Character Sheet Thread
Kinexa Goddard
Abilities [26]
Str 0
Sta 5
Fgt 0
Dex 0
Agl 7
Int 3
Awa 8
Pre 0
Defenses [7]
Dodge */+12
Parry */+12
Tou */+8
Fort 2/+7
Will 5/+13
Skills [28]
Acrobatics 2/+9
Athletics 4/+4
Expertise (Science) 7/+10
Expertise (Aliens) 7/+10
Insight */+20
Investigation 12/+15
Perception 6/+14
Persuasion 4/+4
Sleight of Hand 4/+4
Stealth 2/+10
Technology 2/+5
Treatment 2/+5
Vehicles 4/+4
Advantages [6]
Luck 3
Attractive 1
Equipment 3
Powers [109]
Enceladan Biology: Immunity 6 (Drowning, Cold, Heat, Disease, Poison, High Pressure), Senses 2 (Darkvision), Movement 2 (Environmental Adaptation: Water, Zero-G) [12]
Passive Telepathy: Senses 6 (Ranged Radius Acute Accurate Detect Minds), Enhanced Skill 6 (Insight +12), Enhanced Advantage 1 (Well-Informed) [13]
Telekinesis: Move Object 10, Damaging, Perception, Precise [41]
* Alternate Effect: Mind Bullets: Damage 10, Perception, Alternate Save (Will) [1]
* Alternate Effect: Active Telepathy: Comprehend 4 (Speak and understand all languages, speak to and understand animals), Communication 4, Area, Selective (Mental) [1]
* Alternate Effect: Mind Reading 10, Cumulative, Effortless [1]
* Alternate Effect: Mindwave: Damage 10, Alternate Save (Will), Area (Burst), Selective [1]
Telepathic Evasion: Enhanced Parry 10, Enhanced Dodge 3 [13]
* Alternate Effect: Mind Sword: Damage 12, Alternate Save (Will), Accurate 4, Improved Critical 5, Reach 4 [1]
Leg Thrusters: Flight 7, Aquatic [15]
Monosuit: Immunity 3 (Suffocation, Radiation, Vacuum), Protection 5, Movement 1 (Space Travel), Removable -2 [8]
Formalwear Bracelet: Feature 2 (Quick Change 2) Removable -0 [2]
Equipment [15]
Blaster Pistol (Ranged Damage 5), Genius Phone [5]
Complications
Motivation: Doing Good. Kinexa just likes people and wants to help them.
Enemy: Oh, plenty of these, but the Pirate Queen of Titan bears a particular grudge
Fame: Captain Goddard is a famed space explorer; his daughter is pretty famous, too.
Backstory
Kinexa is the daughter of Captain Jim Goddard, the famed stellar explorer and adventurer/space hero, pilot of the experimental spacecraft Belinda Mae I-XVII, and Ataxata the First Mind of Enceladus. Enceladan biology produces eggs that are produced quickly but grow slowly, and Captain Goddard was given the egg that his daughter hatched from early on. He was surprised, but did his best to raise Kinexa as best he could, teaching her about space and technology and how to fire a blaster and fly a ship. Her mixed biology gave her some bad medical issues, though, and Captain Goddard took her back to Enceladus for medical help.
On Enceladus, her mother’s people gave her the medical implants that were common to them and that she needed, giving her incredibly robust health, and adding the cybernetics to her legs to let her walk more easily in gravity, but also adding the all-important thrusters that allowed her to swim quickly or even fly. More importantly, they helped her learn to control her telepathic powers, and trained her with them, including awakening her rare but powerful telekinetic powers. Since then, she’s gone on adventures with her father in space and also on Earth, until a very recent change in their circumstances…
Life in the Solar System
Earth
It’s pretty well studied, I hear.
The Moon
While the surface of the moon is apparently lifeless, the craters of the moon are in fact inhabited by various dwellers in the pools of dust, including the so-called Dust Mermaids of the Moon, who have a hidden society that Captain Goddard describes as “Tribal,” with limited use of technology but great skill at manipulating electricity, especially via static electricity. Captain Goddard was once captured by the Dust Mermaids and married by force to the daughter of an important leader, but was unwilling to live the rest of his life on the moon and left after he was able to jury-rig repairs to the Belinda Mae I. It is believed that he may have left two Selenite children behind.
Mercury
The Golden Knights of Mercury inhabit the equatorial region of Mercury, living in vast mobile cities that continually cross the surface of the planet, maintaining their existence on the terminator as Mercury slowly orbits the sun and rotates, allowing them to exist in the section of Mercury that is neither too hot nor too cold. They collect vast amounts of solar energy from the hot side of the planet, mining molten metals with magnetic fields, and take advantage of the cold side’s temperatures to use superconducting rings for power storage and heat equalization. Captain Goddard had a two-year contract marriage on Mercury to the three daughters of three rival scientists; their advanced technology contributed to the Belinda Mae IV and later models, as well as the blaster weapons he uses; he still has friendly contact with the Golden Knights, and returns periodically to visit.
Venus
Venus’s high winds and corrosive atmosphere would seem to preclude life or civilization on the planet, but in fact the Plant Folk of Venus are well-adapted to this strange life, gliding across the world to find resource-rich regions, and then settling to grow vast enclosed gardens for short periods of time. While their lifestyle precludes most mining and use of mechanical and electrical technology, their mastery of biology helps compensate them tremendously. Captain Goddard was married to a Gardener-Prime for five years, intending to retire to Venus, before she was killed in the Iron Crowbar War.
Mars
Mars was once a vast civilization, before the drying of the planet’s water supply. Now small city-states survive and trade and occasionally war upon each other; the green, four-armed/legged martians use the remnants of their old technology as well as the more limited technology they can currently create (such as swords) to survive in their dangerous world. After saving the Sandship Trade Fleet from voracious Cyclone Dragons, Captain Goddard was honored to be a Line Founder on Mars, meaning, in effect, he was married to two different Martians for five days each, and now has large numbers of descendants.
The Asteroid Belt
The strange, precognitive Spider-Maidens of the Asteroid Belt create habitats out of web that they spin, also using long strands of web to “Fish” for valuables and food among the strange life-forms that inhabit the belt. After the Belinda Mae V was holed by a meteor, Captain Goddard was saved and nursed back to help by a Spider-Maiden colony; he was romantically involved with a Fisher maiden, but she ultimately made him leave, as his future and destiny required him to be elsewhere to help stop the awakening of the Devourer on Saturn.
Titan
While the Balloon Intelligences of Jupiter exist, are sapient and have engaged in philosophical and mathematical conversation with other Solarians, they have a non-technological society and other life forms can’t survive in the conditions that they thrive in. (It is also not clear if they are a hive mind) Titan, however, is inhabited by the mighty Red Titans, and their society is threatened by the Technology Pirates, who captured and disassembled the Belinda Mae III, keeping Captain Goddard as a captive and slave, until he was able to organize a slave uprising and win his freedom and ultimately take the ship he re-christianed the Belinda Mae IV. The PIrate Queen of Titan still hates him for his actions, and extends this hate to his children, wherever they are in the solar system.
Enceladus
Saturn has exactly one inhabitant, the gigantic, world-threatening elder being known only as the Devourer; the powers that bind it to Saturn are maintained through Saturn’s rings, and if anything were to happen to them, it would be freed with unimaginable consequences. The rings are maintained, in fact, partially by the undersea civilization of the Enceladans, and Captain Goddard worked with them to prevent the release of the Devourer following the advice of the Spider-maidens of the Asteroid Belt. While there, he had a brief relationship with the First Mind, producing his daughter Kinexa.
Uranus
The Dead World of Uranus has lost its internal core and all life; the Ghost Wizards nevertheless persist there, the cold letting their brains superconduct into eternal life, and their necromantic sorceries are powerful indeed. Captain Goddard was briefly stranded there, and coerced into attempting to father a child on a local in an effort to restart life on the planet. As far as he knows, the experiment was a failure.
Triton
Neptune itself is only inhabited by the strange storm-dwelling beings known as Ice Giants, and they appear to have no civilization and only animal-like intelligence. The inhabitants of Triton, however, are an extrasolarian people who can apparently fly subsolar distances through vacuum on extradimensional wings, being partially fungal and with anatomy that extends beyond three dimensions. Captain Goddard did father a child with one, a fact that he is not aware of, in part because, to his knowledge, he did not engage in intimate contact with one.
Pluto
Appears oddly to be uninhabited, but Captain Goddard found evidence that some kind of civilization had once existed there.
This message was lightly edited by the GM at 05:27, Tue 16 Aug 2022.
