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    Archangel Protocols: Revival OOC

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    Alrighty, It's been a while, but I think I'm going to re-try AP, this is an oldy but a goldy (hehe pardon the pun) Here's the deal, I've got some newb friends who wil be joining me (sorry guys but you are) so I'll evaluate anyone else who wants to join with them in mind. If I turn you down, no offense, I'm just trying to control their first experience with this sort of thing.

    I'll have open enrollemtn for the next several days, and then I'll start the actual story after that I'll still accept char sheets, but I make even less promise to accept new players. The char sheet is as follows:

    Name:
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    Type: (GELF, Pure one, Cyborg, Android)

    Abilities:

    Weapons:

    Specialities:

    Bio:


    I'll explain these terms in a bit, please do not post a char sheet until I have done so. At the moment I must return to work though. More Later

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    yay!! Newbie players!! ^-^

    As stated in your other thread...will it be OK if I bring Abaddon/Apollyon back?? I still have her old (old-oldOLD, Ancient even) character sheet form the first thread that you did of this...and I miss her. ^_^ *puppy-dog eyes*
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    LOL of course you will be able to bring her back, I think everything about her is fine, but feel free to tweak to the new quasi new iteration as you feel free.

    Anyway on to the world set up:

    The Great Collapse was in many ways the end of the world. Nations crumbled, societies disappeared, entire peoples were wiped out never to return. Most people were sent reeling back to living in conditions little better than the middle ages. No one knows exactly what happened, except that in one fell swoop the nations of the world were felled and the corpo-nations replaced them in a coup of blood and fire and death.

    The Corponations existed as the most powerful businesses in the world before the collapse, some say they engineered the fall, others that they merely took advantage of it. In the end though the results were the same, companies using their private "security forces" to commandeer resources and supplies, consolidating and expanding over the course of years, destroying smaller rivals and subjugating more and more of the decimated populace. This period was called the consolidation, and it spanned many generations.

    Finally there were only seven corponations left, each so large and powerful that all out war between any of them would have left even a victor too weakened to hold off its brethren. So an uneasy balance existed. Each Corponation running skirmishes with the other, trading and sniping and fighting for any advantage. This situation existed for hundreds of years. There was however an 8th power, a gorilla group that fought from the shadows, and did their best to destroy and disrupt the Corponations. They were the Archangels, their numbers were few but their technology surpassed even that of the ancients whose scavanged technology fed the corponations control of the populace.

    During the time following the consolidation they became quite, rarely striking out, and seemingly focused entirely within certain regions of the South American Corponation. It was decided that they were simply fading out of existence, no longer able to compete with the now secure Superpowers of the world. They were however planning their greatest triumph.

    Finally the day of South American Liberation came. The Archangels initiated a battle that completely suprised and overwhelmed the forces of the South American Corponation. Then they pulled the coup degrace, they turned on the real reason they had been so quiet. They had established a ring of force field barriers around the entire perimeter of the great Corponation. Completely protected from reprisal from the other Corponations the Archangels set about their own consolidation. Turning the resource rich Continent into their own base of Operations, and rising into the world as a true power to be reckoned with. Now they fight a never ending battle against the Corponations, trying to bring them down, working to liberate their fellow man, and trying above all else, to free the world from the terrible grip of the corponations.

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    Character Explanation:

    The Archangels are the warrior caste of a larger group, usually referred to as the Protocols. There are 4 types of warriors that are playable:

    GELF: Genetically Engineered Life Form, completely bio engineered human, created from stock genetic material and enhanced to physical perfection and beyond these beings are stronger faster and smarter than their human counterparts. Some have even more outlandish abilities, but usually they are incredibly enhanced humans. They also have another huge advantage over their human counterparts: Genmem. Genetic Memory. A newly created GELF can already have all of the memories and physical skills of a master of whatever field its creators desire. This also means that a GELF is effectively Immortal, for if it dies or is killed it can be cloned from even a single cell with all of its memories in tact.

    Pure One: The Original GELF's these beings are the embodiment of genetic perfection. The perfect super soldier they were the backbone of the Protocols campaign. Unfortunately hundreds of years of combat have made them mentally unstable at times, and they are rarely released from deep freeze storage for anything other missions of direst importance. The Pure ones are the progenitors of all of the current GELFS each claiming descent from one of the original Pure Ones. This strange relationship can often manifest in strange ways.

    Cyborgs: As the name implies these are humans fused with machinery. They range anywhere from mostly human to almost entirely machine, but only volunteers are augmented for the purposes of Combat. The level of augmentation can make a cyborg a match for the physical abilities of a GELF but often times has its own drawbacks such as energy consumption, or a susceptibility to EMP weapons.

    Androids: Purely mechanical creations they are the highest form of robot technology on the planet. Each has a speciality that it is specifically built and designed for. The AI running most androids is a match for most human brains, though most surpass humans on those fronts at which computers excel they fall short in other fields such as improvisation, interaction, and operating outside of the bounds of their orders.

    Each of these classes is permissible for play. I will not accept other player classes. I will also not allow the play of Pure ones unless you can submit a very convincing char sheet. (Mir you're fine)

    Also the Generation slot on the Character sheet works as follows: GELF generation removed from original Pure one, the more iterations, the further removed from the original, and the less of a connection, but the more variation and innovation has been introduced into your gene pool. (feel free to make up your own Pure Ones if you like for you bio)

    for Cyborgs It is the amount of machine you have grafted onto your body, for Cyborgs it is your AI level (1-5) 1 being a very smart computer and 5 being a supremely advanced AI capable of mimicking and behaving human in almost all ways.

    You do NOT have to be human in shape or form, but it is somewhat suggested, at the least don't be too extravagant.

    Also You can make your character fairly powerful, but I expect to see weaknesses to complement your strengths.

    Alright Questions? I will post my own Char sheet shortly to give you an idea of what I am looking for.

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    Name:Azrael
    Sex:Male
    Generation:0
    Type: Pure one

    Abilities:Azrael is The Original Pure one with non-human Derived abilities. Not only does he posess physical abilities far surpassing normal humans, but he is in fact not all together human. He has the genetic setup to produce electrical bursts like an electric eel, though it is difficult and draining for him to produce much more than a painful shock. (In other words he can't zap someone from across the room, but he could say, keep some electrical equipment running significantly longer than a regular person, or repulse someone who actually managed to get close enough to grapple with him.) His reflexes are literally catlike, his senses all come from animal's giving him the ability to hear and see and smell outside of the human range. Unfortunately he also looks the part of being not altogether human.

    Appearance: Azrael stands at around 6'5" high, his body is leanly muscled, without a hint of fat covering any part of his body. He has a decidedly feline cast to his features, and his eyes are a startlingly piercing Gold color. Most different of all though is the fact that his skin and hair are both bright vibrant green due to photosynthetic cells within his body that produce energy to help feed his huge metabolism.

    Weapons:Azrael prefers close combat bladed weapons and energy based weapons when possible, he is deadly efficient with most almost all weapons though, given a choice he will fling himself bodily into combat and rip and tear his way through his opponents. He has several pieces of equipment designed specifically for him, so that they may either run off of, be supplemented by, or even enhance his natural ability to produce bioelectric shocks.

    Specialities: Azreal is at his core a combat specialist. While like all Pure Ones he was designed to be ultimately versatile, he has always excelled most in the field of Combat and reigning death down upon his enemies.

    Bio: Azreal was one of the original 7 Archangels, the first 7 Pure Ones. He served with distinction in almost every major campaign the Protocols waged until the weight of too many years and too much trauma finally began to take its toll upon his mind. The decision to put him into deep storage except for safe keeping. His past is muddled in his mind now, fractured and fragmented beyond easy use. Sometimes he becomes lost in old memories and other times he is completely confused by the passage of time while he is locked away in deep storage. While he is usually at his most stable in combat a strange animilistic rage has been known to come over him at times, causing him to throw all caution to the wind and endager himself, and worst of all his teamates.

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    *rubs hands together*
    *tweaks*

    OK, here it is...

    Name: Abaddon (Apollyon)

    Gender: Female

    Type: Pure One

    Generation: Original Fifth Angel (AKA Angel of Pestilence)

    Specialty: Specifically the lighter weaponry and hand-to-hand combat weaponry (EX: Staff, dagger, handgun, et cetera). Speed, somewhat with stealth. Not the BEST of the Pure Ones, but still excels.

    Weapons: Brace of knives, one long (10"), jagged dagger that she keeps in a sheath on her right hip, an extendable quarterstaff strapped to her left hip, and a triple-bladed contraption that she likes to call an Asterael (think Star Trek Bat’leth). She also has a handgun on her at all times somewhere on her person. She also carries/wears a second belt that is able to hold different grenades.

    Abilities: Abaddon has about twice to three times the speed and reflex ability of the normal Human. Her eyesight, sense of smell and hearing are as good as an eagle and bloodhound respectively. For these reasons, she consumes about twice as much as an active Male human would when active in either training or in the field. As is, since she has been in hibernation for so long, her abilities have lowered slightly, and her mind not as bright as it had when she was first created.

    Bio: Due to memory loss from the times she had 'died', she doesn’t remember much from her first days, but she always has a sense of foreboding reaching from the back of her mind. All she really remembers is being awoken occasionally to be sure that her abilities were still up to par, and to update on any new information that was available for her mind to process. She also remembers that her old Scientist- which she had grown somewhat fond of, if that was even possible for the GELF- died, and no one brought him back. That still confuses her, her mind being in the mixed-up state that it is in, and she still thinks that he is living on the base somewhere; that the Scientists that take care of her now are the rookies that he wants to train up using her as the obstacle.

    During her long “life”, she had developed a second personality named Apollyon. Where Abaddon is logical and sometimes hesitant to make a decision, Apollyon is bloodthirsty, making her thoughts illogical and vicious. Abaddon is usually the one in command, but sometimes Apollyon slips her leash, and takes over their body causing havoc to everything around her. No one but Abaddon’s former Scientist, Dimitri, knew of this second entity in Abaddon’s head, and for some reason he kept it a secret…

    ((GE, if you don’t want to keep this part, then let me know, and I’ll delete it. ^_^))
    Abaddon, during the first Campagins, had fallen for Azreal in a strange display of emotion. Rarely does she even remember any more whom it is that she looks for every time she is awakened, but occasionally she remembers his face, and she gets angry when she cannot see him, resulting in her being put back in storage every time.

    Description: Close-cropped white-blond hair with the palest parchment-colored skin. her gray-brown eyes make her sees like only a shade living amongst the living. She is 5' 7" tall, and about 144 lbs. Normally, she likes to hide her armor under black clothing of any kind, while she is awake.
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    Finally a note on the Corponations, this is the last chunk of Info I'm going to post before questions/posts start:

    THere are 6 remaining Corponations, each engaged in an ever changing landscape of alliances, agreements, skirmishes and battles. All of them are enemeies of the protocols, but there is little they can do against the Protocols directly due to the shield wall which protects their home base.

    The Corponations each is made up of rigid castes, by and large the majority of people are part of the slave caste, these are the laborers, the human cattle, they live in absolute poverty with no hope of rising above their station outside of military service. The military caste is almost as rigid as the Slave caste, Rank is generally arranged by nepotism and cronyism, rather than ability, and most anyone below the level of officer is considered nothing more than human fodder. The bulk of the military is made up by poorly trained humans armed with poor weapons based off of reverse engineered guns from the ancients. There are some elite forces supported by the church of Science that can be a match for the Protocols agents, but usually only in numbers, or with the support of numerous human shields.

    The church of Science: This group has turned science into a kind of religion, keeping the worst elements of both. They stiffly refuse change, turning current technology into a kind of canon, and jealously guarding the secrets of each different branch of the church from the others. They haven't ever really discovered anything for themselves, only managing to scavenge old technology, or on extremely rare occasions, to capture Protocol Technology.

    The Executives: The elite of the elite, these are the people running the show, and the struggles within the executive caste mirrors the struggles of the corponations. These are the nobility of the Corponations and they gaurd their fiefdoms jealously, but by disrupting or even killing them comes the best chance of destroying the corponations.

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    looks fine Mir, welcome aboard, feel free to add in details I may have skipped or forgotten, I'm a little scattered today, if I decide not to run with them I'll just cancel them.

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    lol. Ok, will do. ^_^
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    GE It's a great thing to have you back and it's even better to have AP back :D I loved this thread, I'm going to try to remember my old character and see about putting him up for acceptance if not, I'll make a new one on saturday :D

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    Name: Casper
    Sex: None (Current voice and appearance: Male)
    Generation: 2
    Type: C.A.S.P. (Combat And Surveillance Protocol) Android

    Abilities: This model uses a special liquid in its joints, not unlike human joints, that eliminate the typical robotic sounds of other andriods. This feature allows the CASP to sneak and observe without giving itself away. CASPs can transmit thier optical recordings back to any protocol reciever in range, at any pre-determined frequency. CASPs are proficient in small arms and long range rifles, including energy and slug weapons. Like most andriods, CASPs have zooming optics up to 20x and impeccible coordination, even to the extent of using a weapon in each hand with seperate targeting capabilities. CASPs can also understand any known spoken or written language. While not as strong a some other andriods, CASPs can lift or carry around 200 kilograms continuously without much struggle. Without much focus on frontline combat, CASPs are not equipped with armor plating. They can sustain only a very limited amout of abuse before systems start failing and the unit goes into lockdown in order to preserve its memory core. Attempts to hack or remove the core without proper equipment result in a self-destruct.

    Weapons: A hand-held stun laser, clipped to the belt; laser pistol, and .55 caliber anti-personnel rifle usually disassembled and carried over the shoulder. A serrated, double-edged knife is usually carried as well.

    Specialities: Casper has taken to his surveillance role quite efficiently, and trained himself more than other CASPs in the use of his pistol and short bladed weaponry.

    Bio: CASP units are used widely in Protocol territory as homeland scouts and first-responders. They don't often venture past the shield wall, but in some cases, they are deployed to protect key bases and territories outside the wall, usually on scouting assignments. This paticular unit has designated himself Casper, a strange but acceptable anomoaly in his programming, as his ability to act human is limited being a second generation andriod. Casper understands emotion but fails to see the logic in expressing any himself.

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    Hope that's good for ya ;)
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    Is there room for another one? please note before reading i plan to focus more on this chars issues than powers. Also if it is no good i am happy to change, im new to this thread but not to RP, so Power RPing is not going to be an issue from me.

    Name: Legion
    Sex: Male
    Generation: 5
    Type: Mistake, Cy-Gelf

    Abilities: Increased healing, sight and hearing, though with drawbacks.

    Weapons: A blade and small arms projectile weapon of some kind. Also the energy weapon, its power dependant on energy available.

    Specialities: Genmem in tactics related to sabotage.

    Bio: With the shield wall up the protocols were secure, but only for a time. The wall would need patrolling. The Androids were strong, but adaption and improvisation was an issue. The GELF’s were flesh, the pure ones too valuable, and the cyborgs were ‘individual’.
    A project was devised to produce a standard drone soldier, initially a simple concept of a GELF grafted with Cyborg attachments. The attachments would be easily produced and the GELF bodies could be grown. That would allow the use of Genmem for tactics and skills and the weapons and armour provided by cyborg technology.
    To be able to attach the various components a GELF was selected and grown on with greater healing capacity than usual, able to survive the surgery. Naming the creation Legion (for there was to be many) they opened up his back to access the spinal column, this killed him. Alteration and re-cloning resulted in several more unsuccessful attempts, eventually however a success of sorts was made.
    The final attempt, after many alterations in the GELF and the Cyborg components, Legion was complete. A GELF, with its increased sensory abilities, able to heal itself more capably was augmented with a cyborg shoulder and arm containing an energy based weapon. Its sight and hearing was also tampered with, enhancing the range, scope and compartmentalisation to understand it.
    However Legion was broken, he had a greatly increased energy requirement for his cyborg attachments and even more so if he needed to heal from any significant injury, this could manifest itself as an incontrollable hunger, his animal side seeing any potential food source as acceptable.
    Further to this Legion remembered his re-incarnations, every time his arm was removed, every time the procedure went too far and he was unable to survive. This pain haunts Legion and leaves him cold to the outside world, as all he knows is the pain it caused him.
    Smart and subtle, and with incredibly endurance, Legion has been used alone, on suicide-like missions since his final conception. Partly to test his limits and partly to end the fateful chapter that spawned him, it is unlikely they will reincarnate him again. However Legion always returns, usually around the same time as the horror stories;

    Stories of an indestructible, animalistic, cyborg that feeds on his victims, some not even cold, others not even dead.

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    Alrighty, before I approve any other characters I want to see what my friends are going to be doing, so far right now I'm only going to give tentative approval except to Mir, whom I can't imagine doing this thread without.

    Shari: Tentatively approved

    Mike: Sorry, no go, I forgot to mention this in my write up, mainly its because its been a while since the last run, but there is NO cybernetic enhancement of GELFS so I need you to rewrite your char. I'll fill in why in just a moment. Also anything that showed the level of mental instability you've described (the eating people) would probably be put ito deep storage and never pulled out. So if you want to run with something like that, you are gonna have to come up with some good reasons they keep him around.

    As to the whole no cyborg GELFs thing:

    After the South American liberation, the Protocols began greatly expanding there research fields, trying to find new and better weapons, now that they had far greater resources available to them than ever before. They decided to attempt something they had only ever theorized about. A cyborg GELF. TO this purpose a new Pure One was created. The last Pure One. It was named Deus, because it was designed specifically to recieve cybernetic implants, to be the ultimate living weapon.

    After its completion the protocols tested it extensively and finally decided to field test it. It was dropped on several missions and proved to be incredibly effective. It single handedly completed missions that teams of Pure Ones could not have accomplished. There was however some worrying data coming through the Neurological scans. The Protocols however decided it was an acceptable risk to continue using Deus, in light of its spectacular performance. They were beginning to make serious progress on disrupting the North American Corponation when disaster struck.

    Deus had been growing increasingly unstable, until finally after a particularly rigorous mission in which it had suffered particular heavy damage it went berserk in the Protocl base. Such was its fury that even heavily damage it resulted in over 300 civilian casualties and the death of over 30 Archangels, 5 of which were Pure Ones. In the end though the most disastrous loss was the complete destruction of 1 of the Original Pure One Gene Pools.

    IT was determined upon autopsy that Deus's advanced GELF Immune system had reacted against the cybernetic implants, resulting in mental degradation and instability. It was further determined that any use of cybernetics within a GELF would result in similar results eventually. Attempts to undue the advanced immune system were unsuccessful as its loss rendered the GELF too susceptible to Biological agents, and made other genetic systems unviable.

    In the end Deus was deemed a failure, he was dissassembled, and his genetic data was destroyed, and future experimentations on future hybrids were banned. No further attempts have ever been made to ressurect Project Deus.

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    Aww!! *huggles GE* I feel so loved! ^_^
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