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The X-2

1 (25%)

The Icarus

2 (50%)

The Goliath

1 (25%)

Total Members Voted: 4

[10ebbor10]

The Io system, a small, and mostly unnoticeable system on the edge of inhabited space. Home to 2 planets: a small, sparsely inhabited aquatic planet, and a barren Mercuroid. It's also home to a small orbital drydock, which serves as the primary hub for planetary communications. Peace is rudely disturbed by an incursion of Reaper ships, backed up by four unidentifiable spacecraft of unknown origin.

Though they know they can't hope to defeat them, the crew powers up the weaponry, activates the Warp Interdictors, and opens fire, hoping to buy the people below enough time to hide.

The station shudders and reals from the massed counter fire. Lasers tear through the armor like butter, obliterating the Bridge, and tearing the habitation area apart. The defensive fire dies out, and the warp interdictors fail. The raiders pass the station without so much as another glance.

What little survives from the crew gathers themselves in the dry-docks, knowing that they did what they could. There're 3 ships flight capable in the docks. However, none of them can escape without warp core, of which there's only one on the station, which was salvaged from the Warp interdictor. There's little time left to decide, as the station is rapidly pulling itself apart due to the damage it sustained.

Spoiler: Note (click to show/hide)

Well then, seems I screwed up resizing one of the images. This is a Salvation style game.

Images using Rexpaint, which is nice and cool and such.

[10ebbor10]

Spoiler: Basic Introduction (click to show/hide)

After a near deadly encounter with an unknown threat, a small gang sets out to the stars.

Pretty short for known. Is supposed to contain a synopsis. For know, I'll just say what the game's about. It's a suggestion game about a ship and it's crew. Players can choose to impersonate a crewmember if they want, though that's only a small part of the game.

Spoiler: How to join (click to show/hide)

Name:
Generic description:
Very short biography: Include how you got on board. Currently, there's a limited amount of options. Either you were crew of the station, or didn't make it out on your own ship for some reason.

Apply for GM subplot: Y/N

Spoiler: List of player characters (click to show/hide)

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[10ebbor10]

Locations

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Nations, federations and Clans

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Reapers
The Reapers are on of the most dangerous pirate groups in the local surroundings. Some say they're insane, but their tactics are too well thought out for that to be true. Reapers have been known to practice self mutilation, and have no qualms about personal safety. Nobody knows what happens to their prisoners, but it can't be good.
They use all kinds of ships and weaponry they can get their hands on, and will attack on sight. Their ships are easily detectable by warp signature, and any ship emitting it will be attacked and destroyed on sight.

Reapers leave no survivors.

Weaponry

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Technology

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Warp Drive
The Warp drive is an advanced Alcubierre drive, capable of increasing a ship's effective speed by several orders of magnitude through the folding of space. It doesn't provide it's own momentum, but rather shortens the effective journey by several order of magnitude.  Each drive relies on a warp core, which are very expensive and hard to make. A warp core is often worth more than a ship, and can be decennia old. A warp field will collapse if it meets a significant amount of mass or a sufficiently strong gravitational field. Each warp drive can also serve as a warp interdictor, preventing engaged ship's from escaping till they clear the bubble.

Slip Drive
A derivative of the Warp drive, the slip drive allows a ship to extend another's ships warp bubble around itself, and follow it to it's destination. It's a cheap alternative to the warp drive, as it does not require a warp core. Slip drives are, while operating on the same principles as the warp drive, completely different mechanically.

Stutter Drive
A modification of the warp drive, first developed by the late Dr. Gunne. The Stutter drive allows a ship to instantly teleport over a distance of several AU, bypassing any disturbances in the way. (Start and end need to be free of disturbances, however). The Exact distance passed depends on the momentum of the ship, and the calibration of the Stutter Drive. A Stutter drive can still be used as a traditional warp drive.

History

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[10ebbor10]

Finished.

[wer6]

Voting for the icarus

Spoiler: Char (click to show/hide)

Name:A.T.S
Generic description:The Ships Artificial intelligence, it stands for "Advanced Telepathic System" , It  Runs most of the targeting systems, And is fully able to control the ship, however it can only control Weapon systems. It also has several Inhibitors, to prevent it from Malfunctioning, And Can only control gun systems with permission from teh caption of the crew, Unless he is confirmed dead.


Apply for GM subplot: Y

EDITEDIT: Changed the name.

[10ebbor10]

Having a name similar to an ancient, infective autoimmune disease might have in universe implications.

[MonkeyHead]

Name: Gunnery Sgt. Leigh Wilson

Generic Bio: Veteran of a number of military actions, Sgt. Wilson is a quiet but hard man, well versed in the use of all modern close combat weapons and personal armour systems. Sgt. Wilson's role in the military is to lead small groups of heavily armed and armoured soldiers in ship-to-ship actions, either storming enemy vessels or repelling borders, and acting to secure landing zones or assaulting enemy positions.

Apply for GM supplot: if relevant...

Voting for X-2

[wer6]

10 ebber, got any Idea's? cant think of any besides boring A.I., andi  dont want to rip off anything. Thought of something

[Urist Mc Dwarf]

Name: Shadow Walker
Generic Bio: A mysterious, highly trained warrior
GM Subplot: Yes

Vote for Icarus

[wer6]

I dont know if the other people voted for ships or not :/

[10ebbor10]

Waiting for some more votes.

[wer6]

People been editing there  posts, two for Icarus, one for X-2

[10ebbor10]

Added a poll.

[10ebbor10]

You quickly power up the Icarus, and not a moment to soon. The station's dying screams are stopped abruptly when the hull finally tears apart, and the air's sucked out. The Icarus escapes unscatched, but you're not sure about the other vessels.


Hidden within the wreckage, you can observe the Reaper ships bombarding the enemies, assisted by the unknown force. Now would be the best time to leave, before they noticed you survive, or bring an antiwarp field online.

Spoiler: Stellar Map (click to show/hide)

Little curriculum:
Tristan is a more populous system, from where the Io colony mission departed
Vargon is pirate territory, though not Reaper territory. It hosts an impressive black market.
The Cor Caroli shipyards are the largest shipyards in a wide area. Any modification you want can be done here.

Spoiler: The Icarus (click to show/hide)

A more detailed look is coming later

Credits: 5700

Hull damage: Minimal
Armor: Full
Fuel: 219/300
System Damage: Undamaged
       -Micro fusion Reactor: Online  [10% capacity]
       -Life support: Online
       -Advanced Sensor Systems: Offline
       -Twin Turbo Engines: Offline
       -Mark X Warp Drive: Offline

Cargo Bay:  [250/2000]
    - 25 Exosuits [50]
    - 2* "Mule" Rover [100]
    - Small Workshop [100]

Crew: 20
Morale: Excellent

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Note: Yes, the Icarus is unarmed. It's a cargo ship.
Edit: If you want to change ship, I suppose I could retcon, but... (Last chance)

[MonkeyHead]

Leigh was not a happy soldier.

"I told you to take the X-2! This bucket of rust will get us killed at first opportunity. Ah, well, we are stuck with it now, lets get the hell out of here and away from Reaper space..."

Set course for Tristan where once not likely to instantly die we can consider our next move.