[OOC] In space... no one cares that you're broke.

[Midori]

Synopsis
The majority of our solar system has been colonized and each of the colonies act more or less independently. Travel between colonies is done with large gates that act like highways between them. Space is vast and so piracy has become prominent once again. There is no shortage of corruption throughout the solar system, local governors skimming taxes, police forces running protection rackets, and many other underhanded acts of greed and debauchery but that's not what this is about. This is about us, a small group of nobodies just trying to make a buck the best way we can, hunting bounties. We weren't always Bounty Hunters and we all have our own pasts but what's important is that we're all in this together (probably) and we (mostly) work for the common goal of not starving every night. So we go from place to place, snag some jerk with a price on his head, make a profit, and move on. It's not the easiest job but it's better than starving...

Locations
Venus
Numerous floating islands were constructed above the surface of the planet and acted as filters for Venus' natural Carbon dioxide atmosphere that would normally make life unsustainable. They were grown on islands because the surface was too hot. The plants had an adverse side-effect in humans called Venus Sickness. The airborne disease caused blindness in some people who came into contact with the spores. The Grey Ash plant cures Venus Sickness but it is extremely rare and expensive to purchase. It is thus a valuable part of the black market trade on Venus. The atmosphere of Venus has a high content of helium which causes people to speak in a high-pitched voice but is otherwise harmless. Pills are taken orally to counter-act the voice modulation.
Earth
In the year 2022 an Astral Gate exploded above Earth in an event known as The Gate Accident. The explosion destroyed most of Earth's Moon, causing a near-constant natural disaster of Rock Showers falling into orbit and hitting the planet surface. It has become something of a no-mans-land where only the most stubborn or most desperate live.

Mars
Since Mars cannot sustain a life-sustaining atmosphere, terraforming the entire planet would achieve no results as the artificial atmosphere would be blasted off its surface by the solar wind of the sun as Mars does not have a magnetosphere which shields the planet from the sun's radiation. However life is sustained through the use of large craters, in which, an artificial atmosphere has been created to cover the crater and is constantly replenished so that the atmosphere does not thin out. In this way, a colony can be established with atmospheric and climatic features similar to those of Earth.

Tijuana
A small colony in the Asteroid belt, it is little more than a dome with essential facilities stuck to a relatively large asteroid. It is lawless and filled with despots from all walks of life.

Ganymede
The seventh and largest moon of Jupiter, as well as the largest moon in the Solar System. It was terraformed in the twenty-first century by heating its original thick layer of ice to reveal a great seawater ocean underneath. With very little natural landforms, Ganymede is primarily used in the commercial fishing industry to harvest such animals as the Ganymede Rock Lobster and the endangered Ganymede Sea Rat.

Europa
One of Jupiter's inhabited moons. It is currently still under development, but there are some small towns, roads, and a rail road system in place.

Titan
A moon of Saturn with a desert climate. It is dotted with sparsely populated cities that each run independently. At some point early in it's colonization there was a war that devastated most of it's larger metropolitan cities, it has yet to recover from the aftermath.

Pluto
The site of a maximum security penitentiary, which is fitting considering its desolate environment and remote distance from the other planets. The most dangerous people in the Solar System are sent here.

CS Template
Name: (Full name please.)
Alias: (A nickname or variation of your name that people call you by.)
Age: (20+ please we don't need 15 year olds with bazookas )
Sex: (M or F)
Appearance: (pics or description is fine with me)
Height:
Weight:
Hair Color:
Eye Color:

Equipment: (The things you normally carry on your person, not including your clothes. It doesn't have to be a detailed list but more information is always welcome.)

About: (This section should only have things that are common knowledge about your character so the rest of the crew will be privy to this information. For example, you might have been a police officer on Ganymede prior to joining the crew and that wouldn't be a secret to the rest of us. On the other hand, your reasons for leaving the police force or anything you did during your service would be your own business.)

History: (In this section you can put down anything important about the character's history that most people wouldn't know unless otherwise specified.)

Misc: (whatever random things aren't mentioned earlier and anything I missed)

[Midori]

About the Roleplay itself
For the most part we will be hunting bounties to "pay the rent" but there will be plenty of time for character development since space travel isn't all that fast (aside from using the hyperspace gates of course). Each bounty will be something of a sub-plot so long as it isn't related to the big secret story plot that I have planned, this should make it easy for us to explain short absences with character excuses like "Flash Gordon had jury duty on Mars" or something more sensible.

The majority of our bounties will be for government authorities that issue them publicly so there is always a chance that we might have some competition along the way. Also each of us should be licensed as a Fugitive Recovery Agent with the Inter-Solar Space Police, this gives you the right to collect bounties and not be charged with kidnapping or other crimes potentially committed in the pursuit of a fugitive of the law. Although people will commonly refer to us as "Bounty Hunters" we are legally recognized as Fugitive Recovery Agents.There will occasionally be opportunities for us to go after bounties that aren't publicly issued by the ISSP and it will be up to us to decide if the pay is worth the risk.

About the Blue Jay

The Blue Jay

The Blue Jay is a retired ISSP cruiser. The majority of it's weapons and equipment were removed, however it still has it's main gun that was converted from the police standard 120mm cannon to a civilian model 80mm cannon (the largest caliber available to the public). For legal reasons the gun must be powered down when in range of any commercial or residential structures and ships. In other words, there will rarely be a chance for us to use it. The Blue Jay is capable of vertical take off and landing from the ground as well as in bodies of water. There are three decks in total. The first deck is the bridge deck which consists of the bridge itself and a small corridor with a door on each side leading the main gun's munitions room and some maintenance shafts. The second deck is the crew deck, it has small rooms for four crewmembers and a larger room for the captain, as well as two restrooms, a kitchen, the rec room, and two holding cells. The third and final deck consists of the rear facing hangar, the engine room which doubles as the maintenance room, and a small storage bay.

Captain of the Blue Jay

Sara Chibuya

Name: Sara Chibuya
Alias: N/A
Age: 28
Sex: F
Appearance:

Height: 5'4''
Weight: 135lb
Hair Color: black
Eye Color: brown

Equipment: 2inch delta knife (concealed in boot), 6inch combat knife (strapped to belt), 9mm compact pistol (strapped to belt), 2x 9mm pistol magazines, 18inch machete (strapped to thigh), Wallet w/ ID and FRA License, pack of menthol cigarettes.

About: Sara grew up on Mars to a middle class family and joined the ISSP as soon as she was old enough. She had a promising career and made it all the way to detective but "retired early" for reasons she doesn't care to discuss. The Blue Jay was the entirety of her inheritance so she decided to put it to good use bounty hunting and made some new friends along the way. She's very clear that any history they had before joining the crew of the Blue Jay was their own and she wouldn't ask about it as long as they didn't have a price on their head, after all, she knew most of them weren't exactly model citizens. She has plenty of connections in the police force throughout most of the colonies which help her keep up to speed and get jobs, it also helps when she needs to bend a law or two.

History: This stuff is relevant to the plot so I won't give anything away here, sorry.

Crew of the Blue Jay
Henri Fontaine Delacroix AKA Del by The Wacko
Otakor Stauton AKA Knight by MrShoe
Jackronicus Hawkfry by Thedreadpirate

[The Whacko]

Name: Henri Fontaine Delacroix
Alias: 'Del'
Age: 37
Sex: Male
Appearance:

Del

Height: 6'2"
Weight: 183 lbs

Equipment: Sawed-off pump-action shotgun, revolver, ammunition for both, flask (usualy filled with rotgut whiskey), wallet (Or whatever the future equivilent is), pack of menthol KOOLs.

About: It's no secret that he's from the bad side of town. He's got a record for working with some of the cartels and petty warlords on Tijuana, and he's done time for assault and extortion. He doesn't particularly care for law and order, but bounty hunting is as close to becoming legit as a man with his skillset can achieve.

History: There isn't much to be said about this piece of work. Born on Mars but raised on Tijuana, it was fairly obvious from the start that Henri Delacroix, Del to his friends, would go on to be a career gunman. Throughout his childhood he was amoung the many gangs of neighborhood bullies, robbing other children of their allowances and lunch money and generaly making a nuisance of himself. In his teenage years he graduated to petty crime, dropping out of high school at 16 and going on to become a leech on society. But, as is usualy the case with those that try to make a career out of crime, he got caught eventualy, and he did ten years in prison. When he was released he took what little was left of his stash, paid a local computer geek to clean up his records enough to get him eligable to recieve a liscene as a Fugitive Recovery Agent, and left his wretched hive of a home to try and make a go at being 'legit'.

Hope this is cool, boss. I know the bio's nothing fancy, but I kinda feel with the 'Jayne' type characters there's only so much backstory you can fit in.

[The Whacko]

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[MrShoe]

Question: Do you have a design for our spaceship yet? Cause I'm looking up some designs for a personal ship (Like the Swordfish) and I've seen some really kool big ones.

[MrShoe]

Name: Otakor Stauton
Alias: Knight
Age: 25
Sex: Male
Appearance: Tall and well built man, though he is still young. Short brown hair.
Height: 6'2"
Weight: 160
Hair Color: Light Brown
Eye Color: Brown

Equipment: Assualt rifle, two handed sword, keys to his ship, ammunition, sword sheath.

About: Knight used to run with a group of space pirates as a fighter pilot (For lack of a better term), on one of their raids he took down a high ranking officer on his own and took his sword as a trophy, he grew fond of using it, reinforcing his childhood nickname of "Knight". Preferring it over his real name now. His crew was ultimately taken down by various types of law enforcement until he was the last one left. He has 2 brothers and a sister that he doesn't speak of a lot.

History: He and his siblings were all born on Earth to a scumbag of a father and mother. His father was a syndicate member, though only a grunt. Their mother was never fond of their Czech names that their father passed down (Though it was only from the little bit of Czech words he remembered) to them so she nick named them after chess pieces, being a very good player. Otakor was called Knight, his brother was Alexej and called Bishop, their younger brother was Lovec and called Rook, and their sister was Zradce and called Queen. The youngest brother, Rook, was by far their father's favorite child. Bishop grew up quickly and left with a group of merchants to explore and see the stars, Queen was taken in by their father's rival syndicate since she, like his other children, was mostly abandoned by their father. Knight left shortly after Bishop and joined up with a crew of space pirates, wanting to be apart of an actual family that he could trust. He heard that His sister killed their father when she grew up and ran off, starting her own gang and gaining the new nickname "The Boss". Rook was right behind her and is filled with rage by what she did. The last Knight ever heard was that he was still chasing her, taking in other bounties to supplement his hunt.

Misc: This character and most of his back story is part of a continuity I have going on in my own writings so I'm sorry if they all seem a little...off.

His ship

Name: Black Knight
Type: Assault drop-ship
Capacity: 6 (No including pilot)
Weapons: Front mounted mini gun
Guided missiles x10
Flares x5
Notes: The ship can condense itself, eliminating the cargo hold but upping its speed and maneuverability but cutting its capacity to 2 (Which would be 2 very cramped people in the cockpit.)
Image:

[Tarantulass]

Name: Tamia Michel
Alias: Tally
Age: 29
Sex: Female
Appearance:

My Spoiler

Height: 5'4"
Weight: 124lbs
Hair Color: blonde
Eye Color: blue

Equipment: The rifle and visor in her appearance, silver case of smokes, a lighter, an expanding nightstick for close encounters.

About: Tamia has never been much more than she is now is a well known fact. Struggling to live her life has been the thing to do from her very childhood of being a working class family's child on Titan to finally get on her own feet and deciding to go along with her guts to get out to the world... and to find herself in this spot, even if it's barely a decent one.

History: Tamia has always told that she left Titan just to 'see the world' though it is a really touchy subject to her. She was trying to get past her late teen depression by going around the lower class street parties, involving drugs, sex and hypnotic beats. Getting addiction, she was starting to spend most of her money to these mixed drugs, known as Pseudo56x (Pids for short), getting into bad deals with bad people. When the payday came, she was barely able to get her ass out of the heat and into the open galaxy, being on a run from organized crime as she has never been on Titan after that, not really keen on the idea of getting back there either ((if that is fitting to the story of the entire crew)).

Of course a broke girl couldn't afford to anything at the time so Tamia had to swallow her pride and do more... unpleasant things for her. It took a great deal of emotional as well as psychical weight into her to just get through those few rough years in poverty of Tijuana as she was mostly raising money by selling her body. The abusement she has taken from that has made her more tough on spirit, but awkward when talked about close bonding relationships.

However, enough tip and she was able to get her gear, but in everything else, she has been struggling to get her life back on track since then, though even to this day she is not entirely sure has she managed to 'fix' herself... of course a cigar every now and then helps a long way.

Misc: The black market equipment tends to be unreliable, as her gun as well as her visor have tendencies of malfunctioning or heating, even if they have such a pretty look on them.

[Midori]

MrShoe said
Question: Do you have a design for our spaceship yet? Cause I'm looking up some designs for a personal ship (Like the Swordfish) and I've seen some really kool big ones.

I haven't come up with any specific design but the ship is going to be an older generation ISSP transport that had all the police equipment gutted, kind of like how you can buy old police cruisers now. It should have enough room to accommodate four personal ships. If you run across anything that might fit the bill then let me know.

[Thedreadpirate]

Bio

Jakronicus Hawkfry

Name: Jakronicus Hawkfry
Alias: Jack, Hawkeye, Fryboy
Age: 28
Sex: M
Height: 6'0''
Weight: 160
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Blue

Equipment: Tool belt, Pocket knife, fire-proof heat resistant gloves, wallet

About: Hawkeye enjoys his job as ship's mechanic, as much as he may complain. He has a history of working with not the most moral people in the world, Pirate's, the Ganymedian Mob, etc. He has a natural mind for anything technology, sabotage, salvage, hacking, 'if it's tech he can work it' or so he says, however he also seems to be connected to just about everything in the 'verse, or to at least have a contact that does, beyond this information and his hand-to-hand combat prowess, he doesn't seem to want to talk about his history all that much, but then again, who does.

History: Jakronicus Hawkfry grew up on Pluto, a son to a Prison-Guard Father, who cared about Jack and Jack's adopted 10 brothers and sisters more than life itself (Jack's father was himself the middle child of 8), which was clearly enough to provide a good home for them and to instill in his children, especially Jack, the eldest of the bunch, the value of a hard days work, family, forgiveness, and enjoying whatever it is they wanted to do with their lives. However, during a riot in the prison one day, Jack's dad was shot.....in the back by one of the guards who had never really liked Jack's father to begin with. Jack, in an unusual fit of rage, went to this other guard's house and cornered him. Taking a monkey wrench to the surprised cur, Jack beat him within an inch of his life. Then, tears streaming down the faces of both men, Jack looked at the coward, curled into the fetal position as the man was, blood mixing with his tears, bruises and cuts covering the surprised man, who had fully expected the onslaught to continue until his death, and who watched his faceless attacker stand from his knees, look the victim in his eyes and say "I show you mercy because you didn't show mercy, and that makes us better than you" and then left his house, a unique swagger developing. When Jack got home he was met by his 9 siblings who all sat in the living room and the second eldest of the bunch, a rather pretty red-head, asked but one question "Is it done?" Jack nodded and went to bed. There was a trial later, nothing was proven, just as was the case with the death of Jack's father. It was later revealed that Jack's father had chosen Jack as the Legal guardian of the Ones who were still Minors. Jack did just that. The ones who were able to take care of themselves going their own way, and Jack got a job at the prison, where he met his next Employer, a mob boss who happened to be leaving the same day his youngest sister was leaving to help with the relief effort on Titan. The two quickly became friends, and years later Jack left his employ with good feeling all around.
Misc:

Appearance:

Hawkeye

[manapool1]

Name: guy funnuchi
Alias: guy, crazy shipero, rocco jr.
Age: 22
Sex: (M
Appearance: short, pale, short hair, skinny, wears a plaid flannel, and vailent thorr shirt underneath, and blue jeans a ragged loafers
Height:5' 5'
Weight:120 lb
Hair Color:black
Eye Color:blue

Equipment: a boken (small katana), a large 6 shot revolver, skinning knife, backpack full of useless junk, and brass knuckles

history: from a barren planet, barely capable of life, guy was of the few who ventured from there small hidden homes and roamed the wasteland in search of food, shelter and water. due to this he was constantly attack and became a great fighter, and after he found a crashed space ship he decided he would use it to get help in changing his home planet from a feudal era.

about: all they really know is he is not very bright, doesn't like to talk outside the jobs. They know a few things about what he's trying to do and his home planet, but only from when he was lost in the sauce. They also know he has a strange love for music and loves chess, even thought he is terrible at the game.

[Midori]

Sorry about the quiet weekend I had a lot to do elsewhere but anyway let's get on with CS reviews:

Henri Fontaine Delacroix AKA Del by The Wacko Tijuana is one city that spans the area of the dome so they don't really have "warlords" per say but there are plenty of drug rings and gun dealers he could have worked with. Other than that Henri is now a part of the crew on the Blue Jay.

Otakor Stauton AKA Knight by MrShoe An assault rifle is not something you can easily carry around on most of the more "civilized" colonies like Mars or Ganymede so you probably want to invest in a small handgun that can be concealed under a shirt unless Knight would be content with being limited to using just his sword from time to time. In regards to his ship; 11 people seems a bit much so cut the capacity down to six in the hold and two in the cockpit, also keep in mind that Knight will have to pay for the upkeep of the Black Knight so he will always have less money than others in the crew. Other than that welcome to the Blue Jay.

Tamia Michel AKA Tally by Tarantulass Again a rifle is not something you can walk around with most places so it's practical uses would be very limited, although having a drug-addicted prostitute pay for high end black market gear of any kind seems like a stretch even if the gear is faulty it would still cost a considerable amount more than some one could make selling their body. I would need a little more information about how exactly she obtained her gear, I would also like to know what the visor actually does before I accept it.

Jackronicus Hawkfry by Thedreadpirate This one I like a lot but preferences aside, it was never specified if any families lived on Pluto but since this is an alternate universe I suppose it's acceptable. I never really intended for there to be any specific "ship's mechanic" but I'm glad to see that the role will be filled with the added plus of having a tech savvy member of the crew. You will have to explain how exactly he got away with assaulting a government employee and then ended up working in the prison but other than that I welcome you to the crew of the Blue Jay.

Guy Funnuchi by manapool1 This one doesn't seem to fit in anywhere in the solar system. I'm not really sure what planet you're talking about in the history and you didn't give any information about the ship that's mentioned either. If this is unfinished then I apologize for jumping the gun but only the places mentioned in the first post of the OOC are inhabited and no one has ever traveled outside the solar system so there aren't any aliens to speak of. Also take some time to punctuate your sentences please, it makes it a lot easier for dyslexic people like me to follow what you're writing.

I think that's every one who applied but if I missed you let me know, it happens.

[MrShoe]

Sounds good Bossman. I think Knight will be content with just his sword most of the time. I'm aiming for him to be more of a heavy fighter and not really a people person. And I'll update the ship page.

[Midori]

I prefer Boss Lady if you don't mind

So here is a question for the crew: Where would you prefer to start?

• On a planet with downtime to relax and interact with each other?


• On a planet with one or two bounties pending?


• In orbit with downtime to relax and interact with each other?


• In orbit with one or two bounties pending?


• In transit with downtime to relax and interact with each other?


• In transit with one or two bounties pending?

[KabenSaal]

What is the technological level? I mean, if we can do hyperspace travel and colonize loads of moons, then surely we should have Gauss Rifles.

[Midori]

Technology in this universe is a bit weird and feels like 1990's in space. I'm not really sure how to explain it but here is the wiki page that should answer your question.http://cowboybebop.wikia.com/wiki/Technology
The main reason technology is this way is because of a catastrophe that occurred in the 21st century where the first astral gate exploded and almost shattered the moon which causes constant debris and radiation to fall to Earth. So while the necessity to relocate fueled the advancement of human colonization there wasn't a whole lot of advancement in other areas.

[MrShoe]

I would prefer if we were in transit with two bounties on the line.

Also in Knight's backstory I mentioned his siblings and I don't mind if you use them as NPCs, though preferably as bounties. (Except Bishop who wouldn't have a bounty.)

[Thedreadpirate]

my vote is for either in transit or in orbit , I don't really have a preference either way or if we have bounties coming in right as it starts or not, I figure starting the first scene on the ship is almost tradition in space adventures, so why break away from that long and storied tradition.

[manapool1]

hey it's dreadpirate

[Thedreadpirate]

manapool1 said
hey it's dreadpirate

WHAT? WHERE?

[The Whacko]

I vote for in transit, boss.