Character Creation

My! I have missed quite a bit these past few days. Apologies for being somewhat incommunicado--work and life did those things they do.

I'm in the process of writing something up and will post it here in the next few hours!

Thanks, @Balthazar , but Sera (my PC) started on Coruscant and was there went Order 66 went down. She absolutely can be someone who helps maintain Ka'el's cybernetics tho

Sera Javik

Backstory
16 years before Order 66 was executed, Sera Javik was born, with her twin brother Dal holding onto her heel. Their mother, Tana Javik, gace birth to them deep in the Underworld levels of Coruscant, where she worked as a community leader and amateur technician, repairing the scrubbers and filters enough to keep folks alive a little longer. But her work had a cost and she eventually became ill from the toxins she exposed herself to each day. She passed when Sera and Dal were five. As a sign of their gratitude, neighbors took the children in and fed them, but everyone here was barely surviving as it was, so there was little support they could offer, aside from a corner to sleep in and the occasional scrap of spoiled ration.

Being the "older sister," Sera took it upon herself to provide for her and Dal. And for a year, through every kind of difficulty imaginable, she did. Each day, she would sneak up to the higher levels and offer to do odd jobs for folks, fixing things. For Sera had a way with machines, ever since she was a toddler sitting at her mama's side. The machines would "talk" to her; she could feel what they wanted, what bothered them, and how she could help. Finally, she became an apprentice with a tech shop on a middle level and was able to relocate herself and Dal to a shack behind the shop. She worked there for a few months, until HE came in.

Palter Dinn was a young Jedi with an interest in repairing his straighter, which was having a persistent problem. When Sera heard the description of the issue, she came out and diagnosed Palter's Delta-7 aethersprite class interceptor, sight-unseen. He was skeptical, but he tried her suggestion and was amazed. He visited again, many times, mostly to speak with and observe young Sera. And at age seven, he offered her a spot as a Youngling in the Jedi Temple.

This was their big break! Sera would go to the temple and send support back to Dal. Once she graduated, she thought, they could be together and live the life as luxury, as a Jedi Knight and her associate. She soon learned that she was naive. Sure, she was able to send modest sums back to Dal, which were enough to keep him alive and comfortable, but she was never allowed to visit. And her letters became less and less frequent over time.

She immersed herself in her studies and quickly excelled. She showed amazing promise in the technical fields, as Palter expected, though she struggled with others, especially interpersonal subjects.

Machines? Machines were easy. People were hard.

Finally, when she reached aged 13, Palter chose to make her his Padawan. She was so proud! She visited Dal that day, though by then he was going by DJ and running with a rough crowd of splicers and hackers. He was standoffish but ultimately congratulatory. Soon, she promised, soon she'd be a Jedi knight, and then they could live the life they always wanted. DJ seemed less enthusiastic about that, however; he was making a life for himself.

A year and a half later, Order 66 was issued. That morning, Sera was free, so she decided to go to the old garage where she kept her tinkering projects and work. She heard the effects of Order 66 over her coms and was terrified. She hid in the garage for a time, and then fled downward, into the Underworld levels, where she could move like a rat in the walls. When she arrived at DJ and her old shack, however, she was saddened to learn that he had left Coruscant a few months prior, out on some harebrained get rich quick scheme with his shady friends.

Now she hides and keeps her Jedi identity a secret, hoping to see DJ again one day. She doesn't know what happened to her mentor Palter, though she can guess.

Powers
Commune with technology
Absorb or redirect electricity and lightning
Minor telekinesis

Weaknesses
Interpersonal skills
Empathy with people
Meditation and other inwardly directed force activities

Gear
Handy dandy universal toolkit
Disassembled light saber
Dinner plate sized hover droid, QTπ

And this is Sera, repairing QTπ:

I see a lot of people have added in their story what happened when Order 66 was issued.

I think it would be good to establish when it happened compared to the starting of the game, and where we begin.
I am fine with anything, but the appesl of the game would be that it was very shortly ago, and there is still a lot of confusion about what is going on. The question where and we meet or get together is important then for that part of the backstory as well.

Ok, then I will kerp Taryn :)

Love it!
I'll type up Voss this evening

@vagueGM What do you want in a character sheet? Any guidelines or should I just wing it?

You became an tech apprentice at age 5? Is that normal? Legal?
Was this contentious? Having a Master bring in a youngling and then 'follow' them all the way through and take them as a Padawan? I believe the temple was assigning Padawan to Jedi at that time (war time, and all), so many did not get a choice.

Did the fact that 'you are difficult' factor into this? :)
This can sometimes become a burden in an RPG. We may have to work to make this viable and still fun in scenes where you need to deal with people.
Droids are people too! I don't mind, but bear in mind you are now playing two characters (or nearly two).'for a time' being 'some hours'? That way you can connect with the others shortly after learning DJ is not there to help you?

Agreed. We do probably need to know this before we can say too much about that part of our backstory. I think we are each still free to say what happened in the hours around the event, but need to work out how quickly we get together before we can say much more.
I agree, this does seem like an interesting time to play through.

If we all agree, maybe we say that we get together within a day or so of Order 66, and possibly even less time if we can get together sooner.
Struggling through that time of confusion sounds like fun. I don't really want to miss out on it. We can do it in flashbacks if we have to, but playing it out in full is definitely appealing.

It can be useful to have some uniformity to a sheet, just to make it easier to look things up. But we won't know what sorts of things will be useful till we see more about what sorts of things people put on their sheets. So maybe just wing it, and we adjust all the sheets later for ease of use?

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runekyndig: You are probably the most affected [ref] by the timeline of events. But I don't want to lose your backstory and we can fit it into a compressed timeline.

Bacta seems to work really fast! But it is also inconsistent. 'Inconsistent' is good, it means we can define it ourselves.

Maybe Brenya got you into a tank for a few hours, during that time she, or others, scavenged some replacement limbs for you, and then they needed to get you out of the tank and limbered up (forgive my 'french') in a hurry because we had been found and needed to run.

In The Book of Boba Fett we see him needing to keep using a bacta tank for a long time after he 'recovered' enough to be functional, so we can lean on that and say you also 'need' more bacta... when you can get it. But tanks may be hard to come by.

What do you think?

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While you are in the tank may be when the others join the party? Maybe it is at some 'secret way-station' you all know/learn about and use as a rendezvous? There were mobile Jedi Temples on starships, you may have been recalled to there (maybe bringing your bacta tank with you, or suffering till you find it there?), though all Temples are part of the trap, so the Clones (who used to be your friends): come for you.

If we go that route, I think we could have a 'backstory' thread where people can post what they did to get 'there'? That does not feel right for a character sheet. These could be 'one per player' but that could be overkill, and one shared one often works best. I am easy.

She was boarding a small Jedi frigate when Order 66 was issued. Her master was the first to be gunned down by the auto cannon, and Voss managed to get her lightsaber up as the second barrage started tearing into her. A shot went through her hand holding her lightsaber and the powerpack and Voss was blown apart.

The troopers continued in the space station, looking for more Jedi, as Brenya entered the hangar bay. She scooped up Voss, who was clinging to life, and unseriously plopped her into a Bacta tank, putting the medic droid to work. As Brenya closed, she spotted the remaining part of Voss lightsaber, which she called to her with the force. Half a jedi with half a lightsaber.

The Medical droid, which was tasked to "fix her" did what it could with the materials at hand: Droid parts, no real cybernetics replacements.

Brenya did her best to escape the space station, but didn't get far before the imperial was chasing their ship.

That actually seems like a great place to start our first thread when we are ready.

Maybe everyone else can converge on this location (we can work out what it is as needed). Maybe you arrived a little while ago and already met up with Brenya and sleepy Voss, or maybe you are arriving as we speak, only to find it is a trap and the Clones have followed you here... the same Clones you thought were your friends only hours ago.
No. You will have to save yourselves.

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Your characters might not know the term 'Order 66', or they could have overheard it being spoken about —on comms or between those who attacked. It is more realistic to not know, but that makes it hard to talk about in character, so maybe we share at least that title with you quite quickly.

It may take a long time before you have any real understanding of what is going on. You will be relying on the official news, which comes from the empire, so it paints Mace Windu as the aggressor, the one who attacked the chancellor without provocation, and as the bad guy. Feel free to have your own opinions on that topic. You may have never met Windu, up to you.

Owlbeer: Note that the other players can not see your character sheet. You need to Add it to the Library in your character list [link] for others to see it. See the Character Sheet Visibility page in the PbP Help thread [link] for a little more detail.

Great idea! =)

Fixed, I think :)

Fixed indeed. :)

Also, for the comfort of my brain, could we please have an IC thread for the space station?

Yes, we will do that when we start playing. So far we are just brainstorming, nothing here is official roleplay, so it might not happen like this. If everyone agrees to that start I will make a thread for the actual roleplay to happen in. We will need to repost anything from here if we want it to be canon.