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Messages - Avis-Mergulus

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Name: Alex Shater
Sex:Male
Age:29
Occupation:Xenosurvivalist
Background: Alex was a young boy when he joined MIT as a xenobiologist, but he had trouble, skipped classes, was rude to professors, and simply didn't like school. He only got in becauses of who his father was. After he dropped out, he decided to become a survivalist and became involved with the colonization effort, first on Titan and Euoropa, then Io, then here. He has a wide range of skills including identifying plants, gathering food, basic construction and crafting, and basic mining.
Mmm... a problem. While there may or may not be mining outposts on Europa and Io, there wouldn't be any permanent colonies - the crews would rotate, because these worlds do not support life in general. The Boreas colonists, however, will never return to Earth. Stasis fluid is very expensive and terribly difficult to manufacture, and there's no way the Boreans would be getting the tech until the second wave, which will be in another seventy years after you build a QE transmitter and report success.
The colonization of Boreas is the first such effort that humanity undertakes - that is a key point.
I am imagining this whole thing as hard or at least hard-ish sci-fi in the vein of Lem's Pirx stories and Soviet fiction, like Yefremov's better works (I dunno if anybody outside of the former USSR reads that), or the Strugatsky brothers' more serious books. So, space travel's kind of a big deal.
Also, xenobiology is the science of creating artificial biological systems, isn't it?

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Well, your background does look quite survival-oriented. However, I did warn you guys about science - I hope you know your geology/genetics/engineering magics.

That's what Wikipedia is for, isn't it? :P
Ayup. Also wiki-walks.

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This is an interesting team.

A clone biologist.
A minor cyborg scientist.
Medic.
Fisherman and outdoorsman.

Prospector outdoorsman, thank you very much.

Also, finally finished my character sheet. Not much to look at, we need someone who can explore and survive in the harsh enviroment.
Well, your background does look quite survival-oriented. However, I did warn you guys about science - I hope you know your geology/genetics/engineering magics.

Spoiler: Markus Calion (click to show/hide)
Also, I don't want to be a spoilsport, but if your character is fourteen, he has to come from a place where it is the age of majority, so he would be legally allowed to sign in. Your options are basically most of the African Commonwealth, select southern bits of the Pan-American Alliance, some of the Arab states, and the People's Republic of China (Do excuse me if that is inconsistent with the current picture - my sociology magics aren't very strong either).

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Hey Avis, is this first come first served?
Well, I dunno. You see, there are eighty colonists up for grabs on Horizon alone. I'll add a waitlist, and if you guys prove hard to kill and I see that I can manage more than six players at a time, I will just insert the waitlisted people into the game. If you kick the bucket, well, all the easier. For now, yes, it's first come, first serve.


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Reserved, sheet coming.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
Okay, I'm down with this, except for one thing. You see, I'm trying to imagine this future as still understandable to modern-day humans. You know this Clarke's Law thing about sufficiently advanced technology being indistinguishable from magic? Well, here, it's still possible to distinguish between the two. So, prosthetic limbs are okay, brain implants are quite avant-garde but still fine, but self-aware computers are pushing the envelope a bit. I'll try to make it work if you insist, but it leaves me with a lot of inconsistencies to explain away, like why Horizon Base doesn't have magic AI.
Oh, and also, where's he from? I should probably add that to the charsheet...

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How is my bio?
Oh! It was spoilered, so I didn't notice you had posted it. I like the concept a lot, there are tons of opportunities for character development here, and the bit about the unfinished medical training gives it all a nice sense of versatility. Plus, possible mommy issues. One question, though. The military of which country did Sean serve in?

Your choice so long as it isn't USA or it's equivalent.

Then I'll say it was the EU's military force. They had a bit of a scuffle with the African Commonwealth upon their unification. Basically, the EU military moved in with intervention forces, but the whole thing stalemated and the EU pulled out and now both Africa and Europe are pretending very hard that this war didn't happen.
It ended several months after the Horizon took off, but keep in mind that you have been traveling for almost seventy years. Things may have changed back on Earth.

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How is my bio?
Oh! It was spoilered, so I didn't notice you had posted it. I like the concept a lot, there are tons of opportunities for character development here, and the bit about the unfinished medical training gives it all a nice sense of versatility. Plus, possible mommy issues. One question, though. The military of which country did Sean serve in?

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-snip-
Well, this is cool. It seems to me that we will all be writing the lore for this verse together (and that is awesome). So, can I say that Bioglo is registered either in the African Commonwealth, or in the Turkic states? The Slavic Coalition, the PRC, and the European Union do not allow human cloning and general human research.
Note: FTL communication is possible in this verse via quantum-entangled transmitters, but they're the size of a house and require metric buttloads of energy, so Dr. McGaw will have to just collect research data until you build a QE transmitter to send it back to Earth, for which you need an efficient fuel source.

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The year is 2231, and you are sleeping in space. Your sleep is just a single notch above death.
Your blood has been replaced with nutrient fluid, and a machine is doing your breathing for you. It is cold, but you do not feel it, and your sleep is dreamless.

You are aboard the colony ship Horizon, along with seventy-nine other colonists. The ship resembles an early Space age rocket, but differs in several key aspects: first, it is much larger. It's not skyscraper-sized, but it's a good twenty stories high. Second, it's aerodynamic shape is broken by a cylindrical bulge near the middle - that is where the ablative capsules containing the colonists are.

You are fleeing your home's overpopulation problems: you remember spending your childhood in a place that was like a hive, with people - millions of people - scurrying about like insects. The colonization effort is sponsored by several governments and organizations, and you are part of the first wave - the second wave ships will contain thousands upon thousands, not a mere eighty. Your flight has been paid for by a multinational organization, and you are part of a multinational crew of specialists with diverse skill sets, off to create a new home for yourself in this new world.

The world is called Boreas, after the ancient Greeks' god of winter. It is remarkably Earth-like, as planets go. So what if the yearly mean temperature is somewhere in the region of -25? The alternatives were worse. The athmosphere is almost identical to Earth's, and research shows traces of Earth-like plant life, supposedly conifers. It has three large continents: you will be touching down on the largest one, close to the coast near a major river.

Horizon and her sister ship Jah's Home enter Boreas orbit on November 7, 2231 by Earth time. They update their maps with locations of other nations and companies' camps – apparently, a group of Slavic Coalition colonists have made camp some two hundred kilometers from where you'll be making planetfall. They call their town Yermakov Ostrog, and the river is apparently now called Novy Don. You will be landing on the other side, which they haven't explored yet.

Of the ships, now only the aforementioned bulging sections are left: the propulsion stages have been long since discarded, and the nose cones have been shot off to reveal semi-spherical snouts covered in thick ablative shielding. They point themselves down and topple slowly into the atmosphere.

In the upper  layers, Horizon unfolds like a flower, scattering ablative landing capsules away from its central cylinder, which will be using its main engines to decelerate. The hardware inside – hydroponics facilities, dry rations, tools, weapons, water purifiers, warm clothing, a small reactor, solar panels, and most importantly, a self-assembling manufacturing unit that can even make planes – can withstand the deceleration. Any humans, however, would be reduced to jelly, so your capsule will be descending on a parachute, after it clears the upper layers, of course. The storage section will be landing first, reorienting itself thrusters down and firing its massive engines just a kilometer from the surface. Then, if everything goes according to the plan, the capsules will land around it with a spread of a few kilometers.

The wind howls around you as you plunge towards your new home.

Spoiler: Players and info (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Armory (click to show/hide)

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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll To ? ? ?
« on: December 01, 2013, 10:13:39 pm »
Follow the dwarf. If possible, acquire some flameroot for later consumption.
((What? The ability to shit flammable poo is very useful, innit?))

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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll To ? ? ?
« on: December 01, 2013, 02:19:04 pm »
((If you want someone to go with you, you should say so in-character, I think.))

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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll To ? ? ?
« on: December 01, 2013, 07:44:52 am »
((Well. I was planning on going along with everyone else but... And Rune, you know, you could bump the thread if people aren't posting.))

Sharkteeth nods at the bowman vigorously, his smile demonstrating grim elation at the idea of fighting human opponents.
Again, agree with the archer, but go along with everyone else if they decide on a different idea.

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Roll To Dodge / Re: Roll To ? ? ?
« on: December 01, 2013, 04:53:40 am »
((How about we PM him or something?))
((BTW, that was surprising. I was just browsing my Unread Replies, and I was like: "Nothing... Rage thread... Mall fight... Nothing... Nothing... *coffee spit* ROLL TO ? ? ?! TRULY, MINE EYES ART LIARS."))

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Roll To Dodge / Re: Mall Fight: RTD-ified: DING DONG, THE BOSSES ARE DEAD
« on: November 28, 2013, 07:34:23 am »
"By Mithra, what the dang is going on here? Why am I always surrounded by madmen?" Familiar thoughts, those.
Acquire a weapon, any weapon. Seriously, anything that possesses any mildly weapon-like qualities will do. Refrain from provoking people, but shield-bash anything that interferes with weapon acquisition.

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"I BUILD ALLIANCES, RECRUIT TROOPS, PLAN, STRATEGIZE...FOR WHAT!? IT IS TIME FOR DIRECT ACTION!"

Respawn and drop-kick NullForceOmega in the pie-hole!

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