Stern Algorithm

Advent Horizon

So, I'm still workshopping my character. I'm going to assume there are asteroid mining colonies that might just be built into the asteroid itself. Thinking of making my character originally from such an asteroid colony that ended up providing lower yield than the Earth-based corporation expected, so to cut their losses, the corporation just abandoned the colony and all the workers, leaving them stranded in space. The colonists cobbled together an escape vessel and what fuel they had left and launched themselves towards the moon, where they were picked up as refugees.

Advent Horizon

OK, so a mix between biospheres and interconnected habitat modules. Does the Lunar Contingency also mistreat Catalysts? Since you used FMA as an example, is there room for ethically questionable research?

Advent Horizon

I'm working on a character, but I wanted to ask, what is life like in the Lunar Contingency? Is it like a modern society with stratification between rich and poor or has it gotten worse (feudal) or better (utopic)? Do the people suffer the effects of living in lower gravity or is artificial gravity a thing? If artificial gravity is a thing, do only certain people have access to it or is it fairly universal? Does Advent Horizon have a stated goal or mission? Are people stuck inside biospheres or has the moon been terraformed?

Advent Horizon

Great! What would be the total number of funnels a starter Aegisframe could wield? Are catalyst abilities required to control them (ala Newtypes from the universal century timeline)? If so, does it vary by affliction stage?

Advent Horizon

Room for one more?

I wanted to ask, given the Gundam aesthetic, about the availability of funnels/remote weapons?

Apotheosis of the Leviathan (a mecha kaiju mashup RP)

Ok, finally dusting off the old writing bones (does that sentence even make sense?).

I got a 0th post up in the characters tab for important NPCs.

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@baraquiel the NPC that Mitsuaki is the closest with is Dr. Raymond Park, who heads Project Titan, and is responsible for the experiment that turned Mitsuaki into a human-monster hybrid. he oversees Metatron's development and is always vouching for Metatron's potential as a combatant. Dr. Park treats Mitsuaki in a fatherly-big brotherly sort of way.

On the other hand, Dr. Helen McCulloch absolutely does not trust Mitsuaki on account of him being a human-alien hybrid, a sentiment she wears plainly on her sleeve.

Dr. Sekigahara Manabu knows Mitsuaki, as they have had many sessions together to make sure that Mitsuaki is mentally stable after merging with the Vega alien. It's clear that Manabu feels that the experiment was unethical and sympathizes with Mitsuaki.

Let me know if there are other NPCs you would like Mitsuaki to be close to.

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@The Irish Tree the NPCs that Ichiro are closest to are Dr. Kawakami Manaka and Kawakami Shinobu, Kawakami Shigeru's wife and son. They both trust Ichiro as a family friend, with Shinobu seeing Ichiro like an 'uncle'.

Dr. Helen McCulloch is the leader of Project Colossus and your current commander. Despite past friction, Ichiro and the Odyssey are Colossus' only functioning assets, and she relies on Ichiro performing well to demonstrate the viability of her project.

Major General Tsukamoto Yuu was Ichiro's former commander while he was still with project Myrmidon. She believes in and trusts Ichiro as a soldier and defender of humanity.

Let me know if there are other NPCs you would like Ichiro to be close to.

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During combat, Ensign Nicole Ning will coordinate and communicate with both Metatron and Odyssey, relaying orders.

The other NPCs, especially the other faculty, can be approached for potential 'upgrades'; ways in which you feel their field of expertise might contribute to making you stronger. Of course, they can also just be approached as characters for RP or for information on the inner workings of CETM.

I will work on getting a first post up in the IC soon. Apologies that it took this long to get the ball rolling.

Apotheosis of the Leviathan (a mecha kaiju mashup RP)

Important NPCs

CETM Command

Oleander, Margaret

Name: Secretary Oleander, Margaret
Position: Director of CETM
Gender: Female
Age: 67
Personality:

Professional, rational, cold. Secretary Oleander is calm, commanding, and sometimes intimidating. She is not afraid to take risks and is always weighing the pros and cons, always considering whether the expedient approach or the long-term plan is better. Some say she is too cutthroat, too willing to sacrifice the few for the many, but the way she sees it, she will do whatever it takes to ensure that mankind survives. Secretary Oleander was an unassuming, but efficient aide to the United States Defense Secretary. After the Defense Secretary's untimely death during the first extraterrestrial incident, Oleander assumed the position briefly before she was nominated for her current post. Oleander oversaw the founding of CETM and the Four Projects, showing enormous success during subsequent extraterrestrial incidents. Not one to sit on her laurels, and with the foresight to anticipate more dangerous incidents to come, Oleander plans to build on her success and innovate the Projects even further.

Ning, Nicole

Name: Ensign Ning, Nicole
Position: CETM Command Center Communications Officer
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Personality:

Kind, earnest, detail-oriented. Nicole doesn't speak very much, mainly due to shyness, but she likes to help others. She likes to bake, which she picked up from her father who runs a bakery, and loves stuffed animals shaped like desserts. Has horrible, horrible aim. Nicole was enamored with the concept of CETM, so she studied and worked hard until she was granted the option to transfer to CETM.

Project Olympian

Kawakami, Manaka

Name: Dr. Kawakami, Manaka
Position: Olympian Project Lead, Chair of the Department of Sociology
Gender: Female
Age: 40
Personality:

Empathic, cheerful, observant. Manaka is one of the few humans privy to the Hyperian social theory known as the central dogma of xenoarcheology, and though her primary interest is learning how Hyperian civilization developed as a way to forecast how human civilization might also develop, the space monsters also intrigue her.

Kawakami, Shinobu

Hyper Man X

Name: Kawakami, Shinobu
Position: Hyper Man X's human host
Gender: Male
Age: 20
Personality:

Shinobu is a gentle soul burdened with the responsibility of protecting humanity. Haunted by dark secrets of the universe, Shinobu tries his best to live up to expectations. Shinobu keeps others at arm's length out of fear of divulging confidential information about the Hyperians.

Project Titan

Park, Raymond

Name: Dr. Park, Raymond
Position: Titan Project Lead, Chair of the Department of Biology
Gender: Male
Age: 38
Personality:

Laidback, easygoing, genius. Raymond is surprisingly young for a man in his position. To many, he may appear lazy, but most of his greatest ideas come to him when he is relaxing, making him more of a 'creative' and 'inspired' scientist than others who tend to 'brute force' their way to scientific progress. Unfortunately, Raymond's proclivity towards less-than-ethical scientific practices has gotten him censured in the past, but his intellect earned him a place at CETM.

Project Colossus

McCulloch, Helen

Name: Dr. McCulloch, Helen
Position: Colossus Project Lead, Chair of the Department of Physics
Gender: Female
Age: 45
Personality:

Sullen, callous, alienating. Helen is a workaholic who expects the same commitment from her peers and underlings. A purist, she is skeptical of employing Hyperians and human-monster hybrids for protection and worries about what horrors that space monster-based research may bring, and therefore feels that her position as a naysayer within CETM is crucial to keep things from getting out of hand.

Project Myrmidon

Tsukamoto, Yuu

Name: Major General Tsukamoto, Yuu
Position: Project Myrmidon Lead, Major General of the Japan Self-Defense Force
Gender: Female
Age: 31
Personality:

Strict, disciplined, scrutinizing. Meta-Tokyo is protected by a branch of the JSDF under Yuu's command. It is not only her duty to ensure that the city defenses aid the CETM Project combatant in their tasks, but also to subdue them should they ever turn on the humans. She does not know if her small army is up to such a task.

Tokyo University Faculty

Yunus, Selim

Name: Dr. Yunus, Selim
Position: Chair of the Department of Engineering
Gender: Male
Age: 74
Personality:

Jovial, curious, philosophical. Selim is an accommodating man who collaborates closely with Meta-Tokyo's defensive infrastructure. The existence of extraterrestrial life challenges his beliefs, but that has only led him to be more welcoming of aliens than many of his peers, as he is curious about how belief systems might develop on other worlds and if there is a higher, unifying, metaphysical truth.

Nihei, Iori

Name: Dr. Nihei, Iori
Position: Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Chemistry Liaison to CETM
Gender: Nonbinary
Age: 27
Personality:

Calm, practical, level-headed. The actual chair of the chemistry department refused to work with CETM, and offloaded his responsibilities onto one of his postdocs, Iori, who has done an excellent job so far despite being under tremendous inter-departmental pressure. Iori recognizes the dangers that empowering space monsters can pose, and cautiously weighs the benefits against the risks, while being cognizant of what safety precautions may or may not be in place. They recognize that CETM plays fast and loose when it comes to risky experiments, but understands that such loosening of standards is for the purpose of confronting the looming crisis.

Sekigahara, Manabu

Name: Dr. Sekigahara, Manabu
Position: Chair of the Department of Psychology
Gender: Male
Age: 43
Personality:

Reluctant, non-committal, overwhelmed. Manabu has been tasked with psychologically profiling and providing emotional support to the CETM combatants, a seemingly monumental and absurd task, which he will tackle as part of his job, but his belief of his odds of success can be plainly seen on his face. Given that some space monsters have displayed the ability to control minds, he worries that he will be the first to be manipulated.

Omniac

Name: Omniac
Position: Chair of the Department of Computer Science, Meta-Tokyo Information Network's SSS-Class Artificial Intelligence Administrator
Gender: Non-gender, Male
Age: 50
Personality:

Utilitarian, pedantic, restricted. Development of the city-wide supercomputer known as Omniac began long before the arrival of Hyper Man, but has been commandeered by CETM to run the city of Meta-Tokyo. Over time, it has developed a human-like sentience, and has been given a physical, mechanical but human-like body with which to interface with humans. When the previous chair of the CS department retired, Omniac was appointed to the position. Though he does not do his own research, his high-level administrative capabilities have secured him the position term after term. Though Omniac has massive control over the city, he worries what his creators will do to him if he makes a mistake or oversteps his authority.

Timeline and ages

This is just a little graph to keep to keep track of how old all the characters were at different periods of time so you know if they are old enough to remember a time before Hyper Man

Apotheosis of the Leviathan (a mecha kaiju mashup RP)

Hey all sorry for the wait. I have been pretty busy and will be taking a vacation in the next two weeks. I'll try to get the ball rolling on this when I return.

Apotheosis of the Leviathan (a mecha kaiju mashup RP)

OK, so @Gisk hasn't been online for two months. I wanted to ask how everyone felt about starting this RP without them. We can go ahead and sort of not mention their character or mech but pretend they still exist in case Gisk returns, and if they do not, the character's existence will sort of just fade out, and continuity won't be interrupted.

Apotheosis of the Leviathan (a mecha kaiju mashup RP)

@The Irish Tree

Great, you can put Ichiro in the character tab.