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[wipeout1024]

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Name: Amaani Warsame Jama
Role: Astrogator
Personality: Amaani tends to be quite optimistic, and tries to look at the bright side of life. however, her determination often leads to stubborn, and hardheadedness. She also loves variety, and thinks it is the spice of life. Also, she has quite a short temper, and gets angry easily. Her time in prison has made her a bit more jaded, but overall, she still tries to see the best in everyone.
Biography: Amaani grew up in a lower-class family of Somali descent, but her childhood experiences were fairly positive, as her large family had learned to get by on what they had. After high school, Amaani took on a number of odd jobs on ships, and eventually, this lead her to become a astrogator for a smuggler ship. When they were raided, Amaani was arrested, and spent a few years in a prison cell. Since being released, she's trying to find any job, preferably on a ship. When she heard of the TMV Wilhelmina, she jumped at the chance to have work, on a ship again.

Is this good?

[Pencil_Art]

I think I'll join. Sheet in coming soon.

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Name: Svera, Thomas
Role: Roboticist & Technician

Personality: Thomas enjoys the company of machinery, speaking to unresponsive machines impulsively and repairing anything urgently, being a perfectionist. He does not often talk to others though, on the grounds that humans are incredibly unpredictable. At least he knows where a conversation is going when he's talking to a robot. He tends to hang about on the edges of conversations, listening to snippets, and he works better alone, or with comrades he can absolutely trust to have the obedience of a robot computer. He enjoys working with robots, specializing them and making them better at their job. However, humans can only specialize so much.

Biography: Thomas was born to a relatively wealthy family, in one of the systems closer to Earth, humanity's origin planet. He showed an amazing affinity for maths, though he did not do exceptionally well in subjects related to social activities. He also picked up programming and computer sciences relatively quickly and managed to learn the makings of many of the various models of robots. However, his family was later killed by a score shock event that devastated many countries in a select radius on his home planet. Orphaned, though by no means unable to help himself, he began working for one of the mega robot producing corporations, specializing in designing and prototyping robots. However, he has always found the sitting in an office kind of work exceedingly dull. It was for this reason that he became a to be known as one of the most reliable roboticits around. However, things started to go downhill when a ship he was working for was captured by pirates, who forced him to work for them. A couple of Earth days later, though, several law-enforcement ships came to strafe the pirate ship. It was then that the pirates started putting Thomas's prototyped robots to the task of destroying the police force. In the end, Thomas was forced to pay most of the fee for damages caused by his own robots, only a minimal amount subtracted for not having been the one to use them. He comes aboard the ship in hopes of paying off his debts, and escaping from it all.

Going to go for either a medic or a roboticist.

[Ama]

Spoiler: Toby Grant (click to show/hide)

Name: Toby "Ash" Grant
Role:Medic
Personality: An all around easy going guy. He is a bit of a pacifist and prefers to talk through problems rather than use force. He really loves nature and will decorate wherever he is working with pictures of landscape and animals.
Biography: Born to a middle class family, as a teenager Toby, like most of his class mates, joined the new revival of the 60`s way of thought that was going on. After being arrested for "Protesting the Man", he decided he was fed up with his planet and there oppressive, restrictive government. Now a young adult, he heard about this offer and knew this was his chance to leave "Leave the Man behind" and escape to the stars.

[Cheesecake]

Spoiler: Riley "Chainsaw" Sawyer (click to show/hide)

Name: Sawyer, Riley
Role: Head Security Officer
Personality: Sour and bitter, with an aftertaste making you come back for more. The only thing he likes more than booze, brawling and bad jokes is cooking, and that's pretty much it. If he isn't doing one of those four things, he's probably sulking or yelling at some poor 'bot while he's drunk.
Biography:
He was once a sergeant aboard a military vessel, drilling his squad, drinking booze and gazing into space. Not much ever happened. The only real action he ever saw was a fight between a lieutenant and a warrant officer, which got the former locked up for a while. Deciding the army life wasn't what it was cut out to be, he decided to try pirating and finally see some action (though he was hired as their cook). Chainsaw was the nickname he got from the crew, for his last name and his voice, which sounds like the roaring of a chainsaw. That didn't turn out so well either. The crew mostly just did the same things the army did. Ironically it was the army who got them in an ambush and landed Chainsaw in a cell with the same lieutenant from earlier.

Little did he know his cell-mate would become the owner of the TMV Wilhelmina, and was more importantly looking for a crew. Finally out of jail and having no other place that would hire a deserter and an ex-pirate, he turned to Blackjack for a spot in his crew and a chance to actually have the adventure he dreamed of.

EDIT: Changed role to just Head Security Officer.

[Parsely]

You're supposed to take out the brackets when you fill in the sheet goofballs.

Cheesecake: 3 words at most for your role.

Shadestyle: there's not much use for a dedicated janitor on a ship that only has 6 people on it. Everyone just does chores when they're not doing their special job. Or you can just make the GP bot do it.

Ama: you should pick a more specific and useful role if you want to get hired.

You Captains don't need to make your role "captain" but that's alright if you want to.

[Dutrius]

Spoiler: Peter, Williams (click to show/hide)

Name:Peter, Williams
Role:Engine Officer
Personality:Down-to-earth, straight forward sort of guy. He enjoys keeping reactors running correctly, randomly strumming on an acoustic guitar, the occasional drop of cider, drinking tea, and watching his robotic goldfish.
He does not like people who are arseholes for no real reason, obnoxious music, cats, smoking and reactors that are on fire, melting down, leaking, etc.
Biography:From a working class family of miners and engineers from a town in New Yorkshire, New London, Peter didn't get much of a formal education. Instead he got an apprenticeship in reactor maintenance at a nearby nuclear plant. He was good at his job, and got transferred to a maintenance job on New London's Powersat, where he worked for ten years both running and repairing the main reactors. He eventually left because his boss was an arsehole for no real reason. In addition to his ID chip, Peter has a basic Maths implant, to assist in making calculations necessary for maintaining reactors.

Peter applied to join the Wilhelmina because he was out of a job. Besides, someone needs to keep the reactor in order.

[Shadestyle]

Is there any use for a commercial mechanic? The idea is that he can fix most anything, outside of things like the engines and life support. If not, I'll rework it.

[Parsely]

Is there any use for a commercial mechanic? The idea is that he can fix most anything, outside of things like the engines and life support. If not, I'll rework it.

The only things on the ship that need special knowledge to maintain are the engines and the robots, so yeah a sort of general mechanic would be useful. Of course anyone on a ship will have some basic maintenance skills but a skilled ship technician would be able to diagnose and fix problems around the ship very quickly and easily. And because you have a foundation of mechanical knowledge that means that if the roboticist or the nuclear engineer have free time on their hands you can even cross-train to learn the basics of their trade.

If you guys have ideas for other kinds of implants and roles you'd like I'm open to suggestions. In general just go nuts while keeping in mind the practical needs of a crew in space as well as your Captain. I'll be sure to tell you if you're out of line, and I'll always be adding things to the Tech spoiler to improve understanding of the setting; answering questions is a pleasure and helps tell me what I need to tell you.

[Comatose]

Here's my character sheet, feel free to tell me what you think:

Spoiler: Arneaux Greek (click to show/hide)

Name: Greek, Arneaux

Role: Ship's Accountant

Personality: Cocky and high-strung, Arneaux always tries to come out on top. When under pressure, he will try to avoid his problems. Arneaux believes that almost any situation can be resolved logically.

Biography: Born 8 years after his older brother, Arneaux Greek is a short, 32-year-old man with a pale complexion. An Investment Banker of middling talent, Arneaux barely scraped together an Honours degree from the Planetary University for Accounting and Buisness. He has a finance-specialized mathematics implant in addition to his standard ID chip. He worked at ValueLife^TM Multinational until a narcotic and alcohol fueled downward spiral ended with Arneaux alienating almost everyone in his personal life, he decided that shipping out would be the smoothest buisness opportunity. Arneaux applied to be a crewmember when he saw that Gemrit Shipyards mortgaged the TMV Wilhelmina to the Captain, hoping to find work now that more reputable companies won't touch him with a 10 metre pole.

Some more questions to the GM(s):

• Is Void•Black a d20 system, pure roleplay or something else entirely?
• How does conflict resolution work?
• Could Player Characters buy and benefit from planetside assets?
• Is there a numerical value for how much debt the Wilhelmina incurred? (Or will that be determined at a later point?)
• Could a VRO be attached to someone's optical nerve instead of removing the eyeball?

[Cheesecake]

GUNIN: Would cybernetic arms and legs fit in with this universe? Or do they still use prosthetic ones? And would we be able to hire some NPC mook crew-members later on in the game? Just in case we needed the extra muscle for a delivery or something.

[Parsely]

• Is Void•Black a d20 system, pure roleplay or something else entirely?
• How does conflict resolution work?
• Could Player Characters buy and benefit from planetside assets?
• Is there a numerical value for how much debt the Wilhelmina incurred? (Or will that be determined at a later point?)
• Could a VRO be attached to someone's optical nerve instead of removing the eyeball?

- Freeform roleplay. It's not freeform I'm still controlling the outcomes and telling you what happens. There just isn't any RNG. Your actions have logical consequences and conflicts are character-driven.
- If you're in a hand fight in engineering and you have a history of being punchy in bars and your opponent is a pasty white nerd, you probably win. If he has a 40 kilowatt hand laser plugged into a wall socket you're toast. Then there are lots of in-betweens that involve struggles and it'll be left up to circumstance to decide a battle. Interpersonal conflicts like arguments are entirely left up to you to resolve, there's no Speech stat. You'll win if you're eloquent, or you know somebody, or you have something they want, or you have more guns than they do. There will be planned storylines and there will be random events. I'm not using tables or generators for anything.
- Sure. Your contract with the Captain lasts at least a year (with option for renewal) but you still spend lots of time dirtside. Trips could take a few months, then when you get to your destination you spend a few weeks selling your payload and buying more, then you take off and do it again. Owning a business or doing long distance freelance work like writing or making art is conducive to the spaceman's lifestyle. Even with only 6 people on the ship there's a lot of downtime.
- The Wilhelmina's nuclear drive alone costs a few hundred million dollars. Adding in initial costs of fuel, remass, the bots, cargo modules, dry food, water for drinking, coolant and plumbing, spare parts, tools and crew wages, the Captain has a depressing amount of debt. Over a half a billion dollars. How much of that remains to be paid depends on the Captain's background. A reduction of a hundred million dollars to account for some time spent trading before the events of the game or money spent out of pocket is the most I'll tolerate otherwise it interferes with the motivation for the story. Give us the girl and wipe away the debt.
- Impossible I'm afraid. If nanoscopic electronics like that existed people would just use removable contacts for VROs.

GUNIN: Would cybernetic arms and legs fit in with this universe? Or do they still use prosthetic ones?

And would we be able to hire some NPC mook crew-members later on in the game? Just in case we needed the extra muscle for a delivery or something.

Cybernetic prosthetics are not uncommon. Not quite as good as a human arm but you can live perfectly normally with a cyber limb; they only require periodic maintenance. A traditional prosthetic would be much cheaper of course at the price of comfort.

Only if the Captain wanted to. He's already got to split his profits with 5 other people (which is only the third biggest reason why you want to keep the crew of a rocket small small small). In the event of equal shares (unlikely given the Captain is the owner), I don't think any of you would be keen on having all of your wages reduced by 16% just to have a bit of "muscle". Just buy more robots. They're cheaper than people in the long term and they can't complain unless you program them to (and why ever would you want to do that).

[Cheesecake]

They can't complain unless you program them to (and why ever would you want to do that).

Because sassy robots are fun

Just a few more questions (can't help it. World building is fun.):
If there aren't any rolls or anything, since this is freeform roleplay, what if the roboticist wanted to create some sort of utility droid in addition to the bots we have on our ship? How would the quality or even success be determined? (I'm assuming that we can just RP in making the robot, but I'm not sure if you have a system for stuff like this.)

The OP says that the Sol System is the only one with multiple major colonies. So, does the Wilhelmina have to jump systems (probably not, since that'll last more than a year, and that's our contract length) or are there plenty of minor colonies scattered around the other systems (and what size would they be?)

[Comatose]

The OP says that the Sol System is the only one with multiple major colonies. So, does the Wilhelmina have to jump systems (probably not, since that'll last more than a year, and that's our contract length) or are there plenty of minor colonies scattered around the other systems (and what size would they be?)

I was interpreting that Sol is the only system with colonies with populations over 100,000 people. So the Wilhelmina would be bringing supplies to research stations, military outposts and the like. (And bringing any valuable trade goods back to the major colony)

[SOLDIER First]

Spoiler: Slŕine, Letitia (click to show/hide)

Name: Slŕine, Letitia

Role: Medical Doctor

Personality: Letitia is all heart and very focused on her job. To her, it's all about helping, but she can get too trustworthy at times and is a little naive (except about her job. Never about her job.)

Biography: Letitia grew up simply and peacefully in the Marlowe colony all her life. Once she was of age, Letitia took classes and worked very hard at a great university for several years to earn a degree in the field of medicine, as she had decided at childhood. After graduation, Letitia got a job for a few years at a local medical center and was happy. But... it wasn't enough, after a while. She wanted to try something new. To adventure (safely) out and see what the vastness of space had to offer. While getting a position on a small transport craft wasn't completely what the 30-year-old had had in mind, it was a good start, so she sent her resume out in the hopes of landing the job.

_{sorry, Kevak, I stole what you had in mind again (possibly)}

[~Neri]

((Nowhere near what I had in mind actually. I'll write my character up in a few days, I'm gonna be rather busy till saturday.))