Mass Effect: Gaiden [OOC]

[The Valyria Empire]

Gaiden
A Mass Effect RP

IC Coming Soon

Welcome, to the SSV Ain Jalut SR-2

Greetings, welcome aboard the SSV Ain Jalut. The Ain Jalut is a Normandy-class Stealth frigate, the second ship of it's class and was launched nine months following the destruction of the SSV Normandy SR-1. For more information regarding the Normandy-class line please consult your Alliance Codex. She has seen many missions in several systems through out the galaxy including; the Attican Traverse, Skylian Verge and Terminus Systems and most recently was able to launch a successful raid on a batarian colony. Her successes and accomplishments following the loss of the Normandy have helped put the class into production.

You are now a part of her crew. Your mission is highly classified, and will be highly unorthodox. You are expected to cooperate with alien races and will be serving outside of Alliance Space. We expect only the best from you, do not disappoint.

The Premise

In 2183, the heart of the galactic community suffered a devastating attack.

The Alliance fleet made a tremendous sacrifice to save the Citadel Council and earned humanity membership in their prestigious group. Now the Council is forced to respond top evidence that the Reapers - enormous machines that eradicate all organic civilization every 50,000 years - have returned. To quell the rumors, the Council sent Commander Shepard and the Normandy to wipe out the last pockets of geth resistance. Officially, they blame the invasion on the geth and their leader, a rogue Spectre.

Shortly later, the Normandy would be ambushed resulting in the death of several crew members, the destruction of the Normandy and the death of Commander Shepard. Now, two years later and a new threat has risen against humanity. Colonists have begun disappearing across multiple systems without a trace. While officially the Alliance cannot investigate, they have decided to assemble an elite team to find the truth.

The Summary

Welcome to Mass Effect: Gaiden, as the title implies it's a meant as a side story to Mass Effect 2. This will be a character RP, NOT a faction RP. You will be playing a crew member of the SSV Ain Jalut, as you operate against the Collectors. While this mission is being conducted by the Human Alliance, you will be able to play as aliens or if you so chose be a Cerberus Agent under cover. The goal of your mission is to stop what ever is abducting humans in the Terminus system.

The RP will be starting at Sol, and quickly going to the Terminus System. From there missions will be dispatched and several characters (if they chose so) can be recruited if they do not want to join right off the bat.

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1. The OP and Co-ops are Gods, their word is law.
2. This is a sci-fi RP but try and be realistic. Travel time, combat, and character development are all important, don't go too crazy
3. No god modding, metagaming etc.
4. This is going to be a freeform RP, time will vary between posts.
5. This will be an RP based on character development and progression, do not expect storylines to develop for you, make your own and involve other players. If you are stuck with nothing to do, OP/CO-OP will give your a task or an idea.
6. Keep the Lore restricted to Mass Effect material only
7. We operate on a three strike system, three strikes and you're out
8. Alien characters can only be races that are on cordial terms with humans. Thus none of the following; Batarians, Vorcha, Yahg, Geth.
9. Have FUN

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Final Notes

Some useful sites for character creation are below.
Mass Effect Wiki - http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_Wiki

Banned Players (This RP operates under a three strike system)

• Cuprum

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Watch List (Due to prior experience these players are under a one strike system)

• Monarchy of Japanada
• Revlona
• Dentali
• Greater vakolicci haven

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I'm always looking for CO-OPs:
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[The Valyria Empire]

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[Brusia]

Name: Edwin von Braun
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Class: Engineer (Medic specialization)
Titles/Rank: Lieutenant Commander
Allegiance paid to: Systems Alliance
Appearance: This but with Alliance emblems rather than Andromeda Initiative emblems.
Personality: Very intelligent, old fashioned, reserved, but maintains a good bedside manner, and is capable of being a good leader when the situation calls for it. He cares deeply for his men and patients in his care.
Skills: Great physician, solid strategist and tactician, good in medium to long range combat.
Class Abilities: First Aid, Medicine, Neural Shock, Overload, and Damping
Weaponry: M-99 Saber, M-3 Predator
Biography: Edwin von Braun was born on Terra Nova in 2153. His father, an Alliance Officer, fought for a short time in the First Contact War before being injured and sent home. When he returned, he started training young Edwin in the ways of warfare, ensuring that his son would be well prepared for military service. Edwin proved to be a talented tactician and marksman, and planned on enlisting as an Alliance infantry officer immediately after graduating from college. It wasn't until college that he discovered he had a natural talent for Medicine and changed his plans from becoming an infantry officer, to becoming a medical officer.

After graduating from Medical School and completing Alliance officer training, he was made the Chief Medical Officer onboard the frigate SSV Yorktown. After a few uneventful years aboard the vessel, Edwin would go on to serve with distinction in the Eden Prime War, and received a battlefield promotion to his current rank after the Yorktown's Chief Tactical Officer was killed on a mission. This resulted in his having to personally lead soldiers on the front lines in a number of engagements, and as the war drew to a close he would be awarded the Palladium Star for his participation in the Battle of the Citadel. Sadly, the Yorktown was damaged beyond repair in the battle, and Edwin was reassigned to the Ain Jalut where he currently serves as the ship's Chief Medical Officer.
RP Example: viewtopic.php?ns=1&f=31&t=384650
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[The Valyria Empire]

Name: Edwin von Braun
Age: 30
Gender: Male
Class: Engineer (Medic specialization)
Titles/Rank: Lieutenant Commander
Allegiance paid to: Systems Alliance
Appearance: This but with Alliance emblems rather than Andromeda Initiative emblems.
Personality: Very intelligent, old fashioned, reserved, but maintains a good bedside manner, and is capable of being a good leader when the situation calls for it. He cares deeply for his men and patients in his care.
Skills: Great physician, solid strategist and tactician, good in medium to long range combat.
Class Abilities: First Aid, Medicine, Neural Shock, Overload, and Damping
Weaponry: M-99 Saber, M-3 Predator
Biography: Edwin von Braun was born on Terra Nova in 2153. His father, an Alliance Officer, fought for a short time in the First Contact War before being injured and sent home. When he returned, he started training young Edwin in the ways of warfare, ensuring that his son would be well prepared for military service. Edwin proved to be a talented tactician and marksman, and planned on enlisting as an Alliance infantry officer immediately after graduating from college. It wasn't until college that he discovered he had a natural talent for Medicine and changed his plans from becoming an infantry officer, to becoming a medical officer.

After graduating from Medical School and completing Alliance officer training, he was made the Chief Medical Officer onboard the frigate SSV Yorktown. After a few uneventful years aboard the vessel, Edwin would go on to serve with distinction in the Eden Prime War, and received a battlefield promotion to his current rank after the Yorktown's Chief Tactical Officer was killed on a mission. This resulted in his having to personally lead soldiers on the front lines in a number of engagements, and as the war drew to a close he would be awarded the Palladium Star for his participation in the Battle of the Citadel. Sadly, the Yorktown was damaged beyond repair in the battle, and Edwin was reassigned to the Ain Jalut where he currently serves as the ship's Chief Medical Officer.
RP Example: viewtopic.php?ns=1&f=31&t=384650
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Accepted. Everything looks good.

[New Roman Empire]

Val how would you feel about a thief/hacker sneaking aboard the ship?

[Isapito]

Would this be playable for someone who has only played mass effect 3?

[The Valyria Empire]

Would this be playable for someone who has only played mass effect 3?

Oh yeah, no issue at all. (Though I find it odd you’ve only played the Black sheep). The brief outline I’ve provided in the OP should pretty tell how we’re going off. ME3 was very newcomer friendly and thus you probably have knowledge of all basic Mass Effect Lore.

The events of Mass Effect 1 will be left ambiguous as I prefer not to make certain things canon as some people like certain options over others. However I’ve decided to have Shepherd save the Council as I believe that allows for humans to be closer with aliens especially for this mission. Plus it allows for interesting interaction should anyone decide to play a Spectre.

Val how would you feel about a thief/hacker sneaking aboard the ship?

I’m perfectly fine with that.

[Theyra]

Name: Teklu Naun
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Class: Vanguard
Titles/Rank: Hired Specialist
Allegiance paid to: Systems Alliance Currently
Appearance:Teklu
Personality: Teklu can be described as a independent individual who cares about his people and greatly valves his people's traditions. The Hanar he dislikes, seeing them as keeping the Drell from finding a new homeworld and rebuilding their civilization. His views and him refusing the Compact have made him a outcast among those that know him and prefers to be alone since leaving Kahje. Despite his solitary stance, he is willing to work with others as long as he feel he can trust or work well with them. With the skills that his parents taught him and combined with his race's natural eidetic memory. He is a intelligent person who favors fast precise strikes on enemies during combat. Also while he opted for the path of a mercenary, Teklu follows his own code and prefers to protect people rather then being used to prey on others.

Skills: Great Close-range specialist, Talented biotic, Very Agile, Good Martial Artist.
Class Abilities: Biotic Charge, Pull, Nova and Shockwave
Weaponry: M-23 Katana and M-3 Predator

Biography: Teklu Naun was the only child of his parents and born on Kahje. Both his parents had taken up the Compact and had served the Hanar faithfully for years. Teklu was expected by his parents and most of his kind to take up the Compact as well when it was time. While Teklu was being taught by his parents for what the Compact would expect of him. He was also taught about his people's ways and seeing that some of these traditions were slowly becoming scarce as he grew up. Despite his upbringing, Teklu would become rebellious to his parents in his teens as he started to form his own thoughts about the Hanar. Teklu can respect the Hanar for saving the Drell but, the seemly permanent state of the Drell serving the Hanar did not sit right with him. This growing dislike only became worse when Teklu's father developed Kepral's Syndrome. Teklu was sad that his father just going to die and that sadness turned to anger. For this could have been avoid if the Drell simply moved to arid world like their old homeworld rather then live on the oceanic Kahje. If the Hanar cared about the Drell then why not try and find world for them that is not hostile to them? It became a easy decision when he was offered to take up the Compact. His family was deeply disappointed with him declining the Compact and Teklu left Kahje soon after.

He became a mercenary in order to support himself and honed the skills that his parents had taught him. Though he became a mercenary, Teklu always chooses his jobs based on his own code rather then accept a job from the highest bidder. His range of jobs ranged from hired security on merchants ships, attacking pirates and even helping defend colonies on the frontier. Thus he gained a reputation as a "Trusted Merc" that is reliable by people trying to survive in the galaxy and is skilled at his job. One of the contacts that he is known is repelling a slaver raid on a frontier human colony. Teklu was surprised when a representative from the System Alliance came to him and offered him a contact. They felt that he was a possibly candidate for mission about stopping the who or what is abducting human colonists. Teklu accepted the mission and was quickly sent to the Ain Jalut as a hired specialist.
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[The Valyria Empire]

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Name: Teklu Naun
Age: 28
Gender: Male
Class: Vanguard
Titles/Rank: Hired Specialist
Allegiance paid to: Systems Alliance Currently
Appearance:Teklu
Personality: Teklu can be described as a independent individual who cares about his people and greatly valves his people's traditions. The Hanar he dislikes, seeing them as keeping the Drell from finding a new homeworld and rebuilding their civilization. His views and him refusing the Compact have made him a outcast among those that know him and prefers to be alone since leaving Kahje. Despite his solitary stance, he is willing to work with others as long as he feel he can trust or work well with them. With the skills that his parents taught him and combined with his race's natural eidetic memory. He is a intelligent person who favors fast precise strikes on enemies during combat. Also while he opted for the path of a mercenary, Teklu follows his own code and prefers to protect people rather then being used to prey on others.

Skills: Great Close-range specialist, Talented biotic, Very Agile, Good Martial Artist.
Class Abilities: Biotic Charge, Pull, Nova and Shockwave
Weaponry: M-23 Katana and M-3 Predator

Biography: Teklu Naun was the only child of his parents and born on Kahje. Both his parents had taken up the Compact and had served the Hanar faithfully for years. Teklu was expected by his parents and most of his kind to take up the Compact as well when it was time. While Teklu was being taught by his parents for what the Compact would expect of him. He was also taught about his people's ways and seeing that some of these traditions were slowly becoming scarce as he grew up. Despite his upbringing, Teklu would become rebellious to his parents in his teens as he started to form his own thoughts about the Hanar. Teklu can respect the Hanar for saving the Drell but, the seemly permanent state of the Drell serving the Hanar did not sit right with him. This growing dislike only became worse when Teklu's father developed Kepral's Syndrome. Teklu was sad that his father just going to die and that sadness turned to anger. For this could have been avoid if the Drell simply moved to arid world like their old homeworld rather then live on the oceanic Kahje. If the Hanar cared about the Drell then why not try and find world for them that is not hostile to them? It became a easy decision when he was offered to take up the Compact. His family was deeply disappointed with him declining the Compact and Teklu left Kahje soon after.

He became a mercenary in order to support himself and honed the skills that his parents had taught him. Though he became a mercenary, Teklu always chooses his jobs based on his own code rather then accept a job from the highest bidder. His range of jobs ranged from hired security on merchants ships, attacking pirates and even helping defend colonies on the frontier. Thus he gained a reputation as a "Trusted Merc" that is reliable by people trying to survive in the galaxy and is skilled at his job. One of the contacts that he is known is repelling a slaver raid on a frontier human colony. Teklu was surprised when a representative from the System Alliance came to him and offered him a contact. They felt that he was a possibly candidate for mission about stopping the who or what is abducting human colonists. Teklu accepted the mission and was quickly sent to the Ain Jalut as a hired specialist.
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Accepted.
I'll have my own apps up either tonight or tomorrow.

[Cheye]

Perfect time for me to find this, just finished Andromeda recently and always need more Mass Effect!

Name: Ilya 'Ice' Ikeiara

Age: 127

Gender: Female

Class: Infiltrator

Titles/Rank: Special Agent with the Asari Commandos

Allegiance paid to: Asari Republics (Various Terminus Gangs while under cover)

Appearance: Ice (under cover)

Personality: To the uninformed observer, Ilya Ikeiara can appear warm and bubbly, or mysterious and shy, or zany and eccentric, all dependent on whatever deep-cover assignment she is currently working on. In truth Ilya, or Ice, as those who know more than just her adopted identities call her, earned her nickname for the cold, uncaring and some might say even ruthless way with which she can switch into whatever character is necessary to get the job done, use and manipulate contacts in the field, and then complete her objectives with deadly efficiency, never growing attached to anyone or anything along the way.

Skills: Infiltration, manipulation, persuasion, sabotage, stealth, good at medium to long range combat.

Class Abilities: Tactical cloak, Decryption, Sabotage

Weaponry (If any): Custom M-11 Supressor, M92 Mantis

Biography: Having grown up as the daughter of a model-turned-actress-turned-fashion guru in the shimmering heights of Illium's capital Nos Astra, Ilya had the chance to follow her mother into the world of glamour, fame and fortune. Instead, she went through a typical period of rebellion in her early maiden years, running away from home only to become an exotic dancer on board Terminus-bound space liners.

Eventually she caught the eye of a wealthy patron, who initially appeared friendly, but ultimately tricked her into working indefinitely at his estate on a remote planet in the Caleston Rift. It was there that the Asari Commandos first contacted her, paying her for inside information on her employer, who they revealed was actually a wanted slaver and crime boss. Ilya passed on information for over a year before the Asari military prepared a strike team to take down the crime lord, only for him to get wind of the strike and hire the Blood Pack to set an ambush for the commandos. As the commandos fought for their lives, Ilya took it upon herself to complete their mission for them. She had already charmed the estate's technician into showing her how the crime lord's security mechs worked while gathering intel, so she used this knowledge to her advantage, charming and sneaking her way into the crime lord's command center and disabling their targeting protocols, causing them to massacre not just the crime boss but also the other criminals he hosted at the estate, the technician included.

Arriving to find their job done for them and a lone dancer sitting at the center of this bloodbath, the commandos recognized the girl's skills and offered her a chance to join their ranks. Her maiden sense of adventure still far from satisfied, she accepted and trained with them for several years, before being selected to serve as a deep cover operative. After working on several low value missions in Asari space, all of which ended successfully but with multiple hostile fatalities; Ilya, now dubbed Ice, has returned to the Terminus systems in deep cover to gain information on the myriad of criminal organisations that threaten the Asari. While under cover, she has come across rumors that entire human colonies are turning up missing, and has begun to investigate these stories for herself, convinced that they must be connected to organised criminal activity in some twisted way.

RP Example: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=408122

Notes: If accepted, I would like Ice to join the Ain Jalut in the Terminus Systems.

[The Valyria Empire]

Perfect time for me to find this, just finished Andromeda recently and always need more Mass Effect!

Name: Ilya 'Ice' Ikeiara

Age: 127

Gender: Female

Class: Infiltrator

Titles/Rank: Special Agent with the Asari Commandos

Allegiance paid to: Asari Republics (Various Terminus Gangs while under cover)

Appearance: Ice (under cover)

Personality: To the uninformed observer, Ilya Ikeiara can appear warm and bubbly, or mysterious and shy, or zany and eccentric, all dependent on whatever deep-cover assignment she is currently working on. In truth Ilya, or Ice, as those who know more than just her adopted identities call her, earned her nickname for the cold, uncaring and some might say even ruthless way with which she can switch into whatever character is necessary to get the job done, use and manipulate contacts in the field, and then complete her objectives with deadly efficiency, never growing attached to anyone or anything along the way.

Skills: Infiltration, manipulation, persuasion, sabotage, stealth, good at medium to long range combat.

Class Abilities: Tactical cloak, Decryption, Sabotage

Weaponry (If any): Custom M-11 Supressor, M92 Mantis

Biography: Having grown up as the daughter of a model-turned-actress-turned-fashion guru in the shimmering heights of Illium's capital Nos Astra, Ilya had the chance to follow her mother into the world of glamour, fame and fortune. Instead, she went through a typical period of rebellion in her early maiden years, running away from home only to become an exotic dancer on board Terminus-bound space liners.

Eventually she caught the eye of a wealthy patron, who initially appeared friendly, but ultimately tricked her into working indefinitely at his estate on a remote planet in the Caleston Rift. It was there that the Asari Commandos first contacted her, paying her for inside information on her employer, who they revealed was actually a wanted slaver and crime boss. Ilya passed on information for over a year before the Asari military prepared a strike team to take down the crime lord, only for him to get wind of the strike and hire the Blood Pack to set an ambush for the commandos. As the commandos fought for their lives, Ilya took it upon herself to complete their mission for them. She had already charmed the estate's technician into showing her how the crime lord's security mechs worked while gathering intel, so she used this knowledge to her advantage, charming and sneaking her way into the crime lord's command center and disabling their targeting protocols, causing them to massacre not just the crime boss but also the other criminals he hosted at the estate, the technician included.

Arriving to find their job done for them and a lone dancer sitting at the center of this bloodbath, the commandos recognized the girl's skills and offered her a chance to join their ranks. Her maiden sense of adventure still far from satisfied, she accepted and trained with them for several years, before being selected to serve as a deep cover operative. After working on several low value missions in Asari space, all of which ended successfully but with multiple hostile fatalities; Ilya, now dubbed Ice, has returned to the Terminus systems in deep cover to gain information on the myriad of criminal organisations that threaten the Asari. While under cover, she has come across rumors that entire human colonies are turning up missing, and has begun to investigate these stories for herself, convinced that they must be connected to organised criminal activity in some twisted way.

RP Example: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=408122

Notes: If accepted, I would like Ice to join the Ain Jalut in the Terminus Systems.

Accepted. Also bump for interest.

[Revlona]

This sounds fun

Do you ask that we need to have played mass effect in order to play?

[Vladivostokava]

tag

[Vladivostokava]

Nation Name: Vladivostokava
Number Of RP's You've Created: 10+
Number Of RP's You've CO-OP'd: 5+
How Long Have You Been On Here?: Apr 21, 2016
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viewtopic.php?f=31&t=436565
viewtopic.php?f=31&t=388610
viewtopic.php?f=31&t=381778 (regrettable)

[Jhet]

WIP

Name: Sur'kesh Calmann Dersk Savan Gonaste Eltran
Age: 29
Gender: Male
Class: Infiltrator
Titles/Rank: Major, Spectre
Allegiance paid to: Council, Salarian Union
Appearance: seven feet when at full extension, mottled blue-grey skin, numerous scars on his chest and arms
Personality: Eltran is often seen as being aloft with those who talk to him, more likely to dismiss or ridicule than engage in a civil conversation. For many he is seen as single-minded, only ever caring about the needs of the mission. This, however, is merely a passing impression. Eltran comes alive when on mission, eagerly throwing himself into danger at every turn, all the while laughing cheerfully as he enacts each stage of his plan. Though he was once proud of his talents and position as a Spectre, now he considers them both more of a burden, wishing in secret that he had never accepted the promotion.
Skills: Stealth, Close Quarters
Class Abilities: Tactical Cloak, Proximity Mine, Energy Drain
Weaponry: M-97 Viper, M-22 Eviscerator
Biography:
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