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[mainiac]

Well, these are desperate, fearful times...and desperation and fear have caused no shortage of Human sorrow.

Yes, but the point is that there's still hope in the colonies.  The earth has gone to hell and those with hope are the minority.  In the colonies, there's still time for puppies and rainbows and people still love apple pie and democracy.

[Ghazkull]

I hope i'm not to late....

Name: Svart Houling

Age: 27

Any important physical characteristics: rather tall, muscular but not very outstanding figure. One green eye, the other one has a reddish tint clearly showing its cybernetic use. It's used as a thermal scanner,binocular and for detecting lifesigns. his pale skin and short cropped blond hair mark him out as ne born on the northern parts of the Moon.

Describe something special about your character: Svart seems cold almost withdrawn from society, reacting to only to the propsect of bloodshed with outbursts of glee. He has a very sarcastic demeanor and mostly keeps to himself. Has a habit of scratching his neck when nervous or getting anxious.

What your character does for a living: Svart is currently looking for a new employer who needs someone  specialized in the destroying of worker uprisings,intimidation(of the violent kind) and what in his business is called "After-Party-Clean-Team".

Where your character is from and a touch of background:

Svart was born in the Northern Part of the Moon, son of a middle class mine prospector and later overseer. His mother died early in an mining accident driving his father to nigh-madness. He began to drink and in his drunken stupors quite often beat his son up not remembering anything. Svart knowing of his fathers grief and problems decided to not tell him anything of this as his father couldn't bear knowing that he beat up his loved son. Even at very young age Svart began to work in his free time in the mine of his father and learned to hate the crude and brutish mine workers who hated him for his inheritance. He saw his share of their drinking, brawling and the one or another quite illegal pit-fight who only increased his hate for the miners. After School he joined the Lunar Armed Forces only to learn that his superior was another of those brutes. He quickly left the army and instead joined the security forces of one of the large Lunar corporations. Security in those corporations had actually always to branches: the first one being the security in the traditional sense and the other one being a rather...special one: namely extinguishing worker uprisings. Those were not uncommon on the outer mining stations on the Rim and the Wilds. Bad living conditions, worse payment and even worse working conditions mixed together with lonely men on even lonelier stations made the perfect conditions for breeding revolutions. The job was a violent one and would always work the same. On stations on which a worker uprising would soon be evident the usual security staff was replaced by "Escalation Specialists"  corporation-internally called "Flesh Wolves" in analogy to the infamous Meat Grinder used in simpler times. Soon afterwards, accidents would happen. Suddenly mining equipment would start to explode and kill the one or another leader of the Miners, suicide rate via spacing suddenly space rocketed, people expressing their anger publicy vanished for weeks coming back with a few limbs lesser. This normally worked and if not and the miners dared to rise up anyway, disasters happened. At least thats what reached civilization. News of gas leaks killing entire mining staffs in their bed. A new and strange virus spreading only to the miners (propably due to the horrible living conditions) and other things seemed to killing entire crews. In reality the "Escalation Teams" did take care of the rebellious miners. But as it is in modern times Corporations rise and fall every day and even a cruel corporation like that Svar worked in at some point went bankrupt. The now jobless "Escalation Specialist" is now on the search for a new employer...

Any notable skills you wouldn't expect from the above information: Svart has a basic knowledge of the operation of mining equipment. Additionally hes a specialist in close quarters combat, knows his fair share of poisons and gases, mechanics of the destructive kind(rigging machines to explode if you start them for example), chemistry and a fair bit of torturing

Any notable relationships you wouldn't expect from the above information:

Svart has connections to many of Lunars privat security corporations as well as the large mining corporations. Ironically his best friend is a overseer in a Lunar mine and provides him with explosive substances and chemical ingredients you dont get as a private person...

[Kashyyk]

Updated with my Char. info.

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Edit: I'm noticing a whole lot more criminal feel to this thread then I originally imagined.  Anyone know what caused that?

I think it was the whole the Earth is a wasteland thing. It made  me (and maybe the others) assume the colonies were a bit... rushed.
That and this is the Bay12 Forums, good guys have less reasons to set the world on fire.   

[mainiac]

Edit: I'm noticing a whole lot more criminal feel to this thread then I originally imagined.  Anyone know what caused that?

I think it was the whole the Earth is a wasteland thing. It made  me (and maybe the others) assume the colonies were a bit... rushed.
That and this is the Bay12 Forums, good guys have less reasons to set the world on fire.   

That's a good point.  I didn't really do an appropriate job laying out the time scale.  To make it clear, the colonies weren't rushed, they've just been growing slowly.  Remember, after 150 years of British colonization the 13 colonies still had a frontier mentality.  Even Philadelphia was considered a backwater despite being the second largest city in the British empire.  The colonies have been growing for about 150 years as well.  There's still a frontier mentality because they're still expanding.  There's some poverty, especially among the recent immigrants, but there's also some people that are pretty affluent.

[Armok]

wait so we got:
1 technical guy with job stability and generally average civilian attitudes that would struggle with even lunar gravity.
1 petty criminal with a mysterious past
1 brute raised in a gang
1 criminal vagabond with  terminal illness
1 brute on steroids
1 drug lord
1 cute retired army commander/medic
1 professional backstabbing thug

or on other words: 1 normal guy, 5 hardened criminals, one attractive gal. I'd ask why this makes the shipper part of my brain fore up, but the answer is obvious.

Also, considering what the player ratios say about the playing style, I should probably clarify my characters experience with combat. Actually fighting in person, is most likely stright out. He'd probably suffocate from the gravity in any place you'd reasonably fight. On the other hand multiple arms and having lived his entire life in tiny microgravity environments might give surprising results in some very specific kinds of situations that likely won't come up.

Remote combat is another matter thou. And he has some experience, but he's not a soldier. He has TECHNICALLY killed, but not actually experienced the psychological shock of it: just a press of a button and a blinking blip on a screen disappearing. Most of his experience is aircraft, the successors of predator drones and spying helicopters, but he is familiar with most kinds of hardware, and his multitasking skill gives him a great advantage in being able to run things that usually require multiple people single-handedly, like tanks. He also play games that have very similar interfaces to the ones used for actual remote controlled vehicles and robots at professional levels, so he does have the knowledge of tactics and jargon and such, and a fair bit more skill than his actual combat experience would indicate. However, the psychology of seeing a real person dying graphically on screen is likely to be an obstacle, especially as being remote means self preservation wont kick in and override stuff. If not for that he's basically as good as the hardware you bring until it becomes to much for even his multitasking.

Using him for support roles like air strikes and artillery and keeping track of where everyone is and spying and driving transports, with him being somewhere in orbit over the where the combat is taking place, is my tactical recommendation, but I can't say I'm the bast at tactics.

[mainiac]

wait so we got:
1 technical guy with job stability and generally average civilian attitudes that would struggle with even lunar gravity.
1 petty criminal with a mysterious past
1 brute raised in a gang
1 criminal vagabond with  terminal illness
1 brute on steroids
1 drug lord
1 cute retired army commander/medic
1 professional backstabbing thug

or on other words: 1 normal guy, 5 hardened criminals, one attractive gal.

Yes and this is a problem.  Any one of these character could make sense taken on their own.  But if you have them all together, you are looking at a group that makes a lot more sense in the scorched radioactive hellhole that is earth then the functioning society of the colonies.  Right now, I think the characters of Raoul, Desmond, and Lexi could work.  Tech geeks fit right in and there should be a few veterans floating around who barely escaped with their skins.  Desmond is unusual to the point of pulp fiction, but it's the good, mysterious kind of unusual.  He isn't so much brutal as obsessed and that obsession can fit into the setting given his mysterious origins.

The others character's I'm going to have to cut...Svart is just right out.  If General Motors went around murdering everyone who tried to unionize, how long do you think they'd stay in business?  The Duchess... well honestly he sounds a bit too much like an NPC.  Suhayl, Jack and Robert aren't horribly unrealistic, but I'm not trying to make a story about people going around breaking the legs of people late on payments to their loan sharks.

Also, too many characters would be a problem.  I think this kind of game works a lot better with 3-4 players then with a cast of 8.

[Weirdsound]

Eh figures. Have fun.

[mainiac]

Also, in case anyone is wondering, this isn't going to start until Monday or Tuesday, I need to drive to michigan to help my brother move this weekend.

[Iituem]

Agreed, better to keep the characters that fit the mould of the story and setting.  Shall watch regardless!


Edit:  That said, a story about criminal space thugs might be a spot of fun.  Perhaps someone should do another thread for that...

[mainiac]

We could even throw in a comedic crossover!

[Armok]

Sounds good. I feel bad for the players not getting in but the story is more important, and most importantly my Raoul/Lexi OTP is still intact! ^_^

[mainiac]

Nice job roleplaying nerd delusions about chances of getting laid.

[Armok]

yea, that's totaly how it'd go for a bunch of months, then he saves her life with some remote controlled thing in some Grand Moment of Character Development and Gets the Girl.

[mainiac]

There was either a typo or a revelation of an upcoming gender reassignment surgery in that post.