[OOC] The Frontier ( An anthro space western roleplay)

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 The Frontier

 An anthro space western roleplay


Premise


The Frontier is a Sci-Fi roleplay with anthropomorphic animals that follows the exploits of the crew of the cargo ship SS Dauntless as they try to make a living on the fringe of colonized space. The roleplay draws heavy inspiration from franchises such as Firefly/serenity and Cowboy Bebop. In this roleplay the crew will take various jobs to make a living on the frontier of colonized space. The jobs can range from anything legal to doing very illegal stuff. After all, the frontier is a rough place where government control is not as sharp. People do what is necessary to survive.

This roleplay will focus heavily on the crew of the Dauntless as they travel through the known universe on the fringe of colonized space. This roleplay will not have a big overarching plot but will be a series of adventures based upon jobs, our characters backstories and other influences. Players are greatly encouraged to bring in their own stories, ideas and ghosts from their past to shape the universe around them.

The Crew

Captain: Evren Frost@Milkman
First officer: Luck @PerfectThought
Pilot: Anxi Yue @EmiliaBaiYue
Navigator:
Chief engineer:
Mechanic: Karma Riddle @Expendable
Doctor: Darien Ziplon @BigPapaBelial
Other:
Other:
Other:




The rules

Keep it Roleplayer Guild friendly. Any content that is not allowed to post on the forum should not be in this roleplay.
No godmodding/power-playing/auto-hitting/controlling other players characters and stuff like that.
Be friendly, tolerant and tolerable. Treat your fellow players with respect and don’t be afraid to communicate with them or the GM. If you have any problems, concerns or stunning idea’s then reach out to the GM and the rest of the group.
The players are greatly encouraged to expand and add existing lore. New colonies, planets and organizations are all fine. Just consult the GM about it first so that we can keep the lore coherent and up to date.
If you lose interest, run out of time or have some reason that you are no longer willing or able to participate in the roleplay, then it would be really awesome to write your character out of the story. If there is some reason such as a vacation, funeral, wedding or whatever that makes you unable to post for a while, please communicate about it and we can work things out.
The desired post frequency is 2 to 3 posts per week. If that is too fast or too slow for you, then this roleplay is simply not for you. In the case that players go missing without a trace the GM will take over their characters as NPCs.
Casual or better writing standards. Write a paragraph or two and use spell check.
There will be a maximum of 10 participants in this roleplay. Players will be accepted based upon their character sheet. Once your character is approved you’ll be on the roleplay.



The lore

Terra is the home planet where everything started. Under pressure from overpopulation and pollution, space travel and colonization switched into high gear around 300 years ago. With the invention of the Fusion engine distances within the solar system could be traversed in reasonable time with large payloads. With constant acceleration fusion engines near lightspeed traveling became a possibility, reaching the furthest colonies in matters of months. Terra is governed by the Union of Nation-states, UNS for short. The UNS is a federation of independent Terran states who have unified in order to maintain peace and prosperity on Terra itself. State based space travel is all done under the UNS flag. The Union of Nation-States Space agency is the primary organization that enforces government control throughout the UNS colonies.
The Dauntless


The Dauntless is a privately owned Constellion class cargo ship. Sixty years ago, the ship was considered one of the most modern vessels any private venture could own. Now the Dauntless is an outdated heap of junk that travels through the edge of the colonized world. The Constellion class cargo ships were once very popular due to its large lifting capabilities, large shuttle deck and capability to land on most surfaces. Next to its minimal crew of 5, the Constellion class is able to carry an extra passenger load of 15 people. 

Technical specs: 
Length: 120 meters
Beam: 60 meters
Height: 40 meters
Empty weight: 100.000 tonnes
Cargo capacity: 50.000 tonnes
Acceleration: Max 4g
Range max fuel: 3500 AU (1g constant acceleration)
Range max payload: 1000 AU (1g constant acceleration)
Crew: 5-10
Passengers: 10
Armament: Unarmed


 Bridge: The bridge of the Dauntless is relatively small. Upfront are two working consoles for both the pilot (left) and navigator (right). In the center of the small room is the working console for the captain/first officer. 
 Crew/passenger living quarters:   The living quarters consist of ten 1-person rooms and five 2 person rooms. At the end of the hallway is the bathroom with multiple showers and toilet facilities. The center of the living quarters is formed by the large kitchen/dining area. At the sides of the dining area are the kitchen facilities and storage spaces and at the center of the space is a large wooden table with 20 seats. The last room in the living quarters is the entertainment room. The entertainment room is not much more than a small cinema/game station with rundown chairs and 60 year old visuals.
 Hibernation room:   For long distance traveling crew members and passengers are put into hibernation for most of the duration of the journey. Hibernation is a state where people’s metabolism, heart rate and breathing are significantly reduced by putting them in a cold induced coma. This process greatly slows down resource consumption. The Dauntless has 20 hibernation pods.
 Medical Bay:  Located just off the Hibernation Room. Domain of the Ship Doctor. For the type of ship it's very well stocked and machined. No less then three medical beds, an Auto-Doc suite for emergencies, and a medical stasis pod for the really bad cases. All stocked with medicine, and materials for many of the woes faced by spacefarers the universe over. An alcove off the main Medical Bay room doubles as a medical office and a bedroom with a arm chair, pillows and blanket for when the Doctor can't or won't be able to go to the living quarters. A comms and work station in the alcove can have it's operations transferred to the bridge if need be.
 Engine room:  The engine room holds all systems for propulsion, artificial gravity and life-support. The systems installed on the Dauntless are roughly 60 years old and need lots of maintenance. The ship is powered by a Mark 2 Fusion reactor and able to reach speeds of up to 0.085% of the speed of light.
 Shuttle deck:  The top deck of the Constellation class ship is the shuttle deck. It has space for six shuttle class spacecraft. Shuttles are launched from atop the ship. At the back of the shuttle deck is the elevator that is used to take the shuttles outside. The top of the ship is used as the takeoff and landing lane for shuttles when landed on planets.
 Cargo deck:  The cargo deck is the lowest deck on the ship. It is not much more than a large room where all kinds of different cargo can be stored. The max cargo load is 400 tons. The Cargo deck has a large entry door underneath the ship.
 Space Flight:  Space Flight is done by the principle of constant acceleration. The process of constant acceleration means that a spaceship will accelerate at the same rate to halfway on the journey and then it will decelerate until it arrives at its destination at near standstill. The maximum speed that is achieved with this process depends on the distance and maximum rate of acceleration. However, speeds beyond near lightspeed are not possible. Speed of Interstellar travel greatly depends on the maximum acceleration rates. The record for acceleration currently is 7g. However the faster the rate of acceleration, the higher the fuel consumption. Interstellar space travel is mostly done on acceleration rates of 1G. Traveling to other star systems is often a process that takes many months.

The biggest challenges for manned spaceflight for long ranges are not speed but resource consumption such as fuel, oxygen, food and water. Hibernation is used to reduce the amount of resources the crew and passengers consume on their trips but the recommended maximum time spent in hibernation by the USN health authorities currently stands at 1 year. 

Distance is measured in Astronomical Units (AU). The 1 AU equals the distance between Terra and its sun (distance between earth and the sun). 
Space flight calculator: http://nathangeffen.webfactional.com/spacetravel/spacetravel.php

The universe

The known universe refers to the stars, planets and moons colonized by those who have left Terra. There are 4 reachable star systems with the current level of technology. The Belenos system is the home system of the people of Terra. Other systems include the Catequil system, Chantico system and the Akhustal system. The distance between these systems is measured in Astronomical Units (distance between Terra and Belenos) between the stars. The known universe is divided into three sections known as The Core, The Border and The frontier. 

 The Core:   The Core is formed by the Belenos system. This is the original star system containing the home planet of Terra. The Belenos system was the first system to be colonized. The colonies are well developed with many metropolitan area’s. The Core is controlled by the Union of Nations and by far most colonies are directly governed by the UNS. 
Star name: Belenos
Ownership/government of colonies: Primarily Union of Nationstates but some are private property of mega corporations
Colony tech level/culture: High-tech sci-fi like. Extremely urbanized


Terra: Terra is the home planet of all the people in the known universe. Overpopulation drove the Terrans to colonize the universe. Pollution has taken its toll over the ages on the planet of Terra and living conditions have deteriorated to the point that the people have to live under special domes in order to keep the toxic air out. Spending too much time outside of a dome will result in sickness and death.


Terra city is the political center of the known verse. Not only is this where the Union of Nations government is located but all Mega Corporations have their official headquarters in the city.
Phobos: Phobos is the only moon of Terra and the first celestial body that was colonized. Unlike the planet Phobos orbits around, the moon is actually a place where you can breathe freely. The experiments with terraforming on Phobos have been very successful and the moon has a pleasant climate and fertile soil. 

One of the most well-known institutions on Phobos moon is the Omni Core Security Academy. The most famous and prestigious private military school of the known universe. It is said that the OCSA training courses are extremely tough and that the research departments are at the frontline when it comes to developing innovative concepts to the art of warfare.

 The Border:   The Border is formed by the Catequil system. The Catequil system is the closest star system to the Belenos system with a distance of just 900 AU. Colonization of the Catequil system started around 400 years ago and most colonies consist of larger urban areas. Colonies found here are either private property of the mega corporations or directly governed by the UNS.
Guidelines for creating elements:
Star name: Catequil
Ownership/government of colonies: Either Union of Nationstates or Mega Corporations
Colony tech level/culture: Mostly large urban area’s with a 20/21st century look and feel. Think Cowboy Bebop cities.

 The frontier:   The frontier is formed by Chantico and Akhustal systems. These star systems are the furthest away from the core and even the fastest interstellar ships take many months to reach them. The Chantico system with a distance of 2500 AU is the closest of the systems making up the frontier. Colonization of the Chantico system started around 100 years ago. The Akhustal system is far away with a distance of 7000 AU but it is considered a very promising region. The first terraforming missions arrived 125 years ago and permanent settlements have only been founded in the past 25 years.  UNS control is pretty much absent and the mega corporations can pretty much do as they please. 
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Star name: Chantico
Ownership/government of colonies:  Mega Corporations or other private ventures
Colony tech level/culture: Mostly smaller settlements. Some remote ones might even be constructed primarily out of wood or other natural resources that are found. Generally colonized planets and  moons have a central hub city which serves as a headquarters for the owning colony.


Proxima: Proxima is a planet that is officially property of the Omnicorp corporation. They hold the exclusive rights to colonize and exploit the planet’s resources. After the terraforming period, the first permanent colony, New Proxima was founded. From this central hub several mining operations were started all across the planet. The successful terraforming of proxima also attracted a lot of illegal settlers who have started various small communities on the planet's surface. Living mostly under the radar of the official authorities.


Star name: Akhustal
Ownership/government of colonies:  Mega Corporations or other private ventures
Colony tech level/culture: Mostly smaller settlements. Some remote ones might even be constructed primarily out of wood or other natural resources that are found. Generally colonized planets and  moons have a central hub city which serves as a headquarters for the owning corporation.


Iroria 1: Iroria 1 is a planet in the Akhustal system. Interest in colonizing this particular planet started roughly 100 years ago when large deposits of valuable minerals were discovered. Both Omnicorp and Wayland corporation expressed interest in starting the colonization of this planet. After much talks, court cases and negotiations the Union of Nations decided that both companies could start the exploitation of Iroria 1 in the form of a joint venture. 
The initial terraforming phase was highly successful and after 75 years the air became breathable and fauna and flora had developed to the point that Iroria 1 was able to support Terran life. Both Wayland and Omnicorp started to set up their mining colonies on the planet’s surface and for about 20 years this uneasy joint-venture managed to stay alive. However conflicts brew over how the profits were split and which company could mine what site. This led to a 5 year brutal war where thousands of colonists and soldiers lost their lives. The Iroria 1 war only ended roughly 1 year ago through mediation of the UNS.
 After the end of the Iroria 1 war the planet attracted many groups of settlers who moved beyond the colonies of the corporations to set up their own small communities mostly outside of the jurisdiction of both the Megacorporations and the UNS.

The Union of Nations was formed 478 years ago at the end of the great cataclysmic war of Terra. During that war many toxic weapons were used and living conditions on the home planet of Terra deteriorated quickly to the point that living on the surface was no longer possible. Only under special domes filled with filtered air could the Terrans prosper. Needless to say that the resources to create enough domes were too scarce on Terra itself to house the population. Under pressure to survive, the different nations of Terra unified in the Union of Nations that together with the mega corporations would lead the colonization of space.  
On paper each and every colony is territory of the UNS and all UNS laws apply. However the UNS does not have the resources and will to enforce the laws far beyond the core. The distance between Terra and the furthest colonies is so great that travel time could be up to a year and even communication is a slow process. 
The Union of Nationstates is a democratic government composed of various local, regional, planetary and interplanetary bodies. In essence the most important structures are its president, the senate and the house of representatives. In theory all citizens in all colonies can vote however mega corporations often overrule UNS institutions in the Rim and border colonies creating their own private countries.

Throughout the history of Terra 4 corporations pioneered space exploration and exploitation and now own together 90% of all colonial assets beyond the core. The mega corporations are officially UNS licensed for space travel and are allowed to have their own private security forces to maintain law and order. The truth is that the mega corporations have much more power in space then the UNS and run their colonies as their own private countries.
The competition between the Mega Corps is extremely fierce and has resulted in what is known as the 5 great company wars. The last violent clash between the mega corporations was the Omni Corp-Wayland war that ended just a year ago. During that conflict over a hundred thousand people lost their lives.
 Alphabet: Alphabet is one of the oldest Mega Corps. It started out during the Information technology revolution of 550 years ago and invested heavily in big data and advertising platforms. They jumped the space race bandwagon as they saw that space vehicles would become one of the new advertisement platforms of the new century. Technology developed by Alphabet can be found anywhere. In spaceships, colonies, personal communication devices, smart-wear. You name it and the Alphabet has their fingers in it, collecting data on you wherever you go. 
Alphabet does not own any colonies themselves but will often invest in other company’s ventures, making sure that their technology is used. In most colonies there are often offices of Alphabet employing all kinds of specialists.
 Omni Corp:   Omni Corp is the largest deep space mining corporation there is. They exploit many colonies on distant planets and moons for mineral mining. They are fiercely competitive and are known for the poor treatment of workers in order to make more profit. Omni Corp invests heavily in exploration and colonization. They maintain an iron rule over their assets and the people working for them.
 Omni Corp has their own private security force named Omni Core that operates a variety of different weapon systems and armed spaceships. The Omni Core is feared throughout the known universe for their Ironclad views on law and order and the often brutal ways they enforce it. Not to mention that the Omni Core is probably the best trained and equipped fighting force among the mega corporations.
 Musk Industries:   Musk Industries was the first private venture that entered the space age. Pioneering private spaceflight and cargo transportation. It was Musk Industries that created the first permanent settlement on the moon of Terra and spearheaded the space-colonization. Their spaceships are world class and Musk Industries was the company that introduced the Constallion class cargo freighter over 60 years ago.
Musk industries heavily invests in the transportation sector ranging from spaceships to land based vehicles. The majority of spaceships that transverse the known universe come from Musk Industries shipyards. Even the CEO of Omni Corp travels space in a Musk Industries Space Yacht.
 Wayland Corp:  
The Wayland Corporation is a conglomerate that has its tentacles in many sectors including deep space mining, arms manufacturing, medicine, computers, spacecraft. You name it and there will be a company linked to the Wayland corporation making the stuff. Wayland is also notorious for its exploitation of colonial residents, lack of moral value and shady business practices. Their hostile takeovers of assets in the frontier are often very violent and involve the deployment of armed mercenaries and thugs. This practice has led to the Wayland-Omnicorp war on planet Iroria 1 that ended only a year ago.

The triads are ancient criminal organizations rooted in tradition and mystery. They all have their origins in Terra and started long before space travel. The most important tradition is the initiation rite. During this rite, the initiate walks underneath a gate of swords towards an altar. From the alter they will pick up a knife and make a deep cut in their left hand in order to make a blood sacrifice in front of the ancient gods. While their blood pours upon the altar, the initiate will recite the oaths of loyalty, secrecy and helpfulness. Once a person becomes a member, they can never leave the triad according to their traditions. Triad members can sometimes be recognized by a scar on their left hand. 
There where money can be made you will find the triads. Triads often have their hands in the less legal businesses such as Drug trafficking, weapons dealing, gambling, prostitution and other forms of illegal activities. The triads are extremely wealthy and own many assets themselves. Often they have influences within mega corporations and even the UNS.



Application


The players are the ones with the power to make and break any roleplay. Their part in the roleplay is just as or even more important as a GM. Because in essence, the players are the ones who make the magic happen.  My job as a GM is to gather a group of remarkable people that motivate each other by their contributions to the roleplay and avoid having people in the group who take the joy away from others. So how does this application process work? Very simple. Tell me a bit about yourself. What do you desire in roleplays? What kind of storylines, pacing and interaction makes you happy? But also what kind of aspects make you lose interest. 

Of course I will be looking over your character sheet too. Your character needs to be interesting and fitting for the theme. An important part of your character sheet is going to be the skill section. Skills might play a major factor in many of the adventures the crew will have. What I would love to see is a cast of characters whose skill sets complement each other. Afterall, roleplaying is a collaborative effort.
Personally I really value that participants bring in the creativity to expand the lore by thinking up new places, people organizations and story lines. I greatly encourage people to come up with their own story lines to follow and explore.

Character creation


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The frontier is a roleplay with anthropomorphic animal characters. The cool thing about that is that they are just as human as you and me. They all have fears, flaws, weaknesses and things they fundamentally struggle with. In short, characters need to be imperfect, make mistakes, mess up and eventually pull themselves back together again.



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Watch the dancing Pilot

I'll get My stuff ready ina bout 7 hours

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Nice :D

Did you animate that yourself?

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I'm very interested in joining, but I'm currently babysitting my sister's dog in Maryland, and won't be able to create a character until the 29th when I return home.

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I'm very interested in joining, but I'm currently babysitting my sister's dog in Maryland, and won't be able to create a character until the 29th when I return home.@EternalDragon

Hi, that is not a problem. We're just in the starting up phase anyway. I guess it will take a number of days before everyone has created their characters anyway :)

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Nice :D

Did you animate that yourself?@Milkman

Yes Anxi is my creation

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Yay the Captain is an example sheet
Now I have a better Idea

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Yay the Captain is an example sheet
Now I have a better Idea@EmiliaBaiYue

Yeah, it is always nice to have an example :D

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Interested. Looking fascinating. However you mention "near light speed" multipletimes, however under the ship tab, you also say the engine is only capable on 0.085% the speed of light. You also say it's roughly 900 AU from Terra to the nearest system. That means ot would take roughly 14,500 years to travel between them with the Mark II Fusion Engine. But multiple times you say most trips are only a couple months long, and it's advised to only be in hibernation for a year? I'm guessing the engine figure is an error, or is transport between the Core, Border, and Frontier virtually non-existant and done by civilisation-scale ships?

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Then i have made an error somewhere XD

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Interested. Looking fascinating. However you mention "near light speed" multipletimes, however under the ship tab, you also say the engine is only capable on 0.085% the speed of light. You also say it's roughly 900 AU from Terra to the nearest system. That means ot would take roughly 14,500 years to travel between them with the Mark II Fusion Engine. But multiple times you say most trips are only a couple months long, and it's advised to only be in hibernation for a year? I'm guessing the engine figure is an error, or is transport between the Core, Border, and Frontier virtually non-existant and done by civilisation-scale ships?@PerfectThought

Are you an Engineer?

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I love the Idea of Jump drives as the method to exceed the speed of light
Megatraveler an Traveler's drive basically caged the crew an passengers a minimum of 5 - 7 days in a pocket dimension that tunneled through jump space. No turns, no stopping, you were committed to your exit point once you pressed the big jump button
Think of finding a spy on board only trouble is they say they sent word of your destination jump mail 3 days prior, are they lying or are you all yiffed?

Another great thing about Jump is a miss-jump you could just appear back where you started, 10 times farther than the ship could normally or worst no place at all

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For me the most important thing is that there is a sense of distance to get to the frontier. That it takes a considerable amount of time and resources to get there and that it is not something that Joe average can decide on a sunday morning to take his family for a nice picnic at the edge of colonized space. People either go there because they work for a corporation that exploits the resources or to find a life of freedom far away from established institutions. It's a bit like crossing the Atlantic Ocean from Europe to America in the 19th century. Certainly possible but not something for everyone :)

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Name: Anxi Yue
Aliases: Ani
Age: 32
Birthday:
Birth planet/birthplace: Asteroid 7577-J10
Species: Red Panda
Gender: Female
Role on the Dauntless: Pilot



 Appearance




Height: 4.89 feet (1.4905 meter)
Weight: 85.34 pounds (38.7095 kilo)
Build: Athletic
Eye color: violet
Fur color: Dark Red / Black Markings
Personal clothing style: Anxi loves armored clothing / pressure suits while working in private she loves wearing as little as required and has a good collection of clothing for a Belter



 Psychology


Sexual orientation: Bi
Relationship status: Free
Personality: <Work> Calm, Profesional, Friendly, or Blood Thirsty depending on the mission
<Casual> Friendly, Playful, Difficult to rile up, Nurturing, and Generous 
Likes:
Relaxing
Food
Entertainment

Dislikes:
Smelly people
Bullies
Anyone in her Gun sights

Flaws:
She's Blunt too blunt sometimes an might cause unintended friction
Overconfident in her Piloting skills
Pan amorous?




History


Background: Born in space like most of her family Anxi is a Belter her home an asteroid claimed by her clan nearly 250 years ago which yields the family a moderate an boring Income. Ani the most restless in her group family used her skills and her family reputation as pilots to join the UNS forces. In the beginning she excelled and was happy till little by little her patience was wilted away and she didn't renew her contract.

Motivation: "Space"



Skills and talents


Space travel:
Piloting a skill she was expected to learn in a parents lap or on their back as early as wining from nursing
Navigation was her first real math lessons because the belt is never still an rocks don't all go the same speed
Ship to Ship Tactics she learned at the Naval Academy

Combat:
Naval Gunnery Naval Academy
Martial Arts was the most common exercise at her clan's home rock
Boarding Tactics she learned as an Ensign in the Navy because she is a Belter and Zero G her natural environment ships her dwelling

Utility:
She's not an Engineer but a passable mechanic and can assist if directed an best she's taught as far as ship things goes she's the pilot but the ship her love
Virtual Reality programmer hobby level
EVA suit repair and operator, think not just a vacuum suit but a small ship shaped like a 6 foot Anxi complete with prehensile tail with tool pack tip

Other:
Dancer, uses it as exercise and she's just that way
Masseuse if you can talk her into it




Gear and possessions 

On person on Tool Belt:
Navigator's minicomp
8 one ounce stone bearings 4 bounce 4 shatter
1 mini multitool on a 2 meter retractable lanyard
1 Baggie rescue bubble (think tough trash bag people sized that has a 15 minute air supply 25 if they breath real slow)
Small hull patch
Small First Aid pack


In quarters/storage:
Lots of soft colorful very Girly things
EVA Suit : It is an armored suit that is made for use in space so it's stats in a gravity weak aside from power assist an it's micro meteor armor resists small arms (Assist lifts 1/2 ton)
In space it flies but as a space craft it's slower than a repair drone, It can stay EVA up to 72 hours and repair external damage and because she loves to write VR she can allow an engineer to use the arms in vr as she curls up in the chest relaxing




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Seats:
Max acceleration in space:
Max range in space:
Max speed in atmosphere:
Armament:




Extras

Character quotes: "Don't take life too serious, you'll never get out alive" 
Theme song:Krama Slave
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@Milkman@EmiliaBaiYue Definitely agree with you both. Maybe the best middle ground would be something similar to the Dune approach? Normal ships are fitted with a fusion engine of some sort to travel short-mid distances in "realspace" between individual planets/stars, and then to travel between clusters of stars (a far greater length) you attach/park your ship on massive ships equipped with "jump" drives/engines and be isolated inside your ship, but attached to the carrier for transport. And then you could add a megacorp eith a monopoly over jump tech/jump carriers. And then the possibility for rickshaw and or smuggler jump carriers, which are riskier but cheaper/not tracked (potential for smuggling). 

I also have a few questions about the setting:
1) What're the races like? Have alien races been absorbed into the UNS? How alien are we talking? Can we make our own races up for characters? Because I'm aware you talked about players adding onto the lore. I have some cool ideas for races.
2) What company does the Dauntless serve? One of the main megacorps? A small freight company? Freelance? Is it a UNS government vehicle?
3) Can get some more details on roles? What does being the First Officer entail? How about the Navigator?

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 Codec Arms Shell-138 'Luck' 


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Name: Codec Arms Shell-138
Aliases: Luck
Age: 8
Birth planet/birthplace:Codec Arms Orbital Factory 37b Command & Management Wing
Species:Codec Arms Combat Integrated Positronic Entity
Gender: Male presenting personality
Role on the Dauntless: First Officer/XO/2ndLt

 Appearance


Height:5'6
Weight:136kgs
Build: Short and long limbed, with a disproportionately short torso.
Faceplate color: LED Red
Plating colour: Standard temperate planet multicam (worn) ontop ofgrip-textured titanium.
Personal clothing style: Standard Codec Arms modular equipment carrier.

 Psychology


Personality: Due to Luck's status as a premium naval command/ strategy droid he is fitted with a standard evolutionary personality package. Despite him being fully robotic and a completely artifical intelligence, he is fairly jovial and positive, instead of the stereotypical cold and icy. This is purely for personnel morale and loyalty. The standard personality matrix soon learns that personnel are more loyal and generally happier if the unit acts human. This also means the older a model is, the better it's leadership ability becomes, as it's social database increases. However unlike many Codec naval command units, Luck is not loyal directly to his command structure, or captain, but instead directly to his own survival drives, and secondarily the ship itself. His priorites ae very similar to that of a carbon lifeforms, at the top is his survival, directly underneath that is the survival of the ship, equal to the drive to improve his survival quality (profits), and directly under that is the survival and welfare of his CO and men. However for Luck himself, he has ascertained the survival of his current crew to aid in his priorities.
Likes:
His continued survival.
The ship's continued survival.
Profits.

Dislikes:
His continued un-survival.
The ship's continued un-survival.
Losses.

Flaws:
Contains gas used for the high-speed transfer of data. Known as "airware" If it leaks then he will be effectively lobotomized, and if enough leaks he will be paralysed. However his hardware has enough redundant processing power that is completely drained of airware he has enough power to keep himself from going offline. Barely.
Completely morally bankrupt.
Hardcoded to be protect the Dauntless, and therefore involuntarily responsible for it until it is destroyed. He also cannot harm it in anyway.
Mildly radioactive.


History


Background: Luck was produced as naval commanding IPE to be used in the Codec Arms Naval Fleet, in which he cognifies he would have most likely ended up scrapped if that plan had gone through; due to the fact Codec Arms was destroyed and it's assets divvied up between the other corporations. This would not have ended well to the robotic troops loyal exclusively to Codec. Fortunately for Luck he was stolen in a pirate raid and auctioned off to the previous First Officer of the Dauntless, who then programmed and socially trained Luck to take his place. As all first officers know, it is them who really manage the ship, so who better than a supposedly infallible AI?
Motivation: Luck has the same motivations as any other living thing: continue living and thrive. Except because of the sentimental old bastard that programned him, he has the extra caveat that he is durectly responsible for the welfare of the Dauntless.

Skills and talents


Space travel:
Basic piloting skills.
Textbook navigational skills (theoretically perfect, but completely lacking experience/comprehension in the skills/industry expertise).
EVA capable, with magnetised soles, but completely lacks zero G maneuverability skills.

Combat:
Reinforced titanium plating means he's heavily resistant to ballistics and low-end energy weaponry. However his airware arteries and QSU are vulnerable to people with knowledge on IPE units.
Incredibly strong.
Advanced targeting software, even more effective with weapons with compatible targeting software.

Utility:
Superhuman organisational abilities.
Increased reaction time.
Only consumes energy, not oxygen or food. However he requires basic maintenance periodically.

Other:
In-built karaoke software.


Gear and possessions 

On person:
RCI custom furnished  naval issue Odium heavy 'Flyswatter' laser pistol, a very fancy pistol that is infamous for it's ability to completely obliterate a person's head through a traditional allistic helmet, while leaving most infrastructure unharmed, very useful for shipside combat. However it comes at the downside that the ammunition in incredibly radioactive and highly hazardous to health.
RCI 'Flyswatter' custom side mounted lead lined ammunition pack.
Quartermaster's cargo management pocketcom.
Field maintenance kit.


In quarters/storage:
Heckler & Koch 'Javelin' naval edition energy carbine.


 Personal spacecraft


Manufacturer and Type: Venuscorp IPE light scout harasser MK. III
Seats: 0. IPE QSU physical computing matrix transferal unit and cradle.
Max acceleration in space:500kmph
Max range in space:~2 AU from host ship.
Max speed in atmosphere: 320kmph.
Armament: Basic ballistic railgun, medium weight repeating turbolaser. Basic ballisitc armour. Basic Conciousness cradle ejection unit.
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Darien Ziplon


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Name: Darien Ziplon
Aliases: Doctor Ziplon, Doc, Dar, "That Crazy Bastard down in Medical"
Age: 51
Birthday: Oct. 20
Birth planet/birthplace: The Border, Catequil Secundus, Scottish Background
Species: Bobcat Feline
Gender: Make
Role on the Dauntless: Chief Medical Officer

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Height: 5 foot 10 inches
Weight: 231 pounds
Build: Endomorphic, Powerful build, strong arms and legs with a strong grip
Eye color: Silver-Gold
Fur color: Deep Charcoal grey with light grey and white patches
Personal clothing style: Professional, favoring monochrome colors of black, white and grey, tends to be fine style, button up shirts, long sleeves, dress pants and professional style boots and shoes, likes to wear long coats. His medical outfits are colored black or grey, scrubs, lab coats and all.

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Sexual orientation: Aromantic and Asexual Flux (Ask me if you're unsure)
Relationship status: Single, Divorced Wife, 4 kids
Personality: Gruff, too the point, professional. Former Alphabet Security Force Corpsman making him very in the moment. Trying to talk about his time in Alphabet will get your ear talked off about how he kinda misses it, the regimented schedule and all. Working Privately is okay and all, but he kinda misses the military life. He runs a tight Medical Bay, and will get in anyones face who tries to overrule his orders to any other medical staff he has on hand. "I don't try and tell you how to "role here" do I? Don't try and tell me how to keep you alive." Tends to be shouted, spittle flying if someone tries to tell him or his medical crew how to do their jobs.

Despite this, he'll be the first one to order someone to grab a fifth of scotch and join him at a table to relax. He's not mean, he's just very devoted to his calling of being a doctor.
Likes:
A well maintained work station and lab
Good company and good drink
Healthy and safe friends

Dislikes:
People who try and tell him how to do something he knows perfectly well how to do
Someone getting hurt, be prepared to get chewed out if you hurt yourself badly
Someone ignoring medical orders. "I told you to rest! Not pick up a 210 pound gas cylinder!"

Flaws:
Can get super focused on a problem, real or other wise and obsess on it to his detriment
If presented with a medical anomaly or quandary, something that doesn't make sense medically he will work until collapse to fix it or understand it
Can fly into rants and angry torrents of word and gibberish if sufficiently angry enough about something
Has a tendency sometimes to take to drinking when angry, or overwhelmed.


History


Background: Born and raised in the border worlds. Catequil Secundus is a pretty good place. Cities are well built, little wild west at times, old Terra movies about old urban city action is pretty much basic day to day on Catequil Secundus and the other colonies and space stations there abouts. Fun thing is you don't need a transit paper to go from surface to station most times. I mean why bother when everyone is beholden to a MegaCorp or the UNC anyway. 

It's here that Darien got his start. Rough and tumble neighbourhood where everyone was either Corp, Gang or a Numberless vagabond. Blockwars happened frequently often between corps, sometimes the gangs got in it. Darien was different. He turned down every gang that tried to get his hand in. He refused every attempt. Young blood like him, be great for any gang. He worked hard, got his education, and in his college years, applied for and received a tuition with Alphabet, entering their Medical University, working to become a General Practice, and Trauma Doctor. It was a long time at the University, and a long time in hospitals and clinics until he got his Bachelors. And then Alphabet threw him a wringer. They pulled him out of his final class with 3 minutes to spare in the day, marched him into a Alphabet Security Force office, told him they had eyeballed him since he started his education and wanted him in the SF. At the time he was aan impressionable young lad. And wanted to give back to the Corp that had helped him get this far. So he signed up, and he started a new education as a field corpsman, combat medic, on the field, in the mud up to his arms in blood and guts. That's what he was told.

After another year of education and bootcamp, he joined a company, and became their corpsman. There was abit of hazing, but he earned his spot. And in his first deployment, made a name for himself. When their commanding officer for hit on the front lines during a workers rebellion. Man got hit by a round, almost took his arm off near the neck. Darien had charged out despite everything, slammed an anaesthetic hypodermic into the mans other arm then dragged him into cover, binding him up. They called him "Charger" after that. For charging into fire to safe someone.

What followed were several years of Security Force work. Rebellions, defense actions, open conflict between MegaCorps. He was on the front line when Alphabet had hit an OmniCorp stronghold with a nuclear bunkerbuster to end the conflict. And got to see it first hand. He'd later chewed out a General for putting his unit on the front and not telling them about the drop. And when the General had chewed him back it'd been interesting much later when the General had been brought into Darien's medical tent with a chest wound. It's said to this day that the screams of the general when Darien worked on him without painkillers is still ingrained in the Security Forces minds.

He started to get a little jaded and angry after that. And it took only a few more years for him to request and get his honorable discharge. He took his walking papers. A few bits from his time there, and left. Got a ship out. And somewhere along the way, got wind of the Dauntless. Recruiting or somesuch, he signed on. And made his home in the Medical Bay. And that's where this story begins...right?...Right? 

Motivation: Forget and get faraway from the Alphabet controlled Border regions for a little while. But damned if he's going to try and stop being a Medic. "Motivation? I've got your motivation right here ya daft feck. You wanted a medic, and you got a medic. Don't worry about my problems. You just worry about if I can do the job, and damn it lad, I can do the job!"

Skills and talents


Space travel:
A fair knowledge of space travel, having moved around alot with the Alphabet Security Force. Going from one hot spot to another planet side and on the colony stations
Hasn't the first idea how to pilot anything though, or the ins and outs of an engine or the mechanical aspects of a ship.

Combat:
A former Corpsman, means he was on the front lines with the Security Force and is no stranger to fighting.
A steady hand with a scattergun and a pistol, ranked sixth in his unit with a handcannon
No stranger to blood and death, having seen plenty of it after 18 years with the ASF

Utility:
Very well educated, having the basic education, but also Masters and PHDs in Medicine, Trauma and Triage Medicine
A fairly accomplished gardener, if he only had the room for it
Encyclopedic knowledge of all things Medical

Other:
A love for playing cards, Poker, 100 Points, Blackjack, but only among friends


Gear and possessions 

On person:
Alphabet Security Multi-Purpose knife
Alphabet Munitions Division .50AE 9 round Handcannon Pistol
Medical Bag with First Aid, Trauma and Triage materials


In quarters/storage:
ASF Corpsman grade combat vest, no badges anymore, but it's clearly former MegaCorp gear
Alphabet Munitions Taurus Judge Mk. 3, Yes a big revolver, that can be quickly refitted with cartridge container that can fire anything from 4 ball bird shot to big hefty Casull rounds that can bring down Terran Kodiak bears, it's not about how big it is, it's if you can touch the walls kids
92 heavily rusted and patina-ed dog tags, in the oval shape of the Alphabet Security Force unit style. Will get very sad and then very angry if anyone asks about these, yes he leaves them out in the open, doesn't mean he wants to talk about them.

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@Milkman@EmiliaBaiYue Definitely agree with you both. Maybe the best middle ground would be something similar to the Dune approach? Normal ships are fitted with a fusion engine of some sort to travel short-mid distances in "realspace" between individual planets/stars, and then to travel between clusters of stars (a far greater length) you attach/park your ship on massive ships equipped with "jump" drives/engines and be isolated inside your ship, but attached to the carrier for transport. And then you could add a megacorp eith a monopoly over jump tech/jump carriers. And then the possibility for rickshaw and or smuggler jump carriers, which are riskier but cheaper/not tracked (potential for smuggling). 

I also have a few questions about the setting:
1) What're the races like? Have alien races been absorbed into the UNS? How alien are we talking? Can we make our own races up for characters? Because I'm aware you talked about players adding onto the lore. I have some cool ideas for races.
2) What company does the Dauntless serve? One of the main megacorps? A small freight company? Freelance? Is it a UNS government vehicle?
3) Can get some more details on roles? What does being the First Officer entail? How about the Navigator?@PerfectThought

lets answer your questions first. Generaly speaking the races are Antropomorphic animals. They originate from the planet Terra and have been colonizing the planets that they could reach for hundreds of years now. Planets with breathable atmospheres have all been terraformed. No traces of alien civilizations have been found.

On the topic of Aliens, offcially no alien lifeforms or traces of them have ever been found. Ofcourse there are stories, rumors, myths, legends and conspiracy theories around aliens. Their existence is theoretically possible but currently not scientificly proven. If aliens will ever come around, it won't be in a Star Trek like fashion of a civilization to trade with. It will be more likely to be a strange, unexplainable phenomenon that could be alien but also something else. 

The Dauntless is an independently owned ship. Officially owned by its captain but he has financed the purchase by taking a lone from the Triads crime syndicate. There is always this urgeancy of making some buck.

The first officer serves as second in command. He's basicly in charge of the ships operations when the captain is absent. He's responsible for much of the organisational stuff. Such as aquiring the provisions, spareparts and managing crew tasks. Basicly a sort of manager.

As far as the navigator goes his responsibilities are calculating the course in space and in orbit and servers a bit as a co-pilot. 

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In Cowboy Bebop, they had developed hyperspace gates that allowed ships to travel between the terraformed planets and moons in the solar system in a matter of hours. Gates are a frequently used method of travel, which helped in system defense. It may be necessary to use a gate to get to a system, but you don't necessarily come out of the gate, just somewhere along the edge and spend the next week or so transiting in-system.

For Firefly, basically they terraformed many of the planets of a binary star system. You get the impression that the core worlds are those intermost to their primaries, while the frontier were the outer worlds. Thus a trip between neighboring planets took days, not centuries.

I like Traveller's jump drives. C.J. Cherryh had something similar, but ship crews and passengers would not be conscious during their jumps. They'd hang saline bags for IVs and make sure water and ration bars were nearby for when they regained consciousness days later. Their biggest surprise was to find out one of the races, the Kif, did not become unconscious during a ship jump. Cargo was also packed in drums and loaded into a sort of giant rack in the hold.

Alternately, you could have some sort of unique warp drive. I read one where the warp field is generated by cables that retract into the hull following a jump to protect them.

For one of my games, I came up with an Exotic Matter drive - basically dark matter is like an iceberg - we see 10% of it at the normal space level, but 90% of the mass is "submerged" in a form of subspace. Exotic matter drives work by taking a fragment of dark matter at the heart of the drive and using fields to push the dark matter further into subspace, dragging the rest of the ship with it, partially submerging the ship into subspace in a sort of interface layer, so you're able to move at greater than light speeds while still able to see normal space.

But you have to watch out for gravity shoals, the wells created by the stars and even the dimples of planets. As you move towards a gravity shoal, the dark matter starts getting pushed back into normal space. The last thing you want to do is have a drive failure where the field collapses and the dark matter rebounds, swelling within the drive casing until it bursts through, splitting the ship apart. And then it returns to subspace, dragging nearby fragments back into subspace with it. 

I also developed a type 2 drive where additional coils allow the entire ship to be submerged in subspace and you navigate by detecting quasars as they pulse in both normal space and subspace. By finding the relative positions between two such quasars, you can navigate near enough to an edge of a planetary system, then spend the next two weeks going insystem to a planet, or if they have a way station, you travel to one of those to do your trades where someone takes your cargo to tran-ship to the planet, while you make arrangements to take on cargo shipment

However, not many have a type 2 drive.

Interstellar ansibles use the exotic matter drive to open a small portal into subspace so they can then transmit & receive, so you have near instant communications between systems. You could decide it still takes a week or more for the messages to be received. Also, ansibles are basically small space stations. Military ships can configure themselves to become ansibles, but they basically can't do much else while transmitting and waiting for a response.

So no alien races yet. Are furries here basically chimaera? A mixing of human and animal dna?

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