Corsair (OOC)

[Freethinker]

Well unless you're from a different arm of the galaxy (at least a half a year away by ship), you've probably been documented by someone in the Orion Arm. However, there may not be any formal relations established, and you might also be masquerading as a different race (there are several races that are difficult to distinguish from humans, for example).

The human-like aliens are one of the things that I am pretty lenient about.

I have an idea now... they're going to be nothing like humans, but somewhat similar to viskevans. I'm going to go with the far away route, they won't be hiding their existence or anything.

It'll take me a while to write some lore, I like to go all out when designing a species, but I'll have something by tonight.

[Legion X51]

Holey and Jannge will know who this is. The rest of you, I'd like you to meet Captain Sukhoia.

Name: Captain Lydia Sukhoia

Gender: Female. Don't get it confused, you will be in a world of pain faster than you can say 'I'm sorry'.

Age: 21 GSY / 19 GSY (due to Eldar heritage)

Race: 1/2 Kislevite, 1/2 Eldar

Appearance:


Crew position: Security Personnel / Stealth Systems

Skills:
Lydia excels with ranged weaponry - her standard armament is a Kislevite AKR-74 plasma rifle, with a PM plasma pistol and a monomolecular vibroblade for close defence. Lydia is also skilled at making people talk, be it through violent or non-violent action. Lydia's favourite armament when she doesn't have her plasma rifle is her Heavy Plasma Rifle Mark IIIE; basically a rapid-firing more powerful version of the AKR-74 developed by IZHMASH on Kislev IV. Lydia is also a very good interrogator - be it violently or non-violently. She has her own personal Excruciator, which is a device that applies energy to the pain receptors in a victim's skin - she describes it as "being dropped into a vat of hydrofluoric acid". She has gone through the rigours of Kislevite Space Marine initiation, and thus has been outfitted with several high-tech implants and upgrades to her physical form.

Merits:
- Loyal to her commander, and devoted to her comrades. Lydia, if necessary, will die for her comrades-in-arms, but she hopes it'll never get to that. The reason for this is because Lydia is officially KIA anyway, at least according to Kislevite military records. It's the old 'recording commandos as KIA' trick.
- Skilled at ranged combat with her plasma rifle
- Skilled at melee combat with her sword and pistol
- Expert Interrogator
- Skilled at unarmed fighting

Flaws:
- Somewhat suspicious of new comrades of hers (this will include the crew)
- Violent nature when angered or in a bad mood
- Doesn't play nicely with others... That's all I'll say for that.

History: CLASSIFIED INFORMATION. Until I find her old background.

[Freethinker]

I threw this together relatively quickly, at least compared to my viskevans, which I've spend a lot of time thinking up. I'll add to this as time goes on.

Species

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History:

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Technological Singularity: To become one with technology. The end goal of civilization.

Most species begin biotic, and must learn to embrace the abiotic, augmenting themselves with inorganic materials, while at the same time their technology becomes more and more organic until they and their machines are literally one. The vel are on this path, but they did not begin this way, they began abiotic, and now have learnt to embrace the biotic.

The vel were created by the organic val species one-hundred and fifty years ago. The val stood in awe and glory of themselves and they brought new life, new sentience to the universe. The vel were originally fully-inorganic sentient machines, not unlike something out of the science-fiction of today. But they were not created as labourers or heirs, instead the val gave them life simply because they could.

There is no story of oppression or machine revolt here, the vel were treated with the dignity and respect befitting sentient beings by their organic creators. For a time, the val and vel worked toward technological singularity from opposite directions, but together, as partners, friends, and fellow beings.

But that would soon change.

(I've yet to decide on the fate of the val, but suffice to say they left to avoid some catastrophe, they're not dead.)

After the departure of the val, the vel continued to work toward the inevitable Singularity on their own, building a large and prosperous civilization along the way, val civilization often their basis.
Eventually, the vel discovered how to travel faster-than-light and, sharing the intense curiosity of their creators, ventured out into the stars to explore and search for traces of their lost creators.

Personality:
Vel minds are not quite so different from organics as one might expect. The val designed them after themselves, after all. Although all vel are individuals with their own personalities, desires, and goals, virtually all are intensely curious, a trait shared by the val. They are not prone to violence and are often naïve. Perhaps surprisingly, they are quite artistic, and art plays a large in their post-val culture.

Biology/Construction:

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A vel frame is humanoid in appearance and designed to resemble their creators. They are constructed of a flexible and strong carbon fiber-like material, which allows them move smoothly. Areas of the frame that no not need to flex are covered by exotic and strong "organic metals" for lack of a better term. External areas are often covered by this material as well, providing armour-like protection. This quasi-organic construction allows vel frames to regenerate over time, just as organics are able to heal injuries.

A vel's organic quantum computers (which together form a neural network, similar to that of a human brain) are housed not in the head, but in the frame's torso: the most protected area. Its systems are connected by a "nervous system" joined together by fiber-optic cables.

Each vel is possessed of a "circulatory system" which pumps a viscous, inorganic fluid through their frame. This fluid's main purpose is to transport nanites about the frame to repair and perform maintenance on inorganic systems.

Vel frames have four arms which are normally joined together to combine strength and conserve space. In fact, most are unaware of this fact until they have seen this feature in use.
Vel heads do not contain computer components, not do they resemble val heads at all. The most obvious feature is large photoreceptor in the middle, this is the vel's primary camera, although smaller sensors are scattered about the frame giving it 360 degree vision. The vel's olfactory sense is also housed in the head.
Vel frames are modular, and often accept new components. Vel are able to transfer themselves into new frames or onto servers, but this usually only done is the original frame is irrevocably damaged or a new model is released.

Language: Vel do not communicate linguistically amongst themselves. Each vel is able to network with all others, and they use this ability to transfer thoughts, ideas, memories, and experiences to each other without the need to translate them into bulky verbage.

Character:

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Spoken Name: Jerun (yeh-ROON)

Age: Fifty Terran Years (Current Frame: Ten Years)

Species: Vel

Appearance: Vel frames do not typically show much variation beyond colourization. Jerun's frame is vibrantly-coloured to species which can see in the ultraviolet spectrum, to humans it appears dark green with some areas being black and others white. The frame does not itself give off any light but visible light from its main photoreceptor.

Crew Position: Linguist, technician, and/or scientist, whichever is available.

Skills: Able to learn a new language quickly. (Immediately if downloading from a database.) Easily able to understand most machines and organic systems. Able to network. Lax environmental needs.

Merits: Stronger, faster, and more agile than organics. Accepting of other people and cultures. Very adaptable.

Needs only energy to survive.

Flaws: Non-existent social skills. Not able to easily understand humanoid thought processes. Naïveté. Often unintentionally aloof and distant.

History:

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Jerun was created fifty Terran years ago. Jerun is highly curious, even more so than most vel. From an early age it began exploring neighbouring space with the newly-invented FTL drive.
Ten years ago, shortly after downloading into its new platform, it began a journey to seek out traces of the vels' creators, as many have done since the invention of FTL. This is Jerun's overarching goal, but it is happy to serve on a starship with the intent of exploring the universe at large.

[Holeypaladin]

Cool character. I think Jerun will be very interested in Anne's fully biological platform....

[Freethinker]

Cool character. I think Jerun will be very interested in Anne's fully biological platform....

Probably, although it might be a little confused why she chose a fully-organic form.

[Holeypaladin]

She can explain that, too.

RP is up, feel free to get started

Corsair

[WittyReference]

The main thing to note is that the Syndicate would have violated the Second Interstellar Law by invading his underdeveloped planet.

The other thing is, the Syndicate War has only really been going on for a few months now, so the "for years after that" would likely need to be reduced to "For weeks or months after that".

Also, if you're working for the Syndicate currently, you wouldn't be able to start out on Vegalia, unless you were "Rescued" or something by Surian scientists.

Hm... as it stands there seem to be quite a few things wrong :/
To avoid further confusion with the fundamental laws of your world, would you have any suggestions as to reconcile Jabber Jaw and your setting?

[Holeypaladin]

Well, I included an idea in there at the end... it's possible that the Syndicate had abducted him, since they don't give a crap about interstellar laws, and he's either been rescued or will be rescued at some point in the story.

[Freethinker]

So, none of these people have had any contact with Earth? There's an awful lot of references to Terran culture: English names, vodka, ect. It's just a little odd.

[urukhai]

Name: Sarin R'aeth

Gender:Male

Race: Child of the Void

Race Description: The Children of The Void are an elusive humanoid nomadic race that tends to shy away from the affairs of large empires. The most notable features of the slim CoV is their eyes that have crescent shaped pupils, the fact that their legs are vaguely dog like due to the fact that instead of a normal ankle they have a hock and walk on the balls of their feet, finally they have a tendency to hunch at the shoulders and their spine is more pronounced than most races. They normally breath an atmosphere of 85% Nitrogen but are able to breath in one that has less (down two 69% in a worst case) although this causes them some discomfort

Age: 26 GSY

Appearance: Standing at a height of 6'5'' Sairn is a standard height, his eyes are the normal two tone white and black. He wears a black and red combat armor and a breathing mask. Where his left arm was he instead has a bare metal bionic replacement

Crew Position: Cyber Warfare

Skills: Hacking, electronic maintenance, programming, zero-g combat, close quarters

Marits: Has lived on ships his entire life, doesn't get angry very easily, puts the survival of the whole above the survival of the individual (also a flaw)

Flaws: Secretive, curious to a fault, puts the survival of the whole above the survival of the individual, atmosphere requirements (slight fault)

History: One of the very few to leave the fleet to explore further Sarin is a bit of an oddity among other Void Children. Sarin was born in the first fleet where he grew up, from a young age he was trained to fight, fix problems, and use electronics (the latter of which he excelled at). He lost his arm at the age of 19 GSY when he was in a repair accident aboard one of the older ships in the fleet when a bulkhead activated prematurely and closed, severing it in the process. After receiving his custom arm and armor he simply took his leave of his kind to explore the galaxy at large.