[OOC]Transhuman Space/Traveller Interstellar Wars: Transhuman Stars

[nick012000]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Other than those issues, was everything else ok? Is he too good for a normie?

Well, he's a bit too smart (though that's easily solvable with the genetic engineering available), and he has some advantages you'd need augmentation of some variety to get. The Filter Lungs, the Disease Resistance, the Regeneration, the Longevity, the No Degeneration in Zero G, and quite possibly the G-Experience. G-Experience on the lower end of the spectrum is widely available, but to get high-G experience, you'd need a rotating space station or spacecraft habitation ring or something that's designed to take those forces.

[rknop]

OK, I've updated the character so that her IQ is now down to 14, and the last one is due to a cybermod. I've also added equipment, but I may add more equipment more. (She's got money left in her equipment budget.)

Rhys Forrest

Gypsy Angel physician, linguist, and trader

Attributes    :    90
Advantages    :   114
Disadvantages :   -52
Quirks        :    -5
Languages     :    18
Skills        :   135
Techniques    :     0
---------------------
TOTAL         :   300

Unspent Points : 0

ST :   9 [  0]     HP   :   9 [  0]   (Current:   9)
DX :  11 [ 20]     Will :  13 [ -5]
IQ :  14 [ 60]     Per  :  13 [ -5]
HT :  12 [ 20]     Fat  :  12 [  0]   (Current:  12)

Size Modifier: 0                    Basic Lift: 16

Basic Speed: 5.75 [0] (0.000000 extra, 0 from templ)
Current Move: 5 [0] (0 extra, 0 from templ, -0 for 0.00lbs carried)

Dodge: 8  (0 bonus, -0 for 0.00 lbs carried)
Parry: 0
Block: 0

Armor DR
=======
torso:     0    groin:     0     lleg:     0
skull:     0     larm:     0     rleg:     0
 eyes:     0     rarm:     0    lfoot:     0
 face:     0    lhand:     0    rfoot:     0
 neck:     0    rhand:     0

Languages
=========
English (Spoken: Native ; Written: Native) [0]
Chinese (Spoken: Native ; Written: Native) [6]
Russian (Spoken: Accented ; Written: Accented) [4]
French (Spoken: Accented ; Written: Accented) [4]
Spanish (Spoken: Accented ; Written: Accented) [4]

Advantages
==========
  27  Tennin Parahuman
        ST -1 [-10]
        3D Spatial Sense [10]
        Attractive [4]
        Extra Arms (two, Foot Manipulators -30%, Short -50%) [4]
        Longevity [2]
        Radiation Tolerance 5 [10]
        Resistant to Disease (+8) [5]
        No Degeneration in Zero-G [1]
        Home Gravity of 0G
        Taboo Trait (Genetic Defects)
        +3 to Free Fall [6]
  12  Ally ("Eris", Implant LAI, 50%, Always Available, Minion)
   8  Ally (Shadow of a Gypsy Angel Friend, 50%, always available)
  10  Charisma/2
  10  Cultural Adaptability
  30  Wealth (Very Wealthy)
  16  Cognitive Enhancement: IQ+1
        -20%: Temporary Disadvantage: Electrical
        Ultra-Tech p. 217
   1  Perk: Honest Face

Disadvantages
=============
   0  Tennin Parahuman
        Skinny [-5]
 -15  Charitable
 -15  Combat Paralysis
  -5  Curious
  -7  Greed (15-)
  -5  Truthfulness
  -5  Code of Honor (Be fair and honorable in all trading/merchant transactions; do not deceive with intent for personal gain)

Quirks
======
  -1  Committed nanarchist; enjoys flaunting socieites' "stupid and obsolete" laws
  -1  Loves learning new languages and studying dialects and speech patterns
  -1  Broad-Minded
  -1  Congenial
  -1  Attentive

Skills
======
   1 (E)IQ+0 Area Knowledge (Solar System)-14
   1 (E)IQ+0 Area Knowledge (Kuiper Belt)-14
   2 (E)IQ+1 Computer Operation-15
   1 (A)DX-1 Piloting (Low-Perf Spacecraft)-10
   1 (A)IQ-1 Navigation (Space)-13
   8 (A)DX+2 Vacc Suit-13
   2 (E)IQ+1 Spacer-15
   2 (A)DX+3 Free Fall-14  (+3, Tennin Template)
   1 (H)IQ-2 HIstory (Duncanite)-12

   8 (A)IQ+2 Research-16
   2 (V)IQ-2 Biology (Earthlike)-12
   1 (H)IQ-1 Diagnosis-13  (Def: Physician-4)
  12 (H)IQ+2 Physician-16
   4 (H)IQ+0 Physiology-14
  12 (H)IQ+2 Psychology-16
   1 (H)IQ-2 Pharmacy (Synthetic)-12
   4 (A)IQ+1 Electronics Operation (Medical)-15

  12 (H)IQ+2 Linguistics-16
   2 (H)IQ-1 Mathematics (Statistics)-13
   4 (H)IQ+0 Geography (Political)-14
   3 (H)IQ+0 Anthropology-14  (Def: Sociology-3)
   7 (H)IQ+1 Sociology-15  (Def: Psychology-4)
   4 (A)IQ+1 Electronic Operation (Comms)-15
   8 (H)IQ+1 Diplomacy-15
   2 (A)IQ+0 Fast-Talk-14
   4 (H)Per+0 Detect Lies-13

   1 (E)IQ+0 Current Affairs (Business)-14
   2 (H)IQ-1 Economics-13
  12 (A)IQ+3 Merchant-17
   4 (H)IQ+0 Finance-14
   2 (H)IQ+0 Market Analysis-14  (Def: Merchant-4)
   1 (E)IQ+0 Savoir Faire (High Society)-14

   2 (A)IQ+0 Something I Forgot-14
   2 (A)IQ+0 Something Else I Forgot-14

Techniques
==========

Weapons              Damage     ST Reach Skill Parry
=============================================================================

Ranged Weapon        Damage     Acc Range   RoF  Shots ST Bulk Rcl
==============================================================================

Num Equipment                      Location           Wt/ea      $/ea Carried?
===============================================================================
1   Biomonitor (p. THS 162)                            0.50    5000.00  
1   Medkit, Emergency (p. THS 162)                     1.00     150.00  
1   Medkit, Paramedic (p. THS 162)                     7.50     750.00  
1   Portable HyMRI (p. UT 198)                        50.00   25000.00  
1   Brainscanner : Scanning Net (p. UT 203)            4.00    6000.00  
20  Analgine (p. UT 205)                               0.00      50.00  
20  Antirad (p. UT 205)                                0.00     150.00  
10  Hyperstim (p. UT 205)                              0.00     100.00  
100 Morphazine (p. UT 205)                             0.00      10.00  
50  Ascepaline (p. UT 205)                             0.00      20.00  
10  Memory Beta (p. UT 205)                            0.00     250.00  
20  Purge (p. UT 205)                                  0.00      20.00  
10  Programmable Immune Machines (p. UT 205)           0.00     500.00  
20  Quickheal (Biomed Nano) (p. UT 206)                0.00     100.00  
1   Medium Range Communicator (p. THS 149)             0.50     100.00  
1   Pocketcam (p. UT 51)                               0.25     200.00  
1   Multiview Glasses (p. THS 151)                     0.75     600.00  
1   Suitcase Lab : Biology (p. UT 67)                 10.00    3000.00  
1   Suitcase Lab : Pharmacy (p. UT 67)                10.00    3000.00  
2   Mini-Flashlight (p. UT 74)                         0.25      10.00  
1   Survival Watch (p. UT 74)                          0.50     300.00  
1   Biometric Scanner (p. THS 151)                     1.00    1000.00  
1   Light Nanoweave Vacc Suit (p. THS 159)            15.00    2000.00  
1   Light Full Helmet (p. THS 195)                     2.00      50.00  
1   Medium Range Communicator      Helmet              0.50     100.00  
1   Teleview Optics (lvl 2)        Helmet              1.12     900.00  
1   Mini-Flashlight                Helmet              0.25      10.00  
1   Pneumospray Hypo (p. THS 162)                      0.25     100.00  
1   Microframe Computer (complexity 7)                10.00   10000.00  
1   LAI-7 ("Quaoar"), LAI-7 base, IQ+2, 60cp in skills 0.00   28000.00  
1   Software: Shadow Compiler (c7) Microframe          0.00    6400.00  
1   VR Manager (100 users, c6)     Microframe          0.00    1000.00  
1   VR Database (1TB)              Microframe          0.00    1000.00  
1   Software on VII                VII                 0.00    7250.00  

Total Weight Carried: 0.00 (encumb: -0)
Total Equipment Budget: $118830.00

Description:
      Rhys Forrest looks like your classic Tennin parahuman : very tall
      (6' 6"), willowy, very skinny, with short-cropped black hair,
      penetrating blue eyes, and an easy smile.

Personality:
      Friendly. She is able to get people to trust her, and she tries
      to be trustworthy in response to that.

      She dislikes violence, and will avoid it if at all possible.

Background:
      Born a Tennin Parahuman in a ship in the Gypsy Angel collective,
      she grew up learning how to live as a Gypsy Angel. She thought
      she wanted to be a doctor, and spent a fair amount of time
      studying to be a physician before the draw of psychology led her
      to her real interest, which is language, how the brain processes
      language, and how language modifies the brain. She has mastered a
      number of languages, and loves the study of language. She loves
      watching how languages evolve as people isolate themselves,
      culturally if not physically. She was also able to parlay her
      understanding of how humans think and communiate into some very
      good skills in trading-- very handy if you're a Gypsy Angel-- and
      as a result became quite wealthy serving on a Gypsy Angel tramp
      trader.

Notes:
      Starting wealth = $30,000 x 20 (very wealthy) = $600,000 ; 80% in
      "fixed assets", leaving 20%, or $120,000 for adventuring gear.

      I'm assuming I don't need to pay money for the "Cognitive
      Enhancement" cybermod since it's paid for with character points.

(Edit 2009-09-02 01:29 CDT : added more equipment, fixed a few typos)

[Celjabba]

Originally Posted by nick012000

Celjabba: That seems fair enough. Pick whichever; they both have advantages and disadvantages; the wildcard skill gives you a higher skill in the less important skills, and the seperate skills give you a higher reaction bonus and are easier to increase.

Ii must have forgotten my brain somewere. Based my calculation in the post above on iq 15, not 16.
Taking the 12 skills at 20 only cost 2 point more than the ! skill. Same cost if you drop teaching.

(of course, it will go worse, when all skill are at the 4/level, it will be 12 cp vs 48.
So, i will take the individuals skills, because i now thinks that memetics! skill is dubious, but it actually doesn't change anything to the character at this skill level.

Celjabba

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by nick012000

Well, he's a bit too smart (though that's easily solvable with the genetic engineering available), and he has some advantages you'd need augmentation of some variety to get. The Filter Lungs, the Disease Resistance, the Regeneration, the Longevity, the No Degeneration in Zero G, and quite possibly the G-Experience. G-Experience on the lower end of the spectrum is widely available, but to get high-G experience, you'd need a rotating space station or spacecraft habitation ring or something that's designed to take those forces.

Good points all. So we're tightly normalizing the stats?
Let's see, no degen in zero G, disease resistance, regen. radiation... a tennin/alpha knock-off perhaps?
I'll dump the filter lungs add striker shin and will be left with one point.
I changed my ealier write up. Nervous stomach and increased physics to 13

[rknop]

Here is Rhys' Ally AI, the one that is on the virtual interface implant she wears.

Note that she also has an LAI-7 running on a microframe... I figured I gave her Very Wealthy, so I should spend the money on some cool junk, including yet another AI. That AI is not purchased as an Ally however, but with money; the one on the interface implant *is* purchased as an ally.

Eris

Rhys Forrest's AI (LAI-6) on a Virtual Interface Implant

Attributes    :   -18
Advantages    :   310
Disadvantages :  -220
Quirks        :    -3
Languages     :     0
Skills        :    81
Techniques    :     0
---------------------
TOTAL         :   150

Unspent Points : 0

ST :   0 [-100]     HP   :   1 [  2]   (Current:  10)
DX :  10 [  0]     Will :  10 [-15]
IQ :  13 [ 60]     Per  :  12 [ -5]
HT :  14 [ 40]     Fat  :  14 [  0]   (Current:  10)

Size Modifier: 0                    Basic Lift: 0

Basic Speed: 6.00 [0] (0.000000 extra, 0 from templ)
Current Move: 6 [0] (0 extra, 0 from templ, -0 for 0.00lbs carried)

Dodge: 9  (0 bonus, -0 for 0.00 lbs carried)
Parry: 0
Block: 0

Armor DR
=======
torso:     0    groin:     0     lleg:     0
skull:     0     larm:     0     rleg:     0
 eyes:     0     rarm:     0    lfoot:     0
 face:     0    lhand:     0    rfoot:     0
 neck:     0    rhand:     0

Languages
=========
English (Spoken: Native ; Written: Native) [0]

Advantages
==========
  32  AI
        Includes: Absolute Timing [2]
        Digital Mind [5]
        Doesn't Sleep [20]
        Intuitive Mathematician [5]
        Photographic Memory [10]
        Reprogrammable [-10]
  45  Enhanced Time Sense
  15  Extra Life
        -20%: Copy
        -20%: Requires Body
   4  Fearlessness 2
  60  Possession
        -40%: Digital
   4  Unaging
        -75%: IQ only
  12  Visualization
        +20%: Reliable
   4  Absolute Direction
        -20%: Requires Signal
  10  Compartmentalized Mind (Dedicated Controls) 1
  15  DR 5
        -40%: Can't Wear Armor
  20  Doesn't Breathe
  25  Machine
        Immunity to Metabolic Hazards [30]
        Injury Tolerance (No Blood, Unliving) [25]
        Unhealing (Total) [-30]
   6  Mind Reading
        -10%: Limited Reading Ability
        -70%: Wearer Only
   9  Telecommunication (Cable Jack)
        +80%: Sensie
  11  Telecommunication (Radio)
        +40%: Video
        -30%: Reduced Range
   1  Accessory (Small Compact Computer)
   1  Can monitor "wearer's" basica metabolic/mental state
   1  Can feed speech and sensory inputs direct into wearer's nervous system
  35  Modular Abilities (Computer Brain) 3 (4, 2, 2)
        -10%: Skills and Languages Only
        -20%: Limited Integration

Disadvantages
=============
 -25  Dead Broke
  -5  Hidebound
 -20  Low Empathy
 -10  Social Stigma (Valuable Property)
 -15  Honesty (9)
 -15  Cybershell Body
        Injury Tolerance (No Neck) [5]
        Electrical [-20]
        Sterile
        Taboo Trait (Physical Changes)
 -40  Increased Consumption/4
        1/2 hour endurance if detached from power source
 -30  No Legs (Portable)
 -50  No Manipulators
 -10  Restricted Diet (Very Common)
        Battery/Human Biolelectricity

Quirks
======
  -1  Attentive
  -1  Broad-Minded
  -1  Staid

Skills
======
   8 (E)IQ+3 Computer Operation-16
   8 (H)IQ+1 Computer Programming-14

   8 (H)IQ+1 Diagnosis-14
   8 (A)IQ+2 Electronics Operation (Sensors)-15
   1 (E)IQ+0 Spacer-13

   4 (H)IQ+0 Mathematics (Applied)-13
   4 (H)IQ+0 Astronomy-13
   8 (H)IQ+1 Cyrptography-14
   4 (H)IQ+0 Mathematics (Cryptology)-13
   4 (A)IQ+1 Research-14

   8 (H)IQ+1 Market Analysis-14
   8 (H)IQ+1 Finance-14
   4 (H)IQ+0 Accounting-13
   2 (A)IQ+0 Administration-13
   2 (H)IQ-1 Law-12

Techniques
==========

Weapons              Damage     ST Reach Skill Parry
=============================================================================

Ranged Weapon        Damage     Acc Range   RoF  Shots ST Bulk Rcl
==============================================================================

Num Equipment                      Location           Wt/ea      $/ea Carried?
===============================================================================
1   Augmented Reality (c4)                             0.00     100.00  
1   Mugshot (c4)                                       0.00     100.00  
1   Social Telepresence (c4)                           0.00       0.00  
1   Teleoperation (c4)                                 0.00    2500.00  
1   Neural VR Program (c5)                             0.00    4000.00  
1   Skill: Language (Japanese, Accented) (c4)          0.00     100.00  
1   Skill: Language (Portugese, Accented) (c4)         0.00     100.00  
1   Skill: Language (Swahili, Accented) (c4)           0.00     100.00  
1   Skill: Writing (2cp) (c3)                          0.00      50.00  
1   Skill: TBD (2cp) (c3)                              0.00      50.00  
1   Skill: TBD (2cp) (c3)                              0.00      50.00  
1   Skill: TBD (2cp) (c3)                              0.00      50.00  
1   Skill: TBD (2cp) (c3)                              0.00      50.00  

Total Weight Carried: 0.00 (encumb: -0)
Total Equipment Budget: $7250.00

Description:
      Eris is the LAI-6 that Rhys has been carrying around in her head
      for quite some time now. Although it's template has IQ 9, this
      one has been trained up to a higher IQ.

Personality:

Background:

Notes:
      Feature: Complexity 6 Program Feature: Taboo Trait (Mental
      Instability) Feature: Uses the wearer's senses

      The VII is a Small Compact High-Capacity computer, complexity 6.
      It is High-Capacity so that the Shadow that Rhys carries around
      in her head can run on the same interface, leaving some
      processing power left over to run skill programs and other random
      stuff.

[Celjabba]

Here are the finals write-up and background.
Unless the GM wish to change something, i consider them done and ready to play.
I will be away from my books and home computer for a few days, so i won't upload the modifications below until then, however.
I apologize for the many changes, i had very little free time of late, and i was only able to work on those characters for small amounts of time. So i forgot many things and made mistakes.

First, here are the various AI:


******

"insertnamehere" LAI-6 shadow of a gypsy friend of GTO.
Running on a VII in GTO humaniform cybershell.
Less than 75 cp, VII shell is -99cp.
Detail left to the GM, i suggest a member of the crew of the gypsy ship he was pilot of before joigning the project.

******

"Tenzan" LAI-6 ally of GTO
Usually running on GTO humaniform, but by changing times rules, cost is as it is running on the microframe.
Max 150cp, cybershell is -35 cp.
Commercial off the shelve tenzan mechanician AI, without the usual cyberhell. Changing time p71.

chip program (complexity 3 or 4 ? have to check the book):
mechanic(high performance spacecraft)
mechanic(fusion reactor)
mechanic(cybershell)
electronics repair(cybershell)
electronics repair(communications)
survival(space)
free-fall

******

GTO 53-32 SAI-7 (rogue, orphan)

http://vault.celjabba.org/dump/gto%20final%20.txt

2 chip program left to be determined.
Probably
survival(space)
music instrument(flute)

*****

"Bunter" LAI-6 on a Virtual Interface Implant, ally of XiuXiu

English (Spoken: Native ; Written: Native) [0]

LAI-6 on a VII

some change:

IQ 12
Telecommunication (Radio)
+40%: Video
+20%: secure
Modular Abilities (Computer Brain, skill and languages, limited) 2 (4, 4)


Skills

Computer operation 13
Electronics operation(communications) -13
Cryptography-13
Observation - 13
-
Diagnosis(Owner)-13
Physician(owner)-13
-
Research-13
expert skills-memetics-12
law(memetics)-12
writing-13
-
merchant - 10
law(financial)-12
Accounting-13
administration-13
-
Software:(4cp)

Augmented Reality
Mugshot
Social Telepresence
Teleoperation
Neural VR Program
Language (chinese, Accented)
Language (french, Accented)
Language (russian, Accented)
Language (japanese, Accented)
Language (arabic, Accented)
Survival(space)
Survival(artic)
Survival(forest)
Survival(ocean)
Survival(mountain)
Survival(desert)
scuba
tactics

[Celjabba]

Here is XiuXiu

http://vault.celjabba.org/dump/McInn...u%20final2.pdf

Some changes:
replace memetics! [72] and the memetist reputation [2]
by
memetics talent 4
Brainwashing, Diplomacy, Fast-Talk, Interrogation, Leadership, Merchant, Politics, Propaganda, Psychology, Sociology , all at 20.
Same cost

GTO frequency changed to 12 (he have to pilot the ship sometimes :)
bunter ally have minion added (no cost change)
6 point gained used for :
temperature tolerance 1
contact(weapon dealer)

gear:
clothes
2 set of adaptive clothing (one chinese gown, one casual western)
1 set of business clothes
1 set of vacc suit, hardened against radiation
1 set of arachnoweave armor.

1 small case of medical supplies, including a big supply of the drugs to control her problems and a big supply of nanodrugs and antidotes. cost up to 200000$

1 portable mainframe(compact) running a commercial data handling nai and loaded with all memetics software and database available on the market.

1 case of various nanoswarms, including black-market weapon grades ones. cost up to 1000000$ (precise list to be done)
Assorted tea, herbal infusion and cooking spices.

1 ornate chinese fan(variable display)(signature gear)

Celjabba

[Celjabba]

XiuXiu full background to come here.

childhood:
young adult
adult

recent times:
XiuXiu spent the last 30 years getting as close of zeroed as a 5th wave citizen can get:

-no independant income
-no debt
-most of her money on anonymous orbital accounts.
-rented housing, no sign of high status or obvious display of wealth

-husband and childrens dead; grand-childrens have mostly not seen her since her son funeral.

-no contacts with former contacts, favor-holder, debitors, friends, ...

-most memberships and subscriptions elapsed or closed.

-no signed articles in memetics or politics journals and forums.

-subtle use of memetics in open database entries about her to generate a subject-not-interesting feeling.

Still a registered, tax-paying and voting EU citizen, nothing unusual.
Between consulting job for big, serious, honest firms, she do a lot of tourism and travelling, on and off earth.

The official reason for this greying out are:
-old age
-sadness over her husband and childrens death
-shame over her nervous disorder

the real reasons are
-hiding some less than legal dealing in her AI right activism.
-finding and being at the right place, with no ties, when someone get ready to reach to
the stars. She have the intuition backed with carefull observation and analysis of
scientific progress that it will be 'soon'

And indeed the time have come, and one of her ai friend have called her, and she is at
the right time, at the right place, ready to ' boldly go where noone have gone before' .

Celjabba

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Good points all. So we're tightly normalizing the stats?
Let's see, no degen in zero G, disease resistance, regen. radiation... a tennin/alpha knock-off perhaps?
I'll dump the filter lungs add striker shin and will be left with one point.
I changed my ealier write up. Nervous stomach and increased physics to 13

Something just hiccoughed and I gained one point. Weird. So lose the nervous stomach.

As to part of his high strength, I can say that his cheapo obese parents wanted something to keep his fat down and muscle up. Simply breaking the myostatin genes will do this to a degree. Though moderate exercise is advised as bone doesn't strengthen, just muscle.

[Noven]

Sweet, so thats what 4 of us? Lets fire it up! =)