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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blackrat" data-source="post: 3680961" data-attributes="member: 27761">Some background info:Unity is a colony of about 60 thousand humans, situated in an asteroid-belt in the star system Idar. In the same system is the homeplanet of Korg, a race of philosophers who look a bit like mythological minotaurs. Unity is divided in three facilities sitting atop the three largest asteroids in the belt. Most of the asteroids in there are full of vanadium and so Unity has a rich mining industry. And because of this, Unity has very good trade-relations with many worlds.The ruling body, Council of Unity consist of twenty elected councilors, but it is widely rumored that the true ruler of Unity would be Vincent Angel, the richest human in the universe, owner of Angel Industries, which in turn owns much of the mining corporations and trading companies on Unity and other colonies.The Black Hole is the favourite tavern of the pilots in Unity. It's the place where many of the colony's kids spend most of their time, listening to the pilots telling stories of what they've seen on the other side of the universe. Black Hole's owner is actually a Korg named Shrew. He is big even for a Korg and can be quite a frightening sight when angried but he is peaceful and very friendly by nature. It is here where you (a group of friends who grew up listening to his stories) met and eventually befriended Stewie, an old freighter-pilot who decided to retire from flying and founded the Far-Star trading company. He has given you the command of his old ship and an adventurous job in the company. And the Council has given you the status of privateers: you may prey upon any ship that isn't part of Unity's fleet and you will always have a safe haven to return to, as long as you pay ten percent of your raiding profits to Unity.Then to answer the questions:Basic wealth system: You can buy any basic equipment from pl 5 and 6. Humanity had reached pl 6 before the attack so any pl 5 equipment will have a purchase DC 2 lover than usual, and pl 6 equpment will cost the normal. Weapons and armour have a lot more restrictions: Not many earth weapons were brought along to the colonies. You may have any common pistols from pl 5 but the ammunition will have a purchase DC 2 higher than norm. But since then humanity has began manufacturing laser and fletchette (from future tech) weapons wich may be bought at normal cost.The only kind armor available at the moment is light scout armor which will be provided by Far-Star.The homebrew armor rules which I mentioned before is that armor provides DR against certain kinds of damage instead of defence.So this scout armor will provide DR 2 against slashing/piercing/ballistics, or DR 1 if unproficient. Otherwise it is similar to the scout armor in D20-future.Languages: You'll get english and one other earth language free. Some of you should spend skill points to learn Dah, which is the commercial language of the Rebuplic of Free Stars.Other languages which you may learn if you want are:Thomaar and Syrran, languages of a couple of species that have a presence in Unity.Korg, language of your closest neighbor.Make the characters between 18 and 25 years old. It's been 12 years since earths destruction.So far we haveShayuri - PilotVoda Vosa - TechieMithar - Weapons spec.Rhun - Jack of all trades?Ethandrew and Micar Sin, Give me some character concepts and you're in. That means we'll have a good sized crew.Rhun. You won't be needing drive skill as there are actually no ground wehicles in Unity. The background is a good start.</blockquote>

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