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[Smoke Mirrors]

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Name: Experiment AV410N (James Avalon)  (Code Name: Expher)
Race: Biological Anomaly
Department: Night Raider, main ship or off ship cycle branch (sometimes on ship missions, sometimes going for attacking others.
Role: Operative
Skill: Pre-Designed Genetic Code (His DNA is designed to make him the perfect being, it didn't work right, however, it did make him equally good looking and hard to distinguish in a crowd, with a talent for lying and controlling his body mechanisms, slowing or speeding up heart rate, holding his breath for a long time, and playing dead, as well as some more interesting powers, such as controlling skin pigmentation, night vision, infrared vision, and ultraviolet vision as well as the ability to make parts of his body glow (Also whatever further mutation I can somehow make work in my favor.) As such, he decided to model himself after action movie spies (James Bond, The Kingsman, etc.) and joined the Night Raiders (for the stealth and espionage, not because he dislikes the main ship).
Liability: Unstable Genetics (As a result of the experimentation, his DNA is unstable and prone to spontaneous mutations at the worst times, such as his skin starting to glow blue in the middle of a stealth mission)

Before it was properly managed, citizen genetic manipulation had a thriving black market, for everyone who came to an official business asking for a different hair color, there was a criminal who wanted his eyes to become the same as a guard's so he could fool a retinal scan. In the center of both, was the hopes of creating a super soldier, but while the proper market worked with volunteers and safeguards, the black market worked with kidnaping and and no ethics. That is what happened to John Avalon, back when he was a lowly street urchin without a name. He was captured and experimented on, leaving him with an unstable genetic code and multiple new abilities. Eventually, he used his new abilities to escape and join the Night Raiders, however, he took part in a special branch that deals with unsavory activity on the home ship, including his favorite mission, shutting down the very people who experimented on him in his youth.

Spoiler: RAV SA-1 Valravn (click to show/hide)

A cross breed vessel, a mix between a raider and a survey ship, with the speed and sensors of the latter, and the attack speed and weaponry of the former. It can hold multiple passengers and quite a bit of gear, and has the basic NR color scheme of black with silver stars along with whatever other patterns you want in dark colors, in this case those being near invisible ravens and knights in dark grey. It's vaguely raven shaped.

Fight the pirates.

Get Amelia's ship and my ships repaired (including the pirate ships I want to turn into new NR ships) and get myself some medical attention.

[Tyrant Leviathan]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 Gumo, Jordti inventor

Project: Dust Drivers: in progress. -2.

While onboa d does new experiments.


True wireless access across space ship

Reactive material to divide and get new chips by nano divisions n. Due to lack of materials.

[Madman198237]

Spoiler: Eglan Bregedúr, Mad Scientist (click to show/hide)

Name: Eglan Bregedúr
Race: Human
Dept: Randiri Department of Scientific Advancement (Covers all scientific projects undertaken in order to preserve the nation (i.e., preserve the ships) and also....advance science)
Role: Mad Scientist/Does-Everything-Scientist
Skill: Mad !!SCIENCE!!---Does extremely good work with inventing in general...although, he's military, and most of his inventions tend to involve things going boom...or otherwise causing indiscriminate damage to the surrounding area.
Going to go out on a limb and suggest my character has basic experience/competence with all weapons and starships, as his job revolves around making the things.
Liability: He's a little prone to overambition. As in, he will sometimes massively-overkill and/or continue working on projects that are, by others' reckoning, finished. However, when he gets something done, it works really well.

Spoiler: The RFS Unadvisable Pursuit (click to show/hide)

A custom mad-science vessel if ever there was one, this freighter grew old in the hands of a rich trader not too interested in upkeep. It was saved from the scrap processors, however, when it was decided that the more...volatile experiments carrier out by scientists ought to be done elsewhere. It is almost seven hundred meters long, and is outfitted with research labs, vehicle manufactories, workshops galore, and plenty of materials, as well as bank of mining lasers and equipment.

Spoiler: Project (click to show/hide)

Arc Cannon: Ship-disabling electricity/electron strike weapon. Fires electrons at a hostile ship, like a super-powered lightning strike, that temporarily disables almost any electronics, rendering a ship very vulnerable to boarding.
     Modifiers: -3 due to difficulty, +1 for a single experimental success
TOTAL: -2

To the other assistants: "Well, umm, yes, that can happen. Somebody get that man's body over to Medical, please. Heh. At least we figured out that the ditanium works pretty well for this. Would've been bad if we had to start competing with Glass over the transfite stores or something... Get on comms with the Fleet, the Diplomatic Department, and the Night Raiders, see if there's anything they need from . If not, I'll be prepping Bay 11."
Eglan preps Bay 11 with LOTS of insulation, and sets up his array of monitoring devices. (Experiment in preparation for the project, will do next turn, most likely)
Attempt another miniaturized version, but use it against a nonliving target, and by remotely pulling the trigger.

[Sudurandom]

Spoiler: Tav Kelleran (click to show/hide)

Name:Tav Kelleran
Race:Human
Department:The Diplomatic Corps
Role:Operative
Skill:Charm, bribery, and intimidation "Trade"
Liability:Memorable
Tav is skilled at convincing people to do what he wants(e.g. not bothering to search that crate of "perfectly legal spare parts") He uses this and other methods to expedite the transport of personnel and cargo that would otherwise be delayed at customs.

Ship:The Starfarer
Class:Smuggler Courier
A small fast ship capable of rough field landings. It is configured to carry small high value cargoes or a few passengers.

Goal:
Tav attempts to discreetly make black market contacts on the dominions non-capital world(marien 6?).

Preparations:
The Starfarer will try to appear to be an independent trader.(Is it possible to jump out and back in from a different direction to be seen ariving separately from the fleet?)

If it's authorized, bring some generic trade goods to sell as cover.

[chubby2man]

Turn two
Saraket: Shields, no negative modifier. Experiment of testing materials :2 You test various materials for shields,but upon discovering a great material that could be used for shields (you decide), an excited flap of your wings sends a fusion generator flying and before you know it there is a minor explosion and the material you need is all destroyed. But at least you know what it is! (A rare metal or nonmetal.) Still +0 towards the invention, but you have a greater chance of a successful experiment.

Admiral Katsuo: -3  to ceasefire negotiations due to hostilities and the boarding of their battlecruiser. What do you offer them, what are your bargaining points? (Will take at least 3 good ones, but more than that will give you bonus points to negotiations.

Captain Deepbloom: Your transmission reaches the Hera, and that data is sent over. A response is received. “Excellent work, Captain! There is going to be a medal in this for you! For now, don’t move on the pirate base, President wants to know what is going on around the rebel planet. Leave a survey ship to keep tabs on the pirates, however.

Gumo: First experiment: 6 (giving you +2) You manage to create a true wireless signal in between the rudimentary “nanocomputers you have made so far. Total modifier for nano counters: 0
Do you decide to create the first version of nano computers, or continue with an experiment?

Eglan: First experiment: 1 Upon entering Bay 11, you are greeted with sight of instead of a fully insulated room, one that has been fully stripped of any and all kind of insulation. Your assistants can offer no explanation except that he must have misheard you.
2nd experiment: 3+1=4 You decide anyways to test another miniature version against a mechanical dummy. Using very small amount of ditanium, you put model of the gun onto a model ship, and fired. It worked out pretty well, frying the wiring of the dummy, but it required a lot of power to do so. Probably too much for a handheld version unless you try to pursue cutting down the power requirements later. +1 to your project.

Tav Kelleran: You make a few jumps to make sure that no one connects you to the Randiri fleet. When you jump in and make your way to Marien VI, (5) no one questions your story of being an independent trader. When you land at the main port of Marien VI, in the city of New Ridgem you attempt to make contacts with with the local black market. (6+1). Which you easily do. You are quickly brought to the local crime boss, who seems eager to make trades and is excited to make a contact with a someone with has a fast ship. You (and the fleet) gain a bonus of +10 to “shady” or exotic goods.

James Avalon: Back at the Hera, you make plans to fight the pirates. The first step to doing that is getting your ship repaired. You fill out the necessary forms, and the shipyards of the Hera are set to work on the Valravn, using 750 units of metal and 450 inorganic material. It will be ready by next week (next turn).
How do you bring the fight to the pirates?

Amelia: You are able to have a quick repair of the Tiamat done at the cost of 250 metal, and 125 inorganic material. Total material costs so far are 1000 metal and 600 inorganic to repair the ships. Due to Tav Kelleran’s efforts you are able to send an unmarked cargo ship to Marien VI to trade (20,000 units space). You can get material worth up to +20 for “free”, due to your IC worth, but any higher than that costs 1 IC per each 10 points.

Yzari Redbranch: You organize your troops, and order them to prepare traps throughout the ship. (6) Your men take to the action, with gusto, organizing mines, tripwires, killzones. When the enemy comes, they will be in a world of hurt.
 
(6+2) The Dominion marines come in waves from their boarding ships, only to be cut down by cleverly hidden machine gun nest. They attempt to flank the nests, only to blown apart by explosive mines. Once they clear the mines with enough bodies, they enter the machine gun nests only to find them empty, and a proximity mine. The Dominion marines only make it halfway through the traps your men have set up, and having lost hundreds of men, they have no heart to continue any further. They withdraw to the docking bays, terrified and much reduced in number, leaving behind scores of bodies.

The command crew you brought over from the frigate tells you that they can redirect power to either the weapons or the engines. What do you choose, and where do you go?

Admiral Marloss: Once you are boarded, you give the order to surrender the ship. Dominion marines round up the surviving crew members and bring them to the docking bay. You and your command staff are then boarded aboard a shuttle, destined for the capital planet.

[Glass]

Refined Amathysts (sufficiently rare? If not, purple sapphires)

Let's try V1.

[Khan Boyzitbig]

Spoiler: character sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Karlos Deepbloom
Race: Human
Dept: Recon and Exploration (we need scouts for the fleet)
Role: Explorer Captain (has some scientific and experimental aspects)
Skill: Tinkering (will modify anything and everything, whether it needs it or not. Will make odd stuff too)
Liability: Cannot retreat (Sometimes this is good, but it does mean he will fight to the death when unnecessary, he can hit and run but won't flee from the fight)
Forces under Command: 1 cruiser "Erikson", 3 survey ships

Spoiler:  Exploration cruiser "Erikson" (click to show/hide)

 A large cruiser whose bow bristles with scanner arrays and other systems. Large internal cargo bays allow for prolonged travel and a considerable amount of care is taken in providing crew amenities. As a warship she is undergunned and underarmoured for her size but not hugely, primary weapons consist of large railguns in oddly spiky turrets with additional ballistic and railgun weapons for closer engagements. Numerous scars crisscross the hull that tell of hard fought battles, there is also some evidence of reentry burns on the bow. The bridge appears to not belong to the ship originally.

"Acknowledged tac-comm, heading for rebel space and keeping a local eye, Deepbloom out."
"Deepbloom to recon 3, stick here and watch the pirates, stay out of trouble okay? Rest of you follow me, lets see what 7 holds."

The Erikson and two survey ships head to the Rebel world, the Erikson ceases battlestations when the pirates are no longer in sensor range, one survey ship remains watching the pirates.
Upon arrival around Marien VII start scanning for any hostiles and proceed towards the planet with caution but not hostility, if hailed reply with a statement that we come in peace and were interested in local news amongst other things.

[Tyrant Leviathan]

( Go for creating the prototype)


Gumo crackles madly as hovering wireless computers hover the engine bay (attempt it. Gotta see how this works.)

[Blood_Librarian]

Act diplomatically, hope i don't get prosecuted for being made of metal.

Spoiler:  Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name: Bar'Quaria Marloss
Race: Hanarian
Dept: Navy
Role: Admiral, prefers having their own capital ship, but optional.
Skill:
~Augmented Fleet Command: A masterful tactician with a masterful set of implants, enabling them to coordinate their ships in a fashion impossible by most sentients.
Liability:
~Sensitive Implants: Prone to both damage of the digital variety and of the bludgeoning variety to brain case. They don't really "show" in terms of visual looks unless you notice the port on their spine though, most of it is internalized into the Hanarians body.
Forces Under Command: RNV Sinkable, 1 Cruiser, 2 Frigates.
Bar'Quaria stands at an imposing (for his species) 5'9.  However, he is broad-shouldered and very well built, just like the rest of his species. his skin is a fair purple, his eyes beady and black-purple, they almost reflect the light. It is obvious from the way he stands that he must be some sort of authority figure.

If he were to take his excellent set of torso coverings, one would not the metal and implants that cover his spine, ending with a single port on the base of his spine, which can be connected any technology that has a port.

Bar'Quaria Marloss is the admiral of a small fleet of ships, no then a single cruiser, and two frigates while commanding his own Battle Cruiser, the RNV Sinkable.

Spoiler: RNV Sinkable (click to show/hide)

It is notable for being the singular ship salvaged straight from an abandoned shipyard of a dying star system. It was supposed to be a ship of unheralded power with the theoretical ability to supposedly glass planets, but the reality comes far short. The laser that at one point spanned end to end of the ship is now only up to the exterior portions of the front due to the extensive remodeling in its recent past, it could barely pierce an atmosphere now, nevermind scar continents. the rest of the ship did not fare as well in the process of completing it with inferior technology. its other weapons are standard, or even worse than the rest of the fleet, but it is made up for that with ample internal space for ground side operational assets, and is the designated orbital presence, the recovered blueprints even note that the ship could freely enter and exit a Terran Atmosphere if a retrofit on its engines are completed.

the RNV Sinkable is a Siege Cruiser, the main gun could fire upon ships, but it is not as likely to hit as its deck guns. Its main weapon can act as a tactical or strategic strike weapon against planets, but it would be left vulnerable when doing such acts due to its immense power draw. it has ample space for the deployment of ground assets. the space that was once used by its laser was replaced with the support structure and hangar space, in various forms to relieve the otherwise horrific logistical strain that maintaining such a war machine would have.

RNV sinkable may be FUBAR

[VoidSlayer]

Spoiler: Yzari (click to show/hide)

Name: Yzari "Plasteel" Redbranch
Race: Tarn
Department: The Randiri Skyjumpers
Role: Operative/soldier
Skill: Piloting, hand to hand, heavy weapons, tactical/squad leadership - Focus on heavy weapons

Liability: Royal Honor - Believes that the strong should protect the weak, and in turn be given places of deference and power.  Of course Yzari and Tarn in general are particularly worthy in his eyes.

Technoglitched - Yzari loves technology and science, he just does not really understand any of it.  Penalty to using any alien, unusual or unfamiliar technology.  Most standard technology he would equip do not get the penalty as using them has been explained repeatedly with big pictures.  Newly developed tech might lose the penalty after repeated use.

All we did was trade battlecruisers, we need to make them really hurt.  All power to weapons!

Goal: Attempt to destroy the enemy cruisers and frigates nearby.

Attack as soon as possible to prevent the enemy ships from retreating.  Use missiles on the frigates and the ship's main cannons to destroy one of the cruisers.

Secure boarding craft before all of the enemy escape for future use by the skyjumpers.

[Madman198237]

Spoiler: Eglan Bregedúr, Mad Scientist (click to show/hide)

Name: Eglan Bregedúr
Race: Human
Dept: Randiri Department of Scientific Advancement (Covers all scientific projects undertaken in order to preserve the nation (i.e., preserve the ships) and also....advance science)
Role: Mad Scientist/Does-Everything-Scientist
Skill: Mad !!SCIENCE!!---Does extremely good work with inventing in general...although, he's military, and most of his inventions tend to involve things going boom...or otherwise causing indiscriminate damage to the surrounding area.
Going to go out on a limb and suggest my character has basic experience/competence with all weapons and starships, as his job revolves around making the things.
Liability: He's a little prone to overambition. As in, he will sometimes massively-overkill and/or continue working on projects that are, by others' reckoning, finished. However, when he gets something done, it works really well.

Spoiler: The RFS Unadvisable Pursuit (click to show/hide)

A custom mad-science vessel if ever there was one, this freighter grew old in the hands of a rich trader not too interested in upkeep. It was saved from the scrap processors, however, when it was decided that the more...volatile experiments carrier out by scientists ought to be done elsewhere. It is almost seven hundred meters long, and is outfitted with research labs, vehicle manufactories, workshops galore, and plenty of materials, as well as bank of mining lasers and equipment.

Spoiler: Project (click to show/hide)

Arc Cannon: Ship-disabling electricity/electron strike weapon. Fires electrons at a hostile ship, like a super-powered lightning strike, that temporarily disables almost any electronics, rendering a ship very vulnerable to boarding.
     Modifiers: -3 due to difficulty, +2 for two experimental successes.
TOTAL: -1

Alrighty then. Since B11 just got entirely uninsulated, move to Bay 12 and get it right. Full insulation and assemble a ship mockup, simulating armor, electronic shielding, etc. Or just grab a suitable piece of scrapped frigate, if we have one of those lying around.
Then, it's time to get this project moving. Set up a prototype and zap the target.

[Taricus]

Admiral Katsuo attempts to negotiate a peace treaty & reparations for the damages caused by the dominion on the Randiri fleet including the mutual transfer of prisoners and for the dominion to pay for the repairs and/or replacement of any Randiri ships damaged in the skirmish. The following points being used to help his argument for such:

• Firstly, the Randiri fleet has reinforcements arriving right now; the scattered dominion task forces likely needing more time to intercept meaning that we have the military advantage in the engagement in both ships and marines. Furthermore, the Randiri fleet has more ships it can commit to the fight if necessary.
• Secondly, the Admiral notes that he is perfectly willing to instead direct this force at the rebels, particularly if the Dominion was to bankroll the repairs for the siege cruiser after returning it to the Randiri fleet; it's unlikely the rebels have as much military strength as the dominion and the vessel would be perfectly suited to annihilating the chain of command for the rebels. While the dominion could use it, the time it would take the dominion to train a crew up would cost them the advantage of surprise with the vessel.
• Thirdly, it seems as if the Dominion battlecruiser has been boarded by Randiri marines and have failed to capture it. An agreement to return the ship can be reached if a ceasefire or peace treaty is established.
• Lastly, a certain bit of verifiable information has been reported back to Katsuo, information which if the empire received would almost certainly anger them immensely. If the dominion would rather not have this information reach the empire they had best offer some rather... favourable terms to the Randiri as failure to do so means that the empire would have to intervene. Hinted at is the fact that the data is not just within the Randiri military and should something cause peace talks to break down, the empire is going to know exactly what the dominion is up to.

[VoidSlayer]

A message reaches Admiral Katsuo from the bridge of the captured battle cruiser.

We are currently attempting to cripple the remaining forces, after which we will demand surrender of the remaining cruiser and return of the "Sinkable".  The outcome is uncertain but current Skyjumper doctrine would be to destroy the "Sinkable" if possible, when in position to do so, as it is both damaged and in the hands of the enemy.  Any change in circumstances. such as a cease fire, should be broadcast to us immediately, as we are currently operating under total war tactics.

The Skyjumper troops and ship officers will follow any orders to stand down in the event of a cease fire.

[Smoke Mirrors]

Get all NR ships in position for launch and attack on the pirate base, but wait for the conclusion of diplomatic affairs with the Dominion before launch.

[chubby2man]

Captain Deepbloom:
   Sensor report of Marien VII. Dominion battlecruiser Agoniser in orbit above planet, complement of 4 cruisers and 6 frigates. There are a few wreckages in orbit around the planet as well. They are formed into a blockade pattern above the planet. There is a large station above the planet, with a shipyard constructing 2 cruiser sized vessels, and numerous ports. The moon has no atmosphere, but appears to have a base on it.
   Marien VII itself is mostly water, dotted with islands with one large continent, where most of the population lives. Great cities and factories sprawl over the countryside, but great fires burn across the planet, most likely from the fires of war.
While watching, the battle cruiser with 3 cruisers and 2 frigates break off and make way to leave the gravity well of the planet, in the general direction of the capital planet.
As it appears the ships around the planet are potentially hostile, your ships wait for further instructions. Do you go in closer for more information?

Admiral Katsuo:
3:
The negotiations go fairly well. You are connected straight to the Circle of the Emperor, and they agree to a ceasefire. They also agree to hand over the captives, as long as you release their battlecruiser and all aboard. They also ask for a confirmation on the data, but they assure you that if you have the data that you say they have, they will surely offer many credits once you leave the system.
Your fleet enters the gravity well, and you broadcast the ceasefire to all Randiri forces. Fighting stops, and you bring the process of getting all the the Skyjumpers and crew members aboard.  The Goulden Empire fleet, a cruiser and 2 frigates, come and enforce the ceasefire. However, the Dominion is moving slowly, and the frigate that boarded the Sinkable is still attached to it.

You then receive a communication from the Sinkable. One of the crew members escaped, and retrieved comms equipment. He reports that the Dominion are attempting to hack into the Sinkable data system, and are torturing crew members to get the system open. You ask for more detail, but the transmission is cut off.

Yzari:
   You and your men prepare for leaving the boarded cruiser, but await for final confirmation before abandoning your defensive positions.

Eglan:
Your assistant, successfully this time, turns the hold into a mockup for the arc cannon. +1 on the roll, leaving total modifier of 0.
   You assemble the prototype, using ditanium to craft the weapon, and hooking up the weapon to the ship’s main power core. 
(6) Which works beautifully. Describe the effects of the weapon, and which class of ship it is (mainly) designed for.

Gumo: Total modifier for nanocomputers: 0
Roll ( 2). Unfortunately, the nanocomputers didn’t turn out like you wanted. Pick one

A.You made minicomputers, not significantly smaller than what is already available, but they run better than anything you got in the fleet.
B. You made very rudimentary nanocomputers, they can do basic math. Assemble them into the size of a regular computer and… well they can match its speed.
C. You somehow transferred you consciousness into a small packet of nanocomputers. All of your mental facilities are still intact, but if you add more nanocomputers your abilities will expand greatly. Which might be difficult considering your body is lying dormant just a few meters away, comatose.

James Avalon: Your ships are reported reay, and your flagship is quickly repaired, though a bit understaffed. You fly out in direction of the pirate base, ready to wreck your revenge. What ships do you bring, and what is your battle plan?

Saraket: Sadly due to your… accident, all the refined amethysts were destroyed. While you wait for your shipment, what do you work on?