Across the Stars: Civil War (FT, Character, OOC, OPEN)

[Arana]

And also, are they carnivores, and if so, would they eat sentient life?

Yes to both, but they don't make a habit of it.

Gotcha. Planned on them eventually attacking a human colony and wasn't sure what would become of the colonists.

[The Moscow Metro Red Line]

For all the pirates out there, I always have openings in my crew!

[The Olog-Hai]

For all the pirates out there, I always have openings in my crew!

Already joining, dude.
Just need to finish my guy's app.
He's gonna be a very interesting character, imo.

[The Moscow Metro Red Line]

For all the pirates out there, I always have openings in my crew!

Already joining, dude.
Just need to finish my guy's app.
He's gonna be a very interesting character, imo.

I know, just giving options for other Pirates.... Or Rivals.

[The Olog-Hai]

What handheld weapons are there?

[The Greater Gambia]

What handheld weapons are there?

I'll leave that to individuals.

[The Olog-Hai]

What handheld weapons are there?

I'll leave that to individuals.

Hmm.
So, I'm thinking laser guns of all sorts, maybe some handheld guided missiles and such, laser swords, etc.
Pretty much anything laser.

[Ithalian Empire]

This is a WIP
NS Name: Ithalian Empire

Character Name: James Hess
Species: Human
Age: 30
Appearance:Minus the pistol and body armor

Faction: Unaffiliated as of now, will change later.

Bio:

James was born on a planet called Dust, a mining world on the very edge of what most would consider civilisation. He was cursed to live there because of some great grandparents made some damn fool mistake and believed that the planet had some sort of promise of a better future. And for a while that dream was made true. The Hess family was influential on the planet. They owned on of the mines of the world and made a pretty penny from it.

For a few generations all was good for the Hess family, they had power, they had money. There family was large and prosperous. Than came the Locust, and while Dust was nowhere near the war many of the Hess men went out and did there duty to there country. This was the first sign that the family was ailing. Gregory Hess, the family patriarch, lost three of his four sons in the war. Arnold Hess was the last surviving and was James great grand father.

What relay laid the Hess family low was the start of the Civil War. Dust was torn in two, half wished to remain loyal to the government, half wished to end the military rule. The Hess family wished to remain loyal and they lost. The GRF won Dust and the Hess family lost every thing.

James grew up poor, hearing stories of his families once great heritage. He grew up learning how to live of the streets, stealing to get by. That life didn't sit well with his pride. But he had to eat. As he became a man he grew to resent both the Tagali Federation for not saving his family when the war started and the GRF for disgracing his family.

Now that he is an adult James has been working in the mines his family once owned, trying to provide for a hungry family with the constant threat of war or pirate attack looming over his head constantly. To say that he is sick of the world is to say the least, he is weary and nearly at his breaking point, and it will only take a small push to send him to one side or the other.

Strengths: He is physical strong, a decent thief, and is cordial to most people
Weaknesses: He is unaffiliated with any faction, he is prideful,

Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-Dh3ftkRAs

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[Spindle]

NS Name: Spindle

Character Name: Deltron

Species: N-Droid 3030 model 15

Age: Fifteen years old

Appearance:

Faction: GDF

Bio: Deltron was produced as part of N-Droid's 3030 line, their domestic line of androids before civil rights campaigners had it shut down. As such, for the first seven years of his life he was legally recognised as a commodity rather than an person. Because of this, he was quickly sold to the Federation Military and reprogrammed as a battlespace analyst, used as a computer in order to suggest maneuvers which would be optimal to his superiors. It was during this time that he became acquainted with the odd nature of organics and even began to acquire a few quirks of his own. Some would claim that this came from the numerous IW attacks he was on the receiving end of: Deltron himself was never particularly fond of the idea himself.

After seven years, N-Droids were legally recognised as people rather than property and Deltron was released from the Military, before promptly being conscripted. Pondering his return to the military, Deltron was saved by the arrival of a single ship in port: The Great Destiny. Offering his services to the Captain for a year in exchange for being taken to the GRF, Deltron managed to escape another mind-numbing eternity with the Federation and ventured out into the unknown. During his time on the Destiny, Deltron learned all manner of useful skills. He learned the basics of hand-to-hand combat, something he latched onto quickly, how and when to run and hide and, most importantly for him, the skill of barter and compromise.

Amongst the crew, his renown (and infamy) as a merchant grew and the money which he had traded (although some said swindled) off of people grew in step with it. Whereas some who acquired such wealth might have been ostracised for it, Deltron learned another skill here - the art of charisma. He rapidly developed an ability to talk the arms off of a Golta and insult its parents in the process, without said Golta even noticing.

Deltron was set down on a lightly inhabited, backwater planet where he hoped to live out his life-span in peace. He integrated into the small, local community with startling speed and became loosely involved in local politics. Despite his quicksilver tongue, he never really got anywhere down that path but soon found another: teaching. It didn't take long for Deltron to settle down and be a well-liked and well-respected member of the community.

Unfortunately, no paradise can survive war for long and the GRF only had a light picket stationed in the system. Therefore, when the Federation warped a Battlegroup into the system, there was no resistance and the single city of six million burned. Deltron only survived by uploading himself into the school system and waiting for the Federation to leave and during his wait he saw the people and city he so cared for destroyed within a single day.

When the GRF finally managed to send a SAR team down, Deltron was changed. His capability for violence - his ability to attack or order an attack upon another being - was gone, self-edited out of existence. As he was escorted from the charred wreckage of his one-time home, Deltron committed himself to walking the path of peace and ensuring that such atrocities never happened again.

As soon as he reached the Federation proper, Deltron entered the Diplomatic Corps. It took him five years of continual hard work and effort to reach the exalted positions he desired, but Deltron was willing to put in that work if it meant getting a step closer to a bloodless future. As the war raged on, growing ever-more intense, Deltron began to have his doubts. Was there ever the possibility for a brighter future? Could it really happen?

And then the first peace overtures began. It was going, but slowly the GRF began to forge a relationship through something other than gunfire or the threat of gunfire. For the first time in living memory, the prospect of a galaxy at peace loomed large and threatened to become reality. For Deltron, it was the holy grail of his work and when he was offered to head the ambassadorial side of the meeting, he grasped it with both hands. Here, finally, was his chance to make a difference.

Personality: Deltron is, perhaps, the perfect pacifist. His mind is hard-wired to find a diplomatic solution to any problem and this is backed up by an incredible capacity for analysis and problem-solving, a subtle charisma and a quick wit. While this makes him somewhat naive, that is a price which he is willing to pay for a future without violence. In fact, violence is the one few things which he retains the ability to hate, another vestige of his self-improvements in order to become the ultimate diplomat.

Strengths: Deltron is one of the more charming people anyone is likely to meet. Not only is he capable of making a good first impression, his ability to download social mores makes him unlikely to make a faux pas or misjudge the connotations of an answer or question. In addition, he can read both micro-gestures and patterns of blood movement to understand emotions of anyone he is in conversation with, helping him to understand both their personal attitudes towards something and how to phrase certain ideas or questions so as to avoid accidents.

Weaknesses: Deltron is a perfect pacifist: not only does he not wish to harm others his is incapable of taking actions which would harm others or ordering one person to harm another. This makes him worse than useless in a firefight, where the actual soldiers will have to look after him as well as fighting.

Theme: Faction 06 - Celldweller

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[The Armed Republic of Dutch Coolness]

Posting this to motivate me to go get that bio up and done.

NS Name: The Armed Republic of Dutch coolness

Character Name: Iselyth
Species: Ariva.
Age: 236
Appearance:

Faction: Herself. Also, pirates. Arr.

Bio: Born on board of a spaceship filled to the brim with pirates, Iselyth was perhaps lucky to have even survived her childhood. From an early age on taught by her mother how to master the art of deception that she was born with, she proved to be a fast learner. Taught how to use her skills in shapeshifting, how to fight using both ranged and melee weaponry, and learning how to effectively use poisons, Iselyth would become more than capable of survival amidst a ship manned by pirates and as an adult became part of a pirate crew herself - if not on another ship than the one she was born on.

[rest of bio]

Personality: Highly individualistic, and somewhat arrogant. Iselyth likes to use sarcasm and irony rather often during conversations. Good at lying and keeping secrets. Curious, and highly interested in her surroundings as well as the people around her - could be called "inquisitive". Can be rather rude, intentional or no. Somewhat quick to anger.

Strengths: Strong-willed, convincing liar, and is fairly good at navigating herself through society.
Weaknesses: Arrogant and hot-headed. Slightly impatient.

Theme:

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[Shadowwell]

Spindle, do you mind if my GRF character is your diplomats bodyguard/handler/overseer?

[Spindle]

Spindle, do you mind if my GRF character is your diplomats bodyguard/handler/overseer?

Sure, go ahead. It'll be fun to see the interaction between the pacifist and his bodyguard, especially if the negotiations break down.

[Shadowwell]

Spindle, do you mind if my GRF character is your diplomats bodyguard/handler/overseer?

Sure, go ahead. It'll be fun to see the interaction between the pacifist and his bodyguard, especially if the negotiations break down.

Especially since, the bodyguard will have a more broad minded/open ended definition of Pacifism.

[Spindle]

Sure, go ahead. It'll be fun to see the interaction between the pacifist and his bodyguard, especially if the negotiations break down.

Especially since, the bodyguard will have a more broad minded/open ended definition of Pacifism.

Yeah...I can imagine the two of them getting into a debate in the middle of a firefight over whether it's morally justified or not to kill in self-defense.

[Shadowwell]

Gambia, how old can the Shanji get?
I would assume cause you know plant people, they would be near immortal given the right living conditions.

[The Greater Gambia]

Gambia, how old can the Shanji get?
I would assume cause you know plant people, they would be near immortal given the right living conditions.

Yeah, sounds about right.

[Shadowwell]

Gambia, how old can the Shanji get?
I would assume cause you know plant people, they would be near immortal given the right living conditions.

Yeah, sounds about right.

Can they manipulate plants and thus their own body structure inherently?

[Rygondria]

One question, would my species gaining the majority of their colonies through aggressive expansion against a now recently extinct race of psyonics cause tension between them and the federation

[Arana]

Gambia, what might a Brood do if they conquered another Brood? Or a different species?

[The Greater Gambia]

One question, would my species gaining the majority of their colonies through aggressive expansion against a now recently extinct race of psyonics cause tension between them and the federation

Could I offer a suggestion? Could these races be old time rivals from before they were discovered vy the Federation? They would tolerate eachother under Federation rule but now since that's in freefall, they are at eachothers throats again with both the Feds and the GRF taking sides?

[Shadowwell]

NS Name: Shadowwell

Character Name: Steve His real name is nigh impronaouncable, so he just randomly chooses a name to have people call him, usually terran names.
Species: Shanji
Age: 150's or so
Appearance: This (second from the right on the top row.)

Faction: GRF

Bio: unlike most of his kind his is not a farmer, he became a warrior of sorts. The way he uses the races natural abilities has lead him to become a pariah of sorts. He was born before the Civil war had even been thought of, only a few years after the Locust arrived. He fought in the first civil war, and remembers what was done there.

Personality: Pacifistic to a point. Will kill when necessary.

Strengths: His experience, and his battle prowess
Weaknesses: His unwillingness to kill, Fire, cause he is a plant person.

Theme: Single drop of red-Anarchy Club

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NS Name: Shadowwell

Character Name: Dib'hur Var'tash
Species: Korvash (on the first page)
Age: 23
Appearance: (the one in the race blurb on the first page.

Faction: Pirate

Bio: TBD

Personality:

Strengths: His physical stature and psionic strength, as well as his skill with some weapons.
Weaknesses: He does not understand most customs or social niceties.

Theme: Shaolin by anarchy club

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[Arana]

Gambia, what might a Brood do if they conquered another Brood? Or a different species?

[The NAR]

Shadowell, you need help with the GRF stuff?

[Rygondria]

One question, would my species gaining the majority of their colonies through aggressive expansion against a now recently extinct race of psyonics cause tension between them and the federation

Could I offer a suggestion? Could these races be old time rivals from before they were discovered vy the Federation? They would tolerate eachother under Federation rule but now since that's in freefall, they are at eachothers throats again with both the Feds and the GRF taking sides?

Yeah that could work since one The feudal species would be Fiercely anti psyonic while the other would be a subject to the latter who the helped uplift before they turned on them, with the psyonics extinction being prevented by federal intervention and Admittance of the Feudal's, haven't came up with a name yet.

[Shadowwell]

Shadowell, you need help with the GRF stuff?

Like what?

I am just naming and giving a rundown while Gambia is doing the sizes of the ships and the like.