[OOC] Stargate Tempest - Maiden Voyage

[Sep]

^{I did not make this image, nor do not claim to have. The image was made by a former Roleplay partner of mine: Mallacore. All credit goes to him, for continuity please imagine H.M.S instead of USAF on the side.}

STARGATE TEMPEST

FIRST FLIGHT

The Americans have the George Hammond, Apollo, Daedalus, Odyssey and the newly minted Phoenix. The Chinese the Sun Tzu, Russians the Chekov and the Indians have the Rising Star. The United Kingdom as a important member of the IOA, one of the first major nations to know about the Stargate Project decided it was time that they gained their own vessel. Using the latest in human engineering and Asgard technology they designed the EX-307.

Designed for exploratory purposes it boasts the most advanced Human-Asgard hybrid hyperdrive to date. Faster in hyperspace and realspace than its predecessors, it also boasts extensive shielding systems. While not heavily armed, the combination of Human-Asgard weaponry, engine and shields make it a formidable vessel, in simulations the 307 is capable of winning a battle against a Ha’tak class Mothership or a Wraith Cruiser, largely in thanks to two Asgard Beam Weapons.

Her mission? To explore new worlds, find and study new technologies and serve at the liberty of Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom.

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Welcome! This is a Roleplay I attempted to launch several years ago, when I had a lot less experience than I do these days. In this roleplay we will be playing the cast and crew of the H.M.S Tempest, a vessel constructed and operated by the people of the United Kingdom, with some assistance from her allies - It is their first space faring vessel afterall. I want to achieve the good old Stargate feel, and have a story planned out that will follow a somewhat episodic nature. A season will last a total of six months, this time limit is just to keep the roleplay moving along and things flowing. At the end of this six months the season will end, and we’ll have a short break before coming back for a second. Players can play any roll in either the military or as a civillian researcher, allies of humanity partaking in the voyage will be reviewed on a case by case basis.

Episodes will be built in such a way that members of both military and civillian population will be required.

This roleplay is open to all! Stargate Fans and just general Sci-Fi fans. For those who don't know about Stargate - Watch this.

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Tempest Information:

The EX-307 is an exploratory vessel/Destroyer constructed by the people of Earth. Primarily designed and constructed by the United Kingdom. A full data sheet, as well as some cross sections can be found in the hider below.

Hider

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Rules:

I'm going to keep this brief.

1) I am the GM, I am here to facilitate the story and help you all have fun. If someone disrupts this, fear my wrath.
2) Play sensibly, this is a semi-realistic universe. If you mess up, you can die.
3) General Guild rules apply.
4) If you have a question, ask.

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State of the Galaxy:

1) The Tau'ri and Free Jaffa Nation are the two most powerful factions in Milky Way. Tau'ri through technology and FJN through numbers and strength.

2) Much of the Galaxy has rebuilt after the Ori Invasion, and there are several small coalitions as races advanced technologically. Many of these groups ally themselves with Earth. However equally many planets chose to remain independent.

3) The Lucian Alliance is still the biggest threat, through manipulation and distribution of drugs they control a large part of the Galaxy.

4) Realizing that taking out a criminal group is not as easy as taking out Goa'uld who like the spotlight the Tau'ri have created a Protected Planets Treaty with the Lucian Alliance similar to what the Asgard had with the Goa'uld. - This was officiated in 2014

5) One of the oldest races still in existence, the Tok'ra are still trying to find a way to repopulate their species as they are still lacking a queen and thus suffering from negative population growth.

6) Atlantis has returned to Pegasus, now under the command of Doctor Daniel Jackson. After the defeat of Queen Death there is a tentative Wraith/Lantean/Genii treaty. They also facilitated a treaty with the Vanir and Travellers.

7) Destiny has not been in contact since it went silent years ago.

8) While not yet public, the IOA is now preparing documentation for the Stargate Programme to become public knowledge. Due to a stable condition throughout the Galaxy.

9) The year is 2018.

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Character Sheet Template:
^{Feel free to take creative license with the CS}

All characters should hail from the United Kingdom unless a suitable reason is given. After all this is their first ship.

I'm hoping to form at least one away team of four members, who'll Collab a hell of a lot. Examples of roles on the ship are: CO, XO, Tactical, Flight Wing leader, science personnel.

On the away team, I'm willing for any of the previously seen configurations of between four and five members carrying a variety of skills.
[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Race:[/b]
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Appearance:[/b]
[b]Title/Rank:[/b] How are they addressed?
[b]Role:[/b] Their role/position aboard the ship
[b]Organization:[/b] What's their background? IOA, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force? Most civilians will be IOA contractors
[b]Skills:[/b]
[b]History:[/b]

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Any questions? Feel free to ask.

[Forsythe]

Can I have a Vanir crew member? I didn't (still) get around to the Atlantis books, I dunno how cold the relations are :S

[RumikoOhara]

Subbed

[Sep]

Can I have a Vanir crew member? I didn't (still) get around to the Atlantis books, I dunno how cold the relations are :S

@Forsythe

Potentially yes. Relations are alright. Just as always gotta have reasons. I was planning on having a Jaffa, in counter to my GM character Mr.Ioa man who everyone hates.

[mickilennial]

Title/Role/Organization could use explanations.

[Sep]

Title/Role/Organization could use explanations.

@Inkarnate

I hope you're happy.

I had to edit things.

SRS tho thnks.

[Sep]

I made a Discord link for anyone that wants faster communication.

[mickilennial]

WIP CS

Dr. Carrington

Name

Elizabeth S. Carrington

Race

Human

Age

32

Appearance

Dr. Elizabeth Carrington stands at five foot six – she's not particularly short, though she's blended in well enough among her peers. Elizabeth's hair is a bright blonde, though she often doesn't think all that much about it. Her philosophy on her appearance has been over-the-years; keep her hair out of her face with a ponytail, hat, or band. Her eyes by contrast are a dull gray-blue, and ever since switching to contacts her eyeglasses have long since been a distant memory.

Beth's particular style of dress is decidedly conservative, though very rarely formal or “dressy”. As an academic who has traveled the world working as a historian and archaeologist she has shown the nerve of someone who has been more than ready to get their hands dirty.

Title

Doctor

Role

Science Personnel

Organization

British Archaeological Association

Skills

While lacking a military pedigree, Dr. Elizabeth Carrington is one of the finest minds of her generation. Her expertise in language, history, and culture provides a very valuable role among the civilian members of the HMS Tempest. She has degrees from some of the United Kingdom's finest universities and has been proving herself as a noteworthy archaeologist and historian for a good amount of years now.

The flaws of having Beth serve aboard the Tempest are all pretty standard – her psychological profile while stable does make her difficult to work with and she has no real military experience. The bulk of her history with armed combat can be summed up as misunderstandings with hostile forces in zones of study. If given a firearm she knows to point it and pull the trigger, but has nothing in terms of honed reflexes or insight. Her specialty is with language, culture, excavation, and analysis.

History

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[RumikoOhara]

@Sep

Sandy

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Race: Human
Age: 30
Appearance:

Physical Statistics

• Height: 5’10”
• Weight: 11.2 st (157 lbs)
• Eyes: Brown
• Hair: Auburn (Short cut just off the shoulder)
• Body Type: Mesomorph
• Scars: Left Deltoid 3.5 inch knife wound
  Left Trapezius 3 inch stab wound
  Right External Oblique gunshot wounds 2
• Tattoos: N/A

Title:Lieutenant/Inspector/Dame
Role:
Organization: Army SIB/Interpol NCA
Skills:Linguistics, Lexicography, Forensic linguistics, Criminology, EMT, and Cognitive Neuroscience
Military skills: Logistics, Leadership, Combat Engineering, Small arms tactics, Counter Guerrilla Operations, Guerrilla Operations, and Light Aircraft
Physical skills: Endurance running, Advanced Open Water PADI, and Combat Tireuse Initiateur (1st level Instructor Savate)
History: Sandra was born in Leeds to parents who were killed in 1996 in the IRA Manchester bombing when she was 8 years old. Raised by a Maiden grandaunt who was 68 when Sandy was suddenly thrust on her the aunt eventually sent her away to Public school at 10 years old.

Holidays were spent with her aunt traveling the continent (France, Germany, Italy, and Portugal mostly) learning how to be a proper Lady as she mastered the local languages as insisted on by her aunt. It was a lavish lifestyle provided by her aunt in hopes that she’d follow her family tradition of public service in the Diplomatic corps.

Sandy was a good student and passed the Edexcel Pearson A levels by 15 and attended Cambridge where Sandy found she had an ear for languages as well as an eye for translation where she graduated with a Bachelors majoring in Linguistics and Lexicography at 21 and decided she’d do a stint in the Army hoping for experience in communications or public relations but in the logic of the Military was thought better suited in the SIB. What started as a desired to gain credentials in military service so as to make her a more desirable candidate for the Foreign secretary became a calling and may have been a permanent career except for her capture by Afghani rebels which lasted for only 7 weeks thanks to members of the SBS who raided the compound where she was being held; she was 25.

Wounded Sandy was cashed out to recuperate and spent her time expanding her schooling where she met and fell in love with an Interpol agent Dixie Lagrange who she had an affair lasting 2 years with and her joining the NCA.

It s was in the NCA that Sandy discovered her skills at analyzing languages and her time and training in the SIB made her an excellent criminal investigator and quickly rose to the Rank of Assistant Inspector.

Then 2 years ago she was working a case and found materials in a smuggling operation that she knew was a strange mystery that she couldn’t stay away from. She used her skills to make drawing of the symbols she’d seen on the devices and her intelligence connections online to research.

She was hooked when she made the first connections and dug even deeper finding odd sites that held other clues to the strange devices origins hinting that she was only seeing the tip of the Iceberg. Little did Sandy know but she was being fed Information as a sort of test and she was as always passing quicker than expected. Then a year ago she was asked to attend a seminar in London as a Forensic Language expert only to find she was the only guest at the seminar and it was actually a recruitment that had because of her skills activated her Regular Reserve status.

[RumikoOhara]

@Inkarnate
LOL Why do sometimes seem to think alike?

I'll have to say Sandy could be your Doctor's assistant, her skills are all basically at a Bachelor's some master's level

[mickilennial]

@RumikoOhara

I am not sure how an archaeologist with little-to-no combat experience and an Interpol agent have a lot in common. I just make characters that interest me.

[RumikoOhara]

@Inkarnate

Sandy is into linguistics but not on the same level

[Forsythe]

How's this?

Freya

Freya

“Ykcul tog tsuj uoy, diputs llits s’ti, skrow ti tub diputs s’ti fi!”

Race: Asgard
Gender: Female
Age: Too many to count, too many for her to care
Nationality: Vanir
Title/Function: Science and Engineering specialist

Appearance:

Like most Asgard, and one of the oldest, Fraya suffers from the same genetic degradation, and thus it is very hard to distinguish her from the other members of her species. She is on the short side, barely reaching over the waist of an average human.

Her face is a bit more angular, almost starved looking, with prominent bones and generally triangular shape.

She bears the standard implants of the Vanir race, one over an eye and one on the chest. Alongside that, she has a burn scar on her left arm, a remnant of a wound that didn’t warrant the cloning of a new body.

History:

At one point masquerading as a norse goddess of love, beauty, fertility and war, and the one who was able to re-weave the fates, she took more active role interfering with humanity from the start, just barely avoiding having the wrath of the council fall on her head.

When not messing with the development of human history, Frya operated in a science capacity for the Asgardian navy, eventually finding herself with a beliskner class of her own, modified to conduct deep-space scientific operations, which she promptly used to carry defectors along with the other Vanir ships to Pegasus.

Once there, she briefly worked with the Lanteans on the Arcturus project, before leaving for the fear of her own safety over the hazards the Lantean commander of the outpost was willing to take. She spent the rest of the war on her ship, until she was eventually hunted down and shot down over a gateless planet.

Lucky to have survived, Freya converted part of her crashed ship to a survival base. With the galaxy still scourged by the wraith and no means to provide sustenance, she chose to enter stasis, only waking up to conduct maintenance, and once every few centuries to check whether the wraith returned to sleep, and broadcasting a distress call with limited reach in hopes of a rescue.

Her labor finally bore fruit, when she was picked up by Atlantis reconnaissance team 9 that happened to arrive by the system’s space gate. Having been out of contact with the rest of the Vanir for so long and after her health stabilized during a short stay on Atlantis, she agreed to go to Earth to aid SGC with her knowledge rather than return to the Vanir, in exchange for being allowed to conduct a non-damaging genetic research with volunteers.

Her efforts were eventually rendered obsolete with the return of Ran, and while she waits for the result of that particular attempt to save her race, she offered her services on the UK’s science ship, something she has great deal of experience with.

Personality:

Like a lot of Asgard and scientists in particular, she initially looked at humanity with a degree of disdain not matched since Hermiod. After her trip to Atlantis though and finding it hard to argue with the results the Tau’Ri got while the Aesir were locked in a losing battle with a bunch of machines, she started treating them on more equal ground.

Freya eventually came to admire the human talent for what she calls ‘cost effective’ problem solving, as wella s the general ability to think out of the box, finding out that she can actually learn from them in this field, which lead her to interact with the humans more to study how they think. Hence, she is perfectly fine engaging even in idle chat, albeit she might not be particularly amused by it.

In a combat capacity, Freya is one of the worst offenders against the Geneva conventions, spending no time to deploy the most horrible weapons if it gets the job done with minimal casualties on her side. Like most of the Vanir, she is capable of fighting on her own feet as well, using an exo-suit.

Equipment:

Freya has a customized exo-suit developed during her stay shot down in Pegasus. Unlike the standard Vanir suit, it relies on heavier armor rather than various shielding systems. It also has massive sensor and scouting capabilities and an on-board scaled-down Asgard computer core, making Freya able to engage in heavy electronic warfare on the ground. It comes equipped with palm.mounted outlets for high voltage arc generators serving as short range and melee weapons, and shoulder mounted pods with weapons akin to the kull warrior plasma repeaters for mid to short range engagements.

Trivia:

Voice actor: Moira Quirk
Theme: Portal 2 OST - Reconstructing science

[Starlance]

Larry Pickett

Race: Human
Age: 34

appearance

Height: 167 cm
Weight: 70 kg
Hair: Black
Voice: Sean Chapman (Michael Sykes, Crysis)

Title: Major
Role: Military, Away team leader
Organization: Corps of Royal Marines
Skills and qualification:

• Leadership (company-level).
• Small unit tactics
• Mountain, arctic and expeditionary warfare.
• Rapid response.
• Communications technician
• Mountain leader officer

History: Larry grew up near Plymouth, in close proximity to the Stonehouse Barracks of the 3 Commando Brigade. After gaining his bachelor’s degree in electronics and communications at the University of Plymouth, where he also gained an advanced PADI qualification offered by the university, Larry joined the Royal Marines and passed the Potential Officers Course and entered the Royal Marines Officer training. During this time, he’s shown impressive endurance and an uncanny ability to navigate almost any environment.

It was for this reason he was approached after completing the training with an offer to take part in the Atlantis Expedition. The then-Second Lieutenant Pickett was sent to Atlantis via the McKay-Carter bridge and served in Pegasus between 2006 and 2009 as a member of Atlantis Reconnaissance team 9, a team focused on exploration and rapid response. In 2007, he was promoted to Lieutenant. When the Atlantis’ hyperdrive failed during the escape from Lantea and the city collapsed the shield to save power, his team leader was killed by vacuum exposure while escorting a pair of scientists trying to repair the city’s power grid. Command of AR-9 fell to Larry and he kept the post until Atlantis returned to the Milky Way to intercept the Superhive.

Following the dissolution and subsequent reformation of the expedition at the hands of the IOA, he did not return to Atlantis. Instead, in addition to the annual winter training in Norway, he took part in several exercises in Belize over the course of the year, gaining further experience with jungle operations. In 2011, Larry was sent to the middle east as part of Operation Herrick, adding arid environments to his resume and going on to serve several tours until the end of 2014 when the British forces pulled out of Afghanistan.

In the four years following the end of Larry’s involvement in Afghanistan in October 2014, he attained the Mountain Leader Officer qualification and was promoted to the rank of Major.

[Sep]

@Forsythe@Starlance I accept these.

[Heat]

Kellen Saunders

Dr. Kellen Saunders

Race: Human

Age: 30

Appearance: Kellen stands 1.83 meters in height, slightly above average height. His figure is lean, and his skin a fair shade. His medium length black hair is curly and often not styled. He is not usually clean shaven, often with some sort of stubble on his face. His eyes are dark green and over them he always wears a pair of eyeglasses. When at work in typical scientific environments Kellen wears fitted suit and ties in non-extreme shades of color often accompanied with a white labcoat.

Title/Rank: 'Doctor'

Role: Biologist

Organization: What's their background? IOA, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force? Most civilians will be IOA contractors

Skills:

History:

WIP

[RumikoOhara]

I almost forgot this....Pout