Character Creation and Backgrounds

So, my character, Ian Maxwell is a human Sentinel/Shien Expert. He's going to be a sort of trickster/prankster sort. I imagine he would be the one who would smuggle in 'contraband' for the group. Everything from holos to candy. If there is an envelope he wants to push it. He's not cruel or malicious in any sort of way but he loves trouble. I imagine with one adult raising nine children he would be the one that would intentionally get in trouble -just- to have extra attention.
As far as skills go I picked:
Computer
Deception
Stealth
Lightsaber
Skulduggery
Discipline
Coordination

Why Discipline in all of that? Because despite his general goofy attitude he is very quick-witted and sure of himself. For Force Power he will -definitely- have Move as he has trouble connecting with the spiritual side of the Force but an easy time understanding how it can be used to get him into trouble.

Ian would also be known as a contradiction, getting into trouble but never lying to get out of it. Always cheerfully admitting it with pride and accepting punishments as justly earned for the trade-off of getting to have fun.

Alright I've decided on a Nautolan Shii-Cho Knight, Very physical-athletic type. depending on how you are allocating the force powers/ talents Enhance seems a logical choice for my character.

Current character story points: Fairly cheerful person (typical for their species) who enjoys the power the force grants her. Not much for the philosophy/greater understanding of the force taught to her, but at least understands it's importance of preserving the traditions. To this end she wishes to become stronger, to fight against the wicked for the life they denied all of them. Plus fighting is fun anyway, and the empire seems like a large enough target for such an outlook, if only she had the chance.

Ok, I'm going with an Iktotchi Seeker/Executioner, Caro Ter, with the goal of moving into Padawan Survivor. Iktotchi is in Keeping the Peace, Executioner is in Savage Spirits, and Padawan Survivor is in Dawn of Rebellion.

He's a Melee fighter in general, starting with a Vibrospear. Skillswise, he's sort of an outdoors/scout type without the stealth (Survival, Vigilance, Xenology, Perception). For Force powers, I'd like to start with Sense, and then branch out from there.

Personality wise, he's fairly somber, even grim. Sounds like he'll be a decent foil to some of the more outgoing types we have so far.

I've always wanted to try the Animal Bond thing.

Gonna go with Seeker/Pathfinder>Hermit, so on.

If this line of thinking doesn’t end with you riding a battle pterodactyl, I will be extremely disappointed.

I was thinking Rancor, but sure, battle-dactyl is good too.

That's... actually kind of heart-warming.

I mean, not as literally heart warming as being tucked away inside the innards of a taun-taun, but heart-warming nonetheless.

Everyone, I think Ariana meant that we should initially create our character only with the Force & Destiny rulebook, and that we can expand from there during gameplay. At any rate, she did ask for our initial ''class'' to be from F&D.

Assuming otherwise, this is what we have until now:

Carabas: ???
Smeeg699: Either an unnamed female Miraluka Nimaan Disciple/Sage of unknown age who's all about the force, or an unnamed female Togruta Shien Expert of unknown age who's very, very curious.
Lux1001/Me : Avi'ragim, a female Twi'lek Seer/Makashi Duelist to be, 19 years old. Not the biggest fan of the Jedi. Emotional. Means well.
VexangerG: Unnamed, a male Human Soresu Defender, 22 years old. Very Jedi-ish, vigilant, silent.
Cep100: Ian Maxwell, a male Human Shien Expert of unknown age. "It's just a prank, bro!!1", I assume. Likes to taunt people, push their buttons.
somebox: Unnamed female Nautolan Shii-Cho Knight of unknown age. Cheerful, likes to fight.
Details52: Caro Ter, a male Iktotchi Seeker/Executioner of unknown age.
emsquared: Unnamed unknown Pathfinder/Hermit to be of unknown age.

Looks like we've got a lot of lightsaber/combat specs so far - thinking I might go for something more technical, maybe a pilot for that shuttle assuming we're not on this unnamed planet the whole time. (And who secretly wants to get some time in on that Defender. :))

Personality-wise, I'm thinking an anti-traditional "fighter jock" type. Calm and collected. Flying through an asteroid field is just another form of meditation, after all.

I thought she meant choose a F&D career as in, we all start with FR1 as opposed to acquiring it later.

Like my all time favorite Jedi Plo Koon. That guy was chill AF and a dope pilot.

lol, More likely to say 'dude' than 'bro' but yeah. Can I use 'dude'? What's the Star Wars equivalent of 'dude'? Space Dude? And probably 18 or 19. What's the age range? In other Star Wars games I've played him in he started training -super- late (12 or so). For this game he's going to have to be more acclimated to being a Jedi.

And, yes, a pilot would be super helpful. Otherwise we'll have to take Space Greyhound to get anywhere. But yeah, I'm interested in what kinds of technical skills we'll have available.

Haha, I'm sure there are x)

I don't know. Unless I got it wrong, we were on our way to be trained in Coruscant when our master hijacked our shuttle, so theoretically we should be young since we were only about to start our training. Anakin was what, nine years old when he was brought to the Jedi? And they said he was far too old to begin his training. Since twelve years have passed since we started our training under Master Ke Ri Shelak, and if we assume that six years old is already a late age to start, we should all be between, idk, 14~18 more or less? Ariana could shrug that away, but maybe she wants us to be at that age range.

And a Pilot would be very helpful, or anyone focusing more on skills. Avi is not a skill monkey herself, like at all. She got her basics covered and that's it. Specifically: Charm, Coercion, Cool, Discipline, Perception, and Vigilance. As for her other skills, both her Willpower and Presence are high, although her Willpower is one point higher.

Taryn Koto is a human Sentinel originally from Alderaan, still of two minds if I'm going with Sentry or Shadow as starting spec. That will probably be determined by whether or not we start out with Lighsabers.

[Edited to add: Sentry it is then.]

He is very empathic and tries to see everybody's point of view.
He's all about protecting the innocent and the weak, as well as punishing those who would harm them.
The Jedi lack of attachements is something he has issues with and has a hard time understanding.

He likes to be around people, loved Coruscant, and if we are allowed into the colony on our planet at all, will spend as much time there as possible.

Skillwise he's digging deep into the sneaky skills, Stealth, Skullduggery, Deception and the like, with a dash of some Knowledge skills.

For Force Power I am strongly leaning towards Sense or Influence.

Evelynn Aldare would be the Miraluka Sage/Nimaan Disciple to be (direction I'm leaning what with three dedicated melee classes already). The Togeuta is Kisasa Felarae.

As for age, I was kind of assuming that we had begun training at a more typical 4ish and were probably found by Master Salek around age 6 or 7. Which would put us in the 18/19 range, though there's always wiggle room in there as I believe you're still considered a "youngling" until 12 or 13 when you're selected to become a Padawan.

@Smeg: My apologies but I can't seem to find the miraluka class. Has anyone seen an officially released version?

@Everyone: I have edited the first post of this thread to include equipment.

Regarding your species you may choose whatever species you like. However, for your starting class please choose a class from the Force and Destiny Rulebook.
(I think you have all done this anyway).
(Don't choose your force powers just yet but do think about which power you would like to have. We will be roleplaying this out).

Added Valad Kon to the game. He's a Zabrak Warrior/Starfighter Ace. Not a whole lot of skills yet, but with a few XP he'll be able to have at least a rank in all of Piloting, Mechanics, Gunnery, and Astrogation. Most likely Force powers include Enhance, for better Piloting, or Manipulate, for better Mechanic-ing.

Thanks for checking, Arina, but I'm fairly sure nothing official has been released for Miraluka. I found them in the Complete Species Guide, which contains both official stuff and unofficial, but fairly balanced, stuff. I can change her from Miraluka...

I guess I’ll go Aggressor then. If I may ask, why can’t we use the non-core specializations?