Star Wars: Solar Concerto (Recruiting)

[Voda Vosa]

I have jet to decide a name but heres some background

X grew up in a world of the outer rim, his father worked up in maintenance of the space station in orbit, that supplies ships passing by with repairs and provisions. His mother lived with him and his young brothers and sisters, down on the planets colonies. Twice a week his father joined them in his house. Intrigued and fascinated with his fathers work, X made some trips to the station, to see the droids and the ships face to face.
After he gained sufficient age, X helped his father in the station, making repairs even faster than his progenitor. Years pass and the young lad had already made himself quite a engineer.
Although repairs and improvements of passing vessels were his job, his passion are droids. If he had the chance, he always looked up the droids from the ships, wanting to make repairs or enhancements to them.
Once, an imperial ship landed in the station for repairs and supplies. X was the first person the captain of the ship saw, already making fixes to the landing pad. X impressed the ship captain with his fast repairs, and with the improvements the lad made on the ship, "Just to don't lose the practice" he said.
Upon leaving, the imperial officer, offered X to join him.
"Come with us lad, the empire could made great use of your skills with machines. You 'll be trained in the technicians academy! What do you say?"
And that was an offer he couldn't refuse. So he departs to the empire leaving his family behind.
After several years in the academy he graduated with honors, and serve as an engineer some times in different ships. He didn't stay much time in one ship, as he was requested from another.
But the last assignments appeared to be quite more long run than the others, he was requested as chief engineer in the Inquisition, a brand new Victory class star destroyer
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[Caros]

Seraphim

Seraphim was in many respects a prize officer of the Imperial Naval Academy. Inducted at the age of consent into the Imperial Millitary she was top of her class, an easy pick for officer candidacy, she was fast tracked into classes on advanced captiol ship theory, astrophysics, engineering and near anything that caught her eye.

Part of this respect came from her Eidetic memory. More still came from her background in a prestigious millitary family, early supporters of the Emperor's rise to power. And lastly it came from her striving devotion to perfection. Unlike even the most conservitive of officers she loved the empire and the emperor. Litterally.

Introduced in passing to the emperor at the age of 14, she grew infatuated with the man, spending every waking moment in search of perfection in the hope that her proficiency would be noticed, and that she could help make his dream of an orderly galexy a reality.

In some ways this made her the perfect officer to command the Inquisitor. She obeyed orders without questions, would willingly sacrifice anything, up to and including her own life or the lives of millions to achieve an order handed down from the emperor himself.

Offered the post she jumped at the chance, an untried officer, on an untried ship going after the rebellions finest.

(Probably going to be noble 6ish. I'll need to get the information on that officer class, though I doubt it can be entered this soon anyways.)

(Also. As far as corrections to the system go. The mass/mega/regular system is nice but it requires huge retooling. My suggestion is a bit more simple.

Looking at the numbers I think the biggest problem with they system is capitol scale hp/dr. X-wing lasers do an average of 68 damage on a firelinked burst. On average it can kill or nearly kill a tie fighter, which seems average to the books/series/games.

The problem is that a Squadron of x-wings firing those guns at an imp-star drops its shields, which makes ZERO sense by any of the above qualifications.

So the solution would be twoscale. Increase the DR of capitol ships, and vastly increase their hp.

As an example. An x-wing has 30 Shields, and 120 hull. An impstar, 300 shields and 700 hull.

So ten x-wings can take as 300 shield damage, and 1200 hull? More than an impstar?

So we need a benchmark. Assuming we keep standard DR and damages. Fortunately the books have an answer.

X-wing book 4. A Victory II takes a full volley of torp's from Rogue squadron, dropping but not penetrating its shields. This means that a Victory II could take (9d10x2)x24 damage to its shields and just have them fail. Average? 2376 damage.

The numbers seem obscene, but keep in mind these are captiol class ships. The biggest problem the RCR has is that they didn't want to go to such high numbers. Capitol ships should not be capable of being shot down by a trio of x-wings.

Basically I would suggest increasing the HP substantially, If I had to set a benchmark I'd use the impstar at 4-5000 shields, and maybe 2/3 that much as hull (They tend to shield tank a lot.)

 

[Dire Lemming]

Heh, religion has the best names doesn't it Caros? Though Seraphim isn't actually a name for a person or entity... It'd be very interestesting to play with this character. Isn't something like this totaly unprecedented? I think someone like this would usually become an Emperor's Hand. I also wonder how she dealt with and deals with the rampant sexism in the imperial military. There've got to be tons of men that are extremely jealous of her.

It'ed also be interesting because Dylon's commanding officer before the Inquisition was also a woman, though she was only a lieutenant, and got to the rank thanks to the personal attention of a Moff. He wouldn't have a problem with having a female captain, in fact he'd probably admire her. Well at least until he found out how crazy she was. At that point I'd probably have to come up with something like him being infatuated with her to keep him from being constantly pissed that he was under her command.

 

[Jemal]

Hmm so far from what I can see we've got some pretty important people (at least on the ship) as suggested PCs...
Captain(Caros),
Random Officer (Dire Lemming)[maybe second in command?]
Chief Engineer(Voda Vosa),
Tie Fighter Leader(ME) [not sure how many tie squads I'd be/want to be leading]
Ace Pilot (Possum)

*BTW, Char. coming ASAP.*

 

[Dire Lemming]

Hmm so far from what I can see we've got some pretty important people (at least on the ship) as suggested PCs...
Captain(Caros),
Random Officer (Dire Lemming)[maybe second in command?]
Chief Engineer(Voda Vosa),
Tie Fighter Leader(ME) [not sure how many tie squads I'd be/want to be leading]
Ace Pilot (Possum)

*BTW, Char. coming ASAP.*

I don't know about Dylon being Second in Command, he's a Tie pilot first and foremost, with 6 levels in soldier. I'm curious though, what makes you think he'd be a good second in command?

Your character is named Char? :\ Well as long as he doesn't pilot a pink Tie....

By the way, is the Inquisitor a Victory I or Victory II?

 

[Jemal]

*L* NO, Char is short-hand for CHARacter.

And I dont know what made me think of your guy as a XO.. just something. Plus I predict the Rp between Dylon and Seraphim would be pretty good.

 

[Voda Vosa]

Zekhan Owzki will be my engineer name ^^

 

[Caros]

Heh. Well realistically I chose the name sort of like one would choose Charity for a name. Its not a proper name, but is still accepted as one. *Chuckles* That and Biblically at least the Seraphim exist to praise god. Much like she does the Emperor. ^_^;

She deals with the rampent sexism by being singleminded to the point she really doesn't hear it. As far as getting such a post... The emperor's hands are not paticularly well known, and there is no "Sign up do this you're now his hand". She chose what for her was the most logical application of her talents. Compitence in completeing difficult missions earned promotions, and helped the empire =)

Creating this char I decided that, to keep to the initial theme of the campaign we needed at least one person who was so steadfast to the empire as to make defection pretty much impossible *laugh* Enter crazy chick.

 

[Dire Lemming]

*L* NO, Char is short-hand for CHARacter.

And I dont know what made me think of your guy as a XO.. just something. Plus I predict the Rp between Dylon and Seraphim would be pretty good.

Well it definitely could be interesting.

Hm... being singleminded to the point of blindness doesn't seem like the best traits for an officer... This could be... interesting.

 

[DralonXitz]

Good looking character's, I definitely like the class layout we have between everyone, it fits very well. Caros, if you do decide to go Captain, I'd once again suggest Naval Officer PrC, will help a lot, the Ace's we have will be very effective as well, as a good deal of combat will happen in Squadron to Squadron combat.

As for choices, I'm taking Caros, Dire Lemming, Voda Vosa, Possum, and Jemal for 5 of the spots, and leaving 1 open as a variable for two or three more days. You five, I'll post an RG up in a bit, and I'd like complete BG's and sheets posted there. Many thanks.