No ship should go down without her captain.

Well, then, I guess this ship isn’t going down.

The USS Audacia is a Normandy-class ship running through the very edges of Union-controlled space. They’re just a scouting ship, they’re not toting lasers and torpedoes to the front lines, but what should have been a medium-stress operation just got a lot more tense: two days ago, Captain Catherine Ray vanished from the ship. After a top-to-bottom search, there’s no sign of the captain—there are no energy signals to follow, no hostile parties have boarded the ship, and even the dubious possibility of Captain Ray turning invisible has been ruled out. Tensions are rising as the crew searches for answers, but all that they have is a cryptic video message.

In a decision agreed upon by a narrow majority, Union Command hasn’t yet been informed of the incident. The Audacia is a pretty ramshackle crew, and they’re...at least fifty percent confident they can finish their latest round of missions without the Captain. All they have is a small list of short, simple, straightforward milk runs that will go off without a hitch, and no one will be the wiser when they get the Captain back without incident.

What could possibly go wrong?



HEY GUYS im here for the first time in several years, and i have a hankering for SPACE.

so, as the blurb above says, the basic premise is this:

• the captain of a space ship has gone missing
• the crew (the player) is, understandably, freaking out
• however, because the ship REALLY doesn’t need another reprimand on its record, they’ve decided not to tell anyone, and try to finish the latest mission before looking for their captain in earnest before anyone notices
• cue the panic, trauma, and shenanigans!
• think a mashup of mass effect (for the universe) and firefly (for the ship itself)
• there will be some short-ish missions for plot, plus the time in between, and then the overarching plot of the Search For Captain Ray!
• play any member of the crew you like!

sooooo...anyone interested in joining me on this wacky adventure?

Hey, interested. Are alien and robotic characters allowed?

Was thinking of a biotech/nanotech mercenary and ex-super soldier as the crew's muscle. Is this acceptable or not within the lore? What are the limits of nanotechnology and bioaugmentation in this universe?

interested!

I'd be down. Somehow finished the show a week before this thread was made haha.

Interested as well, already have a character in mind.

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!

Okay then! I'll write up a sheet, but basically?

Awesome. Anyone up for an alien navigator with no eyes?

here we go!
~USS AUDACIA - OOC~