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"There it is. Station XR-7. Top secret weapons research facility." The dropship pierced through the green nebula, weaving through to the massive station. The side wings trailed nebula gas behind is, and the back was illuminated by a translucent blue glow. The engines pushed the ship through, side engines occasionally firing to correct course. The bridge went silent as the commander rose to spoke.

"Six days ago all communications with XR-7. This was normal. The nebula XR-7 passes through sometimes disrupts the signal." He paused. "Two days ago, XR-7 dropped into a sub-orbital trajectory. In three months, it will collide with Pyyrhus." There was another pause. The dropship was drawing closet to the long station. "XR-7 is a decommissioned Desert class dreadnought. Five kilometers long, two kilometers in diameter. It's titanium alloy plating can resist some of the strongest weapons we can throw at it."

"Command sent us to investigate. Our objective is to find out what happened. But gentlemen, expect the worst. This facility..." he paused and looked out the window. The bridge lights had come on, and the auto-pilot into the primary hanger had engaged. The massive doors were opening, and the atmospheric shield switched on. And flickered.

"This facility dealt in illegal research. Chemical, biological, nuclear. AI research. Everything under the sun." The dropship began slowing down as it entered the massive hanger, and spun to face the exit. The team began to assemble their gear and prepared to move out as the Ganymede touched down.
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You are a part of Tachyon force, an elite special operations unit operating under the Terran Union. Something happened to XR-7. This task force is very small, because why would you send an army? No, Tachyon force is elite.

Be prepared

Skills

Skills are critical in your success and determine proficiency. Leveling them, however, is difficult, so choose wisely! They go from 1-20. 1 being having little to no knowledge, while 20 is being an absolute god in the subject.

Rules

-This RP will be played on a variable timeframe. Everyone takes an action at the turn and I determine what happens. If someone doesn't post, I act for them (often with deadly/hilarious results).

-I am master GM.

-Outcomes of events will be determined by a dice roll. The higher it is, the better the outcome. Of course, this is also influenced by your skill in the matter. I will roll the dice.

-You must keep a character sheet that describes skills, items, etc.

Character sheet Application:

Team Members

Karl Valkyrius

Medic/Marksman Tanya Mangat
Infiltrator Kyythii Ytiil
CQC Heavy Weapons Owl Ricco
Hacker (AUTONOMOUS AI) Kea "Trickster" Raati
Thief/Stealth Vena (Anomaly A2)
Psion

I think stealth might be worth adding to the skill list.

I'll have my app up asap.

Name: Karl Valkyrius
Species: Novan (if this doesn't fit the timeframe, Novan-originated human)
Base Character Sheet: Role: Medic, marksman
Bio: Later.
Appearance: Pale, average height. Green eyes, red hair. Eyes luminesce dimly in low-light conditions.
Song (Optional)

Added stealth (and 1 point to character sheet to compensate.) Good idea.

Name: Tanya Mangat
Species: Human
Base Character Sheet: Role: Infiltrator/Assassin/whatever is a good term here
Bio: Grew up in the rough part of a southeast Asian town, eventually joined the Terran military. Not much else to tell, because I suck at writing bios.
Appearance: Average height, slender, dark eyes and hair, asian.
Song:

Looks good Daynel. Acceptabru.

Same for you error, as long as you add your extra point and stuff.

I'm also considering adding 4-5 more points (due to small turnout) so that we have all the skills/bases covered.

N'less my math is off, I do have the extra point.

Ah. Your stealth skill is 1, then.

Edited.

Role: Hacking and Electrical managing
Bio: Ricco used to be part of an automated drone unit (Unit Ricco, hence the name) but was never meant to have sentient capabilities. Abducted by the enemy and upgraded to have a real conscious Ricco was told to fight against his would be allies but couldn't do it out of feeling compassion for his "friends". Ricco escaped before his captives could deactivate him and went off to experience the wonders of universe. During his adventures he upgraded himself with an artificial voice box and found a data base that contained many of the universes languages. A run in on a small skirmish with a Tachyon unit caught attention when Ricco made the decision to fight for the Tachyon unit in peril. Ricco was placed under "arrest" on account of inter fearing with covert operations. Ricco was interrogated (interviewed) and was seen fit for operation in a Tachyon unit.
Appearance: 1m diamter metal ball that extends four legs and manipulators.

Damn there're already two CQ people. I guess I'll be taking the role of clinically insane psion, then. Dibs.

I don't really know if having multiple CQC people is an issue. It is an enclosed space, after all; the reasonable plan would be to send a lot of CQC people.

Issue: This is a re-purposed Desert class dreadnought. 5 km long. You have a fair share of both narrow corridors AND huge rooms/spaces. Why?

Biodomes. Habitats. It's about 50/50. That's why there's both "close quarters" and long-range accuracy. Not everything's gonna be up close. Just FYI.

Now to apps:

ACH: gud.

Luna: On one condition. I forgot to add that, in Terran Union space, ALL forms of AI are banned. This is a safety measure put in place after the Robotic Revolution of 2134, where uncontrolled AI use and development caused widespread social strife, economic collapse, and chaos as AI's outcompeted humans in every manner.

So, you don't exist. Officially. You're just marked as a semi-autonomous drone, and to that end, the team engineer WILL have overriding codes to manually override ALL your systems at will. Security measure, you see.

Starships and stations tend to be made up of enclosed spaces. @Fen larger spaces are the exception, but that's what the designated marksmen are for.

The local equivalent of a ninja+marine combination would be absolutely terrifying in such an enclosed space.