Letter Bee

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No offence taken at all, I just found it slightly amusing how it just went from maybe to can't so quickly was all. And especially after you asked so many questions too! But no worries.

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You're welcome to join, and I'm sure you'll hit upon an idea soon enough! Plenty of options.

At the moment, I'm kind of wondering where everyone from the Interest Check has got to, since I've only had one character other than mine so far.

@Silverwind Blade

Thanks for understanding!

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@Silverwind Blade

Sorry; I meant no disrespect - I really did want to join but, well... I was also starting two RPs on two other sites at the same time (and joining yet another site) and overestimated my ability to take more.

Please forgive me.

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It seems I might not find the time to join after all; sorry about this.

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There's a bit of info about that in the OP post, but generally speaking, nonhumans are treated as second-class citizens on all Imperial controlled worlds, with few civil rights and freedoms, and are, by Imperial definitions not even considered 'citizens', as they have no right to vote or participate in civil matters.
The only kind of work they do is essentially manual labor in poor conditions with minimal safety conditions and working long, gruelling hours. Housing is limited to ghetto-like conditions with minimal comforts and their 'pay' is via a series of 'vouchers' or 'scrip' that can be exchanged for limited goods. Nonhumans are also subject to searches and seizures without provocation or due cause on the whim of any law enforcement or military personnel, and can be taken away with little provocation. Nonhumans regularly disappear, and little is done to investigate their disappearances.
And that is on 'civilized' worlds with governors who probably believe they are kind and fair. On worlds with less 'caring' governors or personnel enforcing the Imperial Decree, nonhuman citizens may be housed only in shack-like shanty towns, have no access to organised education, computer network services, healthcare and even regular employment. They may be forbidden from meeting in groups, and even subject to regular sweeps for 'dissidents' or other troublemakers that a simply excuses to brutalise people and murder them.

Political or ideological dissidents that are human are often dealt with harshly. Depending on the nature of their actions, they may be investigated and monitored and then find that a lot of their options in life start to disappear, such as their accounts frozen, career oppotunities drying up, their freedoms to travel becoming limited and other such limitations being forced upon them.
If their 'problematic' issues persist, or even alongside these measures, their life may become a terrifying, mentally and emotionally draining cycle of random capture and interrogations at any hours or provocation from the Internal Security Forces.
Those who commit more serious 'violations' of Imperial decree may be 'permanently' disappeared, or even publicly made an example of, with propaganda spinning their deaths as being the elimination of deadly or dangerous terrorists and informants against the Empire.

@Silverwind Blade

I see. Hmm, I might make a dissident who joined the Resistance, then. It depends.

Note that I might suddenly find myself without spare time...

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A smuggler would work! After all, Han Solo was a smuggler!

@Silverwind Blade

So, another question:

How brutal is the Empire towards both Nonhumans and Dissidents?

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Update: I've added dates at various points into the opening post, with the current date being CE 2083

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*He, but thank you (I think, haha).
And yes, something like Starlance described would be perfectly acceptable. Similarly, something like having experience as a civilian pilot through a family business like a cargo ship and then joining the Resistance and doing flight training would work for a pilot of a younger age in the low 20's.

@Silverwind Blade

I like it! Perhaps a smuggler?

Also, question: What's life in the Empire like?

Edit: Wait, checked the OOC OP; just saw.

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@Letter Bee

Idea: If you want to play a younger pilot (say early 20s), you could have your guy/gal be an aviation nut who'd joined an aeroclub or somesuch group at a young age and was partway through military training when he or she decided to join the terrorists Resistance and had to start active duty early due to the Resistance being short on hands? Then you'd have a character who knows how to fly and has some training with fighters, but is still learning the ropes insofar as actual combat flying goes.

Maybe that could work?

@Starlance

I like it, but it's up to Silverwind if she'll accept.

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I haven't put a year specifically yet as I didn't want to 'date' the RP's setting using our calendar. However, I will come up with a calendar 'year' and update the RP with that, as well as including relevant dates - at least to the year - for other things.

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16-18 is really far too young for anyone to reasonably have had any kind of training or operational and life experience that would make them trustworthy and competent enough to be trusted with piloting several million credits-worth of spacecraft, let alone all the destructive capability a Starfighter has.

I hadn't thought about a Discord server so far. I can set one up if enough people want one.

@Silverwind Blade

Thanks anyway - I can be 20 - 28, if needed?

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Is 16 - 18 an acceptable age for a starfighter pilot?

And will this RP have a Discord Server?

The Wards: A Grimdark Teenage Superhero Story

Andrew Bennett/Hope

"Can your clones become sapient?" Andrew asked Morie sort of tactlessly, even by his own standards. "I presume they can't, but I do want to know for sure."

Then as Overclock gave his real name, Andrew picked up on the hint and said with a smile, "That's a good name, Sean; thanks for trusting me and the others with it."

He wasn't entirely oblivious to the tensions and fault lines brewing in the group, but Andrew was enough of an optimist - Someone named Hope had to be - that they will eventually work together well and become a band of true companions. Some of them, anyway. Also, did Morie just refuse to go shopping with him? If so, he hoped Wilbur didn't follow up with a refusal of his own; that meant that he was even worse at socializing than he thought.

Honestly, what was up with himself? Was he really screwing himself over in his first encounter with potential friends? Either way, he was certain that the older folk here looked at him with... Skepticism (?). Why? Did he really fail socialization that badly?

Nevertheless, his panic was not such that the boy failed to notice Carmen's demonstration of her power. With a grin, Andrew flashed her a thumbs up, before asking, "Can you produce food with that, and would it be energy-efficient for you? Also, can you copy more sophisticated tech?"

He did not add the fact that he had a similar sub-power himself; he knew enough to know that it'd come off as one-upmanship and probably destroy what neutral or positive impression he had with her. Besides, it wasn't that similar.

As for the Director's emergency phone call, Andrew wasn't actually surprised, even though he hadn't thought that something would actually happen. Either way, he'd change his hair to a similar, but not the same, silvery shade as Caiden did, looking at the other youth sort of admiringly, and then say next, "Should I use my powers or do we have costumes ready?"

A hint that he was more powerful than he had already shown, but not a hint that he was more dangerous; that came later. Andrew may be immensely socially awkward, but he was not so dumb as to think that people won't regard him as a risk once he had revealed more of his abilities. However, he can pace it, he can make sure that the reveals were controlled... Right? Either way, he was ready to fight whatever enemy was there, assuming this was a 'fighting' assignment.