Not too long ago you and several of your mates were trailing through a scarp field looking for something valuable to scavange when you stumbled upon an abandoned ship drifting in space.
Closer inspection revealed it to be an impropperly decommissioned warship which all things considered is in remarkably good condition.
The name Firestar is printed on the side.
The Firestar is what's known as a sudden striker vessel, it's designed to deliver massive amounts of firepower over a very short time while being fast an manuverable enough to preform hit and run attacks.
They once were very popular but fell out of frontline use as engagement ranges increased rendering the kind of powerful short range weapons they carried useless.
It didn't take long for you to decide to fix it up and get it running again.
The firestar is a long narrow ship built around the two twin linked railguns that run the length of the vessel.
It also sports four hundred missile tubes that line the sides of the ship, each missile tube has an independant targeting and sensor system built into it.
There are six energy based point defense turrets at strategic positions on the hull and four offensive turrets armed with 4 inch repeater cannons.
There is an umbrella of thick armor at the prow of the ship with two gaps for the rail gun barrels, the rest of the ship is only lightly armored.
It's a little larger than the standard destroyers currently in use but not by much.
Recommissioning the power core, engine and rail guns took less than three hours work collectively.
Though there were some issues you ran into such as the fact that everyting not nailed down hand been taken before the ship was abandoned.
This meant no munitions for any of the guns was left in storage and the entire computer system had been completely wiped of everything.
Someone somehow managed to juryrig the operating system of the shuttle you arrived in to work on the Firestars computer systems.
Gloroiusly lights and computer screens around the ship began lighting up
You now have control over your very own warship, now what to do with it?
Hull damage: Minimal
Armor: Full
System Damage: Negelected
Railgun shells: 0 (Railgun shells do more damage but the railguns can still fire scrap metal if need be)
Cannon shells: 0
Missiles: 0
Crew:15
Crew Morale: Very high
Crew rations: 105 (one crew ration per crew memeber consumed per day)
Other Craft:
LR Cargo Shuttle (the horse you rode in on. It's a long range little shuttle capable of going a significant distance without refuling or resupplying)
This will be a suggestion game but if anyone wants to lay claim to and Rp a crew member they're welcome to.
USER:Kestrel_6
NAME: John Varayis
AGE: 25
ITEMS: SMG
Tactical Armor
Armature Sciences Eyepiece.
USER:Amok
Hacker/Sys admin
USER:Monk12
Engineer
USER: Kadzar
NAME: Dylan Sorbo
ITEMS: Stylish Green Cloak
Neural Whip
USER: ansontan2000
NAME: James Lockman
AGE: 25
OCCUPATION: Chief shooter
ITEMS: Advanced firing goggles (Keeps the flash out of eyes)
Recoil gloves (Obviously, reduces recoil)
Ammo pack.
USER: Urist McDwarffortress
Name:Urist
AI
USER:Angle
NAME: Joseph Mator'sken
AGE: 32
OCCUPATION: Starship Weapons Engineer
ITEMS: Personal computer with terrabytes of weapon schematics, modeling, design, and CAD software, Clothes.
BACKGROUND: Was an engineer, started making weapons designs for fun. Sold some of them on the black market, caught attention of Noble House. Declined employment, had to flee. Still fleeing.
USER:IamanElfCollaborator/ElfCollab
NAME: Seth MacLeod
AGE: 25
OCCUPATION: Engineer/demolitions expert
ITEMS: Repair kit (laser cutter, welding torch,etc)
PDA/comm with terabytes of reparation techniques
Rocket propelled explosive launcher and 5 shots of ammo
BACKGROUND: A Scottish engineer who had a fascination with explosions. He went spacefaring after an incident with nitroglycerine and a cat lady.
USER: Xardalas
NAME: Xil Valcenti
AGE: 28
ITEMS: M9 Pistol
OCCUPATION: Fighter Pilot
BACKGROUND: Used to be a military fighter pilot till he was layed off. Now wandwers around and offers his services to any who pay.
USER: Adwarf
NAME: Zack Martin
AGE: 18
ITEMS: Toolbox
OCCUPATION: Mechanic/Inventor
BACKGROUND: Zack was run off from his world for illegally producing weapons for use in war, and has since decided to go on the run, and join anyone who would give him the freedom to make whatever he wants. Seeing the Firestar he figures it might need his expertise, and his slightly insane ideas for inventions.
USER: Gotdamnmiracle
NAME: Alec Field
AGE: 26
ITEMS: Bodysleeve
Carbonknife (not detected on low security scans)
OCCUPATION: insertion/ stealth pilot
BACKGROUND: Alec worked for a couple of the Imperial houses mostly flying missions that required a stealthy docking and assault or an ambush. Alec is not trained in actual combat piloting though so anything beyond surprise attacks and hit and run tactics is not his forte. Alec knows how to stay hidden in a ship though. As a result of playing for both sides in house conflicts he had to go into hiding, landing him in a nasty crowd where he was able to learn how to hook onto and quickly assault a vessel with a small team. Alec would drop an EMP in their lap, turn on the magnetic strip on the hatch, clip into the side of the vessel, someone would cut right in and they would be inside it with a gun to the captians head in a minute flat (if it's a small ship with little complications). Alec is only mediocre at assaulting a vessel however, seeing as he spends most of his time in the pilot seat. This kind of high stress job has taken it's toll over time and Alec has developed a drinking problem.
User:10ebbor10
Name: Robert ( No nickname, or anything else)
Former job: Pirate technical support
Bio: Robert was responsible for the maintenance, repairs and equiping of his pirate groups fleet. Since pirates don't often have acces to state of the art gear, or even spareparts, he had to fix them with whatever he had on hand. This also allowed him to come up with a couple of interesting and effective new weapons.
However, that also meant he got the problems when a large deal of the fighters was damaged due to malfunctioning cheap bought missiles. He managed to escape using a selfbuild jumpcapable escape pod.( Basically an armored shuttle that was launched at the systems sun). The rest of the Pirate fleet was destroyed when their heathsinks and lifesupports mysteriously malfunctioned. Nows he's here and looking for a job that won't get him killed the moment anything goes wrong.
User:PyroDesu
Name: Arjen Ross
(Former) Profession: Soldier
(Current) Profession: Mercenary (Security)
Cybernetics: leg (right), arm (right), eye (left), large part of left face (No special enhancements other than HUD in the eye, also supported by equipment over other eye)
Equipment:
HUD visor (over right eye)
Submachinegun
Bio: A former Collective of Imperial Worlds soldier, Arjen was discharged after a disastrous boarding mission, which resulted in both of his right limbs mutilated beyond use, and a very large area on the left his face (including the eye) destroyed. He was one of the luckier ones, most of the soldiers on that mission died or received even more horrid injuries. After he was stabilized, the doctors offered him cybernetics that could replace what he lost and more, but he rejected, only grudgingly taking what would allow him to have his normal life back. After he was discharged, he bought passage to Tabien, seeking comfort by being in a backwater and often overlooked system, thinking it would be more peaceful than the bustling systems of the Collective. However, when he got to the station there, he found it was anything but peaceful, and the sheer number of contracts indicating pirates and other activity in the area. With his past military experience, he was sought out by a mercenary group wanting him as one of their number. He refused, however, and decided to have a go at the smaller jobs with the shuttle he got to Tabien with and that he had modified to have a pair of gattling cannons and a missile tube with a hammer missile, flying very light escort missions, not quite up to getting a ship he couldn't operate by himself.
When the Firestar docked at Tabien, he saw his chance at some real action, wich he had started to sorely miss, but had enough sense to keep out of the shuttle boarding, feeling something would go very wrong. He was right. He mostly kept to himself on the ship, just doing whatever work that was required to keep the ship running.
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