For now, just throw a post up here with as much or as little detail as you like about the character you want to play.<br/><br/>Cool, nice work guys. Here's what I'll give you to work with (and all of it's open to discussion, I don't want to tread on any toes). Also, I'm doing this in public rather than via individual PMs because I want this to be a narrative driven story rather than an RPG in the traditional sense. In other words, it's up to you guys to play your characters as though they have the appropriate amount of knowledge and limitations.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>greypsychman</strong></span>, as a Colonial Marine attached to the<em>USS Cargadores</em>(a Conestoga-class troop transport ship), you are aware that your unit is en route to LV-186 to extract all Weyland-Yutani personel (including science staff, colonial administration staff and all colonists: about 125 people in total) and return them to earth.<br/><br/>The marine detachment you are with has a similar structure to that seen in<em>Aliens</em>: 12 marines including one lieutenant in command, one sergeant, and the remaining corporals and privates. On the ground, you will operate as Squad 1 and Squad 2, each comprising 5 marines. Squad 1 will also be accomanied by the sergeant, while the lieutenant oversees the operation from a command post.<br/><br/>You have been briefed that in addition to evacuating W-Y personel, it is also imperative that you retrieve the cargo from the<em>Doramin</em>, which will involve finding a way to dredge it out of the swamp where it is currently submerged. Upon entering Almayer, one squad will coordinate the evacuation while the other squad scrambles to secure the<em>Doramin</em>. You have been told that the cargo is a biological sample, but no further information has been divulged as the samples are expected to be contained and relatively easy and safe to handle.<br/><br/><strong>I'll let you decide whether you want to be the sergeant, a corporal or a private, but the lieutenant is off-limits I'm afraid. You will initially be attached to the squad coordinating the evacuation, <em>not</em> the one going after the samples. Bear in mind that Colonial Marines are not directly answerable to Weyland-Yutani, however, the mission parameters have been approved by USCM and are binding, subject to situation analysis.</strong><br/><br/>The weaponry at your disposal is as follows:<br/><br/>M4A3 Pistol<br/><br/>(https://i033.radikal.ru/1005/50/95e77b9f162c.jpg)<br/><br/>M41A Mk2 Pulse Rifle<br/><br/>(https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/1/1f/M41A2.png)<br/><br/>M42A Battle Rifle<br/><br/>(https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/8/83/ACM_concept98.jpg)<br/><br/>M39 Submachine Gun<br/><br/>(https://www.wepc.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/aliens-fireteam-m39-smg.jpeg)<br/><br/>M56 Smartgun System<br/><br/>(https://static.turbosquid.com/Preview/2014/07/06__21_09_30/sg1.jpg33b531be-6193-4fd1-877b-12e371997ec6Original.jpg)<br/><br/>XM-99A Phased Plasma Rifle (very new technology, probably not initially taken into the operation)<br/><br/>(https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/d/d3/XM99A_concept.jpg)<br/><br/>M240 Incinerator Unit<br/><br/>(https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/d/d1/M240_Incinerator.png)<br/><br/><hr/><br/><span class="bbc_u"><strong>Nowherewoman</strong></span>, you are the chief of a relatively small Weyland-Yutani security team in Almayer. You have five other officers under your command, one of whom had been on duty in the sunken end of Almayer and is currently missing. Your routine duties mostly involve keeping the peace (especially among the colonists) and ensuring the science team are able to perform their duties without undue disturbance or harassment. Since the impact of the<em>USCSS Doramin</em>, things have obviously been a little more tense than usual, with about a dozen of the population missing (presumed trapped in the damaged and submerged section of Almayer, likely killed) and everyone else eager to know how quickly they will be able to get rescued. Although you<em>are</em>answerable to Weyland-Yutani, you know full well that your responsibility is to protect the people of Almayer, and your obligation to assist the Colonial Marines extends only as far as this lines up with the responsibility to protect.<br/><br/>You know of the kind of work taking place in Almayer (see Valerian's section below) but are probably not privy to - or indeed, much interested in - the finer details.<br/><br/>In addition to shock-batons, your security staff have the following available:<br/><br/>VP78 Pistol<br/><br/>(https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/e/e8/VP78_Machine_Pistol.jpg)<br/><br/>M37A2 Pump-action Shotgun<br/><br/>(https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/avp/images/5/5c/ACMM37A2.png)<br/><br/>That may not seem like much, but I'm fine with saying that your character is trained in the use of more heady-duty weaponry if she happens to acquire it from the Marines.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">Valerian</span></strong>- As a biochemist on Almayer, you are intimately acquainted with the work being done on LV-186. In basic terms, you are interested in the simple indigenous life that exists in the jungles and swamps of the planetoid. Nothing overly exciting: just a few insects, small amphibians and numerous species of plankton-like organisms. You have heard the xenobiologists speaking of sighting of largers creatures in the swampy waters, but nothing definitive and certainly nothing that's ever presented a threat.<br/><br/>In particular, you are interested in the micro-organisms, and how they excrete unique chemicals that tailor the water they live in to be habitable to themselves, but not to the other organisms. Naturally, your primary concern is working alongside the biotechnicians to persue the engineering of a new species of these plankton to render the waters of LV-186 safe for humans. Already this project is quite far along, with a species of microbes (which your project has named "riebeckites" on account of their cobalt blue colour) having been developed which can efficiently perform this task. The next part of the project (before the crash brought everything to a halt) was to fine-tune the riebeckites to reproduce rapidly but sustainably outside lab conditions, and to avoid predation by other species. Essentially, you are helping to produce microbes which will terraform the water in the same way that the atmosphere processors terraform the air. Your work regularly took you to the lower levels of Almaya, which are research labs and are now largely flooded and closed off. It's actually very lucky that you happened not to be down there when the<em>Doramin</em>crashed, otherwise you would likely have been one of the unfortunate people currently missing.<br/><br/>Although your research work is currently on indefinite hiatus, everyone knows that you are one of the best people to assist in planning the effort to salvage any research possible, and you know your way about the science module of Almayer. You're just not all that keen to head that way right now...that's the side of the facility which is sinking fastest, after all.