Sigma 25 Colonization Project

This Role-Play is a continuation of the Forgotten Lands RP originally started by Red. This one will be focused more on the colonization aspects of the mission and less so on combat.

Red wrote:
Thank you for applying for a place on the UNS Arion colonization team!

The colonization team will be traveling from the colony Atalanta in the Small Magellanic Cloud to the terrestrial planet Sigma 25 in the Small Magellanic Cloud roughly 20 light years away. The planet has just finished being terraformed and is now ready for humans to step foot on it – and you might be the first!

All colonial applicants must sign the attached waivers and must accept that the operation they are volunteering for could result in serious injury or death. Applications are accepted first come first serve, and there are a limited number of slots on the ship. Applicants can be denied for any reason whatsoever as determined by the United Nations Colonization Agency.

Rules

1) Follow the GtR rules!

2) No godmodding or metagaming.

3) You may have up to two characters max .  *Members using their preexisting characters from the previous RP merely need to repost them and they will be automatically approved. Here is the link to the previous registration thread: https://www.gatewaytoroleplay.com/t1045-the-forgotten-land-registration

4) You may only have a max of TWO passive enhancements and ONE active enhancement. If an enhancement is especially powerful you must add side-effects that come with its use. Enhancements are further explained in the discussion thread.

5) There are slots for up to six players including myself. If players leave the RP then slots will then open up and new players can register in. Slot are first come, first served. New slots will open up in the future or if a currently registered player is inactive for a long period of time. This RP is now open to the public and anyone can register.

6) In the end what I say goes.


Application [One Slot remaining]

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   [b]Name:[/b]

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    [b]Appearance:[/b]

    [b]Occupation:[/b]

    [b]Skills/Abilities:[/b]

    [b]Weapons (if any):[/b]

    [b]Enhancements:[/b]

    [b]Personal History:[/b]


MethosArchaic: playing Gendrich Lockwood
HikariKuragari: playing Rosella Armanie
Vye-Avis: playing ASeRA "Allie" 21b
Leah7: playing Lucy Lawless
RadioTanuki: playing Geon Todoski


Zade Holtzman: played by Slakiv

Name: Gendrich (pronounced Gen-Drick) Lockwood

Post color: Olive

Age: 31

Gender: Male

Appearance: Gendrich is stocky in build, and rugged in appearance. On his Left arm are a medical interface ports.

Spoiler:

Occupation: 4th Generation Frontier Farmer

Skills: Farming, Agriculture, and Hydroponics. As well as a functioning ability in Mechanics, Engineering, and chemistry.

Abilities: Strong and Hale from constant work on the farm, there area always to few hours and to much to do. He is an alright shot with rifle, hitting more often than missing. He however has never served in the military or received combat training.

Weapons (if any): Civilian hunting Rifle - the FarFinder R-3528

Spoiler:

Enhancements: Genrdrich is still skeptical about this new augmentation and the potential complications he finds himself unwilling to risk. However he does have a medical interface on his left arm, allowing quick connection for checking his bio-signs. It was added in when his arm was cut nearly off in a combine accident, his family thought it was a good use of their soon to be exhausted health plan coverage.

Family: Father - Richard Yale Lockwood (73), Mother - Martha Niaven Lockwood (52), Siblings in order - Richard the 2nd (56), Felictity(55), Maverick(55), Holland "Holly" (51), Ben (48), Fraeya (44), Palacard Dale Lockwood "Pale Dale"(32), Iszelia (28), Corvin the bastard "Dogwood" (25), Tabitha (24), and Avert (23)

Siblings from his Mother (Full blooded Siblings): Palaard, Iszelia, Tabitha, and Avert

Personal History: Gendrich grew up as most frontier farmer children, hard. School was a tiny portion of his life, often coming second and to the needs of his family. That didn't however stop him form his compulsory education or even secondary, matter of fact many a lesson was delivered by mail or classes taken in chunks or lulls in the growing season. After all by his fathers third marriage, there where a fair amount of hands, usually his cousins by the time he was able to help. Now with so many siblings and cousins there wasn't much time to garner Father's attention expect in a criticizing way, though his father meant well, it was just so busy on the commune.

By the time Gendrich reached the good old age of 30 he had already been amply indoctrinated to frontier life, not always in the good way. After all he'd been knocked into that combine by accident when pulling in that harvest with Corvin, Ben, and Maverick well into the night. There had been a time when Gendrich had wanted to join up with the military but his Father had quickly put a stop to that, and who could handle his fathers seditious and anti military attitude. There had been talk of disowning Gendrich if he even mentioned another word about joining those "antagonizing federalist automatons". After all they where never there to help them except often too late or proving far less helpful than wanted.

Luckily enough his father had put him to work part-time with the local mechanic Welter Trullan. Often the one his father went to with particularity troublesome hardware and machines. It was his father's hope that it would benefit him, and save him considerable effort and money if one of his children picked up Welter's skills. Which oddly enough did exactly what his father had wanted, and it soon became an apparent good investment as his father was concerned.

However for Gendrich, it soon became more of a hassle when he had to quit that job just to handle the machines around the farm. Eventually he'd started looking for work outside, though few panned out. He didn't have enough money to up and move, or start his own farmstead on his own. He was 31 and still unmarried, hell with all the work on his shoulders he hardly had time to go out and look for a girl, not that there wasn't a few. Eventually it came down to looking at things he was already good at, frontier farming. And so well he put in an application and broke the subject with his dad. Who had a mixed hand about it. HE was going to lose a important person in his operation, but also after considerable influence by his older children, he relented. After all his son was following his father's lifework after all. So he pulled together what he could, used some influence, and got Gendrich sent to start on his own.

Name: ASeRA "Allie" 21b

Age: 25

Gender: Female

Appearance: 5ft 9in humanoid body. Slender, mechanical frame with minor protective covering over the points of articulation. Rounded, helmet-like head with the facial section neatly carved out to show a lightly recessed 2-vented mouthplate, and 2 eye cameras (each covered by a bulbous, semi-reflective green lense). 1 small black lens found on left and right sides of the head. Small LED flashlight built into the forehead on the right side, thin triangular horn pointing vertically backwards on the left. Small feet with padded soles, articulated toes, and a separated heel. Each finger / toe contain a thin blade about the length of your 3rd pinkie finger segment. Every blade ends in a small curve for gripping surfaces.

Predominantly painted egg shell white with a red cross and tiny ID numbers found on the right arm, years of use is evident around the body. Parts of the paint have either been chipped or scrapped off to reveal the metallic frame or matte black material. Areas near the joints, neck, and feet are stained with old grease or dirt. A rugged cloth vest of the red variety dons a single 3-way radio, and several pouches, straps, and buckles for carrying various tools. Larger pouches are velcro-strapped to the android's thighs.

Occupation: Search and rescue in dangerous territories, immediate medical aid, reconnaissance and scouting

Skills/Abilities:

Due to Allie having a mechanical body, she is unaffected by fatigue, thirst, or hunger. She has the lifting strength of a healthy male adult as well as the hand-eye coordination of a baseball player. With her hyperflexible yet sturdy frame, she is able to easily traverse all kinds uneven terrain that even today's drones have trouble with.

Her powerful motors and retractable claws on her hands / feet let her climb as high as her available energy allow, as well as sprint faster than the average Olympic runner. She can take on a quadrupedal stance, which improves balance and climbing ability.

Her array of cameras and sensors relay information about her surroundings to any computer or smart device she links up with, so long as the device can receive wireless data. She uses these peripherals to find lost or injured humans, and relay their location to a control center, or bring them back to safety.

Her medical programming lets her tend to mild to severe injuries, the worst being a broken bone. She carries an emergency medical kit that's split up into enclosed pouches all over her clothing.

Weapons (if any): None

Enhancements: None

Personal History: Allie originally belonged to a paramedic group that operated out in the mountains, where hikers, campers, and adventurers would often find themselves lost in the tall trees, expansive caves, and roaring rivers. Whenever a report of a missing person was sent, Allie, among a group of other similar androids, were dispatched to find them. She gained a surplus of popularity with the public for her service in the past, but eventually new androids with greater strength and more processing power replaced her and her coworkers. She still saw some use as a reserve worker whenever the newer models needed assistance, but her glory days were clearly over. In order to put her to good use, she was donated to the Sigma 25 project with only a thick booklet on how to operate her and whatever spare parts that were still good.

Name: Zade Holtzman

Age: 32

Gender: Male

Appearance: Short brown hairs, deep blue eyes


Occupation: Software engineer

 Skills/Abilities: Wide knowledge in fields of science other than his profession different, mainly physics, theoretical mathematics and neurobiology. Very good logic. Basic training in pistol combat.

Weapons (if any): Military grade pistol

Enhancements: Zade has a brain implant that helps him make faster calculations. It is a passive enhancement, and the only known side effect is causing him occasionnal migraine

Personal History:
Military report :
Name : Zade Holtzman
Age : 32
Profession : Software engineer
Interest : Computer science, physics, logic puzzles, neurobiology, reading
Past work experiences : Secretary and then researcher at Project Life Corporation. Lead scientist on project Cerebra, military RDAI (Research and Development in Artifical Intelligence)
Family : John Holtzman, age 58, astrophysicist. Beatrix Young,age 52, teacher in computer science. Iris Holtzman, age 21, student in pure mathematics.
Current work affiliation: Part of the colonization team headed to Sigma 25
Current location : In transit to Atalanta

Other informations : Born and raised on Earth until the age of 10, moved to Mars colony afterwards to receive special science-focused education. Zade's mother was transferred to the University of Mars. Father found a job easily as well.
Very succesful university run, graduated at 23 with an award of excellence. Immediately recruited to be lead scientist on prokect Cerebra
Has a degree in advanced software engineer and in neurobiology.
Was arrested at the age of 26 when he was working in project Cerebra for supposedly experimenting with unshackled AI.
Under further Military investigation, he and several others involved in the project were acquitted. Zade also was given a modest sufferance package as well as a job, a job which Zade has held for the last five years until recently when he filed his resignation to join the Sigma 25 colonization expedition.

Slakiv, your character Zade Holtzman is approved. Feel free to post your intro post in the RP thread.

Two Slots remain open 8/29/2015

Vye-Avis, your character ASeRA "Allie" 21b is approved, you can post your intro post when you're ready.

Name: Lucy Lawless

Age: 25

Gender: Female

Appearance:  Brunette (Now Dyed), Cybernetic Eyes (Red), Cybernetic Repairs (Left Side of Body & Left Metallic Arm), Height: 5'4 Weight: 213lbs, Tattoos: None

Spoiler:

Occupation: Florist

Skills/Abilities: Education School:
Saint Jude's Girls Academy for the Gifted
Degrees:
Business Management (Minor), Accounting (Minor), Art (Minor), Agriculture
Skills:
Ballet Dancing (7 Years), Tap Dancing (2 Years), Choir (4 Years)

Weapons (if any): None

Enhancements:  Active: Eye Replacement (Nightvision Only)
Passive:  Metallic body replacements from prior damage on left side of face, left side of neck, left waistline, upper left leg, and left arm.  Minor damage resistance.

Personal History:  Lucy Lawless went to school and achieved great grades and then moved on to college to get all the degrees necessary to assist her in her Floral Business.  She's also quite skilled in music and dance, as well as other artistic things, and received excellent marks in these classes, as well.  

Lucy's medical files indicate that the severe damage done to the left side of her body was caused three years ago when she was hit by a bus while she was crossing the road legally on the crosswalk.

Application Prior to Fabrication:

Leah, your character is approved for usage


One Slot remains open 9/21/2015

Name: Geon Todoski

Age: 28

Gender: Male

Appearance: (Work in progress)

Spoiler:

Occupation: Co-owner and Lead Digger at Todoski Terraformers

Skills/Abilities: Robotics, Heavy Machinery Operations, Engineering, Mechanical, Surveying, and Geological Sciences. While a lot of the work is left to the bots that he must keep track of and direct, digging sometimes requires a finer touch. Geon is no stranger to hard work. There are also times when the bots need maintenance or more direct guidance, and he is trained to take care of all of it.

Weapons (if any): Utilitech Plasma Pick and a squad of Excavation Bots/Survey Drones.

Enhancements: Geon is equipped with internal communications for the bots as well as a failsafe key. He also has neural enhancers that increase his perception in various ways, most notably the ability to use sonar. All of these are active and capable of being turned on or off. He wears an armored enivrosuit with a gas mask for safety. The enivirosuit has a few small digging tools built in, such as the retractable shovel ended fingers in his gloves. He has no vision enhancements but his goggles he always wears have many vision modes to assist him in navigation and surveying.

Family: He is the only son of Rendov (65) and Rena (58) Todoski. And yes his name is Geon, his father is either way to into his work or has an odd sense of humor.

Personal History: Geon couldn't believe just how quickly it had all gone down hill. He may have been raised to follow the same career path as his father, but how quickly he would be forced into it on his own was one thing he didn't expect; nor was he ready for.
His father, a business owner of fair wealth, at least enough to keep anyone working with heavy machinery going, had suddenly fallen into poor health. Hospitalised and helpless all because of the very thing he had spent his life doing. Pneumoconiosis. All those years digging and the man always forgot his mask, or perhaps didn't think putting it on was a big deal. Look at where it got him. He could have spent a little extra on a good mask to save his own life, one would think.
Geon wasn't taking his off any time soon, that was for damn sure. He wasn't about to suffer that same fate. He was already too busy suffering the fate his father had left behind for him. This damned business. In his efforts to quickly take the reigns in his father's stead, things had been going about as swimmingly as a goat in quicksand. He had to find some way to keep this company going and provide for his family. It was hard enough for his mother as it was.
That was why he took this job. What he had to lose had already been lost with his father's health. He had left many friends behind on back on Earth, but his family needed this. This was true excavating. This was adventure and discovery, a chance to be a part of something much bigger than he or his father had ever been a part of. And if things went well, he would be able to salvage what was left of this small company. He was the only living being left in it.
Nervous about his first journey to a completely uncolonized world, but excited to see what hidden resources were buried deep there, Geon set out to assist in the colonization of his new home: Sigma 25.

RadioTanuki, Your character Geon Todoski is approved and you may post your intro post at your convenience.

As of 9/24/15: There are now no slots open for additional characters. If this changes I will post it here and the directory.

Due to time constraints Slakiv has withdrawn from the RP for the time being. When additional slots open up in the future, Slakiv, you'll be the first to know. That will also go for other players that have had to leave for various reasons.

As of 10/11/2015, There is now one available slot open for registration.

The character Zade Holtzman will be added to the former PC list above.

As such the opening post in the registration thread has been updated to reflect this change. Thank you, and happy typing!

Name: Elias Knight

  Age: 33

  Gender: Male

  Appearance: 6'2, Elias is a slender, but well fit man, possessing black hair and sharp, though not displeasing, features. He has a slight scar rising from his top lip, and a slightly crooked middle finger on his left hand. He possesses expressive eyebrows, dark eyes and a dusky complexion.

  Occupation: Provisioner, Former Smuggler, Mediator.

  Skills/Abilities: Elias is a master of 'procuring' supplies, items, sentimental trinkets, and 'favors' with various convenient figures. He's adept with wrangling both people and tech, and clawed his way up from nothing using his own wit and cunning. Not averse to combat, Elias is capable of defending himself, even though he prefers to keep enemies within his scope thanks to his keen aim.

  Weapons (if any): Hurricane Rifle outfitted with a modified Long Range Scope.

He also brought a myriad necessary tech with him to assist him in his menial day to day tasks. None are overly complex or bulky, but still remain valuable to him.

  Enhancements: Elias possesses two active enhancements . Both enable him to interface directly with technology, granting him the ability to carve through firewalls, pinpoint exact faults in software, and rearrange and control systems at will. One requires use of a build in 'network' which is proximity based and allows him to access the systems of nearby tech and machinery.

The other is a touch based ability which allows him to directly interface with an inactive or disconnected machine.

The drawbacks of these abilities are that firewalls, should he trigger them, pose a significant threat to him. If the connection is severed before he has a chance to back out, or the machine is turned off- he runs the risk of falling unconscious or, in severe cases, slipping into a coma.

  Personal History: Elias Knight, born Elias Finch, inherited a tumultuous, unstable life from both his parents. With his father always busy working a job Elias knew nothing about, he was left in the hands of a mother who didn't care to even acknowledge his existence. For ten years he existed as a show, a farce, barely acknowledged by either parent, learning to live as a ghost. For ten years he was left to his own devices, learning to maneuver conversations with his mother to allow him liberties otherwise inaccessible to a young child.

His monotone existence experienced a slight alteration when his mother left; out of the blue. No notice, no warning sign, just gone. Belongings packed, valuables whisked away- all except for him taken with her.

He didn't wait for his father to make an appearance. He struck out on his own, working jobs where keen eyes and small bodies were an asset- dangerous tasks in confined unsteady places. His verbal skills, luckily, proved more of an asset than his body was, as he was quickly recruited into a rather seedy lifestyle. Working as bait, initially, a cover, when they figured they could trust him- and a negotiator when they finally considered him one of their own.

He held no loyalty to any of the groups he worked for, of course. They were investments he coasted between, no aim to his life- no purpose, no belonging. He might have escaped his monotone family life, but still, Elias was a ghost.

He had no friends to speak of, no lovers, no pets to come home to. No attachments at all.

Until he met a young man by the name of Ves. Ves was...a character. A person so full of life he could light up a prison cell. So noticable, so hard to ignore- so alive. Elias was charismatic yes, but up until then, it was just him putting on a show, a facade, a series of layers beyond himself so thick and so stuck in that even Elias himself had forgotten who he truly was beneath it all.

But Ves, he was living and breathing and real. A world into himself. Ves, for some reason or another, had taken a liking to Elias. After a few encounters and jobs done together, even going so far as to calling Elias his friend. The strangest part was that Elias considered him to be the same.

Ves had a little sister, Zuzana- she wanted to be a doctor, hating to see people in pain. Most of the money Ves earned from his odd jobs went to her college fund. Elias wanted to consider this foolish; but he couldn't- he was a ghost, he wasn't heartless. Over time, he even grew to consider Zuzana his own sister, the three of them an inseparable trio- a family like he had never known.

But as good things are want to do, it eventually came to an end. Ves and Elias lived a life where they knew at any given time, something might go wrong, and the day might come that they might never come home. That day had come for Ves. Killed, crushed trying to escape a collapsing hide out as their 'associates' tried to destroy all the evidence of their illicit activities. Maybe that was all kids like Ves and Elias were to them- 'evidence', stains on the record.

It didn't matter. It didn't matter what those bastards had defined Ves and Elias as- his friend was dead. A mutilated body under a pile of rubble that would never get a proper burial. A sad life ended- with a sister he would never get to come home to.

But Elias would.

Zuzana was only thirteen at the time, Elias himself being twenty-three. Ten years older than her, slightly older than even her tragically ended elder brother. He had no idea what it meant to take care of someone, but he would learn. He would do what Ves couldn't- grant his sister a better life than either of them had known- make sure she didn't have to do the dirty work they did.

She would never need to use a gun, or have one waved in her face, if Elias had any say in it.

It was an adjustment for both of them, Ves' death a constant elephant in the room for the first few months- but they grew used to living together. Zuzana even referring to Elias as a brother after the first year. Elias taught Zuzana about technology, how to see through a con, the tell tale signs a person is lying- Zuzana taught him how to actually be a human.

He didn't need to teach Zuzana much of anything in the learning department- the girl was already smart, snarky too. She had her brothers biting wit, albeit less dark, shadowed by past experiences. After several years together, hardly anyone could think they were anything less than siblings. They'd adopted each other, in a mutual hour of need- and it had stuck. Zuzana attended medical school, even graduated; with a promising future ahead of her. Elias had even managed to find more respectable work; a provisioner. Which was a couple steps up from 'smuggler' in his book. The only thing that really changed was the reputation of his clientele.

Unfortunately, their happiness was short lived- the various former 'business partners' Elias had thought he had shook throughout the years finally catching up to him. Even through moves, changed names, new identities. They still found their way to haunt his doorstep.

Zuzana was used to it, sadly- no matter how Elias hated it- she'd grown up close enough to it to be bothered by it anymore. But this wasn't being close to the danger, anymore. This was the danger trying to kill you.

Luckily, Elias had 'associates', who were patiently waiting for him to call in a few favors-

So, he and his sister embarked out on the UNS Arion- leaving behind lives blackened by bad memories, and shady dealings.

JuliethasaGun: Your character Elias Knight is approved for use in Sigma. Feel free to post your entry post at your convenience.