What’s on your mind?

What are the character creation parameters, Friend GM?  :)

In reply to OakMaster (msg # 2):

For the moment, I’d like to limit characters to being either human or robot. We haven’t found any other intelligent life out there.

We’ll all begin at Tier 1.

I’m relatively new to Cypher, so I would rather see the creative ideas others come up with, than impose any limits at this stage. If something turns out to be a problem down the line, we’ll deal with it then.

Basically, come up with a character you really want to play. As long as he fits organically into the setting, it’ll be fine.

Everyone starts as having applied for their job, and gotten hired by Nova Galactic.

The ship, NGS Adventurous, launches tomorrow morning (in game time).

First, thank you to everyone who joined. Welcome!

We now have 4 players, but the character breakdown is a little problematic.

We have 2 robots... and 2 psions.

I would like to give everyone a chance to shine, without making the game feel like a competition between players. Thus, I’m opening this thread to allow everyone to describe what they have in mind, character-wise. If, after reading this, anyone wants to make changes to their character, now would be the perfect time to do so.

I’m not going to force anyone to change anything, and if you guys are okay with overlap, we can proceed as-is. My goal is to provide a fun game for everyone.

That said, please go ahead and post your concepts as an introduction to the group. This is the opposite of my tabletop group, where half of my players are willing to play “whatever the party needs.”

Welcome to Nova Galactic!

Iason is an Empathic Adept who Works Miracles, serving as the Medic aboard the ship.

Abilities will include some subset of four of the following five: Far Step, Onslaught, Scan, Mental Link, and Premonition.  I need to see what the tech is like in this universe to firm that up.

If you take some mix of Shepherd Book (Firefly), Obi Wan Kenobi (Star Wars IV), and The Empath (ST:TOS), you might get an idea of the personality.  :)

Hmmm...  I was thinking of playing the ship's Psi Officer, a specialist in telepathy and communications and theoretical xenology.  Someone whose job is to be ready to communicate with any hypothetical alien life the crew might someday encounter, but in the absence of that happening, usually on a day-to-day basis has a post in one of the ship's science departments.

So, some mix of, say, a Psi Corps officer from Babylon 5 and Hoshi Sato from Star Trek Enterprise.

Ah, yes: technology.

We have artificial gravity, artificial intelligence, cybernetic augmentation, faster-than-light travel, genetic engineering, cloning, uplifting, energy weapons, and just about every sci-fi trope from the 1980s. Space habitats are a thing, but terraforming is still beyond our ability. Artificial lifeforms and uplifted animals walk among us, but we have yet to encounter an alien intelligence.

While technically a "Guarded Adept that Fuses Mind and Machine" Dorothy is a human form android provided by Nova Galactic as a user interface aid between the ship and the crew.

Rather than the magical style of the typical Adept I will be using the Flavor Sublclass: Technology powers.

I realize I forgot to specify the mechanics I'm contemplating: I'd be a Calm Speaker who Commands Mental Powers.

I'm going to be a Paranoid Adept who Resides in Silicon, and I'll be using technology flavors, so I'd be an repair/engineering bot!

I'm going to be a small floating sentient mechanical orb about the size of a grapefruit, with hard light extensions.  I was once part of The Conclave, a roving silicon nation of sentient robots.  They worked together in a ship-like configuration, each group taking on the roles of a system.  P-7435 was part of the "immune system", specializing in identification and repair.  During a surprise attack The Conclave was badly hurt and P-7435 and many others were lost in a wash of jump-drive engines, scattering them over many light years.

P-7435 fell out of orbit onto one of Nova Galactics stations, where she was picked up and used as a drone for a period of time, as she was too much in shock to think.  (This might be a fun connection with one of my fellow players.)  Eventually P-7435 got over her shock, found her voice, and latched on to her new "Conclave" with a very fierce desire to never let them down again.  She's taken on the name "Pansca Setfortrive", as that's more conversational version of her name with her new Conclave.

Iason, if you were to spin that set of abilities you listed more towards the physical stuff rather than the mental, I don't see that we'd be overlapping each other even a little bit, yeah?  I'm looking at going with a pure telepath, with maybe a bit of sciencing thrown in.