Stargate: Traditions, OOC Discussion.
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reveal
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Kemrain said:
Thanks! I didn't know there was errata as there was nothing for download on the official page. For those of you who don't know where it's at, go here: http://www.alderac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11352
Kemrain
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Jaeden said:
I'm aware of what Morse Code is, and I know it does't usually take a language slot, but I could think of nothing else that fit and I talked e1ven into the idea of Morse Code Fluency. Speak/Read/Write morse code, at high speeds, and all. Useful, and better than throwing a language slot away. I know you probably don't need to blow a skill point to know it, but I was going for a better than average comprehension.reveal said:
- Kemrain the Native Morse Code Speaker.
Aeson
I am the mysterious professor.
Sorry. PC troubles. I'm the computer wiz in my family and everytime I try to fix one I only make it worse.
Anyway, I was thinking a soldier first and foremost. He always had a knack for understanding languages but never took the time to learn to speak them. After joining the AF, they noticed his aptitude with languages and enrolled him in school(I'm not sure what the AF school for it would be). I thought with his skills with a gun and languages the SGC would take him in a heart beat.
I still need to work on concept but this is a start.
Anyway, I was thinking a soldier first and foremost. He always had a knack for understanding languages but never took the time to learn to speak them. After joining the AF, they noticed his aptitude with languages and enrolled him in school(I'm not sure what the AF school for it would be). I thought with his skills with a gun and languages the SGC would take him in a heart beat.
I still need to work on concept but this is a start.
RandomUsernamehmimo71
Explorer
That sounds good.. But I'll remind you that you don't need to be in the Airforce. If you want to go soldier, you could certainly be a marine, or Army specialist.
With the languages, I'd go for a lot of things that might seem obscure. Ancient Egyptian, for one. Ancient Greek, Mayan, Slavic languages, a Indic language. Maybe even a few things like Viteliu..
Basically, take stuff so that when I send to you an X-derived planet, you have a decent chance of being able to speak with them. I'm not going to say everyone speaks English, like they do in later seasons of SG1.. More like the Movie and Pilot, Children of the Gods..
When they went to Abydos, Daniel Jackson had to work to learn and speak their language. Expect to do that.
I think the way I'll handle it is approximately as follows-
The tall man approaches the camp, seeing the glint of your weapon. As he approaches, he grins, speaking- È sopportato con il nemico che gli dà il lavoro del commesso della copia il fatto che nell'attenzione nella necessità.
Aeson, you roll a 15 on your languages check.
[sblock]He is speaking in a romance derived language, but it seems to have taken on a slightly harsher tone than your used to. Thinking about it for a second or two, you're pretty sure he wants some sort of paperwork from you. [/sblock]
With the languages, I'd go for a lot of things that might seem obscure. Ancient Egyptian, for one. Ancient Greek, Mayan, Slavic languages, a Indic language. Maybe even a few things like Viteliu..
Basically, take stuff so that when I send to you an X-derived planet, you have a decent chance of being able to speak with them. I'm not going to say everyone speaks English, like they do in later seasons of SG1.. More like the Movie and Pilot, Children of the Gods..
When they went to Abydos, Daniel Jackson had to work to learn and speak their language. Expect to do that.
I think the way I'll handle it is approximately as follows-
The tall man approaches the camp, seeing the glint of your weapon. As he approaches, he grins, speaking- È sopportato con il nemico che gli dà il lavoro del commesso della copia il fatto che nell'attenzione nella necessità.
Aeson, you roll a 15 on your languages check.
[sblock]He is speaking in a romance derived language, but it seems to have taken on a slightly harsher tone than your used to. Thinking about it for a second or two, you're pretty sure he wants some sort of paperwork from you. [/sblock]
RandomUsernamehmimo71
Explorer
The Army could certainly be interesting. While the SGC is an Airforce operation, they draw people from the different military branches where necessary. They know they don't have expertise everywhere, are glad to take assistance where offered.
In case anyone is wondering, the end of season 3/beginning of Season 4 takes place in late 1999. We've got the big Y2k coming up soon
-Colin
In case anyone is wondering, the end of season 3/beginning of Season 4 takes place in late 1999. We've got the big Y2k coming up soon
-Colin
Kemrain
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Born on December 2nd in 1975, Ashley Megan Wolfe was the only child of Henry and Sarah Wolfe. Her early life was happy, spent mostly with her mother, a housewife, while her father worked first as a Leiutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force and later as a member of the N.I.D. Henry, Hank to his friends, was rarely at home, being overeas or otherwise occupid much of the time, and Ashley had a very tenuous relationship with him for many years, barely knowing the man who would come into her home at odd hours and kiss her mother.
As a young girl Ashley was occupied with gymnastics, competing regionally, nationally, and eventually qualifying to train for the olympics. Her olympian career was cut short, however, when at the age of eleven her mother died of breast cancer. Depression conquered her life, her only solace being, of all things, her father's old HAM radio and electronics equipment. She stopped caring about her schooling, her intelect the only thing keeping her from falling behind.
She managed to rekindle her relationship with her father a few years later when he tried to get her attention through his HAM radio. They became closer, and he convinced her to apply herself to her schoolwork, prompting her to start and finish highschool, and complete bachelor's degrees in electrical and mechanical engineering years early.
By the time she was ninteen her father had gotten her a position working for the N.I.D.'s technical division, and she was granted high security clearance by her father pulling strings. While she enjoyed the new challenges, she resented her father's meddling and the way her much older colleagues reguarded her as an upstart who got where she was purely by nepotism. To combat her negative image, she volunteered for extra training, and broadened her skill base as a covert engineer and sabotuer for the N.I.D.'s counterintelligence department.
Always struggling against her colleagues' and superiors' views that she was undeserving of her position, she constantly strove to go above and beyond their expectations and excel where others merely met them. She volunteered for every task she thought she was capable of, constantly trying to prove that she couldn't bite off more than she could chew.
It was one of these times when, with a few strings pulled by her father, she got security clearance to Area 51, to work on classified aircraft. It was there where she got her first exposure to Goa'uld technology.
Being one of the youngest people ever to be granted clearance to Area 51, officials were reluctant to introduce Ashley to the alien threat, but her technical expertise was too useful to be ignored. She worked with other technicians discovering how Goa'uld weapons and technology worked, eventually perfecting how to modify goa'uld intar weapons and aiding in the reverse engineering of the Death Glider for the preliminary work on the X-301. To facilitate her research she was taught the Goa'uld language as soon as Daniel Jackson could complie enough of it.
Eventually, her technical expertise and knowledge of alien technology granted her a visit from a man named Colonel Maybourne who offered her the chance to assist a real SG team in the field, off planet. She jumped at the chance, and helped them with repairs to a strange piece of alien technology. Once she returned to earth, she frantically searched through the SG teams' field reports to see which team she had worked with, only to find that none of them were a match. Frustrated, she went to an SGC contact and asked about the team, learning that she hadn't assisted a legitimate stargate team at all, but a rogue N.I.D. team stealing technology.
Bringing together all the evidence she could collect to the SGC she offered her case, and her services, to General Hammond. While she was detained and her facts checked, she was questioned about her motives and previous experience with the N.I.D. and Maybourne. Sensing the hostility towards her employers, she answered truthfully, knowing that her employment with the N.I.D. was surely close to an end when Maybourne discovered her trechery. To her suprise, she was offered a position as an on-sight technician in the SGC; General Hammond knew better than to pass over a talented operative who already knew a great deal about the SGC and had shown loyalty to the organization.
She got a second chance to get through the gate when she volunteered for a technical position in a team that was down a member, temporarily replacing an army technicain who was in the infirmary. Proving herself capable again, she offered her services as a regular team member, and has recently passed the screening tests necessary.
- Kemrain the "Longwinded."
As a young girl Ashley was occupied with gymnastics, competing regionally, nationally, and eventually qualifying to train for the olympics. Her olympian career was cut short, however, when at the age of eleven her mother died of breast cancer. Depression conquered her life, her only solace being, of all things, her father's old HAM radio and electronics equipment. She stopped caring about her schooling, her intelect the only thing keeping her from falling behind.
She managed to rekindle her relationship with her father a few years later when he tried to get her attention through his HAM radio. They became closer, and he convinced her to apply herself to her schoolwork, prompting her to start and finish highschool, and complete bachelor's degrees in electrical and mechanical engineering years early.
By the time she was ninteen her father had gotten her a position working for the N.I.D.'s technical division, and she was granted high security clearance by her father pulling strings. While she enjoyed the new challenges, she resented her father's meddling and the way her much older colleagues reguarded her as an upstart who got where she was purely by nepotism. To combat her negative image, she volunteered for extra training, and broadened her skill base as a covert engineer and sabotuer for the N.I.D.'s counterintelligence department.
Always struggling against her colleagues' and superiors' views that she was undeserving of her position, she constantly strove to go above and beyond their expectations and excel where others merely met them. She volunteered for every task she thought she was capable of, constantly trying to prove that she couldn't bite off more than she could chew.
It was one of these times when, with a few strings pulled by her father, she got security clearance to Area 51, to work on classified aircraft. It was there where she got her first exposure to Goa'uld technology.
Being one of the youngest people ever to be granted clearance to Area 51, officials were reluctant to introduce Ashley to the alien threat, but her technical expertise was too useful to be ignored. She worked with other technicians discovering how Goa'uld weapons and technology worked, eventually perfecting how to modify goa'uld intar weapons and aiding in the reverse engineering of the Death Glider for the preliminary work on the X-301. To facilitate her research she was taught the Goa'uld language as soon as Daniel Jackson could complie enough of it.
Eventually, her technical expertise and knowledge of alien technology granted her a visit from a man named Colonel Maybourne who offered her the chance to assist a real SG team in the field, off planet. She jumped at the chance, and helped them with repairs to a strange piece of alien technology. Once she returned to earth, she frantically searched through the SG teams' field reports to see which team she had worked with, only to find that none of them were a match. Frustrated, she went to an SGC contact and asked about the team, learning that she hadn't assisted a legitimate stargate team at all, but a rogue N.I.D. team stealing technology.
Bringing together all the evidence she could collect to the SGC she offered her case, and her services, to General Hammond. While she was detained and her facts checked, she was questioned about her motives and previous experience with the N.I.D. and Maybourne. Sensing the hostility towards her employers, she answered truthfully, knowing that her employment with the N.I.D. was surely close to an end when Maybourne discovered her trechery. To her suprise, she was offered a position as an on-sight technician in the SGC; General Hammond knew better than to pass over a talented operative who already knew a great deal about the SGC and had shown loyalty to the organization.
She got a second chance to get through the gate when she volunteered for a technical position in a team that was down a member, temporarily replacing an army technicain who was in the infirmary. Proving herself capable again, she offered her services as a regular team member, and has recently passed the screening tests necessary.
- Kemrain the "Longwinded."
reveal
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Jim Johnson, "Bubba" to his friends, was born into an Army family. As a child, he traveled the world extensively, never settling down in one place for too long. He enjoyed the travel and was excited to see new places and meet new people.
When he turned 18, he decided to join the Air Force. He received very good grades in school and decided he wanted to do more than just be an Army grunt, like his father. After a few months of getting the crap assignments, he decided it would be better to be an officer because "they do less and get paid more."
He entered the Boot Strap program and, after getting his degree and graduating with a 4.0 GPS, was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant. He decided that piloting was something he was interested in, but his degree in Communications limited him. He can fly well but he never got to be the chance to be a fighter pilot. Instead, he became a Communications officer, responsible for his men in the field being able to contact others for support in hostile situations.
He became extremely good at his job and quickly rose in rank. He has seen action in the Grenada, the Gulf War and Kosovo. He was always seen as a leader who had your back in a fight, willing to lay down suppressing fire or take a bullet for you, and someone who could talk a tense situation out and help everyone relax. His motto has always been "know your enemy and know thyself."
2 years ago, Col O'Neal contacted him about leading a team on a recon mission. He asked where they were going, but Jack told him to come to "the mountain" and he'd explain everything.
Bubba was in awe when told of the Stargate and utterly silent when it was shown to him. After the shock wore off, he found himself excited at the possibility of going "off-world." But he knows it can be dangerous. He expects his troops to follow his orders because when you don't, people die.
"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys. Look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death!" - Sun Tzu, the Art of War
When he turned 18, he decided to join the Air Force. He received very good grades in school and decided he wanted to do more than just be an Army grunt, like his father. After a few months of getting the crap assignments, he decided it would be better to be an officer because "they do less and get paid more."
He entered the Boot Strap program and, after getting his degree and graduating with a 4.0 GPS, was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant. He decided that piloting was something he was interested in, but his degree in Communications limited him. He can fly well but he never got to be the chance to be a fighter pilot. Instead, he became a Communications officer, responsible for his men in the field being able to contact others for support in hostile situations.
He became extremely good at his job and quickly rose in rank. He has seen action in the Grenada, the Gulf War and Kosovo. He was always seen as a leader who had your back in a fight, willing to lay down suppressing fire or take a bullet for you, and someone who could talk a tense situation out and help everyone relax. His motto has always been "know your enemy and know thyself."
2 years ago, Col O'Neal contacted him about leading a team on a recon mission. He asked where they were going, but Jack told him to come to "the mountain" and he'd explain everything.
Bubba was in awe when told of the Stargate and utterly silent when it was shown to him. After the shock wore off, he found himself excited at the possibility of going "off-world." But he knows it can be dangerous. He expects his troops to follow his orders because when you don't, people die.
"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys. Look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death!" - Sun Tzu, the Art of War
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