[OOC] Transcendent: Darkness Rising (A Sci-Fi Roleplay)

[Hawlin]

I think my next post is going to be at the conclusion of the tour, seeing as how the call to stations sounds kinda important. Also, yay, I have more posts than days I've been around. :T

[Hawlin]

I'll try to have something up, tonight. I'm in the middle of a massive computer upgrade and only have my phone for the next couple hours. EDIT: done. starting work EDIT2: NPC wise, I think I may have a use for Kate and maybe one more, later. -the colored text is supposed to imply a third person perspective from Kate.

[Ozerath]

Are you still accepting characters? This kind of thing is right up my alley. I've read all the OOC lore information and been reading the IC posts.

[Hawlin]

The ship left port, but if Shining is k with it, you could be part of the crew or just skip the boarding process... Or be another stowaway... *brandishes baton* I'd say toss up a cs.

[Silver Fox]

I'll see if I can reply later today

[agentmanatee]

Hey, I can't make a post for a little while. I was in a car accident today and can't post for a couple of days.I'm ok, just can't post

[Hawlin]

Oh, jeez, well I hope everything ends up alright. Take all the time you need.

[Ozerath]

Alright, went ahead and put together a character application. Let me know what you think @ShiningSector Name: Javelin/Much Ado About Nothing (MAAN) Age: 530 Gender: Personell form: Female Actual: N/A Race: Hephaeton Physical Description: Variable

Personnel form:

Combat form:

Personality: Much Ado About Nothing (or MAAN) is an oddly jovial and lighthearted AI construct. It is intensely curious about more or less everything, and has engaged in a number of professions over the years. MAAN is fond of jokes, especially pun based humour. It’s curiosity tends to override it’s social interactions subroutines, causing MAAN to sometimes come off as blunt or impolite. MAAN is also enthusiastically pro-Solarion and pro-Organic. The Javelin platform’s own personality is largely similar to that of the larger MAAN construct, though it has been somewhat altered. Javelin is programmed with an enhanced socio-emotional organic interaction subroutine of MAAN’s own design; she is capable of understanding nearly 97% of euphemisms, jokes, allegories, and figures of speech. Javelin also displays the correct emotional response in 95% of situations. As part of her construction contract, Javelin is incapable of harming organics except in self defence or at the discretion of a pertinent commanding officer. Enhancements: Javelin is constructed entirely of military grade NanoMass, and is therefore an extremely adaptable platform. The NanoMass’s basic programming is to maintain a small cybernetic storage device which contains the operations software and personality subroutines. The operations software is then capable of directing the NanoMass into a wide variety of other forms. To preserve memory, only a small number of complex structures are programmed; the personnel form, the combat form, and schematics for two types of weapon systems. Simpler shapes and modifications can easily be made on the fly. Skills: While MAAN is an extremely sophisticated AI construct with a vast array of skills and expertise, there is no way for the Javelin platform to store the entirety of MAAN at once. She is instead programmed with skills and expertise believed to be relevant to the mission at hand, though with a good connection to the extranet, she is capable of swapping out skills and memories with the MAAN construct in cyberspace. The programmed skills include: Tactics and Strategy Military History Swordsmanship and Marksmanship Diplomacy Xenolinguistics Xenoanthropology Psychology and Xenopsychology Equipment: While Javelin’s NanoMass is capable of creating a wide variety of shapes and forms, only three complex ones are stored by default, to conserve memory space. Additional schematics can be stored if Javelin is willing to make room by deleting other information. Personnel form: Javelin’s superficially human appearance. The personnel form was programmed with great attention to detail: the skin and hair look and feel real, the eyes really move and blink, the chest rises and falls while the mouth and nose make breathing noises. However, for optimal operation, internal temperature is maintained quite a bit cooler than real humans. Plasma Beam Weapon system: Energy weapons are Javelin’s preferred weapon systems, since ammo-based weapons would deplete her own mass. Javelin’s NanoMass is capable of forming a high powered plasma beam weapon; usually in one or both arms. EDIF Defence System: Javelin’s NanoMass is also capable of generating a personnel EDIF system, comparable to those found in most military NPV’s. Combat form: Not specifically another schematic, but rather a modification of Javelin’s personnel form. The resource intensive human-like features are abandoned, and the NanoMass reverts to its natural colour. The outer layers configure into high density armor, which can further harden to withstand impacts. The combat form is generally useful, as it permits Javelin to devote more computing power to response times and tactics. NanoMass: As well as her more complex schematics, Javelin’s pure NanoMass construction is capable of generating an almost infinite variety of shapes. Giving them texture and colour takes more time and resources, so most of the time Javelin leaves any additional shapes with the default colour and texture of NanoMass. This may mean literal sword-arms for close combat, or lockpicks for breaking and entering, or assuming the shape and colour of a wall for concealment. Bio: MAAN was first created by a group of 3 other Hephaetons at the University of Weishaupt on Orlese, a core world of the Solarian League. MAAN’s “parents” were a local waste management system AI, a theoretical physics simulator AI, and a young combat android on shore leave. The newly assembled AI drifted around Cyberspace for a time, soaking up knowledge and learning from it’s “parents” and peers. After reading the collected works of Shakespeare from the archives on old Earth, the AI chose the name Much Ado About Nothing for itself, and assumed control of its first android platform some 52 years after it was created. Since then, MAAN has spent its years exploring both cyberspace and the real world. MAAN holds over 30 degrees from various universities, and has experimented with a number of professions over the years. During the Interstellar War, MAAN enlisted with the ATC armed forces, though its dislike of violence caused MAAN to not operate any combat platforms. Instead, MAAN served as a support AI with the ATC fleets in a variety of roles; as a missile defense system, a fleet fire control officer, and eventually becoming a very senior logistical management AI, coordinating supply chains and personnel management for dozens of fleets. When the war ended, MAAN went into semi-retirement, and spent a great deal of time exploring the newly allied cultures of the Bel’Kian Concordance. For the past several decades, MAAN has been making itself quite rich as a software developer, creating everything from social interaction subroutines for other AI’s to military C&C software. The Javelin platform is MAAN’s latest and most advanced mobile platform. The large amount of military grade NanoMass required for her required a great deal of negotiation with Solarian League authorities. Ultimately they agreed to authorize her construction, partially in thanks for MAAN’s services during the war, but with several stipulations. MAAN had to foot the bill for her construction, and the restrictions on harming organics were hard-coded into the NanoMass. Additionally, Javelin is technically considered an ATC armed forces asset on detached duty. MAAN brought Javelin online approximately three months ago, and promptly volunteered her for the Expeditionary Task Force. (Heavily inspired by the t-1000 from Terminator 2 ;). Let me know if there are any problems, I’m happy to make changes.)

[Mistress Dizzy]

I'm really unclear on your post, Hawlin. How many different characters are in there? It also doesn't help that your characters are named Kaite and Kate. I have to continually re-read to make sure the same character is speaking.

[Hawlin]

Yeah, "Katherine" from navigations is just an NPC that I'm probably only going to do that kind of post for, once. It was a silly thing with "lol, Kate! Right?" Sorta humor. I can see how it'd get confusing. Changed their name in the post. I don't entirely remember writing that post, but that's kinda the case with half of them. :T I feel it could have been better, in general.

[ShiningSector]

Ozerath, I went over your CS and you are cleared to go! =) Now the boat however has left the harbor here but since I do anticipate the slipspace travel segment to take some time (not too long though), your character implementation should be set ideally during the transit phase or later during the story development. Please PM me if you need assistance.

[Silver Fox]

Will have to post tomorrow. Too tired to think up a good post xD

[Ozerath]

Cool cool cool! I figure Javelin is either aboard the Howling Sun, which could work since she's technically military. She could also be disguised as cargo on the Infamous Alto. I'll think about it and start on a post. Oh also fixed the images in my CS.

[Hawlin]

Stowaway robots? *brushes hands, dismissively* Nope, not getting paid enough...do I even get paid?

[Ozerath]

So, idea: Javelin had to ship herself as secure cargo due to government restrictions on NanoMass, so she's actually listed as cargo on the Infamous Alto's manifest, instead of crew. They loaded a box that said "Javelin mk-1 platform" and assumed it was a new weapon/sensor component.

[Hawlin]

My 'to do' list keeps growing. :T *note: cite and catalogue shipment of weapon tech* -But really, I'm going to wait a bit before posting again.

[Hawlin]

Due to popular request, I will endeavor to make it more clear of the separation between first and third person. Probably by using the font color I originally used for Kaite's journal entry with normal white being used for anything he actually says within it. I apologize for any confusion.

Addendum

Also, I will not be editing old posts to conform to this because it sounds like work. I may, later. Not today, though. "\o3o/"

[Silver Fox]

Sucky post is sucky >.<

[Kitsune]

Ah the Javelin mk-1 platform, I heard it is a great coffee maker!

[Ozerath]

Just posted in the IC! I left it open ended for anyone to pick up.