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[Riccto]

This is going to be one Lax Missionary here, So he's not expecting alot. But a nice Starship would be nice.

[Phantom]

Heh, I'll be waiting to see how the Techie and the Missionary react to each other.

[Riccto]

"Missionary :Worship the Emperor!"
"Explorator :Worship the Omnissiah!"
"Freeboota:GORK AN MORK FOREVA!"
"Missionary + Explorator : SHUDDAP."

This is going to be very interesting.

[Cthulhu]

Spoiler: Pshooo (click to show/hide)

Justus Xanatov

WS  43
BS  35
S   37
T   35
Ag  39
Int 39
Per 30
Wil 34
Fel 42

Wounds: 8
Fate: 3
Insanity:
Corruption: 4

Homeworld: Noble Born
Origin: Vaunted - Chosen by Destiny - High Vendetta - Pride
Career: Rogue Trader

Traits

Talents: Peer(Nobility), Peer(Mercantile), Decadence, Paranoia, Air of Authority, Pistol Weapon Training(Universal), Melee Weapon Training(Universal)

Skills:
Literacy, Speak Language(High Gothic, Low Gothic), Command, Commerce, Charm, Common Lore(Imperium, Evaluate, Literacy, Scholastic Lore(Astromancy)

Other:
Etiquette - +10 to interaction with high authority and formal situations
Legacy of Wealth - +1 Starting PF
Vendetta - Rival Noble House
Xenophile - +10 to Fellowship when dealing with aliens, -5 to willpower with alien artifacts and powers
Blood Will Have Blood - Paranoia and Inquiry
Brook no Insult - Must test will to avoid retaliating to insult
Heirloom - Best Quality Archaeotech Laspistol

Weapons:
Archaeotech Laspistol(Best) 90m S/3/- 1d10+3E Pen2 Clip70 FullRld Accurate, Reliable, 4kg
Mordian-pattern Power Sword(Common) 1d10+8E Pen5, Power, Balanced, +5 parry

Armor: Stormtrooper Carapace(Best) 7/7/7/7

Other:  Xeno-pelt cloak, fine clothing, micro-bead, voidsuit

Spent XP   5000
Unspent XP

Advances Taken:
Dodge(100), Simple WS(100), Simple Fel(100), Ambidextrous(200)

The background and stuff will be up later.

Rolls

Spoiler: Background (click to show/hide)

Justus is the scion of the now almost defunct Xanatov noble house, originally centered on Scintilla, but with a long history in the Koronus expanse; boasting several vaunted Rogue Traders.  He spent his youth in the lap of luxury, sampling foods worth more than a man's life, strange drugs, and forbidden truths.  He cultivated a dangerously eager curiosity for xenos and xenotechnology.  He spent vast sums to acquire alien artifacts and meet with members of unheard-of races, putting himself at great risk. 

The Xanatov house had a rival, the Belacqua line.  This feud had its origins in antiquity, generations before Justus' birth, but it came to a head when he was 27 Terran years old.  Like clockwork, the Belacquas used intrigue, conspiracy, and outright assassination to shatter the house's reputation and take its holdings.  With the noble life he had taken for granted being torn from his grasp, Justus went to the family vaults, emptied its coffers into his personal holdings, and took what he saw as his birthright:  The Xanatov Rogue Trader Warrant and the voidship his ancestors had used to make their fortunes.

Fleeing Scintilla, Justus gathered a cadre of family allies, advisors, and even an Ork Freebooter (For his love of all things alien had not diminished) to his side and made for the Koronus expanse, intent on winning back his pride and reforging the Xanatov great house as one of the illustrious rogue trader dynasties of legend.

[NewsMuffin]

By your description, it seems your profit factor and ship points are either the fourth (30 PF, 60 SP) or fifth (20 PF, 70 SP).
I'm still goingt o let everyone decide on it, that's just what it sounds like to me.

[Criptfeind]

Hell, anything is really appropriate.

Large sum of cash left but crappy ancient ship?

Fortune gone but pimped out ancestral ship?

[Cthulhu]

Yeah, it's pretty open on that end.  I'm really okay with anything the group decides, although I kind of feel like a better ship would be a better asset than high profit factor at the beginning.  I dunno though, I've never actually played RT.

[Criptfeind]

A ship sounds pretty cool to me, but I have not really looked into all the rules for that.

Also, I have been reading the powers I can use, and they seem pretty awesome. As basically a living radio set, it seems I can 'talk' to any of you so long as you are within 2km essentially for free. Of course that is not all that useful seeing as how we are sure to all have beads, but still, if something happens, then we are still cool.

Of course I may be reading this all wrong, and I most likely am seeing how it seems that if I do not speak the language of whoever I am 'talking' too I take a -20 to a test that does not exist...

[Ahrimahn]

There any space left?
EDIT: I am an idiot who didnt read past the word trader aparently.

[NewsMuffin]

Nope, but you should still watch the thread in case anyone has to drop out.

[Riccto]

I feel like having a pimped out ship is better than the profit factor because we can use it to increase the profit factor. plus from what I am reading it looks like it would just be alot of work upgrading  the ship.

[Phantom]

The Explorator would like a pimped out ship rather than mere wealth.

[Cthulhu]

I've been looking more at how things work.  I am almost certain a high quality ship will be a greater asset than high starting profit factor.  PF will increase pretty readily but ships and ship components are a colossal investment, and even with 70 profit factor a good ship is going to be hard to come by.

This is what I'm thinking we do.  We take the 30PF 60SP route, get a cruiser with a lot of firepower, and start extorting weaker (Probably xenos, don't want to do it to humans do we?) planets by threatening orbital bombardment.  That kind of income in gold and xenotech artifacts should be enough to get us a more stable profit factor if we're good at it and don't bite off more than we can chew.

What does everybody else think?

[NewsMuffin]

Also, you can all decide on what ship you want. You can build it from scratch, or pick one of the prebuilt ships in either rulebook, or one off the internet, as long as it's under your SP.

[Criptfeind]

Mr Radio agrees with your course of action.

I will read the rules on ships and economy in more depth then put in a formal suggestion, but I believe the current course of good ship bad money is a good one.