TheUnknowable — Roleplayer Guild

Ship Classification - Assault/boarding craft
Ship Role - Freelancers
Crew size - 3
Description - A fast, heavily shielded corvette designed to punch holes in enemy shields and dock with them.  Originally used for taking enemy ships, it has been refit for raiding them of valuables.

Power: Main: Artificial singularity generator, direct mass conversion.  Overpowered for a ship this size, and prone to instability if it takes damage.
Secondary: Fusion, Deuterium.  Reliable, but barely makes enough power to run the ship under non-combat situations.

Weapons: Particle beam cannons: For when they need to destroy ships or parts of them.  Adjustable output. 
Pulse burst: Charged weapon that tears a hole in shields large enough to fly the Talon through.
Point Defense: Multiple small particle beams on the hull of the ship.

Defenses: Aligned Plasma shields: Good at taking large attacks, but can take less damage overall than a standard shield.  Can usually take only one solid hit from a medium sized ship.
Conduction/absorption armor: Spreads kinetic damage out over a larger area to minimize damage, and absorbs many forms of energy, including plasmas, low and mid level photonic weapons, many radiation types (alpha, beta, gamma (partially), charged protons), and many scanners.  Used for stealth.

FTL: Hyperdrive: The ship moves along extra-dimensional corridors, making it impossible to track without hyper-space capable sensors.  It is difficult to control where you emerge from hyperspace, so it is used for jumps of no more than a few AU except in emergency situations.  Thankfully, you almost always emerge near a gravity well of some kind, whether a planet, star, or black hole.

Special: Quantum shift teleporter: Can shift an object or person up to about 20 meters through solid objects (depending on the material's density).  Allows them to board ships without breaching the hull.  Necessary, because their hull blocks many forms of teleporters.
Gravitic grapple: Four gravity generators on the bottom of the ship can grab onto whatever they land on.  They also have a launcher that can shoot one which is tethered the Talon at an enemy up to 100 meters away.  Tractor beams can be disrupted, but grav fields are harder to disrupt and tethers have to be cut, which makes them prefer this to a standard tractor beam.

Name - Mark Briggs

Age - 32

Species - Human

Role - Freelance

Gender - Male

Appearance - 
5'8" skinny, pale skin, black hair, blue eyes.

Personality - Loves learning about science and advanced tech.  Is currently obsessed with the idea of Transhumanism.

History - When he first came to space he got a job working for his cousin, Christopher Briggs.  There he met Halla, who was the first officer.  When they were caught smuggling Psionic Activators (drugs which grant psionic abilities, usually temporarily) through customs to avoid the outrageously high tariffs and restrictions on them, Christopher took credit for it, claiming that his crew only knew about the food concentrates they were hauling as a cover story.  Christopher was arrested, the ship impounded, but Halla and he were the only ones willing to help pay for his defense in court.  They did this by taking jobs as mercenaries for the UGCP.  When he was found guilty and sent to prison, Halla and Mark continued to work as a team, eventually buying a surplus boarding ship from the military.  When it became time to renew their contracts, they turned it down, but got a Privateer license from their former CO.  As long as they only attacked criminals and the enemy, the UGCP would leave them alone, and may even buy their stolen goods.

Equipment - Technopathy Implant: Allows his higher brain functions to interface with a computer, allowing control or possession of the device.  Usually used to "become" the ship or one of his robots.  He can usually use it at his level for about 18 hours, but intense use, such as combat, stresses him faster, shortening this time.
Battle droids: Various models, built by him and based on old sci-fi shows. B1, B2, and Droideka from Star Wars, "Squidy" from the Matrix, and several "replicator" bugs from Star Gate for recon, but they cant reproduce without using manufacturing equipment.
Androids: Two based on old Sci-fi, Romie from "Andromeda" and the T-100 from "Terminator".
Weapons and Armor: For his androids, though he does have a basic military body suit and rail rifle for himself if he has to use it.

Ship - Talon

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Name - Halla

Age - 36 (her species has an average lifespan about equal to humans)

Species - Hibros

Role - Freelance

Gender - Female

Appearance - 

7ft tall cat person, brown with white stripes, green eyes, fangs.

Personality - Her people believe it to be dishonorable to fight with borrowed strength, so everything she uses in battle relies on her own strength.  (The psychological and mental habits of your character and adversely their species if they have any particular personality quirks that they inherit from their kind.)

History - She grew up on a space station made from hollowed out asteroids, learning to hunt in the wild, paraterraformed areas of the station.  She got a job with one of the freighters that came through the station, and loyally followed that captain, Christopher Briggs, until he went to prison.  She even helped his cousin fight for his freedom, but they failed.  They then worked together to earn money to buy a ship and upgrade it, and continue to fight together.

Equipment - Rail Bow: A spring is compressed when she pulls a plunger on the weapon.  When she pulls the trigger, the spring is released, transferring the energy through magnetic coils into a rail gun attachment.  She can replace this with a particle beam weapon, but rarely does.
Personal Force-field generator: Draws power from the nervous system of the user to charge a capacitor which powers a force field emitter.  She got it off of a human murderer that didn't understand the fact that the device would eventually put its user into a coma before the safety feature activated and the device deactivated.  It was easy to capture him for the bounty at that point.
Ceremonial blades: Two foot long fang shaped blades, one for each major like event.  She carries the one denoting her becoming a privateer into battle. 

Ship - Talon

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Name - Qo

Age - 67 (His species has an indefinite lifespan, but he appears to be a young adult)

Species - Sesuna

Role - Freelancer

Gender - Sesuna are Hermaphrodites

Appearance - 
(the closest picture I could find)
Blue, bipedal, roughly humanoid.  "He" applies hormones to the top of his head to grow leaves to simulate hair.  He has yellow flowers during flowering season, but wears a pressure suit when pollinating to prevent it from effecting the crew.

Personality - Likes to learn about science, especially biological sciences.  Will only harm someone in self defense or defense of others.

History - His people are pacifists, but when his people were attacked he subjected the attackers to a paralyzing agent, allowing them to be placed on their ship and sent back to their home base.  His people considered this to be a violation of their rules and sent him away.
He got a job on the Talon when they were looking for another crew member.  His only speculation was that they not kill anyone except in self defense or defense of others.  They agreed.

Equipment - Various hormones for altering his shape, knock out grenades, EMP grenades, stun pistol, standard armor
Proficient with most science equipment.

Ship - Talon

Activity - I'm on almost every day, but usually only post every few days at most.  I prefer to post multiple responses at once to make it easier to remember who I responded to and what I said.
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