[b]The Setting[/b]

is Centares Academy. It's the jewel of the Royal Gryphon System, a solar system with 4 planets, two of them inhabited. It is every parent's dream from the Asteroid mines in the Outer Belt to the core cities of Gryphon itself that their child will be selected to attend the prestigious Youth Sciences School. After all, mechanical and medical discoveries from its fabled halls are used from Terra all the way to the Outer Colonies. There's even been talk of an "Alien Embassy" opening up from the Ghola species.

[b]The Story[/b]

Humanity's first colonies were established over 200 years ago, and the Gryphon system holds the honor of being one of the first solar systems settled. Gryphon itself is an earth-like world with a vibrant biosphere, and its sister planet Helsink, is a colder but still Oxygen-rich world. A ring of mineral rich asteroids on the outside of the system gives it a constant source of material to harvest. All three of these planets/regions are under the protection of Gryphon's Prime Minister and Parliament.

Gryphon has experienced an economic boom by harvesting its asteroid belt for precious metals while charging a tax for all goods shipped from the Outer Colonies to Earth through Gryphon's wormhole. Added to this is Gryphon's distinction of being the source of humanity's first (publicly acknowledged) contact with an extraterrestrial race, the Lemurians, almost 50 years ago. Their trade in technology has allowed their universities to become among the most advanced in Human space.

Meanwhile, the Outer Colonies, long a hotbed of violence and political division in the face of steep shipping taxes from Earth, have taken steps toward unification into a single political entity known as the Outer Alliance. Years of negotiating with Earth for relief from the importing of advanced goods has left the Alliance impoverished and wracked with plagues, civil conflicts and famine. Amidst all this, Laertes Gurn, the Consul of the Alliance, has threatened war with Earth if the taxes were not lifted immediately. Earth all but laughed in his face while Gryphon maintained neutrality.

After three months, life continues as normal for the students at the prestigious Centares Academy. The development of a new generation of Exo-Suits for civil purposes was well on its way to completion when the Royal Gryphon Army handed down a request for weaponised suits after negotiations went sour. With only three months to go and no licenses for hard weapons from the military, students have had to improvise their suits armaments and equipment for showing off at the annual thesis presentation.

Maybe next year you can build a REAL military exo-suit. You'll definitely have the time then!


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The Outer Colonies are tired of paying taxes to Earth and are threatening to invade Gryphon to seize their wormhole route. But whatevs, they've been saying that for months now. You gotta show off your project at school soon!
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[b]Characters[/b]

are students of the Royal Centares Academy. Whether their research is in medical studies or technical engineering, their yearly thesis projects were suddenly redirected toward Exo-suit research by the Gryphon Royal Military only a few months ago. You're on the way to a Live Testing Zone set up by the military just outside school grounds to test them out.

[b]Their Exo-suits[/b]

are expected to be no larger than 5 meters in height (think standard Iron Man suit on up to Hulkbuster). Weapons are to be of an improvised nature or experimental (lasers exist but most soldiers still use bullets). To introduce a level of chance, I'd ask that players roll a D6 whenever they use such experimental items, [b]writing in bold their actions and posting the number they rolled in[/b] (parenthesis) right after. On a 6, they achieve a monumental success. 3-5 is what they intended. 2 is a failure. 1 is a Catastrophic failure that should have very unpleasant consequences. This will work on the honor system but will be faster than waiting for a DM to write out the consequences, halting the RP in its progress.

[b]CS[/b]
Please post your CS here for approval, then in the Character tab once it's been approved.

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Name:
Age: (17-21)
Sex:
Appearance: Anime or Other image
Area of Study: 
Bio:
Secret: (Post "Approved" here after PMing me with a secret only this character knows, and doesn't want the other players to know, and I declare it to be OK for the story; it'll add another layer of fun to things, I think!)
Other:

Exo-Suit
Image:
Height: (Anything larger than 3m tall is considered too heavy for any sort of jump pack/jets) 
Fueled by: (Please note Renewable or Non-Renewable energy)
Experimental Tools/Weapons:
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[center][b]Approved Characters[/b]
~ I will be adding NPCs to this list over the next 24 hours ~[/center]

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[b]Name:[/b] Lily Faer

[b]Age:[/b] 20

[b]Sex:[/b] Female

[b]Appearance:[/b] [Coming Soon!]

[b]Area of Study:[/b] Advanced Starship Construction

[b]Bio:[/b] Lily is the biological daughter of the head of the Faer, Inc. starship docks, Lucius Faer and his partner, Steven Faer. Raised in a busy household, Steven nonetheless made time to raise Lily as a stay-at-home dad while Lucius managed the company.

At the age of 13 Lily showed interest in construction and chemistry, and Steven encouraged her to follow these interests in her schoolwork. While Lily's grades qualified her to enter Centares academy at age 15, she was not admitted for another year when an opening in the student body was found after another student was expelled for poor behavior.

Lily's yearly thesis project, the "Fusia" suit, was meant to be the newest in orbital construction suits that are used daily at her fathers' shipyards in space. This suit could be repurposed for planetside construction projects with its ability to carry heavy loads, jump jets for moving up to 50 meters, and a plasma-powered welding torch for cutting through thick metals.

[b]Secret:[/b] Approved!

[b]Other:[/b] Lily is a motherly figure to new students, having participated in the school's mentorship program for the past three years. She's also hyper-aware of any special treatment that may be awarded to her because of the business her dads run.

[b]Exo-Suit [i]"Fusia"[/i][/b]
Image:
[b]Height:[/b] 2.5m
[b]Fueled by:[/b] Plasma Cartridges (Non Renewable)
[b]Experimental Tools/Weapons:[/b]

- [b]Plasma-Powered Welder[/b] - Normally reserved for welding plates onto starship hulls in space, this welder could be overloaded to fire a blast of heat at close range like a flame thrower, or fire off a blast of hot plasma up to a distance of 30 meters.

- Adamantite Saw - Built to cut through heavy metal less than 1m thick. Keep out of reach of unprotected limbs!
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