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Yet another of my pathetic excuses.....here goes nothing though, eh?

Twenty years ago the nations of the world put their differences behind and became one with each other. Space exploration became a priority for the newly fashioned Federation and rapid advancements were made. Within a year, perhaps seeing that humanity had put it's differences within itself aside, extra-terrestrial contact had been established. Only a few alien factions proved hostile but those who were not were more than ready to supply Earth with warships and the keys to interstellar travel. As proper alliances and trade agreements were being hammered out, aliens and humans alike began traveling to new places. Twelve years passed with little conflict and only minor border disputes.
Under a new law, several xenophobic humans took matters into their own hands and killed several members at the Galon embassy- including several high ranking military and political leaders. Governments and citizens of both species’ were outraged and appalled and the alliance was shattered. Full-out war had fallen over the Sol system and outside parties scrambled to take sides. Pro-Galon groups immediately began pushing for use of the highest capable WMDs while xenophobes and isolationists on Earth pushed for similar means using the newest Federation forces could use.
With fighting fallen to an uneasy standoff, Earth has opted to break the enemy once and for all. Under the highest secrecy, a heavily armed squadron of landing craft and a single heavy cruiser have left Sol space for the furthest enemy strong point- Galon.

Name:
Rank: if any, mercenaries are welcome
Code Name/nickname: optional
Species/Race:
Home world/country: Jahoria
Allaince: are you supporting the Galon or the Federation, or perhaps profiting from both sides
Gender:
Height:
Weight:
Specialist:
Physical Description:
Fur Style:
Colour:
Length:
Eye style/colour:
Tattoos/distinctive markings:
Clothing description:
Weapons/offensive items:
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Personality:
Brief Bio:

this is just BEGGING for my special sci-fi character.

Name: D-72 combat and maintenance droid, Serial number 99-10-38
Rank: Tool
Code Name/nickname: CHAOS
Species/Race: Android
Home world/country: Manufactured on Jahoria by an independent company.
Allaince: Whomever he is programmed to support.
Gender: built to resemble a human male, external appearance is modifiable.
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 2.3 metric tons
Specialist: Combat, munitions, repair
Physical Description: Manufactured to resemble a youthful male in its prime, he looks well-toned. The coloring in his hair has not yet been added, leaving it a shiny silver color.
Hair Style: Parted bangs, looks slightly kung-fu style.
Hair Colour: Silver
Hair Length: Neck-length
Eye style/colour: Eye color varies on vision mode. Green = nightvision, red = infrared, silver = X-ray (3 ft. solid material), Blue = scanning, brown = normal. Pupil size indicates zoom.
Tattoos/distinctive markings:
Clothing description:
Weapons/offensive items: .45 anti-armor and personnel machine guns concealed in hands
MJ-84 knifeblades concealed in legs, jackknife position for kicks as well as removable.
Armour/defensive items: R-347 EMP dampener/ electric circuit breaker
Izerium armor plating along exterior
Cloaking
Extra skill/abilities: Booster jets concealed in soles of feet
Internal computer hacking/uplink system
Personality: whatever he is programmed with
Brief Bio: CHAOS is the fruits of wartime technology, and is the first of his kind. Made to eradicate the enemy in large numbers, chaos also comes with other functions, lacking only a personality before being a real person himself right out of the box! Plans are being made to mass-produce him and bolster the military ranks of both sides of the war.

I'm interested, but I need a bit more information. To begin:

Is there any specific rankings, or do we just use modern military ranks?
Do other species have their own, specific ranking systems?


Can we create a home-world for our character(s), or are they all from Jahoria?


How limited is this? For example, are psychic, 'magical' (for lack of a better term) or otherwise supernatural abilities permitted?

Also, do you have any idea of what alien technology/weapons/equipment looks like? Is it simply a medley of different styles, or is there a dominant theme?

Name: Vaan Dalmascus
Rank: Mercenary
Code Name/nickname: None
Species/Race: Human
Home world/country: US
Alliance: Neutral
Gender: Male
Height: 6' 1"
Weight: 186 lbs
Specialist: Engineer
Physical Description: Slight tan with black short cut hair.
Fur Style: None
Colour: None
Length: None
Eye style/colour: Green eyes
Tattoos/distinctive markings: Scar on right bicep.
Clothing description: Whatever he can get his hands on, preferably dark and dull colors.
Weapons/offensive items: Knife and 9mm usp handgun with 32 rounds.
Armour/defensive items: None
Extra skill/abilities: Flexible, quick, can intergrate into surroundings (as in blend in with the crowd)
Personality: Lonewolf, non-social and ruthless.
Brief Bio: Growing up in the US accused for the murder of his brother at age 21 sent to prison, broke out and has been on the run since.

Name: Hayden Jaks
Rank: Corporal
Code Name/nickname: None
Species/Race: Human
Home world/country: Lunar Colony E-419
Alliance: Federation of Sol
Gender: Male
Height: 5' 10"
Weight: 131 lbs
Specialist: Rifleman
Physical Description: A healthy 24 year old Human male. Wiry body, doesn't appear to be anything special.
Hair Style: Crew Cut
Colour: Black
Length: 2 cm
Eye style/colour: Brown
Tattoos/distinctive markings: His right shoulder has the number 81 with a skull between the two numbers.
Clothing description: Dark brown carapace armour, with green fatigues underneath. He doesn't wear a helmet, opting instead for reflective blast goggles.
Weapons/offensive items: MK-III Assault Rifle, Ammo: 10mm Armour Piercing, Rate of Fire: 650 rpm,Magazine: 30 rounds. A double edged combat knife.
Armour/defensive items: Carapace armour, composite armour strapped over fatigues, shin guards, knee pads, thigh guards, torso piece, shoulder pads, wrist guards and elbow pads.
Extra skill/abilities: Some camouflage skill
Personality: Extremely loyal and duty bound. He doesn't tend to over analyze things and prefers to be practical rather than whimsical. At the same time he is somewhat naive, believing that the Federation can do no wrong and thus all his actions are for the greater good.
Brief Bio: Nothing special really marks out his life, he went to college and in the middle of his second year the war began. He left immediately and signed up for the infantry. He has fought for the last 3 and a half years, successfully avoiding major injury. He was transfered to a high-casualty force that specializes in guerrilla warfare, most likely because a superior has assumed that he will maintain his survivability.

I'm getting in on this one;

Name: Ponticello
Rank: Mercenary
Code Name/nickname: (nick)Cello; (code)Langer Ansatz
Species/Race: Half otter, half hare (assuming that's allowed)
Home world/country: Valoha Prime (colony on the moon of Valoha)
Alliance: Federation (currently)
Gender: Male
Height: 6' (1.83 m)
Weight: 200 Lbs (90.7 kg)
Specialist: Assault/CQB
Physical Description: Well toned; large legs; relatively long neck; ears resemble a hare's; facial features and tail are very otter-like; short, blue-grey hair (semi-spiky); blue-grey fur on back and outsides of arms and legs; dark grey fur on front and insides of arms and legs.
Eye style/colour: normal style; orange iris's
Tattoos/distinctive markings: Three noticeable white spots on left collar; arranged in a triangle; white fur on tip of tail.
Clothing description: Active camouflage fatigues (changes colours based on general surroundings; no more effective than regular camo', but eliminates the need to change to suit the environment); Magnetic strips on back armour allow for easy weapon changes and storage; knife sheaths on left shoulder and right arm.
Weapons/offensive items: Mirage Revolver-Carbine (7.62 x 41mm, 8 round mag', semi-automatic fire); Mirage HSG (12-guage, 12 round mag', Semi- and fully-automatic fire); 4 reusable flash grenades (charged by heat; ~2 hour recharge time if kept on body); 2x high-frequency combat-knife (can cut through most non-metallic substances with ease).
Armour/defensive items: Combat mask with integral air filter and night vision. High-strength woven armour, capable of stopping most small arms fire, covering chest, back, and thighs.
Extra skill/abilities: Trained in basic first aid; very good climber and jumper; expert knife-fighter; ambidextrous.
Personality: Tries to keep from getting too close to temporary allies, but almost always befriends them; offers a whispered prayer to his goddess after he has killed, asking forgiveness for both himself and his enemy. Often uses the phrase "back in the day" to imply that the current situation is easy, even when it isn't. Unless his employers call him off or betray him, Cello will complete his current mission, in spite of any counter-offers that may be made.
Brief Bio: Born to a moderately wealthy merchant family, Cello learned to fight off pirates at a young age and when he matured, he began offering his services to others as hired security. When the war broke out, Cello had an easy time getting jobs, though he was never exclusively on one side or the other. When offered a position on the Federation's assault, he joined only because he believed it was the best way to end the war without the use of WMDs or the like.

Unfortunately I'll be away for the next two days, so I wanted to get in just in case. Any issues, I'll fix when I get back.

edited my bio a bit to include some things I forgot, namely that his external appearance is modifiable, simply purchase the parts you want and he can install them onto himself.

This reminds me of Mass Effect, a lot =P I hope you don't mind me shoving Biotics into it (made it less renown and more private so I don't interrupt with the story
Name: Conrad Odium
Rank: Mercenary
Code Name/nickname: Conrad
Species/Race: Human tweak it so they can be biotic)
Home world/country: Jahoria
Alliance: To whoever pays most
Gender: Male
Height: 6"2
Weight: 172
Specialist: Biotics (The ability to manipulate "dark energy", pretty much the ability to manipulate gravity fields with concentration for offensive and defensive capabilities.)
Physical Description: A tall normal looking human with his hair tied up into a pony tail. His body seems less than fit due to the implants and impact of his past.
Hair Style: Pony Tail
Hair Colour: Black
Hair Length Pony tail goes up and down towards shoulder blade length.
Eye style/colour: Green
Tattoos/distinctive markings: Black tribal tattoos extending from the right side his face down his torso to his right hand.
Clothing description: Usually wearing dark urban camouflage with
Weapons/offensive items: Only his mind
Armour/defensive items:Basic Body Armor, but relies on making barrier fields to stop any large concentration of bullets.
Extra skill/abilities: I guess Biotics falls under this...
Personality: Very morbid and greedy. Thinks about himself over others, thus giving him a bad reputation as a team member. Tends not to care about who he kills or the consequences of his actions, though might hold back his killer instinct when deemed necessary.
Brief Bio: Born and raised to a military family, Conrad was drafted in an experiment program operated by a genetics company designed to develop telekinetic abilities in hopes of advancing human above it's current "weak state" they claim humans are in. Among a thousand guinea pigs he was given the second attempt at perfecting what they call Biotics. Though this might of given this mark of humans considerably great powers, it comes at a cost of great physical and mental burden. After leaving it all behind, he used his military training to become a mercenary due to his indifference towards normal society's politics, believing he is the next stage of humans and whoever he kills is one less non biotic human.

Name: Senix Karox
Rank: Stripped of Rank
Code Name: Tempest
Species/Race: Werefox
Auspices: Irraka: New Moon
Home world/country: Earth
Alliance: Neither
Gender: Male
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 143 pounds
Specialist: Engineering, Marksman
Physical Description:Senix has white hair with black strands in a mohawk, Two small silver hoop piercing on both ears. Senix is usually in his Gauru (Wolf-man)form when he is away from towns and citys. Otherwise hes in Urhan (Wolf) form in citys and towns. His blue eyes stand out compared to the rest of him. He keeps most of his clothes in a backpack he carries around. There are two bites one on each side of his shoulder neck area which is unusual. He has auto-mail for arms made out of a newly created materal called Eterniam using Silver, Steel, Coal and Adamantite.
Hair Style: Mohawk
Hair Color: White
Fur Style: Ragged
Fur Color: Black
Length: 3'8" 4'5" Head to tail.
Eye style/color: Blue
Tattoos/distinctive markings: Two bite marks on his shoulder neck area.
Clothing description: He usually walks around in a open trench coat most of the time. Three dogtags on his Collar.
Weapons/offensive items: Two pistols carried in his auto-mail forearms. The ammo the pistols use is not solid but a transfer of the users own enegry. This can have a effect on the user if he is not careful on how to control it. He also carries around a Enegry Shiv.
Armour/defensive items: State of the art nano technology built in the auto-mail which only repairs his arms when damaged.
Extra skill/abilities: Change Forms.
Personality: Doesn't like to get too close to people. Really shy to women. He does open up if he trusts you enough. Also Generous
Brief Bio: Senix has lived a hard live. He used to be a commander, that is untell he was accused of helping Vann Dalmascus with the murder of his 'famous' brother and was sentenced to 35 years in prison. He served his time in jail. Now that he is out he does not go into cities or towns unless he is in Urhan form. He is now spat upon by the people of earth for his action.

Took a little bit to come up with this profile.

Name:Slingyang
Rank: merc
Code Name/nickname:
Species/Race: Mgalekgolo
Home world/country: Te
Allaince: the Federation
Gender: unknown.
Height: 12 ft
Weight: 200lbs
Specialist: hunter
Physical Description: large ornge creatcher, but made up of little worms.
Fur Style:
Colour:
Length:
Eye style/colour: none
Tattoos/distinctive markings:
Clothing description: only wears armor.
Weapons/offensive items: large rocket lancher, however takes a long time to cool down and reload.
Armour/defensive items: large heavy blue armor that covers most of the body and has a large shield that can be used for offencive purposes.
Extra skill/abilities: none
Personality: passive with ally and aggressive to enemy.
Brief Bio: off his homeworld to fight with the world, with his great hunting skills, he is great for those search for this person missions.

Name: Diontay Collier
Rank: Staff Sergant
Code Name/nickname:"The Blitz"/"Friendly Fire"(past story)
Species/Race:Wolf
Home world/country:Earth/United States.
Alliance: Federation
Gender: Male
Height: 6'3"
Weight: 239lbs.
Specialist::Army Ranger:Weapons Specialist/CQC(Close Quarters Combat)/Infiltration/Sniper and Heavy Gunner
Physical Description: Well built yet slightly bulky.
Fur Style:Two Tone
Colour: Black/White
Length: Very Thick (kinda like a husky)
Eye style/colour:Average/Red

Tattoos/distinctive markings: Gash that runs over the eyelid. Markings are shown on his neck and forarm were his white fur begins. The Markings are Black and and out lined in red. "Psalm 23: I shall fear no evil" is emblazoned on his neck while other bits of scripture are written along his forarm down to the wrist.

Clothing description: U.S. Army Ranger issued uniform with Beret when non in action and typical Ranger equpment with Military cap or Boonie Hat when on mission. Camo is determined by eviornment

Weapons/offensive items: Preferred:R700 or M21 Sniper Rifle 6x,12x scope.(Camoflague covering included) M249 SAW (100 round belt) or Mounted 50.cal. and lastly the M8 Carbine with Grenade Launcher attachment (Scope optional.) Silenced
Armour/defensive items: Issued Vest (Stops most pistol rounds and some rifle rounds at a great enough distance.)

Extra skill/abilities:A Leader and adaptable, Keen Situational Awarness, Unparalled in feeling the flow on a battlefield, Excellent eyesight and senses due to years of training and natural born instinct. Lethal with just his fists and a knife.

Personality: His squad is his family and only fears losing them. A caring yet brutal man when time comes for it. Patient and maticulous(sp?) Cunning and aware of his surroundings. Not one to ignore precautions.

Brief Bio: Born and raised on the East side of St.Louis across the Mississippi in Illinois, His world was filled with a better life than what his parents had which is what they wanted. At the age of nine his father died of heart failure. Due to this He looks at life with a chilling recognition of death. He's content with dying and has accepted it. Death is ever present which is what he fears for his men. He would gladly give his life for his country. Not only his country but to save the life of one his men. His mind is not a wandering one. He sets a goal and goes to any length to fulfill it.

(Sorry for the long post)

Hmmm...when are we going to start?

All good!
Yeah I basically copies the char sheet I had from another forum...Jahoria was the homeworld of my character....

As far as tech, go nuts, Black Rabbit's (more on him later) Automag has a matter compression clip for it

Ranks, go for it. Terran would likely be similar but I'm not going to dispute anything new, as far as non-terran, do what you want.


Don't recall anyone siding agianst Earth (we're all human in reality anyways....) but hopefully I won't be the only one

Name: Rattrap Gonzales
Rank: Commander
Code Name/nickname: Black Rabbit
Species/Race: Jahorian
Home world/country: Jahoria
Gender: male
Height: 7' 2" without suit, 8' 0" with
Weight: 290lb without, 350 with
Specialist: marksman, improvised explosives and infiltration
Physical Description: essentially a humanoid rat (tail is 8ft long)
Fur Style: ragged
Colour: black
Length: about 2 inches thick
Eye style/colour: small pupils with an almost black iris
Tattoos/distinctive markings: the number ‘682' is engraved on the left shoulder of his suit- old unit number
Clothing description: a black, MK V SPARTICUS Battlesuit
Weapons/offensive items: unmounted and modified M2 0.50inch heavy machine gun (archaic but effective), a 140mm rocket launcher and a black Automag V (unmodified except for the matter compressor in the clip)
Armour/defensive items: Battlesuit has a medium strength personal defense shield, ballistic plating
Extra skill/abilities: battlesuit possesses small booster pack that allows for extremely limited flight time
Personality: cold and calculating, he has no qualms about sending men to their deaths on suicide runs, especially if it means completion of his objectives
Brief Bio: raised under a ruthless dictator until his tenth birthday he learned at an early age nothing in life would be given for free. Frequent escapes led him to eventually imprisoned in a state penitentiary for several years before he was able to barter his freedom for military service in the war against the Zirr. Due to his unstable and indifferent personality, he was often used to spearhead advances and when the war ended he was left with no where to go. When the Galon separated from the Federation and declared war on Earth and her allies, he followed his governments decision to back them with his own private declaration of war against the Humans. As in the past, he was sent to bolster the Galon defense force and gather preliminary intelligence against any new technology the humans employ.

well, whatever...I thought we were all gonna be from there, just substitute in my bio "Jahoria" for a planet advanced enough for a robot factory.

Friday? I've got a huge project due Thursday so I need to cram work into that and might not be around a whole lot.....we'll see, I may get anxious to get this going and start before then