I want to run something by the people in charge here before I spend two or three days writing up an extensive background for my character proposal.
I’m no stranger to Sci-Fi writing or RPGs so I like to think I know what I’m doing. I’m also something of an eccentric so more often then not my ideas come far out of left field. So understand I’m attempting something innovative and highly original here.
My idea, as it is right now, is to adapt a character from a story that I started working on but have abandoned for the time being because I can’t think of enough of a motivation to get the plot moving.
The aim of this is essentially to crate a complete outsider who finds herself in a galaxy full of new and strange things. She has grown up in a culture and lifestyle radically different from the one she finds herself in, she has to learn about it, adapt to it and find her way through life.
I’ll try to sum up the back story a little so you can see where I’m coming from. Before FTL, a large group of humans were cast out of Sol System by a tyrannical empire now long forgotten. It was expected that these exiles would live out the last of their lives and die in deep space. But they adapted to survive. Over countless generations they have lived in the space between stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, traveling at sub light speeds and living out their lives in large mechanical personal ships with their bodies in a kind of stasis. Their society divided into casts and highly tribal. With adaptation and genetic manipulation, it is difficult to define them as “Humans” although they still superficially appear the same.
As time passed, humanity expanded out into the universe and left them far behind, until the Exiles discovered the Relics. A race of AIs long abandoned by their creators. The Relics, who saw the Exiles as equals because of their mechanical bodies, bestowed FTL upon the Exiles and helped to unite the various warring clans. Three generations later, the exiles are hard at work building their Deep space empire in their home galaxy, far removed and unconcerned with the activities of other beings.
My character would be one such Exile, who-- through plot device I’ve yet to think of (suggestions wouldn’t hurt)-- has become lost far away from her people with only her personal ship/body and her Relic (A kind of AI familiar) to help her.
Her technology and way of thinking would be considered archaic by Star Army standards and she’d know almost nothing about anything. Which would provide some interesting character interactions.
^ I call that a summery, just imagine how much I’d be writing up for the full background.
Thoughts? Comments? Yes/No?
I’m no stranger to Sci-Fi writing or RPGs so I like to think I know what I’m doing. I’m also something of an eccentric so more often then not my ideas come far out of left field. So understand I’m attempting something innovative and highly original here.
My idea, as it is right now, is to adapt a character from a story that I started working on but have abandoned for the time being because I can’t think of enough of a motivation to get the plot moving.
The aim of this is essentially to crate a complete outsider who finds herself in a galaxy full of new and strange things. She has grown up in a culture and lifestyle radically different from the one she finds herself in, she has to learn about it, adapt to it and find her way through life.
I’ll try to sum up the back story a little so you can see where I’m coming from. Before FTL, a large group of humans were cast out of Sol System by a tyrannical empire now long forgotten. It was expected that these exiles would live out the last of their lives and die in deep space. But they adapted to survive. Over countless generations they have lived in the space between stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, traveling at sub light speeds and living out their lives in large mechanical personal ships with their bodies in a kind of stasis. Their society divided into casts and highly tribal. With adaptation and genetic manipulation, it is difficult to define them as “Humans” although they still superficially appear the same.
As time passed, humanity expanded out into the universe and left them far behind, until the Exiles discovered the Relics. A race of AIs long abandoned by their creators. The Relics, who saw the Exiles as equals because of their mechanical bodies, bestowed FTL upon the Exiles and helped to unite the various warring clans. Three generations later, the exiles are hard at work building their Deep space empire in their home galaxy, far removed and unconcerned with the activities of other beings.
My character would be one such Exile, who-- through plot device I’ve yet to think of (suggestions wouldn’t hurt)-- has become lost far away from her people with only her personal ship/body and her Relic (A kind of AI familiar) to help her.
Her technology and way of thinking would be considered archaic by Star Army standards and she’d know almost nothing about anything. Which would provide some interesting character interactions.
^ I call that a summery, just imagine how much I’d be writing up for the full background.
Thoughts? Comments? Yes/No?
