I see a lot of fun banter between Alpha and myself about how the ship should be piloted and such! oh this is got me smiling! Can't wait guys!

Hmm, I imagined a riot would be rather inevitable, but let's wait to Xel weighs in? :)

A Drunk Tank holding area was what I had in mind as well. Would explain the impound lot and minimal security.

So!

uh, this is probably a little mutanous... but since we just up and killed one dude, and bludgeoned another... maybe the two people currently introduced are now gonna get "transfered"?

have the rest of the future crew be "working through processing" when the BREAKOUT EVENT happens, and chaos ensues... they steal the fastest ship available (the super-max transport freighter!) and run into Fortuna and the Captain as their trying to get it up and running?

(thinking over our list.. we do have a couple of serious hard-cases (Fortuna, Cappy, and Kr'Kow) and a couple "less so" hard cases.... so the distinction might play to our favor (Kr'kow drags the pilot and mechanic to the ship... where Fortuna and Kahn already are... or are enroute to when things go sideways))

yep! i prefer one thread... at least until this "arc" ends....

Sounds good to me! :)

Right.... I'm positive that a facility of this size will likely be able to process several future inmates at once..

processing itself generally takes a while (less time in the world of super-science/tech) and includes:
several searches (bodily and background)
a medical exam
and a collection of identity info (mugshots, fingerprints, dna sample, etc)

you could scan through this link for ideas, if you like
http://voices.yahoo.com/going-jail-expect-during-booking-process-248395.html?cat=17

my assumption is that most/all of the rest of the cast are going through processing or in the holding cell "during" processing, while Fortuna and Kahn are being transported under guard to the garage.

Hmmm, I think I'd better get started composing my post. I'll post when I have it ready, that way Alpha can start with Mal at his convenience.

we still have a lot of intros to get through... ;P

Don't worry, she'll be getting that back soon enough! :)

And would it be a problem to alter Fortuna from a sniper to a pistol woman, perhaps dual handguns if no one else utilizes them? :)

Hmm, always liked Domino anyway!

Yeah, I think I'll leave her as she is for now...

Xel, you want to post the cell setup for her and such? :)

hope that's not too long...

Neither do I. More detail the better, IMO.

I have no problem with long posts.

BTW, the gravitationally polarized explosive, for those not familiar with the concept (TDX, from James Blish's [url=http://www.amazon.com/Cities-Flight-Sf-Masterworks-03/dp/0575094176]Cities in Flight series[/url], IIRC), will produce about 99% of its effect in a horizontal plane, unless the gravity goes out first. Then with just the little gravity of the asteroid, it might as well be ordinary composition 4. Leanre expects a hole about 2 cm wide, about a meter long, in the wall, with any power/water/whatever lines behind it being cut, and the portion of the blast that goes into the room would do little more than ruffle people's hair by the time it spreads down that far. If she can get it placed ^_^.

Hmm, well then I take it Fortuna can simply, well, leave...? : )

welp, there are three on file.. so you might even be a fourth ;P

after reading again, I'd say that Damon and Gar are still together, and Lianre was using the services of a different grey-one ;P

hah, no worries, it happens....

Name: Viz'x Kreet (basic translation)

Age: 16 (appears mid-twenties. her species matures very rapidly and rarely live past sixty earth years)

Race: Miz'trex (bronze age level tree dwellers, rather spiritual)

Home world: Kalfius IV, a "super earth" roughly eight times the radius of earth. Kalfius IV is dominated by a planet spanning jungle of massive scale growth, dividing its surface into three distinct zones, above the canopy live roving flocks of locust like birds that devour the fruit of the trees (and anything else that is to slow to get away). the mildly clear mid trunk zone (a place of filtered to low light slightly more open and clear of the lower ground clutter, where a early bronze age sentient society has been developing). and the ground level (a place cluttered with overgrowth, abounding with dangerous wild life and all but devoid of light). due to the increased mass of the planet the gravity is accordingly heavier.

Physical Appearance: http://imgur.com/nTcvaZE (I had a friends artist draw this for me! woo) She stands seven foot three and weighs 310 pounds.

Skills: Use of most modern projectile and energy projection weapons, limited demolition experience, extensive melee training.

Equipment: multi-barreled rapid fire assault Gauss cannon (custom build), Halon-tech Plasma pulse projection pistols X4, GP-44 drum fed EX-Pro launcher, sixteen assorted bladed weapons, mono-wire grenades X6, two weapons storage duffles, sixty eight power cells, 350 rounds of Ex-Pro ammunition, 200kg block hyper dense material for feed into Guass weapons (roughly 400 thousand rounds) Ceri-corp ploy-alloy body armor and mesh covering, multi-spectrum military issue communications torc. can of concealment paint black. All items currently in detention center armory for processing.

Criminal Record: Suspected of mercenary actions in at least four separate raids, has been seen in association with drug smugglers at least twice. currently detained for questioning thanks to an anonymous tip that placed her on a cargo freighter passing by this sector.

History: Viz'x was ten years old, excited for her first trip hunting with her brothers, sisters and cousins. they were all to go into the forest in pairs with older more experienced hunters and take a large beast to ascend to adult hood. a strange bird moved over her and her guardian as she stalked the tree's being young and foolish she moved up to get a better view...this was the last thing she remembers before the electrical pulse wave from the "bird" knocked her senseless. when she awoke she was in the hold of a slave ship bound for a life of manual labor. Her captors assumed since she was disarmed of her weapons that she was indeed harmless. this was a mistake, when the landed on a trading colony for supplies she broke free and evaded capture. A year later living in a strange world with strange devices and stranger "people" she met a man in a bar that seen the usefulness of her species. the man trained her, showed her how to fight, gave her a new family, a new home. She thought she was going to be happy this way until her body gave out or someone proved a better warrior then her, but that was not to be. The man and her family were hired by another group, one that sold chemicals, poisons, to others. they betrayed them instead of paying them there fair share. They killed the man, scattered her family. She plans to even that score.

Physical Abilities: coming from a heavy gravity world she of course has enhanced physical strength, her species is a hybrid between arachnid and arboreal primate. the four forward facing eyes are capable of pin point depth perception and can see the lower UV band and well into the IR range. her species seems to also have redundancy in mind in there construction with two hearts, four lungs, a bi-chambered stomach, a primary and smaller secondary liver. Even there skeletal system has a redundancy, during times of stress a chemical is released into the body that reacts with there dermal layer, hardening sections of it into exoskeleton plates. there second collar bone set crossed down in front of the rib cage acting as a cross thatching over ribs.

Notes about the Istapus.

The Istapus people live in clan groups these clans fight over the key Islands used for hatching and raising young. The fighting settled down to more political then open physical fights. Technology wise the Istapus were stone age people before the coming of the "Outsiders" (don't know who technically runs the government of the sector) the space government beings. The primitive tech was more due to how the Istapus lives, they are semi-aquatic and spend a large amount of time in the water. Developing the advance tech requires forges and basically fire, something not possible in the water. To build factories on the land just didn't come to the minds of the istapus given how useful land is rare. Largest land mass is in the arctic circle much like Antarctica is frozen waste. This of coarse changed when the Outsiders came.

Seeking the minerals of the planet some quite rare, but was abundant in the pressurized deep oceans of Istapus. At first it was brute force there was little record knowledge of the life on the planet and few or none of the people knew that there were intelligent life on Istapus. The invading mining equipment was destructive and the Clans banded together to stop the mining. The Istapus quickly grasps the workings of the machines and proved to be problematic. Eventually an agreement was made the istapus would mine the minerals and in exchange they gain technology of the more advanced people. This proven cheaper in the long run given the Istapus can survive in the deep oceans crushing depths.

The Clans are led by the Elders the oldest of the clans. They dictate what is done and when. Fighting over fishing rights in one region or nesting rights of that island, and lately over who does what job in the mines.

Where Gar-Lox comes in. The Lox clan has control of the land mass where the space port is located. A rival clan trying to discredit them and take control of the island and the valuable land rites for the port. Gar having spent his young live growing up in the shadow of the space port became fascinated by the ships and dream of going into space. Something never heard of before and of course forbidden by the the Elder Lox clan members. Of course that changes when he and Damon Tess hijacked a ship and took off.

So the Lox clan fearing that Gar would cause major political damage and shame the Clan.

SO, the plan is that Kahn's ship is in impound, or are we stealing someone else's?
I assume that Kreet and her guards are boxing out the entrance to the impound lot for plot interest?

Also, I know there's no honor among thieves, but the only way I can see the dynamic between Gar and Mao changing is if she gets shot, but isn't left behind. so when it happens, if someone would be so kind as to think of a good reason to drag her boney butt along, that'd be swell ;P

cool beans. Mao has some pretty useful quirks, but she's best when she's got time to prepare or is striking from surprise.

More info on the Tek'ari

Race was highly explorative and were not the only sentient species on their home planet. Being highly opportunistic, they gained much of their tech by scavenging from the larger species the Akre'ente. Historically the inquisitive nature and adaptability of the Tek'ari made them ideal slave force, but that proved disasterous when they behaved like swarms of gremlins more than any organized slave force. Most Tek'ari found off-planet were stow aways on their first trip, and are well known for their ability to figure out lots of tech intuitively without the ability to read labels. Most species have come to regard them as either troublesome nuisances, harmless annoyances, or means to ends. Most Tek'ari view everyone else the same way. They are largely non-confrontational, relying on their wit and others' disregard of them to get out of situations. A few can be aggressive and possessive of things, and others far more passive. The Tek'ari heirarchy is strongly pack oriented and the individuals that don't follow leadership are promptly and frequently exiled.

Damon found more interest in ship controls and has focused his natural problem solving skills into getting ships. He doesn't view anything bigger than him as something he owns, and very few things smaller than him as things he owns. Most of the time, if he can't carry it or pocket it lightly he doesn't find value in keeping it.

stow it, bird-brain! :p

some info about Nyhhsarians:
Technically Nyhhsarian is not a species/race, but more closely a Nationality. the Ey'uur Nyhhsar (literally "Black Eared") were a theo-ethnic group on Alryeuur Prime in the distant past who have since expanded their culture to several worlds. These Nyhhsarians are fiercely territorial but not much for manifest destiny, growing only when they deem it necessary (when their planets can no longer maintain an increasing population). the civilization as a whole is run by a council called the Nine Yhheyrah, holy princes/princesses through whom the Divine makes its presence known to the physical world. they claim to represent Social Justice, Solidarity, and Reason, but it's remarkable how easily those ideals flex to be most convenient to the government.

Lyhhah Mao is a member of the original Ey'uur Nyhhsar race, having black-tipped ears and slanted eyes... however, outside the upper-echelons of the theocracy, the Black Eared ones are rather rare (i.e. seeing Nyhhsarian equipment would be as familiar as, say, seeing Victorian garb is for us today... but it's unlikely the person actually IS Victorian.)
(and, since we're sharing images)
This is Lyhhah... except she's got auburn hair, not blond

and her helmet would look something like a cross between hawk girl's helmet, and the face of a [url=http://d2tq98mqfjyz2l.cloudfront.net/image_cache/1368140636196484_tall.jpg]Caracal[/url]

While I do NOT have a character sheet, Fortuna's voice (when not adopting another persona) is that of Claudia Black, here is an example! :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KwBtmOmsrw

As for her appearance...:)

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2009/346/d/d/A_Chiss_by_tharynien.png

She would looklike so except for a cleavage dip in the middle, curled lengths of ebony hair going down her back, and of course, amber toned skin. :)

adamantium ;P

basically they have dual functionality. in a neutral state, they can cut through nearly anything... but they're like cat claws, the're fairly short (she's got no problem tearing a doorknob off, but she's not cutting through a wall any time soon)

However, they are also her means of teleportation. by establishing an appropriate frequency, she can collapse space-time between where she is, and where she want's to be (the compression is invisible and unnoticeable by anyone, even her, but instruments designed to register space/time anomalies (gate jumps and such) would see it, if compression occurred in their field of view)
despite "slashing" she's actually more like pulling herself through. She can't, say, "open a door" between two places, nor is it strictly a hole. As the gauntlets move from here to there, they (and she) are pulled to the other place, re-establishing normal space-time. It is difficult, without having prior knowledge or experience in a location, to teleport away from a location under fire (i.e. she can't get the positioning and frequency calculated while people are shooting at her, but if she'd planned to escape from place/position X, she just needs to punch in the appropriate frequency and leave, regardless of how heavy the fighting is)

due to the nature of the process, she can't hop around willy-nilly (she's not nightcrawler) and she can't teleport anyone along with her (no one's got the grip strength to hold onto someone going infinity times the speed of light ;P) so it's generally used in lieu of walking (say, into the other side of a vault door) as short jumps generally require very little calculation, or to get into places she's not meant to be from outside an actionable range.(like a prison, perhaps)

as weapons, they're cat's claws, short range slicers, but they cut through most anything (i mean, heck, they can pass through quantum foam!) like it's warm butter. if something is hard/dense enough, though, they could potentially get stuck (a bigger danger than "not cutting") particularly a problem considering she only has her (more than human) physical strength propelling them.

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say they can 'bite into" any substance.. but the denser/harder the material, the less likely they will be able to cut completely through (that said, no conventional material poses a problem... it would only be super materials. Like she could probably get a good scratch onto your wing armor... but she'd likely get her claws stuck (when the thickness of the claws become wedged in the pressure of the super-strong metal) if she tried to cut through them. It would probably smart something terrible, though ;P)

they also retract, when not in use, curling backwards into the gauntlets so she can manipulate objects with her fingertips.

Someone mentioned fire in the hole, so I figured it was time. Delay it if needed.

heheh... well, not for a long-distance record.... that's like less than a 6th of the human record ;P
I'm gonna say you said 4 kilometers (well beyond the physically possible for humans ;P) cause you're awesome.

Gladatoria wrote:

Retcon that to 570 YARDS, not Feet! A much more appropriate distance to cover, as a markswoman! :)

570 yards is better than 570 feet, but still not even remarkable. USMC range at Camp Pendleton went out to 500 meters (about 547 yards) in 1983, with recruits having just shot a rifle for the first time only two weeks earlier expected to hit a man-sized target at that range at least several times out of ten. Or maybe twenty. Don't recall specifics, only that ranges were 200 m for a circular target representing a head shot, shooter standing, 300 m for a target representing head and shoulders, shooter kneeling, and 500 m for the torso and head, shooter prone. And that I was 4 points short of Expert :(

If you want human records, I regret that this one is not held by a Marine: Craig Harrison (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Harrison_(sniper), the link breaks because of the parentheses around sniper) at a range of 2,475 meters, 2009. So the 4 km GhostHack suggests is, IMO, not out of line for someone with superior weapons and sights, and more-than-human hand-eye coordination.

Ok maybe it's like a yacht? Somewhat bigger than a shuttle, smaller than a full cruiser. Still capable of long-range, but can also handle some atmosphere. If we're saying the hawk ship is the one Damon hijacked, it would be sleek and have lines like a '69 stingray, or we can go the opposite direction and it has very blocky lines like Firefly or the aluminum falcon.. I think we established it has some interstellar travel mechanism... Hyperdrive for the simplicity of what to call it?

I took it as a ship of one of the other prisoners. The ship was waiting to be towed away like half the inmates to a more permanent location or to be auctioned off. Or in other words it was evidence.

Sorry to make everyone wait my computer died and my fixy person is on vacation so all I have is this guys phone o,O fixy person should be back in less then a week I think I will keep trying to.post likethis till then

yes, Kreet.... please don't post EXACTLY like that ;P

one... or maybe two, is plenty :D

Lol, I was wondering how so many people replied so fast at one time. Yeah, sorry about that Oksana. My laptop had to be sent in to get a factory reset. I'm working off of a kindle.

I'm surprised Damon wasn't saying "I am a leaf on the wind, watch me soar!" :p

Well, Damon wasn't exposed at an impressionable age to a young man who's latest favorite television series was [I]Firefly[/I], and that when he(Henry) was at the Golden Age of Science Fiction (twelve years old ^_^). Also, Henry never saw [I]Serenity[/I]; he didn't even know [I]Firefly[/I] didn't last the season...

Also, re V'six's response to Damon's request: LOL. And Lianre was worried about Mal's grasp of figures of speech....

Oksana_Vikhrov wrote:

She has been taught from a very young age to listen to specilists when their field applies add to that she is quite literal and pow. Anyway it seems madly stabbing the go button makes it post ten times sorry. As a note something I forgot in her bio as it is mores a quirk then a power. Her people comminicate as much with pheramonic scent as with words. She has learned to be far more vocal for others but if someones who's scent was acute enough and knew what the shifts ment she basically could not lie to. Not that she bothers to in most stituations anyhow. The production of these chemicals are not overly potent or conciously controlled in anyway. For an example if she was happy anyone with an average nose who was close to her might smell a feint sweet aroma close being 1 meter or so.

Mao is has extensively advanced senses... she can generally detect emotions-through-pheromones in a normal individual (and both detect lies AND subtly adjust other's perception of her through her own control of them)

which means not only is Kreet waling around with her pheromone megaphone set to kill, but she and Mao could probably hold a conversation, if she wanted.

Oh he can make it dance. Question is will the little yacht we have taken can handle the G's and other stresses such evasive dancing will ultimately put against it.

So I was thinking a doublejump would be where a pilot intentionally breaks out from a predetermined jump-gate and immediately reentering with the final terminus coordinates planned. Damon would have some experience with this, along with a memorized destination terminus for such a maneuver. All depends on how fast the jump gate can go from terminus to entry and such.

I was thinking of the physics of momentum and the countering force creating a temporary pressurization, maybe G forces were the wrong term to use... To analogize, taking a pliant stick and applying a repetitive forward-backward force to the base as that ripples down the stick the waves create enough stress to snap the stick.