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"As agreed, the lounge is not a bad starting place anyway. It's like the station's junk trap for gossip, if there is anything worth knowing in the layers of scum at the bottom it gets filtered through there. It so happens I have an acquaintance there I want to check in with anyway."

Orion says with a nod, feeling the ship hum slightly underfoot as it preps to accept the docking clamps and pressurise the airlock system.

Docking complete, will we be introducing Master Oh'len to Gnabik seeing as he reached out to us both?

The ship informed them, not caring that it was admitting it had been monitoring the comms or that Orion may have been keeping his own message to his chest. The bounty hunters' shoulders rose and fell in an exasperated sigh as he geared up. Slipping his own sidearm into a docker holster under his arm and stuffing a few other bits and pieces he'd probably need on the station into his pocket.

"Gnabik is a bit of a mixed bag, and that putting it politely, if he didn't have such a erratic talent for intrigue I think someone would have vented him years ago. He is useful, occasionally anyway, so even if what he wants today is a waste of time it's worth shaking him down for intel."

Orion checked a few meter readings and then pushed a few fragmented maps files over to Oh'len's device. They were based on the old plans that had been data mined from station systems years ago but had partially updated to show gang zones, unsafe or blocked sections and other bits of miscellaneous information.

"That's probably about 30% accurate and it is missing huge chunks of area, but if we get separated it means you should be able to get back to this dock as long as you can make your way to the main hub first.

Nin, settle up with the dock system for our fees and make sure we're cleared to leave and keep docked here for a few days without any hassle. Try not to gossip any more also will you?"

He tell's the ship and the holographic display flickers in offence.

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Orion scowls and taps at his comm panel to end and purge the message, more out of habit than any real concern that the message could compromise him somehow. Probably another junk run and he was either hoping someone would be foolish enough to take it off him or he'd ambush Orion with a different job all together as soon as he got in the door.

"Gnabik, what are you up to now you no good Sluffer..."

He muttered half to himself even as the blinking lights of the AI terminal for the Ninshubar whirred to life. A faint hum started, then a slightly rusty clang, before the hum resumed and then a light blue ball began to rapidly construct itself over the display. As it completed itself and electronic runes rippled over it, the ball pivoted as if turning to face the Ki pilot.

"Another wild goose chase no doubt, you'd be better to focus on your existing contract with master Ohl’en; such a respectable young man compared to your usual clientele"

The AI suggested in a rather smug tone that suggested it was pleased to not have another rough hoodlum riding in the back for once. Orion shrugged at the point and then checked his displays as they set a course to dock with Odyssey station; he noticed his passenger had also received a similar message once they got into short burst range.

"Well that is interesting, looks like Gnabik's encryption keys but from the message origin he didn't know he was on our ship. Just set to send when his comm system pinged for messages.

Nin commented, his holographic spherical presence contracting and dilating as if focusing on the information.

"Leave it for now, he doesn't seem like the pirate type so I doubt its anything that puts us at risk. Handle the docking Nin while I go check on him"

Orion stood with a stretch, the small cockpit feeling a little more full than usual with a hammock and some other equipment stowed into one corner. He jabbed the door control and ducked through into the back compartment and looked abut the room that was now a hybrid of a workshop, galley, cargo hold and bedroom. Finally he looked at the Vaskian and gave him a friendly nod before kicking out a chair to sit before him.

"We'll be docking shortly, I'll need to sort out the resupply and refuelling but that should all be available at the docks. After that I can either escort you to wherever you want to go first on I can be on standby if you wish to investigate independently. You're an educated fellow so I probably don't need to remind you, but Odyssey is a pretty rough place if you wander into the wrong area; I'd recommend checking with me before you go anywhere alone outside of the central hub and even then I'd stay out of the dive bars or pleasure clubs."

He explained, updating and advising the Vaskian as he privately wondered if the lead was still hot enough to get them anywhere.

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Orion is a charming Ki bounty hunter who races from his past

Name: Enki Rigel
Aliases: Orion (as a bounty hunter), Crimson Star (when he raced)
Species: Ki (will elaborate later)

Homeworld: Ki (though he lived mostly on it's moon Nanna)

Ki is known as a quiet but prosperous planet, when it was taken into the Talim Empire its existing aristocracy was largely preserved in exchange for the "peaceful" transition into Empire control. Though their political power has waned as a prosperous merchant class grew by taking advantage of attractive opportunities within the Talim empire, they still retain certain privileges and the moon Nanna remains largely under their direct control.

Ki is a largely temperate planet, it's beauty partially preserved between the dense urban sprawls where most live thanks to a mineral rich asteroid belt in the system and a suitable small agri world that lacked any large or intelligent life forms to compete with to be used for crops growing and cultivating other natural resources.

Nanna itself lacks a true atmosphere, its surface covered with an intricate silver web of conduits, walkways and freight ways linking the gem coloured bubble cities and self sufficient lunar towers of the various aristocrats and industries who influence it.

The Ki themselves are a humanoid race, their culture and history one of rising and falling dynasties who's stability was often prolonged by the discovery of precursor artefacts that saw their technological advancement leap forward in burst of dramatic discovery. The Ki tend to be skilled operators of whatever vehicles they turn their hands to and upon achieving inter-stellar flight discovered a curious affinity for space travel that went beyond their natural talents as pilots. Those with a strong enough ability to properly perceive the leyland energies they use as part of this are so rare and infrequent that little knowledge has been retained or even acknowledged by the Ki of this talent.

Age: Adult

Gender: Male

Appearance:

Orion is tall with broad shoulders for a Ki, though by many other species' standard he appears slender still, his skin is a pale light blue that is patterned with intricate scales as is common to his people. Darker scales verging into purple score along his brow and highlight the tops of his angular cheek bones; another more concentrated ridge of scales bisects his forehead. His eyes are purple too, shoots of pale silver scoring through the iris when caught in the light around the diamond shaped pupils typical of all Ki. Larger plainer scaling covers his scalp, intersected with rising keratinous plates that rise and interlock together to form a curving flair of them above his face, similar to a human quiff in overall shape.

As a racer he was known for flamboyant style, often wearing military stylised jackets in reds and purples, pressed and tailored trousers and gleaming tall boots that seemed to ring on metal as he paced over the race way or the deck of his racer. He had a pair of custom gloves, made from the hide of some exotic alien beast and the pads lined with nanite firmament to ensure full sensation. When racing he would often wear a HUD display over one eye and ear, feeding data from his support crew into his ear and overlaying it before him. What was most remembered however was his signature red cloak, the high flaring collar making his profile instantly recognised wherever he went.

Now however he is more circumspect, his boots are functional, stopping beneath the knee with sturdy loose trousers tucked into them. Orion wears scavenged and repurposed pieces of a Talim infantry class armour set, one of the old Mk IV lines. The pieces have been recoloured black and grey, the chest piece and utility belt looking scarred and scuffed, the kneepads having worn their paint away from use to show the dull grey brown of the smart ceramic beneath. The chunky helmet and arm protection have been discarded in favour of a lightweight visor style helmet, the mirrored visor obscuring the top half of his face and capable of sliding down to meet a retractable rebreather that fits around his jaw line from the base of the helmet for low oxygen environments. His arms are kept free of armour except for a well worn set of stained and blackened racing gloves that extend past his wrist and flare out over the ugly but surprising resistant material of his long sleeve top. When outside of combat situations he typically wears a long grey duster style coat or a padded black biker jacket over all of this to help conceal his equipment from the casual observer.

The Ninshubar

Personality: Charming and well spoken, Orion can be affable and open when he wants to be. He is fiercely proud and stubborn, and sticks strongly to his own internal code of ethics no matter the cost to him. While he was once a social creature, surrounded by admirers and friends, these days he is more closed off; his well bred manners tempered to a smooth professional courtesy after a few years bounty hunting.

Background:

Enki was the scion of a lesser noble house, he was racing prodigy and became a minor celebrity after a succession of victories in his ship the Betelgeuse, a custom built racer he spent a considerable portion of his inheritance on. Unfortunately for Enki he attracted the attention of a crime syndicate who attempted to bribe and blackmail him into throwing a race.

When the Crimson Star defied their wishes, arrogant in his belief that he was untouchable, they came after him; not with violence however as he had expected but with lies and deception. The Crimson Star was framed, accused of murder and debauchery and as fans and the media turned on him, he disappeared.

Orion appeared in the Istio system a few years later, his racer remodelled into an angular black ship with lightweight armour called the Ninshubar and a reputation of being willing to take on any bounties against organised crime members fleeing justice, he has also occasionally smuggled small valuable cargo that needed to be delivered fast, a service he does not advertise as openly however. For now nobody is aware of his past, his face obscured behind his visor along with the changes to the profile and colour of his ship protect his identity.

Talents

• Piloting - Gets the most speed and manoeuvrability out of the ship he can
• Leyline Sensitive - Has an intuitive sense allowing him to locate fragments of leyline energy to give himself a speed boost
• Pistol Duellist - An excellent shot with a pistol, particular when on the move

Cyphers:

Site Mod Selection

Potential questions

• What is your go to approach when dealing with someone difficult or argumentative?
• Tell me about a time you had to reprimand/discipline someone who you got along with (can be in work, a team sport, DnD whatever)
• What skills can you bring to the Mod team that they don't already have
• Will you crush the enemies of RPG with the righteous fury of a thousand suns?

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@Skullwombat cumzone was an interesting example to choose... the warning thing is maybe a little harsh but to be honest if they gave them the benefit of the doubt by not issuing a ban discussing a warning (even in joke form) in statuses seems a good way to wear the good will out.

@Ruby ah I feared it might be a technical limitation that prevented this kind of automation.

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For those who havent been banned

What notification gets given? Do they get the post/status/action they were banned for or a rule that is cited or linked to?

Can other admins view these details if they get asked?

I see a lot of people complaining about friends bans etc but its hard to asses when I don't know if they should have been shown exactly what they have been banned for. If someone is saying they dont know what they got banned for and it was actually right there in an email or something that changes how I'd view that complaint.

Such a procedure/feature may save you the why was i banned PM (or at least some).

Ask an Admin, v2.

Considering how much of an issue correctly using statuses seem to be to some users, can we just remove them from the front page so that you only see them under a user's profile pic.

This might encourage them to be posts of how people actually are, rather than an RPG twitter for complaints.

Naruto RP

I'm interested

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Posting this here as I work on it so I don't lose it as I work/add to it

Orion is a charming Ki bounty hunter who races from his past

Name: Enki Rigel
Aliases: Orion (as a bounty hunter), Crimson Star (when he raced)
Species: Ki (will elaborate later)

Homeworld: Ki (though he lived mostly on it's moon Nanna)

Ki is known as a quiet but prosperous planet, when it was taken into the Talim Empire its existing aristocracy was largely preserved in exchange for the "peaceful" transition into Empire control. Though their political power has waned as a prosperous merchant class grew by taking advantage of attractive opportunities within the Talim empire, they still retain certain privileges and the moon Nanna remains largely under their direct control.

Ki is a largely temperate planet, it's beauty partially preserved between the dense urban sprawls where most live thanks to a mineral rich asteroid belt in the system and a suitable small agri world that lacked any large or intelligent life forms to compete with to be used for crops growing and cultivating other natural resources.

Nanna itself lacks a true atmosphere, its surface covered with an intricate silver web of conduits, walkways and freight ways linking the gem coloured bubble cities and self sufficient lunar towers of the various aristocrats and industries who influence it.

The Ki themselves are a humanoid race, their culture and history one of rising and falling dynasties who's stability was often prolonged by the discovery of precursor artefacts that saw their technological advancement leap forward in burst of dramatic discovery. The Ki tend to be skilled operators of whatever vehicles they turn their hands to and upon achieving inter-stellar flight discovered a curious affinity for space travel that went beyond their natural talents as pilots. Those with a strong enough ability to properly perceive the leyland energies they use as part of this are so rare and infrequent that little knowledge has been retained or even acknowledged by the Ki of this talent.

Age: Adult

Gender: Male

Appearance:

Orion is tall with broad shoulders for a Ki, though by many other species' standard he appears slender still, his skin is a pale light blue that is patterned with intricate scales as is common to his people. Darker scales verging into purple score along his brow and highlight the tops of his angular cheek bones; another more concentrated ridge of scales bisects his forehead. His eyes are purple too, shoots of pale silver scoring through the iris when caught in the light around the diamond shaped pupils typical of all Ki. Larger plainer scaling covers his scalp, intersected with rising keratinous plates that rise and interlock together to form a curving flair of them above his face, similar to a human quiff in overall shape.

As a racer he was known for flamboyant style, often wearing military stylised jackets in reds and purples, pressed and tailored trousers and gleaming tall boots that seemed to ring on metal as he paced over the race way or the deck of his racer. He had a pair of custom gloves, made from the hide of some exotic alien beast and the pads lined with nanite firmament to ensure full sensation. When racing he would often wear a HUD display over one eye and ear, feeding data from his support crew into his ear and overlaying it before him. What was most remembered however was his signature red cloak, the high flaring collar making his profile instantly recognised wherever he went.

Now however he is more circumspect, his boots are functional, stopping beneath the knee with sturdy loose trousers tucked into them. Orion wears scavenged and repurposed pieces of a Talim infantry class armour set, one of the old Mk IV lines. The pieces have been recoloured black and grey, the chest piece and utility belt looking scarred and scuffed, the kneepads having worn their paint away from use to show the dull grey brown of the smart ceramic beneath. The chunky helmet and arm protection have been discarded in favour of a lightweight visor style helmet, the mirrored visor obscuring the top half of his face and capable of sliding down to meet a retractable rebreather that fits around his jaw line from the base of the helmet for low oxygen environments. His arms are kept free of armour except for a well worn set of stained and blackened racing gloves that extend past his wrist and flare out over the ugly but surprising resistant material of his long sleeve top. When outside of combat situations he typically wears a long grey duster style coat or a padded black biker jacket over all of this to help conceal his equipment from the casual observer.

The Ninshubar

Personality: Charming and well spoken, Orion can be affable and open when he wants to be. He is fiercely proud and stubborn, and sticks strongly to his own internal code of ethics no matter the cost to him. While he was once a social creature, surrounded by admirers and friends, these days he is more closed off; his well bred manners tempered to a smooth professional courtesy after a few years bounty hunting.

Background:

Enki was the scion of a lesser noble house, he was racing prodigy and became a minor celebrity after a succession of victories in his ship the Betelgeuse, a custom built racer he spent a considerable portion of his inheritance on. Unfortunately for Enki he attracted the attention of a crime syndicate who attempted to bribe and blackmail him into throwing a race.

When the Crimson Star defied their wishes, arrogant in his belief that he was untouchable, they came after him; not with violence however as he had expected but with lies and deception. The Crimson Star was framed, accused of murder and debauchery and as fans and the media turned on him, he disappeared.

Orion appeared in the Istio system a few years later, his racer remodelled into an angular black ship with lightweight armour called the Ninshubar and a reputation of being willing to take on any bounties against organised crime members fleeing justice, he has also occasionally smuggled small valuable cargo that needed to be delivered fast, a service he does not advertise as openly however. For now nobody is aware of his past, his face obscured behind his visor along with the changes to the profile and colour of his ship protect his identity.

Talents

• Piloting - Gets the most speed and manoeuvrability out of the ship he can
• Leyline Sensitive - Has an intuitive sense allowing him to locate fragments of leyline energy to give himself a speed boost
• Pistol Duellist - An excellent shot with a pistol, particular when on the move

Cyphers:

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this looks cool and the video has me hyped for it