The Empire (OOC)

[Shade Leshyr]

backstory:

11000 years ago, mankind and furkind worked together to make the leap from living only on Earth, to colonizing new worlds. For over 6000, they were left to their own devices, colonizing more and more worlds, eventually building a small empire and creating several world-cities, great cities that dominated the whole planet.

However, we were not alone in the universe and 6000 years after leaving Earth, we were found by the first and only alien race we've encountered. Stepping right out of our imagination, these extraterrestrials clad themselves in pure white armor, drawing our fear. However, first contact was peaceful and it took them only a few moments to rig a translator to speak to us and we to them.

They were a greatly religious race, calling themselves Hodori, which translated meant, "those who search." They refused to reveal their true forms, believing that their bodies were too pure to be seen by the eyes of those not of their religion. This unfortunately caused the seed of hate to be planted.

For a good ten years, the Hodori helped us slowly advance, believing it was better for us to advance ourselves rather than be given the highest tech out there. Unfortunately, a small war broke out when the Hodori attempted to take several people from their worlds. The Hodori responded with force, effectively quelling the uprising without really trying, having technologies that burnt right through our defenses and nullified our weapons.

Martial law was quickly established and while they allow us to live peacefully on our own, they have oppressed technological advancement, but still taking small groups of people from worlds. Those taken never return and the Hodori never tell us anything.

Fear drove the birth of rebellions against the Hodori. The first rebellion took the Hodori by surprise, but a Commander by the name of Judas, ruthless even by the Hodori's standards, rallied a small squad of Hodori and drove the First Rebellion into the ground as he would grind an insect into the dirt. Due to this service to the person the Hodori know only as "His Holiness", Judas was promoted and given a new position, The Imperial Admiral.

Every hundred years or so, a new rebellion would rise up, only to be crushed by the Imperial Admiral, but after the complete annihilation of several colonies, The Voice of His Holiness, a mysterious and faceless individual, even to the Hodori was assigned to the same ship as Judas in order to talk sense into the "infidels"

For close to 5000 years, the cycle of rebellions being squashed has continued, each new cell of rebels becoming increasingly more desperate. There is one hope, a Hodori legend of an ancient artifact that is said to have the power to convert entire species to believe as you do, as well as other untold secrets. The last hope of the latest, and most likely last either way, is to retrieve this artifact before the Hodori.

We aren't the oldest or wisest of this final rebellion, but we are the team sent to find the artifact. We are the final hope for freedom...

Tech comparison:

Weapons and Armor:

Ours: We never made it far with technology before the oppression. Our armor at its finest is heavily weaved armor plating and powerful ballistic weaponry.

Theirs: We’ve never been able to get our hands on their technology, but on sight, they appear to have honeycomb shielding around their armor and advanced beam weaponry. Their armor is set with a vital monitoring system that reacts to user death by making the suit and user vaporize, starting at the moment of death, by use of a highly acidic substance.

Ships:

Ours: Our ships are smaller, but a ton more maneuverable. We may not have energy shielding and we may not be able to perform a very precise space jump, but we can outmaneuver them any day.

Theirs: Their ships are hug and not easy to maneuver, but they don’t design their ships to do a lot of turning, having enough guns along the hull to hit you no matter where you fly. They also can perform extremely precise space jumps across galaxies.

Computer systems:

Ours: Not much to talk about, still pretty much the same as they were 11000 years ago

Theirs: Highly encrypted, their computer systems take on holo-technology and so far we haven’t found a way to hack them.

Character Sheet (You will either be a rebel or a colonist at the beginning.)

Name:

Age:

Gender:

Species:

Appearance:

Rebel or Colonist:

Specialty: (for rebels this will be your military classification, Colonists, it's your profession)

Homeworld: (For Colonists, there are five choices: Yuuvin IV, Waterloo, Eden, Malta, or Chennan. Yuuvin IV is a city world known for underground research under the nose of the Hodori. Waterloo is mostly water, with only a few landmasses capable of sustaining life, but it has a rich aquatic abundance. Eden is a major farming planet with very very few big cities. Malta is a mining world, with large amounts of precious minerals. Malta is also among the most heavily patrolled worlds by the Hodori. Chennan is another city world, but far more quiet in terms of crime whatsoever.

For Rebels, you can either use one of three other city worlds that have been "visited" by Hodori search teams: Lennon, Bex, or Terra, or the rebel main base of Seecon V, a mostly unexplored world with only the beginnings of colonization)

Bio:
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Now, Buzz has co-designed this rp with me and will be helping me monitor it carefully. I'm also going to use SliceofDog's technique from Numberless and send PMs to different people who know different things that may eventually help us out if I feel it can work. I will post my own character sheet either later today, or early tomarrow, depending on connection issues.

Oh, and for the people who are wondering how we can be in the same rp on different worlds, let's just say the worlds aren't going to be all that safe for long. Now, I need at least a few people to be colonists, I can't have all rebels for the game, because we will need some skills that rebel soldiers just won't have access to.

If anyone sees a problem in my posting, cause this is a long one for me, please feel free to PM me and I will try to resolve the matter.

[Shade Leshyr]

Putting this up there in case people are waiting for an example char sheet:

Name: Shade Leshyr

Age: 23

Gender: Male

Species: fox

Appearance: Gray fur with orange eyes. Stand's 5' 8" Wears a olive green colored T-shirt under a camouflage vest. Wears medium blue cargo pants.

R/C: Rebel

Specialty: Light Assault gunner

Homeworld: Terra

Bio: Shade was born on the relatively small world of Terra, a mostly rocky planet except for a one large ocean and a few sparse oasis areas. He was brought up in a small settlement, raised by two loving parents that encouraged him to do his best no matter what he did.

Shade was an ace student in school, but only had a few friends, all of which he would trust with his life. He graduated from the high school and was planning on applying to go offworld to a college when the Hodori "visited" Terra and abducted a few colonists. He watched as his parents tried to help one of the targets escape and were gunned down mercilessly.

Afterwards Shade could only remember hating the Hodori and searched out the rebels, joining them. His rage aided him through the rebel's vigorous training in preparation for his revenge.

[Brome Teks]

I'll put someone up tomorrow, this looks interesting enough.

[Brome Teks]

Name: Kyle Calderson

Age: 23

Gender: Male

Species: River Otter

Appearance: Slightly off color fur that gives off a bit of a shimmering shine under different lights, is fairly short, standing only 5' tall, wears water worthy tee shirt and shorts with numerous pockets for holding tools.

Rebel or Colonist: Colonist

Specialty: Astral Engineer

Homeworld: Waterloo, Floating city

Bio: Kyle was born and raised on the waves of Waterloo, on a floating city adrift in the vast oceans. Being an otter, he was very happy in this environment. he grew up a fairly normal life, always tinkering with machines and toys in his youth. (Making such things as the 300 mph remote controlled car). His parents only encouraged this, always buying him new things to take apart and tinker with.

He was accepted into a top of the line engineering school where he spent some years earning his degree in astral engineering. Since then, he has been trying over and over to try and reverse engineer the principals behind the Hodori FTL drives, but has only been met with constant failure. He harbors a resentment to the Hodori for suppressing his race's technological advancement, which is what drives him to try and crack the secrets of theirs.

[Buzzwolf]

Name: Leah Genesis

Age: 19

Gender: Female

Species: Fennec

Appearance: Short, standing just under 4'10", physique of a fighter, volupous body, but not 'overly' so, stands plantigrade and has two short, glossy black horns that barely poke up through her hair, and weighs in at just under 130. Dark black fur with stripes of Neon green runnig across her body, her hair and eyes practically florese the Neon green (I might do a drawing of her later on to give a stronger idea) long black tail with a similar neon green tip. Long black, Fennec ears with Two rings and three white gold studs in her left ear, and only two white gold rings in her right, there is also a good sized sliver of her left ear missing just above the studs. she gneerally wears work casual, a long sleeve, dark navy blue, button up shirt with the sleeves pushed up to the just past the elbow, the front rarely actually buttoned up with a light blue undershirt, and a pari of nice bluejeans, she often is seen in her shop wearing an apron of varing colors. she wears a gold coin with an unreadable inscription on it that was given to her by her father before he disappeared.(yay for spaceballs ref! X3 but no, it's not ACTUALLY a royality birth certificate)

Rebel or Colonist: Colonist

Specialty: World Trade Runner

Homeworld: Yuuvin IV

Bio: <.To be filled in as the story progresses>

[Shade Leshyr]

Heads up: This Rp will be heading for the IC portion once Buzz is back from his vacation. Anyone who would still like to sign up for this, please do so within this week.

[Crusadra]

At the request of Shade, I'll be throwing in a character if no one seems to mind.

[Crusadra]

Name:
Ria For'suna

Gender:
Female

Race:
Jackal

Age:
27

Appearance:
Well muscled, well endowed, 6'7", long hair tied back and stuffed in her work/mining helm, usually wears a thick gray tank top, loose black pants held up with a thick light green belt, black work boots and said helm, she'd also have a white trench coat. She'd have a tattoo printed on her arm using white colors, to show against her fur, its a bar code which once read states her home-world and name.

R/C:
Colonist

Specialty:
Demolition/Miner

Home-world:
Malta

Bio:
Ria 'Fortune' For'suna had been mining as long as she can remember, her seemingly standard childhood comprised of a normal education, stopping at the age of 16 so she could follow in the steps of her parents. Her father and mother had been mining for all theirs lives so why not join the bandwagon? After many years of work at the age of 20, she'd loose her mother as well as many beloved people to an 'accidental' cave in, and watched as the Hordi as they washed their hands of it.

She'd couldn't but help despise them for their 'pure intentions'. 6 years later, she'd loose her father to a serious demolitions explosion, which collapsed many tunnels and took many lives as well as her father's, and nearly took hers if it hadn't been for the distance in which she had been at during the time of it. The Hordi once again washed their hands of the situation leaving those who died to rot under the stone and minerals in which they mined. Ria would grow to resent the Hodori with a passionate hatred.

Now at the age of 27, Ria can be found on her home-world, making a living the only she can. She has rose to become the head-demolitionist for an under-paying, backwash of a company that barly stay afloat with its many debts.

[[Here it is... enjoy, no?]]