OOC: [T20] High Law and Low Justice

[Shayuri]

I was just asking.

I can easily make a different character.

Whatever's best for the game as it is.

 

[doghead]

Wrote a long post, then thought ... nah.

All that needs to be said is, it would be great to have you aboard. Lets make it happen.

Give us a look at the ex-navy guy - whats his story?

doghead
aka thotd

 

[Wilphe]

Doghead:
I'm happy if you want to ghost another character, I'd sooner not dispense with the NPC crew as I still have hopes of them rejoining us someday. Generally I just keep them out of the way.

I'd love to soft ghost Ruzz'koff again, but I'm leery about having a DMPC around.


And I fully agree that any new character has to have reason for the rest of the PCs to trust them..

 

[Shayuri]

Hmm...given the importance of that, I think coming up with stats first may be the wrong approach. Lets turn this around.

In the current crew's background, what are some good points that my character might have worked with one or more of them? Can you guys give me a general summary of the crew's background...past missions...careers prior to going independent...etc?

 

[DrZombie]

Gwydion's been a scout, then switched to bloody merc work. You could easily tie into that without too many problems.

 

[Shayuri]

Hmm! Perhaps another ex-Scout then... IISS members have a certain espirit des corps, as I recall... They might have served on one or more of the same expeditions, before he mustered out.

 

[DrZombie]

You never leave the ISS, and they never leave you.

 

[doghead]

ooc - HLLJ

ISS might be a good bet.

I can't really think of any easy ins from Saanath's background. Given that we currently don't need anyone, Saaanth would probably feel he owed the person somehow to advocate taken them on board. That would probably limit options to family (two brothers (geek types) and a sister (navy)) or Saanath's old crew mate from his time on 'route'.

Of course, Wilphe could stage something that means we do need someone.

If you take an Aslan, that could change things. Saanath is a bit weird for Aslan's.

Or Saanath could just be outvoted - which would do nothing to get the relationship off on a good footing. Which could be fun to play out.

doghead
aka thotd

 

[Shayuri]

Navy sister might work. What's been established about her?

I just happen to have some stuff worked up for a female ex-navy type.

 

[doghead]

ooc - HLLJ

Navy sister might work. What's been established about her?

Nothing really. This is Saanath's background relating to his family.

Saanath was born the third child of four in an ordinary middle class family. What isn't so ordinary about them is that 3 of the 4 ended up offworld. His eldest sister, the second child, joined the Navy. His younger brother, the last child, has just accepted a position with an intersteller argri-corp as a researcher. Maths/science seemed to come easily to all of them. Meanwhile, his big brother works, as he has since leaving university, for a domestic agricultural machinery manufacturer. The last Saanath heard he was a sales engineer and father of 3.

As a kid, Saanath was fairly wild. He ran with the lions, which is how the local people described the small Aslan community in his city. He drank, smoked and got into trouble. But what really chilled the relationship with his parents was joining the Merchants straight out of High School.

And this is where he grew up.

Homeword

Kansas B-64735-11 Argricultural.

It's primary industries have and probably always will be the ship repair yards that cluster around the smaller planetary bodies near Kansas, and grains. Kansas's climate is hot and fairly dry, with water covering only 47% of the planets surface. However, a fortunate geography and some basic terraforming ensure resonably reliable precipitation.

The presence of the repair yards have made Kansas a slightly more cosmopolitan place than it could have been. But basically, it is an ordinary, slightly run-down planet populated by ordinary people doing ordinary things. It has its share of civic leaders consistantly dreaming up new campaigns so convince people that it is a "a great place to be" or "visit", its rich and its poor, its lawabiding and lawless, its generous and venal. Most things and most races can be found there, somewhere, mostly in the half dozen spaceport cities that can be found around the equator.

Kansas is a secondary planet in a system fairly close by. Can't remember which. I should find out and make of note of it.

Oh, yeah, and there was this throw away line of Saanath's.

But if not a merchant, what else? He might have even have considered the Navy had he not told his elder sister that it was for those who were too lazy to decide for themselves what to wear each day.