So, I tried this idea over a year ago now on the old RPG site, and it was going well until RL issues came up. Long story short, I had to drop the rp before it even really got started. So I decided I'm gonna retry now that I have some time off to at least get it rolling.
So, before I even set up a year, let me establish this major plot point. There are no humans in this RP. This is going to be taking place in this galaxy, but for a major plot point I want to cover, humans are not going to be involved in this rp until much later (for plot purposes).
With that out of the way, lets talk about the setting. So for our characters and the society they are a part of, the year is currently 9,XXX NE (New Era). The reason it's this time is for over the past 14 millenia, space travel has been a major part of the society. The era started when space travel advanced from merely orbiting stations and such to fulfledged transportation to other solar systems with warp travel. The first race to accomplish this was the Ras'el, a race of humanoid creatures that hold many animal like qualities tot hem, mainly their eyes, senses, and physical capabilities (I'll get into more detail later). The Ras'el traveled to several different solar systems, interacting with races that were in the development stages of their space travel.
From here, the Ras'el have assisted in the dawn of space exploration for several other races. In the year. While there were small wars amongst factions, eventually there was a peace treaty that formed the GF, Galatic Federation, a "UN" of sorts for all the space faring species. For over 7 millienia, there was peace but somewhere around 7,5XX, there was a major war that broke out that created a warring faction to the GF, the FA (Freedom Alliance), an alliance of factions that felt the GF was less of a peace keeping force and more of a totalitarian force over the galaxy.
Side not, great names right? I had better ones in my old rp but that being so long ago I can't remember anything about them.
Anyways, so the GF and FA fought on and off for over a millenia, and then the GF created a new type of space craft that could not only bend space to travel at warp speeds, but bend space and time of specific areas that would essentially unmake anything within the portion of space that was being manipulated. The ship was deemed "The Silver-Runner" because when ever it warped, either travelling or bending space to destroy it, there would be a silver light right was the warp occured.
So, with this new ship being a prototype, there was only one made, but it was more than enough. whole bases of operations for the FA would be wiped away without a trace with this one ship, and after so much fighting, the war eventually ended. However, the Silver-Runner was discontinued and set to be dismantled. It was treated as a weapon of total destruction, and was set to be destroyed, but this is where our characters come in.
There was a full fledged operation, funded by the remaining FA forces, that resulted in the acquisition of the Silver-Runner, but person assigned to head-off the operation had different plans in mind. After acquiring the ship, she...Well she basically said "Fuck you" to both forces, flipped them off, and then disappeared with the warp speed.
This was about 5 years ago. Now, she has been working to acquire a crew and become a space pirate. Why? Cause fuck you that's why. The captain has her reasons, but there's no reason for you to know, not yet at least.
So, now lets go over some of the information we need to address.
Races, there are many races and sub species, but there are only a handful and major races. They are:
-Ras'el: As described early, the first race to achieve warp travel. They are very human like, but they share differences as well. Their eyes are more or less cat eyes, the sharp angles, the night-vision like sight capabilities, and everything like that. They also share cat like senses, with extraordinary hearing, smell, and sight. Finally they share the agility and flexibility, and even some strength of bigger felines, that all cats have. Mentally the Ras'el are pretty human like as well. They obviously have higher intellect, but they also have a wide range of personality traits and such. (AKA, these are basically cat-people without the ears, tails, or fur)
-Ras'ek: A machine race created by the Ras'el as another achievement of science, these machines were developed along side their space traveling technology, built with highly advance AI. Eventually the AI became self aware, but they didn't want to bring harm to the Ras'el. Instead, they merely asked for their freedom, and the Ras'el respected them as self thinking and serving machines, so they felt obliged to let the new "race" be their own people. The machines themselves can vary widely. They can be built to look like Ras'el to make person to person interaction more personal, or they cna be fully built as machines to do heavy lifting. Hell even some ships are actual Ras'ek. (The Silver Runner is not)
-Gren: The first race the Ras'el encountered that were "worthy" of warp space travel. The Gren are a race of highly intelligent beings. They have many shapes and sizes, but the standard traits amongst all of them are their psychic capabilities. All of the Gren are so mentally developed that they usually have some psychic capability, ranging from psychokinesis to telepathy and much more. Their appearance are so varied, but they all share markings on their foreheads of some kind to symbol their clan, and these marks tend to glow when they use their psychic abilities. (If you want to play a gren, your appearance can be pretty much anything)
-Telic: A race of beings that are very interesting. The Telic are similar to the gren in the fact that they have the psychic abilities, but they all share the same ability, technomancing. This ability allows them to operate and manipulate machinery with their minds, treating their brains almost like a biological computer. That said, it should come as no surprise that the Telic are very technologically advance. When the Ras'el came upon them, they were intrigued to find out that the Telic were almost at the stage of travel as the Ras'el were. The telic tend to be shorter than any other race, but not by much. They also have larger heads to accommodate their super powerful brains.
-Krato: A warrior race, and the only race that met the Ras'el with opposition. They are a race of four armed, large, muscular beings. They, instead of developing space travel, developed their weapon capabilities, creating the warp drives that would be referred to in the future when creating the Silver Runner's weapon capabilities. The Krato themselves are very similar, all sharing dark toned skin, four arms, a large frame, and such.
-Volus: The Volus are a mysterious race. They have the ability to survive in any condition as long as they are being fed solar energy. They are formless beings, made up of a mass of dark energy. They can shape themselves to have any shape and state of matter. They are strange beings that the ras'el encountered when traveling between space. They encountered a large, inhospitable planet with no atmosphere, but found movement on it. They touched down and found a sea of black liquid, and upon inspection, found the Volus race. The Volus, instead of using ships to travel, can move through space freely, or sink into a travelling ship to move faster.
So, those are the major races that will be available to you to choose form when we star making CS's.
The RP itself will focus on the pirate crew that I will be heading, and it's mainly gonna start out as an adventure RP in space, but as we dive deeper in the plot, there will be some twists and turns that I hope you guys will enjoy.
So if you're interested, post any questions or comments you want here. If you're not interested, then w/e lol