conversations.from: system
conversations.value: The Ayr Drive can rapidly accelerate a ship to 99.9999% of the speed of light. For its passengers, a journey of 100 light years can be undertaken in only 14 days -- and a journey of of 10 light years in a day and a half.
  
  But to the planetbound, they're gone for decades... or centuries. Entire lifetimes.
  
  There are those who are willing (even eager) to give up their ties to the past. This is a story about those people. Some of them chase wealth. Others flee the authorities, or their loved ones. But they've come together out of mutual necessity to pursue the only real profession available to those with no home, no connections, and no consequences:
  
  Bounty hunting.
  
  ***
  
  Time's Bounty is a hard science fiction game set in a future without FTL. Humans have colonized thousands of planets and star systems, but even the closest are dozens of light-years apart. The Ayr Drive allows people to traverse these distances, but their destinations and even their origins can change significantly during flight. The characters are those willing to make that sacrifice for their own reasons, but even in the future there's one truth: you gotta eat.
  
  Well, two. You gotta eat, and your starship needs fuel.
  
  Luckily there's always work for those willing to ply the vast interstellar distances of space, and gold speaks no matter what planet you're on. So the characters are bounty hunters -- sometimes hired directly to solve problems, sometimes acquiring jobs as they go. Whatever the case, trouble seems to follow in their footsteps.
  
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: The beautiful, resourceful, capricious run-away wife of Eduardo Diego Diazal.
conversations.prefix: Dona Rosa Olivia-Diazal:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You're on the wrong side of the law. Was your crime robbery? Murder? Whatever the case, they'll never find you once you cross the gulf of time. You hope.
conversations.prefix: Wanted Criminal:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Like a planetbound seaman, you have served on spaceships your entire life. You might not love your work, but you are good at it.
conversations.prefix: Starman:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: The spoils of space wait to be claimed by the brave. You know that your big break waits for you out there... somewhere.
conversations.prefix: Fortune Finder:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: There have been many names for your kind: soldier of fortune, professional, mercenary. Bounty hunting is your life -- and you've been doing it awhile.
conversations.prefix: Experienced Hunter:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You're not in this for the money or the glory. You're in this because you know what the lawless reaches of space need the most: justice.
conversations.prefix: Lawman:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Slugthrowers, pellet shooters -- guns. Rocket launchers, semi-automatics, machine guns. Whatever they're called, as long as they shoot stuff, you're uncannily good at using them.
conversations.prefix: Firearms Expert:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: No quarry can escape your trained hunter's instincts -- whether they hide in an asteroid field or a wheat field.
conversations.prefix: Tracker:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: "The Mechanics of Starship Operation and Repair" cited you as a contributing author. You're just as comfortable fixing cars or computers as starships.
conversations.prefix: Engineer:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have a stockpile of gold and gems that the even the most backwards worlds find attractive.
conversations.prefix: Rich:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You've been to hell and back again, and you've got the scars to prove it.
conversations.prefix: Tough:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Whether you were taught at the great Academy of Medicine on Rigel, or whether you picked it up on a distant battlefield, you know how to patch people up when they get wounded.
conversations.prefix: Medic:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your home planet is technologically dozens or hundreds of years beyond the galactic average. You're used to (and may carry) much more powerful tech than your peers.
conversations.prefix: Highworlder:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your home planet is an unknown, stunted backwater with little tech to speak of. You learned to live off the land and how to survive without technology.
conversations.prefix: Backworlder:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Maybe you're a gambler -- maybe you're a prostitute. Whatever the case, your marks are other people, and you leave broken hearts and empty wallets in your wake.
conversations.prefix: Hustler:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You have an old injury -- mental or physical -- that holds you back.
conversations.prefix: Crippled:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Steel may bend, but you do not. There is right and wrong in the world, and you cannot afford to be wrong.
conversations.prefix: Uncompromising:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Your crimes are so heinous and so well-known that you are wanted by the law on multiple worlds. Even the passage of time fails to anonymise you.
conversations.prefix: Interstellar Criminal:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: They're not just targets to you -- they're people. That can be a liability in a job like yours.
conversations.prefix: Empathic:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can't fly a starship. Hell, you can barely drive a car. The most useful human tools are beyond your patience and comprehension.
conversations.prefix: Tech Inept:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You've spent too long reading books and too little time in the field. You get left behind easily and have trouble with physical challenges.
conversations.prefix: Bookish:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You can live safely off the land -- any land, whether it's a city or a jungle.
conversations.prefix: Survivalist:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're good at getting where you're not supposed to be, and seeing things others would prefer you didn't.
conversations.prefix: Scout:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You know how to make other people do what you want. Maybe it's your good looks, maybe it's just the right words... whatever it is, it works.
conversations.prefix: Charmer:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Your body is the perfect weapon, and you've spent a lifetime honing it. In your hands, anything is a deadly weapon. Except for guns.
conversations.prefix: H2H Combat:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You're in it for knowledge -- maybe mystical, maybe scientific. And you know what what you're looking for is out there... among the stars.
conversations.prefix: Truth Seeker:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Maybe it's tobacco -- maybe it's a heroin. Your addiction makes you physically or mentally weak.
conversations.prefix: Addicted:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You've been doing this for too long, and you've forgotten that you're dealing with people, not targets.
conversations.prefix: Clinical:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Something bad happened to you, and it haunts you still. You see it every day, no matter how far you travel or where you go.
conversations.prefix: The Past:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Someone did this... to you. Maybe they were trying to make you strong, or just help you through a hard time. But it didn't work out right, and now you bear the scars of their mistakes.
conversations.prefix: Experimental Subject:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: There are scientists studying unethical things on the edges of human space. One of those things was you.
conversations.prefix: Escaped Test Subject:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: You're in this for the gold. Or gems. Or rare space minerals. Whatever the case, your eyes are on the big score.
conversations.prefix: Get Rich:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: There's something you don't know that's haunted you your whole life. You want to find out the truth... whatever the cost.
conversations.prefix: Find the Truth:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: No matter how far you've gone or how long you've travelled, your crimes are there too. Maybe you need to make restitution -- or maybe you need to face justice.
conversations.prefix: Repent Your Crimes:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: You're not just looking for any bounty -- you're searching for a specific person. Regardless of whether they're an ex or an enemy, you'll do anything to find them.
conversations.prefix: Locate Your Target:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Maybe you're sick and need healing, or maybe you're broken on the inside. You're looking for a cure, and hope to find it among the stars.
conversations.prefix: Cure Yourself:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: If you run far enough away, maybe you'll get out alive. At this point, you'd settle for just being forgotten.
conversations.prefix: Escape Pursuit:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: What is honor? How will you know when you've got it back? How will you keep it when you do?
conversations.prefix: Restore Your Honor:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Nefarious and wealthy criminal kingpin. Rules the Ahemait underworld with an iron fist.
conversations.prefix: Eduardo Diego Diazal:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Dark steel, ribbed chairs, and organic curves decorate the most stylish Ahemait office-bunkers.
conversations.prefix: Neo-Futurist Bunker:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Seven feet of modified, deadly steel and combat implants.
conversations.prefix: Wraith:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Ptolemy's "Geographia," printed in 1477 AD on Old Earth. Beyond priceless.
conversations.prefix: The Book:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: All frontier cultures are different but humans everywhere are the same. You know how to integrate with alien cultures, understand them, work with them.
conversations.prefix: Xenoanthropologist:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Torn from her home world and sundered across the stars, Ch'Nei longs to bring her pod together so they may sing in chorus once more before her passing.
conversations.prefix: Unite the pod:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: human
conversations.prefix: Wild:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value: Spending a life time in the ocean and sailing the stars has left Ch'Nei with a unique outlook.
conversations.prefix: Fluid Logic: