Something interesting about myself: I am a huge star trek fan. Star Trek Voyager and Deep Space 9 were my child hood (those and X-Files, Gundam Wing, Dragonball Z, and MASH). I am crazy busy/stressed right now because the store I manage is closing, so I am working closer to 50 hours a week then I want. Despite this, I love RP, and it one of my relaxation things, so I log on and check for updates at least once a day and will post withing a day or two of a GM post, one way or another!
Ship Name: The Intrepid
Universe Background: The Intrepid and her crew come from the young Galaxy of Valor Prime. A Star system that used to be ripe with resources, but the Valori people expanded far to quickly for their resources to support, and turned to space exploration at an early stage. Their ships were meant for deep space harvest and fabrication, but deep space is relative to their small naive scope of the universe.
Crew Complement: Fully staffed the ship employes 175 crewmen, most of them are engineers, mechanics, and scientists.
Ship Description: The Intrepid is unique in that it has what is referred to as a Modular Hull. Due to its purpose of harvest and manufacturing, it has various formations that it can take, depending on the project at hand. During travel it is a simple ring, with the bridge residing at the bottom of the ring. Six thrusters allow the ship movement in any direction from any orientation. When not traveling quickly the ring remains open but has several arms that can be used to manipulate objects outside the ship like other ships for salvage, or asteroids. These arms can also be used for large construction or major repairs to another vessel. The Valori are a peaceful people by nature, after all. Having said that, they are not without their defenses. In a combat situation the inside of the ring is lined with a several photon laser cannons. These can fire individually or together to build a charge blast of considerable power. If might cannot overcome their foe, the ring will collapse and reinforce itself, all resources aside from repair, and life support are diverted to shield generators to keep the deflector array powered up long enough to either discourage attackers, or long enough for reinforcements arrive. Due to the nature of the ship, it is larger than most for its crew size, and do to the relative youth of the Valori people, her technology is low in contrast to some others. But who so any great minds on board, she will be quick to adapt to new technology presented to her.
Unique Capabilities: The Intrepid was intended to build resource platforms for deep space resource mining of moons, asteroids, etc. It is also a science vessel intended for experiments and research.
History of the Ship: The Intrepid was on its way to resource moon 16 (RM-16), or called The Broken Heart by the romantics due its asteroid assaulted form in order to begin construction on the harvest stations. This is the furthest any Valori had traveled from home, but that was what the Intrepid was designed for. As such the ship was relatively well stocked on almost all supplies needed for the journey and has an abundance of raw material for the construction process as the ship had not made it half way to RM-16 before being sucked up into a black hole.
Some Important People: Captain Sarah Parker, Youthful energetic and hopeful. First mate Tucker Knoll, capable diplomat, former soldier. Head Engineer Simone Sayer, brilliant, pessimist, paranoid. Head Scientist Albert Pegg, introverted, excitable, former university professor.

Something interesting about myself:
So I’m a massive fanboy of Rooster Teeth, specifically the Red vs blue franchise, and I may have the entire show on DVD.

Ship Name:
The USLS Oblivion

Universe Background:
The Human race was interested in the rapid expansion of the . as more planets were colonised the Outer colony seemed to Grow further and further from the System of Elgamo. After a time the outer colonies slowly grew angry, feeling mistreated the rebelled Of course the insurrection started off with small little raids on government Transports and transport vessels and soon grew to planet-wide riots. Soon most of the outer rim was In turmoil. The United Space Legion was set up to retain peace in these outer colonies Their military presence patrolled the trade routes and acted as an official Force of law in space, Whilst their Special Offices of Space command (AKA SOSCOM) ‘dealt’ with the militia leaders and kept the Outer rim under control. It is in this era of ‘peace’ that the Ship Oblivion was built.

Crew Complement:
Composed of about 11,000 men, the Oblivion is compiled mainly of scientists, roughly about 6,000, about 4,000 legionaries including engineers , and about 900 troops and 100 officers

Ship Description:
The Heavy Weight Research Ship; codename OBLIVION was originally intended as a heavyweight cruiser designed to quell the Forces of the insurrectionists. Once SOSCOM dealt with the insurrectionists the ship’s purpose changed. SOSCOM took control of the ship’s production, changing it from a heavy frigate into a research vessel. The Heavy cannons changed into Long distance radars and science arrays. Although the majority of the weaponry was altered to equipment, the main cannon An Anti Particle Accelerator Cannon,Known to the Crew as an APAC, as well as a few magnetic accelerators On each side. The Ship still contains the multiple hangar bays planned originally, but now are fitted for landing craft and a few small fighters. The space in the ship is a very sterile environment, and the majority of the lower decks are primarily for Labs and medical bays. Although primarily a research vessel there is still a considerable military force onboard in the form of marines and a couple of squads of Shock troops.

Unique Capabilities:

As an experimental research ship, the Oblivion's shields and defence are much higher than your standard cruiser. But it’s fire power is massively decreased, It’s the main cannon, although very powerful would only be a short blast and requires too much energy to power to fire constantly in a firefight

due to its size it isn't a very manoeuvrable ship but it has a fantastic straight line speed due to its experimental engines.

Its advanced sensor array allows for the ship to detect extremely distant disturbances in space-time, as well as determine substances via spectrometers.

History of the Ship:
Before being taken into the wormhole the Oblivion was assigned roughly 2000 astronomical, and physics research papers to complete on it’s 15 celestial year mission. Each paper having its own lab time, and 3 scientists assigned to it, once a paper was completed the scientists would then transfer to assist a different project. The latest Mission Was headed up by Kora stone, a budding physicist in the field of neutron stars, her latest paper being based upon the degradation of the neutron layer. Her research lead the Oblivion to the system Alpha hejalinas-99B When an unexpected gravitational disturbance appeared.

Some Important People:

• Captain Raiden Korten;
  At first glance, Raiden wouldn't be considered your average military officer. An outside of the box kind of guy Allows him to make strong well thought out decisions rather than taking orders at a first glance. He Often is known to situations into his own hands as he is a strong believer in the saying; "If you can't get a job done, Do it yourself!"
• Executive Officer Miles Cantar;
  Miles is the Steadfast military brain, She worked through the ranks of the USL and was accepted into the SOSCOM officer academy. Trained in hand to hand combat she prefers to head up the ground missions on possible inhabitable planets or boarding parties on Pirate ships. Often used as a second opinion for Raiden in times of distress.
• SOSCOM Science officer Alexander Haines;
  Often Referred to as DOC By the crew, he Is the brains on Oblivion's Mission into the Deep space void between the galaxies. It is his paper that the mission is originally based upon. Although the science officer he often dabbles in the Engineering of the ship, as it is controlled by an experimental Energy source allowing the ship to travel at thousands of times the speed of causality, well that's what they hope.
• SOSCOM Head engineer Steve Thirlwell;
  Dr. T Is the headstrong leader of the engineering department in the oblivion. Good friends with Alexander to two often converse about options of increasing efficiency and increasing the jump range of the ship. Although there are 'disagreements' between some of the science staff and himself about the owner of some the equipment onboard.

Ship Name: UEGNC Paramount (BRC-619)

Universe Background: Humanity first travelled to space sometime in the mid-20th century in their home system of Sol, located in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, thus becoming a spacefaring race. Yet decades of research and billions of dollars would prove that it would be still to dangerous and expensive to keep sending humans to space on a regular basis, and the dream of space travel would be something people could only dream of. It would be more than a hundred years later that humanity would finally leave their homeworld Earth to colonise the closest planet to Earth, Mars. This would be the first stage of human space travel. Decades more would be spent researching the future of intra solar travel, but humanity would finally achieve this in the mid 22nd century, colonising Earth's moon Luna and Titan, Saturn's moon.

A breakthrough would happen in the early 23rd century, with scientists developing the first faster-than-light capable spacecraft. Though slow, averaging at only 1.1 lightyears per day, it would nonetheless be a massive scientific achievement. Another decade of research and development later, the prototype FTL drive would finally be complete and mass produced, this one being much faster at more than 20 lightyears per day. The process would be known as the Relative Intra-dimensional Field Transit, or RIFT, for the way it worked. It literally cut a hole in the fabric of space, allowing a spacecraft to pass through. Here, it is almost like a wormhole, and the ship would be able to take a shortcut through space, quickly getting transported to another location.

By this time, humanity had gone interstellar, with dozens of planets being colonised every year. During this time, the old governing body of Earth, the United Nations, was reformed into the United Earth Government, and its military wing, the United Earth Government Naval Command, to oversee colonial operations. Of course, some people were not happy with this. In the late 23rd century, the First Interstellar War began, taking place in the Sol System and the nearest star system, Epsilon Eridani. While the conflict would only last for a mere three months, more wars would follow in the coming years.

By the mid 29th century, humanity had gone on to colonise more than eight thousand planets in hundreds of star systems. Then, in 2843, humanity encountered the alien Vaskran Empire, a race of sentient reptilian bipedals. After an independent human mining vessel unknowingly dropped out of a RIFT tunnel at the edge of Vaskran space, it was immediately fired upon by the Vaskran ships in the area. The Vaskrans who boarded the ship mistook seismic charges used for mining as weapons, and the aliens invaded human space where the mining ship left, thinking it a declaration for war. The Vaskrans attacked the human colony of Cascade in the Epsilon Eridani System, coming with a fleet of ships and soldiers. Thanks to the efforts of the the local armed forces and Marines, the invading force was pushed back.

This victory would be short lived, however, as colony after colony was attacked. The UEGNC was put on red alert as humanity scrambled to face this new threat. This new conflict would prove to be the most disastrous in human history, lasting more than eight years and costing billions of human lives, not to mention trillions of credits. In the year 2851, during the final month of the Vaskran War, humanity would lead a massive fleet into the heart of Vaskran space as a last resort. While this tactic would work as it caught the Vaskrans off guard, it would be extremely costly, with more than 85% of the fleet destroyed. Ultimately, the Vaskran War would come to an end less than a week later, after the human fleet destroyed a major Vaskran staging ground. The aliens would finally be pushed back, and retreated from all human controlled space, bringing an end to the eight-year war.

Crew Complement: In total, the Paramount can carry more than 13,250 crew, with more than half of that made up of Marines. The ship can also hold a vast number of fighting vehicles and a small complement of civilian scientists.

Ship Description: The Paramount is one of the first Vengeance-class line of battlecruisers, built to be a replacement for the old Magnitude-class battlecruisers. They are more heavily armed and pack more defences than the older ones, boasting more advanced shields and far more weapons. The Vengeance-class is also significantly larger than every other previous class of battlecruiser, being a full 4.21 kilometres in length, just a mere dozen or so metres smaller than a Apollo-class medium battleship. The Paramount is roughly 988 metres wide and 1.02 kilometres tall. Its most notable feature is its three powerful Mark XII spinal Particle Cannons, the newest model of the standard ship primary weapon. The particle cannon fires a massive beam of charged ions at around 81% the speed of light. It disrupts the atomic structure of a target, literally ripping atoms apart. This usually causes targets to undergo a massive reaction, exploding into a massive fireball. Its secondary armament consists of twenty-four dual barrel hypervelocity railgun turrets on each side. It has several hundred missile pods, each one carrying dozens of missiles of varying yield. It has several hundred close-in weapon defence turrets as its tertiary armament.

Unique Capabilities: Being a battlecruiser, the Paramount fills in both the roles of battleship and cruiser simultaneously. As such, it has the firepower and protection of a battleship and the manoeuvrability and versatility of a cruiser. It has powerful shields being able to take several thousand megatons of force before breaking. It can also function as a light carrier, having a large amount of vehicles ranging from tiny scout vehicles to massive quad walkers.

Its advanced sensor array can detect targets from more than a million kilometres away. Being the newest line of ship, it has six prototype Mark VIII repulsor engines, being able to cruise through space at more than 12,000 kilometres per second. It has twelve plasma engines as a secondary mode of propulsion.

It is equipped with a Chevron FTL RIFT Drive Model CK-523, allowing it to travel more than a thousand lightyears per day. It is also able to do intra-system jumps, easily escaping danger.

History of the Ship: The ship was commissioned during the closing years of the Vaskran War, planned to be a warship able to take on entire fleets. It proved to be one of the most capable ships ever designed, exceeding expectations. It also turned out to be one of the most versatile ships in the fleet, filling in the roles of battleship, cruiser, carrier, and fleet support, along with being capable of laying down orbital bombardments for troops down below. It has since become the flagship of the Eighth Interstellar Expedition Fleet, a fleet dedicated to exploration and colonisation.

Some Important People:

Captain Leonard Powers: A legendary naval commander from the Vaskran War. Once lead a single ageing Independence-class battleship against a small fleet of enemy warships, and came out victorious. Known for being blunt and brutally honest.

Lieutenant Charles Briggs: Another legendary naval commander from the later years of the war. Oversaw the operations on the human colony Tribute when the Vaskrans attacked. With nothing but his Colorado-class heavy frigate and the local patrol fleet, he armed human freighters and lead an attack. He would come out victorious. Kinder and friendlier than most veterans.

Major Joseph Cornell: A decorated Marine commander. Was present during the Battle of Cascade, and lead the defence against the Vaskrans. Continued to fight for the rest of the war.

Agent Walter Phillips: A young intelligence agent, and the son of famed naval commander Admiral Jonah Phillips. Leads the intelligence division, and is known for his tactical mindset.

Dr. Stuart Travesty: Head of the Paramount science team. Has a brilliant mind but his extreme clumsiness often gets in his way.

Nikolai: The ship's resident advanced artificial intelligence that oversees most of the ship's functions. Takes on the appearance and personality of a stereotypical drunk World War II-era Red Army soldier.

Dusty: An artificial intelligence construct that controls the Paramount's autonomous drone complement, and is in charge of most non-combat functions. Appears and acts like a typical Southern United States farmer.

Something interesting about myself: Oh I'm just a guy who's got quite the appreciation for sci-fi settings, is into gaming, and is currently attempting to get through college. To be frank, I really don't have much to say about myself.

Ship Name:V.V. Pale Quiver

Universe Background: Valtorians, humans that hail from a sector of space known as "Rantora", are perhaps one of the smaller factions that dot the war torn region. While the territories around them have constantly shifted powers between the warring empires, the Valtorians were safe within their system of Valinos', unmolested by the outside conflict. In Valtorian society, one's status is everything, and whether it was displayed through wealth, talent, or dress, everyone knew exactly who they were dealing with. Valtorians had quite an interest in simple, yet refined life styles, which can be seen in their architecture, culture, clothing, and fighting styles. However as time passed, divergence movements began to take form. Valtoria's borders had been closed to the outside world, and entry to the planet was forbidden to outsiders. This did not stop the on-going trade in the western settlements that would later become known as the Western Republic unfortunately. As tensions increased, members of the Eastern Traditionalist Movement (Later becoming the Eastern Nations) began to carry out aggressive acts of terrorism in the west. Civil war broke out between the two parties, a war that lasted only four years. Each side employed riflemen, armed with modified bolt action rifles, and skilled swordsman which gracefully dealt with their foes in close quarters. Valtoria came under siege by an outside force during the conflict, which prompted millions of Valtorians to attempt to flee from their homeworld, rather than surrender to a foreign force. Thousands were caught by the blockade, or shot down during their attempted escape, and now the remnant survivors of Valtoria are scattered across the sector. For many, they follow the guidance of the Arche-Council, what can be considered a unified central government for the Valtorian people. Each pocket of Valtorian refugees have adapted their tactics to suit their new environments and their situations. Some commit to more acts of raiding trade fleets for supplies, while others may openly trade with strangers. Despite their differences, they are all unified by a common goal. A chance to reclaim their home.

Crew Complement:Valtorians are short in numbers, nor has their specialties ever involved space-faring vessels. This small frigate is crewed by a simple crew of fifty-four people. (21 Riflemen, 5 swordsman, 4 scientist/doctors, 12 engineers, 12 gunners.)

Ship Description:


The Pale Quiver is a 220 meter long frigate, which specializes pursuing targets, and agility. In the right hands, this frigate is capable of narrowly dodging incoming fire with key maneuvers. The ship itself is not of Valtorian design, it was instead captured by a Valtorian boarding party, and retro-fitted with energy weaponry(7 UV lasers turrets in total, 1 belly mounted particle lance) to aid in it's mission of extended recon. It also comes equipped with a strong energy shield, which protects the vessel quite nicely from energy weaponry, but kinetics can easily overwhelm the shield capacitors. Without the shields, the frigate at a massive risk, due to the light armor that surrounds the hull. Extra armaments include two torpedo launchers with a stock of twelve torpedoes in total. As for the ship interior, it's rather uninteresting when compared to the usual standard for a Valtorian ship. The crew quarters are crowded, the mess hall small. The crew however have managed to convert a portion of the ship's midsections for recreation, and a corner in the cargo-bay for training exercising.

Unique Capabilities:Speed and maneuverability are two words that can be used to describe this frigate's finer talents. Most of the ship's primary features are automated by the ship's primary computer, but all systems still have someone monitoring them and interacting with them if necessary. The ship was built around handling lengthy assignments, and therefore the primary thrusters have been modified to consume less fuel. An ECM system has also been installed to help with evading lock-ons and tracking methods.

History of the Ship:Ever since the Pale Quiver was captured by Valtorian forces, it's only known it's current crew for about three years. The Frigate has been assigned to numerous patrols around their settlement's portion of space, and recon missions into uncharted space for scavenging runs. Throughout it's on going three year deployment, it's been rather uneventful for the most part, save for a few assignments where they were defending their portion of space with several other vessels. The odds weren't in their favor, but their sense of duty outweighs their concern for personal safety. The crew spent most of their time either chasing off non-aligned vessels, or sending salvaging teams aboard derelict vessels and ship wrecks for supplies. That's what their last assignment was, just another salvaging run in uncharted space. That was the last time the Pale Quiver was on long range sensors.

Some Important People:

Captain Taris Val' Markurio:Taris wasn't actually the original captain for the crew. The original captain Jeckins was slain in battle during a rather brutal boarding assault, which Taris rallied the remaining forces in the bridge to his side, and made a counter attack against the invading force. The man himself was quite a renown swordmaster, skilled with both a blade and his trusty sidearm. Ever since his previous Captain's death, he's been reluctant to charge headlong into conflict, or battle. He's always been extremely cautious when approaching the unknown, and that's kept him alive so far, so he see's no reason to change his tactics.

Battlemaster Gregor Val' Hendrick:In Valtorian Military society, you either become a master of rifles, or a master of swords. Those who become both are known simply as Battlemasters. Gregor is a veteran of the Valtorian civil war, and going into his early 40s. His face bears scars of past conflicts. Such scars would generally diminish the pride of a Valtorian, but Gregor wears them with pride. After all, at the end of the day, he could say that he was the one who was still standing. Generally the Battlemaster commands the soldiers on-board, and acts as a bodyguard for the Captain when the situation demands it. His duty to the Valtorian cause outweighs everything else, including the captain of the ship.. if the captain proves to be disloyal to the cause.

Star-Seer Asha Valencia: Since birth, it was clear that Asha was gifted. After extensive testing, it was concluded that Asha possessed a moderate psionic capability. Despite her inherent blindness, she's always been quite sensitive to her surroundings, to how those around her feel, and of her position within space. For these reasons, it was decided by a member of the Arche-Council that Asha should be assigned to the navy as a member of the Star-Seer branch. Star-Seers are psionic navigators which are currently an experimental branch of the the Valtorian Navy that's undergoing testing. She was assigned to the Pale Quiver, due to the nature of it's deep space field missions, and it's tendency to travel across long distances of space. Aboard the Pale Quiver, Asha took her time warming up to the crew, and eventually began to act as a councilor of sorts for the assorted members of the crew. She's very reserved however, and prefers to keep to herself when she can.

Duster Corvin Belos: A civilian grade engineer, and one that was for hire too. Corvin has a talent for turning scrap metal into a thing of beauty, and then melting it all down again and actually doing something useful with it. He keeps the other civilian grade engineers busy by assessing the ship's current status, then handing out the tasks for them. If the ship's making strange noises, he's usually the first to hear it. Corvin was a scrapper found on one of the many Valtorian refugee settlements who like many others was looking for a job. He was approached by the previous captain of the Pale Quiver, who was looking for someone with the talents to scrap shipwrecks for them. Corvin was hesitant at first, but at the mention of pay, his hesitation quickly faded.

First, note that I'm pointing these out with the purpose of increasing fun. I'm aiming for constructive criticism, not to tear apart your idea.

• maximum crew of 70000: Just to keep ships on an approximately even level, I recommend cutting this by a factor of ten, although I understand you don't have the full 70,000 on board.
• [ship capabilities]: It's got great defense, normal weapons and a special weapon, it's fast, and it's got full crew facilities. What's its downside? The ship is made for battle, so perhaps it's terrible for keeping up crew morale? I can see some interesting psychological angles here, actually, especially if the crew has to undergo the pressures of constant battle for 300 years. There's gotta be some PTSD-like things cropping up, and people changing and cracking under pressure. And it's the Flagship, so I have to imagine that it's also used for the Galactic Empire-Equivalent of ribbon-cutting ceremonies, which means everything has to be spotless most of the time, which means hours and hours of a warship's crew... cleaning. Yaaayyy military.
• "said to be unbeatable by any": I get the difference between reputation and actual fact, but I wonder how that will stack up in an RP setting. Obviously the Dilonian isn't unbeatable, but does her crew know that? Have they become cocky? And don't be afraid to let your crew lose, even if they've had to only take a tactical retreat before returning fully-repaired and ready to rip the Killians a new one. Flavor and variety is the spice of life, or at least RP characters.
• Characters - They all seem perfect at their jobs. Again, that makes some sense; it's the flagship, so they'd want the best of the best. But, the thing that makes the best the best is their talents despite their flaws; certainly, flaws are a major part of what makes a character interesting to interact with in an RP. I guess I'm just not getting a great sense of personality, but then again, personality is often one of those things that comes through far more readily within the RP itself.

...drat. Doing this is making me want to go back and edit my sheet now. It's the curse of analyzing writing!