OPEN AND ACCEPTING
If you were in the Interest Check, you have a spot reserved as long as you notify me that you're still interested.

Some background info in the Interest Check. Not necessary to read, but gives more info about the world.






Briefing
7 years ago the largest ship ever built, the Yamato 01, went missing on its maiden voyage. Now it has returned, all communications attempts with it has failed. It currently orbits Mars, emitting a distress beacon. You were or have been hired by Yamato Enterprises as a repossession agent to reclaim the Yamato 01. A variety of expertise is valuable for this mission due to the complexity of the Yamato’s engines, electrical systems, and life support systems, and in order to assess its current state and perform minor repairs if necessary. You have all been given maps and schematics detailing the Yamato’s structure. The ship is divided into cells called districts. Each district is bordered from one another by huge airlocks. This way if one district were to be compromised it could be quarantined off from the rest of the ship. In general, each district has a specific purpose, the bio-labs for example is responsible for recycling the air on the ship.

The Yamato 01 is property of Yamato Enterprises, therefore all passengers on board must obey company law. Since the Yamato 01 is not part of any nation, all citizens on board have no rights beyond what is detailed in the employee manual. As a repossession agent, you have the ability to suspend rights of citizens on sight and have immunity to all but military laws, as detailed in the employee manual.

Zeta Squad (that’s you): You will be inserted in dock A1001, the forward most docking station. From there you are to locate the control room and get in contact with Captain Johannes. Failure to follow orders or complete the mission will deny you your paycheck. Your assigned operator will be updating you with pertinent information as it comes up.

Story
The smooth hum of the ion engines calm your nerves as your little transport ship draws closer to its destination: Mars. You can faintly hear what sounds like a country song you’ve never heard coming from the pilots seat. To your sides are your teammates, whom you’ve been grouped with for the sake of this mission. There are other teams, like yours, hired by the company to reclaim their property. The ship is massive after all, its in a class of its own and holds the record for the largest ship ever built, roughly the size of Neo-Tokyo. A single team wouldn’t be nearly enough for this job. You remember overhearing some chatter from other teams during the briefing. Some think this is the easiest job they’ve ever taken, that they’re just glorified Repo Men with an oversized paycheck. Others think this job has bad juju all over it. Maybe someone, or something drekked* everyone on board and sent the ship back as a warning. Of course, no one knows anything for certain. All you know is 7 years is a long time.

“Hold on to your seatbelts” the pilot said in a half joking manner. You feel a little thump as your small ship enter Mars’s orbit and alter its trajectory. Down below the planet is as red as ever. Colonization started a few years back but from up here you can barely see the tiny city. “Thar she blows! heheh” the pilot clearly finds himself amusing. On the crimson horizon it finally comes into view. Some would say mankinds greatest feat of engineering, not a ship but a moving city, the steel behemoth they call the Yamato 01. The first thing you notice, besides the sheer size of it, is a hefty chunk missing from the upper floor of the bow. What exactly happened here? What are you going to find on this long lost vessel? Make a CS and find out!

*drek is made up slang from Shadowrun



GM Notes
First of all this is my first time as GM, just so you know :) I’ve had this idea for a while and have the plot all planned out and ready to go. If you join, I hope you will be dedicated and see this RP through to the end. Of course, I’ll try to keep things as fun and interesting as possible.

Oh hell yes! Would it be possible to be a Rigger or Decker? Reserving a spot.

Name: Chester "Chess" Dune

Age: 44

Occupation: Bounty Hunter/Scavenger

Skills: Small arms (Handguns, etc.) Marksmanship (or "I'm pretty good shot if you ask me.") Excels in hand-to-hand combat, and is a seasoned and intrepid survivalist, almost always carrying everything he needs to survive in just about any situation.

Description: Chess has been at this unsavory lifestyle his entire life, mainly robberies, some high scale, some not. He's been everything from a drug runner to a hired thug. However his last stint in prison and age started making reconsider his lifestyle, not but a great margin, but enough to change, for the past five years Chess has been a bounty hunter and scavenger for whoever pays the highest, it's not nearly as exciting as blowing up building for precious resources and money, but it keeps him alive and sane to some degree. Chess caught wind of the Yamato 01 recently reappearing in the orbit around mars. He attempted to get hired on officially to a team hoping for a fat paycheck but a background check listing and extensive criminal career followed but an extremely volatile and almost violent cussing out to the hiring agent got him removed from the building and denied a spot on a team. He'd have to do this the old fashioned way.

Appearance:

Chess has more metal teeth than he does actual teeth from numerous fights and mishaps over the years, more tattoo's than he can remember and a prosthetic right leg that he stole when he lost his, it usually contains a gun or two, maybe a backup knife and some minor supplies in hidden compartments.

Stitchblades & Whisket are accepted

@Stitchblades: Your character sounds like he'd make a good squad leader. That's up to you of course.

@Whisket: keep in mind that since you don't work for the company, you don't get perks like access codes, ship schematics, intel from the operator, etc. Of course, you also don't have to follow any rules and won't be penalized for destruction of property.

@Avanhelsing: rigger or decker is fine, I don't have many limitations about what your character can be. Just fyi gothpuppy95 is working on a Netrunner character, I don't mind having more than one hacker-type character as long as the character themselves are different

I don't mind that ^^ :)

Sweet!
Really looking forward to this.

Decker it is then.
Name: Nate "Uizādo" Hanson
Age:16
Occupation: Otaku
Skills: Hacking and interfacing with the Matrix. He is not great at real world combat at all. Leaves that to the meat heads. He is very good so long as he has time to work. His powers are strong since he himself is mentally strong.
Appearance :

Description: Nate is a strange boy. He was born in the Seattle Metroplex in the district of Redmond. In particular Touristvile. He lived most of his life trying to get out of the slums. The local Yakuza lord took the orphan in and trained the boy how to be a Otaku. The boy had the skills to become one. The man believed it would give them an advantage. He got his nickname from the boss. It meant Wizard. One day he was caught inside one if the Yamato Building. They gave him a choice. Work for the company or die. They could not make their own and Nate's powers seemed similar to the Otaku of Mirage. He chose to work for them. For two years he has worked for them as one of their best Hackers. When the mission came up he was the perfect choice. Sure the tech was old but he could handle it.

There are two of us. (Decker, and what I am because I am a netrunner)

gothpuppy95 said
There are two of us. (Decker, and what I am because I am a netrunner)

Yes, I am aware. I'm fine with having two hacker-types, as long as the characters have enough differences to make them unique. But, if you feel having two hacker-types takes away from your character, let me know and I'll do something about it. You did make a Netrunner first so your character gets priority.

Name:
Age: 7 years old

Occupation: Artificially Intelligent Recon and Hazardous enviornment Android.

Skills:
Richard's frame and chassis model was designed specifically for high manuverability and functionality in
Extremely hazardous terrain. Places that would be considered too dangerous for people to set foot in. (Exe: poision atmosphere, lack of oxygen, high temperature ranges etc.) His chassis is also retrofitted with many different mounting points for external addons.

Richard is "Trained" in Advanced combat techniques using small caliber arms (pistols, Smg's, etc) as well as hand to hand defensive combat. These initial programs are defaults in his program given to him from birth. His unique operating system allowed him to learn engineering repair and medical first aid in case of need of field emergencies over the past five years. As of right now he only knows basics for each since the DNA-I program was disbanded and proper training programs have ceased. He cannot download any new programs into his memory core, only learn from field experience now.

Description: Created from the late and great Professor Rin Emris Ohm. Father of the DNA-I Synthetic soul operating system. Created for the sole purpose of producing machines that require no updating. Instead the Operating system "Learns" at a rate 10x faster than humans. A 5 year old robot has the accumilated knowledge of 50 years experience. The first DNA-I based OS has been around for nearly 34 years and would of quickly made itself a super power if not for the mass scrapping of the "Synthetic Souls" due to mass anomolies related to the androids installed with them. Reports of systems going haywire due to the robots "feeling sad or angry". Androids going insane and destroying entire crews simply because it "felt good". The professor was quickly shut down and jailed for treason and blamed for the murders. Powers that be pulled all mass productions and retrofitted with older OS's Only a couple thousand are still in circulation. R.I.C.H.A.R.D.'s Model was halted midway through production. #504 out of the 88th batch. Each batch consisted of one thousand units.

Appearance:

-His basic plating is made of lightweight alloys. Provides minimal protection and concealment. He's got multiple versions of these shells in his locker in various colored stripes. He tends to change them as often as one changes clothes.

Gear and Weapons:





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I made my guy to work with Goth's. How does that take away anything ? Two heads are better than one and all that. More than two would take away. That and my guy is a decker not a net runner. I have backstory and development set up for this guy. The chances of either taking away from the other is next to impossible.

The Roman07 said
Looks fun. Any room for an AI character? I got an idea for a good one...

Yes sir, I was wondering if someone was gonna make an robot. But I should warn you: AI's are treated like objects, both by society and law.

Avanhelsing said
I made my guy to work with Goth's. How does that take away anything ? Two heads are better than one and all that. More than two would take away. That and my guy is a decker not a net runner. I have backstory and development set up for this guy. The chances of either taking away from the other is next to impossible.

Yes, you make a strong argument. Rest assured, the last thing I want is for your character to get tossed aside (I know what that's like, its not fun). I'm going to wait for gothpuppy's input before making any decisions. For the record: Your character looks good. His nickname and affiliation with Yakuza works well with a lot of themes I'm gonna set up in this RP.

Kool working on one right now. Should be up in a bit

I am unfamiliar with the term decker.

How does it differ from a Netrunner

A less advancer net runner. I just had a brain blast! I could make Nate an Otaku. Lower his age a bit. The Corp caught him. It would make him more different. Add conflict about his place and loss of his tribe. That could work.
I'm not getting rid of him. I like this guy too much.

Never had a problem. Just wanted to point it out.

gothpuppy95 said
Never had a problem. Just wanted to point it out.

Really? Oh. Over reaction thy name is Avan. Should I make Nate an Otaku? A cyber kid capable of manipulating the matrix from outside it. I could work with it. Maybe he was one of AI Mirage's.

Okay then, now I can say without a doubt Avanhelsing's character is accepted. If you decide to make your character an otaku, he would blend in VERY well once you guys reach a certain point in the RP. I'd tell you more, but I've already said too much!

Sweet! Making him an otaku now. I'll lower his age a bit. Say he was one of Mirage's.