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[~Neri]

Herro~

[Harbingerjm]

1) Of course, every player must have their character. I'll need a personal description, a description of their species, and a description of what skills/abilities they have. Be as detailed as you like. However, in the interest of creativity, there is an important caveat: no Earthlings. No humans, modified humans, uplifted Earth species, or mechanical beings created by any of the above.

Working on it.

2) Once we have some characters, we'll need a ship for them to go exploring in. Suggest whatever you think it should be/have, but bear a few things in mind. Storywise, the ship is purpose-built for this expedition, so whatever provisions/items being brought will probably be covered here. I'm leaning towards hard-sci-fi in what I'll allow, and the ship probably should not be super huge (try to stay under 1km). We'll all discuss the suggestions amongst each other.

Given the whole "nothing that's ever gone beyond the event horizon has been heard from again" thing, I'd imagine they drop things in every so often, and don't hold any real hope of success, so I suspect it's likely to be a fairly cheap ship. Small, limited facilities, etc.

[Patrick Hunt]

Would be kinda boring though.

[Arcvasti]

Would be kinda boring though.

Depends on what's on the other side of the Dark Star.

[Patrick Hunt]

Well with a crapy ship they could sneeze on our flying soup can and kill us and we'd be unable to do anything interesting.

[WillowLuman]

Given the whole "nothing that's ever gone beyond the event horizon has been heard from again" thing, I'd imagine they drop things in every so often, and don't hold any real hope of success, so I suspect it's likely to be a fairly cheap ship. Small, limited facilities, etc.

Or perhaps the expedition is put together by some rich, suicidal/brave/insane/foohardy entity.

Would be kinda boring though.

Having just the core characters isn't necessarily boring. They'd have more to do than if there were a bunch of NPCs around.

[Harbingerjm]

Well with a crapy ship they could sneeze on our flying soup can and kill us and we'd be unable to do anything interesting.

Says the person who wants to play as Han Solo. Remember that one time when the Millenium Falcon blew up a Star Destroyer?

[Patrick Hunt]

But talking to the same 2 guys all the time is. You don't really get any variety dealing with the same small group all the time.
Can't play a charismatic pirate with nobody to be charismatic with.

I wouldn't trust Pan Froyo to blow up a Starbucks.

[Arcvasti]

I suggest a compromise. Medium-size decently armed ship with the potential to make stuff out of anything usable we'd find on the other side of the Dark Star with a few NPC crewmembers/drones to fill the gaps with mayonnaise.

[WillowLuman]

But talking to the same 2 guys all the time is. You don't really get any variety dealing with the same small group all the time.
Can't play a charismatic pirate with nobody to be charismatic with.

I wouldn't trust Pan Froyo to blow up a Starbucks.

It depends on how many players we get. I think we have 5(?) right now.

[High tyrol]

Here is my character

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

name:ebony macall
Discription: a tall terravore with a creamy yellow hide with light brown spots all over him. his black head contrasts well withe lighter colors accross the rest of his hide. His tail his abnormally short but that really dosn't affect his dooty as a swifted. The swifted are lightly-built warriors who make heavy use of toxins and stimulants which they are capable of creating on thier own they are also trained athletes whos training focuses on agility. they  have police level training with firearms/lazerguns/whatever they use instead of firearms/lazer guns

Species:the terravores are a race of bipedial bovine like aliens with an elabrate caste system. They are also highly advanced in the field of chemistry and surprisingly predominantly believe in magic  their home planet is reasorse poor but they make up for it by having an extremely efficient government. Their castes are determined by lineage , astrological events , and a test they take when they are six

Edit:bovine-like aliens not bovine
Also note posting from kindle which is not a fire I found a web browser for it but it dosn't have spell check I will try to fix them my self although I am not to good at spelling

[~Neri]

I recommend running that through a spellcheck.

[WillowLuman]

One quibble: bovine-like aliens, not bovines. Well, other quibbles besides, like formatting (skills/abilities needs to be its own section) and what he's doing on this expedition.

[WillowLuman]

ONE MORE THING

I realize I overlooked FTL in this setting. It leans towards hard sci-fi, but as in many settings its a necessary convention. So let's say there's a method, but it requires accelerating to relativistic speeds first, and a bunch of additional energy once those speeds are reached. It takes the form of warping.

[kj1225]

Spoiler: Done (click to show/hide)

Name:  Indigo Diadem
Gender: Female
Race:  Bond-Hearts. A race who bonds with other races native to their planet. They under go two unique changes when their partner dies and they become adults. The first is they develop a certain love for what killed their bond-mate that borders on self-destructive. The second is they take on prominent features of their bond-mate's species, such as aquatic bond-mates giving their bond-heart aquatic features. Indigo's bondmate was a variety of giant flying lizard that can breath fire. Indigo has since gained a scaly red hide on parts of her body, claws, clawed digitrade feet, and the ability to sip small amounts of what we would compare to Wildfire.

Traits:  Positively axe crazy and tough enough to back it up. A neat master of inducing fear and fighting in close range combat. Can spit a sticky fire like substance.
Doesn't back down until almost dead or taking heavy losses. Refuses to fight with anything except her specialty shotgunwhich is seen below.

Skills:  Maintaining weapons, making ammos of many ages, expert on foreign cultures and impressively quick at learning new languages and cultures.

Spoiler: Picture of Indigo while handling the third unbonded revolt in Stonehearth (click to show/hide)

How about I take care of protecting the ship eh?