Guess Who

Starfire

Hey @DoktorSchnabel, @poog the pig, @Abillioncats, and @Zendrelax. Just wanted to make sure you're all interested still since you did post in the interest check.

Starfire

Alright, I almost used beaming tech to aid Stephen's escape from Pegasus, thinking the space station would be like DS9, then it occurred to me that we might not have tech like that.

Does that mean we can't have a holographic Doctor like on Voyager?

Also if force field are expensive enough that you only find them on big ships does the same apply to energy shielding?

@Prince of Seraphs

You can have The Doctor and energy shielding if you want to, but you would have had to have picked it up from some other more advanced alien race.

Name: Krull

Appearance

Race: Goralian

Gender: Male

Age: 103 years

Background: Krull began life humbly, as all Goralians do, clawing his way up the birthing pits. From their he only did what came naturally, war. You see, as a whole the Goralian race is a savage, war obsessed race who put the "Honorable War" above all things. And so he went, collecting trophies and siring strong children until the day "The Sky Fell" nearly fifty years ago. When the revelation came that there were other things they could kill, the Goralian people gladly lept at the chance to add new skulls to the trophy racks. Unfortunately that meant attacking anyone who landed on the planet. When someone was finally able to crack the language barrier an agreement was struck up fairly quickly, come onto the ships and fight our wars. And fight they did, HE did. Krull was one of the first to accept the offer and since then he has traveled through the stars, bouncing between mercenary companies and random buyers. It's been only recently that he has joined the Starfire Company.

Personality: Brutal, savage, and oddly noble, Krull is a paragon of Goralian values. He will never stab one in the back, or shoot you in the back for that matter as that is both cowardly and dishonorable. Battle is his only calling and meat his preferred currency, literally. Krull holds currency in low standing, instead he prefers the barter system back on Goral. At the end of the day, Krull wants 4 to 5 things. Battle, trophies, meat, and woman....sometimes men.

Gear:
-Scavenged Armor and Gnarl wraps, Traditional Goralian armor. Minimal plating with focus on the torso, groin, and the knees down. Strong enough to block small arms fire entirely but falls short to higher caliber weapons.
-Hammerburst, primitive by most civilizations standards the Hammerburst is nonetheless effective at bringing individuals down because of the considerable force behind the slugs which have been known to knock people off their feet regardless of armor.
-Cleaver, a multipurpose tool, the Goralian cleaver is meant to slice through meat, bone, and some armors.

Personal Ship: N/A

@Pathfinder

You have clearance, Clarence.

Starfire

Also what level of interstellar technology is generally normal? Like Star Trek levels, shields, phasers, transporters, holograms, force fields, that sort of thing or are we a bit more primitive like Firefly or Cowboy Bebop?

Also, a type in my CS, Stephen's 5'10" not 5'1". Just to mention.

@Prince of Seraphs

Force fields exist, but they're advanced enough that you'll only find them on large ships, like cruisers. Lasers also exist but they haven't been around very long. If you were to just pick up a random gun off a battlefield, there would be a 50/50 chance of it being either laser or ballistic. Holograms are close to Star Wars level where it's all solid blue and static-y, so you aren't going to throw up a hologram of yourself and have everyone start shooting at it like in Halo. Mind you, this is just the Human technology level. Other races could easily have more or less advanced technology and that is all up the creators of that race. Beyond that, tech like teleportation is non-existent.

Starfire

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I figured he'd be working for or with the Starfire Company (someone's gotta get those boys their weapons) and probably end up doing mercenary work for them too. If that doesn't appeal to you I can change it no problem.

@Raxacoricofallapatorius

It's all good. Just wanted to confirm that that was what you intended.

@Guess Who
If you are still taking I'd like to give this a go. I've had a race in the making that would be fun for this...at least it should.

@Pathfinder

Go right ahead.

Stephen Walker

Name: Stephen Walker: Eight of Twelve

Appearance: Has brown hair that's always untidy. His skin is unnaturally white and he has freckles on his face. His eyes are a sort of storm cloud grey and around the right one are the remains of an exposed ocular implant that mark him as a cyborg. His left hand is still covered in an exoplating that protects it from electricity and heat. He's 5'1" and around a hundred thirty pounds. Normally wears brown leather clothing and a vest stuffed with spare parts. Likes to fiddle with them when nervous.

Race: Human... mostly.

Gender: Male

Age: 18

Background: When Stephen and his sister Laura were ten years old they contracted a strain of the Xenovian flu. Not deadly but highly contagious so while they're parents were travelling the siblings were put in quarantine on the Pegasus Space Station. While they were separated from the general population the Xenovian Revolutionaries hit the station, they're target was a shipment of Oppenheimium being temporarily stored there before it could be transported.

Several of the major power conduits abroad the station exploded causing massive damage to the space station. In the infirmary where Stephen and Laura were quarantined the walls collapsed burying the siblings in rubble. Now Pegasus Station was a layover point for much of the galaxy and often enough it was were rare materials were stored and experimental technologies developed. Such a technology was being worked on in the lab adjacent to the infirmary that day. Nanites, programmed to infiltrate a host and repair there body from within regardless of what species they might be. However while test results were promising the nanites were far from being ready to test on living subjects and certainly not on two young children.

All the repair scenarios were already programmed into the nanites but they only had a rudimentary understanding of anatomy. Without a clean DNA sample and understanding what Stephen and Laura looked like healthy they were unable to do there jobs properly. These were still prototypes and had yet to have safeguards built in. Despite only being vaguely aware of what they were supposed to do, when the nanites found Stephen and Laura's broken bodies they set to work. Unable to identify exactly what was organic and what was metal the nanites did they're best. As a result a number of synthetic aspects were built into Laura and Stephen's bodies, metal ended up grafted to parts of there skeleton and in some parts replacing there skin. An optronic data sequencer was grafted into Stephen's optic nerve replacing his damaged eye.

Both the siblings also suffered brain damage as a result of the accident but the nanites but the remains of a central computer processor that made use of bio neural circuitry. A type of computer processor that was modeled on the human brain, able to do billions of calculations a second. Because of the similarities between the processor design and the human brain the nanites were unable to tell the difference and used pieces of the processor to effect repairs to the damaged areas of the brain, the most notable of which was the memory centers.

When Stephen and Laura were finally dug out of the rubble both of them resembled machines more than they did men. Unknown to the two of them (they were told there parents left them) Stephen and Laura's parents were told they died in the explosion of Pegasus. Afterwards they were taken to a lab in a highly restricted section of the Pegasus station.

Laura and Stephen spent the next five years on in that lab being studied. The most interesting thing about the accident was that because of the way the nanites repaired Stephen and Laura's brain some of the data files from several different computers had been patched into there memories, overriding the damaged memory centers of the brain. The computer used to repair Laura had been the medical terminal from sickbay, as a result she'd retained a large portion of knowledge regarding anatomy and medical practices.

The computer the nanites had assimilated into Stephen's head was from an engineering database a floor up from the infirmary that had collapsed into the room when the conduits blew. As a result Stephen carried the schematics and design specifications of every ship ever to dock on the Pegasus station. Through some fluke of the sibling's meld with the bio neural circuitry the designations of the computers had been grafted over the sibling's identification of self. The Pegasus station was controlled by twelve main computer systems, Medical was Five of Twelve and Engineering was Eight. After the accident the siblings started answering to these designations much more readily than their own names, even if they did remember that the names belonged to them.

Over the next year as much of the implants the nanites had created in both the siblings systems was harvested by the doctors. Pieces from there arms legs, etc. The sequencer that had been grafted into Eight's eye was replaced with an artificial eyeball though an amount of circuitry around his eye couldn't be removed without making him blind. A year after they were first brought to the lab Five was taken to another section,

When he was ten Eight was too young to understand why he was in the lab or why he wasn't allowed to leave but as he grew up Eight understood more. Ship schematics weren't the only thing in Eight's head, he also had a complete design scheme for Pegasus itself. So when he was fourteen he began to plot a way to escape. It took him a year to finalize and get to the point where he thought success was a reasonable possibility.

First he tricked the Pegasus computer into thinking there was a fire in his room. The doors opened automatically. Then he opened up a conduit access panel and crawled inside. These tubes ran throughout the station in case engineers had to make manual repairs. Eight tapped into one of the computer conduits that regulated internal sensors and fed the security sweeps false data detecting himself running for the docking ring on level H. In reality he crawled through the access tubes emerging at the docking ring four floors above. Eight stowed away on a cargo freighter hid himself away in the smallest corner he could find. Because he had the ship's blueprint in his head he knew where to find the smuggler's hatch, and keep himself hidden inside.

When it docked at it's destination, Eight escaped unnoticed and made his way to the reason he'd come to this planet. The Andorian Waste Yards. Hundres of miles of dispossessed ships, they're working parts stripped and sold, only skeletons and broken parts left over. It was the system's junk yard for anything that wasn't worth the effort anymore. Of course they're were laws against scavenging from it but people did it anyways and the local authorities didn't care all that much.

Eight found a decent ship, a tactical bomber, designed to be piloted by two for deep space mission. Of course any stealth technology Eight knew it once had had long been stripped but the craft itself was more or less intact even if all it's major systems were for the most part, missing.

Eight spent the next week on that planet scavenging for parts, rebuilding the ship. He build the engines up from scratch, Stole a communications array off another vessel. Eventually he managed to cobble together a ship. It wasn't pretty and it wasn't exactly comfortable but it would fly.

Eight has spent the last three years searching for any trace of what became of Five. He joined the Starfire Company last year on the hopes of using there resources to locate his sister.

Because of his implants and alterations Eight doesn't require sleep however, every twenty four hours so he has to go into a regenerative hibernation in a chamber on his ship which helps to keep the balance between his biological and technological systems.

Personality: Eight has a far greater understand of ships than he does people, he takes great pleasure in rebuilding and augmenting systems. With people however he is very blunt and to the point, he's almost mechanically rational and tends to accomplish tasks his own way. Doesn't follow orders very well unless they fall under what he was planning on doing anyways. Always wants to learn and understand new things but does so from a clinical standpoint, this can make relations with him trying.

Gear:

• A Distortion Field Generator - Masks the readers of his technological components so he registers as pure human on scans.
• A tetrion particle weapon - An energy weapon that doesn't leave a trace signature once it's been deactivated, very good for sneaking past security sensors.
• Engineering kit - All the tools a mechanic would need to interface with any system he encountered.

Personal Ship:

Aurora

The Aurora is the same vessel as he built himself however it hardly resembles itself from it's maiden flight. Was made for two pilots, Eight retrofitted it to include weapons and removed the high yield bomb systems. The ships had three rooms, the bridge which consists of two consoles and a Cyborg integration chamber, once sealed it fills with an oxygen rich fluid which is full of bio neural interfacing solution which allows Eight's brain to function as the guidance computer. The other room houses the engine which while haphazardous is fully functional and efficient, the last room doubles between a sickbay and Eight's living quarters. This is where his regeneration chamber is.

Yes the inspiration for some of this was the Borg.

Also I was wondering exactly what kind of FTL technology the humans have? There are a number of different TV shows that use different FTL engines which are based on theoretical scientific theories and operate in different manors, I was wondering which we were using.

@Prince of Seraphs

Your character is accepted. To answer your question on FTL technology, it basically is the same to that of the FTL drives from Mass Effect. The only real difference is that instead of Element Zero being subjected to electric current, it is Oppenheimium.

Starfire

@Guess Who H-how's it look

Species: Illyrian

Illyrian - The Illyrians are a bipedal reptilian race sometimes referred to as "lizard-men". they tend to grow to be 7-9 feet tall, they have long prehensile tails and scaled skin reminiscent of Terran lizards, hence the nickname, as well as clawed feet and hands and reptilian snouts. They tend to live 225-250 year lifespans, are very agile, and, Despite their reptilian nature, their offspring are born live. The Illyrians are exceptional engineers though, While they possessed advanced technology, it was not until after they were discovered by humans that they gained FTL capabilities. Roughly 4 decades ago Humans attempted to conquer the Illyrian homeworld, assuming them to be a tribal and weak species, the Humans were surprised by the level of technology and military power the Illyrians possessed and The Illyrian-Human first contact war ended with an Illyrian victory and the humans were pushed off the planet. After reverse engineering and improving upon captured Human FTL drives they were able to expand and establish a system-wide Empire.

The Illyrian Empire: Ruled by Archon Draksys Kade, The Empire controls the Toutasis system and rules from the capitol-planet of Altaaya. The Empire has placed their fleets on standby in the face of the civil war in the nearby Xenovia system, there has even been some debate among the hierarchy as to whether they should intervene.
Legionnaires, vehicles, Dropships, Cruisers, Fighters, Fleet Capitol-ship Dreadnought "Doom Mythical"

@Zetsuko

Looks good, I'll move it to the races and factions section as soon as I get to my computer.

Starfire

Good to go, @Raxacoricofallapatorius. Just a question though. You mentioned that Deraen is an arms trader and I was wondering if that means he is not a part of Starfire Company. It's fine if he isn't, but this will be where most of the action is. Also, thank you very much for the blurb.

Thank you for your interest @The Cook and @The Grey Dust. I shall be sure to look for your CSs when you two post them.

AcaciaMalikov + Guess Who [1x1]

Ryan hadn't been looking directly at Acacia when she made her comment toward Truth, so when she mentioned knowing how he wanted 'to go off and find something better anyway,' he looked toward the girl in confusion. Why would she think that? "Huh? Wh-" he began before cutting himself off. It was then that he noticed who Acacia was talking to. "Oh, uh, nevermind," he quickly said before Acacia could ask what he was about to ask.

Ryan quickly began to wolf down the rest of the cold rabbit on his plate, as spending the day in town with the pretty Russian woman sounded like the most fun he would have in a while. His mouth still filled with food, he lifted the empty dish in the air and proclaimed, "I'm finished," though the food in his mouth caused it to sound more like, 'Ahm finshd.'

Rising from the couch, Ryan walked his plate from the upholstery to the kitchen, quickly swallowing everything in a large, painful gulp. He breathed in a small gulp of air before letting out a large sigh, making up for the lack of air the mouth-breather was getting with his main passage for air so well blocked. "Alrighy, I'm good to go, Ace."

Starfire

I like it, @MasterLink742. Copy and paste it to the Character tab.

Starfire

Looks good, @Zetsuko. You can move it to the Character tab.

Starfire (Interest Check)

@Guess Who okay. would it be alright if i made a faction/empire for them? like they have their own independent system they occupy?

@Zetsuko

Yes, that's completely alright.