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Some, no a lot of people will tell you that there isn't alien life. Those people don't have a clue what they are talking about. Life is out there, it isn't waiting for us, it isn't coming for us, if anything we aren't even a blip on the radar just yet. There isn't much of interest here just yet and it's in a pretty remote spot as we will someday learn. It would take a strong draw to attract that eyes of any space faring race, but who knows, maybe someday? All things considered earth just isn't that big of a deal just yet, not in the grand scheme of things or even in this story. Why am I even talking about it? Back to that later more important stuff first.
What's important here is and the complete other side of the universe, a particular chunk of space filled with different races, some similar to us, some totally different, some not even resembling what we think of as life. Running this particular piece of universe is a race that refers to themselves as the Vastrans, they used to call themselves something else but that all changed sometime back apparently when this one guy came to power. The guy's name was Vastro, and he had essentially seized control of the planet, declared himself emperor and from their went on a campaign their solar system, and eventually bringing the other worlds under his control. Not one to not take advantage of his position he quickly began doing whatever the hell he wanted in order to keep people afraid of him. Randomly raiding worlds to capture prisoners, assassinating anyone who said anything negative about him, making sure that every world was surrounded by a fleet with orbital bombardment cannons ready to fire at a moment's notice and worst of all a device that allowed him to alter the atmospheric conditions of th world and cause natural disasters on a world for his own amusement, which he does regularly. With all of these tools at his disposal he kept every world in fear, making sure they all knew that the slightest sign of rebellion would bring his full wrath upon them. He also had a habit of demanding tributes regularly, and sometimes demanding extra just because he could. Back home they would call this guy a psychotic prick, hell I'm sure most out here would say the same thing if they weren't sure that they would die for saying that.
Somehow I found myself out here in this insanity, all started when in earth's orbit attempting to test a theory, next thing I know my shuttle was flung here and seized by the Vastran military. Apparently they never saw a human before and decided to put me on display somewhere. Where I ended up hearing this from was another guy in the same prison transport, still wondering how I understood a word he was saying but all things considered I found myself kinda unconcerned. I'm writing this down now, maybe somehow it will find it's way back to earth so others might at least have an idea of what im seeing here. My name's Tom Gordon, and I'm pretty sure I'm screwed.
Rules:
1. no godmoding our powerplaying (In some cases involving villains it is allowed but still ask before doing so)
2. if you wont be able to post for a while have someone (other than me) cover for you
3. Try to post regularly, but dont double post
4. pay attention to posts
6. Try not to leave people behind and dont rush the plot
7. Relationships are allowed but dont make the whole rp about it. And if you play multiple characters they cannot be in a romantic relationship because that is just plain annoying.
8. If playing as an alien character explain what makes the species different from humans. If they are no different than just use a human.
8. Have fun and dont be afraid to ask me questions about things in the rpg
The Team's arsenal:
Vastran Type-X Combat suits:
A series of prototypes created to serve as the basis for the combat suits for the next generation of Vastran soldier. They are light, but more durable than any metal known to man. The main feature is the X system which allows the suits and their wearers to become stronger over time and readily adapt to the situations they are found with. The prototypes themselves are very effective, but also insanely costly to produce, rumored to have ruined the economies of several worlds, and thus scaling back would have been necessary for mass production. The prototypes were meant for Elite Vastran soldiers and Emperor Vastro himself eventually. The suits bright colors indicate their status as prototypes rather than standardized production models. The team will steal these when they make their escape.
Trans-Phase Brace: A wrist worn device that is paired with a particular combat suit. Once worn they DNA lock to the wearer to prevent use by anyone else. Naturally no one anticipated the suits and Braces would be stolen. It functions as a communicator and uses a small scale version of Space Fold technology to instantly teleport the bonded suit with it's wearer.
X-Bladeguns: The standard sidearm of the suit's is a collapsible weapon with two modes, a sword mode for close combat and a pistol mode for ranged combat.
X-shots: A secondary pistol sidearm, can be linked with a second X-Shot to combine into a rifle. Can be shared among team members.
Stolen Starship "Bohemian Rhapsody"
when the team makes their escape they end up taking this top of the line ship, original meant to be Emperor Vastro's personal vessel, and make a run for it. Ends up being named after a song from earth at Tom's insistence.
Other Important Tech:
Translator microbes: Artificial Microoraganisms that when injected into an individual, allow them to understand other languages without actually learning them. No matter what is said in what language someone who has received a translator injection will hear it in their language.
The Team:
A group of prisoners placed in a Vastran Zoo-Prison, considered criminals, potiential nuisances or rare specimens that were to be held for the amusement of Vastro and his citizens. Their escape is going to have quite a ripple effect. Initially unnamed they will eventually gain the name Astranger.
AstraRed: Thomas "Tom" Gordon/played by me
AstraBlue: Zeke the Fallen/Tigerhawk21
AstraGreen: Ilzohal Ruavu/LawWind
AstraYellow: Iluzjank/Denjin_Zaboga23
AstraPink: Miska Bardl/Mister Namechange!
[bold]Super Important Note[/bold]: Aside from Tom there are no humans in this corner of the galaxy so the rest of the team will be aliens, I dont want aliens that are humans in everything but name. Get creative, try to be unique with the alien race you create. And seriously, human looking aliens are dull, whats the point of a sci fi setting far from earth if everyone looks like they do here?
AstraSilver: Crowned Princess of the Vastran Empire, Anisyana/MagiPink
Emperor Vastra's daughter who for reasons of her own is supporting the Astrangers from the shadows, eventually gains her own personalized combat suit. Nonetheless her motives dont seem that heroic yet as she seems to take after her father quite a bit.
The Antagonists:
The Vastran Empire
The rulers of this solar system, rule under Emperor Vastro has turned them into an aggressive, and rather sadistic race that employs many types of weapons and methods to torment the citizens of other worlds.
Killeroids: Android soldiers of the empire, while the Emperor has no problems sending his people to fight, and possibly die, he finds that killer robots are far more efficient and can be made faster.
Elite Agents: Specialized soldiers who employ unique methods and weaponry for whatever task the emperor sends them on.
My profiles:
Name: Thomas "Tom" Gordon
Age: 26
Designation: AstraRed
Species: Human
Appearance:
History: Upon first seeing him there are some terms that immediately come to mind when people lay eyes on him, usually they are scruffy looking, lazy bum, sleepy and wont amount to much. What they dont know are the terms that actually apply to him besides scruffy looking and lazy are MIT graduate, astrophysicist and as he frequently reminds people: Doctor. Yes beneath the exterior of lazy southern fried slacker from Alabama is actually a rather brilliant scientist, inspired by sci fi stories from his youth like Star Trek and Star Wars and various others, his primary driving force being the sense of wonder and mystery that space may have held, that was just waiting to be found someday. While by no means a child prodigy or a genius, he worked toward those goals his whole life, proving that good old fashioned hard work and determination could do the job of natural talent and then some. His primary field of interest was astrophysics feeling that knowing how space worked could be important, aside from that he also focused on engineering, initially just wanting to make warp drive from Star Trek a real thing because he was certain that that would just be plain old awesome. At the same time he did a lot that was the opposite of stereotype associated with educated people, he partied hard and often, he spent many hours watching cartoons, sleeping in late, sat around playing video games, and more often than not acted like an idiot because he found most of his colleagues to be about as interesting to talk to as a stale piece of bread and tended to avoid them when not working. It certainly didn't help that his colleagues thought he was a little nuts and found the fact that he only bothered to focus on things that would have cool results over more practical stuff quite irritating. Though he did have quite an ego, he figured he earned the right to have a big ego, brag and tell people to refer to him as Doctor Tom because he could. He may have been smart but he was still human after all. Nonetheless between those moments of sleeping, watching cartoons and playing video games he actually had been working on something, it was just coming along pretty slowly since his priorities had a habit of being skewed, and his dislike of the others in his line of work. It was mostly just a theory, one that essentially outlined how earth's own gravity could be used in the acceleration of a space ship, something that would save on fuel costs and just be kinda cool in his opinion. Considering that by the time this was all put together there were no government funded space programs out there, he turned to the private sector, which in hindsight he would have done anyway because he could make a lot more money off a successful theory there.
The company he turned to was thankfully run by an eccentric billionaire who when not doing all sorts of insane thrill seeking was big into pursuing anything that could be crazy awesome that might be worth putting his company's logo on. With their recent venture being giving people rides into earth's orbit this sort of thing just happened to be right up their alley anyway. The development and construction of a spacecraft that would take advantage of this theory went rather smoothly and in the end the one thing they couldn't find wa a test pilot brave enough to get in the thing, it was still new, largely untested, and most importantly made by a guy who spent most of his time on his couch watching Looney Toons. In the end Tom himself volunteered, making sure to to tell everyone else that he was so damned sure of his designs and theories that he felt no reason to worry. Finally the day of the flight test had come. He was acting very calm and cool but there was a certain nagging in the back of his mind. A feeling telling him that something big was going to happen, a feeling that he had a few other times in his life. He took it as an indication that things would go just fine and this would be his big break. Things were going well, the ship was lifted into the atmosphere but it's carrier aircraft, it made it into orbit and Tom was about ready to put his theory into practice. And then it happened. Cosmically bad timing, bad luck, whatever it was it put him right in the path of a rogue wormhole, a tunnel between two points in space that could appear anywhere in space at random and never in the same place twice. Unable to change course the ship went right into it and from the perspective of those still on earth he and the ship had simply vanished in an instant. They were left wondering where he and the ship went, and if he was even still alive. He did survive, but there would soon be part of him that wished he didn't. He knew where he was originally but where he was now, he had know idea. All he did know is what looked like a bunch of fighter like ships surrounded his own and were hauling him back somewhere. It wasn't long after that that he found himself being poked, prodded and examined in a lab by a bunch of beings speaking what sounded like gibberish to him, at least until he was injected with...something and everything they were saying started to sound like English, which didn't put his mind at ease at all really. Overhearing that that they hadn't encountered anything quite like him before he was fairly certain the he was as far from home as he could get.
When all was said and done it was decided that due to being the only one of his kind in the system that it was best to put him on display when one of the Vastran Empire's zoo-like prisons as well as serve as this particular race's latest tribute to Emperor Vastro's collection. After briefly being presented as a tribute for the Emperor's collection of specimens he was shoved into a transport vessel with others who were also on their way to extended stays in a cell somewhere. Needless to say, that day hadnt gone quite as planned for him.
Name: Grand God Emperor Vastro
Age: Unknown, presumed to by hundreds
Species: Vastran
Appearance:
History: The ruler of the Vastran Empire, and conqueror of the of every world within the Vastra system, which he renamed shortly after conquering it. His origins are unknown and largely unimportant to him these days. With the average Vastran lifespan being 100 at most many assumed that his reign of terror would be long over by now but thanks to technology pillage from other worlds, as well as kidnapped doctors and scientists, his lifespan had been increased exponentially as well as prolonging his youthful appearance. He declared that the Vastra system's "beloved" emperor wouldn't be dying of natural causes anytime soon or ever for that matter. He takes full advantage of his position and to him the solar system is there for his amusement to do with as he pleases, and keeps the populace in fear of him through random acts of sadistic cruelty. He is also the Vastra system's most notorious womanizer, keeping a large harem of different woman from all planets for him to use as he will, possibly blasting them into space once he gets bored with them, or throwing them in prison if fail to remain attractive or get a little too chubby for his tastes. As far as he is concerned he makes the rules and is free to manipulate them as he sees fit. He has a daughter who he has done all he can to ensure will turn out like him, to ensure that the Vastran dynasty will continue to grow and conquer everything in their path.
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