Sophrus

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Firedog noticed the drones on his sensor grid just after launch. "Pfft" he sputtered through his lips. He punched the thrust up to the edge of his own G limits. At 10 g he had to alter his breathing slightly to compensate the drones flight pattern was poor and he had a good distance on them.

He shrugged internally and fired all the manuvering thrusters hard to flip his craft 180 and cut his thrust. The ship flipped hard and jarred Firedog with the abrupt changes. With the ship flying backwards he fired a hail of laser and plasma destroying several outright and grazing a few more limiting their effectiveness.

With that done he chuckled and flipped back over to make a pass at the police ship. While deploying countermeasure to confuse the drones. As he rocketed at the ship the drones did lose him for a few moments and then realized his plan going for a much more aggressive attack on his fighter once they realized the mother ship was in danger.

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And ill be in the fight in mere moments

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Firedog laid on the wing of his heavy fighter when the lurch and alarm started blaring. "Oh thank god." he said to himself and leapt off the wing. He had been trying to think up ways to entertain himself since he hadnt had a good fight in like a whole week. Before the alarm made him forget he had been planning on rewiring the lights in the little mess hall so that only half the lights where on no matter which way the switches where flipped. Would have driven the engineers crazy for a day figuring out what happened and fixing it, which would have been hysterical.

He opened the cockpit to his fighter and climbed in. It briefly occurred to him that the captain might want him manning a gun near one of the airlocks, but he didn't have the best weapons for that kind of job and a few plasma bolts melting the other ships bridge would certainly give them something else to think about. Worse came to worse, he could always escape and leave the rest of his comrades to their fate. So out with the fighter was really his only choice. As soon as he closed the cockpit hatch he fired up the reactor and engines while telling the launch bay to depressurize.

The process would have taken too long for the bay to fully empty so he sent the Override command from the fighter and opening the door early, venting a reasonable portion of atmosphere into space. This making the ship lurch again but much less so than when the ship was grabbed. he opened the communication panel on his fighter and sent to the captain "Firedog launching, imma give em something other than killing you all to think about" around the same time he punched up the thrust on his engines and rocketed from the bay hard. The 8Gs of force his engines where making would have been enough to make most people start feeling dizzy and worrying if their bones would break. Firedog didn't worry about it, would take a few more Gs to make him woozy.

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character sheet

Nicolai 'Fire-Dog' Astrovia

Age:29

Gender:Male

Class:Gunslinger (fighter pilot)

Race:Military Enhanced human (details below)

Home world: agria, a world that used to be a quiet agricultural planet that fed billions on other nearby planets. However war broke out between a pair of neighboring planets and Agria became a war torn hell. Both factions had decided they must have Agria or raze the planet to deny it to their foe.

Former Profession: Fighter pilot (AWOL soldier)

Personality: Nicolai is a cocky fighter pilot like all the rest and will take crazy risks, like all fighters do. However he loves the destruction his craft is capable of and relishes laying waste to whatever he can. When not in his fighter however he is much more subdued and less prone to reckless and destructive behavior. However, being the adrenaline junkie that he is, if he doesn't have a good battle he will get mischievous and start bar fights or otherwise cause trouble.

History:
Nicolai entered the military at 18 and joined the navy showing great aptitude to both engineering and piloting. He became a fighter pilot at 20. He was to be dishonorably discharged at 25 for disrespecting superiors, recklessness, and disregard for collateral damage. The final straw was a bombing run on enemy military assets that resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths.

His commanding officer began berating him on the comms channel to which Nicolai replied disrespectfully and cut his own comms stealing his fighter, survival kit and weapons. Since then he operates as a freelance pirate, his military fighter being largely superior in most engagements, especially due to several modifications that have been made since then. He is alleged to have been partly responsible for many stolen cargo ships and destroyed civilian craft and the deaths of all aboard. He is wanted as a murderer and pirate in most sectors.

Primary:N/A
Secondary:Light plasma pistol
Melee:steel survival knife

Equipment: pilot survival kit (inside fighter craft) filled with useful equipment such as communication gear,survival rations, hazardous environment suit, basic first aid kit, water and oxygen bottles

Plasma battery charger (inside fighter) built into his fighter he can charge two plasma weapon batteries.

Military level navigation map: while the map is somewhat outdated it still has a large amount of data that is generally unavailable to civilians that has many faster (if not safer) routs through space.

Engineering repair kit: contains all the tools necessary to maintain and repair his fighter, does not contain parts however. It also contains a data slate with the exact design specifications of the fighter for pilots to repair the vehicle if necessary.

Other:
Genetic Enhancements:
reaction time increase (minor)
High G resistance (10G before blackout)
Mathematic savant (capable of complicated trajectory and orbital calculations quickly)

Fighter ship: Hammerhead long range Fighter

Fighter

X2 heavy laser pulse cannons
X2 Light plasma cannons
Sensor suite
Modifications:
Modified reactor 110% output (requires much more frequent maintenance)
Extra engine & thrusters (more maneuverable)
Removed Missile hardpoints for the above plasma cannons

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<Snipped quote by Sophrus>

Well it would kinda be hard for him to be religious when he doesn't know that much about the religion he's practicing or even understand it's language.

@Spriggs27

Why? If executed well, it could make for an intriguing character. I'm curious to see how it's implemented. I've listened to music and the like without understanding the lyrics and still found it beautiful or powerful. This char does the same with the religious sermons? That's my guess.

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I don't necessarily see a problem with a religious character or a philosopher pirate. The character could work with the right execution though I would think that it's a bit tricky. Philosophy wise, there would be plenty of time traveling on a ship and laying low from the law so I expect most characters would have hobbies to occupy them during such times, why not philosophy?

Skill wise I do agree that there should be something.

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All done me thinks

character sheet

Nicolai 'Fire-Dog' Astrovia

Age:29

Gender:Male

Class:Gunslinger (fighter pilot)

Race:Military Enhanced human (details below)

Home world: agria, a world that used to be a quiet agricultural planet that fed billions on other nearby planets. However war broke out between a pair of neighboring planets and Agria became a war torn hell. Both factions had decided they must have Agria or raze the planet to deny it to their foe.

Former Profession: Fighter pilot (AWOL soldier)

Personality: Nicolai is a cocky fighter pilot like all the rest and will take crazy risks, like all fighters do. However he loves the destruction his craft is capable of and relishes laying waste to whatever he can. When not in his fighter however he is much more subdued and less prone to reckless and destructive behavior. However, being the adrenaline junkie that he is, if he doesn't have a good battle he will get mischievous and start bar fights or otherwise cause trouble.

History:
Nicolai entered the military at 18 and joined the navy showing great aptitude to both engineering and piloting. He became a fighter pilot at 20. He was to be dishonorably discharged at 25 for disrespecting superiors, recklessness, and disregard for collateral damage. The final straw was a bombing run on enemy military assets that resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths.

His commanding officer began berating him on the comms channel to which Nicolai replied disrespectfully and cut his own comms stealing his fighter, survival kit and weapons. Since then he operates as a freelance pirate, his military fighter being largely superior in most engagements, especially due to several modifications that have been made since then. He is alleged to have been partly responsible for many stolen cargo ships and destroyed civilian craft and the deaths of all aboard. He is wanted as a murderer and pirate in most sectors.

Primary:N/A
Secondary:Light plasma pistol
Melee:steel survival knife

Equipment: pilot survival kit (inside fighter craft) filled with useful equipment such as communication gear,survival rations, hazardous environment suit, basic first aid kit, water and oxygen bottles

Plasma battery charger (inside fighter) built into his fighter he can charge two plasma weapon batteries.

Military level navigation map: while the map is somewhat outdated it still has a large amount of data that is generally unavailable to civilians that has many faster (if not safer) routs through space.

Engineering repair kit: contains all the tools necessary to maintain and repair his fighter, does not contain parts however. It also contains a data slate with the exact design specifications of the fighter for pilots to repair the vehicle if necessary.

Other:
Genetic Enhancements:
reaction time increase (minor)
High G resistance (10G before blackout)
Mathematic savant (capable of complicated trajectory and orbital calculations quickly)

Fighter ship: Hammerhead long range Fighter

Fighter

X2 heavy laser pulse cannons
X2 Light plasma cannons
Sensor suite
Modifications:
Modified reactor 110% output (requires much more frequent maintenance)
Extra engine & thrusters (more maneuverable)
Removed Missile hardpoints for the above plasma cannons

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I meant the fact that he doesn't have legs lol

Edit: Nvm!! I missed it! Ignore me (I may have mostly skimmed the sheet lol)

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@MonachromeX2

So, we have a water filled compartment for you?

That seems inconvenient on a ship with mixed species. Unless I missed something?

Awesome CS tho.

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Work in progress

character sheet

Nicolai 'Fire-Dog' Astrovia

Age:29

Gender:Male

Class:Gunslinger (fighter pilot)

Race:Military Enhanced human (details below)

Home world: agria, a world that used to be a quiet agricultural planet that fed billions on other nearby planets. However war broke out between a pair of neighboring planets and Agria became a war torn hell. Both factions had decided they must have Agria or raze the planet to deny it to their foe.

Former Profession: Fighter pilot (AWOL soldier)

Personality: Nicolai is a cocky fighter pilot like all the rest and will take crazy risks, like all fighters do. However he loves the destruction his craft is capable of and relishes laying waste to whatever he can. When not in his fighter however he is much more subdued and less prone to reckless and destructive behavior.

History:
Nicolai entered the military at 18 and joined the navy showing great aptitude to both engineering an piloting. He became a fighter pilot at 20. He was to be dishonorably discharged at 22 for disrespecting superiors, recklessness, and disregard for collateral damage. The final straw was a bombing run on enemy military assets that resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths.

His commanding officer began berating him on the comms channel to which Nicolai replied disrespectfully and cut his own comms stealing his fighter, survival kit and weapons. Since then he operates as a freelance pirate, his military fighter being largely superior in most engagements, especially due to several modifications that have been made since then. He is alleged to have been partly responsible for many stolen cargo ships and destroyed civilian craft and the deaths of all aboard. He is wanted as a murderer and pirate in most sectors.

Primary:N/A
Secondary:Light plasma pistol
Melee:steel survival knife

Equipment: pilot survival kit (inside fighter craft) filled with useful equipment such as communication gear,survival rations, hazardous environment suit, basic first aid kit, water and oxygen bottles

Plasma battery charger (inside fighter) built into his fighter he can charge two plasma weapon batteries.

Military level navigation map: while the map is somewhat outdated it still has a large amount of data that is generally unavailable to civilians that has many faster (if not safer) routs through space.

Engineering repair kit: contains all the tools necessary to maintain and repair his fighter, does not contain parts however. It also contains a data slate with the exact design specifications of the fighter for pilots to repair the vehicle if necessary.

Other:
Genetic Enhancements:
reaction time increase (minor)
High G resistance (10G before blackout)
Mathematic savant (capable of complicated trajectory and orbital calculations quickly)

Fighter ship: Hammerhead long range Fighter

Fighter

X2 heavy laser pulse cannons
X2 Light plasma cannons
Sensor suite
Modifications:
Modified reactor 110% output (requires much more frequent maintenance)
Extra engine & thrusters (more maneuverable)
Removed Missile hardpoints for the above plasma cannons