[b]Name:[/b] Astra [b]Nicknames:[/b] To be determined [b]Position:[/b] Science officer [b]Species:[/b] Faira [b]Gender:[/b] Female [b]Age:[/b] 70 [b]Appearance:[/b] [url=https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1LOsmmZA2jxTp6owXod3YGQ0euUgp45L91Ql0OjcjCMg/edit?usp=sharing]Pic[/url] [b]Height:[/b] 198 cm [b]Weight:[/b] 55 kg [b]Apparel:[/b] - Special occasions: A Faira dress uniform with the rank of specialist - Otherwise: Powered exoskeleton armor. Circa 2 cm thick, augments her strength to handle up to 7Gs. It has a rather oversized helmet to accommodate her antennas. [b]Weapons:[/b] Laser sidearm, wrist mounted plasma blasters on the exosuit. [b]Equipment:[/b] - Exosuit -- Shielding: As far as they’ve seen, Faira possess the best shielding of any race. The suit version forms a bubble around her and is capable of withstanding quite a beating, however, the miniature version can only sustain fire for about two minutes before overloading and requiring five minute cooldown. -- Scientific gear (Suit ‘backpack’): Anything a scientist could need, including mechanical tools, pocket spectroscope, a computer and samplers. -- Suit AI: Based on organic computing, Faira AIs can be very helpful with the menial tasks like calculations and running equipment, however their intelligence does not reach that of their creators. [b]Skills:[/b] - Knowledge in any field of science. Due to her species’ natural intelligence and being lucky enough to survive this long, she had ample time to study the universe - Fast learner [b]Weaknesses:[/b] - Extremely fragile body. A punch form a human can potentially be fatal - Can be incapacitated by sensory overload at times - Terrible healing [b]Powers:[/b] - Extremely intelligent - Can survive on raw materials for food - Resistant to heat, radiation and chemicals [b]Likes:[/b] - Warm places - Games of wit [b]Dislikes:[/b] - Loud noises, potent smells, unannounced touches [b]Fears:[/b] - Being injured [b]Personality:[/b] Despite being a scientist, Astra is not nerdy, although she can enter a ‘walking encyclopedia mode’. She is friendly unless someone is a complete douchebag and quite tolerant. Do not anger her though, because her revenge will be carefully planned and executed flawlessly, resulting in your humiliation in some, albeit childish way. [b]Biography:[/b] Born as a daughter of Fleet Admiral Cygnus, Astra had high hopes placed in her. She was given the best education possible due to her above average intelligence, even for her own race. Pretty soon she climbed through the Faira academic ranks, inventing many great things, including the superb shields of Faira ships. She also had a hand in designing several classes of their warships. As a member of a species that only recently made contact with anyone else in the universe, Astra is curious about everything. Of course, when the opportunity presented itself to learn from and about multiple species, she requested from ehr government to be assigned to the Durendal. Despite not really wanting to let one of their top scientists throw herself into danger, the potential gains in the end outweighed the risks and she joined the forming crew. ---------- [url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C-lpIXOjo6RPJ0LOaK_qCXk5MsQsybfhF5JM6KSOkxo/edit?usp=sharing]Wall of text detailed description[/url] [b]Species name:[/b] Faira [b]Appearance:[/b] See Astra’s profile [b]Powers:[/b] - Heat, radiation and chemical resistance [b]Strengths:[/b] - High intelligence [b]Weaknesses:[/b] - Fragile constitution [b]Age scale:[/b] Up to 250 human years [b]Culture:[/b] The Faira are a matriarchal society. To an outsider, they might even appear monogendered. Being busy with their own survival throughout pretty much all of their existence, Faira developed little to no culture. What they have serves mainly for education, such as documentary movies or literature. They prefer to relax physically in their free time rather than seeking food for the mind. There are facilities on each larger ship that are built to simulate their native environment, which they enjoy deeply as the environment they can maintain on their ships is vastly different, and while habitable, not at all pleasant to them. Due to their frail nature, no competitive sports ever existed in Faira society, instead replaced by multiple games of skill and wit. The favorite is a simulation game where a player takes the role of a god and guides a selected civilization on it’s development. As far as design goes, Faira are fond of shades of red and metallic grey for colors. Their buildings used to have large flat bases with spires towering form them, something that carried over to their ship designs, which are generally flat slabs with functional parts mounted on them rather than integrated into the design itself. Faira do not wear clothing in the usual sense - due to their fragile nature, they took up to wearing powered exoskeletons with protective abilities. Only high ranking officers and diplomatic officials wear uniforms normally, most others only taking them on for special occasions. [b]Homeworld:[/b] [i]Systems:[/i] Faira nebula (Current) - A hostile gas cloud that is full of radiation and storms that generate strong EM pulses. The faira can only survive here because of their state of the art shielding systems. In return, they are nearly perfectly hidden within the nebula, as it interferes with most sensors and the visibility is very low. A remnant of a supernova, the nebula is rich in gasses, but the only source of ores are the remnants of one planet shattered into a tenuous asteroid belt. In the middle is a neutron star - the source of the deadly radiation. Faira (Formerly) - The Faira star was a red giant that was at the end of it’s life by the time the Faira species reached into space. Evolving in this system gives the Faira high resistance to heat and their sense of sight is most sensitive to the red part of the spectrum. The Faira can see the part of the infrared spectrum as well, essentially granting them heat vision. [i]Inhabited planet(s):[/i] Faira’Erea (Formerly) - The planet was the closest one to the star by the time Faira evolved. The planet’s life was based on organic silicon, and the Faira are no different, while the crust was also rich in iridium, iron and carbon. Copper and aluminum were practically nonexistent. Faira’Erea’s gravity was about 0,8 of Earth’s and the planet had no day/night cycle or satellites. The atmosphere was composed mostly of oxygen and nitrogen, and the planet had no hydrosphere. Space nomads (Current) - The Faira now live on spaceships, searching for a planet that would accommodate them. The trouble is that the Faira evolved on a relatively rare planet under even less likely circumstances. It is likely they will forever be condemned to living in space, but they are adaptable people. [b]Rarities[/b] - There is only a million of them - The only ones you’ll come into contact with are females - Faira live on spaceships [b]Government type:[/b] Military junta / Socialism [b]Strength:[/b] Pretty much the smartest and most adaptable people encountered [b]Backstory:[/b] The Faira have evolved on the planet they call Faira’Erea during it’s sun’s last phase of life. As such the life form evolved to a very specific set of conditions. Due to their rather extreme intelligence, they were able to study their star quite early in their technological development. Realizing the threat, they pooled all of their resources in a last ditch effort to escape their untimely destruction. It was in the nick of time that they discovered an ancient wreck on their planet - a relic ship left there by a civilization long extinct. Through examining the relic, they managed to learn about the jump points that link star systems together and reverse engineer the FTL drive, along with some basics of shielding and most of all weapons - a concept alien to them thus far, as the Faira didn’t have time to wage war if they wanted to survive. Seeing the evidence they might not be alone in the universe though, the Faira prepared for the eventuality, and although their escape plan only involved what would come to be known as the Exodus fleet, they came up with blueprints for warships and modified their harbor ship accordingly. Leaving just in the nick of time, the fleet managed to get through the only known jump point in Faira just as the star begun to collapse. The initial plan called for the Exodus fleet to find a suitable planet and then evacuate more of the Faira. Instead, they found themselves in a very unfriendly nebula, with the jump point collapsing behind them due to the supernova on the other side. Now exiles without a home and threatened with extinction, the Faira were forced to take extraordinary measures to ensure their species’ survival. The military took over with the captains of the six ships taking on the roles of the governors. Strict birth control was established and most of the socialistic laws from before the exodus like healthcare for the disabled had to be removed. Under the new circumstances, their economical system simply couldn’t continue. Thus the Faira adapted socialism out of sheer necessity. After a few rough decades, the situation stabilized. Now with sustainable population, the Faira begun developing new technologies and building more ships that would allow them to expand into new systems and hopefully one day find a new home and return to their former glory. They made first contact with the humans by jumping the node between Faira nebula and Sol that is anchored between Earth’s and Venus’ orbits.