"Bit to heavy for my frame."
Nym drops down to sit near a tree for a bit, catching his breath and checking his wounds while Jahn searches the bodies.
"Any credits? Maybe something lighter than a rifle?"
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"I really don't appreciate you jackboots shooting at me," Nym says with no sense of irony as he shoots back at the Azlanti.
"One down.. " Nym mutters to no one. "Oy! Azlantiface, shouldn't you be goose-stepping on some poor, defenseless world like you lot always do? Oh, wait.. that'd be here, huh?"
"Oy, no shootin' the android, Colonizer!"
Nym grunts in pain, but despite his injuries, keeps trying to fight off the attackers.
"Can somebody tell me why the Azlanti Imperium decided to make a small Abadarcorp colony it's target?"
From his hiding spot, Nym fires his pistol, moving further into cover.
From his hiding place, Nym activates his rig and attempts to hack the Azlanti communicators to keep them from calling for reinforcements. His hopes are that if he's successful, the their comms will just spit out static. Okay, maybe sparks too.
"Peasant this." he mumbles into his comm bead for only his crew to hear.
Nym taps furiously on his comm pad. "Armored troops coming. Scatter" and then slips into the brush hoping the fog will help him hide well enough to get the jump on them. From what he knows about the dropoff, Madelon's Landing isn't well armed. Which means- Azlanti.
I'm here too :)
"Only enough to say they don't generally leave their systems. From what I know, they're like the veskarium pre-swarm invasion. Isolationist. Anyone not of their kind or not beholden to them don't make it out." He looks at his wrist comm and taps a few keys to set the AI to passive alert status and lock the door behind them. They wouldn't even let our sales barge, The Darkblade, into Azlanti space to bring Arabani Arms merchandise in. Blew up three of our freighters in the process."
Nym says the same curse word.
"Not a good sign at all," Nym replies as he settles himself back in the sciences station. "Breeze, angle the sensor array, let's see what we can find out about what's going on down on the colony."
"PleasedontbeAzlanti, PleasedontbeAzlanti, PleasedontbeAzlanti, PleasedontbeAzlanti, PleasedontbeAzlanti," he says to no one in particular.
Hey guys, I'm back home and recovering if you still have room for your favorite dark elf hacker
Hey guys,
I totally get if you want to bot me or write me out. Regardless, thanks for such a good time.
Nuri- remember the ship always gives you a +1 to piloting. Also, Jahn, since shooting as an array gives you a -4 penalty, I vote you use the extra +1 bonus the computer gives us this turn to lower that threshold.
"Jahn, you good on the missles? I'm going to fire up the gyrolaser turret. Scans gave us plenty to work from." Nym taps a staccato into his terminal as a reconfigure option comes up on his display. "Breeze, give me access to turret controls."
"Nuri, we need to be much closer to them to get the turret into play."
Nym looks at his readout, perplexed. "They're drones, Ivris. No shields of any kind, and paper thin hulls... but.. Black Lady's Bones! Azlanti? What in the void are they doing here?"
Scanning: You can scan a starship with your sensors to learn information about it. This action requires your starship to have sensors (see page 300). You must attempt a Computers check, applying any modifiers from the starship’s sensors. You can attempt this check untrained. The DC for this check is equal to 5 + 1-1/2 × the tier of the starship being scanned + its bonus from defensive countermeasures (see page 298). If you succeed at this check, you learn the first unknown piece of information on the following list. For every 5 by which you exceed the check, you learn another unknown piece of information. Subsequent checks reveal new pieces of information, continuing down this list.
1. Basic Information: Living crew complement and ship classification, size, speed, and maneuverability.
Nym taps a handful of holokeys he pulls up from his terminal. "Breeze, get me a tactical assessment."
sweet map
the missles only have five shots in a given combat, but they can hit everything in an arc but only in the front. They’re the better bet at long rage. The gyrolaser can fire in any direction, but it only has a 5 hex range. Go with the missles.
Also, here's the ship's sheet so no one has to search for the stats
”And on the left,we have a pair of drones on an intercept course....”
Nym leans back in his chair a bit and taps his readouts before touching the internal ship comm channel bead.
"Well, whatever they are, they're moving away from our approach vector. Cap, I'll link in the comm feed in case you want to talk to whoever's out there, but best to get the guns up and running, just in case."
"Guys? We supposed to be the only couriers to the colony? Because unless there's a bad case of asteroids, somebody's coming to diner." Nym tries to fine tune the sensors to get a good read on the objects, but he's well aware that the Golden Breeze's budget sensor array mixed with trying to get readings through the drift will likely make things.. awkward at best.
Elton might have a better map for the ship in mind, but here's the one I worked up from the Hikari map Ryan Wolfe made. It's what I've been picturing while writing if it helps.
Nym taps the interlock key on his datapad as he strolls towards the sciences station. "Breeze, give me access to the main sensor array and latch me into the communications log. Let's see what we can see." A few taps later and Nym starts an active scan, if only to get their bearings before dropping into his seat and taking another sip of his caf.
Nym grabs a soycaf and adds far too much sweetener before plopping down in a seat in the common area. He takes a long swig of the hot beverage and tousles his bark blue hair a bit with the towel draped along his neck before keying up his datapad to link with the ship' AI.He nods at Plexel-3's comment before taking another swig. "Breeze, have we received any communiques from Nakondis yet? Landing coordinates, meetup arrangements, anything? We may still be too far from the system for them to know to send us a wave."
"No, thank you," Nym punches the reply button on the comm in his bunk. He'd already burned the third shift running battle sims on the Breeze's duonode rig. It was far faster than his current traveling deck and was a comparable replacement for the black hat rig he had back on Apostae. Still, having the AI give constant commentary on his battle strategies while he was just trying to overtax the software's capabilities...well.. it left something to be desired. Sure, he'd grown to like the Golden Breeze's AI. But some things were sacred. With a groan, the dark elf sits up, pushes the sleep from his eyes, and slides into something more or less presentable. He'd need a shower. Badly. He pushes the comm panel again. "Who's turn is it for breakfast? I was day before yesterday, but I'll need some serious caff. Any chance we still have any shantak egg left?"
It is definitely a process. here's the rundown:
I've made a few over the years, but I generally have the most success going back to old favorites- medium size, usually an explorer. Decent mix of weaponry and shields without going too far in any one direction- mainly because you can upgrade as time goes on. The ship is very much another character that grows along with us. Here's a first blush build- and usually the type of ships I build for SFS scenarios and campaigns: ABADARCORP TRANSACTION CLASS (TIER 1)
Speed 8; Maneuverability good (turn 1); Drift 1 AC 13; TL 12 HP 55; DT n/a; CT 11 Shields Basic 20 (forward 5, port 5, starboard 5, aft 5) Attack (Forward) micromissile battery (2d6, 20 hexes, array, limited fire 5) Attack (Turret) gyrolaser (1d8, 5 hexes, broad arc) Power Core(s) Pulse Gray (100 PCU); Drift Engine Signal Basic; Systems budget medium-range sensors, crew quarters (common), mk 2 armor, mk 1 defences, mk 1 mononode computer (tier 1); Expansion Bays cargo hold (4)
This is a good mix of weapons that affect both AC and TL; decent shields, defenses, computer, and the like; and plenty of room to grow. It's important to note that the AC and TL increase by the ranks our pilot has in Piloting- so at level 1, that's actually 14 and 12.
I can detect magic, as a drow I get some magical abilities. Overall, not having a mainstream magic user isn’t that big an issue in Starfinder. Not having a healer or engineer or techie character is far scarier.
I like both versions, but I particularly love kasatha. In all the games I run, it seems that they are the most underrepresented core race.
Welcome ! Also, Nuri can Pilot!
Ok, story time and because I have to ask- EltonJ, there has to be a story behind the "No Nudity in this one." comment at the beginning of recruitment
How does the "Golden Breeze" sound? Alludes to Abadar, and a discount JoJo reference to boot! :P I like it!
Then maybe something Abadar Related? Like:First Vault Scales of Justice Free Trader heck, even the Sugardaddy would work really well. Plus like half of the names in Jahn's link
Any ideas for a name? Hmmm... good question. GMRocketman, is the ship ours or owned by Abadarcorp?
My hope is that Kerchakorro has some piloting so that the good doctor can man the guns :) That way Plex can be the engineer. In the worst case, I can do double duty for engineering (because the science position lends that as a possibility much more than pilot does)... but it leaves us lacking after scanning enemies as to some of the nicer higher level science tricks. Annnd on to ships- Our vessel is essentially a courier, ferrying foodstuffs and supplies to the colony from Abadarcorp. So, I imagine a fast fighter isn't exactly ideal. So.. do we want some cargo space for us to build from? Maybe not full on capital ship size, but an Explorer isn't a bad sized vessel- it offers a good mix of speed and room to grow. And, as we build the ship- we should think about how it might look- if for nothing else than I have a TON of pdf maps that I can send to our GM to use. Never know whether we might get boarded or something. (Don't mind me, I freelance for Paizo and a few other companies doing Starfinder work as well as VL for my city, so I have ridiculous amounts of stuff) The best ones I have are from Ryan Wolfe. He runs this site:0-hr Of his lot, these are what have been working around in my head:
From there, I pulled a few that could work too.
In the middle, and fitting explorer size I found the firefly influenced Orca/Exeter/JoLee and the Battlestar Galactica influenced Remora. Like I said above, the explorer is a great middle ground. It gives us room to grow without making us a big slow tank. Finally there are the larger ones (and this is where I really think Ryan's work starts to shine). These would be great as transports- definitely bigger, a lot less goodies to start, but a frame with a lot of potential growth. First is the Cervantes. This one is obviously influenced by the Rocinante from the Expanse. The other one, the Winter Wolf is just too cool not to show you. The Hikari is still my favorite, but that's probably because it's a bit of everything and its deckplans can really fit a lot of different hull sizes. If you guys do like one of these and our GM is cool with it, I can personalize it to fit us, so don't think we're stuck with those names or decorative elements.
Yeah, I pretty much built Nym to fit a bunch of roles, but as a hacker- he’s best as SO. That being said, if Plex wants science, Nym could easily fly the ship and love every second of it.
also, is it okay to dot in the gameplay?
Also, I'm all for an AI- because it can be tons of fun to interact with
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