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[Sifright]

Let Me Tell You About Myself!
Q: What is your job?
A: My job? That is a difficult question to answer. I suppose for the majority of the time I would be considered a data analyst and physicist. Certainly that is my preferred vocation, however some times I operate in a more clandestine manner.

Q: Any particularly interesting hobbies you have?
A: My work is at the moment my life of course. what I do interests me greatly, why else would I do it? However, I do have a few hobbies I partake of outside of work. Mainly reading up on academia and other achievements of the rest of humanity and playing the stock markets.

Q: What's an average day/week in your life like?
A: I wake up, take a quick five minute shower, get my muse to relay my schedule for me and go to work. When I finish my work for the day, I head home, take another shower and change into something comfortable and continue my side projects.

Q: Where do you live?
A: I live within a colony about 3.56 AU from Sol, it is run by the Argonauts

Q: Any particularly strong views on anyone?
A: Strong view on anyone? I will assume you mean strong view on political factions. Obviously I feel the Argonauts take the correct view with regards to technology and sharing said advances with the rest of transhumanity, even ignoring the fact that they have helped me out. The Hyper corporations are the biggest obstacle to advancement and their constant urge to profit from new discoveries hold us all back both technologically and as a society.

Please Set Personal Preferences
Q: What is your muse like?
A: My muse is a great help, I rely on him for a lot of things. Without his help I would have a much more difficult time of it. Obviously, I know he isn’t truly a real person but I find the interaction to be.. a comfort I suppose.

Q: How much do you use Augmented Reality?
A: How much do I use augmented reality? As little as possible. in truth it quite easily possible to become addicted to the effects of using Aug Reality, and I’m loathe to be addicted to anything.

Q: Do you frequent simulspaces often?
A: The only times I frequent simulspace would be for simulations of experiments and very rarely for recreational use.


Q: Ever edited your own personality?
A: This is a rather sore subject for my self, I’m afraid. I would rather keep the details private. all I will share is that I find the idea of personality editing abhorrent for all but the most severely needed cases, and even then I would show reservation.

Q: Where were you during the Fall?
A: I guess you could say I was but a dream during the Fall, the program that created me being conceived afterwards, Yes I am part of the lost generation, the black sheep of Transhumanity meant to be a shining beacon but instead a reminder of our continuing fallibility.


Q: What's happened to your friends and family?
A: I suppose technically every one created in the Futura program is my brother and sister, but only a few of us were friends, we keep in contact helping each other out from time to time.

Q: Have you travelled much?
A: Well, with the Futura program being shutdown I quickly fled when given the opportunity. Rumour had it that we were being rounded up on the side and shipped off to ‘god’ knows where. Thankfully I found sanctuary with the Argonauts

Q: Any reason you can put a finger on how ended up where you are today?
A: I feel I have covered this question earlier, but I suppose I can elaborate further. The public reason given for the creation of the Futura program and by extension my self was to create a process to increase the population of transhumanity quickly. Obviously there are holes in this story which I need not point out to astute readers. As to where I currently reside, the Argonauts gave me safe haven after the Futura programs failure was announced.

Death and Beyond
Q: Do you still have your original body?
A: I do still have my original body. It is a Futura morph as would be expected.

Q: Do you die often?
A: I’ve yet to die in my current… state.

Q: How do you view resleeving?
A: The idea of Resleeving sounds repulsive. I’ve yet to do so and hope that I will not face the need for a very long time.

Q: Why do you have the morph that you do?
A: Once again I believe this question has been answered already, moving on.

The Conspiracy Has You
Q: What do you think the Fall was really about?
A: What I think the Fall was about specifically? Well there is the official story which certainly does explain a lot but it also leaves a lot of holes. I don’t think the truth will be easy to find, but the upcoming expedition could certainly shed some light.


Q: TITAN agents, do they live amongst us?
A: Titan agents? With out proof I can make no accurate claim but it would seem a fanciful tale.

Q: The Factors, what's up with those jerks?
A; They have different ways of thinking to us and we can benefit from their uniquely alien culture and experience.

Q: Pandora Gates, what's up with those jerks?
A: why do you attribute a behavioral description to a non-sentient object? Either way they could conceivably lead to incredible finds, either that or the centre of a black hole, caution is advised.

Q: Are the Jovians actually right about everything?
A: Simply put no, their stance is neither unpredicted or unexpected given recent events. a quick trawl through the history slates show that when ever technology has precipitated disaster there has been an up swell of conservatism and technophobia, whilst I don’t agree with their ideas I do understand their fears, the key is to learn from our past mistakes and to then move on.

Q: Who else probably has some big schemes going on?
A: Big schemes? Almost every large faction will be ‘scheming’ in some way. This isn’t perhaps the problem most would make it out to be, except of course the hypercorps who only look out for that final credit, even the Jovians are more trustworthy.

Q: THE MESSAGE CONTAINS NO RECOGNISABLE SYMBOLS
A: This message does contain recognisable symbols. However it's meaning isn’t clear perhaps the question should be run through a cipher to find hidden meaning.

[Steel Shadow]

You have no idea how annoyed I am this took so long:

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Q: What is your job?
I'm a 'consultant' for the Reclaimers. I'll let you read between the lines there.

Q: Any particularly interesting hobbies you have?
Oh, you know. I keep myself up to date on the latest software security measures, they're doing some interesting things these days. And I need to keep my meagre hacking skills current, too. I'd say my main hobby is investigating my past, since I do that often enough and it rarely pays any bills.

Q: What's an average day/week in your life like?
Wake up, run through combat simulation, eat breakfast, attend meeting with boss, more combat simulations, lunch, Get to work on my investigations, do paper work, more combat training, Dinner, then investigate untill it's time to sleep. I get weekends off, sometimes.

Q: Where do you live?
Vo Nguyen. Have for a while now.

Q: Any particularly strong views on anyone?
I'm a big supporter of the Reclaimers. Seriously, why are we leaving Earth as it is? The Planetary Consortium are probably at least trying to do the right thing, but it isn't going well for them. The Hyper-corps are clearly all out for themselves, but who isn't these days. Pretty much every Anarchist I've ever met needs to grow up. That's all I got at the moment.

Q: What is your muse like?
Heh, my oldest friend. AI or no, how can you not have a connection with your muse? Besides, having a drinking buddy who wont throw up on your shoes is a blessing and a half.

Q: How much do you use Augmented Reality?
Often. We're slowly leaving our bodies behind, may as well get used to it.

Q: Do you frequent simulspaces often?
I'm not adverse to it, when I have free time. I'm more occupied with real life though.

Q: Ever edited your own personality?
No. Not ever. I am who I am, bad parts and all.

Q: Where were you during the Fall?
No, I had the good fortune to be off the planet when things really started kicking off. I didn't really fancy dropping back down into that mess, either. I didn't think we'd actually lose the place though...

Q: What's happened to your friends and family?
We don't keep in touch. I'm not really a family man.

Q: Have you travelled much?
No idea. Best I can tell you is the past few years, which have been rather static, travel wise. After I woke up, I spent a little time looking into my memory loss, and then the debt collectors started knocking at the door. I got a job at Vo Nguyen with the Reclaimers, and I haven't really moved from there since. Well, give or take.

Q: Any reason you can put a finger on how ended up where you are today?
The fact that I can't is probably the biggest reason I am where I am. Maybe my charming personality is to blame, or perhaps my worryingly strong curiosity. Either way, your guess is as good as mine.

Q: Do you still have your original body?
I did! But I must have mislaid it over those seven years of blank space I've got in my head. These days I have to do without. Tracking it down would be nice, but I'm not hopeful. Well, have you seen it? Male, standard build, dark hair... Yeah, never mind. Next question.

Q: Do you die often?
Not often, but once or twice. I avoid it as best I can, it's usually a messy business.

Q: How do you view resleeving?
I miss my old, main body. Wonder where the hell it got off to. But that's more of a nostalgia thing. Bodies are expendable now, I'll aim for maximum comfort while I use them. Not that fond of resleeving after I've gotten comfy though, so I do it sparingly.

Q: Why do you have the morph that you do?
Convenience and comfort, really. Hey, it gets me around, and I've got all the settings just how I like 'em.

Q: What do you think the Fall was really about?
Global stupidity, really. Sure, the TITANS did the worst damage, but we held the door wide open for them.

Q: TITAN agents, do they live amongst us?
Meh. Maybe, but what the hell would they even want?

Q: The Factors, what's up with those jerks?
Well they're sure as hell not telling us. Could be good, could be bad, but at the moment they're not my concern.

Q: Pandora Gates, what's up with those jerks?
Who knows? We need to investigate them properly. Sure, they're fascinating prospects, but idiots who jump through them blindly are asking for whatever they get.

Q: Are the Jovians actually right about everything?
Pft. Yeah right. Giving that place 20, 30 years at best before it implodes.

Q: Who else probably has some big schemes going on?
A: I'm telling you man, it's the Anarchist Conspiracy!

Q: THE MESSAGE CONTAINS NO RECOGNISABLE SYMBOLS
-Delete- Goddamn spammers.

[Arhra]

Alright people, since character sheets are time consuming and my own little revisions have been taking longer than I'd hope, I am thinking of starting a briefing scenario since that should be quite light on the various skill checks and let everyone get to know each other.

Who is available this weekend for chatroom antics and what times?

[Sifright]

Me I'm available for chat room antics most of the weekend if you give me a little warning about when it will be

[Steel Shadow]

This Saturday is competition day for my Karate association, but I'm in a different time zone from most of you anyways, so it shouldn't be a problem. Name a time and I should be able to make it.

[Overcast]

The sheet. It is finished.

[Arhra]

Given that a briefing situation should need very little in the way of skill checks, I decided to break us out of the chargen rut by starting the game early.

If you need to know anything, just ask. There are no stupid questions, only stupid people.

No, that's not the saying I was going for... I need a better muse...

[Sifright]

Edit: basically I wont be around for the next few days check link below for reasons
http://www.nuklearforums.com/showpos...postcount=1015

[PhoenixFlame]

Been busy, finals week is coming up~

[Krylo]

Well, fuck, I guess if PF is still in I better get around to actually doing this shit.

My updated character sheet (in your xls file)

And his gear is attached in a .txt, 'cause putting it on the forum copy pasta'd made it impossible to read. (And I'm too lazy to reformat).

I made my professions my best guess as to what they would be. If I was right I should have 20 extra points (that will probably go into scrounging), as that your spreadsheet doesn't play nice with stats which aren't COG in there but that bridge can be crossed when you get around to reading this. (I'd edit the formula to make it work proper with the stats those skills are for myself, but I haven't done that since high school and too lazy to mess with it).