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    Default [OOC] Stargate: Atlantis



    Atlantis
    City of the Ancients

    In a time before living record a species of advanced beings known only as the Ancients built the Stargate network to connect their worlds throughout the Milky Way. These great metallic rings possess the ability to create wormholes to send the user to their destination almost instantaneously, a feat that would not be replicated again. They created humanity in their image and sat on the Alliance of Four Great Races, pledging to protect the lesser races.

    Then they left.

    Millions of years later humanity has rediscovered the Stargate buried on Earth and started exploring the stars, retracing the footsteps of its creators. This effort has been spearheaded by the Stargate Program under Stargate Command, a top-secret division under the United States Air Force. In the span of seven short years it has combated and destroyed many foes including the Goa'uld, a race of malevolent worm parasites who lorded over displaced human populations as false gods. Their most recent effort under the lead of the flagship team SG-1 revealed the existence of an Ancient outpost beneath the ice of Antarctica. With the battle concluded efforts to study the ruins have revealed the location of Atlantis, the city-ship of the Ancients in the Pegasus galaxy.

    Acknowledging the potential value of finding new technology and allies to aid in the defense of humanity against an ever-growing number of threats the SGC has authorized the Atlantis Expedition, a multi-national team of scientists and soldiers. It will be a one-way trip. The vast distance to the Pegasus galaxy demands power on a level only possible with an Ancient Zero-Point Module, or ZPM, of which the SGC has only one. If there is to be any hope for the members of the Atlantis Expedition to ever see home again it would require them to find a way back themselves.

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    Welcome to Stargate: Atlantis! This is a fanfic RP set in the Stargate universe at the onset of the Atlantis Expedition. With the defeat of the Goa'uld System Lord Anubis humanity has earned itself a brief reprieve from a hostile Milky Way galaxy. In the process it has also discovered a way to reach Atlantis, the city-ship of the Ancients, creators of the Stargate network. Unable to pass up such a rare opportunity to acquire new and powerful technology and even possibly meet living Ancients, Stargate Command has authorized a multi-national expedition to the Pegasus galaxy.

    Player characters will be members of the Atlantis Expedition, a mix of (mostly US) military personnel and civilian and military scientists brought into the top-secret Stargate Program from around the world. Military personnel will be assigned to Atlantis-Pegasus (AP) teams sent through the Stargate once in the Pegasus galaxy while scientists will be organized by their areas of knowledge allowing them to engage in research and development as well as accompanying AP teams on their exploration of the Pegasus galaxy to provide assistance on matters outside military expertise. The standing objectives of the Atlantis Expedition is to explore new worlds, procure new technology, and make alliances to protect humanity from any and all dangers.

    Their task will not be an easy one. Far from home and cut off from any support the members of the Atlantis Expedition will have to learn to survive on their own. Resources will be limited to what the Expedition can acquire themselves and any trouble it encounters will have to be resolved by the members without external support. Managing weapons and supplies will be as vital as developing new ways to defend against hostile foes. Failure may just mean the death of the Expedition, but it may also mean the destruction of mankind.

    If you are not familiar with the Stargate franchise, don't worry. I would be happy to help you navigate the lore. Knowing a lot about Stargate will not be necessary to play this RP and I will keep notes for anyone who is new. Stargate is as much about discovery and development as anything else, after all.

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    - Please use third-person past tense for all in character posts
    - Use assigned text colors to indicate other people's text in your posts
    - Quote other posts only for context - do not quote entire posts
    - Speech marks are fine for your own character's dialogue
    - Please post notes in the OOC if you are taking a break or leaving the RP

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    @Highlander Sniper; - Sgt. Liana Ray Dominick

    @Goldenbraid - Chasity Summers

    @StormWolf - 2nd Lt. Wesley Price

    @InfraredHero - Colonel Brandon Kramer

    @Dnafein - Lt. Stanley Rodgers
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    Name: Sergeant. Liana Ray Dominick, US military

    Age: 27

    Appearance: She's about 5' 5" and is very slim and fit. Her coccasion skin was lightly tanned, her eyes were light green with soft dark brown hair that went down just past her shoulders which she puts into a ponytail half the time

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    Skills / Specializations: Military Psychotherapist, basic first aid, basic survival, French language,

    Inventory: Military fatigues, Shorts and T-shirt and shoes, hat and sunglasses, family photo, hygiene products, pen and pencils, notebooks.

    Short bio:
    Liana grew up on the California coast. Her parents had good jobs and were able to live in relative comfort in a nice beachside house. They had everything that they needed and more.
    She grew up with 2 older brothers and 2 older sisters. But she was very kind, and was a good listener. It really seemed to help them to talk about their problems, and she was actually interested in what they were dealing with, and it sort of hurt when they didn’t talk about it, especially when they talked to someone else.

    She had a few close friends in school, and they too came to trust her with their problems. She grew bold in asking about problems and for standing up for her friends. She grew curious and decided to ask questions of war veterans on the visits they got on veterans day and decided that she wanted to be able to do something for the men on the front lines. She graduated from college with majors and minors that would help her with Psychotherapist and applied for military service. The first few days of military training was hell and she almost passed out more than once from over exertion, but she pulled through and improved.

    She was up in reserves for the first new months after she was accepted, but was later sent to the Afghanistan after 9/11 in mid October of 2001 and was transferred to Iraq in 2003 after a front was opened there and served a total of 4 years in the middle east before being sent back home on extended medical leave on account of a broken arm from a close call with a suicide bomber. during her time in the Middle East, she was able to talk with her fellow soldiers and help them through their stress and anxiety of the battlefield, but needed to talk with someone herself. Her training, personality, and experience allowed her to find common ground and help them through their problems and find closure as well.

    In her service, she managed to keep a level head for the most part and kept another squad mate alive until a medic to get to him. She also managed to fend off a small group of terrorists for a few minutes while another squadmate got in contact with base for a pullout. She was awarded the rank of sergeant, a bronze star, a purple heart, and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal. She managed to keep a smile after her time in the Middle East and was later approached by SGC. she was accepted and volunteered for the Atlantis expedition despite still recovering from her broken arm. She argued that she would be of great use on the team since they would be under great stress in an isolated area, that she needed to get a new look at things, and that she could still shoot in any case.
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    Stark, the name given to my ancestor for a feat of bravery. It means Strength, or Strong.
    The motto give: fortiorum fortia facta (made stronger and braver)

    I say, let us all be fortiorum fortia facta.

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    Following the trend and going minimalist, personality and history can be cone into more in-depth in the IC. She's mostly just the character from the other campaign, with some changes to age and backstory to fit with the point in the timeline we're at.

    Name: Amadae Ish'sha

    Age:Twenty-something, probably...she doesn't know her precise birth-date, and with decelerated aging, it's hard to tell how old she's supposed to be.
    Appearance: A tall, slim young woman with a mix of Caucasian and Arabic features that leave her ethnicity vague. Richly tanned skin, dark green eyes that glow gold when her 'other half' is in control , and long, silky black hair that hangs over a purely decorative golden head-emblem set into her forehead, adorned with the symbol for Pi. While she's never exercised a day in her life, her form is kept in peak condition, toned and muscular, by her symbiote's careful management of her body chemistry.

    Atlantis-Pegasus Team / Scientist Expertise: Mathematician, Technology Specialist, and living, breathing Databank.

    Skills / Specializations: A natural grasp of higher-order Mathematics, perfect recall, fluency in Ancient and over a dozen other languages, and a familiarity with technology well beyond what the Tau'ri posses. Her Symbiote has centuries of genetic memory that she can draw upon, including certain combat skills that come out in times of extreme stress. She cannot operate gene-locked ancient technology, though,as even if she had ever had the control gene, the Naquadah in her veins and the 'improvements' made to her biochemistry by her symbiote make her no longer read as wholly human.

    Inventory: Dozens of notebooks full of tiny, nearly illegible handwriting, her life's work. While it's all in her head, she prefers to keep a physical medium on-hand to record her discoveries and thoughts in real-time. Additionally, she's found the familiar act of writing in a 'diary' of sorts to put her Tau'ri 'friends' more at ease, making her seem more approachable.

    Background: A war-orphan rescued from a slave-world that had displeased it's Goa'uld masters, Amadea was relocated to a colony-world housing a mix of displaced peoples, including Tok'ra, Jaffa, and members of the various other peoples freed from oppression, raised by the community, surrounded by diverse influences, including representatives from the new Asgard Alliance that supplied the fledgling community.

    Despite her extraordinary IQ, Amadea was a frail child, suffering multiple bouts of various cancers, likely the result of exposure to the dirty weapons that had laid waste to her first home. Eventually, her condition was deteriorating even faster than advanced medical technology could counter, and so the Tok'ra extended her the offer of a symbiote, which she took, bonding her for life with a being that calls itself 'Emnon'. She quickly devoured every scrap of knowledge she could find, and grew interminably bored with the subsistence-level life she and her fellow colonists were living.

    Eventually, she began to seek out any visitor she could find from off-world, including the Tau'ri, searching for anything new to do or learn, and after making some 'friends'(some of the more intimate sort than others), managed to convince them to take her pleas to their superiors. That she was smart and resourceful, could be a great asset to their own research. While SGC was reluctant to allow an 'Alien' and relative unknown on their planet, a bit of intercession by the Tok'ra convinced them to allow her to take up residence in the Cheyanne Mountain Complex and to both learn from and teach the best and brightest minds in the Stargate program. Since then, she's been done more teaching than learning, especially in the sort of esoteric mathematics that govern Ancient technology.

    Her reputation on Earth varies depending on who you talk to...lots of humans don't trust her, and are downright afraid of Emnon when he comes out to say anything, others see her as a sort of endearing, precocious intern, butting into their work and asking all sorts of questions....while others, the ones who catch her eye, know her as the 'freak in room 3-B, who'll rock your world until she gets bored'.


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    @everyone
    Where applicable, please mention what nation your character is from. The Atlantis Expedition is multi-national with (presumably) members from the US, the UK, France, China, Russia, Canada, and the Czechia. Keep in mind that the US has handled the Stargate in secret for two years before Russia became aware and five years before they informed the UK, France, and China. You can explore it more in the IC, but consider how these nations, and by consequence your character, view the US' monopoly on the Stargate and its benefits. Are they angry that the US kept this hazardous secret; envious of its potential; thankful for the US' handling of the situation? As a US member consider how the US views the substantial increase in involvement by foreign nations that the Atlantis Expedition represents. Are they wary because of the potential security risks; uneasy due to the sudden change; satisfied that others are now doing their part?

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    Notes:
    1. Psychotherapy requires a lot of character to character interaction, particularly considering what the Atlantis Expedition might encounter.

    2. SG:A used a civilian psychotherapist, but a military one is acceptable, though whether they are civilian or military should impact their approach/portrayal.

    3. Twenty-five is pretty young for what she is being asked to do. This ties to your biography, which should be minimum of three paragraphs. The Stargate Program is top secret and kept from the public. How did she qualify for this posting and clearance? After that, why did she volunteer for the Atlantis Expedition and why was she considered a better candidate than any other?

    @Damonique
    Things I like:
    1. Implication of intimate relations with humans. It could be an interesting roleplay opportunity.

    2. Basically everything about her inventory. It helps to highlight her personality.

    Notes:
    1. Even with stellar variance between her birth planet and the refugee planet, I am fairly sure her age would be known.

    2. Re: Abilities
    Swap perfect recall for exceptional recall. I can't find reference to perfect recall, just genetic memory, which doesn't prove that the memories are correct or complete. Martouf/Lantesh had their memories altered.

    Anubis used Ancient to cipher his secrets and the Tok'ra were unable to break the ciphers. Daniel created a Tau'ri guide to translation that helped many Tau'ri learn, but that doesn't mean Amadae would be given this information. Even understanding the Ancient language, the Tau'ri frequently struggled to understand Ancient technology to the very end of both SG-1 and Atlantis.

    Other languages need to be reduced in number and explicitly listed. Knowing Old French is different than the knowing the obscure language of a one-time ally of the Tok'ra reduced to ash by the Goa'uld.

    The Jaffa work out and train, so the physical benefit is iffy and I don't recall any instance where a Tok'ra became martially capable due to their symbiote's past knowledge.

    You can keep or strike the reference to the Ancient gene, though the symbiote impact is noted.

    3. Re: Background
    Is the Asgard Alliance the Protected Planets Treaty or the Alliance of Four Great Races (Ancient, Asgard, Nox, Furlings)? The PPT was an Asgard bluff used mainly to protect small planet-tied populations; there isn't much indication that most populations in the Milky Way not under the Goa'uld used their stargates like those in the Pegasus galaxy as a means of escaping when attacked. As for the Alliance, it was dead by the time Amadae was born seeing as Tok'ra hosts only live two centuries and nobody was actively protecting the Milky Way from the Goa'uld.

    To my knowledge the Tok'ra did not co-exist with the free Jaffa until the events of Stargate SG-1 and even then they kept their distance. Likewise the two did not mingle with those not of their own kind. I doubt any of the PPT planets housed either as the Goa'uld would find it too inflammatory. Otherwise there would be at least some attempt to shelter an open Tok'ra base under the PPT.

    Why did Amadae stay on the refugee planet after becoming a Tok'ra? If she did, why would the Tok'ra choose a layabout for their representative to the Tau'ri, their most important growing ally? Why would the Tau'ri agree to take her? The Tau'ri and the Tok'ra always had rocky relations and it would be a big ask to house a Tok'ra in the SGC.

    4. Above all else I want to see more about Emnon. Tok'ra hosts and symbiotes borrow heavily from each other, but that doesn't make them the same. Emnon should have their own CS to describe their background and, in particular, justify everything that they give to Amadae. How old are they? What is their standing in the Tok'ra? Why did they choose Amadae as a host? Where did they get their knowledge and experiences? What drives them?

    I want to be clear that I am not trying to nit-pick, but characters do need to be reasonable and justified. I don't mind if a lot of this just comes out, as you said, in the IC, but I do need indications that there is a coherent, reasonable explanation for all of this.
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    Mind if I shoot you a PM to hash some of this out before I edit it to work? I'll admit I sorta winged it, and could definitely use some help filling in my rusty memory of the lore and timeline. The backstory was my attempt at some justification for someone in her position getting 'tapped' for the expedition, but I'd be more than happy to switch it for something better!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Damonique View Post
    Mind if I shoot you a PM to hash some of this out before I edit it to work? I'll admit I sorta winged it, and could definitely use some help filling in my rusty memory of the lore and timeline. The backstory was my attempt at some justification for someone in her position getting 'tapped' for the expedition, but I'd be more than happy to switch it for something better!
    Of course. I am happy to help with any questions or concerns.
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    I shall work on my bio to include more detail, reasoning, and explanation and I might mess with the age.

    my CS should be edited by the end of the day
    Stark, the name given to my ancestor for a feat of bravery. It means Strength, or Strong.
    The motto give: fortiorum fortia facta (made stronger and braver)

    I say, let us all be fortiorum fortia facta.

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    age has been slightly increased
    and backstory enlarged
    Stark, the name given to my ancestor for a feat of bravery. It means Strength, or Strong.
    The motto give: fortiorum fortia facta (made stronger and braver)

    I say, let us all be fortiorum fortia facta.

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    @Highlander Sniper
    Much better, especially the format and grammar.

    Notes:
    1. The Stargate Program is an assignment, but the Atlantis Expedition is on a voluntary basis. Why did Liana volunteer?

    2. Raise her rank to something between corporal and second lieutenant. While the SGC does employ people with the rank of private, Liana's exploits would call for her promotion above that, perhaps even beyond NCO. The ceiling is that there is only one colonel and possibly one or two majors on this Expedition and I don't see her being brought in as one of the senior officers given her specialization.

    3. We are keeping with SG:A's start, so the Expedition sets out on July 16th, 2004. You'll have to amend your character's bio to match.

    4. Purple hearts are for those wounded in battle. Where was she wounded and how did that impact her?

    Be prepared to expand in the IC on your character's backstory with things like details about her past exploits and family/friends. You don't have to include it in the CS bio unless it has a decisive impact on who she is currently.
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    I have made the necessary changes I know of right now
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    Stark, the name given to my ancestor for a feat of bravery. It means Strength, or Strong.
    The motto give: fortiorum fortia facta (made stronger and braver)

    I say, let us all be fortiorum fortia facta.

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