<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=163921.msg7695179#msg7695179">Quote from: CarnivalOfTheGoat on 09-02-2013, 05:30:30</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Noone has ever seen an Iktomi, but you'd certainly use it on any kind of exocreature you THOUGHT might be an Iktomi. Most of what is known about the Iktomi is known from their architecture. It's <em>speculated</em> that they are arachnid-like but there isn't really <em>proof</em>. No fossilized corpses, no images, nothing.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Yes, okay, no-one's seen a live (or even dead) Iktomi.  I'll give my standard line to things like this:<em>work with me here</em>!<br/><br/>And thanks.  *Notes down Xeno-bio instead of Astro-bio*<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=163921.msg7695179#msg7695179">Quote from: CarnivalOfTheGoat on 09-02-2013, 05:30:30</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Forensic Medicine would probably be a profession. Paramedic or Combat Medic would probably be useful (and effectively identical except for flavor text).<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Okay.  So noted.<br/><br/>I've currently got the following Knowledge skills lined up.<br/><br/>Academics: Gate Operations (60)<br/>Academics: Xenoarchaeology (60)<br/>Interest: Gatecrashing (50)<br/>Native Language: Japanese (90)<br/>Language: English (50)<br/>Profession: Forensics (60) - Was this Forensics or Forensic Archeology?  I forget.<br/><br/>After all this, I have 170 pts left to spend before I dig into my remainder CP.<br/><br/>The following are on the block as possible choices from my own head.<br/><br/>Academics: Xenobiology<br/>Profession: Forensic Medicine<br/>Profession: Surveying (both Corebook sample characters interested in exploration had this skill)<br/><br/>These are options Carny offered to me:<br/><br/>Academics: CompSci<br/>Academics: Cryptography<br/>Academics: Nanotechnology<br/>Profession: Nanoprogramming<br/><br/>And the last one, the more traditional sciences - Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Geology, etc...any suggestions for a good way to round out the character?<br/><br/>If you want some help, I can offer a few insights into the character.<br/><br/>1 - Ishinari, as he's known by his handle, is someone who's been Gatecrashing for a long time (Networking: Gratecrashers 50 and X-Rep 60), and is relatively well known in RNA and EcoWave circles for his discoveries during those trips.<br/><br/>2 - During one said trip, he saw something, something that he's been chasing ever since then with each new Gatecrash.<br/><br/>3 - He's not a military type, but he's definitely smarter than 99% of them.  I don't know if you'd consider it possible, but in his past, he outsmarted a group of Jovian Junta goons that interrupted a Gatecrash and managed to muck up their day pretty badly.