[CHAR] Jubilee: Space Voyager

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Name: Captain Isam Barad
Age: 34
Gender: Male
Species: Human
Nationality: Iraqi
Rank: Captain

ESP rating: Low

Sexuality: Heterosexual

Personality: Captain Barad has been accused of being stern and slightly cold. This being only his second long distance voyage, he is becoming increasingly irritated with people doubting his abilities. Throughout his schooling, Barad proved himself to be highly intelligent and resourceful. He is not overly emotional, logical, and, most importantly, has a deep running respect for life.

Captain Barad is not one to jump the gun and start a fight, although he will certainly finish it. He avoids trouble when he can, always putting his ship and his crew before himself and his own pride. As with every captain, Barad was trained to not let his humanly desires, those for life, love, and victory, to endanger his mission or ship. Truly dedicated to his duty, the only woman in his life is named the Jubilee.

Appearance: Captain Barad is of Arabic decent, with a medium brown skin tone, brown eyes, and black, curly hair. His hair is shoulder length, often worn in a bun or ponytail while working. He is a bit on the short side, standing at 5'7". He has a muscular build, his physical prowess making up for what he lacks in size. His best fighting aspects are his close range skill and aim, but he prefers to try and use his head first.

History: Born in Iraq on Earth, Isam was raised in a time much different than that of a century ago. After the Altoran invasion, Earth was divided up into seven sections, each represented by a counsel member. Problems would be solved with meetings instead of wars, as was on Altoran. The counsel representative of the middle east was a very progressive woman who had visions of a time when equality and peace would rein supreme in her land.

With much coaxing, her section of the world slowly stepped into a new era. Gone were the days of war and fear, with a new dawn of peace and prosperity among them. Equality among genders and religion was finally realized, something that the world thought it would never see. Education became openly available for those who wished to seek it.

This is were Isam grew up, being taught from childhood that life and respect are the two most valuable aspects of his existence. Never should he take a life without costing himself great anguish, and never should he disrespect another based solely on his own, personal beliefs and preferences. With this thought process, he went to the school of IGSA at the youngest age possible, eighteen, to become a captain.

It was ten long years of school and training, climbing ranks, before he was able to leave Earth on his first long voyage, Captaining the Jubilee across the galaxy and back. Successful, he was given a one year break before being called back to duty

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Name: Mackenzie "Kenzie" Searoby
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Species: Wolpine, savage species

Rank: Petty Officer

Role: Security officer

Sexuality: Heterosexual

ESP rating: Medium (Mild empathy)

Personality: Kenzie is a bit of an odd character. Found by the crew aboard an abandoned slaver ship, the man has been a little off since the first day he was brought back to the crew. He has displayed nothing but gratitude since his rescue, but although he means well, Kenzie is a little rough around the edges. Having pleaded to be allowed to stay with the crew to repay his dept, Kenzie was made a security officer due to his strength, durability, courage, and hand to hand fighting skill. But he's been known to use a little more force than necessary at times.

He's a bit of rough neck, often times not realizing his own strength, or the strength of those he's tussling with. While sparring with fellow officers in the past, Kenzie had been known to accidentally injure them. For which he is always incredibly sorry, but it happens all the same.

Aside from his violent fighting skills, Kenzie is pretty well behaved. He does what he's told to the best of his skill, and does his best to stay out trouble. He's kind of like a large child in that he has a knack for getting himself into messy situations. However, he is incredibly loyal to his crew. He's often kind to others, with a soft spot for those he favors, easily excited, and courageous when he needs to be. He does, however, still have nightmares and flashes back to when he was working for the slavers, against his own will. These episodes are best dealt with by getting him to relax and perhaps giving him a mild sedative to let him sleep them off.

Appearance: Kenzie has a very muscular build. He's very solid and stocky, standing only at 5'5". His skin is a dark tan color with a multitude of scars spreading across it. He has black hair and dark brown eyes. His hair, worn long and wavy, extends into a sort of mane that runs down his spine. He has thin tufts of hair on both of his ears, which come to a point and are mildly flexible. His back has darker brown spots that freckle it. His nails come to a point, almost like claws. He has more body hair than the typical human male, but with a more fur-like consistency. In his resting form, he has a short, stumpy tail that protrudes from his spine. It's not long enough to cut a hole in his pants for, so few people even know about it.

Kenzie, being a Wolpine, has the ability to morph into a werewolf-ish creature. He grows dark brown fur, long fangs and claws, a tail, and golden eyes. His strength and stamina is almost doubled. Intelligence in this state is, however, brought down almost half. Uncontrolled or enraged, a shifted wolpine acts almost as though on some sort of pcp: aggression is high and self preservation is low.

About the Wolpine:

The Wolpine are an old race from the savage planet of Talga. Their society is very dog eat dog, with no real government to make overall laws. Needless to say, their planet is classed as savage. They survive by forming packs with three to four different families. These packs build villages and defend them from other packs. Strays and loners usually don't live long on Talga.

The entire species has the ability to take on a wolfish form. In this form, they have increased strength, speed, and senses. It's typically used for fighting, and thus feelings of rage or fear can bring the creature out, whether the wolpine wants it or not. Shifting is pretty difficult to control, and once it's begun, it's even harder to stop. In their wolfish form, they are more prone to rage issues and lack of self control. However, with practice, they can eventually control their shifting, and even do it on will.

Their diet consists mostly of animal protein. They hunt in groups of five or six to bring down the large game animals that roam their plains. Wolpine have a high metabolism, and must eat every five hours to remain comfortable.

Wolpine are a popular slave species due to their savage strength. They make great soldiers, and are often used as such by other races to fight their battles. Sometimes they get paid for their servitude, and sometimes they don't. Either way, they usually have no choice when it comes to being taken from their planet. At one point, the entire species was at war with another, the Galodians, over their planet. The Galodians had invaded and proceeded to hunt them like animals and sell the captives. They finally won the war, running the Galodians off of their planet for good.

The wolpine celebrate several holidays, the biggest being Valenhop: a celebration of when their species won the Galodian war. It's typically celebrated by large feasts and gift giving. All pillaging and fighting is paused for one day of peace and coming together.

Another popular holiday is Matesren Day, when the wolpine celebrate their mates by giving them gifts and special attention.

The wolpine's courtship process is fairly standard. They find someone they get along with well and court them for a while before deciding to tie the knot. Wolpine couples usually produce litters of two to three, and are able to do so every two years. There is a bit of gender inequality among their species, with females typically being the more aggressive and thus the ones in charge.

History: Kenzie was born on Talga, and raised there for most of his life. When he was 23, however, he was captured by a soldier ship and sold to be a warrior for some other race. He had no idea what the war was about, or who the two sides even were. Him and several other soldier were placed on the battlefield with tracking devices on them, and given little choice but to fight for their lives. After each battle, they were collected again.

Many tried to run, but the tracking devices made it impossible to hide. The punishment afterwards made the attempts not worth the effort.

Kenzie was in the middle of trading hands, being transported on a soldier ship to a new war, when his electronic restraints malfunctioned. Kenzie was able to free himself and wreak havoc on his captors. This, however, left him floating in space on a ship that he had no idea how to pilot. He had been on the ship for several days when the Jubilee stumbled across it. He had managed to set up a distress signal to try and get help, and the IGSA ship responded.

The scene inside the ship was pretty gruesome. A starving wolpine among several corpses and broken machinery. Mackenzie was taken on board the Jubilee and put in holding until they could figure out what to do with him. He managed to plea his case and was freed, but he didn't really want to go back to his homeworld and risk the chance of being captured again. So he stayed with the IGSA and began work as a low ranked security officer. Having worked well with Captain Barad's crew, he was re-assigned to them for his first, full mission.

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Name: Nikita Rosalie Fay
Age: (18+) 24
Gender: Female
Species: Human

Rank: First Class
Role: Engineer

ESP rating: High, though limited to mechanics

Personality: Nikita is cheerful, playful, and sometimes childish in all things, except when it comes to her work. Often she seems to treat the ship more like a lover than a vessel and is not ashamed to admit it, especially when confronted by propositions for a relationship. She is not rude, or condescending towards others unless there is an emergency, or she finds someone purposefully mistreating her machine. She also has, what some would call, a coffee addiction.


History: Nikita came from a long line of engineers, her father even being one of the ones to help design engines like in the Jubilee. Though, as with most children belonging to business and military parents, she spent a lot of time alone. When she was very young, she spent a long time with her grandfather working on antique machines he was fixing and fiddling with. She learned the intricate ways things linked together to make something work. When her grandfather died, she continued to tinker and invent new things, using what he had taught her, and what she was learning in school. The few times her parents paid attention to her, they worried about her behavior and isolation. She promised repeatedly to make friends, though she never did. She excelled in engineering, and easily got accepted into the IGSA. Her father expected this to be a chance for them to bond, but by this time, she had already buried herself into mechanics, purposefully taking jobs away from him to keep from being distracted.

It wasn't until she was with the IGSA that it was discovered that she had a high level of ESP, as she instinctively read the machinery around her to catch problems and know how things could be altered. It was almost as if she could talk to them, though she showed no other signs of it in relation to ESPs normal capabilities. To her, it was simply knowing that if a machine vibrated, sounded, or glitched a certain way, she knew why, having worked on them for so long. She never considered normal people never noticed these things. Sensing telepathy was still beyond her.

She originally declined an invitation to join the Jubilee, being content to help invent new things on earth, but when a co-worker informed her that her father was transferring to her department, she immediately went to the office and volunteered. Some say it was running from her problems, to which she answered with a profane gesture and went about her business.

[Rei]

Name: Kirianka Ze Li Mirazandi'ir

Age: 33

Gender: Female

Species: Altoran

Rank: Second-In-Command

Role: First Officer

ESP Rating: High (High Empathy)

Personality: (TBA)

History: (TBA)

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Jennifer Emerald

Name: Jennifer Emerald
Age: 26
Gender: Female
Species: Zenohunts (A now-civil race)

Zenohunts

Biologically basically human, however they can have animal features, such as claws, a tail, ears of an animal, etc. A Zenohunt's average lifespan varies, depending on where they live, however they live to roughly 150 years of age. Their government is presidential, however the oldest child of the president is the next president when the current one dies. If the child has not reached the age of fifteen, an elected admiral of the United Zenohunt Space Navy will take over until the child has Waletairo.

Zenohunts have different reactions to different things, and often take everything with a pinch of salt. However, this depends on wherever the Zenohunt has came from, and that includes other planets, such as Earth. Earth Zenohunts can be very peaceful, those from the lands of Lemea can be quite aggressive but friendly, and those from protected cities like Yasanctuar can be a balance, though most Zenohunts lean majorly to peace; they don't want to see another massive war.

Zenohunts progressed through to an advanced age very quickly when a ship of unknown origin crashed on Lemea, their home planet. Being a race just into the iron age at that time, the Zenohunts claimed that the ship was from the gods, more specifically, from their goddess, Zariana. as technology was scavenged from this ship, a huge civil war was started as empires from all over Lemea heard of this event: The mighty goddess bringing down gifts from the skies. Much blood was shed in the first world-wide war of the Zenohunts. The Zenohunt population was cut down considerably. Finally, a mass agreement was made, and the Zenohunts were settled into peace once again.

However, this all ended one hundred years later. Through one hundred years, many things had happened. New cultures arised, space travel was a reality, but FTL travel was far from a reality. Economy rose, wars between countries had happened, however everything generally was in peace. However, on the Waletairo of a Zenohunt president's daughter, the president was assassinated. The new president, after her Waletairo, made every effort to find the murderer of her father. All of the clues, including weapon backtracking and intelligence pushing, led to the discovery that it was a different country that had done the deed. So, she, as well as her allies, waged war on the opposing country, to which her allies followed, starting a war that raged all through the Zenohunt space system. Not one secret weapon was left unused. Not one soul untouched. Everyone was affected in some way by the war.

Once the war had finally been resolved, the Zenohunt population had been cut down by the billions. Because of this, drone and robotic technology thrived, as there was less people for manual labour. Even a lot of their fleets and ships became drone operated. Together they formed the UZF (United Zenohunt Federation), which united all Zenohunts in peace. Years later, they were discovered by the InterGalactic Space Alliance, and began to fight against their offerings to take them into the IGSA, translators mistaking the words for 'take your race into our peace' and instead reading them as 'make your race into pieces'. It was not long before people started wondering why entire fleets were not coming to destroy them, and soon it was realized they wanted to make peace, not take pieces out of them. Soon enough, diplomats made contact, and the Zenohunts were taken into the IGSA.

All Zenohunts believe in a goddess who is named Zariana. She causes everything that happens, both good and bad.
When a Zenohunt reaches the age of fifteen, a celebration is called for, as Zenohunts are mature by the age of fifteen. This celebration is known as 'Waletairo', which in English would translate to 'Tailgrow', as in their tail being fully grown. Being fifteen is basically being twenty one as a Human. You can have any job you want, you can drink, have kids, etc.
Zenohunts like to build things that look good. A lot of their structures, ships, or even their weapons look very good indeed.

Zenohunt weaponry in mainly along the kinetic line, with many different types of weaponry, both small and large. Their ships range from corvettes all the way up to carriers, however they only have one supercarrier in existence, loaded with the most advanced technology that the Zenohunts have. Zenohunts like to hide defensive structures, like putting a railgun inside of an asteroid. Zenohunts are very advanced when it comes to drone and robotic technology, as they need to be to compensate for the lack of men to do the lesser work. Most of their fighter aircraft are drones, however their bombers and dropships have pilots as those can do things that drones can't, or simply can't be programmed for. Of course, even they sometimes might be drone-piloted. Fighter/bomber craft are mass-produced, both on planetary defense stations and in on-board factories on Zenohunt carriers and larger fighter-carrying warships. Being stationed on a Zenohunt carrier takes a lot of work, and skill, as it is known as a great honor to be on such an advanced ship.

The Zenohunts have only a few 'fleets', consisting of around 20 ships each, however they also have a large number of 'battlegroups' consisting of around 2-5 ships. Zenohunt carriers with the ability to Jigsaw (Split into several different drone/remote piloted ships) can be referred to as battlegroups, since they have the ability to split into various sizes of ship.

Most civilian spacecraft are drone-piloted, and range from small luxury yachts all the way up to massive cargo ships. Civilian space stations dot around every single planet under their control, almost every one with an orbital elevator leading down to the planet's surface.

Rank: Lieutenant Commander
Role: Third in command

ESP rating: Medium

Personality: Being raised in the roughs, Jennifer was known to be just a little mean when she wanted to, even if that meant bluffing a little to get out of things. These traits half-carried into the navy, and as she went through the ranks it was considered that she go to the navy academy to become an instructor though Jennifer has a personal preference to be out in the field and so declined.

However, Jennifer has a good side to her, and isn't just the tough woman that she talks. She usually has a smile on her face and likes to crack a little joke or two, and she has hobbies like reading.

Appearance: Jennifer prefers to keep herself clean and professional looking at all times. This includes keeping her blonde hair tidy and her uniform fine. She stands at 5"5, not very tall, and has a slim but powerful looking build. Her skin is quite white, and she has blue eyes. She often likes to stand straight, but sometimes a little cockily leant to the side.

History: Jennifer was born in Ehop, one of the few major cities on Lemea, however a few years after she was born she was moved to Yasanctuar, yet another city, as the environment there was a lot better for their family, as it had a lot more military areas and was therefore more protected. A side effect of this was Jennifer seeing a variety of military types around there, and therefore wanted to be one of them.

She ended up studying a lot in engineering as this was a major want for the Zenohunt navy, and she grew up studying rather than doing other things like playing games (even though she sometimes did this).

During Waletairo she made an application to the navy office nearest her home, and soon left to go to training. Her parents only knew a week later, though only by chance, as there was a news recording of new recruits being trained, and they saw their daughter there. Of course, as Jennifer was an adult now, they couldn't pull her away, so were forced to live with it.

Soon, Jennifer was climbing the ranks of the Zenohunt navy as an engineering officer, however when she was a lieutenant she was transferred to Human ships due to crew requirements. She spent a few years on Human ships, and then was told she was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-commander, and asked if she would rather return to Zenohunt fleets, stay on Human based ships or take a new assignment. She took the new assignment, and was surprised to find herself no longer as an engineering chief but as third-in-command on the IGSA Jubilee.