• Defense: dovin basal, see above, and the inherent toughness of the yorik coral hull. No energy shields; attempts at grafting a shield generator onto the coralskipper have all ended in failure.
• Maneuverability: very high indeed, so long as the dovin basal isn't working to propel or to defend the vessel. Think of it this way: the gravity generator can either defend, accelerate, or maneuver the ship, and do it very well, but only one at a time. It can switch quickly, but it's still a significant tactical limitation.
  • This also means the coralskipper is all but useless in atmospheric combat: unlike in space, the dovin basal is kept busy keeping the craft in the air, and is unable to maneuver it quickly or to shield it from incoming fire.
• Notes: while it's fairly easy to fit personal radios into the coralskipper's cockpit, any advanced gear like datalinks, or electronic sensors, are out of the question. Coralskippers were designed to operate with the yammosk tactical coordinators, communicating through gravitic waves: without them, they lose the ability to fight as part of a networked formation, except through voice radio—potentially a significant drawback. Finally, coralskippers lack FTL. Any mission requiring them to move between star systems will have to be adjusted accordingly.

edited 30th Apr '16 7:10:13 PM by SabresEdge

Riestvor Dom is accepted.

Pilot

• Name: Czeslawa Szymanska

• Age: 24

• Sex: Female

• Appearance: Tall, slim build. Flat gray eyes, brown hair to about her neck, cut fairly sharply. Numerous piercings in both ears. Wears the white and khaki undress uniform of a Silesian Confederacy Navy Sub-Lieutenant.

• Background/Personality: Czeslawa comes from a family of aristos on what could be generously termed a marginal world, one that's poor in wealth or resources but able enough to feed itself and maintain a not prohibitibely irregular trade balance. Left with few options other then enter an unattractive marriage with a distant cousin or live the life of dilleante, the active minded girl instead opted for the extremely unglamorous, but safely prestigious and possibly lucrative, commission as an Ensign in the Silesian Confederacy Navy. A larger star polity in the general sense, it is really more of a barely functioning alliance of convieniance between a few hundred settled planets. The Navy lacks any real strategic direction, is rife with incompetence, corruption, and outright rebellion. It limps along with outdated vessels and a poor, sinking tech level. Unwilling to compromise on her principles in dealing with the citzenry Czeslawa has only received a single cursory promotion before being tumped on an aging sub-light patrol vessel as its commander. Nevertheless, being the only Captain actually doing her job means that the crew's been its share of (mostly losing) fights with the local pirates and merchant raiders.

• Personality: Ill-tempered and fully aware that she's stuck in a dead end navy that she'll never see promotion in without bending the rules farther then she'd like, Czeslawa has a deadly sense of justice and fair play that has so far served her little in a region of space that frowns on honesty. On the other hand a constant worry for the health and safety of her crew means she's more then willing to declare the Confederacy Navy's bureacracy fair game.

• Gear/Equipment: A pulser pistol (railgunish), extra magazines, Skinsuit (a ballistic fiber-cooling mesh body armor/pressure suit with helmet and life support pack), pilot's kneeboard, pens/pencils, camera, "Pointee-Talkie" dictionary English-Polish-Russian-German-Chinese

• Powers/Skills: Czeslawa's a veteran, used to operating on the fringes of a crumbling nation that has little to spare for its military, forcing crews to scavenge, confiscate, or outright steal needed supplies. Her crew has a great deal of personal respect for her ability to command in battle, in fact much more then they have for their superiors or their star nation. Beyond that, she's a practiced small-arms shot and moderately accomplished recreational swordswoman. Published poet and author of literary analysis and critiques under pen names.

Fighter Craft

• Name: Mazur-class LAC, SCN LAC-1664
• Role: System Defense, Customs patrol, planetary defense
• Appearance: [1]◊
• Weapon Systems:
  • 4x6 Cell Missile Launchers: Four six-missile replaceable box launchers, the Mazur-class only has enough uplinks to control one salvo to target at a time. Too light to do much damage to an armored capital ship, OK against light combatants and fighters.
  • 2 12cm lasers: Light anti-ship weapons that double as point-defense mounts. One million kilometer effective range against unshielded targets, 500k against shielded targets. Fired in pulses. Unable to scratch armored vessels or capital ships but good against light vessels.
• Defense Systems: Sidewalls and wedge; former are generated to fill the space between the two impereable angles of the impeller wedge.
• Maneuverability: Excellent attitude maneuverability but lacks faster then light capability.
• Notes: Carries a crew of fifteen; three officers and twelve enlisted sailors.

Czeslawa Szymanska checks out. Approved.

I'll be posting my own fighter eventually.

edited 30th Apr '16 6:51:09 PM by EchoingSilence

I've a feeling that distances and relative strengths are going to have to be adjusted for the game, considering that the Honorverse considers 500,000km "close range" while Star Wars considers 1km to be the range of starfighter guns.

Most likely. Everything is going to be brought down to 5km at max.

Movement maaaay be a problem too, vis the same comparison across series for acceleration/speed.

Well what would you suggest then for a maximum speed?

It's more that movement in the Honorverse is more about acceleration/velocity then it is about speed, since all vessels top out at the same speed. I'd say how it works across series is up to you, I'll accept whatever decision.

Don't give hard numbers, or alternatively just use arbitrary measurements instead of kilometers/hour?

Note: If you are tempted to bang your head on your table by trying to read all this, I suggest taking one deep breath and taking a goddamn break.

Additional Note: There may or may not be some grammatical errors here, and it's hard to keep track of them all due to the immensity of my project. For the love of all that is good, please point a spelling error to me if possible.

Note: No, Lord Weldrick is not really the pilot of the Melpomene, but he is the commander of it. There are many as 10 pilots that control the 10 units of the starship.

In the maneuverability section, is Turbo allowed? Set the maximum amount of seconds that I can use for it, and set the recharge limit for that too.

Note: Enter the crewmember profiles at your own risk. As if not reading my previous entries were not a pain in the ass enough. I like giving my characters a lot of color to them, and I'm not saying this lightly. And by the way... I'm only going to use each character once in a while... even with that my posts in the RP would be long.

Note on crewmember profiles: Ragtag Bunch of Misfits. Fought a demon war for 20 years straight? Quite common. Burned a church full of priests? Been there done that. Got your entire body replaced by machinery? Yep. Life has put a sword up your ass and ripped your balls off? Pretty much. If you're a weird fellow, then you'll be sure to feel right at home here!

Melpomene Theme: Dimmu Borgir - Sorgens Kammer (Because why the hell not?)

WORK IN PROGRESS, JUST NEEDED TO POST THIS SO I CAN SAVE MY FILE. I kind of have to sleep now because I decided to join this RP late.

edited 9th May '16 12:14:56 AM by Victor_Skye

It does look honestly interesting. If a bit big for its size.

I'm going to add more info about the characters, the backgrounds, the personalities, the religion, the planet, the culture......... ... .. . . .. . Yeah.

Well, in case I've took too long already, just start without me.

It'll be another little bit before we start. I still need to figure out what Fighter I am going to use.

I was referring to the size of the ship being a bit big.

edited 2nd May '16 3:36:03 AM by EchoingSilence

Individually, they're pretty small, but when put together they're MASSIVE for a fighter.

So should they be like 2 meters tall, 5 meters wide and 5 meters long for each unit. Because if you multiply that by ten (because there are ten units) then you get something that is 2 meters tall, 5 meters wide, but 50 meters long.

It's smaller than Sergery's fighter though...

..... I've taken one look at the enormity of the project and I've undertaken and I've resolved to do something else until I get my head cleared out...

I think I've written out a few pages on a notebook already so I have all the ideas in my head.

edited 2nd May '16 3:56:21 AM by Victor_Skye

I didn't know the craft was made of multiple pieces. Probably shoulda looked harder. In that case everything seems fine so far.

Btw, is a Co-Pilot/Rear Gunner fine if I add his Bio and stuff?

Here comes a big one...

Pilot

Name: Keagan Flori

Age: 32

Sex: Male

Appearance: The beard of versatility.◊

Personality: Keagan is a calm, jovial man. He's friendly, though a bit reserved. He's also extremely welcoming of learning new things, and isn't very stubborn. He's the type of guy you'll hear cracking a joke in tense situations, acting extremely causal about it. He has an obsession with machines. Fixing them, using them, you name it, he'll love doing it...within reason, of course. He's also rather humble. However, he tends to be too casual for his own good, and just doesn't know when it's the right time to crack a joke or get serious.

Background: Keagan grew up on a Mars colony, to a relatively (for the colony) well-off family. Despite the comforts that his life could afford him, Keagan loved to get down and dirty in mechanics, such as fixing up machines and such. However, he was also a man who loved knowing how to do things, and would often be found buried in books, busy with some new hobby, or what have you when he wasn't busy fixing up machines. He was recruited by the United Earth-Martian Military (UEMM), and placed in the Engineering Corps. In his new position, he received basic combat and pilot training, only to find himself waking up in this strange place with a Maverick-S and the four additional Frames for it, along with his toolbox. He's not complaining, so long as he gets to work as a mechanic.

Gear/Equipment:

• A toolbox with all the specialized tools he'll need to change frames.

• A basic blaster pistol

• Flight suit.

Powers/Skills:

• Ace Mechanic:Keagan is one of the best damn mechanics ever. He can perform miracles on machines with nothing but a toolbox.

• Versatility:Keagan has a knack for learning how to do things he doesn't know.

• Calmly Analytical: Keagan's cool-headedness lets him think much more clearly in stressful situations.

Notes: Anything you feel the GM should know that wouldn't fit in any of the categories?

Fighter Craft

Name: Modular Armored Vehicle Scout Frame (Maverick- S(cout), for short)

Role: Scouting and light recon

Appearance: Bare bones◊

Weapon Systems:

• 2x Hermes Laser Blasters: Under the wings. They're very weak, even with full power being diverted to weapons.

Defense Systems:

• Guardian Missile Jammer: Causes missiles to veer off course once they reach close range of the Maverick. Extremely taking on power.

• Apollo Long Range Radar: Much longer than the radar scanners of most other non-scout vehicles.

• Artemis Cloaking System: This cloaks the Maverick from electronic means of detection. The enemy can still see him if they bother to look out the window. The cloak lasts for about a minute.

• Armor:The S-Frame armor is extremely thin to facilitate the high speed craft. High caliber machine gun fire can rip it to shreds in minutes.

• Power System: Being the base frame, the Maverick - S has a the most amount of power to use. The generator is extremely powerful to facilitate the use of powering the other, more bulky frames and electronics without having to constantly switch generators.

Maneuverability: Able to perform a 180 turn in about 1.5 seconds, and a barrel roll in 1 second. Capable of FTL travel for long distances, and is generally extremely fast in both space and the atmosphere.

Notes: The S-Frame is the 'unmodified' Maverick model, and functions as the base for the other Frames.

Fighter Craft

Name: Maverick - A(ssault)

• Role: Anti-Fighter

• Appearance:The first battle-ready Frame.◊

• Weapon Systems:
  • 4x Hermes Laser Blasters: Not as weak as the S-Frame due to specializing the power flow for the purpose of actual combat.

  • 2x Gladius Missile Launchers: It loads and fires any standard heat-seeking, or dumb-fired missiles.

• Defense Systems:
  • Armor:The A- Frame has slightly thicker armor than the S- Frame, able to withstand most small arms fire.

  • Shield Generator: The shield generator is optimized against energy weapons such as lasers. It will take prolonged continuous fire to deplete it using such weapons. Against other weapons such as missiles, it's merely decent, though explosives have a nasty habit of ignoring part of the shield with their blast.

  • Power Generator: The A-Frame, while certainly holding less power than the S-Frame, still has way more than enough for its systems, facilitated by removing the electronics from the S-Frame.

  • Athena Combat Radar: The range on this radar is shorter than normal, but is extremely precise and accurate in depicting the movement and position of all those in range.

• Maneuverability: Able to perform a 180 turn in about 3 seconds, and barrel rolls in about 1.5. Due to the heavier frame, it's noticeably slower than the S- Frame. It also lacks the FTL capability.

• Notes: Only one Frame can be used at a time, and Keagan must have sufficient time to install the frame before deploying.

Fighter Craft

Name: Maverick- B(omber)

Role:Anti-Ship

Appearance: Ready to blow big ships up.◊

Weapon Systems:

• Hephaestus Laser Cannon: More powerful than a Hermes blaster, but fires much more slowly. It's really just so the B-Frame can have some measure of defence against fighters and interceptors.

• 2x Lancer Plasma Torpedo Pods: Designed to ignore shields and deal direct damage, these plasma torpedoes have a short range before fizzling out, so the B-Frame must get in close before firing.

• 4x Ares Target-Guided Missiles Pods: These missiles are not ordinary missiles. Rather than acquiring a lock or using seeking properties, these missiles are given a target on a surface, and all missiles in a pod are then fired at once. Each pod holds 10 missiles, and each can be assigned their own target. These missiles will then use onboard computers to home in on that target, enabling them to overcome most countermeasures against common missiles, such as flares or jamming, since the target coordinates are contained on the missile itself.

• Minotaur Ramming System:This specialized piece of equipment allows the B-Frame a quick burst of near-light speed in order to ram a hole into a ship with minimal damage to the B-Frame itself. It also contains the requisite thrusters to allow the B-Frame to reverse.

• Zeus Plasma Bomb Array: These bombs function exactly the same as the Lancer plasma torpedoes, though they are dropped rather than fired. This array drops 3 bombs with a 1 seconds delay between each bomb.

Defense Systems:

• Armor: The armor of the B-Frame is incredibly thick to withstand a continued assault from smaller fighters, as well as a few of the bigger guns from the ships it's made to take down. However, this armor is extremely heavy, and slows the B-Frame down.

• Shields:The shields of the B-Frame are focused entirely on the front, leaving it vulnerable to attacks from the side, back, above and below.

Maneuverability: It can do a 180 degree turn in about 5 seconds, and a barrel roll, when required, in about the same time.

Notes: As usual, only one Frame can be used at a time.

Fighter Craft

Name: Maverick C(ommand)

Role:Combat Support, Electronic Warfare, Drawing Fire.

Appearance: It's the last one.◊

Weapon Systems:

• 2x Sif Laser Turrents: Same as the Hephaestus Laser Cannons on the B-Frame, but following the D and C-Frame's Norse naming concept rather than the Greek pantheon.

• Heimdall Missile Launcher: This launcher fires standard heat-seeking missiles with medium range.

• Yggdrasil Laser Designated Electronic Warfare Turrent: This turrent is outfitted with just about everything one would need for hacking into the systems of ships, though it requires constant tracking of the target itself, making it less effective against smaller ships. In addition, the turrent requires 5 minutes between each use on the same ship, and can only temporarily shut down one system , such as weapons, targeting, engines or shields, in that order of difficulty, at a time for 3 minutes.

Defense Systems:

• Loki Jamming System: This system allows the C-Frame to target up to 2 missiles and jam them, causing them to veer wildly off course. It can also be used the jam the radars of any enemy ship out to long range, though it cannot jam missiles while in this mode.

• Shield Generator Array: Using this enlarged, more complex array of shield generators and projectors, the C-Frame is able to fortify the shields of friendly ships smaller than itself that are nearby. It also provides good protection to the C-Frame itself from a myriad of attacks.

• 2x Eir Field Repair Stations: Contained in the two cargo bays that also function as fighter bays, the Eir is able to rapidly repair minor damages to any fighters housed within using fast-acting repair nano-bots. It's not as good as a proper repair, but it'll keep the fighters held together.

• Armor: The C-Frame has armor capable of withstanding multiple missiles and sustained fire from smaller weapons such as lasers and machine guns with little damage. However, this is also why it's incredibly heavy and slow.

• Freya Radar Array: This powerful radar array has slightly longer range than your standard radar, more accuracy, and is able to transmit the data to allied ships as well.

Maneuverability: The C-Frame is extremely large, about as large as a corvette, and moves at only slightly faster than capital ship non-FTL speeds. It can't perform acrobatics such as barrel rolls, and if it really needs to turn around instead of using thrusters, it takes about 10 seconds. It moves like a brick, in a nutshell.

Notes: The ship can hold two fighters in it's repair station cargo bays.

Fighter Craft

Name: Maverick D(estroyer/)

Role:Heavy Combat Fire Support, Long Range Assualt.

Appearance: It's the third one.◊

Weapon Systems:

• Overcharged Destructive Ionized Neutron (ODIN) Beam: The most powerful weapon available to any Maverick Frame, this gun takes a a whole load of power to charge, so much that it requires shutting down all other systems except targeting and life support during the minute charging phase, as well as 5 minutes to recharge enough power to activate it again. During the first minute of the recharge phase, the ship is left completely defenseless, since it has to gather up enough power to reactivate all systems. However, it can punch holes through the armor of capital ships when fired, and has a powerful effect of being able to partially ignore shield defences. It's a high-risk, high-reward weapon.

• 6x Magni Beam Cannons: These long-range beam cannons fire slowly, but the beams themselves are much wider than lasers, and a lot more powerful.

• 2x Tyr Swarm Missile Launcher Pods: These pods fire a salvo of 10 missiles. These missiles have very weak homing, are less powerful than full sized missiles, and tend to fly around wildly towards their target.

• 2x Heimdall Missile Launchers: The same as that mounted on the C-Frame.

• 3x Thor Long-Range Cannons: These are the turrent-affixed barrels, able to fire either normal artillery shells, or flak shells. Without someone actually manning the turrent, it fires slow enough to be considered artillery.

Defense Systems:

• Armor: The D-Frame has thinner armor than the C-Frame, so that it can actually move instead of being stuck floating in space.

• Shields: Due to the excessive power requirements for weapons, the shields of the D-Frame are a lot weaker than the C-Frame.

Maneuverability: It's even slower than the C-Frame on account of all the weapons. Even with thinner armor than the C-Frame, it moves at capital ship speeds.

Notes: Someone can man the turrent in order to increase the firing rate of the Thor cannons.

edited 3rd May '16 11:36:54 PM by UndyingPhoenix

No background but everything else is accepted, the modular ship also works with the fact that there is a large battlecruiser that will carry all the smaller ships so the hangar can be used to alter it.

So I guess I've got a couple of ideas I'd like to try using (A, B, C and D).

Just need to pick one and spec out a pilot.