Redbarron219 Character Discussion

This thread is for discussing Redbarron219's character other players should only post to this in regards to Redbarron219's character and story collaboration is included within that.

When outlining your please post the following:

Step 1: Background (okay basically your story)

Step 2: Choose (or outline) the following :
.....Starting Duty : 5 (from Age of Rebellion)
.....Starting Obligation : 25 (from Edge of the Empire)
.....Starting Morality : 50 (from Force and Destiny)
..........Now the above 3 things have aspects that need to be rolled (and/or chosen but prefer if you rolled at least until you got something that fit the concept unless you really feel strongly about one of them) for each and these need to outlined in your Step 2 -- a Note here for Obligation you can assign the 25 to one Obligation or split it among more than one depending on what you feel your character should have

Also in this step if you check I have altered the choices as follows:
...Choose 4 of the following (cannot choose the same one twice)
--OR--
...Choose 2 of the following (cannot choose the same one twice)

So please explicitly list what you chose for this

Step 3: Select Species -- here just out line the crunch bits that are associated with your the Species you chose along with the Species :)

Step 4: Choosing a Career -- please outline what you did in this step

Step 5: Choosing Specializations -- please outline what you did in this step

Step 6: Invest Character Generation XP -- please outline what you did in this step

Step 7: Determine Derived Attributes (if you know how)

Step 8: Determine Motivations

Step 9: Character Generation Gear & Appearance

Step 10: Post-Character Creation XP Expenditures

Step 11: Post-Character Creation Gear

-------------- The ship thing I will be taking care of based on the number of active players

I have most of the additional materials and I believe some of the others have strayed outside of the 3 core books I just did not bother to list everything. But basically if it is in one of the 3 core books - no issues - if outside but official then I am probably going to be okay with it -- if its outside and unofficial well... then I have to take a much closer look

Step 1:

Amalié Oronde was born on the planet of Kuat as the third of four children, and second daughter, to wealthy board member of Kuat Drive Yards André Oronde and respected socialite Relleyna Oronde. Her family had, and continues to be, avid supporters of the Imperial regime. With one exception.

Amalié always had a curious mind when compared to her peers. Unlike her elder brother (André Oronde Jr.) she was not content to simply lavish in the wealthy lifestyle around them. Amalié was far more interested in the massive ships Kuat Drive Yards pumped out as fast as they could make them. Not so much in how they worked per say, but the sheer power of them. The gravitas with which they prowled the stars. It became her fervent wish to sail on those ships. Moreover, she became determined to command one of those ships: The Star Destroyer.

In truth, her drive was little more than a child's dream. Power, authority, adventure. She frequently found herself at the docks pestering Junior Officers of the Empire or mechanics about the ships, often gaining allowances because of her last name. Her parents never really approved and attempted to dissuade her interests. Unfortunately for them, as with most teenagers, Amalié merely pursued her interests clandestinely. It was on one of these visits that she encountered Commodore Sonora Holt. Commodore Holt was an up and coming officer being assigned her first command of a small Victory Class Star Destroyer. She, being somewhat of a control freak, had insisted on being at Kuat early to oversee construction. Holt and Amalié encountered each other entirely by chance, and Holt immediatly recognized potential in the girl.

Over the next little while Holt began mentoring Amalié and fostering her dream for capital command. Holt went so far as to write a letter of recommendation to the Academy on Corulag for Amalié to begin a career as an officer of the Imperial Navy. This recommendation, and some pressure from her father, allowed Amalié to skip the frequent trap of being pulled into the army or stormtrooper core.

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It wasn't long into her Academy career that Amalié had her first taste of adventure. On their first training mission on a small frigate as academy students a rebel faction attacked. The rebels mainly used stun rounds, with some exceptions, and where actually there to recruit/rescue Amalié's friend Tevon Dur'allan. Tevon was joining the rebellion and had acquired important information- not sure what that should be, but i felt I needed a touch more reason for the rebels to attack- When one of them recognized Amalié they decided to kidnap her.

- In my mind for her backstory what followed was a short adventure for Amalié that involved this small rebel cell experiencing a schism and fighting. Imperials attacking. And through it all Amalié building a rapport with some good rebels and realizing the darkness of the Empire. Thus joining the rebellion (and hopefully creating the in story reasons for Duty, Obligations, and Morality). I think her friend Tevon probably died but I'm not sold on that. So if our GM wants him as a potential NPC/character/adventure hook we can say he's alive.

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Now a rebel, Amalié does plan on continuing her training and eventually becoming a Captain of a Capital Ship in the Alliance Navy. She is, however, under scrutiny and holds little (if any) rank at this point.

- I figure she's being placed on the adventure as much to test her loyalty as to use her skills.

- Amalié is a young woman, only about 19 years old or so. Average height, blonde, caucasion, blue eyes. She does die the ends of her hair a cyan-blue and heavy eyeliner (bit of a hipster, this girl). She has the heavy accent (aka. British) of the core worlds.

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- There's my backstory thoughts. I'm driving towards Commodore because I absolutely adore that career. I don't mind that we don't have a capital ship since the talents can still be handy and I'm more interested in building a character than optimizing.

Step 2:

Duty (5): Space Superiority (I feel this makes the most sense given the backstory. She drives to help create that superiority when and if possible).

Obligation (25 total): Family (10) and Betrayal (15). I feel these two work well given her backstory. She has a close relationship with her family as well as Captain Holt. She feels a sense of obligation to them especially in light of her (from there perspective) betrayal of them.

Morality (50): I rolled for Enthusiasm vs. Recklessness. Which I suppose makes sense. I suppose this would mean she has a knack for command but relies mostly on instinct. She makes snaps decisions, which means she's quick to react to changing circumstances, but snap decisions are not always a good thing.

Step 2 (cont.):

I will choose 2 of the following:

+2,500 credits (to reflect her wealthy origin)
and
+ 10 duty (for meta reasons- gotta push that duty up haha. But also because of her motivations and such).

Step 3:

Species: Human

base of 2 in all attributes. Wounds of 10+ Brawn, Strain of 10+ Willpower. 110 starting XP.

Special: Humans begin game with one free rank in two non-career skills.

Step 4:

I chose the career Commander. The four free ranks went to: Cool, Leadership, Ranged (Light), and Knowledge (Warfare).

Step 5:

I chose the Commodore specialization. (I will wait to here if i can do the "Knowledge" shift from our illustrious GM).

Step 6:

Starting XP: 110

Raised intelligence from 2-3: 30

Raised Presence from 2-4: 70

Raised Cool from 1-2: 5

Raised Knowledge (Education) 1-2: 5

Edit: Swapped the raise for intelligence and presence.

Step 7:

Derived Attributes:

Wounds (10)+(Brawn: 2)= 12

Strain (10) + (Willpower: 2)= 12

Defense: 0 (may come back to change once equipment is purchased)

Soak=Brawn= 2 (may change if equipment effects the outcome)

Step 8: Motivations

1.) Connections (Empire): The Player Character used to be a par t of the Empire. He was once a soldier, a spy, or even a high-ranking
official, but something drove him not only to leave the oppressive regime, but to commit himself to its downfall.

2.) Quests (Influence): Either for himself or for those he serves, the Player Character is in the Rebellion to ensure he attains a certain amount of influence when the war is over. He may seek to give his people a higher standing in the government that will follow, or he may
wish to gain political power for himself in the chaotic aftermath of the war. Either way. his motivation involves the bigger picture.
- Amalié believes in the cause of the rebellion (though I figure there is some doubts still in her, because drama) but a big motivation for her is ensuring that, when the rebellion wins, her family has someone on the inside looking who can protect them.

- pause for now, gotta get back to real life. I'll finish up later-

Gear:

Credits: 500 (starting) + 2500.

BPEA-1A Cascader: 1800
Noble Regalia: 750
Holdout Blaster: 200
Symbol of Command: 100
Datapad: 75
Field Rations x 10: 50
Military Field Manual: 25

Appearance:

Amalie is a caucasian girl at about 19 years of age. She stands at around 5'4" and has medium length, bright blonde hair; the ends of which are dyed a cyan-like blue. Amalie has blue eyes and highlights them with heavy eyeliner. She's wearing :Noble Regalia" that reflects her heritage of the upper rungs of Kuati society. The outfit is a dark blue with hints of black consisting of a long sleeve top with billowing sleeves, long cappri like pants, shear skirting on her hips and back, and a large scarf/cape thing. (basically, it's the outfit Padme wears at the end of "Attack of the Clones" but with some additional flowy bits).

She has her heavy blaster on her hip and her holdout blaster hidden in a boot holster (she received the holdout blaster from her friend during her backstory adventure). Small clasp near her neck has her rebel symbol of rank in it. Of note she always has a very fancy hair clip keeping the bangs out of the right side of her face. While being a fashionable and expensive looking hair piece the clip also contains her BPEA-1A Cascader (which she got as a gift from her family- her parents, really, but they all signed the card- before she went to the academy).

I think you said you were taking Contribution 1 for your choice of the final 3 and if so you might want to see this as its what the other player got for being an official member of the Alliance in good standing that is above Rank 0

Rebellion Supplied Gear
.... Utility Belt
.... Heavy Blaster Pistol
.... Vibroknife
.... Frag Grenade x1
.... AP Grenade x1
.... Commlink
.... Padded Armor (Soak 2)
.... Scanner Goggles
.... Stimpack x5
.... Backpack
.... Lock-Breaker
.... Urban Compass

Technically that all belongs to the Alliance but somehow I do not see that being an issue ;)

Excellent! I'll rework the items then.

Step 10:

Post Character Generation XP: 150
- So, for explanations on these. I don't have details yet and I think it might be a good idea to try and have my character hop aboard the ship before it heads off on the adventure (unless our illustrious GM has another idea in mind). I my imagination, I tend to crate like, prequel novels for the vibe of backstories. So most of these skills would have been picked up over the course of a fairly long adventure that I mentioned in the backstory.

Solid Repairs: 5
Known Schematic: 10
Solid Repairs: 15
Hold Together: 20
Solid Repairs: 25
- My basic explanation is that Amalie learned a great deal during her younger years and in the academy. So all growing up she spent time looking at and studying ships. I also think that, during her adventure before this, she had to help keep her ship together when the rebels attacked and some junker ship that they chased bad guys in that they had to "hold together" through some craziness.

Ranged light: 10
Knowledge (Education): 25
Computers: 5
Leadership: 10
Cool: 25
Discipline: 5
- A lot of these make sense to have been developed over the course of the story. Education from her background as a Kuati noble and Academy student. Leadership as she led her classmates. Cool for keeping her head under high pressure situations and acting quickly (particularly and incident where she was captured and going to be murdered by a rogue rebel- luckily, she had a holdout pistol from her friend). Discipline from her time as an imperial. Computers for opening a hanger door or some such. Basically, it was quite the adventure.

- If we want to come up with more adventures or specifics, that's fine: I just figure if I can wrap this up quickly I can get Amalie into the game.

Step 11: Post Character Creation

I shall take the Commendation 1

which comes with some gear:

Rebellion Supplied Gear
.... Utility Belt
.... Heavy Blaster Pistol
.... Vibroknife
.... Frag Grenade x1
.... AP Grenade x1
.... Commlink
.... Padded Armor (Soak 2)
.... Scanner Goggles
.... Stimpack x5
.... Backpack
.... Lock-Breaker
.... Urban Compass

okay other than my approval are you ready to start playing -- with the caveat I may have you make adjustments as we go?

That's fine by me. Better to get in and make minor adjustments as we go I think.