New Age

[Arch-Mage Matt]

The year is 2365. Within the past 353 years, a lot has been accomplished, to say the least. Man stepped foot on every planet in the solar system by 2104. There are 106 million people colonizing the Moon and 36 million people colonizing Mars, with another 9 million people colonizing other planets and moons. Cheap labor is now done by simply commanded robots. Artificial intelligence has been created, but it is illegal, due to the UN declaring AI use equivalent to slave labor. Fossilized bacteria have been found on Mars, but no intelligent life.

Interstellar travel is gaining increasing interest by humanity. First, a satellite was sent to Alpha Centauri in 50 years, and ever since then travel time has been reduced to a mere six months. A small planet near the star Proxima Centauri, in the habitable zone, has been the center of attention recently. This planet, Moya (Named after its discoverer Ricardo Moya) has been speculated to hold actual intelligent life and there has been a race to place a man on Moya to answer that immortal question: Are we alone out there?

Moya is a small, barren world. It has almost the same gravity and atmosphere as Earth and it is even breathable by humans. The land of Moya is rock, comparable to Mars, but dull blue in color. The planet gets rough lightning storms almost daily. What makes people think Moya holds life is its huge cave systems. Rovers sent to Moya have sent back data detailing there is more oxygen in the larger caves, which may point to plant life, and water in the forms of underground lakes and possibly even oceans.

The Discovery and Observation of Moya Association, DOMA, is the leading organization dedicated to discovering everything needed to know about the small planet. DOMA is a large organization dedicated to science, not money. It is supported by hundreds of countries and has thousands of scientists, engineers, and other members actively involved. In 2356, astronauts Evan Kirby and Dr. Nora Barkley, private DOMA personnel, were the first humans to step foot on Moya. Ever since then, laboratories and research stations have been built by DOMA in order to discover more about the planet. No major discoveries have been reported though and DOMA has reported that .2% of the planet’s cave systems have been explored. Scanning is difficult due to the amount of rock and other metals making up the caves.

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You, a semi-ordinary person, have been contacted by DOMA. Due to your exceptional skills in your scientific field or other ability, DOMA officials want to fly you to Moya for a job that they are keeping quiet about. You don’t know what they want; you only know they promise a three million dollar payout and the rights to publish anything you discover relating to your field of science, no matter how groundbreaking.

You can be:
*An archaeologist (Study of ancient civilizations)
*Linguistics expert (Study of languages)
*Sociologist (Study of society)
*Geologist (Study of the Earth)
*Biologist (Study of living things)
*Anyone who studies anything related to astronomy or astrophysics. For example, or scroll to the bottom of the page and look at the articles in the category
*Somebody who is an expert in caving (Exploring wild caves for fun or sport). I will allow one of these types of people.)
*A survivor type person (You can get creative here, anywhere from a Bear Grylls celebrity type character or someone, maybe in the military, who is famous for having survived in a hostile climate for an extended period of time. I will only allow one of these people.)
*A hired mercenary, trained with guns and survival skills (I will only allow one of these in the roleplay)

If you feel that you cannot create a character fitting to these guidelines, PM me with a suggestion. DOMA is hiring internationally, so feel free to make your character from any country, as long as they speak English.

We’ll be starting the roleplay after months of space travel to the prominent and famous laboratory Omega Station IV on Moya’s surface.

(Also: I know what you may be thinking: 'So everybody has to be an old professor in some college?' Answer: no. You can easily be working in the field, such as an archaeologist that digs for ancient ruins or a biologist in the Amazon. Use your imagination!)

Characters to know:

Name: Dr. Nora Barkley
Age: 41
Race: White
Country of Origin: England, Earth
Profession: Astrogeologist, head of research site in DOMA Omega Station IV.
Appearance (You can wear whatever you want for now): Nora is a short woman at 5’4. She has tied back orange hair, green eyes, and freckles dotting her pasty face. Her teeth shine very white. She has a strong jaw line. She wears black-rimmed glasses. She wears a white turtleneck and blue jeans along with boots. So far from Earth, there is not a lot of regulation regarding attire.
Personality: Nora is very hot headed and short tempered, making her not well liked among the others at Omega Station IV. She’s very capable at her job and knows it.
Background: Nora was raised by a rich family in England and had the best education you could ask for. She worked at a university for several years until she decided to join DOMA, where she volunteered for the dangerous expedition to Moya, where she became the second person to step foot on the planet.

Name: Evan Kirby
Age: 36
Race: Black
Country of Origin: USA
Profession: Lieutenant of the guard at Omega Station IV.
Appearance: Light brown skin with cropped black hair. The lieutenant has a square face, thin lips, and a crooked nose. He is tall and muscular. Although he appears tough, his greenish brown eyes shine with the humor and amusement of his real self. He wears the standard wear for a military official: a thick black vest and khaki pants. Kirby wears a thin grey shirt underneath the vest. He has an AK-47 slung over his back.
Personality: Carefree and a jester, Kirby (As he prefers to go by) is more like an overgrown child with a desire for danger and excitement, which is why he volunteered to journey with Nora to Moya.
Background: Raised in a small town just outside Orlando, Florida, Kirby joined the Coast Guard to escape small town life. He found he was fascinated with space but was never smart enough to go to college and study it. When DOMA announced it was planning a risky sojourn to Moya, Kirby joined and volunteered. His acceptance into the mission was mostly luck, but being the first man to step foot on Moya made him a very important person.

Name: Dr. Amar Sahat Rushdi
Age: 53
Race: Indian
Country of Origin: India
Profession: Part time professor at Harvard, astrophysicist, host of a wildly popular TV show, aimed at teaching the general population about space.
Appearance: Dr. Rushdi has a thick set of short white hair and a matching curly mustache and full beard. He has a fully belly and a wise, calm look to his eyes. He has dark tanned skin and bright white teeth. Rushdi wears a blue Hawaiian shirt with yellow flowers and khaki cargo shorts on Moya.
Personality: Dr. Rushdi is a cheerful man who loves teaching people anything he can to improve their lives. He is sincere in his efforts to improve the world’s understanding of the universe and often donates large sums of money (being a millionaire) to charities.
Background: Born into poverty in a crowded Indian city, the now famous Amar escaped the clutches of India’s poorer state by moving to the US and getting a proper education. He later went on to be a professor at Harvard, but retired to start his show, ‘Eternity’. He had a wife who passed away of cancer and a child. Rushdi has made international news lately after journeying to Moya upon invitation, the first non DOMA member to do so legally.

Name: Sophie Rushdi
Age: 23
Race: Indian
Country of Origin: USA
Profession: Co-star on ‘Eternity’.
Appearance: Generally regarded as quite attractive, Sophie has a smooth, dark face and a thin chin with large brown eyes. Her curly brown hair goes past her shoulders. Sophie wears a pink blouse and blue jeans.
Personality: Sophie is usually polite and quiet, preferring to let her father handle situations.
Background: Dr. Rushdi allowed Sophie to come on his show to attract the younger audience with her looks, and he doesn’t hide it. Although she doesn’t possess her father’s smarts, she is learning and recently graduated from Harvard. She is also a musician, and able to play guitar very well. She was invited with her father to Moya.

Name: Donovan Caruso
Age: 69
Race: White
Country of Origin: Italian-founded settlement on the Moon
Profession: CEO of Caruso Mining, an asteroid mining company
Appearance: A wrinkled, stern face, snow-white hair, slate grey eyes and a dark blue business suit with a yellow tie fitting a thin figure.
Personality: Serious and quick to anger, Don Caruso cares about only one thing: money, and how he can profit from everything he encounters. Caruso is cunning, quick, and merciless when it comes to making a deal.
Background: Raised on the Moon in a new settlement, Caruso left as soon as he could, to New York, New York. There, at 21, he was an intern at an asteroid mining company, where he worked his way up over the years with his skill in business. He eventually left the company to start his own, Caruso Mining, which was hugely successful due to an initial discovery of a previously unknown metal around the rings of Saturn. After just ten years, he bought out the company that he used to work for and owned the largest monopoly in asteroid mining in the universe.

Character Sheet:

Name:
Age:
Race:
Country (Earth) / planet of origin (If you’re not from Earth, feel free to create a city/country on another planet within our solar system):
Profession:
Appearance:
Personality:
Background:

Rules (Note - Important):

1. You are not playing a young, goofy student who got a lucky break, you're an expert in your field.
2. I have the right to reject character sheets if I have a problem with it.
3. I will allow a maximum of ten players! (May be subject to change)

Final note:

This is a story-based roleplay that features the explorations of the alien cave systems of Moya. Rest assured, I am going to pull out everything I have (Including Avron's so-called 'monkeywrenches') making this a hopefully amazing experience for those involved.

Characters:

Max Roberts, Biologist (Gideon Dragontongue)
Robert Kusi, Archaeologist (Knight Captain Kerr)
Aleksandr Mostovoi, Survivor (Free)
Will Reynolds, Archaeologist (Justice Knight)
Tommy Xao, Caver (Imp)
Dr. Mariam Salaam, Biologist (Eltee)
Tim Andersin, Cosmologist (Savilius)
Yum Ares, Musician (Musicman)
Erin Cecilia Nelectrashia, Astronomist (Unokitsune)
Aisha Davis, Geologist (Deandra)
Johnny Maphrodine, Biologist (Frost Mage)

[Justice knight]

Oh yay it's here! Keep me a slot Matt I'm making a character sheet and I'll post it as soon as I get on a computer(which will be about half six in the morning-British time).

[Kerr]

I'll post my sheet soon. I'll be an archaeologist.

[Eltee]

will join, busy with WotV premiere.

[Gideon Dragontongue]

Name: Max Roberts
Age: 23
Race: Mixed (25% each Irish, Lebanese, American Indian, French)
Country (Earth) / planet of origin (If you’re not from Earth, feel free to create a city/country on another planet within our solar system): Born United States of America, currently living in Botswana.
Profession: Biologist
Appearance: Max is a tall, well-groomed young man. He has curly brown hair which he wears long, and also is very protective of. His eyes are of normal size and stormy blue. A love of exercise for much of his life means he has a well-toned body and is reasonably fit, without being muscle-bound.
Personality: He is a very intelligent person, and knows it too, verging on genius-level IQ. He is quite charitable to those in need, but prefers to keep to himself. However, he does have a ruthless streak, and is somewhat elitist. He is rather unpopular with people he doesn't like due to his caustic wit and sarcastic sense of humor, and he doesn't make friends easily at all.
Background: Roberts was born to parents of mixed heritage; his mother was half Irish and half Lebanese and his father was descended from the Sioux and French. His young life was ripe with academic achievement, and he graduated from high school at the age of sixteen. Though he could have gone into any field he chose, he devoted himself to the field of zoology, gaining wide acclaim by the time he finished college. After a few years of ground-breaking research on the social structure and communication of elephants at a game reserve in Botswana, he was contacted by DOMA. Though he hated to leave his work, Max accepted the position, mainly for the lucrative cash offer, given that his project's budget and the game reserve itself was running low on funding. He is hailed as the leading expert on animal communication and has written several articles for scientific journals on his findings, as well as being the subject of three documentary films.

Also note that he speaks three languages: English, French, and Setswana.

[Eltee]

Dammit, I was halfway into making a biologist.

[Arch-Mage Matt]

That's all good except DOMA contacted you out of the blue, you weren't recommended. Also, I'd like it if you could detail an actual job that your character was doing before being contacted.

[Eltee]

May I also make a biologist?

[Gideon Dragontongue]

Ah. The premise I was operating on was that he was just out of college and hadn't done much work on his own, so he probably wouldn't have been contacted if his professor hadn't recommended him.

[Arch-Mage Matt]

You may, but I think after that the biologists should be good.

And Gideon: As said in rule one, "You are not playing a young, goofy student who got a lucky break, you're an expert in your field." Pretty much exactly fits your character.

[Gideon Dragontongue]

Never mind, I'll change it.

EDIT: How's that?

[Sav]

Name: Tim Andersin
Age: 28
Race: White
Country: North America
Profession: Cosmologist
Appearance: Tim is tall with a medium length beard, and brown hair that is parted to the left. He has green eyes, and a round jaw. He has a muscular build. He has a round face. He has dark gray cargo pants, and a white shirt with a black vest on top. he prefers to keep the vest unbuttoned.
Personality: Tim is calm and quiet most of the time. He focuses on his objective a lot, but isn't afraid to relax and have some fun. In fact, he'd rather be relaxing instead. He wanted to go to Moya to experience getting off of Earth.
Background: Tim lived a normal life on Earth. His mother was a cosmologist, and Tim was always interested in her line of work. His mother, in her free time, taught him about various things related to Cosmology. He enrolled in Harvard University, and got a Masters degree in Cosmology. He was contacted by DOMA, but was a little hesitant, but the 3 million dollars made up his mind.

[Free]

Spoiler:

Name: Aleksandr Mostovoi
Age: 37
Race: Caucasian
Country: Russia
Profession: Member of the 24th Special Operations Brigade of Spetsnaz GRU. (Siberia district)
Appearance: 6ft 3, muscular male, bald, crooked nose and blue eyes. Has a silver tooth.
Personality: Logical, original and a creative thinker. He is independent, adaptable, action-oriented. Uncomplicated in his desire. Loyal to his peers and to their internal value systems, but not overly concerned with respecting laws and rules if it gets in his way of getting something done.
Background: After the Borjsinov pact, spanning over years, the FSB, recruited promising talents from every layer of the Russian society to gain foot in the solar system. Afraid to stay behind on other nations, Russia started 50 years ago recruiting members of the special forces to enlarge and habituate its military influence in outer space. Aleksandr was sent to space 9 years ago, as part of the many other Russian groups to enforce, discover, secure and gather intelligence. He earned his reputation due to the ''Oertjnev incident''. 17 years ago, wikileaks released email correspondence between former ambassador Kolarov and the military, revealing conversations about progress and initiation of recruits of the base Oertjnev in Siberia. It showed that young recruits were under torture, mental abuse and sent into the wilderness of Siberia. Aleksandr was one of the few to withstand the training, after surviving two weeks in the Siberian wilderness, in the winter. Its rumoured that he fed of rabbits, wolves and leaves, drank animal blood and urine, to survive the harsh cold. It was only a matter of time before he was selected to leave earth, to represent Russia's interests on earth's colonies in space.

[Arch-Mage Matt]

Sav:

Spoiler:

Some things:

1. I have not heard of the country of North America (:P)
2. As already stated in the OP and to Gideon, DOMA has contacted you.
3. I'd like to have a background.

Free:

Spoiler:

1. I'd like him to have a personality, please.
2. If that's a mercenary, then Savilius already took the spot, sorry.

[Free]

Spoiler:

He is the survivor type of person.

[Arch-Mage Matt]

Then I'd like to hear of his amazing survival story!

[Justice knight]

My character sheet is done but my PSP won't type past 'Appearence' so I'll post it when I get on a computer.
Just so you know my guy is an Archaeologist from The Moon and is called: Will Reynolds.
Like I said, I'll post the character sheet when I get on a computer.

[Free]

Spoiler:

Can I reveal it during the RP? Or does it have to be shown in his background?

[Arch-Mage Matt]

It has to be shown in his background.

[Frost Mage]

I'll post a character sheet soon, just really busy with WotV at the moment.

[Kerr]

Hmm haven't made a black character yet. I also haven't made a gay character in quite some time. Away we go!

Name: Mr Robert Kusi
Age: 38
Race: Black
Country of Origin: Auckland, New Zealand
Profession: Archaeologist
Appearance: He has dark skin, short but messy black hair and dark brown eyes. He has a round face and is almost always clean shaven. Wears a red mountain jacket, white long sleeved t-shirt, blue jeans and black boots.
Personality: He is no stranger to enjoying himself and having fun while doing a job. However he knows when it is time to be serious and get down to buisness. While Robert tries to avoid being a boring person, he often finds himself filling people with information they care little about. He loves to learn new things and it is what drives his work.
Background: Robert had a rather nice childhood. He was an only child and both his parents worked in the civil service. He was talented in school. He moved to England at age 18 to study archaelogy at Trinity College, Cambridge. He got a master's degree. Afterwards he went to follow his passion. He became a full time archaeologist, studying Celtic ruins throughout Europe.

[Justice knight]

Name: Will Reynolds
Age: 31
Race: White
Country of origin: Moon
Profession: Freelance Archaeologist
Appearence: Will has a square jaw, blue eyes and keeps himself clean shaven. Has relatively short black hair and is wearing a dark green shirt and cream cargo trousers.
Personality: Calm and relaxed, though very determined.

I'll have to post background seperatly if that's okay as it won't fit in this box on my PSP.

[Imp]

I would like to join, may I be the explorer? I will make a sheet soon.

Spoiler:

If you could get me a template to put in Current RPs I would really appreciate it, no rush.

[Arch-Mage Matt]

Kerr and Gideon accepted so far.

[Free]

Spoiler:

How about now Matt?