17th Parallel Bar IV signups.

[Aileron]

Post the characters you want to use for 17th Parallel Bar IV here.

[Paine]

Uhh, I'm going to play paine, the loveable roaming terrier pilot who goes in and out of zones more frequently than a bunny making love.

[Aileron]

Let me also remind everyone to check the stickies. There are some additions to the rules.

 

 

One of them is that there will be plot NPCs this time, played by a dummy account. However, I've only come up with one and a half by now, the rest will be added on as it goes along.

 

The half of an NPC I speak of is Manus...he's still running the bar. If Manus doesn't sign on he will be an NPC, if he does he can play as a PC.

 

For each of them, I am including a "What you don't know section". You character won't know these things at the start of the RPG, and this information is not common knowledge. They are included here so that you might choose your starting faction with atleast some clue as to whats going on.

 

 

The full plot NPC I speak of is Thallina Darkstar...

 

What you know: All you know about her is that she is a mysterious young woman who will wander into the bar at about the 10th post. Those of you from the Terran League might recognize her from somewhere, but can't quite remember.

 

What you don't know: Darkstar is an Terran spy who has uncovered part of a plot to take over the galaxy and is on the run.

 

 

There will be another group of non-plot NPCs that will pop in later...men in black trenchcoats

 

What you know: Extremely mysterious. These men are dressed in identical clothing entirely black and wearing trench coats and sungl!@#$%^&*es...even indoors. They each are armed with identical disrupter pistols. They never speak, carry no identification whatsoever, and no interrogation technique, even the use of devices that can scan memories, reveals anything about them or who commands them.

 

What you don't know: They are after somebody.

 

 

Another non-plot NPC group: Space Pirates

 

What you know: Piracy has reached high levels in the past few months in Alliance territory. They have been targeting virtually any unprotected target, but the industries hit hardest are ore shipping, food shipping, and cybernetics. Pirates are rarely seen on any spacestation or settlement (except a handfull of unscrupulous independent worlds). They usually travel in fleets of one or two light destroyers or corvettes with an array of fighters. They generally preffer Weasels and Sharks for their stealth and mobility, and their capital ships are also designed to be fast and stealthy. While their encounters with military forces usually end in disaster for the pirates, recently they have done a very good job of evading any patrols by the slower heavier military vessels.

 

What you don't know: They are not pirates, they are privateers working for the Kingdom of Exis. It is also not luck or good planning that allows them to evade Alliance patrols...they have inside information.

 

 

And finally...my character:

 

Dr. Jack "Aileron" Blake is one of the best researchers of cybernetic implants alive, as well as the CEO of Cybertech, a corporation that produces cybernetic implants. Since about % of the Kanatis population, and the entirety of the military, have some sort of cybernetic enhancement it is a pretty lucrative industry.

 

He got the nickname while in a resistence cell during the Ithkull invasion of Saggatus III. The Ithkull forces set up a fighter base on the planet, which they were planning to use to make deeper cuts into Alliance territory. A group of local citizens, as well as some military personelle who were smuggled in, formed an un-named resistence cell of which Blake was a Luetenant. With space !@#$%^&*aults out of the question, the cell made numerous attempts to storm the base by land, which ended in disaster. Finally, Lt. Blake came up with a plan to build atmospheric fighters and attack from the air. He got the nickname during a technical briefing on how to construct the fighters. The base was not prepared for such an assault, and the base, as well as a fleet of empty fighters, was captured. Within a week, Ithkull's grasp on the entire colony fell apart.

 

Because of this, Jack Blake was a rewarded with scholorships to educate himself at the finest ins!@#$%^&*utions of learning the Alliance had to offer. He received his doctorate in cybernetics in 2712, and founded Cybertech in 2715.

 

His latest invention...the CTMI 5600, is a mental implant that is ten times more productive than any of the current implants on the market. However, the best feature about this implant is a device called the genetic mechanic. It can identify and repair flaws in the subject's DNA, and thus prevents and can even reverse aging. It hasn't reached the market yet, awaiting final approval from government inspection, though pre-market versions have been sold to elderly, including most of the Kanatis congress.

 

 

What you don't know: Dr. Blake is evil and is trying to take over the galaxy. If I'm still allive by the end of the thread, everybody loses 30 RP points (except those who turn to the dark side and try to help me take over the galaxy).

 

BTW, to those who want to be dumb!@#$%^&*es and kill me in about the second post - you have to proof I'm up to something before going after me.

[Manus Celer Dei]

I'll join in if you get the numbers you want, lemme know if you want any of the other files (histories, mostly)

 

My char:

 

Richard Arbury, (aka Manus, aka MCD, aka Manus Celer Dei)

 

Former Citizen-soldier of the Kanatis Alliance and an accomplished mercenary well known in military circles as being efficient and capable in the extreme, Richard has "retired" from active combat missions and has setup a small chain of businesses in the backwater that is the 17th parallel station. Many patrons of his bar (which he runs himself along with his wife Jenneke) are combat veterans of the various wars and skirmishes along the frontier and he generally gets along well with this type of person, so long as they remember who he is and don't get too rowdy.

 

Being a patriot and sharing in the Alliance strategic vision of cultural ascendancy, he is most distressed by the recent spate of pirate attacks on Alliance shipping, and has promised a bounty for comfimed pirate kills and is also pe!@#$%^&*ioning for an Alliance consensus on arming all civilian vessels, but the move for consensus is being slowed by groups afraid that the act will be seen as a hostile move by their more powerful neighbours.

 

Manus' bar is well known as not only a place for the most excellent beer outside Earth (their own special brew is made following a secret process only Jenneke and her family are privy to), it is also a place for the hiring of spacers to perform tasks no-questions-asked, stipulated to be largely !@#$%^&*ociated with Manus' former employers, the Independant Mercenaries Guild, a sub-section of the Alliance Military.

 

Manus also owns the ship outfitters adjacent to the bar, and his technicians are often at work swapping in/out weapons and subsystems on ships docked at the latchpoint or in the landing bay.

 

What you don't (necessarily) know: The bar is also used as neutral ground for secure meetings between the intelligence agencies of the major nations, who tolerate the seedier side of the bars activities for the utility of this function.

[Greased_Lightning]

Cmdr. Jake Rease, agent of the Terran Defense Initiative (TDI)

TDI is an ultra-secret military intelligence/operations organization charged with maintaining the status quo of the area lest large scale war develope. TDI agents are authorized to use any and all means necessary to complete their missions, using legal and extralegal channels. Violations of the Terran League Cons!@#$%^&*ution and Intergalactic Rights Treaty by agents are quietly ignored. Rease has yielded high-value information on military technology and unit locations of various groups.

Rease is equipped with a less invasive design of the cybernetic implant that allows storage of information and moderate scanning technology but lacks the overall horsepower of the conventional model.

Due to long periods of time undercover, he is under covert surveillance by other TDI agents to ensure that prolonged uncover work has not blurred the lines regarding his loyalty or who he thinks he really is.

Often !@#$%^&*umes iden!@#$%^&*y of weapons dealer 'Tern Magnil' whose reputation is one of playing any side for the right price and brutally repays any double-cross. Other aliases are suspected for past operations but those files are sealed.

[Tex]

I will be.... Zach Frost (aka God)

[Aileron]

oh, one more note on the setting of the RPG.

 

Its election season. President Cal Ross, 75 in the in!@#$%^&*bent president, running on a platform of improving intelligence agencies to combat piracy. His opponant, Senator Fredorick Harris, 82, is running on a platform of arming civilian vessels. Dr. Blake is also running in this election, but he's a third party candidate in a traditionally two party system.

 

jeez...I've given away the plot already, haven't I?

 

 

 

 

New Forum limitation on characters: No deities or figures of religious nature. No all-powerfull beings with powers beyond mortal imagination either. This rule takes effect on 8:15 PM forum time.

[Manus Celer Dei]

oh, one more note on the setting of the RPG.

 

Its election season. President Cal Ross, 75 in the in!@#$%^&*bent president, running on a platform of improving intelligence agencies to combat piracy. His opponant, Senator Fredorick Harris, 82, is running on a platform of arming civilian vessels. Dr. Blake is also running in this election, but he's a third party candidate in a traditionally two party system.

 

jeez...I've given away the plot already, haven't I?

 

Are these the elections of the government of Tau Ceti? According to the description I wrote for the previous bars, Tau Ceti is an independant system and not a member of any of the major nations. The description in the stickied thread is an older version of what I had intended for the rpg I was going to run, and some things have changed. If you were inferring that Tau Ceti is an Alliance protectorate (the impression that I got) it's all good, but the concept of elections don't really fit with the fluff on the Alliance I'd previously posted. Just looking for confirmation on how you want this to fit together.

 

[btw]The Alliance systems I had set on previously are: Balar, 61 Cygni, Oricanetes E, Houlicat, Tau Hydra and Kanatis itself[/btw]

 

 

New Forum limitation on characters: No deities or figures of religious nature. No all-powerfull beings with powers beyond mortal imagination either. This rule takes effect on 8:15 PM forum time.

 

I think being a deity would come under "superpowers" wouldn't it?

[Aileron]

Not in techinicality...Its not a superpower for an elephant to lift a large amount of weight. Elephants are big animals, so they are physically strong. If a certain animal wasn't big and strong, it wouldn't be an elephant. Thus, it wouldn't really be a superpower for a deity to smite things, because the ability to smite things is part of the definition of deity.

 

Then again if I want to be technical "Beings with powers beyond all mortal imagination" applies to nothing we will see here...If somebody came up with the idea of the character's powers, its atleast within the realm of one mortal's imagination.

 

I guess the best way to say it is: No beings with superpowers built in.

 

This as all technical jargon and definitions...point being: Tex, choose a mortal character.

 

 

 

 

 

Erm, you caught me...I haven't read all of the histories in detail yet...I'll do that over the weekend.

 

From the sounds of it though, I'm talking about the Kanatis System's elections. I should have mentioned that Blake is a Kanatis citizen and does not live on Tau Ceti. Its likely I will never actually go into the bar, but rather manipulate things from far away.

[Manus Celer Dei]

Erm, you caught me...I haven't read all of the histories in detail yet...I'll do that over the weekend.

 

From the sounds of it though, I'm talking about the Kanatis System's elections. I should have mentioned that Blake is a Kanatis citizen and does not live on Tau Ceti. Its likely I will never actually go into the bar, but rather manipulate things from far away.

 

Eh, feel free to run it any way you want. I no longer run this board and I'm not claiming any rights to the setting/universe I've created (except for the book I'm slowly writing).

 

Speaking of which, would anyone object if I were to appropriate some of your character concepts for my novel? I'll try not to mangle them too much, and on the slim chance I get published you might even be able to read about your expoits during the Gehenna Incident.

[Guest Guest]

I am "Buzzuzz" a fly on the wall of the 17th Parallel Bar. I puke on everyones food and i really can't handle a pint...

 

I am forty years old and have a ZZ-Top beard. My home is that dog turd you just trod on, you !@#$%^&*.

 

I'm the amb!@#$%^&*ador from flyatropilis, the capital city of flyworld, i have 56 trillion children and they are ALL my bodyguards so don't try anything or i'll order them to acidify you!

 

I am usually found sitting on the head of whoevers at the bar humping their earlobe.

 

Oh and i'm a pirate, HAR me MATEYS!

[SeVeR]

Oh whoopsie, that was my character, and yes i am serious.

[Aileron]

Whatever you want...though I'd highly recommend not sticking around in 17th Parallel Bar if you are a pirate...if you haven't noticed Manus put a bounty on every pirate's head.

 

 

Wow Manus, I didn't think I was that creepy/origional of a villain..thanks.

[Guest Guest]

Ah ok then its something you're not supposed to know yet... HARRR!

[SeVeR]

what the heck, why doesn't the role playing arena ask me to sign in like the other forums?

[Greased_Lightning]

Manus if you include my character in the book I expect a royalty ... or at least a hand job.

 

Failing that, I get to see what my character does in your book. That's my FINAL offer!

[Manus Celer Dei]

Wow Manus, I didn't think I was that creepy/origional of a villain..thanks.

 

I wasn't going to include your character as an atypical "villain", Moral ambiguity FTW. You'd have been more of a misguided zealot out to accelerate the Kanatis long-range strategy under the whole 'ends justify the means' line of thought.

 

Manus if you include my character in the book I expect a royalty ... or at least a hand job.

 

Failing that, I get to see what my character does in your book. That's my FINAL offer!

 

On the very very slim chance I get published, I'll send copies to everyone on the board who wants one.

 

Otherwise I'd be careful what you wish for.