[OOC] Stargate - Alliances - Into the Unknown

[rivaan]

and now we have enough people for standart sg squad xD

[Sep]

and now we have enough people for standart sg squad xD

@rivaan

Well, enough players not characters xD

[rivaan]

Yep!
FOURS!!!! hmmm will we be having Tok'Ra on board? maybe an npc if not players?

[Sep]

Yep!
FOURS!!!! hmmm will we be having Tok'Ra on board? maybe an npc if not players?

@rivaan

We'll be having two.

I will also be making a Jaffa once they go up.

[rivaan]

good... cause I was curious if we will be having them tok'ras cool healing devices avaible just in case. Never know when it will save someone's life. Also yay Jaffa's they make for good sparring partners lol.

[Sep]

good... cause I was curious if we will be having them tok'ras cool healing devices avaible just in case. Never know when it will save someone's life. Also yay Jaffa's they make for good sparring partners lol.

@rivaan

Maybe not for the style your character uses. Jaffa are often more about strength than speed.

[Forsythe]

And causing problems and lack of cultural understanding :D

[rivaan]

xD hey true practice comes when you fight against people who fight differently. ^_^ For example speed vs str is a good way to test one's own limits.

[Sep]

Hopefully Echo, Ellri and Nallore won't take too long, so we should get this started within the next couple of days with all hope :)

If you want to do Flasback posts feel free too (Though if you do PM them to me before throwing them in the IC)

[rivaan]

hmmmm... well it's better than no posts at all. With that said any restrictions on the flashback posts?

[Sep]

hmmmm... well it's better than no posts at all. With that said any restrictions on the flashback posts?

@rivaan

Either

A) Some past assignment.

B) Getting told about the mission, and getting ready (Saying farewells and what not) before heading out to the ship.

C) A mix of both.

Part of her shakedown cruise will be going to Earth to pick up crew so in your flashback you won't board the ship.

[rivaan]

roger that~

[Nallore]

I'll have a character up by this evening just got home from work.

[rivaan]

yay!!! I love reading CSs ^_^ and I should stop getting distracted. I started to try to write a flashback post ofr a good at least half an hour and I barely ahve few sentences from getting distracted all over the place ><

[Sep]

I just noticed something @mrambo90 thanks to @Ellri. You dragged a wounded teammate 14km while evading Wraith actively hunting you?

That seems like it wouldn't work. If there were to be a little more description on how he evaded the Wraith for so long then that would be different.

[Ellri]

Character sheet: Eirin Omdahl / Caelia

Symbiote

Name: Caelia
Species: Tok’ra
Age: 2427
Specialization: Scientist, undercover as underlord
Personality:
Focused. When Caelia sets a goal, she can pursue it to the ends of the world. She can at times get deeply entrenched in roles she takes up,

Host

Name: Eir Omdahl
Species: Human, Tau’ri
Nationality: Norwegian
Age: 26

Appearance:

Eirin is average both in height (168.2 cm) and weight (62.3 kg), has chin-long dark brown (almost black) hair, her nose is small, her chin narrow and her skin a soft, pale color, without any freckles to speak of. Her eyes are blue-green in color and she has no prominent scars or birthmarks.

When it comes to clothing, Eirin’s preferred mode of dress is Tok’ra in origin, though there are some Tau’ri influences upon it. She dislikes the idea of dressing in any sort of uniform, preferring clothes she considers “comfortable”. This of course, means that she tends to have a bit more bare skin than most Tau’ri would. Not to any inappropriate level, but enough to stand out. While not true of all her clothes, some of them are also more form-fitting than what Tau’ri women in the SG programs would normally prefer.

The reason for these preferences are many and intermingled, but one of the core factors is that she now considers herself more Tok’ra and less Tau’ri and wants to make that distinction clear to other people. More than one Tau’ri have been unnerved by this.

At her waist, where Tok’ra traditionally carries a Zat, she has instead opted to carry a slightly modified Ori stun weapon. It has chiefly been modified to make it easier to grab and use. Where she acquired it is uncertain, but it must presumably have been during her years among the Tok’ra.

Title: Doctor (Biology)

Skills:

Scientist

Biology & Genetics (doctorate)
Xenobiology (in-depth study)
Various Tok’ra sciences (Inherited)
General sciences (Fair grasp)
Crystal engineering/mechanics (Inherited)

As a Tok’ra, she’s adept at both subterfuge, lies and acting.
In addition, there are innumerable other skills known to Caelia, but seeing how neither is using them, they are not listed.
Weapons/Combat training:
During her time with the SGC, she was trained with a handgun, but never really became proficient with one. However, after blending with a Tok’ra, she “inherited” her symbiote’s skill with certain weapons of non-Tau’ri design and has begun to practice martial arts. Caelia has considerable experience with it, but Eirin’s body is still not fully trained to use that experience.

Personality:

Eirin is in many ways similar to her symbiote, which is part of the reason they get along so well. She’s methodical, patient and shies few measures when it comes to science or the survival of their species. Following her graze with death, she’s intimately familiar with self-sacrifice. Blending with Caelia offered her the second chance she never thought she would get, let alone deserved. As such, she will do almost anything to save the Tok’ra as a species.

Symbiote History

Caelia was born as one of the last generation of Egeria’s spawn that weren’t utterly purged by the System Lords following the discovery of Egeria’s betrayal. From her first host and on, she’s consistently preferred female hosts, only taking male hosts when she had no choice, and then often changing host again at the first opportunity, simply because she meshes poorly with male hosts.

During the life of her first host, Caelia did not achieve much, being on the run and actively hunted by the Goa’uld. The Tok’ra of this era never stayed long in one place, following the orders of their elders, Egeria’s first generation of Tok’ra. Sometime during the lifetime of her second host, they changed their tactics, going from the plan of fleeing the system lords and establishing a safe domain to infiltration and destruction from within.

This tactic left much of the Tok’ra population scattered. Countless Tok’ra died before they learned how to adapt, how to successfully hide, but learn it they did. She had many hosts over the years, living both among the Tok’ra and undercover under the Goa’uld, minor ones and System Lords alike. Though she hated the Goa’uld for the way they dealt with their hosts, she nonetheless did everything she had to do to blend in among their ranks. As such, Caelia is not unfamiliar with murder nor with countless other bad habits of the Goa’uld. She may not have liked such acts personally, but outwardly she acted as though she did.

During the past two centuries or so, even more so after the Tau’ri emerged back onto the galactic scene, she has spent her time on science. Once Egeria was found, and sadly perished, she was one of the scientists who worked out the Tretonin from the information Egeria provided. Ever since, she has been working tirelessly at exploring all possible solutions to their negative population growth, sadly it has been without any noticeable success so far.

Host History

Eirin was born in the late winter of 1990, about an hour outside the capital of Norway. She had a fairly normal childhood, though it was clear early on to her parents that she had above-average intellect, though there were some areas she also struggled longer than her peers in. Neither of her parents were surprised at her above-average intellect, as it was something they both shared. Later on in her childhood, especially after she started attending school, it was clear she struggled more than many. The school system was not designed to handle children with above-average intellect. Had it not been for her parents, help, she would not have gone as far as she did, what she struggled with, they helped her get through, when something proved easy for her, they acquired further books on it, so that she could learn more.

All throughout her childhood, she had very few friends, both out of preference and due to her inability to hold on to many of them. The few good friends she had, she kept close, not relinquishing them even when their interests at times deviated wildly. Around the age of twelve, she was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, something which again her parents helped her use to her advantage, rather than viewing it as a flaw.

By the time she finished the mandatory 13 years of school (at 18 years of age), she had already completed most of the first-year and some of the second-year university-level classes in the field of biology. It came as no surprise to anyone that she continued her meteoric rise through the university system. Though a civilian and a foreigner, she had come to the attention of the Stargate program the year she finished her master’s degree two years before the norm. When time came for her to begin her doctorate, a challenge both her parents encouraged her to undertake, an unknown benefactor, later revealed to be Homeworld security, paid for her studies and then some. Where others, her parents included, thought she merely studied cellular biology, her studies were at least as much in the fields of xenobiology and non-earthly sciences.

After finishing her doctorate, she was well on her way to becoming a high-ranking scientist in the Stargate Program. Unfortunately, luck, or chance, would have it otherwise. Its uncertain exactly whether it happened on a vacation or during her work, but less than three months after formally being hired by a shell company used by the Stargate program, she got exposed to a particularly virulent form of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Even with the best medical care on the planet, they could only delay the inevitable.

Eirin was dying.

Shared History

That, of course, was not the end of the tale for Eirin. The IOA had not invested the money in her education to see it all go to waste because of a mere disease. For months following the initial discovery of the disease, they tried every drug at their disposal, even tried to make some new ones, but it was all in vain. No viable cure could found. If anything, some of their attempts only made things worse for Eirin. Cutting her time left to less than half of what was normal.

They were about to declare her lost when someone remembered the sub-clause in the treaty with the Tok’ra concerning volunteers for becoming hosts. That someone established contact with the Tok’ra, sending them a briefing on Eirin’s condition and MDR-TB, asking if a Tok’ra symbiote could heal such a condition. After receiving a positive answer, the individual in question raised the idea to her.

Sick as she was, it took a full day to brief her, even with her prior knowledge of alien biology and their allied species. The implications were so vast it took her several days to think them through. She could not deny that the idea of blending intrigued her, but at the same time, being incapable of having any secrets from someone for the rest of her life was more than a little unnerving. The scientist in her found the biological implications of it even more interesting. Having an alien enter her body and at times assume full control over it was something that scared her. Not having control over her life had been one of the greatest fears she’d had growing up. But the choice was clear enough from the start. Say yes and live, say no and die. No matter her fears, she would not let the disease assume control over when she would die.

The decision made, the next steps were up to the Tok’ra. First, one of their councillors came to Earth in order to speak with Eirin, to learn what sort of person she was. Everyone knew that if he did not like her, no blending would come to pass. She found him to be a nice old man, his symbiote exceedingly wise. They spoke of everything between heaven and earth, and he answered many of her questions about blending. After three days, he left once more, telling her only that he would talk about her with the Tok’ra whose hosts would not live much longer. If any of them liked his descriptions of her, she would get to meet them.

For a week, nothing happened, then word came that three tok’ra had arrived, eager to meet her. Sick as she was, meeting them was anything but easy. She got exhausted often, racked with pain, but she found one of them, unlike the other two, a scientist like herself, to be more than a little intriguing and most definitely worthy of respect. Their liking turned out to be mutual, so while this Tok’ra stayed, the others departed. For two weeks, they spoke at length, learning about each other.

Eirin found that it wasn’t easy to grasp the concept of a being that had been alive for over two thousand years. At barely above twenty-two years, she couldn’t conceive of events a century away, let alone two eons. But that was all covered in her equally long talks with Caelia’s host, who had gone through the exact same experience a couple of centuries earlier.

Afterwards, when it was clear to all involved parties that a blending would be acceptable, each notified her superiors, and Eirin was trussed up into a hazmat container, transported to the SGC and sent along with the Tok’ra to the Tok’ra homeworld. Things happened, she blended, Caelia slowly healed her body, then she spent the next few years becoming one of the Tok’ra in truth as well as fact. She occasionally had contact with her family and friends back home, but with them not having security clearance, there wasn’t much she could speak of with them. She dared not yet visit, as she was sure her family would notice how different she had become. As such, she spent most of her time among the Tok’ra, with whom she got along splendidly.

A few years passed and the need to save the Tok’ra as a species rapidly became more and more acute a problem. As scientists and geneticists, it was no surprise to anyone that both Eirin and Caelia wished to do anything to fix said problem. Contact with the Tau’ri was made and due to her latent connection to Earth and her value to the Tau’ri, a spot was negotiated forth on the soon-to-be-launched Nyx as chief science officer.

[Sep]

Character sheet: Eirin Omdahl / Caelia

Symbiote

Name: Vanya
Species: Tok’ra
Age: 2427
Specialization: Scientist, undercover as underlord
Personality:
Focused. When Caelia sets a goal, she can pursue it to the ends of the world. She can at times get deeply entrenched in roles she takes up,

Host

Name: Eir Omdahl
Species: Human, Tau’ri
Nationality: Norwegian
Age: 26

Appearance:

Eirin is average both in height (168.2 cm) and weight (62.3 kg), has chin-long dark brown (almost black) hair, her nose is small, her chin narrow and her skin a soft, pale color, without any freckles to speak of. Her eyes are blue-green in color and she has no prominent scars or birthmarks.

When it comes to clothing, Eirin’s preferred mode of dress is Tok’ra in origin, though there are some Tau’ri influences upon it. She dislikes the idea of dressing in any sort of uniform, preferring clothes she considers “comfortable”. This of course, means that she tends to have a bit more bare skin than most Tau’ri would. Not to any inappropriate level, but enough to stand out. While not true of all her clothes, some of them are also more form-fitting than what Tau’ri women in the SG programs would normally prefer.

The reason for these preferences are many and intermingled, but one of the core factors is that she now considers herself more Tok’ra and less Tau’ri and wants to make that distinction clear to other people. More than one Tau’ri have been unnerved by this.

At her waist, where Tok’ra traditionally carries a Zat, she has instead opted to carry a slightly modified Ori stun weapon. It has chiefly been modified to make it easier to grab and use. Where she acquired it is uncertain, but it must presumably have been during her years among the Tok’ra.

Title: Doctor (Biology)

Skills:

Scientist

Biology & Genetics (doctorate)
Xenobiology (in-depth study)
Various Tok’ra sciences (Inherited)
General sciences (Fair grasp)
Crystal engineering/mechanics (Inherited)

As a Tok’ra, she’s adept at both subterfuge, lies and acting.
In addition, there are innumerable other skills known to Caelia, but seeing how neither is using them, they are not listed.
Weapons/Combat training:
During her time with the SGC, she was trained with a handgun, but never really became proficient with one. However, after blending with a Tok’ra, she “inherited” her symbiote’s skill with certain weapons of non-Tau’ri design and has begun to practice martial arts. Caelia has considerable experience with it, but Eirin’s body is still not fully trained to use that experience.

Personality:

Eirin is in many ways similar to her symbiote, which is part of the reason they get along so well. She’s methodical, patient and shies few measures when it comes to science or the survival of their species. Following her graze with death, she’s intimately familiar with self-sacrifice. Blending with Caelia offered her the second chance she never thought she would get, let alone deserved. As such, she will do almost anything to save the Tok’ra as a species.

Symbiote History

Caelia was born as one of the last generation of Egeria’s spawn that weren’t utterly purged by the System Lords following the discovery of Egeria’s betrayal. From her first host and on, she’s consistently preferred female hosts, only taking male hosts when she had no choice, and then often changing host again at the first opportunity, simply because she meshes poorly with male hosts.

During the life of her first host, Caelia did not achieve much, being on the run and actively hunted by the Goa’uld. The Tok’ra of this era never stayed long in one place, following the orders of their elders, Egeria’s first generation of Tok’ra. Sometime during the lifetime of her second host, they changed their tactics, going from the plan of fleeing the system lords and establishing a safe domain to infiltration and destruction from within.

This tactic left much of the Tok’ra population scattered. Countless Tok’ra died before they learned how to adapt, how to successfully hide, but learn it they did. She had many hosts over the years, living both among the Tok’ra and undercover under the Goa’uld, minor ones and System Lords alike. Though she hated the Goa’uld for the way they dealt with their hosts, she nonetheless did everything she had to do to blend in among their ranks. As such, Caelia is not unfamiliar with murder nor with countless other bad habits of the Goa’uld. She may not have liked such acts personally, but outwardly she acted as though she did.

During the past two centuries or so, even more so after the Tau’ri emerged back onto the galactic scene, she has spent her time on science. Once Egeria was found, and sadly perished, she was one of the scientists who worked out the Tretonin from the information Egeria provided. Ever since, she has been working tirelessly at exploring all possible solutions to their negative population growth, sadly it has been without any noticeable success so far.

Host History

Eirin was born in the late winter of 1990, about an hour outside the capital of Norway. She had a fairly normal childhood, though it was clear early on to her parents that she had above-average intellect, though there were some areas she also struggled longer than her peers in. Neither of her parents were surprised at her above-average intellect, as it was something they both shared. Later on in her childhood, especially after she started attending school, it was clear she struggled more than many. The school system was not designed to handle children with above-average intellect. Had it not been for her parents, help, she would not have gone as far as she did, what she struggled with, they helped her get through, when something proved easy for her, they acquired further books on it, so that she could learn more.

All throughout her childhood, she had very few friends, both out of preference and due to her inability to hold on to many of them. The few good friends she had, she kept close, not relinquishing them even when their interests at times deviated wildly. Around the age of twelve, she was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, something which again her parents helped her use to her advantage, rather than viewing it as a flaw.

By the time she finished the mandatory 13 years of school (at 18 years of age), she had already completed most of the first-year and some of the second-year university-level classes in the field of biology. It came as no surprise to anyone that she continued her meteoric rise through the university system. Though a civilian and a foreigner, she had come to the attention of the Stargate program the year she finished her master’s degree two years before the norm. When time came for her to begin her doctorate, a challenge both her parents encouraged her to undertake, an unknown benefactor, later revealed to be Homeworld security, paid for her studies and then some. Where others, her parents included, thought she merely studied cellular biology, her studies were at least as much in the fields of xenobiology and non-earthly sciences.

After finishing her doctorate, she was well on her way to becoming a high-ranking scientist in the Stargate Program. Unfortunately, luck, or chance, would have it otherwise. Its uncertain exactly whether it happened on a vacation or during her work, but less than three months after formally being hired by a shell company used by the Stargate program, she got exposed to a particularly virulent form of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Even with the best medical care on the planet, they could only delay the inevitable.

Eirin was dying.

Shared History

That, of course, was not the end of the tale for Eirin. The IOA had not invested the money in her education to see it all go to waste because of a mere disease. For months following the initial discovery of the disease, they tried every drug at their disposal, even tried to make some new ones, but it was all in vain. No viable cure could found. If anything, some of their attempts only made things worse for Eirin. Cutting her time left to less than half of what was normal.

They were about to declare her lost when someone remembered the sub-clause in the treaty with the Tok’ra concerning volunteers for becoming hosts. That someone established contact with the Tok’ra, sending them a briefing on Eirin’s condition and MDR-TB, asking if a Tok’ra symbiote could heal such a condition. After receiving a positive answer, the individual in question raised the idea to her.

Sick as she was, it took a full day to brief her, even with her prior knowledge of alien biology and their allied species. The implications were so vast it took her several days to think them through. She could not deny that the idea of blending intrigued her, but at the same time, being incapable of having any secrets from someone for the rest of her life was more than a little unnerving. The scientist in her found the biological implications of it even more interesting. Having an alien enter her body and at times assume full control over it was something that scared her. Not having control over her life had been one of the greatest fears she’d had growing up. But the choice was clear enough from the start. Say yes and live, say no and die. No matter her fears, she would not let the disease assume control over when she would die.

The decision made, the next steps were up to the Tok’ra. First, one of their councillors came to Earth in order to speak with Eirin, to learn what sort of person she was. Everyone knew that if he did not like her, no blending would come to pass. She found him to be a nice old man, his symbiote exceedingly wise. They spoke of everything between heaven and earth, and he answered many of her questions about blending. After three days, he left once more, telling her only that he would talk with the Tok’ra whose hosts would not live long about her. If any of them his descriptions of her, she would get to meet them.

For a week, nothing happened, then word came that three tok’ra had arrived, eager to meet her. Sick as she was, meeting them was anything but easy. She got exhausted often, racked with pain, but she found one of them, unlike the other two, a scientist like herself, to be more than a little intriguing and most definitely worthy of respect. Their liking turned out to be mutual, so while this Tok’ra stayed, the others departed. For two weeks, they spoke at length, learning about each other.

Eirin found that it wasn’t easy to grasp the concept of a being that had been alive for over two thousand years. At barely above twenty-two years, she couldn’t conceive of events a century away, let alone two eons. But that was all covered in her equally long talks with Caelia’s host, who had gone through the exact same experience a couple of centuries earlier.

Afterwards, when it was clear to all involved parties that a blending would be acceptable, each notified her superiors, and Eirin was trussed up into a hazmat container, transported to the SGC and sent along with the Tok’ra to the Tok’ra homeworld. Things happened, she blended, Caelia slowly healed her body, then she spent the next few years becoming one of the Tok’ra in truth as well as fact. She occasionally had contact with her family and friends back home, but with them not having security clearance, there wasn’t much she could speak of with them. She dared not yet visit, as she was sure her family would notice how different she had become. As such, she spent most of her time among the Tok’ra, with whom she got along splendidly.

A few years passed and the need to save the Tok’ra as a species rapidly became more and more acute a problem. As scientists and geneticists, it was no surprise to anyone that both Eirin and Caelia wished to do anything to fix said problem. Contact with the Tau’ri was made and due to her latent connection to Earth and her value to the Tau’ri, a spot was negotiated forth on the soon-to-be-launched Nyx as chief science officer.

@Ellri

I believe me and @Forsythe have pointed out the errors in the IRC.

Good to go.

[mrambo90]

fixed mine

[rivaan]

And here is another random question, mostly cause I'm killing time here :3

Why aren't they bringing at least one puddle jumper? Aside the fact it will run out of drones eventually, wouldn't it be useful to have one just in case? I mean... fast stealth dropship.

[Forsythe]

Thought about it, but we decided to go with the earth built dropship, since part of the mission is also testing prototype tech. For stealth we have the R-547, and as dropship jumper is actually quite pathetic, it's only merit is going through the gate, which we don't have on board at least yet. And finally, given the limited number of personnel, we figured that having to depend on tech that requires the ATA gene was just asking for trouble.

Keep em coming i like to talk lore =) consider dropping by the IRC or skype maybe?