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- Joined
- Oct 25, 2019
- Location
- Oregon
In 2912, Haldeman-Bjork Passenger Lines unveiled the magnificent CSV Titanic (Civilian Space Vessel). The naming was chosen in memory of the ocean liner that had sunk on Earth exactly one thousand years earlier, with the hope of carving a better fate for the name this time around. The ship had a place for people of all classes of society, from engineers and mechanics to private security forces to the rich and famous on the upper decks.
The Titanic was a passenger line first, but also had a secondary role as a cargo transport. The total capacity of the vessel was about two thousand people -- fifteen hundred tickets were sold, while the other five hundred spots were reserved for crew, support staff, Synth escorts, and utility droids. There were multiple restaurants, night clubs, game lounges, spas, and other recreational locations scattered about the ship, as well as a handful of medbays and security booths.
On the Titanic's maiden voyage, it departed from Earth's massive deGrasse Orbital Station and set a course for Edona Prime, with a three day layover at Port Velisar for refueling and passenger and crew relief. Velisar was a station in orbit around the gas giant Haladon, which also had a large Earth-like moon named Mu'atoya. Large ice sheets covered the north and south areas of this natural satellite, but the thin equatorial zone enjoyed a nearly constant tropical climate with strings of islands hosting many beach resorts.
The journey from Earth to Port Velisar was about three weeks and the Titanic arrived right on schedule. They had their three day relief layover on the beaches of Mu'atoya and then departed for the second, longer leg of the journey, an additional five weeks as they traversed the Voydian Expanse on course to Edona Prime. However, they were unprepared for the dangers that awaited them.
The Expanse was an unusually devoid area of space, with plenty of habitable planets and moons, but practically no traces of modern civilization due to it's distance from developed worlds and major trade routes. With the exceptions of Haladon on one side and Edona Prime on the other, the only significant habitation was a handful of scientific research stations, but those were sparse and scattered wide. Up until recently, all routes to Edona Prime skirted the edge of the Expanse, staying within range of emergency support relays, but at the cost of extremely long travel times. From the onset, Haldeman-Bjork designed the Titanic to provide it's own emergency support services, in the hopes of creating a much faster route directly through the heart of the Expanse.
But what they didn't count on was encountering an asteroid field that wasn't supposed to exist, nor the pirate haven that was hidden there. A heated struggle ensued, the ship barely escaped, suffered catastrophic damage, and made a desperate jump to the nearest habitable world, where the vessel ended up ripping in half in the upper atmosphere and crashing down into a wooded mountain range. The vast majority of the crew and passengers died in the pirate attack or the crash, while most of the rest perished in the days following. But our characters did not. We were the survivors.
Your characters can be human or whatever alien race you can envision, or even Synth escorts/prostitutes. Androids used to be quite widespread, but they were only designed to appear organic and were still mechanical internally, and have now been almost completely replaced by upgraded versions with synthetic flesh and artificial organs. The Synths are the most sentient artificial lifeforms currently in use, able to breathe, eat, drink, use the restroom, sleep, dream, think, believe. This has led to some activist groups fighting for Synth rights, equating their status as merchandise to forced labor and slavery. While there have been progressive movements on this front, they have thus far been denied equal rights. In the eyes of the law, Synths remain "owned tools".
In addition to your race, there are plenty of role options on the Titanic to choose from. An aristocrat from a noble family; a common mechanic repairing cleaning droids; a top engineer working around the Warp Drive; a galaxy-renowned chef heading one of the restaurants; a high-ranking officer of the security force; a simple concierge at one of the spas; a manager at one of the night clubs; a pilot manning the helms in the Bridge; a blackjack dealer in the casino; a moderator in the game lounge; or anything else you can think of. Feel free to create multiple characters too, especially some that you can kill off in the events later on.
The RP will start immediately prior to our departure from Earth, and will give us some considerable time to develop our characters and relationships before the crash. The three week trip to Velisar, the three days at a beach resort, and then the week or so into the Expanse before the pirate attack. These will create some awesome opportunities for character romance growth. I'm going to create at least three characters for myself to start -- the Captain, who will inevitably die during the crash; a young robotics engineer who served in the military for a few years and takes a new job as a droid mechanic on the Titanic; and an alcoholic writer who can be kind of a dick at times and is using the journey to help formulate the plot of his next novel.
The largest governmental body in the galaxy is the Allied Worlds Security Council (AWSC). All member worlds send ambassadors to sit on the Council and have to abide by a set of laws. While each planet may have their own domestic government and military, the AWSC has an intergalactic naval fleet.
Also, just to give everyone an idea of the aesthetic, it will be very similar to the Origin 890 Jump in Star Citizen, but on a much grander scale. Here is a link to an image gallery, and there are also video tours from in-game on YouTube to give you an idea.
Image Gallery
Video giving you an idea what partying on the ship might be like.
The Titanic was a passenger line first, but also had a secondary role as a cargo transport. The total capacity of the vessel was about two thousand people -- fifteen hundred tickets were sold, while the other five hundred spots were reserved for crew, support staff, Synth escorts, and utility droids. There were multiple restaurants, night clubs, game lounges, spas, and other recreational locations scattered about the ship, as well as a handful of medbays and security booths.
On the Titanic's maiden voyage, it departed from Earth's massive deGrasse Orbital Station and set a course for Edona Prime, with a three day layover at Port Velisar for refueling and passenger and crew relief. Velisar was a station in orbit around the gas giant Haladon, which also had a large Earth-like moon named Mu'atoya. Large ice sheets covered the north and south areas of this natural satellite, but the thin equatorial zone enjoyed a nearly constant tropical climate with strings of islands hosting many beach resorts.
The journey from Earth to Port Velisar was about three weeks and the Titanic arrived right on schedule. They had their three day relief layover on the beaches of Mu'atoya and then departed for the second, longer leg of the journey, an additional five weeks as they traversed the Voydian Expanse on course to Edona Prime. However, they were unprepared for the dangers that awaited them.
The Expanse was an unusually devoid area of space, with plenty of habitable planets and moons, but practically no traces of modern civilization due to it's distance from developed worlds and major trade routes. With the exceptions of Haladon on one side and Edona Prime on the other, the only significant habitation was a handful of scientific research stations, but those were sparse and scattered wide. Up until recently, all routes to Edona Prime skirted the edge of the Expanse, staying within range of emergency support relays, but at the cost of extremely long travel times. From the onset, Haldeman-Bjork designed the Titanic to provide it's own emergency support services, in the hopes of creating a much faster route directly through the heart of the Expanse.
But what they didn't count on was encountering an asteroid field that wasn't supposed to exist, nor the pirate haven that was hidden there. A heated struggle ensued, the ship barely escaped, suffered catastrophic damage, and made a desperate jump to the nearest habitable world, where the vessel ended up ripping in half in the upper atmosphere and crashing down into a wooded mountain range. The vast majority of the crew and passengers died in the pirate attack or the crash, while most of the rest perished in the days following. But our characters did not. We were the survivors.
Your characters can be human or whatever alien race you can envision, or even Synth escorts/prostitutes. Androids used to be quite widespread, but they were only designed to appear organic and were still mechanical internally, and have now been almost completely replaced by upgraded versions with synthetic flesh and artificial organs. The Synths are the most sentient artificial lifeforms currently in use, able to breathe, eat, drink, use the restroom, sleep, dream, think, believe. This has led to some activist groups fighting for Synth rights, equating their status as merchandise to forced labor and slavery. While there have been progressive movements on this front, they have thus far been denied equal rights. In the eyes of the law, Synths remain "owned tools".
In addition to your race, there are plenty of role options on the Titanic to choose from. An aristocrat from a noble family; a common mechanic repairing cleaning droids; a top engineer working around the Warp Drive; a galaxy-renowned chef heading one of the restaurants; a high-ranking officer of the security force; a simple concierge at one of the spas; a manager at one of the night clubs; a pilot manning the helms in the Bridge; a blackjack dealer in the casino; a moderator in the game lounge; or anything else you can think of. Feel free to create multiple characters too, especially some that you can kill off in the events later on.
The RP will start immediately prior to our departure from Earth, and will give us some considerable time to develop our characters and relationships before the crash. The three week trip to Velisar, the three days at a beach resort, and then the week or so into the Expanse before the pirate attack. These will create some awesome opportunities for character romance growth. I'm going to create at least three characters for myself to start -- the Captain, who will inevitably die during the crash; a young robotics engineer who served in the military for a few years and takes a new job as a droid mechanic on the Titanic; and an alcoholic writer who can be kind of a dick at times and is using the journey to help formulate the plot of his next novel.
The largest governmental body in the galaxy is the Allied Worlds Security Council (AWSC). All member worlds send ambassadors to sit on the Council and have to abide by a set of laws. While each planet may have their own domestic government and military, the AWSC has an intergalactic naval fleet.
Also, just to give everyone an idea of the aesthetic, it will be very similar to the Origin 890 Jump in Star Citizen, but on a much grander scale. Here is a link to an image gallery, and there are also video tours from in-game on YouTube to give you an idea.
Image Gallery
Video giving you an idea what partying on the ship might be like.
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