Dervish

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@Deos Morran I am sure that hammer became your sole source of amusement. I got in the habit of ejecting cartridges and catching them midair, topping up the mag, and repeating forever. >.>

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Once in the army reserve, I was ordered to solo guard an outpost. Every unlucky sumbitch guard from movies and video games made me feel like I was going to have a fateful meeting with some asshole protagonist at somepoint.

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I got le busy because of a work course and what not, I'll get a post up after Aegon takes the distraction team to go knock on the door of the baddies and try to convince them we're Girl Scouts selling shitty cookies.

Back to studying math and shit. Wheeeeeee!

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@DervishOh trust me, I'm tracking. I work with a bunch of them. That's why I was basically saying that she'd be more effectively a Warrant Office in the essence she is an office who actually does stuff. Age variances aside...

@Deos Morran

Yeah, it's just for the whole age thing a warrant's kind of an off example, since if those guys were officers, they'd probably be floating around colonel in terms of experience and what not.

@Deos Morran If she was on Taetrus and if she was CQC she would most likely be part of the hastatim, those were the forces they used to clear buildings and fight insurgency. They're special forces as well. But they have a nasty reputation despite their essential role.

Civilians are former military though, they all know how to fight and serve as a militia in war. Not saying they wouldn't buckle eventually but they wouldn't panic like a human colony with mostly untrained civvies would.

@MrDidact

Those dudes are basically the turian Gestapo.

@MrDidact Wait so literlaly all Turians go through military training at age 15? I thought that was just an option they had... In that case I got some writing to do...

@Deos Morran

All turians are conscripted into civil service starting at age 15 and serve until they are 30, where they have the option of leaving their service. Most go into the military, but there's other stuff as well, like policing, medicine, administration, firefighting, etc.

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@MrDidact See that was kinda my thought on the officer thing and I was basically tying her lone infiltrator position as a sort of Warrant Officer tier or as like an officer of the Special Forces as in the real American Army... But of course this isn't the real world... or even with Humans... So maybe it would make more sense for her to be enlisted...

@Deos Morran

Just as a bit of info, warrant officers are basically the top of the NCO food chain, they're the guys who went up from private and climbed the ranks. Most warrant officers are lifers who are middle-aged and are the guys lieutenants turn to for experience.

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@Deos Morran Well I don't think any Turian could out-muscle a Krogan but a clever one can disable them if skilled and quick enough.

Aegon is good in melee but he's one out of like a dozen people.

Also keep in mind that the Collectors didn't attack any Turian colonies and that the Reapers were basically a myth until the war happened. Also she's a Lieutenant despite being relatively young and inexperienced in comparison to other Turians. It would make more sense if she got some officer training once she hit 15.

@MrDidact

I was going to make mention that weight and physical strength count a lot in a fight. It's why there's weight divisions in wrestling and MMA and what not; a welterweight would be absolutely destroyed by a heavyweight.

So, unless one were talking about using melee weapons like blades, then it would be more of an equalizer. Even Thane made note that he had to be careful when engaging with aliens because of their superiority in one way or another, plus the fact he's biotic gives him a bit of an edge.

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@Deos MorranYeah 5"2 is pretty gosh darn small, they're roughly around human height, although have less variance in said height.
A standard height for them would be around 5"8 for a female turian.

@Leos Klien

@DervishI know Turians are a bit taller but when googling info on females of their race all I saw was, "Are comparable to Humans." So I kinda figured Turian females were just shorter.

To be fair though a lot of this needs to be edited and I kinda have been passively. Like adding her rank, fixing typoes, etc. So I'm sure that will change... I just wanted to get something made so I could get feedback as I work.

@Deos Morran

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Standing at 5’ 2’’ and weighing in about 125 pounds Alria is a very lithe and thin woman who cuts a very strong and attractive figure. Her body is fluid and flexible and really the only blemish she has in a nasty gunshot scar on the left side of her hips.

@Deos Morran

5'02" is hilariously tiny for a turian. Turians are friggin' giants compared to everyone else for the most part.

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This Roleplay is gimme be huge with all these applicants o.o

@Leos Klien

"Gimme be huge" is arguably the most unintentionally amusing typo I have come across in a long time. :D

It's like a badly subtitled porno.

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”Oh, don’t worry about me, Anderson. I’ll do my part, I always do.” Rykarn replied, crossing his arms as the Spectre made his way down the list of people who arrived; it begged to question if anyone didn’t show up. Even if it was an oddball assortment that was already running into friction, it was still a small team as far as most operations went. That sentiment was only further cemented when the briefing was underway, elaborating that somewhere in the metro was some kind of Cerberus holdout; he’d never fought them himself, but Rykarn knew enough that the group was a big enough threat to the galaxy that they almost entirely sabotaged the war effort against the Reapers and managed to take the Citadel. It would be a good fight.

Ah, Cerberus. It must have been too much to ask for them to all politely die on Cronos Station, wasn’t it? Rykarn thought as Anderson went through the briefing, reflecting on the Terra Firma loving pyjak who made his feelings towards aliens well known not half an hour prior via beer bottle. Civilians complicated matters; they always did, but it wouldn’t be the first time they’d been in the line of fire. It mainly came down to shooting the assholes with guns and detaining the ones who didn’t; most people didn’t argue when a krogan was bearing down on them.

The words, ‘cause a ruckus’ prompted a grin from Rykarn. That was something he was very, very good at. It wouldn’t be a totally boring and delicate job after all. He was assigned to Partinax’s group, which was fine. The krogan knew he worked well with turian Spectres from firsthand experience, provided Partinax wasn’t a total pain in the ass. The rest of the team was rounded out; the fellow krogan, whom Rykarn suspected was more experienced than everyone else in the room combined, Ellis, who had apparently wormed his way into this secret gathering and was suddenly under the crosshairs, the drell who had seemingly missed everything so the krogan barely made note of him until he figured out who the hell ‘Giles’ was, the perpetually 5 years-at-heart asari that was the primary reason for the Specters being annoyed beyond words, and the turian who tried to buddy up to Rykarn from the get-go who apparently wanted lung cancer. This should be a clusterfuck. the krogan thought, slowly taking in his team and trying to figure out exactly what made most of them worth notice. He’d find out, soon enough.

Similarly gathering was Anderson’s team, and the batarian Ja’Far was chatting up the geth like it was an old friend. Rykarn found it rather pointless; geth weren’t people, they were programs that simply followed what whatever made them dictated they should do. The only difference between a VI and an AI was that AI were allowed to think on their own, but that didn’t mean they weren’t machines. They simply were more useful ones that learned on their own. It was part of why Rykarn didn’t hold a grudge against the geth for siding with Sovereign and the Reapers on a pair of notable occasions; they were simply doing tools that another master dictated. Now they traded in deep space monsters for physiologically frail aliens that couldn’t even put down an uprising of appliances and had to become a series of galactic vermin until Commander Shepard convinced them both their war was stupid. The fact it took a human to sort out three hundred years of animosity was almost embarrassing.

Then again, the exact same Shepard was the one who managed to create peace between the turians and the krogan. The salarians, however, could continue being spineless little toadies. Sometimes, the galaxy just didn’t make any goddamn sense.

Aegon lined out additional mission parameters, the no explosive rule ruling out his use of the Striker; although small and contained, a missed shot might destroy valuable intel via explosive charge. He appreciated the Spectre being pragmatic; the team came first, and if a civvie got caught up in a crossfire, tough shit. They were associating with the wrong people. After what Cerberus did, anyone who supported them were guilty by association.

When prompted for further questions, Rykarn shook his head. ”Won’t know until we get there. What do we do about people who surrender? We can’t exactly march out of there with two dozen personnel . Are we just going to detain them and call the local authorities to collect them when we’re done?”