[OOC] Operation: Shadow Sabre (high casual, sci-fi rp)

[Light]

RECRUITING!!!

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Compared to the history of humanity before it, the 20th and 21st centuries were easily the turning point of advancements in technology. Launching like a rocket into space, the world as we knew it was revolutionized by new discoveries and inventions in every field of study. To date, the most significant breakthrough was the technology needed to inhabit worlds other than Earth.

In only a few short centuries after the turn of the 21st, Earth's population grew from 6.102 billion to a staggering 10.511 billion. 99.9% of the entire planet was inhabited both on the ground level:



and in the upper troposphere:



With Earth's small stature and diminishing resources, humanity looked to the heavens for answers. To their delight, their pleas were answered in the form of breakthroughs in space travel: entire settlements of humans were able to move to and live in colonies that orbited Earth and her Moon.

By the 31st century, man kind had set foot on and fully colonized Mars, establishing the first truly extraterrestrial human settlement:



But in time, they would again run out of room and resources, the Earthling and Martian colonies had in combination broke the 50 billion mark in universal population.

The second "great leap" would occur in the 39th century, reaching out again to the stars, the Earth-run government of the now-unified humanity authorized the colonization of the entire Asteroid belt.



The Asteroid Belt colony reached around the entire belt, and allowed the universal population to comfortably grow to over 200 billion.

Since the early 4000's, about 2.5% of all of humanity still inhabits Earth. The 5 billion or so nobility, politicians aristocrats that live in wealth have maintained their standing as the governing force over the entirety of the Earth-Martian-Asteroid conglomerate, now known as the EMA, the unified federation of all of humanity. The middle-class colony of Mars now consists of about 15 billion, including the lunar branches and other orbitals. This left roughly 180 billion to the slums of the Asteroid Belt, where the standard of living was comparable to that of the Great Depression of 20th century USA.

For the most part, everything was otherwise tranquil. Then in the mid 4500's war broke out.



The mass of the Asteroid settlements rose in revolt against Earth's hold over humanity. In a wave of rebellion, over 100 billion people broke away from the EMA Conglomerate, forming the Jupiter Freedom Alliance and declaring war against Earth's oppression. They settled on Jupiter's many moons, the first and most prominent colony being the water-rich moon Europa:



In only 12 years, the rebel army became a massive threat to the EMA, attacking critical trade and travel points with surgical precision:



With the EMA Inter-Planetary Naval Force not strong enough to fend off the attacks, Earth is losing the war. The current year is 4598, and we're on the brink of defeat. There is only one option left to save us...

Operation: Shadow Sabre

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Earth-Time[ 3:46am, 7th, June, 4598 ]

Enter Class S+ PIN and passcode to continue|
************0001
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Checking...
Access granted: User0001, welcome Mr. President.

Enter Console command|
access[ data.************9264 ]
Accessing database ************9264, Operation Shadow-Sabre...
Access complete, Loading...

Operation Shadow Sabre: Human Super-Soldier Augmentation Project

-Launch Date: 5th, May, 4591
Notes[ S+ Class personnel board authorized research into physiological and genetic augmentation of humans, the goal was to create the ultimate super soldier. ]

-Alpha Stage: 12th, December, 4597
Notes[ The first super-human soldier is successfully created and stabilized, [NAME DECANTED], now known as Sabre01 is put to laboratory testing from 13/12/4597 to 2/1/4598. S01 is moved to field-deployment on 9/1/4598. ]

-Alpha Stage: 15th, January, 4598
Notes[ Operation failure. Day four of deployment, S01 now listed as AWOL. Any and all search parties turned up negative. S+ board instates second production of Sabres. ]

New Entry: Type to begin|

-Beta Stage: 7th, June, 4598
Notes[ Second installment of Sabres complete. Briefing of Sabre Team to begin in 0100 hours... ]

Enter Console command|

Logging off...

Shutting down...

Good bye.

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Operation Shadow-Sabre is a high-casual, high sci-fi roleplay set in a far future where humanity has colonized the middile of our Solar System, and is now in a civil war. In an effort to quell the rebellion, the central government has issued a top-secret program to turn humans (you, the players) into super-humanoids, fit for combat, research, reconnaissance, anything and everything. As a player, your character will be a Sabre, and you'll have the chance to personalize their dossier and even create the augmentations that he or she possesses. They can be just about any reasonable "super-human power" that would fit in a sci-fi setting, but that doesn't mean you have to be the next Master Chief or Adam Jensen. Expect lots of open-ended exploration, complex and malleable story lines, and lots of action!

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RP Rules

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-General rp rules apply: no power-playing, controlling other's characters excessively, complaining about things that happen, etc.
-Light and MercuryHg34 are Lead GM and Co-GM respectively. We can controls NPC's and make judgments on if rules are broken or if event turn-outs are fair.
-Rules are lenient but subject to change/heavy enforcement by GM's at our discretion.
-Vanishing from the rp for an extended period of time (gm discretion) without letting us know about it can put you at risk of being kicked out and your character killed off. If something comes up or you don't feel like playing anymore, have the decency to tell us about it.

Character Sheet

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Sabre## (replace ## with your S-Number)

Military Rank:

Name:

Age:

Sex:

Appearance: (include both regular appearance and appearance of specialized Sabre-Deployment-Suit)

Personality:

Biography: (The Sabre project is top-secret, your character wouldn't know about it until they're contacted and told they are chosen for it. They really didn't have the choice to opt out of the project either. You can however explain why your character was chosen.)

Specializations: (The augmentations, powers, abilities and skills that your character possesses. Do not make your character a jack-of-all-trades. Does not have to be combat abilities only.)

Sabre Team
S02 - (Reserved by MercuryHg34)
S03 - Derek Hunter (Stitchblades)
S04 - Veronika Strovinko (Templar Knight)
S05 - (Reserved by guyvolk)
S06 - (Reserved by Laufey)
S07 - Crowna Shi (Aphelion)
S08 - (Reserved by Wyxz)
S09
S10
(Will add more slots if needed)

[Stitchblades]

May i join?

[Light]

Yes you may!

[Templar Knight]

Sabre##04

Military Rank: Staff Sergeant

Name: Veronika Strovinko

Age: 35

Sex: Female

Appearance: In Sabre-Deployment suit:

Out of suit:

Personality: Shy and reclusive, Veronika doesn't usually approach people until she gets used to them. She has a high degree of camaraderie for those whom she has gotten used to though, especially in the case of her work as a soldier. She views the rest of her squad as an extended family and holds them in a high degree of respect, so long as they have shown her the same.

Biography: Born on Mars in 4562, Veronika was the daughter of a civil engineer and a nurse whose family had immigrated from Russia to Mars in the 32nd century in one of the first waves of cosmoneaughts who left Earth to colonize the red planet. Now, generations later, her family was fairly successful in having made their names building and working Mars into something like Earth was. Decent, but never exceptional in school, she decided to try something different and relatively unique for the history of her family, and that was joining the EMA's Martian Garrison. Serving as both a police force and arm of the EMA's Military forces, they kept themselves busy by maintaining order and helping their communities whenever they were not in active service or training, but in the time Veronika joined, they were being assembled and sent out to the Asteroid belt to try and contain the growing rebellions. She passed physical testing with decent results and went on the specializing as a Tactical Sniper, being sent out for active service on the asteroid belt immediately.

For ten years, she served the EMA faithfully, earning an impressive service record of kills and wrecks on targets throughout various theatres of war. She never complained or disobeyed orders, but even she started to have doubts as to the effectiveness of her work killing heavy weapons teams, drivers, enemy fleet captains before they could board their vessels, was actually having any effect upon the outcome of the war. For every man she killed, another four seemed to take their place at times. Even so, she kept her head down and her added more kills to her record, becoming one of the most decorated markswomen in the Garrison forces with the least collateral damage or requisition of EMA resources to complete her missions. Such a skilled sniper was just one of the specialists the Sabre Project was looking for, and with augmentations, they knew they could make her into something even more deadly.

Specializations: Augmented Eyes (allow for all fields of vision and zooming as in regular scopes), "chameleon" skin augmentation (allows for her skin to mimic the surroundings, rendering her invisible so long as nothing she is wearing stands out. Is most practically effective with a camo-cloak or suit), "statuesque" augmentation (blood cell modifier, on demand, it can be activated to produce minute amounts of oxygen within deplenished blood cells, giving the same effect as if she had taken a breath. It allows for her to momentarily not have to physically breath, thereby enabling her to become as still as a statue, hence the name. Used for aiming precise shots, usually over long distances.)

[Stitchblades]

Okay thankyou!

Sabre 03

Military Rank: Private third class

Name: Derek Hunter

Age: 23

Sex: Male

Appearance:
Regular; 5ft 5 short spiky black hair soft facial features and a rough beard, bright blue eyes and wears glasses
Specialized; Black saber suit with a Deep red tint the words "as i march through the valley of death none shall oppose me but myself" written on his left arm. the suit is Compact and lightweight sacrificing protection for mobility

Personality: Derek is a Foolhardy intelligent man, He looks at everything in as many way as possible. and tries to evaluate every possible outcome before he acts

Biography: Derek was born on a small settlement on the Moon, His family had been one of the first to settle there during the first wave of expansion. Many of them had been engineers and scientists. No one in Derek's family had been in the Military for years, But after a Jupiter Freedom Alliance attack on a near by Settlement Derek enlisted in the Marines at the age of 18 as an intelligence expert. He wanted to put an end to the fighting and believed that he was the one to do it.
His missions included hacking com lines decoding encrypted messages as well as more mundane tasks as wiping security camera footage opening locked doors and background checks on targets. Derek though had never taken part in open warfare. He had killed a fair amount of people that stood between him and his objective
His combat career has been one full of success having been deployed on 26 missions often alone with each mission being reported as complete success.
With each Mission he completed he felt like he was meant to be here fighting. He Often wondered what would happen if he failed, and this really worried him but through his determination and skill Derek kept winning.

On his 20th birthday the Jupiter Freedom Alliance hit his hometown with a suicide bomber killing his family. This event made Derek more determined to rise through the ranks and avenge those who had been killed in this war. He was selected to Join the Saber program at the age of 22 For his computer warfare skills, and was trained up to be able to fight in more combat situations.

Specializations: Derek has a great ability to determine the best course of action for the mission, as well as the ability to think quickly in combat situations. He also has a uncanny way with computers and is able to find any weakness within that system and exploit it.
Augmentations include Electric shock resistors to minimise shocks from computer overloads and doors, DP13 nuron adaptors that allow him to think faster and therefore react faster to situations. a HUDEU which gives him a heads up display in his eye with wireless transmitter so he can hack into any computer on the move and without the need to find a mainframe or server room and in a sense become that computer.
This allows him to know any enemy movement plans and give the ability to sabotage them. as well as hide saber teams movements and create distractions

[guyvolk]

I would like to reserve a spot please.

[Light]

Sounds really cool, Knight. Just get those appearances in.

[Light]

guyvolk said
I would like to reserve a spot please.

which one?

[Light]

Stitchblades, I'd like to see a bit more detail in your bio and specializations, pertaining to induction into the Sabre project and what augmentations your character actually has.

[guyvolk]

Sabre 05 would be fine.

[Laufey]

I'll get my Character Sheet up tomorrow, I got a rather spotty internet connection right now, and it's doing my head in. Something I don't need for when I want to make a character.

If I need to reserve a spot, I'll take Sabre Six.

[Stitchblades]

I've updated it now, Sorry that it was lacking before i kept getting distracted

[MercuryHg34]

Reserving this post for my CS. Also Templar Knight, your character should be 36 if she was born in 4562, unless you want to get really specific and say she was born very late into the year (which is totally fine as long as everything's consistent).

[Light]

Looks good, Stitch. Welcome to the team

[Aphelion]

This looks incredible! May I reserve S07? :3

[Light]

Aphelion said
This looks incredible! May I reserve S07? :3

Yes you can!

[Slamurai]

Do Sabres explicitly need to come from a military background, or can they be inducted into the program as civies?

[Light]

Aristo said
Do Sabres explicitly need to come from a military background, or can they be inducted into the program as civies?

Explicitly military. A person would only be selected based on their exceptional performance in the armed forces.

[Laufey]

WIP

Sabre-Six

Military Rank: Staff Sergeant - E6.

Name: Callus 'Cal' Gorvin.

Age: Forty-seven.

Sex: Male.

Appearance: (include both regular appearance and appearance of specialized Sabre-Deployment-Suit)

Personality:

Biography: Callus was born on one of the many space habitats that orbited the dwarf planet of Ceres. Considering he was born just about in space, Callus was born a 'spacer' and such, he went on to spend much of his early life preconditioning his body for a lifetime of becoming a Miner on Ceres. His family line could be traced back all the way to twenty-second century Europe; however, they had no such luck in the age of space. In that his family were now in Corporate Servitude. As a result, Callus was taught only the most necessary of skills to survive and adapt to life.

At the age of eighteen he began working on the mines that fuelled the grand industries on Earth and Mars and would continue to do so until he was twenty-one. When one day, his career came to a rather abrupt end, while he was working down in the mines, there was a sudden explosion that ripped through the upper levels of the mines. The result was the destruction of resources and ore worth trillions in Credits. At first it was assumed to of been an industrial accident, only for a few days later a newly founded Secessionist movement took claim for the attack. This was technically good news for Callus, Hyperion, who more or less outright owned the planet, wasn't obliged to save anyone's life in the event of an industrial accident, but a terrorist attack? For some reason, they actually cared for you then. Considering that Callus had spent the last few days trapped under the surface with his fellow miners, because of said attack, Hyperion swung into action and did everything within its power to free the trapped miners.
A week later, and Callus was back among the living, but Hyperion didn't give him, or anyone else enough time to take a breath before they were whisked off to the Corporation's Headquarters, and told they were to reevaluate their Life-Contracts. Since the attack was an unforeseeable event, it opened up a rather unique clause in the contract, in that as long as the contracted person does not attempt to gain any compensation or recognition for the attack, and that they immediately vacate the working and living space own by Hyperion, they were basically free of Hyperion's bondage.

Naturally, Callus being the fool he was, he didn't take the offer and returned to the mines the following week. While it can be easily said to of been luck, whether it was bad or good, was up for debate, because three months later the mines were attacked again, this time Callus wasn't underground. Instead he was just clocking off from work, when a small explosion ripped apart the building he was in, and sent him crashing into a wall, where he fell into a coma. Since he was obviously unable to respond to any questions, what with him being in a Coma, and when the Suits came knocking with the same offer again, his parents choose what was best for him, and released him from his contract.

Of course this meant Hyperion was under no obligation to continue Callus’ medical support. So they turned off his life support, his parents in a last ditch attempt to save their son, pooled what little credits they had to have him sent to Mars, where being a Citizen of the EMA allowed one access to free medical care. And so, Callus found himself upon an alien planet a few short months later when he awoke, which shocked him at first, until he realised Mars was a free planet, not a Corporatocracy. He was very much free to do whatever he wanted, well, as long as you had the credits to get what you wanted.
There was one thing he noticed, being in the Army was alot like being owned by Hyperion, only with twenty dozen more freedoms. And it was amazing, he had routine in life again, and this time he had a gun and got to kill stuff, what was not to like? Well, a lot of things, but that's not important. Callus spent the first five years of his service stationed on Mars, where he for the most part served in a peacekeeper role, or in other cases just a simple garrison force. He didn't see much in the way of combat while on Mars, and wasn't until Jupiter Freedom Alliance appeared that things got real. Suddenly it wasn't just putting down a bad riot, or being boots on the ground. The JFA was a peer opponent to the Conglomerate, and in this world that meant only one thing would come of it. War.

Then things events made a complete turn for the worse, when the Alliance succeeded in making the Asteroid Republics in succeeding from the EMA. This was a massive hit to the EMA, suddenly a massive chunk of it's population was gone and most of it's industry to boot. Granted, Earth, Mars, Luna were in themselves Fortresses, they were massive Fortresses that were supplied by everyone. And so when the war came to Mars, it put up one hell of a fight. And Lance Corporal Callus Gorvin was there to fight. His service record shows that he served in most of the campaigns on Mars, from Arcadia to Sabaeus.

At some point his exploits were noticed by the Special operations group, Black Watch, and he was 'asked' to join the unit. After a six month training period on Earth, he returned to Mars with the rank of Trooper and a member of Black Watch, where for the most part his actions included operating behind the lines, and sabotaging enemy installations in any way possible and on Mars, there was many a way. During this time he also received his first set of augmentations, which came in the form of Sub-Dermal armor, which allowed him more protection from enemy fire. But at the end of the day, getting shot was still very much not advised.

Around his seventh year fighting on Mars, he was noticed by the incredibly secret 'Operation Shadow Sabre', thought for whatever reason he didn't get picked, at first that was. He wasn't put back on their radar, until Callus was captured by JSF forces in the heartland of occupied Mars. And yet, him being captured didn't stop him from finishing his mission. He quickly freed himself and put a hole in General Isaiah Baxter's forehead, and that was a mission well done in his book. Admittedly, his team was dead, but he had avenged them. When he returned to the safety of the Inter-Planetary bases, he was quickly pulled from the front lines and again found himself on Earth. Only this time ... Shadow Sabre wanted him.

Specializations: (The augmentations, powers, abilities and skills that your character possesses. Do not make your character a jack-of-all-trades. Does not have to be combat abilities only.)

[Laufey]

I'm taking many liberties in making my history, since there isn't much to go on, and thus far, I've already stated that Mars has been invaded. I hope that's okay, and I haven't over stepped too much?