If you read this, it means that you either volunteered or were invited to participate in our latest exciting experiment. My name is Escha Hadra, and I was given the honor of being the head researcher regarding the Star Community's Farcaster gate network. To give you the gist of it, the Farcaster network consists of a number of space-dweeing organisms that are placed within a certain distance to a system's star. Once they reach a certain size they become able to establish connections to other Farcasters regardless of distance or objects in the way. Our last joint expedition added further credence to the theory that all Farcasters are somehow part of a single vast organism, as well as provided us with the understanding required to further refine our gate system.
Now as for the purpose of this experiment, our research has recently allowed the development of satellites that able to create temporary gates when established. This effectively creates a short-lived extension of the gate network that allows access to the gate network even without a nearby gate. This new system also includes a grapnel to retrieve the sat so it can be used again later. Early tests using unmanned drones travelling to gates within the same system have proven remarkably safe, so now we need plucky volunteers like you for the next step: we will use the satellite system to travel to a more out of the way gate. But don't you worry! I will be with you every step of the way, so if you thought the Star Community would send you to your deaths, don't be.
Wether you are part of an allied nation or a capable freelance scientist, I sincerely hope that you will accept our invitation and agree to share your insight and passion for science in this important task.
It has been a while, but here it is, the sequel to the unfortunately short-lived Farcaster Enigma RP. Like I originally intended for the other, this will be an RP of FT sciency, mystery and possibly organic and eldritch horror, depending on how things will turn out. Our plucky group of scientists, explorers and their guardians will set out from the neutral Marja system to another gate. naturally, something is bound to go terribly wrong...
Like in the last mission, your plucky and energetic head researcher will be there to share hir knowledge on the gate system, though I'll try not to turn things into a lecture this time ^^' Likewise, captain Yles, hir friend and the person actually in charge of the research ship used for this mission will be part of the mission as well. The crew will also include a number of soldiers from the Genomitan Defense Force to provide protection for the rest of the crew. The research ship ship itself will be large enough to accommodate the team members and their equipment, and also house a a small squadron of recon ships in case they are needed. These are also lightly armed to zap off any beasties trying to eat their way through the hull. Each of your characters will have access to a room tailored to their species' needs and where they can keep their tools if they aren't comfortable or anatomically unable to use the one provided aboard.
Here's the character sheet:
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Name:
Age:
Species:
Gender: (if appliccable)
Affiliation: (allied nation or freelance)
Appearance:
Personality:
Personal goals: (everybody has these, what does your chara hope to accomplish during this mission aside from the mission itself? Could be everything from "discover a new interdimensional species" to "sleep with all the hot female scientists aboard"
Team role and specialty:
Equipment:
Anything else:
And here's the one for Escha:
Name: Escha Hadra
Age: 32
Species: genomitan spacer
Gender: hermaphrodite
Affiliation: Star community of Genomita
Appearance: Escha is a petite four-armed androgyne with black hair just long enough to frame hir face and light brown eyes. Like most genomitans ze usually goes about in a form-fitting symbiosuit, though ze usually keeps the face/head section folded away unless working in vacuum or an otherwise unsafe area, so beneath the neck hir skin is quite fair. Ze also has prehensile feet and is flexible to smoke with hir feet (if she'd smoke, that is)
Personality: Although capable of being every bit the professional scientist the is, Escha is hugely enthusiastic about hir work and approaches both lab work and especially field work with an amount of passion and energy that is either infectious or exhausting to behold. Ze has always been fascinated by the farcasters and the things they are capable of and, sharing hir species almost proverbial travel lust, has found hir true dream job. Aside from that, Escha is also very friendly, compassionate and easy to talk to. Ze always has an open ear for the problems of other people and will do hir best to help.
Personal goals: Aside from finding out how hir favorite space amoeba work, Escha also hopes to make new buddies and, as ze puts it "make beautiful science together". Ze also isn't opposed to becoming more than friendly with others, depending on the person in question.
Team role and specialty: team leader, resident farcaster expert and counselor, all in one.
Equipment: A variety of genomitan research equipment designed to link with hir symbiosuit, which is also capable of vacuum-sealing. Ze also has an internal air reserve.
Anything else: Nope.
Captain Yles is the one in sharge of the research ship and a close friend to Escha. The two have worked together on several occasions and, though Yles and hir crew are members of the genomitan defense force rather than scientists they are familiar enough with the nature of Escha's work that ze won't have to worry about them breaking anything important or otherwise hindering their research. Yles will do hir best to get everybody through safely, though ze also is also curious what kind of fascinating things they might discover.
