Xanthuss
05-03-2011, 12:18 PM
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Welcome To TTFS:
What Is TTFS?:
TTFS or The Thing From Space is an in-depth, multi-chapter sci-fi role-play, which I am now rebooting, with a few minor edits. It was first posted on the 6th of March, but failed after certain problems made it too much work for many people to join. I have fixed this problems, and now I wish to re-boot it, now in a different category.
What is it about?:
A horrible being known as The Thing, a horrible mix of cyborg and something, has been destroying the galaxy. It consumes planets, stealing the life force of the inhabitants, and the plants. It has now attacked Earth, and destroyed the humans, and the other species of the galaxy have become frightened what it may attack next, so they have recruited a team of leading experts in every field and from every species, to go to Earth and find this monster, and destroy it.
TTFS's Rating:
M for possible violence.
Location: [CLASSIFED] – Polpona, Zeta Tucanae.
Date: 12th Of January, 2320 AD.
Briefing By Dr. Jai Camo:
The following are a collection of experts recovered from the CNN TV station HQ, Planet Earth, Sol System.
BREAKING NEWS: The Venus departs on her maiden voyage.
The Venus, a brand new, state of the art star ship, departed yesterday on her maiden voyage. The Venus is the first star ship constructed to explore extra-solar space, and can travel at the speed of light. The Venus cost $500000000 to construct and launch, and was funded by a joint venture by Extra-solar Exploration INC, USA, The European Union, The Republic of Australia, and the United Kingdom.
The star ship plans to explore the Alpha Centauri system, and is due to arrive there in 4 years time.
~ Rebecca Stones, 12th of January, 2150.
BREAKING NEWS: Earth looses contact with The Venus.
NASA lost contact with The Venus unexpectedly yesterday afternoon. They have been unable to get any transmissions through to The Venus, and the tracking beckon that has been broadcasting the location of The Venus has also stopped working. It is currently unknown as to the cause of this lose of contact.
~ Rebecca Stones, March 3rd, 2151.
BREAKING NEWS: The Venus has been found!
The Venus has been found abandoned, and crash landed on Pluto's surface. It was found early this morning when the space probe, ARK 20, transmitted an image showing The Venus, lying in ruins on Pluto's surface, to NASA HQ. A manned space shuttle is now on its way to inspect the crash site.
~ Rebecca Stones, December 20th, 2153.
BREAKING NEWS: The Venus shows signs of attack by extraterrestrial life.
The Venus, that sensational star ship you've all be hearing about has become even more sensational today. After the crash site of The Venus was inspected by a team of experts it has been concluded that a extraterrestrial life form of some form was the cause of the destruction of The Venus.
~ Rebecca Stones, January 2nd, 2154.
BREAKING NEWS: Contact is lost with men inspecting The Venus.Contact has been lost with the men inspecting The Venus, and NASA is beginning to have grave fears for there safety, and possibly Planet Earth's Safety. They were last heard from yesterday afternoon, when the transmission was cut off abruptly.
~ Rebecca Stones, January 4th, 2154.
The following is a transmission that Heatha 2 received in the year 2260 AD.
Heatha 2 was corporation run settlement in the Alpha Centauri system. It was abandoned the year after this message reached them, when people begun reporting strange noises, fleeting sightings of strange beings, and then, finally, people began to go missing.
This…. Is planet Earth! Requesting help .... any intelligent life forms that are …. there! We …. over run, by a ……. space being, it is destroying … world, HELP US!.....
~ Pres..ent .. J..brock - Republic .. Australia.
-Transmission Ended-
"We believe that what ever destroyed this star ship, The Venus, and killed the humans on Pluto, was also responsible for the ravaging of Planet Earth, the Abandonment of Heatha 2, and the Destruction of Destara Minor and Destara Major. This being is dangerous; it has destroyed an entire highly advanced species, and then vanished. We have been unable to pinpoint where this thing came from, but we believe it was picked up on one of a twin planets, orbiting Alpha Centarui. They once housed the Destara species, a primitive humanoid species, but recent Intel reports that Destara Minor and Destara Major have both been destroyed by an unknown life form.
A recent assessment of Heatha 2 show the planet has died, totally. Every piece of plant life has died or been devoured, and the abandoned cities have been destroyed by something unknown."
"The creature is believed to be still hidden somewhere on Planet Earth, or its orbiting moon, Luna. The beings on Heatha 2 are most likely spawnlings.
I request that each of your kingdoms supply me with a expert field agent, trained specially in one skill."
-END OF BRIEFING-
An alliance of half a dozen intelligent life forms has been formed, and a group of experts in various fields (Extraterrestrial Life, Combat, Survival, Technology, Star Ships, Navigation, and others), from various species, is being sent to the now destroyed Planet Earth, the home of the now extinct Humans. Earth was destroyed by a being known as "The Thing", and is only one in a line of planets that have been decimated by the being, but it just happens to be the most important one destroyed so far.
The Gaeja [Gay-j-ah] - The Gaeja are a species of Insectoids from the planet Gragama. They are eight legged, with the segments of an arachnoid. They have an upright torso on the front, and a head like that of a praying mantis. They range in colour from dark green, to dark blue, to black, and all have bright yellow eyes. Their tails are armed with barbed stingers and they have deadly mandibles, sharp claws and they can exhale a deadly gas from their jaws that can kill most oxygen breathing life-forms.
The Ccdak [k-d-a-k] - The Ccdak are a humanoid species from the planet Ck. They stand 8ft tall, and are lean and graceful. They have metallic silver skin, and pointed ears, large black eyes without definition between pupil or iris, and sharp white claws. They have four canines, two the bottom and two on the top, and they walk on their toes. They also have long graceful tails, and two large silver feathered wings. They have a strange talent for breaking things, and they use telepathy to communicate mostly.
The Hyathera [Hi-ather-ah] - The Hyathera are a strange and mystical race from Hya. They are not totally of this dimension, and when you look at them directly they seem to waver and flicker on and off. They are light, egg-shell blue in colour, and stand 6ft tall on average. They have rows of graceful, curving but blunt spikes growing from the under-sides of their arms and down their spine, and they almost all have long light-green hair. Their eyes are feline, but normal sized. They can see more than normal people. At will they can change there vision to see heat-signatures, objects not in this dimension, or energy signatures, or normal sight. They can also retreat from this dimension for a short time at will.
The Larxz [Lar-X-s] - The Larxz are humanoids from the planet Firda. They stand only 3ft tall, and have green splotchy skin. They have a long tail with a spade shaped tip, and slightly over-sized leathery wings. They also have a pair of curling horns, and webbed hands and feet. They have sharp canines, and sharp claws, and they are skilled swimmers. The Larxz can turn invisible at will, but only for short times.
Report on damage caused by “The Thing”.
Current Damage Report:
Heatha 2 (Planet) - Abandoned and then destroyed.
Earth (Planet) - Destroyed and all inhabitants killed.
Destara Minor (Planet) - Destroyed and all inhabitants killed.
Destara Major (Planet) - Destroyed and all inhabitants killed.
Luna (Moon) - Destroyed and all inhabitants killed.
The Venus (Huge Star Ship) - Destroyed and all crew killed.
Star Gates:
Star gates are huge, interstellar teleportation devices. They are normally powered by using entire stars as batteries, and locating them on space stations that orbit these stars, draining energy from them as they orbit, and in turn powering the Star gate.
Using a Star gate it is possible to teleport to locations as far as 20 light years away, as long as there is a second Star gate at the location. If there is not it is possible to teleport 10 light years distance, but it would be impossible to return that way.
This technology is only considered medium, as several ships have been lost in ‘limbo space’, the area between gates, and because it requires an entire star to power, but it is still used by some civilizations, mainly to send cargo ships across large area's of space, as Inertialess Drive is ineffective on ships of extremely large size.
Inertialess Drive:
Inertialess Drive uses a device to negate the Inertia of a ships matter, therefore negating the laws of psychics, and allowing ships to travel at any speed that the engines can reach. Currently this device can only be used on small-to-medium ships, and cargo ships are normally transported at high speeds some other way.
This is only considered medium-to-advanced technology, because of the limit on the size of ships that can be transported this way.
Teleportation Drive:
Teleportation Drive use on board teleportation devices, that open miniature Star gates, allowing the ship to slip through the miniature gate while it is open, and pop out at there destination. The only problem with this technology is the amount of energy it uses, so only large ships, which have large amounts of energy storage can use Teleportation Drive.
This is only considered to be Medium-to-Advanced technology, because of the amount of energy needed.
Micro-Teleportation Drive:
There is currently only one Micro Teleportation drive in existence. This is an exact copy of a normal Teleportation Drive, but hundreds of times more economical and smaller. It is currently installed on the Camelopardalis. This is considered to be –hyper advanced technology, because of the limit on the distance it can teleport a ship.
Energy Shields:
Using magnetic energy fields, shield technology has been invented. Solid projectiles would pass through the shield fine, but Laser weaponry would be stopped upon contact. Once again, due to the large amounts of energy needed, only large ships would have this tech.
This is only considered to be Medium tech, because of the large amounts of energy required and the limit on what it blocks.
Digital Intelligence:
Normally known as "Ship Minds", these AI computer systems are used to run star ships, interplanetary shuttles, space stations, and satellites.
They are both self-aware, and highly intelligent, and can run star ships on the own, only requiring orders from the ships captain.
They are considered Advanced, and are rare and almost un-hackable.
The Camelopardalis is the star ship built specially for this mission. The fastest ship in the known universe, The Camelopardalis was constructed by the Gaestaria race, and is the head quarters of the operation.
The Camelopardalis is a lightly armed star ship, designed to transport several dozen people across space at enormous speeds, using both Inertialess Drive and the only Micro Teleportation Drive in existence, the Camelopardalis can travel a distance of 20 light years in a two months.
The Artificial Intelligence, or Ship Mind, running The Camelopardalis, is known officially as "SAMRE1200", but it has been nicknamed "Sam".
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The struckthrough jobs are taken.
Captain.
Pilot.
Engineer.
Technical Officer/AI Expert.
Scientist.
Doctor/Psychiatrist.
Navigator.
Weapons Expert.
Linguist.
Know as "The Thing", this huge space dwelling creature has never been seen by anyone who lived to tell the story. Believed to be a mix of cybernetics and something else, "The Thing" can live in deep space, but in deep space it is rather slow, and therefore it commonly hitches rides on space ships, asteroids, and space stations.
It is believed it spawns rarely, and the only known time that it has spawned was during the abandonment of Heatha 2. It seems to feast upon the life energy of plants, animals and sentient life-forms, leaving the worlds it attacks totally dead for many years.
Private message all forms to me please! Do not post them, this thread is reserved for OOC chatter and discussing plot development! Remember, PM, don't post!
~Character Form~
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Accepted Characters
Username: Nonangelic92
Name: Dr. Yia'nurkila Jikoshki or Dr. Yia
Age: 27
Gender: Female
Species: Hyathera
Description/Image: Yia has shoulder length light green hair, as to not get in the way of her doctoral duties. The irises of her eyes are cat-like and violet. Her skin a pale robin’s eye blue. With rows of blunt spikes lining the under arms and the back of her spine. She is usually seen wearing a some sort of colorful saree that shows off her form and her spikes, that she is proud of.
Disabilities, Allergies or Disadvantages: Yia is prone to "spells", as her people call them. She begins to freak out, throwing things, yelling out profanity even hitting. After her "spell" she has no recollection of what has happened.
Abilities and Advantages: Yia has the fortunate gift of being able to see into the future, but only minor details like getting injured from a fall or what one would be ordering for dinner, that small of details.
Equipment: Dr. Yia carries along a small med kit at all times. It has the appearance of a one shouldered book bag that the humans used. Inside it contains all the supplies she’ll ever need: wrapping for wounds, healing gels, cutting tools, a pair of magnifying glasses, and many sorts of pain killers. She also has a small knife that she keeps on the inside of her left leg and a bottle of spray able sulfuric acid.
Job: Doctor
History: Yia was born on the night the seven moons of her planet were all aligned together, which happens only twice in a 1,000 years. Many people believe that those born under the seven moons are born to great fates. But as luck would have it, Yia was not. From the time she was born, she has been a burden to her entire family due to her luck. When she was only seven months old, she contracted an illness that was only found in a remote area on her planet, thank goodness they had a cure. At seven years old, she was bit by a Izilian fur beast. And at seventeen years old, she fell down a flight of stairs, only receiving minor scrapes. As of yet, the only bad luck she’s received was breaking a few household items.
Yia knew that she wanted to be a doctor at the age of seventeen when a visited a doctor to make sure there weren’t any broken bones due to her fall. She was amazed at the technology they used and how fast they could think with some much happening around them. She earned her PhD in medicine and a PhD in Pharmacy. Before she was hired upon this mission, she was working free-lance to both the rich and the poor of her world.
Other: Is a vegetarian just like most of her race.Username:
Antlers.
Name:
Professor Hark'Sla Lizen ""Hark" Yior Marif.
Age:
32.
Gender:
Male.
Species:
Ccdak.
Description/Image:
Hark is not exactly normal among his species. While his entire species is silver and grey, and his home planet a similar colour scheme, Hark is actually colourful. He has bright yellow feline eyes, and blood red wings. His skin is dark scarlet, and the only other colours on him are his white claws and canines, and his tail, which is the same colour as the rest of him, except it has a silver tip. He was born to normal parents, and a huge collection of scientists’ have poured over his DNA, trying to find the reason for his mutation of colour, but they have never discovered it. Hark also has a liking for Hman clothing, and normally wears designer Jeans, and a black T-shirt with slits for his wings. He goes bare-footed as most of his species does, and wears a black-leather belt with a silver buckle.
Disabilities, Allergies or Disadvantages:
Hark has a strong allergic reaction to caffeine. He suffers small seizures from even a sip of it, and can die if enough is ingested.
Abilities and Advantages:
While the breaking skills of most of his race are only low, Hark is highly skilled at it. He can will anything he is touching to break and weapons pointed at him break on there own. This could be considered both a disability and an ability.
Equipment:
Hark doesn't carry any weaponry with himself, besides on a small laser-powered dagger he ties to his ankle, and a energy blaster implanted in his watch. He wears an old, watch of Human design, which has been customized so that it is not just a watch. A hyper-small laser bullet can be ejected from the front of the watch, from a miniature laser gun that is disguised as a button on the watch. The bullet is very powerful, and can go through titanium, or blow someone’s hand off.
Job:
Scientist.
History:
Hark was born to an impoverished noble of the Ck Dynasty. His mother was a failed actress, and the only way the family survived from living off the generosity of the Emperor, a 3rd Cousin of Hark's father, and selling what was left of the family estate and heirlooms. Hark was born in a particularly poor time for the family. The 3rd Cousin, the Emperor, had just been executed, and the family was selling the Manor House and moving to an old farmers cottage. Hark grew up with farm animals, and was happy at home, but he was picked on at school because of his colour, but his science teacher, a immigrant of Hyathera background who was also half Ccdak, was sympathetic and understanding.
She recognized his scientific skills, and took up tutoring him after school. By the time he was 18 he had received a Bachelor of Science. By the time he was 25 he had a Doctorate Of Alientology. At 28 he received a Masters Degree in Xenoarchaeology and at 30 a Doctorate Of. Xenoarchaeology. At 30 he was made the youngest professor at the Royal University Of Ck, and took up teaching Xenoarchaeology and Alientology until he was recruited for the mission. He has also made himself a small fortune on the stockmarket, and from several scientific journals he has published.
Other:
None.Username: Wattz
Name: Odel Wuu
Age: 47
Gender: Female
Species: Larxz
Description/Image: Odel looks like a typical Larxz, standing at 3’ 2’’ with the usual green, splotchy skin, webbed hands and feet, long tail, and large wings. Odel had round facial features that look mean when she isn’t talking or exuding a particular emotion. Her clothes are bland, often wearing colors such as brown, black, or off-white.
Disabilities, Allergies or Disadvantages: Odel’s height, while normal amongst her people, can provide her with a clear disadvantage against other races much taller than her own. Her appearance can also put some people off, which is not a useful trait for a linguist to have. Also, though her race is naturally good at swimming, she finds it a hassle to do so for fear of losing the notes she carries around.
Abilities and Advantages: Her natural-born Larxz abilities give her a decent advantage, including the ability to turn temporarily invisible. Her natural curiosity to understand language barriers and the cultural importance of languages is also an advantage. Odel can speak twenty-three languages, though she cannot speak most of them fluently.
Equipment: Odel carries around a satchel with a high-tech computer that contains her notes. She guards it with her life, because it carries all of the research of other languages she’s conducted. Odel is constantly adding new information to it if she can help it.
Job: Linguist
History: Odel Wuu has been interested in linguistics every since she noticed the distinct dialects between the Larxz. She noticed that each dialect has impacted the way they treat each other, even amongst their own social groups. This lead to a curiosity to understand language barriers between species. She began researching in an isolated environment, but soon realized that the best way to research the way others spoke was through direct interaction.
As luck would have it, Odel managed to weasel her way onto an expedition of sorts that would allow her to traverse space (not after having spent almost all of her money and then some from a few family members). Unfortunately, she found that many other species were highly unwilling to participate in her research, given her Larxz appearance. Some communities weren’t nearly as tightly knit, but for the less-willing, Odel had to work to gain a positive reputation amongst them. The latest few years of her career were spent studying dying or otherwise dead languages for fear of losing their cultural importance. She spent about twenty-five years doing this, until she was recruited for the mission.
It is a bit misleading, however, to say that Odel was recruited for the mission. Once The Thing began to lay wreckage to species upon species, she became horribly concerned about the impact it would have on cultures and languages. She’d spoken to many whom were devastated by the losses, and Odel needed a reason to help out the mission. Odel pushed herself onto the project after showing piles upon piles of research to the higher ups illustrating the necessity of having a linguist on board. Not only would it help with language gaps, but it could also potentially lead to more information about The Thing: it was possible that understanding the monster could be culturally tied to a variety of species.
Other: None
Username:
Antlers.
Name:
Lord-Elmahed Dace-Hawk “Dace” Prodessorn Morple Karif
Age:
126.
Gender:
Male.
Species:
Ccdak x Gaeja.
Description/Image:
Dace is tall even for a Gaeja or Ccdak. He stands 8”6’ft tall, and has the regular silver colouring of Ccdak, but splotches of black from his father show through on his torso. His right wing was destroyed from birth. It is folded up against his back permanently and the feathers have been shredded so badly they’ll never grow back. In fact it is totally useless. His left wing is still intact though, and Dace also has a large scar across his right arm. A number of insect scales from his father cover his more delicate pieces of anatomy, including his groin and throat. He also has the insect eyes of a Gaeja and fangs that produce the same poison that fills Gaeja stingers.
Disabilities, Allergies or Disadvantages:
Dace has lost his ability to fly, thanks to his destroyed wing, and he has trouble eating some foods because of his fangs.
Abilities and Advantages:
Dace has a much stronger telepathic talent than most Ccdak’s. He can sense sentient life-forms around him, and also talk telepathically with other Ccdak. He is much stronger than a normal Ccdak, and his insectoid eyes are much more sensitive than mammalian ones.
Equipment:
Dace carries a powerful semi-automatic laser handgun, which has 400 rounds of hyper-compressed laser-pellets. The pellets are tiny titanium shells, which contain a tiny plasma explosive that detonates on impact.
He wears a suit of powered chameleon armour, which is attached to a laser-sniper rifle, which can fire with a thought from Dace. The armour is also connected to Dace’s mind, allowing him to process all the data from the sensors and control its features with only mental commands.
Job:
Weapons Expert.
History:
Dace’s older brother was born to a rich father who cast him and his mother out at birth. His father, who held the title of Lord-Elmahed at the time, also placed a bounty on their heads, claiming his wife stole his child. Dace’s mother had to flee off-planet, and she decided on Gragama. Because of the Gaeja’s infamous protection of anyone who takes refuge on their planet, Dace’s step-father was powerless to endanger them further, and Dace’s mother settled down on the planet. She soon began an affair with a Gaeja thought, and through her ‘actions’ with the said insect being, Dace was born. He grew up as outcast from both Gaeja and Ccdak society, and when he moved home to Ck at 4 he was teased and picked on by his age-mates. Afterwards he retreated in to himself, until at 17 he found an unlikely friend in a fellow Gaeja, who was visiting Ck with his father. The two became best friends until almost 60 years later when Dace’s step-father died. His brother took his father’s title, but only months after he did, he was killed in a freak car accident. Dace was forced to take the title, as the only remotely related heir.
His best friend was taken hostage a month later. The kidnappers demanded Dace abdicate the title or his friend would die. Almost instantly an interstellar incident followed. Dace’s friend’s father was a powerful diplomat, and Dace himself was a powerful man now, with billions at his disposal. The kidnappers were captured in a covert operation, but Dace’s friend was slaughtered during the battle, taking ten kidnappers with him to the grave though.
Afterwards Dace began to study weaponry, fearing for his own life, but also wishing revenge on the murderers that escaped. Soon he took commando training, and eventually he was declared a full drop-commando. In the 40 years since he has trained to become a deadly warrior, and in the time being killed the kidnappers that escaped. He needed a new objective after that mission was finished, so he decided to study archaic weaponry and become adept at using it. When he discovered the trip to Earth, he signed up, wishing for a challenge and was accepted.
Other:
Dace is the holder of a royal title, Lord Elmahed, the second most powerful title on Ck. Only the King-Elmahed, the ruler of Ck, outranks him.
If anyone has any suggestions for anything to do with TTFS, like the jobs characters can have, species you would like to make for the role-play, technologies that should be included or anything to do with the plot, please VM or PM me.
Welcome To TTFS:
What Is TTFS?:
TTFS or The Thing From Space is an in-depth, multi-chapter sci-fi role-play, which I am now rebooting, with a few minor edits. It was first posted on the 6th of March, but failed after certain problems made it too much work for many people to join. I have fixed this problems, and now I wish to re-boot it, now in a different category.
What is it about?:
A horrible being known as The Thing, a horrible mix of cyborg and something, has been destroying the galaxy. It consumes planets, stealing the life force of the inhabitants, and the plants. It has now attacked Earth, and destroyed the humans, and the other species of the galaxy have become frightened what it may attack next, so they have recruited a team of leading experts in every field and from every species, to go to Earth and find this monster, and destroy it.
TTFS's Rating:
M for possible violence.
Location: [CLASSIFED] – Polpona, Zeta Tucanae.
Date: 12th Of January, 2320 AD.
Briefing By Dr. Jai Camo:
The following are a collection of experts recovered from the CNN TV station HQ, Planet Earth, Sol System.
BREAKING NEWS: The Venus departs on her maiden voyage.
The Venus, a brand new, state of the art star ship, departed yesterday on her maiden voyage. The Venus is the first star ship constructed to explore extra-solar space, and can travel at the speed of light. The Venus cost $500000000 to construct and launch, and was funded by a joint venture by Extra-solar Exploration INC, USA, The European Union, The Republic of Australia, and the United Kingdom.
The star ship plans to explore the Alpha Centauri system, and is due to arrive there in 4 years time.
~ Rebecca Stones, 12th of January, 2150.
BREAKING NEWS: Earth looses contact with The Venus.
NASA lost contact with The Venus unexpectedly yesterday afternoon. They have been unable to get any transmissions through to The Venus, and the tracking beckon that has been broadcasting the location of The Venus has also stopped working. It is currently unknown as to the cause of this lose of contact.
~ Rebecca Stones, March 3rd, 2151.
BREAKING NEWS: The Venus has been found!
The Venus has been found abandoned, and crash landed on Pluto's surface. It was found early this morning when the space probe, ARK 20, transmitted an image showing The Venus, lying in ruins on Pluto's surface, to NASA HQ. A manned space shuttle is now on its way to inspect the crash site.
~ Rebecca Stones, December 20th, 2153.
BREAKING NEWS: The Venus shows signs of attack by extraterrestrial life.
The Venus, that sensational star ship you've all be hearing about has become even more sensational today. After the crash site of The Venus was inspected by a team of experts it has been concluded that a extraterrestrial life form of some form was the cause of the destruction of The Venus.
~ Rebecca Stones, January 2nd, 2154.
BREAKING NEWS: Contact is lost with men inspecting The Venus.Contact has been lost with the men inspecting The Venus, and NASA is beginning to have grave fears for there safety, and possibly Planet Earth's Safety. They were last heard from yesterday afternoon, when the transmission was cut off abruptly.
~ Rebecca Stones, January 4th, 2154.
The following is a transmission that Heatha 2 received in the year 2260 AD.
Heatha 2 was corporation run settlement in the Alpha Centauri system. It was abandoned the year after this message reached them, when people begun reporting strange noises, fleeting sightings of strange beings, and then, finally, people began to go missing.
This…. Is planet Earth! Requesting help .... any intelligent life forms that are …. there! We …. over run, by a ……. space being, it is destroying … world, HELP US!.....
~ Pres..ent .. J..brock - Republic .. Australia.
-Transmission Ended-
"We believe that what ever destroyed this star ship, The Venus, and killed the humans on Pluto, was also responsible for the ravaging of Planet Earth, the Abandonment of Heatha 2, and the Destruction of Destara Minor and Destara Major. This being is dangerous; it has destroyed an entire highly advanced species, and then vanished. We have been unable to pinpoint where this thing came from, but we believe it was picked up on one of a twin planets, orbiting Alpha Centarui. They once housed the Destara species, a primitive humanoid species, but recent Intel reports that Destara Minor and Destara Major have both been destroyed by an unknown life form.
A recent assessment of Heatha 2 show the planet has died, totally. Every piece of plant life has died or been devoured, and the abandoned cities have been destroyed by something unknown."
"The creature is believed to be still hidden somewhere on Planet Earth, or its orbiting moon, Luna. The beings on Heatha 2 are most likely spawnlings.
I request that each of your kingdoms supply me with a expert field agent, trained specially in one skill."
-END OF BRIEFING-
An alliance of half a dozen intelligent life forms has been formed, and a group of experts in various fields (Extraterrestrial Life, Combat, Survival, Technology, Star Ships, Navigation, and others), from various species, is being sent to the now destroyed Planet Earth, the home of the now extinct Humans. Earth was destroyed by a being known as "The Thing", and is only one in a line of planets that have been decimated by the being, but it just happens to be the most important one destroyed so far.
The Gaeja [Gay-j-ah] - The Gaeja are a species of Insectoids from the planet Gragama. They are eight legged, with the segments of an arachnoid. They have an upright torso on the front, and a head like that of a praying mantis. They range in colour from dark green, to dark blue, to black, and all have bright yellow eyes. Their tails are armed with barbed stingers and they have deadly mandibles, sharp claws and they can exhale a deadly gas from their jaws that can kill most oxygen breathing life-forms.
The Ccdak [k-d-a-k] - The Ccdak are a humanoid species from the planet Ck. They stand 8ft tall, and are lean and graceful. They have metallic silver skin, and pointed ears, large black eyes without definition between pupil or iris, and sharp white claws. They have four canines, two the bottom and two on the top, and they walk on their toes. They also have long graceful tails, and two large silver feathered wings. They have a strange talent for breaking things, and they use telepathy to communicate mostly.
The Hyathera [Hi-ather-ah] - The Hyathera are a strange and mystical race from Hya. They are not totally of this dimension, and when you look at them directly they seem to waver and flicker on and off. They are light, egg-shell blue in colour, and stand 6ft tall on average. They have rows of graceful, curving but blunt spikes growing from the under-sides of their arms and down their spine, and they almost all have long light-green hair. Their eyes are feline, but normal sized. They can see more than normal people. At will they can change there vision to see heat-signatures, objects not in this dimension, or energy signatures, or normal sight. They can also retreat from this dimension for a short time at will.
The Larxz [Lar-X-s] - The Larxz are humanoids from the planet Firda. They stand only 3ft tall, and have green splotchy skin. They have a long tail with a spade shaped tip, and slightly over-sized leathery wings. They also have a pair of curling horns, and webbed hands and feet. They have sharp canines, and sharp claws, and they are skilled swimmers. The Larxz can turn invisible at will, but only for short times.
Report on damage caused by “The Thing”.
Current Damage Report:
Heatha 2 (Planet) - Abandoned and then destroyed.
Earth (Planet) - Destroyed and all inhabitants killed.
Destara Minor (Planet) - Destroyed and all inhabitants killed.
Destara Major (Planet) - Destroyed and all inhabitants killed.
Luna (Moon) - Destroyed and all inhabitants killed.
The Venus (Huge Star Ship) - Destroyed and all crew killed.
Star Gates:
Star gates are huge, interstellar teleportation devices. They are normally powered by using entire stars as batteries, and locating them on space stations that orbit these stars, draining energy from them as they orbit, and in turn powering the Star gate.
Using a Star gate it is possible to teleport to locations as far as 20 light years away, as long as there is a second Star gate at the location. If there is not it is possible to teleport 10 light years distance, but it would be impossible to return that way.
This technology is only considered medium, as several ships have been lost in ‘limbo space’, the area between gates, and because it requires an entire star to power, but it is still used by some civilizations, mainly to send cargo ships across large area's of space, as Inertialess Drive is ineffective on ships of extremely large size.
Inertialess Drive:
Inertialess Drive uses a device to negate the Inertia of a ships matter, therefore negating the laws of psychics, and allowing ships to travel at any speed that the engines can reach. Currently this device can only be used on small-to-medium ships, and cargo ships are normally transported at high speeds some other way.
This is only considered medium-to-advanced technology, because of the limit on the size of ships that can be transported this way.
Teleportation Drive:
Teleportation Drive use on board teleportation devices, that open miniature Star gates, allowing the ship to slip through the miniature gate while it is open, and pop out at there destination. The only problem with this technology is the amount of energy it uses, so only large ships, which have large amounts of energy storage can use Teleportation Drive.
This is only considered to be Medium-to-Advanced technology, because of the amount of energy needed.
Micro-Teleportation Drive:
There is currently only one Micro Teleportation drive in existence. This is an exact copy of a normal Teleportation Drive, but hundreds of times more economical and smaller. It is currently installed on the Camelopardalis. This is considered to be –hyper advanced technology, because of the limit on the distance it can teleport a ship.
Energy Shields:
Using magnetic energy fields, shield technology has been invented. Solid projectiles would pass through the shield fine, but Laser weaponry would be stopped upon contact. Once again, due to the large amounts of energy needed, only large ships would have this tech.
This is only considered to be Medium tech, because of the large amounts of energy required and the limit on what it blocks.
Digital Intelligence:
Normally known as "Ship Minds", these AI computer systems are used to run star ships, interplanetary shuttles, space stations, and satellites.
They are both self-aware, and highly intelligent, and can run star ships on the own, only requiring orders from the ships captain.
They are considered Advanced, and are rare and almost un-hackable.
The Camelopardalis is the star ship built specially for this mission. The fastest ship in the known universe, The Camelopardalis was constructed by the Gaestaria race, and is the head quarters of the operation.
The Camelopardalis is a lightly armed star ship, designed to transport several dozen people across space at enormous speeds, using both Inertialess Drive and the only Micro Teleportation Drive in existence, the Camelopardalis can travel a distance of 20 light years in a two months.
The Artificial Intelligence, or Ship Mind, running The Camelopardalis, is known officially as "SAMRE1200", but it has been nicknamed "Sam".
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The struckthrough jobs are taken.
Captain.
Pilot.
Engineer.
Technical Officer/AI Expert.
Scientist.
Doctor/Psychiatrist.
Navigator.
Weapons Expert.
Linguist.
Know as "The Thing", this huge space dwelling creature has never been seen by anyone who lived to tell the story. Believed to be a mix of cybernetics and something else, "The Thing" can live in deep space, but in deep space it is rather slow, and therefore it commonly hitches rides on space ships, asteroids, and space stations.
It is believed it spawns rarely, and the only known time that it has spawned was during the abandonment of Heatha 2. It seems to feast upon the life energy of plants, animals and sentient life-forms, leaving the worlds it attacks totally dead for many years.
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Accepted Characters
Username: Nonangelic92
Name: Dr. Yia'nurkila Jikoshki or Dr. Yia
Age: 27
Gender: Female
Species: Hyathera
Description/Image: Yia has shoulder length light green hair, as to not get in the way of her doctoral duties. The irises of her eyes are cat-like and violet. Her skin a pale robin’s eye blue. With rows of blunt spikes lining the under arms and the back of her spine. She is usually seen wearing a some sort of colorful saree that shows off her form and her spikes, that she is proud of.
Disabilities, Allergies or Disadvantages: Yia is prone to "spells", as her people call them. She begins to freak out, throwing things, yelling out profanity even hitting. After her "spell" she has no recollection of what has happened.
Abilities and Advantages: Yia has the fortunate gift of being able to see into the future, but only minor details like getting injured from a fall or what one would be ordering for dinner, that small of details.
Equipment: Dr. Yia carries along a small med kit at all times. It has the appearance of a one shouldered book bag that the humans used. Inside it contains all the supplies she’ll ever need: wrapping for wounds, healing gels, cutting tools, a pair of magnifying glasses, and many sorts of pain killers. She also has a small knife that she keeps on the inside of her left leg and a bottle of spray able sulfuric acid.
Job: Doctor
History: Yia was born on the night the seven moons of her planet were all aligned together, which happens only twice in a 1,000 years. Many people believe that those born under the seven moons are born to great fates. But as luck would have it, Yia was not. From the time she was born, she has been a burden to her entire family due to her luck. When she was only seven months old, she contracted an illness that was only found in a remote area on her planet, thank goodness they had a cure. At seven years old, she was bit by a Izilian fur beast. And at seventeen years old, she fell down a flight of stairs, only receiving minor scrapes. As of yet, the only bad luck she’s received was breaking a few household items.
Yia knew that she wanted to be a doctor at the age of seventeen when a visited a doctor to make sure there weren’t any broken bones due to her fall. She was amazed at the technology they used and how fast they could think with some much happening around them. She earned her PhD in medicine and a PhD in Pharmacy. Before she was hired upon this mission, she was working free-lance to both the rich and the poor of her world.
Other: Is a vegetarian just like most of her race.Username:
Antlers.
Name:
Professor Hark'Sla Lizen ""Hark" Yior Marif.
Age:
32.
Gender:
Male.
Species:
Ccdak.
Description/Image:
Hark is not exactly normal among his species. While his entire species is silver and grey, and his home planet a similar colour scheme, Hark is actually colourful. He has bright yellow feline eyes, and blood red wings. His skin is dark scarlet, and the only other colours on him are his white claws and canines, and his tail, which is the same colour as the rest of him, except it has a silver tip. He was born to normal parents, and a huge collection of scientists’ have poured over his DNA, trying to find the reason for his mutation of colour, but they have never discovered it. Hark also has a liking for Hman clothing, and normally wears designer Jeans, and a black T-shirt with slits for his wings. He goes bare-footed as most of his species does, and wears a black-leather belt with a silver buckle.
Disabilities, Allergies or Disadvantages:
Hark has a strong allergic reaction to caffeine. He suffers small seizures from even a sip of it, and can die if enough is ingested.
Abilities and Advantages:
While the breaking skills of most of his race are only low, Hark is highly skilled at it. He can will anything he is touching to break and weapons pointed at him break on there own. This could be considered both a disability and an ability.
Equipment:
Hark doesn't carry any weaponry with himself, besides on a small laser-powered dagger he ties to his ankle, and a energy blaster implanted in his watch. He wears an old, watch of Human design, which has been customized so that it is not just a watch. A hyper-small laser bullet can be ejected from the front of the watch, from a miniature laser gun that is disguised as a button on the watch. The bullet is very powerful, and can go through titanium, or blow someone’s hand off.
Job:
Scientist.
History:
Hark was born to an impoverished noble of the Ck Dynasty. His mother was a failed actress, and the only way the family survived from living off the generosity of the Emperor, a 3rd Cousin of Hark's father, and selling what was left of the family estate and heirlooms. Hark was born in a particularly poor time for the family. The 3rd Cousin, the Emperor, had just been executed, and the family was selling the Manor House and moving to an old farmers cottage. Hark grew up with farm animals, and was happy at home, but he was picked on at school because of his colour, but his science teacher, a immigrant of Hyathera background who was also half Ccdak, was sympathetic and understanding.
She recognized his scientific skills, and took up tutoring him after school. By the time he was 18 he had received a Bachelor of Science. By the time he was 25 he had a Doctorate Of Alientology. At 28 he received a Masters Degree in Xenoarchaeology and at 30 a Doctorate Of. Xenoarchaeology. At 30 he was made the youngest professor at the Royal University Of Ck, and took up teaching Xenoarchaeology and Alientology until he was recruited for the mission. He has also made himself a small fortune on the stockmarket, and from several scientific journals he has published.
Other:
None.Username: Wattz
Name: Odel Wuu
Age: 47
Gender: Female
Species: Larxz
Description/Image: Odel looks like a typical Larxz, standing at 3’ 2’’ with the usual green, splotchy skin, webbed hands and feet, long tail, and large wings. Odel had round facial features that look mean when she isn’t talking or exuding a particular emotion. Her clothes are bland, often wearing colors such as brown, black, or off-white.
Disabilities, Allergies or Disadvantages: Odel’s height, while normal amongst her people, can provide her with a clear disadvantage against other races much taller than her own. Her appearance can also put some people off, which is not a useful trait for a linguist to have. Also, though her race is naturally good at swimming, she finds it a hassle to do so for fear of losing the notes she carries around.
Abilities and Advantages: Her natural-born Larxz abilities give her a decent advantage, including the ability to turn temporarily invisible. Her natural curiosity to understand language barriers and the cultural importance of languages is also an advantage. Odel can speak twenty-three languages, though she cannot speak most of them fluently.
Equipment: Odel carries around a satchel with a high-tech computer that contains her notes. She guards it with her life, because it carries all of the research of other languages she’s conducted. Odel is constantly adding new information to it if she can help it.
Job: Linguist
History: Odel Wuu has been interested in linguistics every since she noticed the distinct dialects between the Larxz. She noticed that each dialect has impacted the way they treat each other, even amongst their own social groups. This lead to a curiosity to understand language barriers between species. She began researching in an isolated environment, but soon realized that the best way to research the way others spoke was through direct interaction.
As luck would have it, Odel managed to weasel her way onto an expedition of sorts that would allow her to traverse space (not after having spent almost all of her money and then some from a few family members). Unfortunately, she found that many other species were highly unwilling to participate in her research, given her Larxz appearance. Some communities weren’t nearly as tightly knit, but for the less-willing, Odel had to work to gain a positive reputation amongst them. The latest few years of her career were spent studying dying or otherwise dead languages for fear of losing their cultural importance. She spent about twenty-five years doing this, until she was recruited for the mission.
It is a bit misleading, however, to say that Odel was recruited for the mission. Once The Thing began to lay wreckage to species upon species, she became horribly concerned about the impact it would have on cultures and languages. She’d spoken to many whom were devastated by the losses, and Odel needed a reason to help out the mission. Odel pushed herself onto the project after showing piles upon piles of research to the higher ups illustrating the necessity of having a linguist on board. Not only would it help with language gaps, but it could also potentially lead to more information about The Thing: it was possible that understanding the monster could be culturally tied to a variety of species.
Other: None
Username:
Antlers.
Name:
Lord-Elmahed Dace-Hawk “Dace” Prodessorn Morple Karif
Age:
126.
Gender:
Male.
Species:
Ccdak x Gaeja.
Description/Image:
Dace is tall even for a Gaeja or Ccdak. He stands 8”6’ft tall, and has the regular silver colouring of Ccdak, but splotches of black from his father show through on his torso. His right wing was destroyed from birth. It is folded up against his back permanently and the feathers have been shredded so badly they’ll never grow back. In fact it is totally useless. His left wing is still intact though, and Dace also has a large scar across his right arm. A number of insect scales from his father cover his more delicate pieces of anatomy, including his groin and throat. He also has the insect eyes of a Gaeja and fangs that produce the same poison that fills Gaeja stingers.
Disabilities, Allergies or Disadvantages:
Dace has lost his ability to fly, thanks to his destroyed wing, and he has trouble eating some foods because of his fangs.
Abilities and Advantages:
Dace has a much stronger telepathic talent than most Ccdak’s. He can sense sentient life-forms around him, and also talk telepathically with other Ccdak. He is much stronger than a normal Ccdak, and his insectoid eyes are much more sensitive than mammalian ones.
Equipment:
Dace carries a powerful semi-automatic laser handgun, which has 400 rounds of hyper-compressed laser-pellets. The pellets are tiny titanium shells, which contain a tiny plasma explosive that detonates on impact.
He wears a suit of powered chameleon armour, which is attached to a laser-sniper rifle, which can fire with a thought from Dace. The armour is also connected to Dace’s mind, allowing him to process all the data from the sensors and control its features with only mental commands.
Job:
Weapons Expert.
History:
Dace’s older brother was born to a rich father who cast him and his mother out at birth. His father, who held the title of Lord-Elmahed at the time, also placed a bounty on their heads, claiming his wife stole his child. Dace’s mother had to flee off-planet, and she decided on Gragama. Because of the Gaeja’s infamous protection of anyone who takes refuge on their planet, Dace’s step-father was powerless to endanger them further, and Dace’s mother settled down on the planet. She soon began an affair with a Gaeja thought, and through her ‘actions’ with the said insect being, Dace was born. He grew up as outcast from both Gaeja and Ccdak society, and when he moved home to Ck at 4 he was teased and picked on by his age-mates. Afterwards he retreated in to himself, until at 17 he found an unlikely friend in a fellow Gaeja, who was visiting Ck with his father. The two became best friends until almost 60 years later when Dace’s step-father died. His brother took his father’s title, but only months after he did, he was killed in a freak car accident. Dace was forced to take the title, as the only remotely related heir.
His best friend was taken hostage a month later. The kidnappers demanded Dace abdicate the title or his friend would die. Almost instantly an interstellar incident followed. Dace’s friend’s father was a powerful diplomat, and Dace himself was a powerful man now, with billions at his disposal. The kidnappers were captured in a covert operation, but Dace’s friend was slaughtered during the battle, taking ten kidnappers with him to the grave though.
Afterwards Dace began to study weaponry, fearing for his own life, but also wishing revenge on the murderers that escaped. Soon he took commando training, and eventually he was declared a full drop-commando. In the 40 years since he has trained to become a deadly warrior, and in the time being killed the kidnappers that escaped. He needed a new objective after that mission was finished, so he decided to study archaic weaponry and become adept at using it. When he discovered the trip to Earth, he signed up, wishing for a challenge and was accepted.
Other:
Dace is the holder of a royal title, Lord Elmahed, the second most powerful title on Ck. Only the King-Elmahed, the ruler of Ck, outranks him.
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