OOC: The Phoenix part 1(Scifi)

[Forgotten Dragon's Ire]

Ok edited Vedis to fill in the Gunnery position

[Drakel]

I also edited Drakel to be a Fighter Pilot.

[Forgotten Dragon's Ire]

Thanks for the help Heavyman threw in positions for easier viewing

Name: Tirzern Kelrac

Sex: Male

Age: 90

Race: Rekathian

Home Faction: Vendix Confederation

Positions: Communications and Cook

Physical Description: Tirzern stands at 8' tall, and is 17' long from snout to tail tip. His scales are blue with yellow edges. His snout is angular, coming to a rounded pointed in front of his face, giving his six eyes excellent binocular vision. Behind his eyes are his ears, which are pointed and move to help convey emotions. A row of spines line his back, while hornlets line his brow ridges. He has a powerful build, due to the thicker atmosphere and higher gravity of his Worldship home. His arms and hands are powerful, yet dexterous even with their claws. He stands on two powerful legs, that look easily capable of running for long distances at a good speed of 30 mph. From his back are his two wings, easily capable of giving him flight.

Clothing:

Rekathians don't often wear anything except when they're going into battle or into vacuum. Tirzern when on duty wears a powered exoskeleton, that's equipped with shields and polarized armor. Along with maneuvering thrusters and even a main thruster to propel the wearer forward. The armor is blood red in color, with a metallic sheen to it. It covers every inch of his body, including the delicate wings with a complicated covering mechanism.

Markings: N/A

Weapons:

Sixty Caliber Giro-jet Pistol: This pistol is simple in its design. It's made to be held in the hands of a Rekathian, and it far too large to be wielded by smaller species. The pistol would seem bulky, but the tolerances in it have to be high since it fires small rockets. The clip is loaded into the grip, containing 20 rounds of ammunition.

Claws: His claws can be used in most situations, his armor makes them more useful by giving him added strength and metal sharpened coverings.

Weakness: Thin atmosphere intolerance, Tirzern is required to use a breath mask when exerting himself for extended periods of time, since his body could never adapt to the thin atmospheres that the other species use. It requires him to carry heavy 30lbs tanks of air on his back often times.

Specialties/Powers:

Giro-jet marksmanship
Communications
Flight
Fast/long distance running

Other Abilities and or Skills:

Cooking
Programming
Zero-G training
Zero-G hand to hand combat
Climbing

Other Items: Has a necklace, with a tooth hanging from the end of it. A family heirloom.

Personality:

Tirzern is a kind creature. He prefers not to fight if he has the choice, like most of his species. He seeks to help defend, rather than directly fight. One of his favorite things to do is eat and cook. Like other Rekathians, he eats large helpings, at least compared to other species.

History:

Tirzern was born on the Vendix Confederation Worldship. He has an uneventful childhood, with quite a few friends, though very few of them were aliens. When he was of age, he sought adventure, and seeing an actual planet instead of the upward curving landscapes of the worldship. With his pistol as a gift from his parents and his new armor, he left. The first worlds he visited were those of the TAC, where he enjoyed trying the local foods, one of his favorite Terran innovations was the buffet, and he got kicked out of more than one restaurant for eating too much. That's how it went until he arrived on Caesar Station, he had found his transport there. By joining the Phoenix, he could travel to multiple worlds, and earn money for it.

[Heavyman]

I'd still like to wait for more people, just to let everyone know.

[Jishdefish]

*glances around* This hasn't started yet, has it?

[Heavyman]

It hasn't. Been planning on starting it soon, but Ciarda said she's got another character to post, and Wardonis is looking over the information.

[Ciarda]

Ok second character. Mia's twin, Cara

Name: Cara Moretti
Sex: Female
Age: 26
Race: Human
Home Faction: TAC
Physical Description: Cara stands at an easy 5'10" tall, which is tall by human female standards. She is not intimidating, per se, but one look will tell you that she is not one to be trifled with. Her figure is not as waif-like as her sister's, though she is thin. In contrast to her fair skin, long black hair sweeps over her shoulders when it's down, but most of the time, it is pulled back into a braid underneath her trademark purple bandanna, off and away from her face. This reveals not only her stunning blue eyes, but sharp, pointed features.

Clothing: Typically, Cara's clothing varies. Mostly you'll find her in a comfortable jumpsuit or working pants and a simple shirt.

Markings: Cara has a couple of tattoos, but the notable is from a "girls' night out" a few years back with her sister. It is a picture of a hawk with an olive branch clutched in its beak. Symbolic, of course, of the need to balance peace and fairness even in the midst of war. Also, she is missing her right pinky and ring finger from an industrial accident a few years back.

Weapons: Cara utilizes a variety of weapons proficiently, and actually likes powered armor, unlike her sister. However, when not utilizing something a little heavier, she likes weapons with a bang.

Weakness: Impulsivity and impatience

Specialties/Powers: Psionic, electrokinesis, unlike Mia, who is more telepathic and telekinetic.
Other Abilities and or Skills: CQC, mechanically inclined
Other Items:

Personality: Cara is laid back, adventurous and loyal, to say the least. While she is definitely the more devilish of the two, she is by no means irresponsible, despite her love of alcohol. A decisive leader, she can also follow orders. While is no perfectionist, she will pursue a job, task, or project until its completed. Most agree that while she has no mind for politics, she is overall, a good person, and has more sense than someone with a degree (she has a vocational certificate).

History: She is from Earth, in that she has lived there much of her adult life. However, she and her sister were originally born in a colony of sorts, making them true children of space. Cara was happy to remain floating among the stars and rather than attending college went to a vocational school where she could put her fascination with machines and her love of invention to work. She has been back to earth only sporadically, having grown at ease with the nuts and bolts around her in space.

[Heavyman]

Accepted.

[Wardonis]

#1, a note on him, dont look for him, he will appear when and where he is ment to.

Name: Lyrul (Lie Rule) Bradshaw
Sex: M
Age: 11
Race: Human
Home Faction: Enlightened Convent of Unity: Psionic Human

Physical Description: A small boy, 4’4”, with a slightly frail body, he is bald with silver irises. He isn’t blind but has difficulty seeing far.

Clothing: Simple clothes and a large simple cloak that covers him entirely. He keeps himself wrapped in the cloak and his face in its shadows.

Markings: An old and large poorly healed scar on his cheek.

Weapons: None

Weakness: Very frail and scared.

Specialties/Powers: Telekinesis, but isn’t trained, he can sense when someone is near, within 20ft but that’s the limit of his sense, he can‘t even make out gender or race.

Other Abilities and or Skills: Once in a blue moon he’ll have a premonition, only 2 in his life so far and it will always scare the crap out of him when it happens.

Other Items: A small ring he wears on a chain around his neck, it had belonged to his real father.

Personality: Quiet and timid he is a very innocent boy who is scared of nearly everything at the moment.

History: Lyrul, usually called Rule by his older sister, was born in one of the last colonies to receive treatment for the plague. His father had died before he was born and his mother shortly after. His foster parents, one an alcoholic and the other a druggie, were abusive his foster father would routinely beat him and rape his sister as he beat her, sometimes in front of him while he cowered in a corner and his foster mother lay passed-out from the drugs. His drunken fathers beatings resulted in the scar on his face. For the most part throughout his short life his sister had raised him until about two months ago when his father had beaten him almost unconscious and had taken his sister right before him something had snapped and as he opened his eyes unspeakable horrors lay before him. He had turned the room inside out, along with everyone in it killing both of his foster parents and his sister. He ran, and he’s been running since.

[Heavyman]

Accepted.

[Wardonis]

Name: James Dalton Malaki
Sex: M
Age: 29
Race: Human
Home Faction: Trade Alliance Coalition: Human

Physical Description: Tall dark hair, think of Bruce Cambell as Autolycus in every detail. Mustache and a small triangle just under his lower lip. Baby blue eyes and short wavy dark hair. He has a strong jaw and earing in his right ear.

Clothing: Loose leather jacket over kaki pants and a loose long sleeve shirt. Under his black uppowered light armor.

Markings: A brand on his upper right shoulder blade marking him as a pirate.

Weapons: A .20 cal black gauss pistol and a long barreled gauss sniper rifle with a serious punch firing .50 cal at over mach 8.

Weakness: Women, gambling and his ego.

Specialties/Powers: Quick wit, spots exits, and plan amazing and daring escapes. Sees everything going on. Expert trade negotiator. Skilled navigator, all round jack of all trades. Above average piloting skills.

Other Abilities and or Skills: A deadly shot with many weapon and an expert marksman with a rifle, he was trained to be the sniper in his gang.

Other Items: wrist band that has a 2 min cloak on it and also boots with a hidden grav switch.

Personality: Saving his own ass comes first, good guy all around but still a crook. Quick witted he is fast with a joke and always tries to fanagel himself the upper hand. He hits on every woman he comes across reguardless if she is attached. Has a lucky coin he plays with when he gets nervous..

History: He is regular smuggler that is about to be caught and is trying to bargain a deal to get him off the station before authorities there find him.

James ran away from home at the age of 8 and found a new home with a gang that taught him the ways of the street. In and out of jail till about 22 when he got lucky and made a penny with a refractor he’d stolen for a contract, he managed to buy himself a ship and for the past 7 years he’s been using that ship to smuggle things for various clients upgrading the ship as he goes; until this morning. When he was in the casino he had accidentally said something he shouldn’t have when he discovered his pockets empty, the guard standing at the table had overheard him and James didn’t even make it to his ship before the guards. Now he’s broke and has only the clothes on his back.

[Heavyman]

Judging from his history, where did he learn to use every weapon and learn to be an expert marksman? Every weapon handles differently, especially alien weapons. So I highly doubt the master of every weapon part. And since he has no military background, I also doubt the expert shot part.

Cloak works quite a bit more differently in this setting. Do you have a network of nodes over your body to extend the cloak field over your entire self? I don't believe you do. Without either the nodes, or like the Cycron's dual-purpose shield, all you're going to have is a hand, a missing forearm and then your upper arm. As for the grav switch.... anti-grav is mostly reserved for larger vehicles, like tanks. Sometimes it's adapted for smaller vehicles. But what I'm getting at is, you'll be hanging from your feet if you activated it.

Another thing is, how would you control forward movement with it turned on?

If possible, a bit longer description of appearance and both weapons would be good. Include the velocity(Mach 2, Mach 3, Mach 4 etc.) at which they fire their rounds and their caliber(.20 .30. .40 etc. don't exceed .50, otherwise I'll be considering it a cannon).

[Wardonis]

nodes are built into the armor for stealth, boots arn't anti grav, but magnetic-like, he'd use it walk on the outer hull.

[Heavyman]

Still, so how is he an expert shot with any weapon? He can't have come into contact with all weapons, since he's human. And obviously has never handled any military grade weapons since he was never in the military. And if he's an expert shot, where's his military sniper training?

[Wardonis]

i was still editing

[Heavyman]

Ah.

[Wardonis]

better?

[Heavyman]

Accepted.

[Jishdefish]

What positions are left now?

[Ersska]

I would like to join, but I have a few questions about the Avron first.

* Do they have any kind of armor? I know you said they're lacking in defense, but lacking even them simplest armor seems ridiculous to me.
* Since they are covered in feathers, do they employ the use of clothing at all?
* How many digits do they have on their hands? The description didn't say.
* Are there any specific traits that help to discern male from female? Do the females have humaniod breasts? Or like earth-dwelling birds, do the males have more brightly-colored feathers while the females are dull?
* How exactly are the different colors incorporated into the feathers? Do the individual feathers fade from one color to the next? Or does the color gradiation occur over the entire body? Or is it in a spotty/stripey pattern such as that of cats and/or dogs fur? Or are you just going to leave that up to the player?
* Can you give me specifics on their weapons? You kinda gave the category a broad range by just referring to them as "hard hitting weapons".
* Finally, are they flightless, or have they maintained their wings? You didn't say either/or in the descrpition. You just said they were "obviously descended from a bird-like species".

[Heavyman]

To Jishdefish:

There are quite a few positions left. There are 2 more fighters positions open, Also there's Medical, and a few security positions left.

Errska:

* Do they have any kind of armor? I know you said they're lacking in defense, but lacking even them simplest armor seems ridiculous to me.

They use lightweight carbon-filament skin-tight armor, unpowered. It gives them a slight strength boost, but nothing great. With a very thin layer of metal armor over the back and chest. It has a re-breather for about 3 hours of air for operating in Vacuum and underwater, along with small thrusters mounted on strategic points of the suit to move in vacuum.

* Since they are covered in feathers, do they employ the use of clothing at all?

Other than the armor above, or ceremonial purposes, no they don't use clothing.

* How many digits do they have on their hands? The description didn't say.

Sorry for the vague description. They have 2 fingers and a thumb, while three more fingers are elongated into a wing.

* Are there any specific traits that help to discern male from female? Do the females have
humanoid breasts? Or like earth-dwelling birds, do the males have more brightly-colored feathers while the females are dull?

Females don't have breasts, and both males and females are just as colorful. Males however tend to have feathery head crests, while females have long tail feathers that stretch easily to the floor.

* How exactly are the different colors incorporated into the feathers? Do the individual feathers fade from one color to the next? Or does the color gradiation occur over the entire body? Or is it in a spotty/stripey pattern such as that of cats and/or dogs fur? Or are you just going to leave that up to the player?

It depends greatly on Avron to Avron. I'll leave that up to the player.

* Can you give me specifics on their weapons? You kinda gave the category a broad range by just referring to them as "hard hitting weapons".

They tend to use weapons with shoulder harnesses, that lock into a position so they can fire them in flight. Other weapons include sniper rifles, but most tend to be lasers, plasma weapons, and some Gauss weapons. The lasers tend not to be pulse weapons, and are instead beams. For the most part in this RP, think of what happens when you turn on a laser pointer. You don't see the beam. There are however slowed-light lasers that deal more damage in pulses in use by the Confederacy, the bolts fired from these are slowed to 99% the speed of light and can be seen, albeit for only a short time.

* Finally, are they flightless, or have they maintained their wings? You didn't say either/or in the description. You just said they were "obviously descended from a bird-like species".

Yes, they can fly.

[Ersska]

Ok, a few more questions:

* If they follow a similar structure to the earth-dwelling birds, how do three fingers elongate into wings? On a normal bird, it's simply one long finger covered in feathers. (like so: http://www.biology-resources.com/drawin ... leton.html)

* Are the fingers and the thumb located in the "elbow" of the wing?

* What is their average wingspan, flight speed, and flight time?

* I'm not a weapons expert, so your description kinda confuses me. (i feel stupid) What are Gauss weapons? What kind of damage do the lasers actually do? What do you mean you can see the laser for a short time, do they appear like the ones in Star Wars (sorry, that's the only comparison i could think of)?

Sorry for all the questions. But I really want to make sure I have everything straight before I join. As for the position my character plays, I'll leave it up to you to assign me one. I'm going to play a female Avron (if you haven't guessed by now). I'll probably go with the Scientist class. Although I'm debating on switching to Warrior, unless you're willing to let me combine the two. Or do the different classes not intermingle? How much power does the Scientist class have? The Warrior class?

[Heavyman]

* If they follow a similar structure to the earth-dwelling birds, how do three fingers elongate into wings? On a normal bird, it's simply one long finger covered in feathers.

They don't follow the structure of earth-dwelling birds. They have in total 6 fingers including the thumb. The last 3 fingers are longer than the others, and are a bit thicker to support them in flight. Folding the fingers, folds their wings against the rest of their arm.

* Are the fingers and the thumb located in the "elbow" of the wing?

No.

* What is their average wingspan, flight speed, and flight time?

Average wingspan is 12 feet, flight speed around 25 mph... they're very light weight creatures. And are capable of flying for 8 hours, but with short rests during the day, they can fly all day.

* I'm not a weapons expert, so your description kinda confuses me. (i feel stupid) What are Gauss weapons? What kind of damage do the lasers actually do? What do you mean you can see the laser for a short time, do they appear like the ones in Star Wars (sorry, that's the only comparison i could think of)?

Gauss Weapons are also known as Coil Guns. They use magnetic coils in the barrel to push/pull projectiles through the barrel, and propel them at speeds from Mach 2-12 with hand held versions.

Plasma is the fourth state of matter, depending on the type it can be liquid-like or gaseous. The plasma uses some kinetic energy, but is mostly heat based in damage. Plasma weapons are damaging, but due to the magnetic containment involved, they can become faulty and unstable if jostled or struck too hard.

Lasers for hand held weapons currently only come in beams. They use heat to cut through things. Depending on the color they emit affects the damage they do. Red is weakest, while purple is the strongest in the visible spectrum. The beam cannot be seen in the air, like a flashlight unless of course there was mist or other type of visible gas in the air.

Slow-Light Lasers have visible bolts for very split seconds as they slow the light down to 99% the speed of light, allowing them to fire more photons at one time thus increasing the damage output. So no, they aren't like star wars. These types of lasers are only for ships currently, as the technology is very hard to scale down.

Other weapons that the Avron do not have are Particle weapons, Gyro-jet projectiles, among others.

[Forgotten Dragon's Ire]

actually gunnery was taken by my first char Vedis Treglazov

[Ersska]

Cool! Thanks for being patient with me. I know I'm being difficult.

* I'm still having trouble trying to wrap my head around the wing design. So just to be clear. . .The arm is humanoid, and the three digits that make up the wing (when the wings are folded) would be like three fingers folded back against the hand, correct?
* How do the feathers lay on the three digits? And how long is the longest digit? When the wing is folded (suppose the arm is hanging loosely by the creatures side) does the longest digit stick up straight up above the shoulder?
* And what happens when the Avron bends it's elbow? Does the tip of the wing jut out behind them? That would be hard to maneuver in tight places. . .

Also, you never answered the last question on my last post. . . "As for the position my character plays, I'll leave it up to you to assign me one. I'm going to play a female Avron (if you haven't guessed by now). I'll probably go with the Scientist class. Although I'm debating on switching to Warrior, unless you're willing to let me combine the two. Or do the different classes not intermingle? How much power does the Scientist class have? The Warrior class?"

I understand if you're tired of me asking questions. . .I'll leave you alone if you want. . .