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An accurate picture of Matt waiting for his CS to be accepted/declined.

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@ClocktowerEchos Would it be acceptable to make the Apex and Redeemed characters have, blow for blow, the same powers, with the main difference being that the Apex has access to far more resources that makes his powers work.

Pretty much, the idea that i have is based off a villain i did in an old Starfinder campaign i did. And before anyone says it, yes i realize this hits an alarmingly similar number of points with Stargate, but i created this guy with my only knowledge of the Stargate franchise being from having watched the original film a couple of times with the latest having been a decade previously. This guy was actually more based on the Vorlons from B5 and a few awesome looking Sci-Fi Egypt pics i found:

Essentially, the gods of the many religions on Earth are highly evolved aliens with each religion being represented by its own galactic nation. In this version, each God is one of the "First Ones" that walked the universe. So, the Egyptian Nations is the "Empire of the Eternal Sun" the Norse are the "Nine Realm Kingdoms" the Greek nation is the "Grand Pantheon Alliance", the Japanese are the "Great Kami Imperium" etc.

So, the villain i wanted to play was a corrupt version of Ra. He has a number of funky powers, but one of his main ones is his digitized immortality. Now, being a god, he's pretty hard to kill, but when you're also fighting other gods, the field is relatively even and he can be killed. Essentially, he has perfected a form of digitizing his consciousness, meaning that he can essentially back up his own brain and powers into vast computer banks that take the form of a Pyramid. That way, should he ever be killed, he can just download his brain into a new human host, which is then forcably evolved into having the same powers again. He can also download his brain into a giant mech body for combat and intimidation tactics. He also has his vast army of sci-fi soldiers, technomancers and Space-Druids.

Essentially, Redeemer Ra would have almost exactly the same powers as Apex Ra, but without access to his vast armies/fleets, his back-up data-banks (In the event of his death) and his mech-bodies. Meaning that Apex Ra still holds a massive advantage over him. If they fight and Apex dies, big whoop, he'll be back soon, Redeemer dies, he's gone for good.

The Redeemer Corps (Villains to Heroes) (Multiverse) (Mirror Matches)

@ClocktowerEchos Cool, i've got some idea's, just curious which pile to draw from.

The Redeemer Corps (Villains to Heroes) (Multiverse) (Mirror Matches)

@ClocktowerEchos Interesting idea. 2 questions that immediately come to mind:
1) Sci-Fi setting? Yes or no?
2) Canon setting? Yes or no?

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Dead On Arrival

Stargate: Enemies on All Sides.

"The Stargate can take anything a million lightyears from home, but what will it bring back?"

The discovery of the Earth Stargate near Giza prompted the US military along with some of their greatest scientific minds to determine the purpose of the Stargate and how to activate it. This eventually led to the Abydos Mission, which ended with Colonel Jack O'Neill killing the Goa'uld Supreme System Lord, Ra with a Naquadah enhanced nuclear bomb. After what was essentially a failed mission to Abydos and without the help of Daniel Jackson, who remained on Abydos but was officially labelled "K.I.A.", the program was shut down. The gate was then moved and eventually stored in Cheyenne Mountain.

In February 1997, the Goa'uld System Lord, Apophis, one of Ra's many rivals ended up dialing Earth which saw him and his Serpent Guard troops coming through the previously dormant Stargate and landed the Goa'uld team into the empty Embarkation room. After a short battle, in which several US Military officers were killed or captured, the Stargate Program was reactivated, this time on a permanent basis and on the orders of the President of the United States, Major General George S. Hammond became the new commanding officer of Stargate Command.

To help defend the Earth from any future attacks, new teams associated with Stargate Command were also created, composed of numerous military personnel and civilians with the head team being designated SG-1 which was placed under the command of Colonel Jack O'Neill who had been called back to active duty in the aftermath of the attack. SG-1 although originally composed of Jack, Captain Samantha Carter and later Dr. Daniel Jackson who joined the team after Apophis kidnapped Daniel's wife, SG-1 later grew to have four members as Apophis's former First Prime, Teal'c of Chulak who had defected from Apophis and also successfully helped SG-1 escape later joined SG-1 on a permanent basis as the fourth and final member, Teal'c having proven that he had truly changed and that his loyalty now lay both with the Tau'ri and SG-1 with Teal'c also hoping that they could help free his people, the Jaffa, from the control of the Goa'uld.

The SG teams have had many run-ins with the Goa'uld System Lords, including foiling an invasion of earth by Apophis, making alliances with the Goa'uld's swarn enemies, the Tok'Ra (Rogue Goa'uld that wish to transition their parasitic overtaking of humans into a symbiotic coexistence with them) and The Asgard (a race of ancient aliens that wish Humanity to thrive and potentially join them as one of the great races of the universe.) as well as recently killing System Lord Sokar.

However, a new enemy has dawned upon humanity. A scourge of machines called "The Replicators" which not even the Asgard are able to defeat in a straight fight. After they recently nearly took over a Russian Submarine, but were destroyed, the decision was made by the US Government to finally scale up the project. The UN Security Council was brought in and made aware of the Stargate program, in order to secure better funding and allow the establishment and maintenance of more SG teams. With the urging of the Asgard, the UN have agreed to allow General Hammond to remain in charge of the Stargate Program, but there has now been a large influx of personnel to pick up the slack.

So, where does the RP come in?

The idea of this RP would be a re-imagining of the Stargate Saga, with each RPer taking command of their own SG team. You will go on missions against the Goa'uld, or Replicators, or whatever enemy you so choose. I have seen a lot of RP's of this style going around recently, where this is less of an RP in which players interact with each other and more akin to a group writing project. Feel free to tell your stories, make your characters that can interact with each other in interesting ways, as well as kick some ass in the name of humanity. I really like this type of RP if for no other reason than, most RP's bog down when someone loses interest and the rest of the group has to randomly accomodate for that happening. This kind of RP is one where that isn't really a problem.

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@TGM Don't want to seem impatient, but it's been 2 weeks, any update on my application?

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@TGM To be honest, right now, i'm so busy i forgot i had even finished it. Thanks for letting me know.

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@TGM I finished my CS I know that Kamala isn't in the sample post much, but that's pretty much because, if accepted, my next post would be pretty much the exact same events, but taken from Kamala's view. It just makes more sense to do Robbie's version first since i don't want to have Kamala psychologically scarred by looking at his mangled corpse... That psychological scarring will come later.