To kick this interest off I'm going to lean on precisely the same technique I did with my Savage Space setting two years ago (damn time flies): I will take a bunch of entries, each one inspired by an interesting picture or concept, and post them here until I've got enough stuff to call it a setting.** Today kicks off with....my first White Star character:
Devaron Murich
A
human pilot (level 8)
STR 13, DEX 15 (+1), CON 15
(+1), INT 13, WIS 9, CHA 12
Hit Dice: 6D6+10; Hit Points: 41, BHB: +4 (Melee +4; Ranged +5, +6 with eyes); ST: 8
Armor Class: 13 (+1 Dex, +2 light armor); XP Bonus: +15%
Pilot Abilities: Stick Jockey (+2 initiative
in ship combat), Space Ace (add +1 to three ship stats each round), Jury-Rig
(8D6), Captain (ship mods)
Save Bonuses: +2 vs. explosions and environmental
hazards
Equipment: Mono-dagger (1D6), basic
communicator, toolkit, laser pistol (1D6+2, ROF 2), light armor (flight suit,
+2 AB), breathing mask
Ship: Artorius Class Stunt Fighter
(Makamian design) called "Sundiver"; modified with a cloaking device, FTL drive, high-yield
thrusters, proton missiles and a reinforced hull.
Cybernetics: translator chip, cybernetic
eyes
The Altonian
Cluster is the home sector of Devaron Murich, a former pilot for the Makamian
Imperial Navy. Devaron was one of the survivors of the Great Purge, when the
Void Lords materialized at the edge of the galaxy in 3677 and began their
relentless assault against the outer star systems along the spiral rim; his
family was able to evacuate mere hours before the old capitol of Septimus Prime
was annihilated in the antimatter wave generated by the Void Lord Dreadnought
called Typhon. Devaron’s father stayed behind however, to facilitate the
evacuation and buy time. Devaron never forgot this, and as soon as he was of
age he joined the navy, determined to follow in his father’s footsteps.
Devaron was
a soldier and pilot in the navy for nearly a decade before the sudden collapse
of hostilities with the manifestation of the first of the enigmatic Dark Stars.
The star knights of these “black suns” as some also called them were quick to
join forces with the Makamian Imperial Navy, and in only a month the Void Lords
were being pushed back to the outer rim, even losing several dreadnoughts,
though Typhon was not among them. Devaron was so impressed with the agency of
the Dark stars that he mustered out of the navy when the opportunity presented
and sought entrance into the order of the Star Knights. To his surprise, it was
not to be; he lacked the gift, the ability to manipulate the dark energy that
powered the unique abilities of the order’s agents.
Disgruntled
but not defeated, Devaron took his unique status as a pilot and veteran of the
war out into the frontier, and even the outer rim, in an effort to search for
his father, and learn of his final fate. He has spent several years now
exploring the battered and devastated worlds of the Altonian Cluster, and most
importantly learned that the Septimus Prime defense force had survivors, who
continued to fight the Void Lords for years after their sector of space had
been overrun. Devaron now seeks out the survivors of this splintered military
remnant, which still battles the Void Lords in the outer rim, hoping his father
might still be alive.
Devaron is
kind of a loner, but he will work with others on occasion, and may even employ
a crew or additional (larger) ship for especially involved salvage and recovery
operations to fund his exploration of the Altonian Cluster. He has also worked both
with, for and against the so-called Witch Queen Teramaxis in the past, leader
of the Segurandi Dominion, which has kept a carefully neutral relationship with
both the Void Lords and the Makamian Empire.
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| Devaron's Artorius Class "Sundiver" |
**I'll probably use a few White Star sourcebooks I have as well, and don't be surprised if some Hulks & Horrors creeps in to the mix...the graveyards of the Altonian Cluster are a shoe-in for the ruined worlds and wrecks of that system.
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