Sometime in the Late 21st Century The AI sat down and stared at the crypods from the luxurious leather-bound couch, just one of many dotting the observation lounge that ran along her own keel. It was an oval-shaped blister that extended from the great white ship's broad belly with floor-to-ceiling windows and two spiral staircases up into the first deck. The walls were paneled with wood, wonderfully dark oak that gleamed under the dim emergency lighting. The floor was some sort of dark grey carpet which muffled footsteps and felt wonderful underfoot, if one was barefoot. The cruise ship's avatar stared and stared, seemingly oblivious to the mournfully howling horns and slowly spinning beacons. Their yellow beams would occasionally cast themselves upon the jaguar, then onto the frosted metal tubes, then they would continue their journey around the room again. Outside the windows was the desolate rock by the name of Ceres on one side, and a field of asteroids to the other. The dim sun was behind Terra's broad stern, and the unknown void lay beyond her spade-shaped nose. Terra was projecting a hard hologram avatar of herself onto the couch, an anthropomorphic jaguaress with a white tunic and a flowing skirt. The female was fairly tall, standing at around five feet nine, with graceful, slender body lines and a nearly perfect face. She was dressed almost like she had come from ancient Rome. Her memory was spotty and failing, however. Sometime, in the past, something had happened to the ship. Something had struck the 950 foot long Terra, taken her crew and passengers, and left her wounded in the inky blackness. Her computerized mind slowly worked as she stared at the pods with a tilted head... she had been sitting there for hours now. Finally she sat up and approached the metal cylinders with their tinted glass, raised a hand, and started the defrost sequence. Welcome to the Terra The Terra, the pride of the Silver Linings Transit Corporation. They are known for fast, luxurious, and safe trips from Earth to Mars. She was one of their newest ships, a mighty ship with accommodations for hundreds of passengers. Cruise Number 1831 was just like any other. She departed from Earth Geosynchronous Station Five without any issues on November 10, 2086. She was flying to Mars within instant-comms range of an older liner named Edmund Fitzgerald II and the Dynasty, a rather ugly but sturdy cargo ship. That's what was supposed to happen, anyways. You paid for the cheapest ticket and were stuffed into a cryopod and frozen before Terra even departed her dock. Now you find yourself pulled from your cryogenic sleep into a broken, battered ship with no crew aboard save for the AI, whose mind is slowly faltering. She can't even tell you what time it is, or what happened to the ship. Terra needs your help, though. No one has come to rescue you, and the ship is falling to pieces. One of the three reactors is in the midst of a slow meltdown, the other two are spewing radiation into the sealed engineering decks like geysers, and the engines are down. Multitudes of systems are damaged or broken. her auxiliary life support is recycling oxygen and pumping stale, smelly air around the ship. Gravity wavers and falters. The communications systems are gone. You are at the far reaches of manned space flight, in a high orbit of Ceres. It's up to you to get home or have someone rescue you. The Current Times: RULES! Passenger Manifest: Annett Cline (CLIW) James ScKephet (gojidorah) Kyle James Allen (Automaton) Nick Clinton (Rogue Detective) Luke O'Brien (redrout) Post Order: Terra (Inkdrop) Annet Cline (CLIW) James ScKephet (gojidorah) Kyle James Allen (Automaton) Nick Clinton (Rogue Detective) Luke O'Brien (Redrout) Passenger Signup Sheet Please excuse the mess! I am new at this.

I'll go ahead and post this here, and move it if it's accepted. Name: Annett Cline Brief Description: Hoping to study Mars and the stars but unable to get a grant, she boarded the cheapest flight to Mars. Back on Earth when she was 21, she was in a machinery-related accident at a factory job, and lost her right arm at the shoulder. Luckily she got a cybernetic replacement, equipped with all the 'sensors' of a real arm, as well as EM sensors; she controls it with her brain. She hasn't fully come to terms with how it makes her look or the original trauma of the accident. Occupation: Amateur astronomer Age: 29

Looks alright to me, CLIW.

Question: Are we all over galaxies and are there aliens, or just humans and androids? Sorry if this has already been previously stated.

It hasn't and it should be more clearly stated. The furthest manned expeditions so far have been to Ceres, but those are stretching the limits of current tech. Faster-than-light travel is still out of reach and first contact has not been made.

Name: James ScKephet Brief Description: Born in one of Luna's bustling cities, James had several problems growing up as a child. He had problems with his immune system and his legs and hips in particular, as with most of the people who were born on Luna (Thankfully, the defects here aren't as bad here as they are on Mars) Most get fixed when they are three with inner leg brace implants which are tightened every two years or so, to keep them growing properly. Because of this, James walks with a slight permanent limp on his left side, where one of the braces weren't tightened well enough. James is close to his older brother, Mark, who works on Mars as an Iron worker. Mark recently had a major promotion to supervisor, not a BIG deal, but it does give James an excuse to book a flight and come visit him. Occupation: Currently unemployed Age: 23 I hope I didn't go overboard with some of the details in the background relating to Luna, but if someone were to be born anywhere other than Earth, there are bound to be problems.

Name:Kyle James Allen Brief Description: James was born on earth, always dreamed of being an engineer and living on mars. After he finished school he moved there and met the love of his life, had a good life for a long time. When his mother died he took the fastest way back to earth for the funeral. He was coming back to Mars and decided to relax on the way there, though he didn't realize that he was short on credits and needed to go Cyro on the cruise ship. Occupation: Engineer Age:29 Image: Soon...Soon... Other (optional) Info: Genetic engineered: When he was a teenager he was convinced he was going to be a welder, so he saved up all his money and when he was nineteen he got a genetic manipulation which coated the bones of his hands with metal and heat resistant skin so that he could handle hot objects without being harmed.

Those both look alright. I'll accept them. I think there is one more person, then I can start the IC.

hmmmm, maybe I should change my character's first name. Automation also went with James.

Oh no, i'll change it. Update Done.

Ok, Thanks! I'm terrible at coming up with names. Just my luck, names are one of the most important aspects of any RP. hehe

All lists updated accordingly. Sorry... like I said, I hardly know what I am doing here.

Your doing good Inkdrop, but I must ask. Can we discover an alien species in this rp?. Maybe one that has come to salvage the wreck of this cruise ship?. If you want I can create the specifics of the aliens myself.

I don't actually know what happened to Terra either. It can go to sabotage, pirates, war, aliens are fine. I am okay with it if first contact happens in this.

Maybe this should be something we come up with as we go along, like a mystery for us players as well as the characters.

Hmmmm do true, though it would kinda suck if we weren't organized with this, I was planning on going with an Aliens:Isolation type of idea with this I.E aliens aboard gotta hide,escape etc.

That would actually be really cool, but isn't that overdone just a tad? I'm fine either way though.

I don't really like having them being aboard the Terra, because then Terra herself should have noticed and I don't think she would let the cryopods thaw then. Maybe they could been slowly pulling her towards a base near Ceres?

yeah, The ship could have had a slight collision with an asteroid, sending Terra extremely off course then being noticed by some Extra-terrestrial beings wanting a closer look...

That would still make sense with her being abandoned, because the crew might have evacuated the passengers as well as themselves, but left a few cryopods in their haste. With Terra's amnesia problems she likely won't be able to remember... something with the Edmund Fitzgerald II or the Dynasty could have happened as well. Attempted attack, collision, etc...