A New Beginning OOC

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A New Beginning

The setting.

Time: about 2121 A.D. ...Fifteen years after Earth's sudden disappearance
Place: Helios (an international space station) and Artemis 1 (moon colony) ..they are the only bits of human life left.
Event: Ten people are being moved from Helios to Artemis 1 and vice versa. The official version for this is to increase relations between the segregated groups. The real reason is to promote a healthier gene pool.

Helios

Meant only as a place of scientific research in conjunction with Artemis 1, they were not prepared to take care of their crew, and a few of their families, for an indefinite period of time.

Thanks to the work of those on the moon, these lovely people are now able to eat, despite the supplied stores running out a few years ago. A good bit of the people on the space station have been wiped out, though. All thanks to humans and their bloody tampering with viruses.

Artemis 1

Once a small colony, it has expanded over the past decade and a half, through salvaging materials like excess ships. Most of the colony is covered in hydroponic farms. This is where most of the human race gets their food from. The rest of the food are what is left over from the supplies they started with.

These people live in spacious quarters, small hut-like structures. Their homes are assigned to them though, and they must often take roommates whether they wish to or not.

Q & A:
Advanced Technology? (i.e. how are we breathing, eating, getting clothes, etc.)
Necessity is the mother of invention.

Weapons?

Where in the four hells did earth go?
...All in due time

Armada?
No

The alien mens?
Sure they're out there but after fifteen years the humans weren't really expecting them.

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Name: Corporal Inez Vargas
Race: Human
Age: 22
Personality: Inez is friendly and polite, perhaps a bit too much. She avoids awkward situations as much as possible, and is inclined to trust people a bit too quickly, perhaps. However, she is completely loyal to the chain of command, and it would be rare for her to disobey even if it is for a friend´s benefit. Perhaps this isn´t out of a sense of duty as much as pessimist realism, though, which she still has a good deal of inside her (even if she hides it).
Looks: As pictured above. Roughly 5´9 tall, and quite slim. She doesn´t look too strong, but that´s not her forte.

Skills: Inez is a soldier, one of the few men and women really trained for this job, and one of the few among those that really knows her stuff. She can handle most small arms, and has an instinctive respect and aptitude for everything deadly (from muscles, to 5.56 assault rifles with grenade launchers and laser sights incorporated). As well as being an excellent marksman, she is a good tactician, always having an ace up her sleeve, be it structural weaknesses to be exploited, escape routes to be taken, or the necessary awareness to locate incoming fire. In any exploration or combat squad, she is the brain.

Bio: One would think soldiers wouldn´t be needed in space stations, and would be mostly right. However, when security personnel has to also deal with the possibility of coup d´etats or foreign interference, a compromise has to be reached. Thankfully, the weapons technology left from the first teams turned out to be more than enough for the time being, and something that could be improved later on. Weapons like coilguns to destroy enemy tanks and ships, or grenade launchers to disrupt infantry lines, had been inventions proven to work long, long ago, too. The problem was not in equipment, though. As scarce as it was, more could be made. The problem was finding people who could actually use it with any semblance of skill and willingness. Can you guess whose childhood hobby fit just perfectly in the new order?




This is my character. I´ll be editing my sign-up post in the main thread to make my intro instead.

alright then

Argh shoot, should i have posted the char profile here instead?

it really doesn't matter

As an important note: Have in mind that the "military" in the moon are more security personnel than real soldiers (although they´d like to think themselves the latter). And so, they have no real combat experience. Simulations, on the other hand, could count as experience.

Also, I guess they would be armed with a mix of lethal and non-lethal weaponry. Knives, stun batons and tazers, semi-automatic pistols, shotguns and assault rifles... anything heavier would be VERY (notice the emphasis) scarce, and would depend on what the moon colony is like (firing missiles or coilguns inside a spaceship is a gigantic "don´t"). The same goes for explosives, demolition charges would be rare (because they are not built for military uses, although the mining personnel could make those, I guess). Grenades would probably be flashbangs and stunners, nothing fancy like incendiaries or fragmentation grenades.

actually I have to interject .. and I really don't know why this hasn't occurred to me before but.NO USING GUNS ON THE SPACESTATION ...... one missed shot could either hit something vital or ricochet and cause damage you didn't intend..... all anyone needs is for the airlock to be destroyed and everyone floats away....

I'm on sugar.....weeeeeee

Depends. How modern is the space station?

And as far as I know, at least shotguns don´t present much danger to a space station. Their penetration power is almost null against steel, let alone reinforced steel, and still have the effectiveness needed in its corridors.

That said, this takes place 100 years after current time, right? I guess someone could have invented a weapon that could work in a space station? Like, I don´t know... something that only hurts organic matter? Or the station itself could have been built with materials that could resist that kind of penetration.

Ah i see, i may have missunderstood you somewhat. The base of my char was the military trained and so on as a soldier, but as things are now with the little need of the military the few that were soldiers were bumped "down" to secrurity personel. The military trained ones of course representing the more skilled part of this personel. Was i totally off?

It´s the opposite. We were sec-per bumped up to military.


That said, may I ask you to elaborate on the setting, Maiden? Right now, I don´t know what the colonies look like, what they have, what they need, what problems the colonists face daily or long-term... all of these would help creating characters.

ack, hm i see, i'll have to edit abit in my bio then ^^

Well the space station fits about three hundred. Four hundred in a crisis, though I tend to think the reason for that is mute now. They are equipped with what used to be the greatest scientific immenities as the primary point of Helios was scientific research first, then promote international relations.

The Moon colony once a paltry twenty miles in radius, has expanded to take up about one-third of the moon's surface. Most of this space is used by terraforming and after many tries and misses they found away to actually farm successfully. This is one of the main reasons that people have yet to starve to death.

The government is more like a combination of socialism and communism. While people are free to train for almost any job they wish, no one receives any amount of money. They all get what they want by either bartering or good will. The leaders were picked long ago and if one of them has died they have neglected to inform the populace.

more later when it occurs to me

small calibur rounds fired at a low velocity would be lethal at close range but wouldnt have the power to punch through the hull.

also, the space station, it would have science labs wouldnt it?

kittenofdeath said:

also, the space station, it would have science labs wouldnt it?

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is what I say

If you've still got room I'll join. I'll make up a char in a few days, busy right now.

we always have room ^_^

kittenofdeath said:

small calibur rounds fired at a low velocity would be lethal at close range but wouldnt have the power to punch through the hull.

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Also, I think hollow-point rounds work as well. Since they expand into shards when they impact, this would mean the penetration would be pretty bad against steel walls, or even reinforced glass.




So, Maiden, is it alright with you if we just use shotguns and hollow-points? That, together with knives and stun batons, or tazers, should be more than enough. Add flashbangs or stun grenades if we are equipped "just that little bit better", and that will be it.

you could always use some kind of knock out gun, like a dart or some kind of energy based weapon

Bean bag gun for the win ^^

You could use PPGs from Babylon 5. They can be set any wheres from first degree burns and hurts like hell, to kill. Only the military grade assault rifles can penetrate stuff like metal doors, and that requires sustained fire from a few feet away. Thats what they used on the station that the series takes place on.

Plus the shots look and sound cool

i dont think the tecnology has progressed far enough for that kind of stuff, viable hand held laser tech is pretty far off

pff it's like the debate of the ages.....Ok here's what I'm gonna allow weapon wise....(excluding blades of sorts..you can go nuts with that..)

Tazers
Rubber bullets
Tear Gas

Only security personnel are allowed to use them.

I know you people want your guns with real shiny bullets of lethalness but I doubt anyone is going to go psycho enough that you would have to use lethal force instead of just incapacitating them. If they are deemed unfit to live they can be given a lethal injection.

If you're an alien that hasn't been trapped among humans since forever and a day. You can make up whatever you want. Cause then it can be explained away with advance technology and such.

New Topic!!!!!!!

What ideas do you guys want to see come to fruitation in the thread?

an explaination of the whole disapearing planet thing

Who says it is the planet that has disappeared? Why not the moon and the station? It´s just that since we are inside it, we might not have noticed it. Maybe the astronomers have already noticed the star system has changed completely, but the government has stopped them from divulging the news until they are sure of what is going on.


That said, there would be many problems to solve. For starters, the resources. I imagine the moon can only provide so many products that we´d need. It´s not the Earth, it does not have the same atmosphere or anything approaching a climate. Yes, we might have hydroponic installations to produce food, but what about metals? Ceramics? BREATHABLE AIR?

Name: Senior Chief Christopher Selbut
Race: Human
Age: 28
Personality: Chris is pretty much your average all-around-easy-going nice guy. He is a bit vain about his piloting skills though, he is in the top 5% of the Navy’s small craft pilots after all...
Looks: 5’8”, dirty blond hair, hazel eyes, average Naval personnel build.

Skills: Chris is a natural pilot. He has mastered all military small craft, and several civilian ones. He is well versed in the armaments of military small craft and uses them well in simulations and live fire exercises. Outside of his skill with small craft, his skills are largely average for a Naval person of his position.

Background: Chris had had a love of flying as long as he can remember. He first flew his parent’s hover car at the age of 10, without incident. His family moved to the moon when he was 12, about 7 months before Earth's disappearance. He enlisted in the Navy right out of high school, and graduated from Flight School 1st out of 12. His talent in his specialization has propelled him up through the ranks.
He is currently stationed on the moon. As one of the premiere pilots, he tends to get the more precious cargoes and go out on exercises more often. However, his superior’s beautiful wife took interest in the young Chief. It has been 2 months and she is still trying. Worse, she may just succeed considering that his girl friend of 2 years had just broke up with him a week ago...