Welcome to the OOC thread for the new Voltron Game. If you're here, hopefully it means you're still interested and I haven't scared you off with my stupid posts and stupider jokes.<br/><br/>I'll be adding a few hyper links in posts for images of ships, characters, etc etc. So keep an eye out for Those (https://i.imgur.com/dmvfPbE.gifv)!<br/><br/><hr/><br/><strong>List of Characters</strong>Posted in order of profile submission. Once lions are claimed, that will be included as well.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Jacob Cole</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Name</strong>: Jacob Cole<br/><br/>(https://i.imgur.com/MWIrUP2.jpg)<br/><br/><strong>Gender:</strong> Male<br/><br/><strong>Age</strong>: 31<br/><br/><strong>Species Detail</strong>: Human, originally from Earth but traveled around a lot due to is family's business. <br/><br/><strong>Sexuality</strong>: Hetero-Flexible (if a cute enough Trap comes along)<br/><br/><strong>Special Abilities:</strong> Heavy Equipment operator, Welder, Mechanic. <br/><br/><strong>Appearance</strong>: (Still looking for Image) Stands at 5'11" tall, Barrel chested/slightly muscular, short brown hair, large reddish-brown beard, Hazel eyes<br/><br/><strong>Personality</strong>: Jacob is quiet, but gentle. He likes to help people, but not sure how to do it sometimes. He can be shy around people he is attracted too, but he is a devoted and passionate lover. He loves Music and is often seen playing his old Jazz Bass Guitar. That, and a small wind up music box he carries around his neck. <br/><br/><strong>History</strong>: Jacob was born into a Construction Family. His father was a general Contractor, and Carpenter. His mother was a Certified accountant that managed the company's finances. His two older brothers were masons while his sister was a heavy equipment operator. Jacob is a Certified Welder, and Heavy Equipment Operator. The Family often traveling between planets, going where the work was at. However in recent times work has been getting more, and more scarce as Contractors started to move away from living people to do the menial tasks such as farming, and construction. Instead turning to more, and more automated resources like robots that don't need to take breaks, get sick, make "Human" mistakes, or even need to be paid. Making things difficult for The Cole family. Jacob's mother went to work for a Major Company as one of their numerous nameless accountants. His sister having returned to school to learn to work on computer systems. His Father, and two older brothers doing odd jobs for people for whatever they can get. Leaving Jacob without Direction. </div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Elizabeth Foster</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://imgur.com/4lC8GeL.jpg)<br/><br/>Name: Elizabeth  (Lizzie) Foster<br/><br/>Gender: Female <br/><br/>Age: 21<br/><br/>Homeworld: Mars <br/><br/>Species Details: Human, born on an agricultural colony on Mars.<br/><br/>Biography: Lizzie grew up in one of the massive agricultural domes on Mars but always wanted to be a pilot. She practiced using her fathers cargo shuttle deliviring produce to neighbours colony domes. When she was old enough she joined the Galaxy Garrison and the skills she picked up on the farm made her one of their most gifted pilots. <br/><br/>She however had a serious dislike for authority and had a tendency to butt heads with the higher ups. She especially disliked those she judged not to have earned their rank. <br/><br/>Special Skills: Ace Pilot, Excellent Shot and skilled in survival. <br/><br/>Personality: Lizzie has a habit of speaking her mind without thinking about the consequences.  She is confident and often a little arrogant.</div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Arcisa</div><div class="spoiler_body">Name: Arcisa<br/>(https://i.imgur.com/l0275XP.jpg)<br/><br/>Gender: Female <br/><br/>Age:  90<br/><br/>Homeworld: Haphus<br/><br/>Species Details: Haphusuns, or “Haps” are a species of parasitic/symbiotic organisms that have been around for longer then most realize. When birthed, they spend the first 60 years on their home world, gathering enough energy from the waters, before taking a host, usually a non sentient species. This would be the equivalent of a Haps’ toddler years When the first space faring race to visit them came aboard, they had no frame of reference for the concept and took one by accident. The knowledge the race gained from the merging was immense, and one of the moments they are most ashamed off. They had no concept of other species being sentient until that point. <br/><br/>As a species, they decided that they would only use willing, or near dead hosts. They can take a host at the point of near death, or brain death. If at the right time they can absorb some of the hosts memories and skillsets, making them repositories of knowledge. If one knows what to look for they can be very easily detected. Due to the vast number of species out there that believed the body was just meat after passing, they struck easy arrangements with them. During the reign of the Galra empire they withdrew and remained hidden from view, supplying knowledge where they could. <br/><br/>A host generally lasts for about 10 extra years past the point of merging, and once merged a Hap cannot survive for more the 13 hours without a host, unless in their planetary waters. <br/><br/>Biography Arcisa, by human standards, is approximately in her “mid twenties” by her species equivalent. She’s only had two hosts so far and been out in the real universe for about 20 years. She’s from a semi noble lineage, her spawn group parents have been around for centuries now, and have amassed a considerate amount of experiences and knowledge, but they still tend to see Arcisa as a tadpole. She’s chosen hosts of, lets say, less then redeeming intellectual value for her first few. <br/><br/>Her first host was an athlete, a Galra, a volleyball player (it became a very popular sport after humans joined the interstellar community)  who was captain of the Pan Galactic Games Bronze team. Because Haps are not considered ability enhancing, she was able to continue on in her stead, and rather enjoyed helping the team stay focused on the goal, the thrill of victory, and agony of defeat. <br/><br/>Her second, and current host, was a human from a poor agricultural world that bargained their dead with the Haps in exchange for access to the interstellar community. Her current host was something of a tracker; fit enough to still do many of the things she could do in her previous host. <br/><br/>Special Skills: She’d learned to fly in her first host, a basic shuttle but it was a talent that she learned herself and was very proud of. She retains quite a bit of the muscle memory from her first host, and her second host knew the basics of firearm care and use. <br/><br/>Personality: She has little concept of the idea of modesty, and can be very blunt and sarcastic. She can be serious though, and knows when there’s a time and place for things. <br/><br/>(https://i.imgur.com/xVuJmFl.jpg)<br/></div></div><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Jack Belethar</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://i.pinimg.com/736x/66/64/11/6664113ec91df2150ab3b802538f9264--cyberpunk-rpg-cyberpunk-character.jpg)<br/><br/>Name: Jack Belethar<br/><br/>Gender: Male<br/><br/>Age: 26<br/><br/>Homeworld: Station Alpha-9<br/><br/>Species Details: Human, but spacers are a bit different from landwalkers. While the stations keep gravity close to Earth, artificial gravity still causes some changes, mostly in bone density. Spacers like Jack tend to be slimmer and a bit shorter then most. Physical fitness standards are higher for spacers, as weightlessness causes all kinds of adverse effects, meaning everyone is expected to keep their cardio up even if the artificial gravity measures are perfect. Constant vigilance and immediately attending to problems is also a cultural difference-a problem with a leaky pipe on a planet is annoying, on a station, it means death. <br/><br/>Biography: Jack grew up on Space Station Alpha-9, obviously, that wouldn't be his Homeworld if he didn't. Now, every kid has a "why" phase, a phase where they just ask about everything that even crosses their mind. Jack never grew out of that. He read so many books, provided by digital libraries of course, and even when he would have hit secondary education he had no idea what his major would be. He eventually settled on Computer Science and Engineering, figuring that people would always need a computer engineer and it was one of the things he was better at anyway. He did well, not the best in his class but pretty damn good at what he chose to do. <br/><br/>The problems came after his graduation. Degrees are nice, but what use are they when no one will hire you? Alpha-9 had plenty of engineers, and despite his very nice resume, no one would respond. As time went on, and he found some work as a janitor, he slowly grew bitter, maybe even a bit cynical. He turned his skills to more...dubious uses. Cracking into systems, social engineering to get easy access to systems, and more. Of course, you don't go to the dark side without getting the law interested, but before his criminal activities could catch up to him, he managed to find his way off the station.<br/><br/>With a bit of a black mark on his record, Jack now works through aliases. He works freelance, doing what he can to keep himself going. He's become a bit of a wanderer, jumping from place to place and never finding a place to call home. He's still an asshole, anyone will say that, but the old Jack is still buried deep inside. The child with his unending wonder is there, and lucky for him, there's a whole universe to help dig it out.<br/><br/>Special Skills: While his primary skills lie in computer networking (and even then, he admits the machines do most of the work), he's acquired enough charm and charisma to pull off "social engineering", arranging situations to his favor so people give him what he wants. He also has a knack for moving unseen in the crowd, blending in and making it hard to track him. <br/><br/>Personality: A gigantic asshole. At least, that's what he presents when he's not acting within a persona to pull his social engineering stuff. When he's not being an asshole or lying through his teeth, he prefers to quietly read books or play solo card games. But beneath the jaded cynicism is the old curiosity from his early years. He still wonders why, still seeks out new and exciting experiences, he's just not as open about it as he used to be. He's also a bit more altruistic then he lets on-sometimes, he'll work for cheap, and he says he's getting back at those who wronged him, realistically he just knows when people don't really have the resources to pay him but they need something done. <br/></div></div><br/><hr/><br/>Episode One = https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=277619.0<br/><br/>A good summation of the Lions and their abilities midway down - Link (http://voltron.wikia.com/wiki/Voltron_(Legendary_Defender))