Fallen Star

[Nexaduro]

The year: UD 53

The place: Colony Ship TUS Halifax

 

Suddenly you are violently woken from your dreams. You hear a faint klaxon and, opening your eyes, see red lights flashing through the thick plate of glass arcing over your face about two feet away. You have no idea what is going on, and can't seem to think straight. You look down at yourself, and see that the glass case extends to cover your entire body, leaving you with barely enough room to move your arms. You notice a small red button next to your head marked "Release." The air in the chamber seems thin, the atmosphere cold, and you begin to have some trouble breathing. You reach for the release button, hoping that it is functional.

 

Note the lack of immediately provided information. This is because I want your character to explore, and learn for themselves. As knowledge is gained by the players, it will be added to this post under categories of the "Knowledge Base."

 

Players:

 

Charles Emrich

Race: Human

Faction Alignment: Halifax Colonists

Weapon Preference: Unknown

Skills: None

Alignment: Neutral

 

Zathe MK1

Race: Humanoid A.I.

Faction Alignment: Halifax Colonists

Weapon Preference: Melee

Skills: None

Alignment: Neutral

 

Earth

Race: Human

Faction Alignment: Halifax Colonists

Weapon Preference: Unknown

Skills: None

Alignment: Neutral

 

Poseidon

Race: Human

Faction Alignment: Halifax Colonists

Weapon Preference: Unknown

Skills: None

Alignment: Neutral

 

Paul

Race: Human

Faction Alignment: T.U. Military

Weapon Preference: Unknown

Skills: None

Alignment: Neutral

 

Tyden Eckard

Race: Human

Faction Alignment: T.U. Military

Weapon Preference: Unknown

Skills: None

Alignment: Neutral

 

Knowledge Base

 

Known Races:

 

 

Human - Bipedal. Requires food, water, oxygen, and a body temperature of about 98.6 degrees fahrenheit. May be incapacitated by lack of the aforementioned needs. Heals wounds slowly. Takes normal damage from almost all sources. Average intelligence.

 

Humanoid A.I. - Bipedal. Requires energy source (usually internal) and occasional repairs. Needs no food, water, oxygen, and can be damaged by extreme temperatures, cannot be incapacitated except by a system shut down or removal of limbs. Does not heal wounds. Easily damaged by electrical currents, some liquids, and infiltration of systems. High analytical capability, almost incapable of expressing emotion. Regarded as inferior by many humans, though also feared.

 

A.I. - Two or more legs, treads, or wheels. Requires energy source and occasional repairs. Needs no food, water, oxygen, and can be damaged by extreme temperatures, cannot be incapacitated except by a system shut down or removal of limbs. Does not heal wounds. Easily damaged by electrical currents, some liquids, and infiltration of systems. High analytical capability, almost incapable of expressing emotion. Not regarded as sentient, generally taken seriously.

 

 

Factions:

 

 

 

Starship Types:

 

 

 

People of Importance:

 

 

 

[Seraphi]

I might play.

 

One question: Will anything be based on Stargate?

[Grim_]

I will probably play (that is if this gets threshed out a bit more)

[Nexaduro]

I might play.

 

One question: Will anything be based on Stargate?

If Mather gets his way, only just barely. I will keep a tight reign on his influence in that aspect :P

 

What I mean is, everything I come up with will be as original as I can make it. But he might add something if and when he mods for this.

[Earth]

might as well give it a try. if its on as frequently as Monochrome, then im out.

[Nexaduro]

Ok, start with your name, description (optional), and starting action. I will reply when I return from dinner, in about 10-20 minutes.

[Earth]

hmmm. nex, i dont do cool. snot me. me? ith me, your lucky to get me face out of a book. if i dont hit ya with it fuirst. not a definition of cool in my book. anyways, names Earth, no desc other than a likeing for ranged weaponry, and i hit the release on the cask.

Edited April 14, 2010 by earthsage

[Grim_]

Name: Charles Emrich

Description: Stocky man of medium build, brown hair and eyes with a barrel chest and long legs. His left arm is heavily scarred with what appears to be knife wounds.

 

Charles presses the "release button"

[Nexaduro]

You hit the release button, and hear a hiss as the seals on the glass casing release. You push the glass off of the opening and slowly sit up, stretching your tired and sore limbs. You look to your side, and see another, rather ambiguous-looking human sit up and rub his eyes. Through the blazing klaxon, near deafening now that several inches of glass aren't between you and the sound, you begin to call a greeting. "Hello, my name is Char-" you are suddenly cut off as you attempt to take a breath, and begin gasping from the air, thinner than that inside of the casing. You manage to avoid passing out by taking deep breaths, as the air is not so thin as to cause asphyxiation in most individuals, but the other human is not so lucky. They pass out from the lack of oxygen and slump onto the casing next to them, which seems to contain another, sleeping human. You realize that the hallway-like room you are in contains hundreds, if not thousands, of these containers.

[Grim_]

Charles attempts to move slowly out of the room.

[Seraphi]

Do we have to start as a human?

[Nexaduro]

Eh, I'd prefer it (that way the players have to discover new races through experience) but what kind of creature would you want to be? Nothing flood-ish, please.

[Seraphi]

An AI. Something like Legion from mass effect, preferably.

[Earth]

can i shapshift or something. or have poison?

[Earth]

fine ill jsut go human. i head down the hall. (i want poison later though.)

[Nexaduro]

@Ross: Can do. You will be a relatively humanoid A.I. You are slightly stronger than a human and should probably stay away from water, EMP devices, and open electrical currents, but do not need oxygen, water, or food, and cannot be incapacitated by pain. However, you will need occasional repairs due to an inability to heal wounds over time, and computer viruses can severely damage you. People will generally take you more seriously, but you cannot express significant emotion and will not do well in situations requiring empathy. You are only slightly better with ranged weaponry than a trained Terran Union soldier, as there was a general public outcry toward the idea of emotionless supersoldiers, but it is to such a small degree as to be insignificant.

 

@Earth: No. It has to be something that would plausibly be contained in your current general area. In the future, if your character dies you will have the opportunity to switch to another race that has been discovered.

 

Charles stands up, but almost immediately falls forwards due to the weakness of his limbs and the lack of oxygen, hitting his head on the floor of the hallway. He is knocked out and begins to bleed slightly from the wound on his head caused by the impact with the floor. The ambiguous human who calls himself Earth slowly drifts back into consciousness, just in time to see the other human he spotted earlier fall to the ground, and the mechanical eye of a rather frightening, humanoid robot slumped against the opposite wall flicker and begin to glow.

[Nexaduro]

Er, why does it say that there have been zero views for this topic?

[Grim_]

Charles attempts to regain consciousness and patch himself up. He then does some stretches.

[Earth]

i pick up karl, and i head out the door with him (or down the halway)

[Nexaduro]

Waiting for Ross to post, he was writing a message for a while there, but I'm not sure why he canceled it.

[Earth]

hes doing a D&D session for us. hes kinda busy.

[Seraphi]

Name: Zathe MK1

Description: An experimental battle machine which was abandoned in early stages of testing for unknown reasons. After several decades it was left in a scrap pile, but managed to escape, hiding itself on a ship to make sure it was not discovered and destroyed.

 

What differs it from regular autonamous soldiers is that it has several different operating programs installed, which appear to coexist, and decide it's actions via a system of "voting". Each program chooses an action, and the one with the majority "vote" is carried out. These multiple systems mean that Zathe MK1 has a very erratic talking voice, constantly changing style and tone.

 

The machine's shell looks roughly humanoid, with a black and crimson paint coating. On it's "Face" is a single green light.

[Nexaduro]

Charles manages to wake up, and rip off a strip from the bottom of his uniform to use as a bandage, which was seemingly added for that purpose. Earth walks over and helps Charles to his feet, and then sets off down the hallway as Charles stretches his limbs to strengthen them, and prevent another fall. The Zathe picks itself up, and notices two humans walking around the area. One rather nondescript human is setting off at a determined pace down the hallway, while the other, a stocky brown-haired man with what seem to be battle scars does stretches near a wall.

[Grim_]

Charles continues down the hallway.

[Nexaduro]

Last action for the night. Sorry, I have an inordinately early bed-time (8:30 is when I'm supposed to be upstairs, I'm an hour late and my parents are getting a bit irritated). Feel free to post your actions, though.