Space Opera: The RP: The Signup

[CallmePrismatic]

First off, if you don't know what a space opera is, voila.

The setting is a futuristic universe. Advancements in communication and interplanatery travel has connected the worlds together in science and entertainment. In this new cosmos planets can be viewed as countries, or even states, in regards to the larger picture.

With this connectivity came the increase in crime. As individual worlds could not be counted on to solve everyones problem, a grand all encompassing police force was created, the Reliance. Made up of willing officers, the Reliance's main duty is to help planets in the capture of criminals. Some have decried the organization as an overblown bounty hunter group, but these few radicals have not decreased the popularity of the organization. In fact, the Reliance, with its open door policy on accepting all races into its ranks, has become one of the most gleaming and respected organizations in the universe.

You are not part of the Reliance. You are not one of its supporters. You are wanted.

Any criminal act commited on a planet is under the jurisdiction of that planet and its personal enforcement agencies. If a criminal evades/escapes capture and manages to leave the world, he or she is then issued a bounty and falls under the power of the Reliance. You are a criminal, in a ship with other criminals, and your life consists of escaping capture.

Sign Up:
Name:
Race:
Appearance:
Racial Advantages/Disadvantages:
Crime: NOTE: No one wants to be rooming with crazies. So, some types of crimes have been deemed to criminal. For example, premeditated/mass murdering is a no-no (if a cousin of the governer type jackass started to hassle your great-uncle and you struck him down in blinding fury and were forced to go into a Kung Fu-esque hiding, thats ok). Just put what you're wanted for.
Biography and Personality:
Main Contribution to Ship: Engineer, navigation, shooting, medic, etc.

We'll be switching between on-board adventures and planetary tromping.

I'll be the captain/main pilot of the ship. My sign-up will be posted soon. Post questions, if any.

[Arhra]

Hmm, I think I might be interested. Engineer type could be fun. You wouldn't mind if I pulled out the occassional bit of techno-babble would you? Nothing too involved, just the occassional rigging up of something unusual.

Also, just wondering about how alien you want any aliens to be.

[CallmePrismatic]

As alien as you want, we'll have translators and the such. I think I might not allow intelligent shades of blue, but everything below that is pretty much fair game.
Technobabble is allowed, as are obsucure futuristic objects and obscura.
I've decided my character will have been/is currently a smuggler.

[GARUD]

Looks like fun. I'm in

Name: Garud
Race: Half Human/ Half unknown race
Appearance: Very dark brown hair with peircing brown eyes and a thin nose. Has a scar over one eye which is now completely red. He uses it to see through alloy substances.
Racial Advantages/Disadvantages: Has an aptitude to learn how to do things by just looking at them with his red eye.
Crime: Wanted for treason for forming a rebel band against the UN Earth government. The band was crushed but he managed to escape into space.
Biography and Personality: An easygoing person who broods alot. Despite him being a nice guy, he can be extremely devious, planning strategies very well. He is also an educated scholar. His loyalty to people only goes as far as their just causes. unfortunately, he is very gullible and can easily be tricked. This is not the case when he strategises though. Can keep a cool head under enormous pressure. He is extremely shy.
Main Contribution to Ship: navigation and battle strategist.

I wanted to be a half character. its new. i also got rid of the wings. I also put more substance into the bio. Any problems, just post.

[Krylo]

How about Q-esque? Mmm... Godlike powers. I don't in any way expect you to allow that.

[CallmePrismatic]

@krylo: Q? I was unaware that Bond's gadgetmaker had developed god-like powers.
@GARUD: You don't really need to be a 'half' something (especially a demon?), just make a race. Also, no on the wings because it doesn't really make any sense and seems more tacked on that anything. Besides that, looks ok, although bio could be fleshed out a tad.

[IHateMakingNames]

Not Q from James Bond, Q from Star Trek. The race of super beings that lived outside of existance, and could do whatever they wanted.

[Barahad]

This looks like fun. I'll see what I can cook up and post back here soon, hopefully.

Edit: To remove the 'Q' explanation, which the previous poster beat me to.

[CallmePrismatic]

Ahh...I guess if I watched Star Tek I wouldn't look like a jackass about now. Well, no god-like beings in this RP. Unless I get really desperate for story enhancers...so maybe a 68% percent-chance of a Q/Ellimist thing showing up and fucking around with us.

[ThanosOfTitan321]

Name: Mirra Rek'Lu
Race: Parisian
Appearance: Parisians look like normal humans except for their elf-like ears. Mirra has dark hair that goes down to just above her shoulders, and bangs that go over her face in a few strands. She usually wears a tight black jump suit. She weilds whatever the top guns or weapons available to her are.
Racial Advantages/Disadvantages: They have very tough skin, and a healing factor.
Crime: She's a professional assassin and a contract killer, and wanted for her assassination of the president of Parisia, her home planet.
Biography and Personality: She was born on Parisia where she was trained by her father to be an incredible assassin. She grew up into the hit-man business and was contracted to kill the president of Parisia. The plan was they were supposed to frame it on a recently escaped mad-man, but the vice president, who had a part in this, turned on Mirra and tried to have her killed so she couldn't let out the information about his involvement in the assassination. She escaped and is now wanted for the assasination. She has reformed form being an assassin, though she still posesses all the same skills. Now she is just out to survive.
Main Contribution to Ship: Defending and shooting