The Parallel Campaign - An Expansive Spacefaring RPG

[Perpenheimer]

@Arkitekt Looks okay to me. Just as a personal preference I think mentioning assignment to the Sentinels rather than The Birds of Prey would make more sense lore-wise.

[Arkitekt]

@Perpenheimer I can totally revise that if its necessary. She is in fact a sentinel, but the birds of prey are a close knit group of elites within them, but I can take it out if you like. Just thought it was a nifty little niche she fit into.

[Perpenheimer]

@Arkitekt Eh, should be fine. Go for it.

[Arkitekt]

Thanks, I doubt I will make much reference to it IC so it isn't going to matter either way.. It was just more of a platoon or squad type name, self given to her small group. Like the "Thunderbolts" or similar.

Also, could you provide a link to the Vanguard sentinel emblem? I'd like to add it into my image.

[Arkitekt]

@Perpenheimer NM, I got it.

[Tenslashsix]

Have subbed will post the rough draft of the infomorph CS sometime this afternoon. That way I'll have time to fine tune just how that happened. @Perpenheimer

[Avanhelsing]

@Perpenheimer
All of the hells yes. I love this idea and I would love to join. I am feeling a Tyche Concord trader who gets roped into whole fight thing eventually.

If that is alright, I am going to make a character sheet and a ship idea for him.

[Perpenheimer]

@Avanhelsing Sound great. I'd love to have you on.

[Avanhelsing]

Here are some ideas I had for the ship.

Possible Ship 1

Number 2

[Perpenheimer]

OOC is live.

Also @Avanhelsing, those two look good. I like the design of the first one, really looks like a cargo ship.

[Arkitekt]

@Avanhelsing I agree, the first is definitely a cargo ship.. very good choice.

[Brocktree]

My Hider

Name: Atellus Catella, “Brightlight”

Species: Human

Age: 37

Sex: Male

Appearance: Stands at 6’1”, build is lean and bird chested though sinewy. His hair is brown and eyes are green, with a rather plain oval face made remarkable by burn scarring along the left side of his face down to the base of the neck. His combat attire consist of a full seal suit of armor with an extremely large backpack, almost a full rucksack. When not fighting he is almost never caught in uniform, instead usually lounging in the shorts and spandex of his work out attire.

History: Born on earth, Atellus was never fond of normal jobs. From an early age he showed a military inclination- which was good, as the exile worlds were constantly either fighting amongst themselves or picking fights with their neighbors in the galactic west. He left his family and enlisted, becoming enrolled as a combat medic after scoring high enough on the aptitude test. After several years of slow, hard work, he made his way into the commando community, learning highly advanced field care techniques.

When the war between the collective and collosus broke out atellus was starting to get into a rut behind a desk job. He immediately resigned and offered his service as a training cadre to the mothballed vanguard military forces, citing his very recent combat experience. After a year as a course instructor in their combat medic/ship corpsman course, he got into a doctrinal argument with a superior over the more unorthodox uses of cauterizing gel. Looking like his career was over, he prepared to leave the vanguard when he got picked up for APRCOM.

APRCOM, aka Asset/Personnel Recovery Command, existed as a hail mary to attempt to save VIPs and intelligence assets feared too far gone yet much too vital to leave on the ground once a planet had to be abandoned. These men and women were inserted in hostile territory, and given impossibly small windows to attempt recovery. A mission was considered a success if a recovery team got out intact, and on more than one occasion direct action units like “the birds of prey” would be brought on board to run interferance while the teams did their work.

It was here that Atellus officially expanded his repertoire of treatable species from “human” to “just about most every carbon based life form”. Numerous pilots and intelligence officials evading capture by colossus forces could attest to the speed and efficacy atellus treated their wounds before subdual for exfil and further treatment- the last thing they saw the bright light of his surgical lamp.

Personality: Atellus is highly speciest. He wholeheartedly believes the the galaxy is humanity’s manifest destiny. While a strong military professionalism runs in him, coercing him to care for his patients equally, the strong individualism natural in elite soldiers makes him also exceptionally and somewhat embarrassingly rude to them. Aside from human supremacy, he also takes his medicine very seriously, following new drugs and their side effects on all the myriad races of the collective. As a side note, he is also a board game enthusiast. He is naturally observant and outgoing in matters lf recreation, but rather reserved in uniform.

Allegiance: Vanguard (sentinels)

Personal Effects:

Hand Held Net Interface
Powered Armor w/ strength assist
Man Portable Field Surgery kit
Superform Sterile surgical multitool
A pouch full of Compact aeriel recon drones
KNS TYPE 21 Marksman Rifle
Krueller-Coilmag Pistol

Other: After a devastating digital warfare attack in his days on the galactic rim, Atellus has sworn off mechanical upgrades. He refuses to use neuranet and if he does have to get cybernetics he insists on shelling extra for older analog/digital models rather than straight digital.

Here is my char submission. Please forgive any mistakes- due to my current situation i do everything from my phone. Constructive criticism welcome.

[Perpenheimer]

@Brocktree Looks good, just a couple notes. Make sure it's okay with Arkitekt that you cross that bit of lore over. Other than that my only major problem is with the 'Other' section. For one, you kinda have to be connected to the Neuranet via neural implants if you want to be in the Collective. The Collective has also enjoyed peace for hundreds of years, so a digital attack of that manner would not have occurred, and even if it did happen long ago, at 37 Atellus is not nearly old enough to have experienced that.

Also, just a note, the OOC is indeed up and we no longer need to use this topic.

[Tenslashsix]

Name: Dr. Symacchus Metoros

Species: Pre-accident (Kyrema) Currently: Data

Age: 188

Sex: Pre-accident (Male)

Appearance: No longer consequential as Sym has no corporeal form.

History: (In progress. Trying to do some fine tuning on the circumstances.)

Personality: Dr. Metoros quite enjoyed the variety of locales he was able to travel amongst when he still had a body. Ever the constant cartographer Symacchus enjoyed hand drawing maps of the systems and planets he would visit in service to the Vanguard as a Lifekeeper. Now as a being made of pure data he still enjoys exploring and seeing new planets the trip is just a bit more convoluted.

Allegiance: Vanguard Lifekeeper (R&D Bio-Chemistry)

Personal Effects: As intangible and nonsensical as it may seem Sym stores and collects data just as he did before his accident. Creating maps and a personal database on the creatures and places he travels too is still a constant obsession. Storing his data in "borrowed" storage across many interfaces throughout his existence.

Other: Naturally one might assume being a sentient dataform, or Infomorph, in such a technologically advanced society would be either terribly hard or frighteningly easy. The answer is both. In many cases moving throughout the readily available public tech and knowledge is not only allowable but encouraged. AI naturally is not unknown but this is not to be confused with Symacchus. At one point he was a male Kyrema in service to the Vanguard, not a carefully crafted construct or massive server driven entity. His ability to move throughout interlinked tech is quite expansive the moral and legal implications however is a line that he must toe carefully. Only a few Vanguard officers know of the Dr's accident and existence and Sym is perfectly happy with that. He still serves the Vanguard and Collective by providing intelligence and in depth research when required.

[Perpenheimer]

@Tenslashsix I love it. I'm sure he will be a great character.

[Arkitekt]

@Perpenheimer yeah its fine with me.. I got the PM this morning from @Brocktree, but I told him that he might want to run it by you.. hahah.. Also, I get this a lot with my character when I've tried to apply her to other similar rp's, that most turn her down because she seems OP or too elite, but many don't take into consideration that she is also bat-shit crazy half of the time sooo.. it kind of levels her out.

I wanted to add her to the sentinels because of the espionage reference and other clandestine mission types, which she was already designed around. Am I to assume that its okay to use a mech as a sentinel as well? It isn't something she uses all of the time, but mainly for Halo missions, and transport, as well as insertion / extraction purposes.. If so I can add that in my CS?

Also, is it okay if I change her age to 229? I just got done reading that bit again and I feel like she should be older.. And also, in regards to her appearance, I noticed in the image I bashed on Photoshop, she has horns, I will remedy this at some point today. I will take them out because she is in fact a plain human, with some cybernetic and bionic enhancements, but no horns.. heh.

[Perpenheimer]

@Arkitekt Well we don't have mecha in this universe... a bulky exosuit would be fine though, as long as it's closer to armor and not mecha. And yeah the age change is a-ok.

[Arkitekt]

@Perpenheimer of course, by mech I was meaning an exo-suit, nothing large scale like Zone of the Enders or anything, just an exo-suit that she uses for halo jumps, or traversing terrain, armored and weaponized, not much bigger than she is, using her limbs as the actual arms and legs of the machine like a space marine suit. It is also safe in a space environment, high altitude, etc. just a basic jump capable suit. Not something she would stay in all the time.. she likes to be hands on and behind enemy lines such a thing would be cumbersome, but front lines she would use this for sure for the most part. If that's okay?

That's why she has all the gear she does. If she were in an exo-suit all the time she wouldn't need any of it for the most part. Do I need to write in the neuranet as well? She has most of these capabilities within her HUD systems. Unsure if you have written a detailed timeline, but at 229 would she be old enough to say that her HUD system is a predecessor to the neuranet?

[Arkitekt]

I would like for her to have enough experience to be a veteran and perhaps old enough to have known a great deal of war, and that would be one of the reasons she is using an older model HUD, if Possible. I can change her age to match whatever is acceptable. I just added a 2 to her previous age, not set on it or anything.

[Perpenheimer]

@Arkitekt The exo-suit is fine by me, no worries there. As for her age and HUD, Collective neural implants actually do generate a HUD, but if she has her own cybernetics that's fine too. And yes, if she were to be a veteran, I'd increase her age to the 600-750 range.