[OOC Board] Eternal Galaxy: Shards of Starlight - Part I

[Cucoo5]

@ s121

Based on what ya said, its easily smaller than a Zeta Class Carrier and would be classified as a Gunship here.

A Zeta Class carrier is like 5x the size of an Aircraft carrier.

[S121]

That was painfully long...



Name: S121

Time Zone: (Mountain Time Zone UTC−07:00)


(This is so that I can add as much information as possible.)

John-117

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Character: John-117


Race: Human

Appearance:

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Abilities: Spartan-II Cybernetic Enhancements. Carbide Ceramic Ossification (virtually unbreakable bones), Muscular Enhancement Injections (increased tissue density and lactose recovery time), Catalytic Thyroid Implant (boosted growth of skeletal and muscle tissues), Occipital Capillary Reversal (increased visual perception),
Superconducting Fibrification of Neural Dendrites (1400% increase in subject reflexes and increase in intelligence, memory, and creativity). An uncanny amount of luck...


Stats and Skills:

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Height - 6 ft 10 in (unarmored), 7 ft 2 in (in armor).

Weight - 182 kilograms (400 lb), and about 635 Kilos (1,400 lb) with armor on.

Speed- Can run at a maximum of around 105 km/h or 65.2 mph, but risks injury at this speed. (Said to be able to run at 70 mph, but I haven't found the source of this info.)

Strength - Capable of lifting enormous amounts of weight, due to his ceramic carbide bones, catalytic Thyroid implant, and muscular enhancement injections. The suit increases his strength by a factor of two. Able to lift cars and flip tanks. He is known to be able to move 66 metric tons with relative ease.

Reflexes - SPARTAN-II's reaction time is impossible to chart accurately, but estimated to be twenty milliseconds. It is significantly faster in combat situations.
In fact, it is so fast that they are able to think, react and see things happen in slow and fast motion - it is dubbed as "SPARTAN Time".
The suit increases them further by a factor of five. His normal reaction time would be 15 times faster than the average human, but with the suit, it increases it up to 75 times faster than the average human. AIs integrated into the MJOLNIR armor increase it further.

Misc - Increased intelligence by augmentation, also known for being able to virtually see in the dark. Incredibly lucky, almost to a supernatural degree. As Spartans age, they become faster and stronger, due to their bodies adapting to augmentation.


Skills: Hand-to-hand combat expertise (Spartan Training), trained to use a wide variety of guns, Command and Assault Specialist, was leader of Blue Team, high-level education,
and well versed in military tactics.

Elemental preference: Does not have one. He wouldn't have one, even if he knew about Aurora Energy. He is willing to use whatever the situation demands. He would most likely use light, fire, and matter.


Equipment: MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor MK VII, 12.7 x 40mm (Semi-Armor Piercing,High Explosive) M6D Magnum Pistol,
a 9.5x40mm (Semi-Armor Piercing,High Explosive) BR85HB SR Battle Rifle, 4 fragmentation grenades, 4 plasma grenades, 1 Carbon Steel Combat Knife, and an armor lock mechanism within the suit.


Weaknesses: Despite all of his strengths, weapons, armor, and skill, he is still just a human, which means he can be killed. Without his armor, he can be killed by damaging his vital organs. His soft body tissues are very durable, but they can still be damaged. The armor's shields can be overloaded if he sustains too much damage, then it's a matter of damaging the armor. If he's not careful with his armorlock, he will end up being
exposed to attacks or being surrounded.

Morality: "Chief Petty Officer Mendez always instilled discipline, honor, and respect into the SPARTANs. He taught the SPARTANs how to kill, but at the same time he taught them the
difference between right and wrong." That being said, The Chief is Neutral Good. He will follow his commanding officer's orders, but if it is morally wrong or negligent, he won't.
During the events on Requiem, he tries to convince Captain Del Rio that the Didact is a threat.
Risking imprisonment, he then refuses to relinquish his friend Cortana and decides to go after the Didact anyway. In the end, his actions saved the Earth from the Didact's wrath.

Personality: Strives to succeed in any situation, tenacious to complete any mission at hand, not devoid of fear, but he simply acknowledges it and puts it aside,
while never openly showing it to others, generally stoic and taciturn, but not devoid of a sense of humor, often makes dry remarks about the situation at hand,
he is a man of his word and strives to keep any promise he makes, even at great personal risk.
Although John has difficulty understanding the 'undisciplined' lifestyle of civilians, he is fiercely protective of their lives and humanity as a whole.
The mass slaughter of civilians at the hands of the Covenant was enough to drive even the stoic John into a merciless rage.
John is known to show an exceptional care for soldiers under his command, while at times viewing them as a liability rather than an asset.
This is not to say that John was previously without compassion. <----Summary of the Wiki.
As time progresses, he may start to open up to those around him.

Bio: After going through a long, perilous mission to find a way to bring Cortana back, John eventually found out that there were still parts of her integrated into some of the Forerunner's systems, kind of like how the Prometheans were imprisoned. Once he freed and retrieved Cortana, they then flew off to Earth. Unfortunately, their Slipspace drive suffered a malfunction and caused them to disappear from the universe. Luckily, instead of popping from existence, they were transported into an entirely different universe. They are now looking for a way to get back home.


Traumas: He has fears, but he doesn't let them get in the way; he simply acknowledges them and pushes them aside. Other than that, he has no mind numbing fears.
He is however sympathetic to loss, ever since he lost someone he cared about. It has been mentioned that he cares for and will do whatever it takes to protect civilians.
This is possibly his berserk button, if they are being slaughtered. He doesn't seem to suffer from PTSD or anything like that. When he is unsure of a situation, he falls back on his training and Cortana for support.


Sources: Armor Rifle Pistol Implants/Abilities Skills Bio ArmorLockup PowerArmor FragGrenade PlasmaGrenade RifleAmmo PistolAmmo

Cortana

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Name: Cortana


Race: AI (Artificial Intelligence)


Gender: Female


Appearance:

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Abilities: Able to infiltrate virtually any system and bend it to her will. She is able to destroy enemies from the inside, out by attacking it's software. She can create copies of herself, overcharge systems, quickly gather intel, translate and decrypt files, etc. In short, she is the UNSC's most advanced and versatile AI. She can do pretty much anything with anything involving technology. She has too many abilities to list. It would be better if you just go to the Wiki and read it. http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Cortana


Element Preference: Light, fire, and matter would fit her best, due to her being an AI.


Personality:

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Cortana had a witty and playful personality and a small sense of cryptic humor laced with some sarcasm. She had neither arrogance nor false modesty about her immense capabilities, and her statements about her abilities have an objective perspective that human beings typically cannot achieve. She did get bored often and easily. In fact, it is said that seven seconds of inactivity for an A.I. is excruciating. She had genuine, not merely programmed, loyalty to humanity and the UNSC, but exhibited devotion to John-117 beyond that which her programming or mission required. She seemed to be most loyal to him and is willing to help him with any task he requested of her. After she found out exactly what happened to John-117 as a child, she decided to protect him from further harm to the best of her abilities without compromising her mission. While a prisoner of the Gravemind, its her loyalty to him and trust that he will return for her that anchors her to sanity and allows her to hold on. Also, when she learns that the message she sent was allowed by the Gravemind as a trap, she was horrified. Cortana also believed that she was the best qualified to watch out for John-117 and knew that he could get another AI to replace her, but believed that no one would ever look after him like she would. In Halo 4, when asked why she was helping humanity by the Didact, she tells him "I'm not doing this for mankind," indicating that all she was doing and has done was for John.
Her personal loyalty was regarded as unwavering, but as an A.I. construct, she was subject to corruption. Even Lord Hood questioned her reliability when it became clear that she had been compromised in some way by the Gravemind's possession of High Charity, on which she was trapped. John-117, however, never questioned her integrity. Cortana did consent to answer some of the Flood's questions, as a strategy for survival and the possibility of gaining information for the UNSC. Her sanity was pushed to the brink as she eluded the Gravemind's attempts to capture and dissect her for information. Her personal loyalty to and unwavering trust in John-117 helped anchor her and allow her to hold on despite being driven to the point of rampancy. Before she reunited with John-117 in Halo 3, she sent him a message, telling him about the Ark and warning him of the Flood-infested High Charity's approach to Earth. She was instrumental in finally putting a stop to the Flood at the end of the game.

She frequently joked about having a relationship with John-117 and it is often implied that the two characters have developed some form of attachment. In Halo: The Fall of Reach, she says to Dr. Halsey that John-117 is "attractive in a primitive animal sort of way" while examining a photo of him. In Halo 3, his mere presence and reminder of his promise to her are enough for her to pull herself together to help him. In Halo 4, she sacrifices herself to save the Chief and one of the last things she does is touch him with a life-sized hologram, something she had always wanted to do. When the Chief is devastated by her upcoming death, saying its his job to look out for her, she tells him they are supposed to look out for each other and they did. John-117 is clearly torn up by her death afterwards. <------(Obviously taken from Wiki. I'm getting tired of sifting through pages and pages of info, so here you go. -_-; )

Bio:

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Cortana was created using a flash cloned copy of Dr. Catherine Elizabeth Halsey's brain. Twenty flash cloned brains were created, but only one survived; the survivor was used to create Cortana. The neural pathways of the cloned brain were scanned and copied through a process called Cognitive Impression Modeling. Her first words were "When the game is over, the king and pawn go into the same box" in Italian.

After being resurrected/released/rescued by John, Cortana told him that she achieved a state called "Metastability", a state where the Rampancy had passed. Soon, Cortana and John left and went into Slipspace, only to find out that they were lost...

Ship

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Name: GA-TL1 Longsword-class Interceptor


Appearance:

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Size:

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Length: 64 metres (210 ft)

Width: 75 metres (246 ft)

Height/depth: 12.9 metres (42.3 ft)(246 ft)

Engine unit(s): Twin fusion reactors


Hull: Titanium Alloy battleplate


Armament/Weapons:

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110mm Rotary cannons[4]
120mm Ventral guns[4]
ASGM-10 Missiles (4)
Shiva-class Nuclear Missile (1) (Optional)
Moray space mine system (36) (Optional)
Resupply Canister (filled with ammunition in the RP)

Other Systems: Cryo chambers (Optional), an armor station, and a Moray space mine laying system (Optional)


Crew: Pilot (1), Co-Pilot (1), Navigator/Engineer (2), AI (1) (Optional). The AI station has been integrated into the ship and the Copilot and Navigator/Engineer roles have been taken over by Cortana.


Consumables: One week provisions for crew. Since there's only one human on board, there's 4 week's worth of provisions.


Supplies:

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Equipment and Weapon Lockers - There are 4 equipment and weapon lockers, housing weapons and ammo that John gathered in his previous mission. Normally, a crewmember would have only one locker with about three weapons, but since John is the only live crewmember on the ship, he gets all four of them to himself. He would be willing to let people use them and try and copy them, but only if he trusts the people asking for them. They are currently holding 1 Energy Sword, 1 Gravity Hammer, 1 MA5D Assault Rifle (using M118 FMJ-AP, 7.62 x 51 mm rounds), 1 M45D Tactical Shotgun (using 8-gauge shells), 1 Sniper Rifle System 99D-S2 Anti-Matériel (using 14.5 x 114mm AP-FS-DS(Armor Piercing, Fin-Stabilized, Discarding Sabot) rounds), 2 M7/Caseless Submachine Guns (using 5x23mm M443 Caseless Full Metal Jacket/.197 caliber rounds), 1 M41 Surface-to-Surface Rocket Medium Anti-Vehicle/Assault Weapon (twin-barreled rocket launcher)(using 102mm High-Explosive Anti-Tank Shaped Charge rockets), 1 Z-130 Directed Energy Automatic Weapon (Suppressor) (using Hardlight ammunition), 1 Z-180 Close Combat Rifle/Asymmetric Engagement Mitigator (Scattershot) (using Hardlight shells), 1 Z-390 High-Explosive Munitions Rifle (Incineration Cannon) (using ionized particles), 1 M739 Light Machine Gun (SAW) (using M118 FMJ-AP, 7.62x51mm rounds), 10 Frag and Plasma grenades, 4 Biofoam Canisters, 2 Stim-Packs (not the Fallout kind), 1 Hardlight Shield armor module, and 1 reusable Dropshield.

Notes: Due to Longswords being inexpensive to produce, John was able to also have a Slipspace Drive and an Energy Shielding System installed. It's normally somewhat slow, but can be put into overdrive, just as long as the engines don't overheat.

Wiki Page: http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Longsword

[Cucoo5]

Of course yer approved and good to go. I should have a Nexion starter somewhere in the initial post in IC, so you have a slight idea of what it's like.

Also I just thought of something...
Cortana might find it tricky to go through some of the newer systems in Venturia due to the Crystal Conduits replacing wires.
Crystal conduits are designed to take raw Aura Energy and transfer it. It'll be something to figure out XD

[S121]

@Cucoo

Actually, Forerunner technology is very similar to crystal conduits.

Forerunner tech uses some kind of pure energy, or light to transfer data and power their tech.

What I gather is that she can somehow adapt and transfer herself using many different kinds of energy.

I don't quite get it either. It's just hand-waved. -_-;

[Cucoo5]

Ah, fair enough then.
It'll be interesting...
*Cortana goes into a system near the crystal core.
*Runs into Aurora herself, the spirit of the crystals.
*awkward moment of confusion because Aurora doesn't talk '>w>

[S121]

@Cucoo

Solution?

Sign language.


No worries, John doesn't talk much either, so she's used to it.

[Cucoo5]

true true XD

anyway here's sort of the initial starter I had for Nexion system

Venturia
Nexion System
Planet: Nexus
Capitol of the Venturian Council

Nexus, known as the great city in the sky. The shining towers and walkways seemed transparent. The glass city bore an elegance that seemed fitting for the Venturian Council, which had been responsible for keeping the peace in the galaxy. Now, it is a haven, a safe zone from the War of Eternity. Lady Avonna, the Head Priestess of the Council walked through the central structure known as the Palace of the Sky. Various tree-like decorations lined the paths. Everything bore the hues of the sunset, even though it was an early morning at Nexus.

"Milady!" One of the caretakers hurried to Avonna.
"Oh? What's wrong?" She spoke with a soothing voice that could almost make anyone forget their sorrows.
"I- I'm sorry to disturb you, b-but..."
"Take your time. It's alright."
"Well...uhm...ok...uh I have a daughter that always wanted to see both the Palace and wanted to meet you, so I was wondering...if...if-"
Avonna smiled and helped finish her question. "If she could? Of course, it would be my pleasure."
"Oh thank you milady!" And with that the caretaker ran off, happy that the Lady had accepted.
Avonna watched the young woman disappear around the corner, her smile faded when silence hung once more on the air.

[S121]

@Cucoo

Just posted.

Just be sure to tell me if I made any mistakes with the planet.

The Slipspace rupture would easily be seen by anyone on the planet, due to how close it was.

Your turn.

[Cucoo5]

Only one mistake with the planet.
It's...more like a Gas Giant. Like Jupiter, except its not perfectly spherical and resembles a sort of Nebulae in which there is a breathable atmosphere
My bad for not perfectly explaining that ^^;;

Think of the scene in Star Wars and the Sky City for color scheme.
And there is a core, like any gas giant.

Again my bad >.<;

Also I realized something...
John existed in a time when Earth still existed...
Not only is he in a different galaxy, but a future time.
I wonder how he'll react when he learns he's in a time a few hundred billion years since "Old Earth" was destroyed

[S121]

@Cucoo

Ok.

While I edit it, you can reply. I'm not going to be changing much, so it will be safe.

[Cucoo5]

of course...
hmm...I think I'll have Avonna's Royal Guard find him instead of Alpha Division...
Alpha Division is...how to say...not exactly the most hospitable hosts.

[S121]

@Cucoo

Who's Alpha division? How nasty is Alpha division?

[Cucoo5]

Alpha Division is actually the Professional Army Division of the Strike Fighters and takes orders from the Venturian Council directly and Is the larger of the 3 Divisions as they protect Nexion system. They're just really strict since Regalis is in command.

[S121]

@Cucoo

Ahh, I see.

Honestly, I would have to say that John would be more of a threat than his ship.

He'd might as well have an ejector seat that propels him at the enemy's ship, turning him into a giant bullet.

[Cucoo5]

Aye

Also, what's the biggest ship in Halo? I now have another wonder for what his reaction would be when he sees an Alpha Class Battle Cruiser, which I said is about the size of a planet in of itself (should come up with a more definitive definition =w=')