Excuse me as I tuck this non Star Trek Related RP here for safe keeping till I can finish it's draft [hider=Toybox]Toy Story I know what you're thinking "Can I play Buzz Lightyear?" It's not that Toy Story This is a scifi story about war and survival mixed with an exploration of the meaning of life The two protagonist are a pilot Mech/Starship type who is paired with an Android who by definition loves them. They display either Romantic, Platonic and Selfless love but in the end all three mean that the Android puts its human companion first and will give up it's own existence to guarantee their companion's life. Toy Story [-] Siren Robotics was primarily a manufacturer of pleasure model androids till one of their developers invented the Triplex CPU system creating a droid which was suddenly able to blend three personality matrices into a single adaptive one. This allowed the Delta type to be autonomous from inception and activation. Designed to be the perfect companion system the Delta's three brains handle a different aspect of environmental and social interaction. The brains are coded Logic ( left breast), Emotional ( right breast) and Spurious Logic (center of the chest behind sternum) Spurious Logic is where the Primary personality is located and where the results of the two secondary brain's information is filtered through a Spurious Logic buffer to create the personality presented to the world. This series was so popular on their release that Siren Robotics had to license out production to other companies to keep up with the orders. Soon Deltas were performing jobs in almost every field of endeavor in which mankind was engaged. They were used as secretaries, observers and workers in dangerous locations and of course companions. Then they came, mankind had barely stepped beyond the bounds of their own system when he was attacked. These Aliens were huge and the technology that they had was unstoppable; that is till they encountered the Passing Fancy. The Fancy was only an asteroid mining ship and should have been squashed except for the fact that Citizen Rhinehart her Captain had made a few additions. The Fancy was a pusher type ship that located valuable roids and pushed them on orbital trajectory to be caught by Jupiter's gravity where there were other miner ships that paid the pusher a share for the mineral rights found in the tagged roids. The exercise of pushing was so complex a process that many ships spent 8 to 10 months plotting a flight course that system control would approve before they could even start the prize on it’s 2 to 5 year journey through the system towards Jupiter. The Fancy bypassed this with a modified Triplex brain system installed in Fancy a Delta that could plot the course in days. Fancy also served as the ship's XO and her Captain's companion; She was and still is his special girl. It was during a deep sleep cycle as the Fancy moved across the system that she began hearing disturbing reports of a strange craft attacking mining ships so she altered course for the swarm which was a deadly place where small but hyper fast roids circled in large arcs a small super dense planetoid named the Egg whose gravity kept them swirling. System control was trying to scramble some of its defense ships that normally hunted hijackers and pirates when they saw the Fancy enter the swarm and thought she'd be destroyed like the others of the mining fleet in her sector but what happened next was so confusing to sys control that they thought the ship had gone insane. The Fancy seemed to be randomly shoving rocks in the swarm rather than attempting to flee the enemy ship which was baring down on her. Then what she had been up to bore fruit when a pair of heavy nickel iron roids rebounded off one another like billiard balls in a trick shot contest. The enemy ship so certain of her victory over the Fancy never saw nor suspected the shot that killed her because as she was dodging the nickel iron roids without any trouble she failed to be prepared when the two struck two rock types causing them to shatter into a thousand pieces; those pieces acted like buckshot from a shotgun and peppered the enemy ship so badly it was dead in space and the Fancy was safe behind a large asteroid unharmed. The Fancy was called immediately to syscon and interrogated and when it was discovered that Fancy an AI with no military programs had stepped outside of her known programing and defeated an enemy that till then was considered unstoppable the brass was stunned. Suddenly all triplex systems were declared critical military assets and confiscated. The enemy ship was taken and it's systems studied and copied as well as improved on in some areas; Mankind was in it's very first interstellar war. Young men and women were drafted into the military and while in standard training tested with most found wanting. All but point five percent of humanity had the necessary mental speed, durability, make up and mind set; they became Companions. Companions are the elite of humanity, their names whispered with awe by the school children and adults of earth and the system because of the monumental task set on their shoulders. They attend a grueling school that has been known to retire some students as vegetables and graduate some as heros. RP INFORMATION Think Tanks These are special combinations of Triplex CPU systems that uses 9 Triplex CPU in unison that are programed for special uses. They can be found in Industry, The Military, The Diplomatic services, Research and Development Labs, The Sciences and other places were massive data crunching an collation are needed Confederation of Races The Confed is a large governing body made up of hundreds of Races but is primarily run by three races listed below. Set up like earth's UN but with greater power the Confed keeps the many races from being constantly at one another's throats or committing genocide They discovered humanity in the Hessian system which is about 30 parsec from earth and managed to avoid conflict with the unusual race Humanity. At first the discovery that we were not alone as expected was jarring to the human race as a whole. The military at first handled all contact with the overview of the Social services corps till it was decided by the combined military and social think tanks that earth needed a xeno-diplomatic service. The XD as they are called in official circles has their own dedicated think tanks and personnel; they are responsible for all negotiations with the Confed. The Confed it was found was having trouble with another group of extragalactic origins which it simply called Them who raided in what appeared to be a random manner. It was quickly revealed by the combined efforts of the Military, Social and Diplomatic think tanks that the raids were not random and were in fact predictable. These think tanks predicted that the next raid would happen in a human controlled system. The Confed feeling at that time superior to the Humans choose to ignore the prediction leaving the Earth's meager military forces as the only defense against the next attack. Using battle plans drawn up by the Military think tanks the Earth forces waited ready till the raider forces appeared in the predicted system, in the predicted time and with the predicted force strength. Even with such information at it's disposal the Earth forces still had to fight a desperate battle which would have been lost were the think tanks not there to supply the winning tactics. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Confed races B'larch - a race that appears human in many ways except for natural skin and hair colors which range from bright green to blue skin and bright neon colored hair. They are tall and slender standing a uniform 6 foot 4 inches on maturity with little variation. The B'larch are the highest tech race of the Confed and seem to also be interested in humanity on honest curiosity tainted by the White Man's burden Sanva - a reptilian race of large size (Some are 16 foot tall) that are vegetarian and herd orientated and the longest lived of the Confed. Some earthers say they resemble Iguanas standing upright. The Sanva are the most benign of the Confed races but have the most powerful military. Quint - a race of Hairless albino monkeys with prehensile tails The Quint are a tricky race enjoying putting anyone they may at a disadvantage to themselves. It is this trait that makes them hate the think tanks because of their ability to see through the Quint plans[/hider]