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[USEC_OFFICER]

After two dark ages, five interstellar wars and governmental unification, mankind has finally achieved its dream. On September third, 31 U. the United Government has publicly unveiled the existence of faster than light travel. With robotic testing having successfully been completed, the UGS Unity has been outfitted for its maiden voyage. The first in hopefully a long line of interstellar scout ships, the UGS Unity has the best technology humanity can offer, an elite hand-picked crew, and a highly-advanced AI to manage the ship's robotic and automatic systems. With such a broad base of support, humanity's first voyage to the stars is certain to be a successful one.

Spoiler: Sign-Up Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Your name. Or at least a name to identify yourself with.
Position: Captain, Navigator, Science Officer, Engineer or Communications Officer. Each position needs to be filled before the UGS Unity leaves the solar system for the first time. Except for the Captain (who has final say over all disagreements) all other positions are roughly equivalent. The only differences is how their knowledge affects certain actions. For example, the Communications Officer's knowledge of computers is important when scanning objects. Note that additional positions may be created as the game plays out.
Gender: Male, Female, Human-based android. Or perhaps something in between.
Age: How old your character is.
Description: What your character looks like.
Background: Your character's past and how they joined the United Government Space Service. Keep in mind that the United Government was formed 31 years ago, society is quite transhumanist and humanity has spread across all the planets in the solar system. Otherwise the background is quite vague, so go wild!

Knowledge:
Experience is measured in Equivalent Years of Study or eys. Thanks to advances in teaching techniques and neurology, a 18 year old can have the experiences and knowledge of a 90 year old.

Each character gets 100 eys to divide among the following fields:
Biology: Most useful for Science Officers, who need it for examining alien lifeforms.
Chemistry: Most useful for Engineers, who use it to speed up repairs on certain items.
Command: Most useful for Captains, as it affects how much his/her/its knowledge helps the rest of the crew.
Computers: Most useful for Communicator Officers, who use it when scanning objects.
Construction: Most useful for Engineers, who use it to speed up repairs on certain items.
Diplomacy: Most useful for Communicator Officers, as it affects how friendly the person they're talking to is.
Physics: Most useful for Science Officers, who need it when examining anomalies and unknown objects.
Piloting: Most useful for Navigators, who use it to reduce time it takes to travel in-system.

Spoiler: Map of Nearby Systems (click to show/hide)

(16, 13) is Sol.

Spoiler: UGS Unity (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Rules (click to show/hide)

Ship Statistics:

Defence: The ability of a ship to avoid attacks or to harmlessly absorb them with its armour. Prevents ships from being damaged.

Integ: The integrity of a ship, or how much damage it can absorb before becoming disabled, or worse.

Fuel Com: The amount of fuel that a ship uses to accelerate or travel between stars. The smaller this number, the more efficient the ship's engine is.

Fuel Cap: How much fuel a ship can hold in its fuel tanks. The larger the better, though any fuel remaining in a ship's tanks will be lost when the ship is destroyed or enters hyperspace.

(X, Y): The ship's current position on the map.

Power: How much power a ship's power generator produces. Used to determine how many systems can be fitted onto a ship.

Speed: How many hexes a interstellar drive can travel in a certain time slot. 1/Week means that it takes a week of in-game time to travel one hex on the map.

Cargo: The size of a ship's cargo capacity.

Size: Each item in cargo has a size. The total size of all the items in cargo cannot exceed a ship's cargo capacity.

Interstellar Travel:

Interstellar travel is inertialess. As long as you have the time and fuel to spare interstellar travel is easy. Moving in and out of a system costs no fuel. When you move into a system, you do not automatically move into orbit of any planet.

Stellar Travel:
To move into orbit of a planet costs the fuel consumption (Fuel Com) of your ship's Stellar Propulsion. Some actions, such as scanning a planet with a sensor drone, can be performed anywhere in a system. Other actions, such as communicating with a planet, can only be performed in orbit. When in doubt, ask.

More rules will be added as the game progresses.

Feel free to ask any questions about the rules if you have any questions. The beginning of the game is pretty simple, but later on things will get more complicated.

[Bdthemag]

Reserved.

[Remuthra]

Reservated.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name: Joe Bridger
Position: Captain
Gender: Male
Age: 58
Description: An old, shabby looking man wearing a pink jumpsuit and an old black fedora. He has a short temper, but is very experienced and carries a powerful charisma.
Background: Joe Bridger was the son of an unsuccessful sideshow magician living in New York, back before it was abandoned. His father always used to tell him to work his hardest to command the respect of others, that he might earn a better place in life than his parents. Joe was one of the first to enlist with the UGSS, back when it was a handful of separate interplanetary initiatives as part of the short-lived second space race. He soon rose through the ranks, owing to his fierce determination combined with the desperation of the failing programs, and was awarded the rank of First Commander of the North Atlantic Air and Space Initiative (NAASI). When the various programs decided to merge out of a lack of progress, his position was retained, as one of the most experienced of the few officers still remaining. He then guided the UGSS through it's first missions. He was awarded the Wayward Star for his performance leading the UGSS ships in the Battle of the Fyrd, the only major interplanetary conflict to date, when the Alliance of Dissenting Parties mustered their full strength for a final attempt to force the surrender of the UGSS. After many years, seeing the end of the internal struggles, he was nominated for the honor of captain on the maiden cruiser in the new interstellar expansion effort. While many of his methods are unorthodox compared to modern military protocols, his honors and long service record prompted the Ruling Council to send him on this effort. Secretly, though, many say he was put in command to keep him away from the political struggles of the UGSS Navy. Some go so far as to theorize that the Council didn't expect the ship to return.
Knowledge: 116 years
Biology: 0 (You kids and your Science.)
Chemistry:0
Command: 70
Computers: 0 (Back in my day, we didn't have these new-fangled computers.)
Construction: 0 (I learned real construction, none of this precision crafting sorcery.)
Diplomacy: 30
Physics: 0
Piloting: 0

[Bdthemag]

Spoiler: Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Richard Reynolds
Position: Communications Officer
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Description: A somewhat lanky looking young man with short-brown hair, and a friendly grin. He's generally a nice, easy going guy with a bit of a sarcastic and cocky attitude.
Background: Richard enlisted in the UGSS at the age of 18, after discovering he didn't have enough funds to get into any kind of college, and his parents were threatening to kick him out of the house. He proved to be quite useless in the normal tasks a recruit was expected to do. He wasn't good at fighting, he was a godawful shot, and anything involving paperwork bored him. It seemed he would be unable to find a place within the UGSS, until he showed his aptitude in computer technology after getting in trouble for a few pranks involving making public a few illicit pictures that was stored on a superior officers computer. Although he was nearly kicked out for this particular stunt, the UGSS did need men and women who were very talented with computer systems for upcoming projects, and he was immediately put into the UGSS Communications division to get to work. He spent the last few years helping to develop better software ranging from office applications, to the software that keeps a ship's life support systems in check. With the announcement of plans for the UGS Unity, the UGSS was looking for someone to fulfill the communications officer role for the ship, and Richard happily applied. It's somewhat unclear as to how he actually became accepted into the program, but some disgruntled candidates have been putting forth the claim that someone must of tampered with the computer system that handled picking a candidate from various aptitude tests.
Knowledge:
Biology: 0
Chemistry: 0
Command: 10
Computers: 50
Construction:
Diplomacy: 30
Physics: 10
Piloting: 0

[scapheap]

Name: Kitty
Position: Navigator
Gender: Android(female base)
Age: 6 months
Description: A black haired female with cat ears and tail of the same colour. Green eyes with the right having a image of wings(the circle is where her pupil is) on it, showing her non-human-ness.
Background: First made as an automated sex bot to people with catgirls fantasies, Kitty somehow gained sentience, not that sentient bots are odd, but the fact that she has nothing in her blueprints that should give her sentience is. After a vocal refuse to be a sex bot, she was carted off to the people who dealt with sentient bots and was put to UGS Unity after a while after it was discover that she good at 'stick'.

Knowledge:
Each character gets 100 eys to divide among the following fields:
Biology: 20(she built as a sex bot)
Chemistry: 0
Command: 0
Computers: 10
Construction: 0
Diplomacy: 20(she built as a sex bot)
Physics: 0
Piloting: 50

[scapheap]

Done app and bumping for other people.(I found it on page 4 somehow)

[hermes]

Looks exciting, would like to be the science officer...if I can have time to rustle up a char sheet.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Name:  Cydney Pallas.
Position:  Science Officer.
Gender:  Android tech augmented Male.
Age:  33.
Description:  Cydney is a very dark skinned man of average height and build with close cropped curly hair.  He is always clean shaven and wears large plain-framed glasses.
Background:  Cydney was born on a Europa research outpost, the son of two scientists studying the xenobiology of the moon.  Cydney's parents died when an ice-quake damaged the submarine elevator shaft they were in.  Their elevator was ruptured free and sank, and imploded due to the pressure, crushing them to death.  He became obessed by two things; the power of knowledge to prevent disaster and his own mortality.  Android technology grafted to humans allowed him, in part, to sate these two needs by providing him with an enhanced ability to memorize and recall information, as well as prolonging his physical durability and ultimately his lifespan.  He joined the UGSS after a doctorate thesis that earned him many offers from corporate research teams.  He chose the UGSS because the opportunities afforded researchers on the first FTL scouting vessels will be, he hopes, second to none.

Also, he has a yellow raincoat he wears whenever UGSS regulations will permit.

Biology: 75
Physics: 25

[Dwarmin]

Name: Kathryn Malone
Position: Engineer
Gender: Female
Age: 28
Description: A lean and short woman with short, dark red hair and blue eyes. Physically toned and pretty, if not conventionally beautiful-she's forgone all genetic aging treatments and perfection solutions. Rough hands and a tan from work outdoors. Not uncomfortable wearing a stetson with her uniform, even if it's not regulation.
Background: The four hundred and fortysixth clone of the daughter of a wildly successful businessman who wanted to undergo what he termed the 'Thousand Lives Experience' to achieve a step closer to nirvana-by the process of cloning himself and his family a thousand times, placing them into various social strata and levels of resource, while watching, and playing God with their lives occasionally. Needless to say, he's watched his daughter-almost always some variation on Kathryn-become a professional athlete, a law enforcement officer, a Nun, a dishwasher, a paid assassin, a lounge singer, a space trucker, a prostitute...among hundreds of other fates.

Kathryn Malone knows all of this, and has such always sought to prove to her distant relation that's she is not just a copy of a person he knew-she and her family was placed into the 'destitution' category of the lower class of Earths slums, and knowing exactly what probability was predicated for her fate, she always sought to overcome him and the restrictions the distant God placed on her. By 16, she had learned basic starship mechanics on the go, and was part timing in the local ship mill. By 19 she jumped on the nearest vessel-the UGS Scarlet-pretending she belonged there. It took a few months for the crew to catch on she was essentially a stowaway. Lucky for her, the Captain decided not to give her a summary execution, as was common in the old days. Instead he gave her exactly what she wanted-ten years penal duty in UGS fleet engineering core.

She used this as an excuse to get the toughest, craziest jobs-and to complete her formal training, though her tech skills already surpassed most of her peers. Kathryn Malone became a minor legend for her hands on and common sense solutions. She eventually hit pay dirt, slapping together a half destroyed transport shuttle and helping an Admiral escape from a disintegrating battle platform. He promised her choice of any position-and chose the Unity with no hesitation. Her skills would prove her right.

Kathryn knows 'Daddy' is still watching her-though who she considers her real father is actually a much kinder, more gentle man-and is somewhat relieved in the hope that even she might outrun that minor Gods all seeing eye. Still, Kathryn can never entirely know how much of her life she has achieved on her own merits and how much he has manipulated...

Knowledge
Chemistry: 25
Construction: 75

[USEC_OFFICER]

0800, 03:09:31

Good morning crew. I am Maria, your AI aboard the UGS Unity. I have full control over all systems, but will content myself with managing the autonomous systems of the ship and leaving all major decisions to you. Please be aware that the United Government has uploaded additional procedures that will allow me total command of the UGS Unity in several critical situations. However I trust in your professionalism and believe that I will never have to execute those procedures.

As this is the very first live test of the wrap drive, the Council has elected that you may fly as you see fit. Due to security reasons this information has not been disclosed until now. However the Council has left a series of instructions for you to follow. The Council wishes you to scout out the planets in the nearby systems using the sensor drones we have been equipped for this task. Telescope data shows that these planets are not habitable for life, but may contain large quantities of minerals suitable for setting up outposts and mines for further expansion. A task group of drones, AIs and androids is being assembled for this purpose and will be ready by the time you return. Additionally the Council wishes you to visit the system at (15, 10). If you are not aware, a Martian generation ship began its journey to this system in -451 U. Telescope data shows that the second planet in this system has signs of inhabitance, though we will not know the exact state of the colony until we reach it. This marks the end of the Council's instructions.

I will be happy to answer any questions you might have, but otherwise I look forward to starting our journey.

Spoiler: UGS Unity (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Crew (click to show/hide)

Name: Joe Bridger
Position: Captain
Gender: Male
Age: 58
Description: An old, shabby looking man wearing a pink jumpsuit and an old black fedora. He has a short temper, but is very experienced and carries a powerful charisma.

Knowledge:
Biology: 0
Chemistry: 0
Command: 70
Computers: 0
Construction: 0
Diplomacy: 30
Physics: 0
Piloting: 0

Name: Richard Reynolds
Position: Communications Officer
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Description: A somewhat lanky looking young man with short-brown hair, and a friendly grin. He's generally a nice, easy going guy with a bit of a sarcastic and cocky attitude.

Knowledge:
Biology: 0
Chemistry: 0
Command: 10
Computers: 50
Construction: 0
Diplomacy: 30
Physics: 10
Piloting: 0

Name: Kitty
Position: Navigator
Gender: Android(female base)
Age: 6 months
Description: A black haired female with cat ears and tail of the same colour. Green eyes with the right having a image of wings(the circle is where her pupil is) on it, showing her non-human-ness.

Knowledge:
Biology: 20
Chemistry: 0
Command: 0
Computers: 10
Construction: 0
Diplomacy: 20
Physics: 0
Piloting: 50

Name:  Cydney Pallas.
Position:  Science Officer.
Gender:  Android tech augmented Male.
Age:  33.
Description:  Cydney is a very dark skinned man of average height and build with close cropped curly hair.  He is always clean shaven and wears large plain-framed glasses.

Also, he has a yellow raincoat he wears whenever UGSS regulations will permit.

Knowledge:
Biology: 75
Chemistry: 0
Command: 0
Computers: 0
Construction: 0
Diplomacy: 0
Physics: 25
Piloting: 0

Name: Kathryn Malone
Position: Engineer
Gender: Female
Age: 28
Description: A lean and short woman with short, dark red hair and blue eyes. Physically toned and pretty, if not conventionally beautiful-she's forgone all genetic aging treatments and perfection solutions. Rough hands and a tan from work outdoors. Not uncomfortable wearing a stetson with her uniform, even if it's not regulation.

Knowledge:
Biology: 0
Chemistry: 25
Command: 0
Computers: 0
Construction: 75
Diplomacy: 0
Physics: 0
Piloting: 0

To make my life a bit easier, if you're going to talk to the AI please clearly state that. Either with something along the lines of Maria: "blah" or AI: "blah" or "Can I do this, Maria/AI?". Otherwise, you have a route to plan.

[scapheap]

Kitty, sitting in the pilot seat, turned to the rest of crew "So, we check the nearby systems first before heading to 15,10?"

[Rolepgeek]

Posting to watch. I would have like to play, but it seems all positions are filled.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Posting to watch. I would have like to play, but it seems all positions are filled.

Don't worry, more positions will be created as the game progress. So you have a good shot of playing.

[Remuthra]

Computer, what tactical data do we have on the surrounding systems?

[USEC_OFFICER]

System 15,13 has 3 scannable planets. System 16,14 has 2 scannable planets. System 17,13 has 4 scannable planets. System 17,12 has 3 scannable planets, while system 18,13 has 2 planets. None of the planets in these systems show any signs of inhabitance or life forms. Therefore scanning these systems should be routine.

If you are planning to visit system 15,10 last, I would recommend using all of your drones in the other systems. The Martian colony should be able to provide us with the data we need if they still exist.

[hermes]

Cyd:  Maria, once a drone is released does it have the capability to travel to other planets within the system, or must it remain at one planet?