The Setting
is Centares Academy. It's the jewel of the Royal Gryphon System, a solar system with 4 planets, two of them inhabited. It is every parent's dream from the Asteroid mines in the Outer Belt to the core cities of Gryphon itself that their child will be selected to attend the prestigious Youth Sciences School. After all, mechanical and medical discoveries from its fabled halls are used from Terra all the way to the Outer Colonies. There's even been talk of an "Alien Embassy" opening up from the Ghola species.
The Story
Humanity's first colonies were established over 200 years ago, and the Gryphon system holds the honor of being one of the first solar systems settled. Gryphon itself is an earth-like world with a vibrant biosphere, and its sister planet Helsink, is a colder but still Oxygen-rich world. A ring of mineral rich asteroids on the outside of the system gives it a constant source of material to harvest. All three of these planets/regions are under the protection of Gryphon's Prime Minister and Parliament.
Gryphon has experienced an economic boom by harvesting its asteroid belt for precious metals while charging a tax for all goods shipped from the Outer Colonies to Earth through Gryphon's wormhole. Added to this is Gryphon's distinction of being the source of humanity's first (publicly acknowledged) contact with an extraterrestrial race, the Lemurians, almost 50 years ago. Their trade in technology has allowed their universities to become among the most advanced in Human space.
Meanwhile, the Outer Colonies, long a hotbed of violence and political division in the face of steep shipping taxes from Earth, have taken steps toward unification into a single political entity known as the Outer Alliance. Years of negotiating with Earth for relief from the importing of advanced goods has left the Alliance impoverished and wracked with plagues, civil conflicts and famine. Amidst all this, Laertes Gurn, the Consul of the Alliance, has threatened war with Earth if the taxes were not lifted immediately. Earth all but laughed in his face while Gryphon maintained neutrality.
After three months, life continues as normal for the students at the prestigious Centares Academy. The development of a new generation of Exo-Suits for civil purposes was well on its way to completion when the Royal Gryphon Army handed down a request for weaponised suits after negotiations went sour. With only three months to go and no licenses for hard weapons from the military, students have had to improvise their suits armaments and equipment for showing off at the annual thesis presentation.
Maybe next year you can build a REAL military exo-suit. You'll definitely have the time then!
Characters
are students of the Royal Centares Academy. Whether their research is in medical studies or technical engineering, their yearly thesis projects were suddenly redirected toward Exo-suit research by the Gryphon Royal Military only a few months ago. You're on the way to a Live Testing Zone set up by the military just outside school grounds to test them out.
Their Exo-suits
are expected to be no larger than 5 meters in height (think standard Iron Man suit on up to Hulkbuster). Weapons are to be of an improvised nature or experimental (lasers exist but most soldiers still use bullets). To introduce a level of chance, I'd ask that players roll a D6 whenever they use such experimental items, writing in bold their actions and posting the number they rolled in (parenthesis) right after. On a 6, they achieve a monumental success. 3-5 is what they intended. 2 is a failure. 1 is a Catastrophic failure that should have very unpleasant consequences. This will work on the honor system but will be faster than waiting for a DM to write out the consequences, halting the RP in its progress.
CS
Please post your CS here for approval, then in the Character tab once it's been approved.
is Centares Academy. It's the jewel of the Royal Gryphon System, a solar system with 4 planets, two of them inhabited. It is every parent's dream from the Asteroid mines in the Outer Belt to the core cities of Gryphon itself that their child will be selected to attend the prestigious Youth Sciences School. After all, mechanical and medical discoveries from its fabled halls are used from Terra all the way to the Outer Colonies. There's even been talk of an "Alien Embassy" opening up from the Ghola species.
The Story
Humanity's first colonies were established over 200 years ago, and the Gryphon system holds the honor of being one of the first solar systems settled. Gryphon itself is an earth-like world with a vibrant biosphere, and its sister planet Helsink, is a colder but still Oxygen-rich world. A ring of mineral rich asteroids on the outside of the system gives it a constant source of material to harvest. All three of these planets/regions are under the protection of Gryphon's Prime Minister and Parliament.
Gryphon has experienced an economic boom by harvesting its asteroid belt for precious metals while charging a tax for all goods shipped from the Outer Colonies to Earth through Gryphon's wormhole. Added to this is Gryphon's distinction of being the source of humanity's first (publicly acknowledged) contact with an extraterrestrial race, the Lemurians, almost 50 years ago. Their trade in technology has allowed their universities to become among the most advanced in Human space.
Meanwhile, the Outer Colonies, long a hotbed of violence and political division in the face of steep shipping taxes from Earth, have taken steps toward unification into a single political entity known as the Outer Alliance. Years of negotiating with Earth for relief from the importing of advanced goods has left the Alliance impoverished and wracked with plagues, civil conflicts and famine. Amidst all this, Laertes Gurn, the Consul of the Alliance, has threatened war with Earth if the taxes were not lifted immediately. Earth all but laughed in his face while Gryphon maintained neutrality.
After three months, life continues as normal for the students at the prestigious Centares Academy. The development of a new generation of Exo-Suits for civil purposes was well on its way to completion when the Royal Gryphon Army handed down a request for weaponised suits after negotiations went sour. With only three months to go and no licenses for hard weapons from the military, students have had to improvise their suits armaments and equipment for showing off at the annual thesis presentation.
Maybe next year you can build a REAL military exo-suit. You'll definitely have the time then!
Characters
are students of the Royal Centares Academy. Whether their research is in medical studies or technical engineering, their yearly thesis projects were suddenly redirected toward Exo-suit research by the Gryphon Royal Military only a few months ago. You're on the way to a Live Testing Zone set up by the military just outside school grounds to test them out.
Their Exo-suits
are expected to be no larger than 5 meters in height (think standard Iron Man suit on up to Hulkbuster). Weapons are to be of an improvised nature or experimental (lasers exist but most soldiers still use bullets). To introduce a level of chance, I'd ask that players roll a D6 whenever they use such experimental items, writing in bold their actions and posting the number they rolled in (parenthesis) right after. On a 6, they achieve a monumental success. 3-5 is what they intended. 2 is a failure. 1 is a Catastrophic failure that should have very unpleasant consequences. This will work on the honor system but will be faster than waiting for a DM to write out the consequences, halting the RP in its progress.
CS
Please post your CS here for approval, then in the Character tab once it's been approved.
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Approved Characters
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