The Edward Deming is a modified Survey ship used in exploration, military, and political operations. It is understaffed, and is always looking to recruit individuals with unique talents or skill sets to supplement its crew of scientists, soldiers, diplomats, and pilots.
Your Character’s Backstory
Many people and things come to the Hawking system for a variety of reasons. While you’re welcome to create your own backstory, a few common starting points are included below.
Magnetically Assembled
You come from the Magnetic Assembly, having spent most of your life in deep space among other humans working on massive projects or your own personal interests. The Machine Exemplar has always been there as a guiding force, providing you with learning opportunities, options for cybernetic enhancements, food and air. You may look human, or you may have elected to have your form diverge from the typical humanoid shape. Perhaps you have additional legs, arms, or perhaps you have encased your body in a pod and elected to have a more purely mechanical form instead.
Technology is omni-present, and your own personal AI can help manage communication with others, handling the load while you focus on tasks of your own interest. You can accomplish more work this way. You’re better than you were and you will continue to improve upon yourself. You may also have started using the word ‘Humans’ to refer to the others rather than yourself.
The Edward Deming provides a great opportunity to work with the best and brightest, to make a name for yourself, and to further your own causes.
Acceptable Species
The Magnetic Assembly accepts anyone, but so far their recruitment has been limited to the Hawking Star System and generally their members are also heavily cyberized.
‘The Greatest Military the Universe has ever seen’ also seemed to be filled with more and more political appointments. Every day it felt more like knowing the right people and towing the party line is more important than knowing how to do your job. When the Union was evicted from the Hawking System, you found yourself with a choice to make: Return to Union Space, or join the city of New Cambridge.
The city has a police force, but no standing military. Their rapidly growing list of enemies means that your skills are in need. They appreciate you on your merits, not your political connections. The city itself provides a high quality of living, certainly better than your former cramped barracks.
Making your talents available to the Edward Deming appears to be your best career move, and working for a boss that you don’t hate certainly helps.
Acceptable Species
The American Union spans a massive amount of space and includes several billion
sentient beings both born on
earth and immigrated from other worlds outside of Human Space. Just about any race can be found within the Union.
The Ivory Tower
The university at New Cambridge is one of the best anywhere, and you have spent your time developing your area of expertise. You know a lot, about a lot, and live a comfortable life inside of the walls of New Cambridge. You’re very aware of just how much automation has been increasing due to the Magnetic Assembly, and might be very interested in political discussion. Appointing an AI to run much of the government is certainly an exciting experiment.
But you can’t live in the world of Academia alone. The native population, the Grawla, are constantly a threat and the aggression from other interstellar nations has been rising. The Edward Deming gives you the opportunity to take your knowledge and apply it in real-world situations.
Acceptable Species
Formerly part of the American Union until the New Years Revolution in 2320, just about any race can have found its way to New Cambridge in the Hawking System.
Childish Bioweapon
We have the Technology. We can build them better, faster, stronger.
Echoni are produced to push the limits of what a humanoid can do, and harness the unique properties of the exhophage bacteria found on planet Hawking. They also have the emotional maturity of a newborn and have to learn everything from scratch!
Considering joining Project
SEER, and becoming involved in pushing the boundaries of humanoid physical limitations?
Acceptable Species
Starting off only a few years old, having only recently learned to speak, and full of potential. The Echoni are very much a learning exercise for the Magnetic Assembly.
Your Character’s Skillset
What does your character bring to the table? Generally it is easiest to get involved in the story if your character has some very generalist skill like being a soldier, a scientist, or an engineer. You can then add in whatever highly specialized talents that you want.
The
starter guide will provide you the
template that you need to fill out.
Appearance
Include a paragraph about your character's appearance. Be sure to include things like eye color, hair color, complexion, and build.
Skills and Abilities
You only need to include a short, general overview of your character's skills here. Indicating what field they are experienced in is usually enough. It will be assumed you have a general knowledge of anything your character's profession would know about IE: soldier-types would be proficient with
weapons, disguises, field-work, combat-engineering, and piloting while a Scientist or Engineer can be reasonably expected to know a lot about their field as well as any associated skills like survival skills for any scientist expected to do field work.
If you don't know a lot about these topics then don't worry too much. You can always ask the GM for help during the RP.
Personality
Include a small paragraph to describe your character's personality. The goal of this paragraph is to give other people a general idea of the character they are dealing with.
Biography
You only need to include a paragraph for your character's biography up to this point. Since this is a new character it is perfectly ok for this to be bare bones. This is something that can easily expand from using your character.