Inter Astrum- Sci Fi RP Interest and Discussion Thread

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**Kasrkai**

Mordo, when your back online, feed me details of the mission thing.

**Perkustin**

It was meant to be be 'CGS' (Coalition government sanctioned) but CSS (Coalition sanctioned starship) will be fine as long as everyone digs it.

**ineptus astartes**

lines
green=planet name

ring around a planet= ring system

purple area=nebulae

pink=jump-space route

circles

green=undeveloped planet

grey=city/hive planet

brown=barren planet

sandy=desert planet

purple=/gaseous/radioactive/volatile

yellow=sun

yellow/w/lines faceing out=supernova

white= ice planet

blue=water planet

red=magma/gas/volatile.

orange=desert

black=eclipse/sunless/dead/blackhole (if huge)

DOTS

brown=astroid field

purple=new star

black=dead moon lost from orbit

grey=derelict

light green tangle=dibris

FLEETS

red square=shaper fleet

green square=CSA fleet (Coalition Sector Authority)

black square=our ship

grey square=dead fleet

white square=arcturan fleet

**ineptus astartes**

to be kind to future players who with to RP e'nathi (and simply because the are a little limited) I am changing my species. I am writing up for my Vernid character now.

**ineptus astartes**

Veranid blaster, or, blastgun: the veranid blaster uses internal Sonics to manipulate the energy cell used to for the weapons magazine by vibrating and the gas molecules. After about a trillisecond it becomes unstable, and vents out of the power cell and through a plasma reactor, where it laser launches out at the speed of sound. When it fires It has a low-at-long-range-high-at-short-range, stopping power that deteriorates along with the shot, as the gas and superheated plasma begins to vaporize itself. When it hits, it immediately ignites all biological matter. The impact areas are rendered down into bones and burning organs as the target dies a quick but horrifying death. The effect of the weapon is. When the blastbolt hits, to ignite the flesh and clothing of organics. Another way to describe this would be use a flamethrower on a very confined area of impact about the size of a human fist usually the weapons plasma dissipates within a few minutes. Leaving a blackened and cauterized hole. But sometimes burns away the entire body

Other weapons include the automatic railgun and the sonic blastgun which fires a single spearlike projectile at hypersonic speeds and blasts apart anything within ten meters of the sonic boom created by it’s passing.

While the railgun simply uses cordite to propel the projectile out of the magzine then electromagnetics to fling it out of the barrel at great speeds.

Anti-material rifle: the vernid use an upgraded version of the terran 21st century anti-material rifle to destroy mechanized units with 1.00 explosive bolts

sender of nine. pistol: fires a battery-sized explosive bolt filled with caustic alkalies that explode inside the target or leak out and begin eating away at all matter including armor (the bolt explodes on contacts with armor and sends the acid splashing through the hole)
(notes: Blastguns have a diminished effect on E'nathi scales and spikes and work extra well on species such as the raylids.)

**ineptus astartes**

Vernids are immune to the Space weird virus, due to their brutally efficient bodily defenses and can also consume most poisons with no adverse effect due to the same, as well as the nanobots they tend to inject into their bloodstream theyhave the most advanced physiology in the galaxy due to living in the 'time of thee precursors' {aside from the deadly terran nightshade that has proved to be highly toxic to all races} and can survive in vacuum for a short time and retain conciousness due to their pre pressurized innards [due to the fact that their homeworld has phenomana knowen as 'void storms, spacesick or brightsick. where the atmoshephere dissipates due to the harsh gravitational pull of the planet's moon and leaves small areas open to the void.]they can survive in a coma for sevral days without air, but after that, they die due to air deprevation)

the vernids also have several theories and secrets about the precursors that explain why sentient life, and any life at all in fact began to exist AFTER the precursors vanished has led them to be estranged by precursor worshiping races as the vernids claimed that the precusors and their gods were 'soulless monsters, preying on the living' why the vernid do not seem to list the precursors as living nobody knows, the only thing that they say is "like humans...but dead..."

Common phrases in the galaxy involving vernid:

"Nothin fixes like a vernid."

"the vernids are the best techs in the galaxy. Id like to see those extragalactics try shape THEIR ships"

"damn! I cant fix this. hire a vernid."

**ineptus astartes**

VERNID MODIFIERS:

knolwdge of the forbearers (a vernid is mistrustful of all precursor tech)

vac-life. (a vernid can survive in vacuume for a short time)

+5 all tech

+2 intimidate

-1 speech

+2 stealth

-2 bludeoning (why waste a good meal by knocking a hole in it?)

+2 blades

+3 desert survival

"its gonna eat me!" (E'nathi get +2 intimidate against vernids as they resemble the apex predetors of the vernid homeworld)

Verhide (vernid chitin is tough enough to deflect a glancing hit from a cordit/blackpowder weapon and forms a suitable shield against small blades)

(vernid tend to eat what they kill raw...)

**Kasrkai**

I think we have plenty of race modifiers there.

**ineptus astartes**

purged the unnecessary ones

**Kasrkai**

I'm not even sure if we'll use skills. He said he was going to stick with an event system.

**ineptus astartes**

just in case though.

**ineptus astartes**

BTW: what is a target beam?

**ineptus astartes**

Here is my remade character

Character: Tennisk Vann

Race: Vernid

Career: commando technician (somewhere in between infiltrator and soldier

Equipment: vernid blastgun. Sender of Nine, laser cutter, slicer, data encryption code reader. flak vest medikit, knife.
Skills: pilot, drive, energy weapons, solid slug weapons, intimidate, tech use, long arms, speech survival, brawling, speech, powered armor. Engineering, investigate, science.

Backstory: Born on the Vernid homeworld of Syrule, Tennisk always would be looking to the stars. He had wanted since he was a hatchling, to be able to roam the cosmos. Instead he ran his uncle’s shop, while his friends all gradually left the planet. Soon though, the Vernid had accumulated enough wealth to buy a ticket off world. He instead, stayed at home, saving even more money. When his uncle was found to be smuggling the illegal skinned E’nathi scales that some people coveted for their sheen. The shop and all of his uncles belongings were given to Tennisk. He quickly bought a small freighter and began running loads for Kommar corp. but he did not feel quite as free as he hoped. So he quit his job at Kommar and instead began gunrunning for the infamous, Duklo, a renowned Mcabrian gangster. For six years he ran the illegal pelts, drugs and guns. But when he had to drop a shipment due to a CSDF patrol boat yanking him out of jump-space and performing a inspection, Duklo threatened to have him fed to a wild zontar. Soon though the gangster was killed by rivals and the tech was out of a smuggling job. To make ends meet he joined the sector fleet. When he managed to board an enemy carrier and hacked into its systems and got it to self destruct. He was entered into the commando corps. Where he soon volunteered for this elite strike team as the technician.
Motivation: all that Ark’ik wants to do is fiddle with tech and roam the stars

Best quality: Tennisk is an easygoing tech who tens to joke about anything, but is can be as unfunny and serious as a Mcabrian when he wants to.

Worst quality: Tennisk sees the Arcturans as chauvinistic, vain, self obsessing, grandiose, and pompous. And tends to distain them and rebuke them for their decadent ways

Quote: “Nothing in the galaxy is larger than the derian nebulae…save maybe an Arcturans ego.”

**ineptus astartes**

I have an idea, why dont we each post one 'spacer legend' about eldrich things in space.

(usually heard when the Spacer has had one too many drinks in port)

**Kasrkai**

Interesting. One legend each on the horrors of space.

Mordo, pwease?

**ineptus astartes**

we could start them now an see if mordo accepts but we should post a general idea on what so we dont end up with two versions of the same thing (and in first person written like a drunk star-captain)

**Kasrkai**

"Ai shwear I saw it! Ate thro tha dam hu lik it wush nuthin! Lik a giant dam tick, but dish one wush huge! Twenty feet high, I tellsh ya! Browk thro and shpat out little buggersh... thins... lik cshentipedes, schept dez onez had razerz fer legs! Keeled all mah crew, cept me. I eshcaped with a shuttle fore my freighter wash eaten... shumbudy get me drink..."

**ineptus astartes**

"there was this one time...I found some sort of-of-of creature, in the void, it was sitting on a rockin space . so we moved toward it. it was like-like a beast of yore! a great massive crature that was just sitting on that rock. then we made the saw the thing rear! like a horse! it was flapping its wings and everything. so we looked up ahead, past the thing. it wanted to tell us somthing right? so when we take a scan, we notiice that we were about to head into a black hole! it had stopped us from goin in! like some-ah-ah-mermaid of space...cept it looked like a dragon..."
"fogot the coordinates too..."

**ineptus astartes**

Dakka is SLOW today...

does anyone want a map of the ground assault and sitrep on Deneb's starport? cuz I made one...

**ineptus astartes**

Mordo? there any new info on the situation? (and what about the spacer tales?)

**Devastator**

You could just edit your post rather than posting new post(s).

edit: CCCCCCCCCCCCOMBO BREAKER.

**Mordoskul**

The Walrus approves of the spacer legends.

**ineptus astartes**

also: between the image of te verpine and the killik wich looks more like the envisioned?

the killik

**ineptus astartes**

**Kasrkai**

That is a Chaos Marine.

**ineptus astartes**

could not find anything else that was like some monster in my iphoto so he was all I could work with...

**Mordoskul**

Kasrkai, how goes the Deneb mission map?

**shroud010**

I forgot to do the race modifier to the Exorios
Tech +7
Speech -4

**Kasrkai**

The map is coming together. I'll post it in a minute.

**Kasrkai**

Still a work in progress, and I named our ship The Midnight Thunder. First I draw the system, then Deneb. Now I feel I'll have to draw the city...