Prologue: Solace Amidst The Stars

Ever wonder what it would be like to play a cosmic-level super hero? Yes, that’s right, an interstellar class of super hero. Perhaps something akin to a member of the Green Lantern Corps or possibly even a colleague to Rom Space Knight? Maybe you’d prefer to play something like Shazam or Adam Warlock. Answer yes? Then this may very well be the game for you! Utilizing the Marvel Heroic Roleplaying Core Rules by Margaret Weis Productions Ltd. and the powers of sheer imagination, I have come up with a game setting in which players are allowed the chance to play such powerful types of heroes. Starknight Academy will essentially allow players to portray one of their home-world's "best" in a military academy styled setting. There they will undergo the trials and exams that will hopefully reward them with the title of Starknight and a chance to join the galaxy's finest order of law-keepers in the Universe!

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Prologue: Solace Amidst The Stars

Post by Eanwulf » Thu Dec 08, 2016 3:48 am

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Sometime During the First Quarter of 6159 GC
Random Locations Across The Universe
Various Times Of Day


Time seems to be irrelevant, as it has somehow managed to bring itself to a complete standstill. You stare out of the viewport of your shuttle and off into space; the newness of the affairs that have transpired about you dulling your senses to a point of nonexistence. For now, you are merely content enough to continue staring off into space; a giant duffle-bag filled with your worldly possessions resting quietly at your feet.

Even the overwhelming fact that you are currently on your way to rendezvous with a Zentrati Warship via one of their transport shuttles seems to feel nothing more than the faintest fog of an understanding; hopelessly lost amid the sea of thoughts already racing through your mind as you contemplate the past affairs that have led you up to this given point in time. And what a point in time it is.

“Rest easy until our arrival.” were the last words spoken to you by a Zentrati Lieutenant, and rest easy is just what you are going to try and do as you continue to stare off into space and wonder what the future shall hold. Well, as easy as one can rest that is, given your current situation.

As the time unknowingly passes, one cannot help but begin to ponder the notion of having been drugged or possibly implanted with the surrealistic sensation of an euphoric bliss that you are now experiencing. After all, nobody should feel this serene in their lifetime, should they? Such notions are quickly dismissed from your thoughts however and replaced instead, by the continuing flow of thoughts and images about the preceding passage of affairs that have taken place up until this current moment in time.

Still though, you occasionally wonder why it is that you feel so numb and blissfully detached emotionally as you continue to stare outside the shuttle’s viewport and peacefully allow yourself to succumb to your mind's wanderings…
So it begins!

You are currently on your way to Starknight Academy. You were contacted in the not too distant past by various representatives of the Galactic Council; each of whom showed great interest in allowing you the chance to attend their most elite and prestigious establishment. Their ultimate goal? To see whether or not you had it in you to become a full-fledged Star Knight and help them in the ongoing continuation of protecting the Universe from Evil!

What are Star Knights? Well quite simply, they are the most elite form of military police and the ultimate manner of lawgiver and enforcer. Think of them as SWAT vs Police, Special Forces vs Enlisted Services, Federal Officers vs Local Authorities, Pinkertons vs Sheriffs, etc.

Why would you want to become a Star Knight? Well, that is for you to tell me/us! Just know that the honor of being chosen is a great one and if successful, you will help to make a HUGE difference in the Galaxy.

What has happened since your acceptance of their offer? Well like any good job interview, you were placed on a waiting list as the Galactic Council made their ultimate decision on whether or not to give you a chance to attend their Academy, and then were forced to wait some more for their final response. It finally came! In the form of an actual Starknight! The official Starknight representative was a Serran mentalist by the name of Arkhan Vener – though he is better known in the industry simply as Farsight.

See the NPC thread in our OOC section for more information on Arkhan Vener.

Farsight has informed you of a time called the Gathering. During such time, you and other candidates to the Academy will be picked up via an armed escort and then transported to your new home - the Starknight Academy itself!

Depending on how you choose to write it, this time could be enough to bid your people a final adieu or simply just enough time to grab your stuff and go. You decide.

Ultimately, you will be rejoined by Farsight and a retinue of Zentrati police force; Star Force actually - the basic lawkeeping units of the Galactic Council and used for their day-to-day affairs.

Once your identity has been confirmed by both the Zentrati’s rather brusque means of doing so and then by the much more friendlier and cordial Farsight himself, you are to be escorted to an awaiting Zentrati Warship and then ferried off into space where you will continue to collect the others on Farsight’s list until his roster is completed.

From there, you are to rendezvous with a Zentrati entourage and promptly make your escorted way to the Starfleet Academy. All in all, quite the exhilarating experience!

As of now, this thread occurs in the time in which you are being ferried off to the Zentrati warship and off to other regions of space to collect the others.

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• Your standard Zentrati is the conglomeration of all 3 images.
• Their armor’s basic design can be seen in the 1st image.
• The armor is then adorned with various features from the other 2 images.
• The Zentrati which greeted you appear to be assigned to Starforce USP-937-C.
• They appear to enjoy laser-based technology as their primary source of armor and weapons.
• The Zentrati are a Militant race, so things like being cordial or social typically escapes them.
Alright, what I would like from you is the following:

• A colorful description of yourself, doesn't have to be overly verbose, just something to help us all (yourself mostly) get a feel for the way your guy looks, possibly thinks, and acts.

• A descriptive blurb about his personal thoughts on becoming a Starknight, be they simple expressions of his current emotions, something meatier such as the reason why he wants to be a Starknight, etc.

• A brief recollection to the affairs on why your guy was approached by the Galactic Council to become a Starknight. Think of this as a previous edition of your favorite comic book that first introduced your guy in it. The public liked you so much that you later went off to your own series and #0 print of a new comic that introduces you as the main hero and beginning of our game, etc. Overall try to make it some kind of personal affair you managed to overcome and gain favor and recognition within the Council.

• Do all of this as some kind of flashback scene as you travel through space picking up fellow candidates to join you at the Starknight Academy. After all, this is just the Prologue and gives us chance to explore ourselves and try on the new skins we have so meticulously created.

Looking forwards to your posts!

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Prologue: Solace Amidst The Stars

Post by AdamDaBomb11 » Thu Dec 08, 2016 7:44 pm

Zo'esseir sits and stares out at the stars around her. The stars have always been pretty. From this distance it always looked like they stood still and remained the same. But all over the universe stars were constantly changing and creating a bigger image. Something she felt she could relate to. The internal lights of the ship bounce off her blue skin, causing her to have a bit more of an unusual glow. Her hair is long and Flows down her back like a river. As she sits and just stares, her mind jumps between multiple memories and past interactions.

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Zoe: "What is happening to me?! Why do I look exactly like you?!"
Van'Drin Doctor: "We don't really know what is causing this. This is surely a unique case. You need to calm down or we wont be able to study this properly."
Zoe: (Flailing about) "Settle down?! How can I settle down?! I don't want to look like you! I want to look like me!"
Van'Drin Doctor: "Nurse, can you attach the restraints please? we can't have her flailing around like this."
Nurse: "Of course Doctor."

The restraints are put on, but Zoe manages to phase right through them and is still freaking out. The Doctor grabs a needle with a mysterious drug in it and injects it into Zoe's form. This causes her to pass out.

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Zoe: "To’maiusson! If you don't remember, let me remind you! You were the one who broke up with me! You can't just come back after all this time and be with me again. Things have changed. My life has changed. I am not the same scared girl I was many years ago. I have my own life, and you took it upon yourself to make it so you weren't a part of it."
Tomaius: (With a look of sadness) "Well if that is how you feel.."

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There is no talking in this next memory that Zoe remembers. It shows her on one of her missions. She is impersonating a tech support to get closer to her target. A wealthy and corrupt businessman who was in the business of both creating and infecting a populace with a disease and then turning around to sell them the cure for jacked up prices. She now stands over the dead businessman with a look of satisfaction on her face.

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Zoe was helping out some of the people on her home planet when the Zentrati Entourage showed up. She didn't really have much time to pack, nor did she really need much time to pack. Clothes were no longer a necessity for her. Being able to change her clothing at will with her mind was definitely one of the better perks of her powers. There was one momentos that she did bring along, however. A braclet that Tomaius bought for her on their first anniversary, that she is now wearing. It was no mystery why the Star Knights accepted her. She has a very unique and useful skill set that many showed interest in needing. It definitely helped her get jobs as a mercenary for hire. She was able to get all the best jobs and make a ton of money while doing it. But eventually that got boring and Zoe now looks forward to her next set of challenges.

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Her mind snaps back to reality, and she looks around. "How long until we reach.. well, wherever we are going?" She asks one of the Zentrati.
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Re: Prologue: Solace Amidst The Stars

Post by Eanwulf » Thu Dec 08, 2016 8:55 pm

@AdamDaBomb11

The Zentrati soldier you ask turns to give a rather brisk and automated response.

"We're scheduled to rendezvous with the S.S. Barrage at 21:00 Hours. Once there you will interact with more of our officials and then be assigned a more proper seating arrangement to reach our final destination."

He then nods slightly and returns to what he is doing.
21:00 Hours is roughly another hour’s time from your current one.
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Re: Prologue: Solace Amidst The Stars

Post by AdamDaBomb11 » Fri Dec 09, 2016 10:25 pm

"Thank you." Zoe says as she goes back to looking out the window. I wonder what kind of other people are going to be there. Or if any of them are like me. , She thinks to herself before just sitting quietly the rest of the trip.
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Post by Riversisariver » Sat Dec 10, 2016 3:25 am

A mechanical whir, followed by the stabilization of two pressurized rooms sound from a nearby entrance sounds. Flanked on all sides by these said guards is a tall masked humanoid, whom by musculature and over all build looks to be a Terran.

"Stop, This where you'll staying until we arrive Terran. Won't be long now."

The sounds of some maybe malice filled underlying tone towards the Terran from the Zentrati SGT. The Terran in question doesn't seem to even acknowledge him as he he slowly walks away from the soldiers To a large plasma shielded window that over looked the space outside. The blatant disregard from the Terran seeming to ruffle the feathers of the NCO, takes his men and joins the other guards in the room. Perhaps to speak about the Terran with the other guards. The Terran then drops a small bag, really only big enough to have a change of clothes maybe within, from his grip. He stands, staring out at the space rapidly passing him by. His mind began racing through these past few months. Things had moved very fast for him, and they weren't stopping yet, he was soon to be at this starknight academy, what ever that had entailed really.

Tisp sits quietly in a brightly lit room, though all surfaces are smooth. The only irregularity is a small white bed in the middle. The frame changes perspective to show the freshly broken service robot smashed to peaces just a few feat from him. The tray of Nutrient Paste and water splattered across the floor. Again the Frame changes, as Tisp stands showing his full natural height and build. Tisp is a well muscled young adult. Much to common for a regular Terran of his age and race, only giving the slightest hint at his powers or immense dedication to his body His upper body lacking a shirt to cover it, is laced with large amounts of scars and blemishes one would imagine a torture victim to have had aquired. His Long and high cheek boned face lacking any notion of remorse for the bot that he fell. His eyes, cave black and empty, Seeming to absorb the light around it. His hair sharing that same blackness, but unkempt and messy, just reaching past his eye brows. Just as he stands to move to the sparking bot on the floor. A mechanical female voice crackles to life above him."That wasn't very nice. My SB-232394, was only attempting to help you absorb nutrients, you have made no notion of eating for the past few days. It ment you no harm. I ask that you reframe from destroying my bots 000919483648-041..."


The next frame we come into is Tisp again in the white room, this time not alone. A impressively large and hairy man with red eyes with fiery red hair to match, His manner of dress is a very cowboy style with a large revovler at his side, and arms as big as most men of their race's torsos standing before him."You know I'm not here to hurt you, Talk to me Bubba."Tisp sat quietly, a caller now being placed around his neck with several wires running from it to the back of his head. and fresh new surgical scar on the back of his head and a barcode imprinted above it"You haven't exactly been compliant. S.P.I.C.E.A Has placed you in psyhic restrainment to get some sort of commincation out of you. She said you put up on hell of a fight, eventually she had to deprive you of oxygen to stop you from ripping you containment cell apart and almost escaping. You're one hell of a Demi. I'll say. Who are you kiddo? You definitely one of my Prisoners. I'da known if we'da been keeping someone like you in general confinement, and hell you ain't even got file on you. U'se one of those kids what were born here?" The large man offering his hand to the young man on the floor. Tisp takes it, Tisp could easily fit multiple of his own hands within the palm of this man, an odd feeling of raw emotion floods tisp at their touch, as if almost by force.

My Name is.. is..he seems to have a problem recalling it and for once looks disgruntled, worried and a tear runs down his cheek "Tisp, Tisp is my name. I've never had another... I've always been here. I've lived her since I was small. I don't remember much more, sorry. So yes. I have lived here, one of the Orphans, I have protected them, they're the only family I've ever had. Please I Didn't mean to harm your guards, I've never been that violent. But I had no choice.I know you're in charge of this place, please don't harm them." Tisp spoke roughly, as if his voice was in ill repair."Easy Kiddo, I ain't gonna hurt no one. Just here to help. We'll see to them getting proper places to live grow up, no kids gonna be living with criminals while I run this place, and If I'd'a known Slug was doing that to them I would'a butchered the man myself.. but with that. You gotta understand, people 'round here want your head. But I see what you are, I see the good in you" he taps his temple. "One of my Many gifts. Fortunately. S.P.I.C.E.A, release Subject 0009194...Tisp, He won't be staying here any longer. I sense kindness in you boy. You stand for what is right and protect those that can't protect themselves even when you knew your life is at stake, I'm sending you to the Starknight Academy, It would be a waste to have you executed... I know this might seem out of left field but, I've read your mind and seen your history, Although It has taken me weeks to see into you. You allowed me to slip past whatever barriers you had just now. Its has been some years since I too was a Starknight, but I retired from that life, the name is Ignus."


We come into the veiw back on the open veiwport that Tisp stares out, recalling the past few months in awe really. He had never been off his asteroid-prison home. A sense of akin to wonderlust filled his body. An odd sensation. To all those in the room he might appear stranger than he looks, and sensing he had spent much to long staring out at the emptiness speed by. He shakes his head the bag lifts from the floor next to him and into his hand, staring out into the reach once more.

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Re: Prologue: Solace Amidst The Stars

Post by JohnnyWeird » Sun Dec 11, 2016 9:14 pm

Greetings, connoisseurs of the cosmic! Our next addition to the lineup may seem to come out of left star field, so here's the story: after the debut of Ruen D'naa in Weird Wars #38, the Fellowship Comics offices were flooded with letters from fans wanting more of "The Atomic Prince of M'eol"! But that left us in a bind - after the war is over, what story can a war comic character tell?

That's when our Editor-in-Chief, Ean "Howlin'" Wulf, came up with a brilliant plan. The Fellowship Credo has always been Go Big Or Go Home, so if we couldn't send Ruen home, let's take him to the pages of our newest senses-shattering superpowered space opera - Starknights!

So Weird Warriors, get set to see this fan favorite in his biggest story ever!

Star Squires, meet your newest instant classic!

And, as always, if this is your first Fellowship Comic, Prepare Your Mind - There's A Danger It Might Be Blown!!!

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Observe the third passenger on this Warship. Note the regal set of his green-skinned features, well-suited to a colossal statue amid ancient ruins! Note the muscular bearing in the sleeveless uniform of a Commonwealth Officer - a born soldier! And note, most especially, the metal gauntlet of immense and alien power that sheaths his left arm, which can leave no misunderstanding about his identity! He can only be Ruen D'naa - or, as you will come to know him...

KING ATOM!

The R'aal Rampager smiles bemusedly at the viewport, speaking to nobody in particular in a warm and melifluous tone.

"I had never imagined we could move so quickly. The rockets of my people would take three days just to reach our moons! Praise the Deepness these Zentrati ships are much faster."

The Verdant Veteran spares a conspiratorial wink for the nearest Zentrati soldier.

"I imagine you'll be happy to be rid of this babysitting job. Back to some real action, yes?"
Still new to this system - would the Combat Mastery help to establish a rapport with these stiffs?

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Post by Eanwulf » Tue Dec 13, 2016 3:14 am

@JohnnyWeird
No dice rolls are needed in casual conversation, lest you truly desire to try and influence the Zentrati in some overt manner or fashion. Your character’s history and Battle Born Distinction is more than enough means to try and spark up conversation and talk ‘one soldier to another’.
The Zentrati soldier looks to be a bit taken back by King Atom’s wink, but listens to the large green man’s friendly attempt to make conversation nonetheless. He promptly responds.

“I am bred to serve. Our mission is just as important as any other. The Galactic Council’s Will be done.”

Pausing to reflect the matter further, the guard then continues.

“My blood would be lying however, if I were to say that it did not crave something of a bit moreproactive nature. That is to say, a mission containing an immediate threat of some kind perhaps?”

The Zentrati soldier stands bemused at the ease in which he speaks so openly to his verdant-colored companion. His eyes dart from side to side in search of anyone that might be listening in to the conversation. In time, the Zentrati merely sighs briefly then nods affirmingly to Atom and returns to his duties.
That’s about as friendly as the Zentrati get I fear. Their genetics are bred for two things; servitude and combat. Still however, the Galactic Council are not cruel. As such, the race itself is still in possession of their own free will and independent thoughts. It’s just that they don’t typically let such emotions conflict with their inbred conditioning.
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Post by Eanwulf » Tue Dec 13, 2016 3:15 am

@Riversisariver

The Zentrati guard in charge of escorting you enters the room you are in and pauses to let you acknowledge his presence. He then begins to speak.

“I am Barghest 784356. It is my task to make sure that you are comfortable during our journey and to keep you posted as to our progress. This chamber is where you shall remain for the duration of our travels. There is food and drink in the cupboards found to the right of my current position; they should be to your species’ liking. Likewise, you can find a cushioned bench and video monitor to the left of my position. Feel free to relax upon it and peruse any of the pre-recorded videos that you find to be enjoyable.”

The guard looks down at his personal datapad and makes a few gestures upon it before continuing.

“I must take my leave of you for a moment to speak with my superiors outside and give them a status report. You are to remain in this room, though the doors are not locked. I shall be just outside if you need anything and I am completely aware of someone of your particular situation feeling the need to stretch his legs and not feel so confined or cooped up during our travel. I shall endeavor to help accommodate you with such ordeals, as able to. I thank you for your cooperation.”

Pausing to ensure his guest has heard his words, the Zentrati soldier then nods slightly and spins about to depart the chamber.
Welcome to the free world…asshole. :P

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Still, I can imagine this must be completely foreign to your character. Being treated with a sense of equality and what not.
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Post by Olligarchy » Tue Dec 13, 2016 8:49 am

Seated next to a window, Ea Makarian looks out towards the stars wistfully, her mind wandering from thought to thought with little restriction. She was doing her best to forget for the moment that inside her was a burning flame hotter than any sun, and that this trip in itself was a signal of change in her life. No more a Narakkan scientist, but... something else.

An attractive Narakkan noble with horns and all, Ea was certainly striking in that way that the Narakkans were, with her appeal only increased by the suble scent of pheromones she tended to release quite freely. She does not speak to anyone however, preferring to remain in her own private bubble... at least for now.
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Post by JohnnyWeird » Tue Dec 13, 2016 8:08 pm

King Atom nods sympathetically to the soldier's guarded admission. A chuckle escapes him as the flustered Zentrati moves along.

"A kindred spirit. Perhaps this exile will be less...alien...than I'd anticipated."

Humor at a private joke settles quickly, as the warrior returns his gaze to the cosmos.

Though why do I feel so disappointed at that thought? Perhaps I had hoped that a society which strides between suns might have moved beyond the petty bloodshed on which I'd glutted myself back home.

Maybe these Starknights will prove different. Or perhaps I will have to make them so.

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