i went with a series of tactically positioned fat duraplast plates. despite the fancy look, it's after all homemade armor by an artist, not exactly a specialist :P
Don't worry, Feisty. Maybe you can work together with Saleen. She has smoke grenades for your approach and can provide covering fire :D
(just hope she doesn't accidentally toss a neurotoxin grenade instead)
I'm not gonna comment on anything on the history, not read it.
Armour) Metal armours gonna get you killed. Lasers are hot and heat things up, you're gonna cook in that suit. Duraplast is the standard for most armours, or it could be plasteel.... one of the two. Basically its made to be heat absorbing so you don't just cook.
The onesie isn't too bad.
You probably won't get to go into battle with mix-match painted armour.
If it doesn't cover your whole face, it's quite ineffectual for zero-g.
Rangefinder just call them holobinoculars :P
Everything else, I'll leave up to Seuss as I'm not a GM or a Co-GM. I just know my shiiit.
thanks, I've not really gotten into the scientific metallurgy of star wars yet ^^ I'll edit it so it says her armor pieces is made out of duraplast and her helmet is full face and air tight, not to worry about that.
as for her flagrant fashion, it's not like her armor consists of all the colors of the rainbow xD It is mostly black with some minor silver lining, which is a very neutral and not-so-noticable color, and can more easily meld into most shadowy backgrounds. black is after all a color that fits very well into a large spectrum of different colors.
"get him out of there before he suffocates and let'e s escape!"
"He'll be fine," The Night Elven Captain would reply as she leaned forward before rising up to stand on her feet, towering yet again over the Blood Elf in front of her as she rested a hand against her hips. "Trust me, I've done this before."
Serphia said before she was about to take a step past Rae'liel, when she suddenly realized the long stare she was receiving from the Blood Elf. Pausing, she turned to look back down at her.
"What I'm saying is, there will be time to get him out later. He can wait, we can not! Right now, we need to get out of here ourselves. Half the harbor must have seen us when we jumped from that fort!" Serphia explained while pointing over the wall behind her, where voices could be heard from the other side. Before the Blood Elf would have a chance to mount another complaint, Serphia had grabbed Rae'liel's arm and pulled the Blood Elf with her as if she had been a mother dragging her child to the healer!
"Ohhh, and a 'thank you', the next time I rescue you would be very appreciated!"
Kicking the doors to the yard open, she dashed with Rae'liel behind her out into the shady alleyway of the harbor, heading towards the point where she and her warriors had left their nightsabers.
However, as she was about to pass a crossroad where the alleyway split into four directions, she suddenly heard the clattering of plate mail as three men were coming towards them from the corner to their right. Immediately stopping, Serphia would hide behind the corner against the building as they approached.
The first man to cross the corner was wearing a Stormwind guard uniform, in his platemail with a long blue tabard running down his torso. However, the moment he as much as saw Serphia as he passed the building corner, the Night Elf had shot the back of her mailed fist right into the man's visor. It was a loud "BONK", followed by an "Urghh" from the man as he fell backwards and into the ground. The second guard turned around, just in time to see Serphia as she kicked him in the base of his chestplate with the back of her boot, and he flew two feet back and crashed into the wall, losing his shield!
The third guardsman had gotten all the way around the corner when he turned around, and saw Rae'liel. When he did, he unsheathed his sword and pointed it at the Blood Elf.
"Stop! Stop, in the name of king! This is.... uhh, where are your clothes, milady?" The man suddenly asked, blushing through the visor of his helmet as he looked at Rae's rather exposed figure with confusion.
Bear in mind that this is the first time I ever participate in a Star Wars RP, and my knowledge of the universe is not very deep, hench my backstory might be a little vague.
If there's anything that's missing, or that I got wrong about the lore, do feel free to mention it :)
Appearance: A quick summary of Saleen’s physical appearance would be a healthy and strong frame, perhaps a little amazonian in appearance. She adheres to a regime of heavy physical training, and thus has a medium to heavy frame. She is by no means a bodybuilder, but has gained a visible sturdiness from her training. Strong arms, strong back, and stronger legs which might give her a slightly bottom heavy look. She is very tall as well, standing at 6.1ft in height.
Her hair is golden blond, and she usually has it in the form of a ponytail.
Equipment: Saleen carries a lot of personal gadgets and home-made armor. The base of her attire consists of a simple yet flexible skin tight and elastic jumpsuit that can withstand the vacuum of space, and also offers decent protection against the elements, be it heat or cold. Over her jumpsuit, she wears an assortment of different plates of duraplast armor latched and bonded onto her suit in a rather crude fashion, consisting of mainly five pieces, a helm, a chestguard with pauldrons, a pair of heavy gloves running to her elbows, and a pair of heavy boots running up to her knees and a pair of heavy cuisses protecting her front thighs.
She wears a series of thick duraplast plates as opposed to a full set of armor. While the plates don't cover as much of her body, they are considerably thicker than normal bodyarmor. She can shrug off most lower caliber shots that hits her armored plates without much worry, and can even survive heavier fire as well. Her jumpsuit however offers no protection if hit.
Her helmet is a heavier version of a pilot’s helmet, with sloped armor running out across the sides of her face into the shape of a rising eagle, and a blue, one way shaded visor in front. She has a camera and flashlight attached to the side of her helmet, enabling her to record the battlefield and relay information back to a central command, or store it for use or analysis later. Out from behind her helmet flows a large, white ponytail that runs down to her back. It is not her actual hair, but artificial hair attached to the helmet itself for no other reason than vanity. Her helmet also has a connection to a small oxygen tank built into the back of her chestplate in the form of two redundant plastic cables.
The metal’s default color is that of a darker gray, but parts of its surface has been painted abyss black, with silvery lines running in intricate patterns across the plates. At the base of her belt in front, she wears a blue loincloth hanging from her lower waist.
Due to her background as an artist, she also spends a lot of time decorating her armor. The concept of camouflage is alien to her, as she values appearance over disappearance whether it be on the battlefield or in social circles. This can be seen in the delicate and intricate patterns that she so often paints on her armor, or the animal feathers that she uses to decorate her underlines of her shoulderpads with.
Weapons: - Heavy Repeating Blaster(main). Her heavy Repeating Blaster is her prime weapon of choice. It requires two hands to wield, and can be attached to her specialized energy backpack with a cord to remove the need to switch individual power cells. Like her armor, she has painted her weapon as well and embellished it with intricate symbols and designs of silver on a pitch black surface. It has an in-built targeter connected to her visor that enables her to see where she is aiming even while firing from the hip, thus eliminating the need for aiming down sight unless hit by an electromagnetic blast.
- Slug-thrower pistol. Her sidearm is a slug pistol that fires physical bullets as opposed to blaster rounds, and uses a high caliber. Only has eight rounds.
- Her melee weapon is a small, jagged and electric machete that can be electrically charged to stun opponents upon touching a conductive surface.
Gadgets: - Rangefinder. Essentially a more future version of a set of binoculars which can zoom in on distant targets, as well as have a nightvision and thermal mode that can be toggled on or off. - 3 smoke grenades and 3 neurotoxin grenades at the bottom front of her chestplate. They look dangerously similar. - Ammo backpack. Carries a jet black backpack overfilled with energy cells for her blaster. Heavy, unwieldy, but carries enough energized death to fight to fire for a long time. Can be connected directly into her repeater through an insulated cable so that she doesn’t have to switch individual energy cells during battle. - Her boots are magnetic, and she has small thrusters attached to her armor that enables her to maneuver around in zergo-G environments. Thrusters are too weak to work in normal gravity however.
Strengths: - Is heavily armored from the front and somewhat from the sides. It is from behind that she is the least armored, as her jumpsuit is mostly exposed from the beginning of her lower back and down to her knees. - Her suit can operate in hostile environments and without oxygen for minutes. This renders her immune to most chemical and biological attacks, and she can walk outside of spaceships. - Has a lot of utility items.
Weaknesses - Values appearance over camouflage. Stands out like a sore thumb a lot of the time due to her liberated artistic soul. - While she is strong, she is still weighed down somewhat by her excessive equipment and armor - Lacks real training. Prefers to overcome foes through superior firepower or brute force.
Background: Saleen was born into a rather boring upper middle income family on Coruscant, sharing the space with only her older sister. Very early in her life, she decided that she wanted to become an artist, and so convinced her parents to let her go to art school at the later stages of her education. She managed to enter one of the more prestigious art schools on the planet. But she often got into arguments with her peers as she had a tendency to criticize their work rather verbally, and she took grave offense at the slightest unfavorable murmur towards one of her own projects. This went to the point that there were episodes where she engaged in fights with her fellow students and even smashed their projects. This got to the point where she once proclaimed the destruction of an large glass construct by one of her fellow classmates, as an act of art itself to show the futility of life itself against the currents of change. Most of her fellow students did not share her perspective, and Saleen eventually got expelled from the school.
Blaming her failure on the lack of personal inspiration rather than social etiquette, Saleen wanted to get some inspiration for future artwork and decided that dangers and adventure was the way to go, as she had ‘learned’ through the consumption of a great volume of books and movies.
Deciding that she wanted to become a mercenary and bounty hunter, she bought herself a blaster, a cool leather outfit and went straight to the outer rim with only a brief goodbye to her parents, telling them she was on an art project.
Her confidence soared after the success of her first mission, which consisted of guarding a spice shipment, with a rather hefty pay. The fact that absolutely nothing had happened during the actual mission short of a near crash with another cargo freighter didn’t stop Saleen from taking the success as a sign that she was a natural talent within the mercenary business.
Her second mission did not go as well. Emboldened, she signed up for a bounty to take down a jedi and his padawan on a desert world. However, the mission failed when the jedi lured Saleen and her fellow bounty hunters into a rancor lair, and the whole bounty ended with a team of terrified bounty hunters with Saleen in front running away for their lives whilst screaming on the top of their lungs!
After failing her first bounty mission, she decided to go back to armed escort services instead. Her third mission was therefore to guard a large fuel shipment on the same desert world. But when the shipment was attacked by raiders, a fight broke out between the mercenaries and raiders. The raiders ceased their attack however when a stray shot from Saleen’s blaster set off a chain reaction among the fuel tank and blew the entire convoy up, throwing mercenaries and raiders skyhigh! Saleen was badly damaged during the explosion, but managed to limp back to a speeder, return to the nearest settlement, and get a ticket off-world before her customer could learn what had happened to his shipment.
After that mission, Saleen decided to invest in her own personalized suit of armor and weaponry, and took on a series of other missions with varying degrees of success. Up until that point, her only contact with the rebels had been through sporadic and mostly uneventful encounters with their people. She usually steered clear of them, with the exception of one mission where she was hired by a local to trash a bar that was secretly used as a hub by the rebels, resulting in a frantic firefight that ravaged half the town in a chaotic free-for-all between mercenaries, local police, criminals, empire soldiers, local militia and rebels. It was not until she was contacted by her sister, which by that point was working for the rebels, that she was persuaded to, if not help them, work for them as a hired gun. Personally, Saleen was quite curious about the rebels, having heard many romantic stories about the great adventures they partook upon at local taverns and bars. Believing that an experience within the rebels was just what her artistic integrity needed, Saleen decided to join them. She only hopes none of the rebels she met would remember her from her last meeting with them.
Hey now, at least we did it in a stylish fashion. And they bought you time. A lot of time.
and you lost ALL your belfies in the process! xD
i can imagine how rae must have explained that to their relatives: Rae: "I know I lost your son and his brother under my command, but... at least they went out with style!*smileyface*"
A...Juggernaut? Well, that's certainly your style.
psh, i'll have you know that back in our other RP, I'm playing as a Night Elf sentinel, warriors renowned for their stealth and devastating surprise attacks! xD
aaaand... if i recall correctly, it was YOU with your belfs who picked a head on fight with the entire garrison of the castle while my smart elves snuck around ^_^
I've been begging for Science Fiction, and I'm a Star Wars fan. ^^;
It will be focused on troopers, though there are a few force-sensitives that are PCs, so utilization and learning of the Force is plausible.
i was actually in the mood for some science fiction as well. the only problem is i get uncomfortable rping in a universe i know nothing about, and the only sci-fi universes that i know is star wars and warhammer40k, which reduced my options a little bit on these forums :P (although they are two of the more popular universes!)
i do have a question about equipment though. how common are personal shield generators in star wars? i never saw a single person use them in the movies :P
Every few days, and after this I am cutting off recruitment. Too many people is too much, though we did lose people that tapered off due to lack of interest and I am just going to roll ahead without them because you gotta shake off the losses rather than stand around for them.
So feel free to submit!
that sounds great ^^
from what I understand, the characters for this RP will mostly be focused on ordinary non-force troopers, or will there be jedi/sith too? :O
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Egads. I need to post for that still. <.<;
XD
I'll do my best to get to it tonight. @.@
feisty? what are you doing here?! xD
and that sounds good. May the Creativity be with you! ^^
