Discovery: A Broken Galaxy
Space, the endless sea of stars of the night sky, has fascinated humanity since we gazed up at the stars. Ever curious what was out there and if humanity was alone in the universe. Which as humanity developed and as their attention shifted from the Earth to the stars. Starting with the colonization of the Moon in 2030 and later Mars in 2036. Did humanity find an answer to one age-old question.
For as the rest of the solar system was being colonized under the United Nations of Earth and ships were sent to explore and colonize Pluto. A crashed ship of alien origin was discovered. Estimated to be a thousand years old, and its discovery. Sparked a wave of excitement and drive to explore past the solar system.
The ship, while ancient, humanity was able to recover it and reverse engineer parts of the ship. Mainly, it's FTL Drive and led to the creation of the Argos FTL drive. Which enables ships to travel faster than light by entering a dimension called hyperspace. This started a wave of colonization as ships travelled and found habitable planets.
By 2180, humanity has expanded to twenty systems, and in order to properly manage these new systems. The United Nations of Earth reformed into the United Systems Federation or the USF. Starting a new age for humanity.
Under the USF in 2185, a new initiative was made to explore beyond the USF's borders and venture into deep space. Called the Pathfinder Initiative, under it, a new type of ship, the Pathfinder class cruiser, was built from scratch. Specifically designed for traveling in deep space for years at a time. After five years, the newly christened Arcadian was finally finished and would start her maiden voyage from the outer world of Kalos.
While the ship's mission is to explore and find other signs, and maybe make first contact with an alien race. The truth is that the crashed ship found on Pluto was only the beginning, and as the Arcadian explores the galaxy. The crew will discover that the galaxy is not what they thought it was, and something very bad has happened to the galaxy.
But whether or not the crew of the Arcadian can discover the truth of what has happened to the galaxy and survive where others have failed remains the question.
Rules:
1. Expected to follow standard site rules
2. No godmodding or powergaming or etc...
3. No OP characters
4. A max of two characters
5. Minimum of two paragraphs
1. Expected to follow standard site rules
2. No godmodding or powergaming or etc...
3. No OP characters
4. A max of two characters
5. Minimum of two paragraphs
Overview
Hello and welcome to the rp. In this rp, the year is 2190, and you will be playing as the members of the exploration ship, the Arcadian. The first of the newly created Pathfinder class and sent out to explore space beyond the United Systems Federation's space. Unaware of what lies beyond Federation space. So, just some hints of what the crew of the Arcadian will find. The galaxy has been through a cataclysmic event that left ruin and destruction. So expect ruins, space wrecks, and possibly alien groups descended from the few survivors left after this cataclysmic event, and perhaps more. Which the crashed ship found on Pluto was just the start of trying to figure out what had happened to the galaxy.
Now, about the player characters, people will play roles listed in the roles list below. Which you would normally be the head of that department role unless you do not wish it. You can play a role I did not list if it makes sense for a new role to be on the ship. So when making a character, you can add lore to the rp as long as it does not contradict anything that I have written so far, and I am okay with it. Which any role not filled by a player will be filled by an npc unless someone later joins and takes on the role. For character pics, go for drawn pics.
Arcadian
The Arcadian is the first of the newly created Pathfinder-class deep space cruisers. Housing a max of 500 personnel. Including support teams and a platoon of 50 marines. The Pathfinder has a hangar that houses up to four shuttles/dropships. Which shuttle is the Ranger class shuttle that is capable of entering and leaving the atmosphere of a planet. The Arcadian has several amenities available to the crew during their journey among the stars. Like two mess halls, a medbay, an engine room, an engineering station, two movie theaters, two bars, a gym, a hydroponics bay, a bridge, sleeping quarters, a meeting room, a laboratory, a training room, an armory, and an observation room. Along with defences like five railgun turrets, missile launchers, and point defence turrets. Which the ships has a superconducting magnetic energy storage battery that is semi-connected to the fusion reactor. In order to power the ship's weapons.
United Systems Federation
The United Systems Federation was formed in 2180 by the reformation of Humanity's previous government, the United Nations of Earth. It was formed in 2060 after the events of World War 3, which while not a nuclear war. Still caused damage to the planet and convinced the victors that a united Earth was needed unless another World War caused more death and destruction to Earth.
Though a young nation, the United Systems Federation is stable and is prospering. Even sponsoring scientific and cultural projects. Along with establishing the Pathfinder Initiative, whose goal is to explore space beyond the Federation's boundaries, and is in high spirits about the mission.
Technology
The noteworthy technology in the settings is as follows. FTL, magnetic weapons(railgun, coilgun, etc...), AI but limited, power armor, artificial gravity, cybernetics, stasis pods, and fusion reactors.
Though the Arcadian has more advanced versions of known tech, and acts as a test bed for more advanced technologies. Like a more advanced Argos drive, AI-assisted surgery, and sensors that can detect potential turbulence and gravity wells while in hyperspace and can detect structures or wreckages in either space or on a planet.
Roles
Commanding Officer - Mathis Lauzon - Theyra
Executive Officer - Alistair Kaelen Vance - UFRSivio
Chief Helmsman - Astrid Weiss - Starlance
Liaison Officer - Hiroya Suto - NPC(Can be replaced)
Security Chief - Alana Hall - NPC(Can be replaced)
Marine Commander - Major Kashvi Sikander Sadek - Penny
Chief Medical Officer - Richtofen Von Ludwig - Redking0380
Medical Staff, Prostheticist - Anna Kayleigh Rauss - Byte
Chief of Engineering - Douglas 'Hobby' Hobbs - Penny
Master Gunner - Oliver Collins - NPC(Can be replaced)
Signals Officer - Janika Leino - NPC(Can be replaced)
Quartermaster - Evie Lu - Cmmelody
Civilian Roles
Xenobiology - Jennifer Coles - NPC(Can be replaced)
Astrogeography - Madu Sleiman - NPC(Can be replaced)
Astrophysics - Dr. Martin Aster Schrier - Cyrania
Linguistics - Siti Khouri - NPC(Can be replaced)
Tegan Rees - ihinka
Xebotony - Lalao Borida - NPC(Can be replaced)
Geology - Miles Harris - NPC(Can be replaced)
Psychologist - Allison Rosealyn Sorens - Xandrya
Xeno-Archeologist - Janice Alastrina 'Alice' Knightley - Cyrania
Chemical Engineer - Wyatt Lei - NPC(To be replaced)
Neil Edwards(To be the head of Chemical Engineering) - POOHEAD189
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