welp, that's enough interest for me! i'll work on making the OOC asap. 

as far as alien characters: yes, allowed! in the OOC, there are a few specific races that the Union has allied with/shot at recently, so you can either wait for the OOC to go up, or you can make your own! just keep it within reason, i.e. no two-ton thirty-foot-tall death machines that somehow fit into the crew quarters. 

biotech/augmentation/cyborgs: also allowed! so slap a robot arm/leg/eye on whoever you want and call it a day. i will say this, though: while augmentation might give you a superstrong arm, or x-ray vision, or tools stored inside your fingers, it DOES come with disadvantages to even it out. robotic parts run on battery packs, mostly, and while these packs do last for several weeks under normal use, there is the danger of running out if you forget about it for too long. after the battery runs out, it starts running off of caloric input, and you get tired super fast and if you continue to use your augmentation a lot, you could even die. so RECHARGE! (on the plus side, the Audacia isn't exactly a normal ship with a perfect crew, so there's likely bunches of 'human-plus' crewmembers. go wild!)

robots/AI: im gonna go ahead and say that true AI hasn't been developed by the Union/isn't fully-fuctional/isn't cheap enough to just start mass-producing sentient robots. the closest you'll get to sentient AI on the Audacia is the ship's computer, but that may just be because she learned sass from the crew and is mimicking them. no one really wants to find out. in that case, completely robot characters, inside and out, are highly unlikely. sorry :(

to sum up: yes aliens, no robots, yes biotech, yes nanotech, yes cyborgs

i'll make another post when the OOC is done, hope to see you all there!