I like to imagine that there are a lot of guidelines rules, ranging from the very specific ("Kitchen Rule #409: The deep frier is not to be venerated or otherwise treated as an object worthy of devotion, even after being used to deep fry religious artefacts.") to the broad ("Kitchen Rule #6: No. Stop it.").
Additionally setting the Creepy Spook against the Honest Engineer would be sick as fuck in terms of character development.
We could start the RP without a First Mate and decide IC which should be the First Mate and if we want the First Mate to be the right hand man or the crew's elected representative.
The Avaryn are a species take on the appearance of different birds but only have feather on their head in place of hair. Avaryns hit sexual maturity around 20 Universal Standard Years and live up to around 120 Universal Standard Years. At this point, the Avaryn reach their full height, the tallest reaching around 5'10" in height, and are done growing physically. The Avaryn have three talone digits on their hands and feet, the middle of which is the longest. Avaryns have a very lithe frame due to their bones being less dense than those of humans. Because of this, however, the Avaryn are known to move much faster than humans but are less durable, which they compensate for with heavily shielded armor for their warriors. They cannot make the armor heavier than average, so they have high-strength individual personal shielding built into their armor.
In Avaryn society the females are more prominent, similar to how males usually are in human society, taking on roles of power such as in politics, military, etc. The males usually involve themselves with more passive professions like science, medicine, etc. That’s not to say males in Avaryn society don’t join the military or rise to power or that females never become doctors or scientists. The Avaryn military is known for its long range and espionage-based fighters. They are also known for their more defensive approach to military technology, preferring to research more into protecting their troops than they do in harming opposing armies. Their technology is a blend of the magical and mechanical. Most of their technology is powered by the primal force that surrounds all living beings. In particular, their armor with personal shielding uses a dual purpose power amplifier/generator to project a shield around the individual. The runes carved into the power source of the shield draws in primal energy from the world around them and then amplifies the output to form the shield. This is how much of their power sources function. Much their military technolgoy is powered through Arcana, though. Their weaponry is made to absorb the magical forces around them like their shielding and then release energy in the form of different spells.
Age: 63 Universal Standard Years
Gender: Male
Appearance: Az stands at 5’7” with the lithe frame common to his people. Az most closely resembles a horned owl with dark coppery feathers across his head. He usually wears a chest piece with the personal shielding technology from his homeworld as a precaution as he travels. In addition to his armored chest piece, Az usually wears a long robe of dark maroon over his clothes. Over his eyes, he wears a holo visor similar in appearance to glasses, but with holographic screens in place of the lenses that provide him with better sight, a Heads Up Display, and various readings and information from the world aorund him and are linked to his personal terminal. As another precaution, Az carries a pistol on his belt. This pistol is Avaryn tech and is able to harness different sorts of magical energy and dispel various kinds of blasts depending on the energy absorbed.
Homeworld: Airys
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Role: Archaeologist/Navigator
Skills: Az is a skilled navigator and archaeologist. He has studied the Astral Gates and various relics from different societies around that time to see different sides of the puzzle. Because of his studies, he has naturally picked up how to navigate the Void, mostly from studying how older voyagers would do it. Along with his archaeological and navigation studies, Az has delved into the magical arts. He is most proficient with Psionics, as his race is born with basic Psionic abilities, but he has also studied the branch of Arcana. He utilizes his magic mostly through his pistol by absorbing different sorts of energy into the instrument and then firing the output from the pistol as different kinds of spells, but he is also able to perform basic “utility” spells without his pistol.
History: Az fell into line with the typical gender roles of his species and chose the path of an academic. He decided to study the Astral Gates left behind by the gods, having always been intrigued by puzzles and the past, being a firm believer in the people of the present being able to learn from the past should they actually choose to listen. Once he finished his formal education in his chosen area of study, Az decided to delve as deep as he could into the mysteries left behind by the gods by beginning with the relics left behind on his homeworld, and throughouthis studies he as regarded as a fool for studying the ancient beings. In the midst of his studies of his homeworld, Az married and had a daughter. His studies slowed after he started his family, and he was uanble to travel as much. Both his wife and daughter served in the military, and he unfortunately lost both of them to a war and was left alone.
It was then that Az decided to take what he had and leave his homeworld behind and study what the rest of the universe had to offer in the way of his studies. While traveling, Az was unable to receive any sort of funding for his studies because he refused to join with either of the governmental systems or guilds because he felt they would restrict his studies too much to be worth the funding. So naturally, Az gravitated toward smuggling parties that would allow him the freedom he wished. The drawback to this, however, was that he would at time have to find them valuable artifacts to sell. Fortunately, Az was able to keep the artifacts he needed for his specific studies and find them other valueables. Az eventually had a falling out with the crew when he thought they were hindering his research by making him find more valuables for them to profit off of than allowing him to go about his studies. Az left the crew behind in search of another one that would offer him more freedom. That was when he found the Nova Dawn and her crew. He has been with them for almost a year now.
Personality: Az speaks very bluntly and doesn’t often put his words through a filter before speaking. This had led to people generally thinking he’s insulting or rude. When he sees he has offended someone, he usually decides to steer clear of them because he knows they are not the sort of people he will get along with and will be unable to really speak with them. He is also dedicated to his area of study and has been labeled as a “workaholic” on many occasions. Not surprising then, he is rarely seen outside of his work space, especially when he believes he is on the verge of discovering some new part of the puzzle he has dedicated most of his life to.
@Dead Cruiser I was going to go with that angle at first and then retconned it because I though the whole 'verse was interested in what the gods did! Also, I could get rid of the psionics with my character. I hadn't realized the amount already present. I could go with the arcane divine branches since I don't think anyone has touched on the divine branch too much. Plus it could tie in with him being obsessed with the ancient societies and whatnot.
Gaderon vaguely heard the woman speak up as the older man lowered the tip of his trident but not his shield. The man was slightly less weary of him now, but not instantly trusting. That was smart of him. Gaderon returned the favor and lowered the tip of his blade, but kept it held tensely at hid side, ready to pull it back up should thing go south from here.
"It's bloodied from mercy. If you don't want to believe me, check the alleys behind us. You'll find a dog with it's intestines spilled out in front of it. You've spent a lot of time in Bania... I have too. What did you do there...?"
Gaderon was intrigued by the man’s answer of mercy killing a poor hound. He glanced at the bodies nearest him for a moment. Their wounds weren’t from any sort of piercing weapon. They were definitely caused by slashing weapons that tore and ripped their skin open in long gashes rather than precise puncture wounds. Seeing that, Gaderon nodded his head slightly in recognition.
”I have. My whole life before now actually. I hunted those creatures that preyed upon men and found refuge in the dar of night.”
He knew from the moment the words left his lips, he would more than likely be met with skepticism. Many people believed his homeland was home to only monsters and criminals, of which he was neither. Based on the woman’s accent, he was willing to bet she would look upon him with some degree of prejudice and think of him as a necessary evil more than anything else.
@Dead Cruiser Here's my updated CS. I have a pretty simplistic history section, but if you want more than I could do my best to expand on it.
Name: Azkaret’Orrekar or Az for short
Race:
The Avaryn are a species take on the appearance of different birds but only have feather on their head in place of hair. Avaryns hit sexual maturity around 20 Universal Standard Years and live up to around 120 Universal Standard Years. At this point, the Avaryn reach their full height, the tallest reaching around 5'10" in height, and are done growing physically. The Avaryn have three talone digits on their hands and feet, the middle of which is the longest. Avaryns have a very lithe frame due to their bones being less dense than those of humans. Because of this, however, the Avaryn are known to move much faster than humans but are less durable, which they compensate for with heavily shielded armor for their warriors. They cannot make the armor heavier than average, so they have high-strength individual personal shielding built into their armor.
In Avaryn society the females are more prominent, similar to how males usually are in human society, taking on roles of power such as in politics, military, etc. The males usually involve themselves with more passive professions like science, medicine, etc. That’s not to say males in Avaryn society don’t join the military or rise to power or that females never become doctors or scientists. The Avaryn military is known for its long range and espionage-based fighters. They are also known for their more defensive approach to military technology, preferring to research more into protecting their troops than they do in harming opposing armies. Their technology is a blend of the magical and mechanical. All Avaryn are born with Psionic abilities, and as a result most of their technology is powered by this mental force. In particular, their armor with personal shielding uses a dual purpose power amplifier/generator to project a mental shield around the individual. The runes carved into the power source of the shield draws in Psionic energy and then amplifies the output to form the shield. This is how much of their technology functions. Avaryn are not confined to Psionics only, in fact many of their researchers try to study and incorporate other branches of magic into their technology, but these are in their early stages.
Age: 63 Universal Standard Years
Gender: Male
Appearance: Az stands at 5’7” with the lithe frame common to his people. Az most closely resembles a horned owl with dark coppery feathers across his head. He usually wears a chest piece with the personal shielding technology from his homeworld as a precaution as he travels. In addition to his armored chest piece, Az usually wears a long robe of dark maroon over his clothes. Over his eyes, he wears a holo visor similar in appearance to glasses, but with holographic screens in place of the lenses that provide him with better sight, a Heads Up Display, and various readings and information from his personal terminal. As another precaution, Az carries a pistol on his belt. This pistol is Avaryn tech and is able to harness different sorts of magical energy and dispel various kinds of blasts depending on the energy absorbed.
Homeworld: Airys
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Role: Archaeologist/Navigator
Skills: Az is a skilled navigator and archaeologist. He has studied the Astral Gates and various relics from different societies around that time to see different sides of the puzzle. Because of his studies, he has naturally picked up how to navigate the Void, mostly from studying how older voyagers would do it. Along with his archaeological and navigation studies, Az has delved into the magical arts. He is most proficient with Psionics, as his race is born with basic Psionic abilities, but he has also studied the branch of Arcana. He utilizes his magic mostly through his pistol by absorbing different sorts of energy into the instrument and then firing the output from the pistol as different kinds of spells, but he is also able to perform basic “utility” spells without his pistol.
History: Az fell into line with the typical gender roles of his species and chose the path of an academic. He decided to study the Astral Gates left behind by the gods, having always been intrigued by puzzles and the past, being a firm believer in the people of the present being able to learn from the past should they actually choose to listen. Once he finished his formal education in his chosen area of study, Az decided to delve as deep as he could into the mysteries left behind by the gods by beginning with the relics left behind in his homeworld. In the midst of his studies of his homeworld, Az married and had a daughter. His studies slowed after he started his family, and he was uanble to travel as much. Both his wife and daughter served in the military, and he unfortunately lost both of them to a war and was left alone.
It was then that Az decided to take what he had and leave his homeworld behind and study what the rest of the universe had to offer in the way of his studies. While traveling, Az was unable to receive any sort of funding for his studies because he refused to join with either of the governmental systems or guilds because he felt they would restrict his studies too much to be worth the funding. So naturally, Az gravitated toward smuggling parties that would allow him the freedom he wished. The drawback to this, however, was that he would at time have to find them valuable artifacts to sell. Fortunately, Az was able to keep the artifacts he needed for his specific studies and find them other valueables. Az eventually had a falling out with the crew when he thought they were hindering his research by making him find more valuables for them to profit off of than allowing him to go about his studies. Az left the crew behind in search of another one that would offer him more freedom. That was when he found the Nova Dawn and her crew. He has been with them for almost a year now.
Personality: Az speaks very bluntly and doesn’t often put his words through a filter before speaking. This had led to people generally thinking he’s insulting or rude. When he sees he has offended someone, he usually decides to steer clear of them because he knows they are not the sort of people he will get along with and will be unable to really speak with them. He is also dedicated to his area of study and has been labeled as a “workaholic” on many occasions. Not surprising then, he is rarely seen outside of his work space, especially when he believes he is on the verge of discovering some new part of the puzzle he has dedicated most of his life to.
I think it depends on whether Res uses the top half, or the bottom half, of the crew. The replacement plan for the bottom half is fairly straightforward ("Robotic legs for everyone!"), as for the top half, we'll have to get creative.
Well, if he leaves the brain entact, android upgrades for the poor devils. If he doesn't, then we'll just mount turrets and canons to the leftover legs.
