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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samnell" data-source="post: 2607815" data-attributes="member: 130">Lucas Tyler, Final Draft?Just consolidating with BG notes and so forth.[sblock]Lucas Logan KaroczekAka “Lucas Tyler” (assumed name)Aka “Dataswimmer” (grid name)Species: Human Engineered MutantGender: MaleHeight: 1.7m (5’8”)Weight: 50kg (110 lbs)Hair: BlondeEyes: BlueAge: 21 (biological), unknown (chronological)Career: Tech OpLevel: 1Profession: GridpilotLast Resorts: 1Last Resort Cost: 3AttributesMotivation: Deeper MeaningLucas isn't sure who or what he really is or should be. He's an Inseer! Really! You have to believe him! Even though he's not entirely sure himself.Moral Attitude: Anti-AuthorityLucas thinks he got royally screwed last time he followed orders. If he's going to go along, it has to be on his terms.Trait: CuriousInformation born free aside, Lucas desperately needs to know things and figure things out.Trait: EgotisticalA mask for his inner confusion.Abilities/Untrained Res. Mod.    Strength 7/3        0        Dexterity 12/6        +1 step        Constitution 10/5      -Intelligence 17/7    +4 stepsWill 9/4                   0Personality 8/4        -Action Check ScoreMarginal 16+Ordinary 15Good 7Amazing 3Actions per Round: 2Die: +d0Combat Movement RatesSpring 20Run 12Walk 4Easy Swim 2Swim 4DurabilityStun 10Wound 10Mortal 5Fatigue 5Skills [separated by key ability, total points spent 86]Athletics 7/3/1 +d4 – freeVehicle Operation 12/6/3 +d4 – freeStamina 10/5/2 +d4 – free*Endurance 1 11/5/2 – cost 4Computer Science 17/8/4 +d4 – cost 6*Hacking 3 20/10/5 – cost 12*Programming 3 20/10/5 – cost 9Knowledge 17/8/4 +d4 – free*Computer Operation 3 20/10/5 – cost 6*Language: Hatire 3 20/10/5 - free (native language)*Language: Galactic Standard 3 - cost 3*Hatire Knowledge 3 20/10/5 - free (native area) Star*Drive p.233*Insight Knowledge 2 19/9/4 - cost 2Security 17/8/4 +d4 – cost 5*Security Devices 1 18/9/4 – cost 2System Operation 17/8/4 +d4 – cost 4*Engineering 3 20/10/5 - cost 6Technical Science 17/8/4 +d4 – cost 4*Juryrig 1 18/9/4 – cost 2*Repair 3 20/10/5 – cost 6*Technical Knowledge 1 18/9/4 - cost 2Awareness 9/4/2 +d4 – freeIneraction 8/4/2 +d4 – freeCybergear training – cost 10Perks & FlawsFaith-Insightful. Lucas is a serious convert to the Inseer religion and he gets this free for being originally of Hatire rearing. I'm not sure if he's serious enough to really warrant the perk, though. Likewise he has had bad experiences with religion that might put a damper on the fervor, namely being stuck on an agricultural backwater doing exhausting physical labor under the hot (for him) sun from dawn until dusk every day to keep him from using his "sinful proclivities".Infamy-Criminal record. Lucas is a convicted criminal for his hacking into the auxiliary datacore of a Galactic Bank branch well off the beaten path. His conviction caused a minor media splash due to the high-profile target. +2 skill pointsMutations - EngineeredHyper IntelligenceLucas's brain is amazingly efficient and overdeveloped. Int +3Minor Physical ChangeLucas's skin is a flat, chalky white. Large veins show through it easily. Short of full concealment, his altered genetics are obvious. +2 penalty to all Personality skills and any other skills used to interact with others.Moderate Environmental Sensitivity, HotLucas's body operates at well above normal human temperatures. As a result he's warm to hot where others would be comfortable and truly hot temperatures cause him to overheat. He sunburns easily. +3 penalty to all skill and action checks in hot temperatures.CybertechMarginal Nanocomputer [1]Wireless NIJack [1] ($1000)Subderman Comm [1] ($500)Good Biowatch [0] ($100)Cybertolerance 5/3/5Remaining: 2/3/5Signature Equipment: Marginal Gridcaster, Marginal Nanocomputer, Ordinary Shadow Form Program, Ordinary Antivirus Program, Marginal Break-in Program [self-made].Other Equipment: Ordinary Datascan Program ($200)Ordinary Shadow Form 2 Program ($2000)Ordinary Toolkit ($100)Athletic shoes ($150)1 set casual dress ($50)AppearanceIf not for his skin tone, Lucas would be a near-stereotypical farm boy of medium build. He's just a bit short and a bit too introverted to pull it off. His blonde hair is slightly long and permanently sun-bleached. He avoids eye contact with authority figures and is usually uncomfortable in their presence, unless talking about his specialities. Then he becomes animated, speaking quickly with great confidence and often throwing hair back out of his eyes.His mutant skin and heat sensitivity work at contrary ends. Lucas isn't comfortable showing off his skin and prefers to keep it covered, but wearing heavy clothes leaves him quickly overheating. His normal compromise is a skintight bodysuit that keeps him covered and draws away the sweat, with loose clothing on top of it as needed. He prefers synthetic clothes to the exclusion of natural fibers as a result of being forced for years to wear ill-fitting, rough homespun clothing on the farm.Allegiance: ConcordLucas doesn't like it all that much, but he's legally obligated to work with the Concord in lieu of a lengthy prison sentence for getting caught breaking into a banking datacore that was way out of his league.Authority: 2 (+2 Tech Op, +2 Allegiance, -2 Infamy)Wealth: 5 (+2 Tech Op, +1 Gridpilot [used entry for Hacker], +1 Allegiance) $2,500/monthFame: 0 (+1 Tech Op, -1 Gridpilot, +1 Allegiance, -1 Infamy)BackgroundA Hatire survey team discovered the year-old Lucas in a stasis pod on the fringe of Open Space near to the Community's border with the Thuldan Empire. The planet where they found him was a burnt-out wreck and the facility housing him little more than an enclosed ruin. Nothing could be learned from its shattered datacore about who or what he was, why he was there, or who had created him. Medical scans quickly determined his humanity, at least in the broadest sense. But they likewise confirmed him as a mutant.A debate erupted over whether to destroy the "aberrant tissue sample" or hold it for future investigation, with a minority arguing that the mutations had been inflicted on the child and while less than human and an abomination in the eyes of Cosimir, he could not be blamed for his disability and with help could live a spiritually upright life. Seismic disruptions forced the surveyors to relocate his pod to their ship and once he'd been moved, they decided to seek higher authority on the issue.Several starfalls later, Lucas was handed over to an expert medical team for a full evaluation, which only confirmed the long catalog of his perversions. But religious authorities ruled that if a proper home could be found for the boy, one which would raise him in the Hatire faith and be ever on guard against his corrupt and corrupting nature, potential for reform existed. One of the surveyors, a faithful man named Peter Karoczek stepped forward.Peter took the boy, who he named after his grandfather, to an agricultural preserve deep in Hatire space. On Trinos, the faithful lived and worked on the smallest of three continents. Excepting a lone spaceport and medical facilities, they did their best to avoid all technology beyond that of approximately 18th-century Earth.Peter married and established a homestead more than a day's walk from the spaceport over hard terrain and set about raising his cursed son. He kept vigilant ever against Lucas indulging his warped mind, strictly punishing daydreaming and any sign of sloth. He hoped by working Lucas's body to exhaustion, the boy would have no energy left for unnatural thoughts. As Lucas grew, the task of filling his mind with work and prayer became increasingly difficult.  Try as he might, in almost every spare moment Lucas found his mind drifting to useless speculations. For the better part of seventeen years, he fought a slowly losing battle for his own soul. Prayer, fasting, beatings, nothing helped it for long. The forces within him struggled constantly between horror at the thoughts he had and their dangerously seductive appeal.While plowing a new field just before his eighteenth birthday, the troubled adolescent struck metal. Digging up the obstruction to the furrow, Lucas discovered a metal sphere that popped open in his hands to reveal a complicated, damaged, technological interior. He'd only heard about such things. He wanted nothing to do with it, but with such an oddity in his hands, Lucas could not resist his compulsions any longer.For more than a week, Lucas came out at night in secret to poke and prod within the sphere's technological interior and it dominated his every waking thought. He knew he damned himself with every musing, but fell completely out of control. He at last decided that he must leave before he was discovered, or he would be stopped. He wanted to be stopped, but simultaneously couldn't allow it.Lucas stowed away on a Borealis freighter that brought a load of medical supplies to Trinos and through pure luck wasn't discovered until it had already made starfall. The captain very nearly turned right around and shipped him back home, but agreed to keep him on as a deckhand until they came around to Trinos again in six months.For those six months, Lucas threw him into the workings of the ship. His unleashed intellect could not be satiated and his constant barrage of questions refused to abate as he discovered more and more things that he never knew of, or knew of only from fiery condemnations. When the time came for a return to Hatire space, the freighter did not get the planned resupply contract and thus accepted a long haul to StarMech space.On the fringes of Rigunmor space, while the freighter hitched a ride with a Concord dreadnaught, Lucas discovered the grid. He knew intellectually of computer networking and learned how to operate the machines, but meeting his first gridpilot was an intellectual and spiritual revelation. Here at last was something so vast and incredible that it filled the gap left by the growing discovery that everything he had believed was wrong. His new mentor, Bitstream, convinced him to make the most important decision of his life: to experience the grid directly. When the freighter and the dreadnaught parted ways at Delight, Lucas laid down on an operating table and had a nanocomputer and a wireless NIJack installed. He spent the remainder of his life savings on a gridcaster and spent most of a month learning the ways of the grid with the help of a few Insight expatriots.Lucas wandered, taking jobs as ship's engineer on a few short haul trips and then spending his earnings in sojourns planetside or on stations, honing his skills and cobbling together his own break-in program. When he had a working prototype, he loaded it up and sent his shadow against the auxiliary datacore of a branch of the Galactic Bank. To his complete surprise, he was arrested within hours and not long thereafter news stories broke about the dangerous mutant terrorist trying to subvert the Galactic economy, ably captured by Concord security. The furor died down relatively quickly, without much of a story beyond his arrest and capture, but the damage to his reputation was done.Lucas's sentencing took into account his prior clean record and guilty plea, but neither of these themselves much ameliorated the seriousness of his crime. He was given the choice between serving a term of probation on a Concord vessel, where he would turn his skills to lawful use, and five years in prison. Lucas didn't need a lot of time to consider his options.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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