High Noon in Deep Space

Long desc is LONG. You have been warned. <3


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The Characters

NERINA TELNAAN
Age: 26
Height: 6ft. 1in.
Weight: Of average weight.
Species: Chae'echt Tel
Weapons:
- Rope (She knows how to lasso. )
- Claws
- Various nondescript knives (picked up in her travels, come in any shape and size. There are about 8 hidden on her person at any one time
- Small Smith & Wesson revolver
Job: Crewmember on "The Heaven's Eye" - General jobs/bodyguard.
Likes: Tech, space travel, being intimidating, a good brawl
Dislikes: Bright lights, cracks about her ears, being bored.

Neri is loud, brash and prideful. Always up for a good smackdown, she's a lot tougher than she looks. She will always look to fight physically before having a shootout (though this may also be because the gunshots hurt her ears). Yet, despite all this she is quite loyal to those who have earned it - those people being (the majority of) the Heaven's Eye crew.

Chae'echt Tel
The Chae'echt Tel (or the Tel for short) are a subterraenean race. The surface of their world is too hot to be comfortably inhabited, and so the ancient Tel retreated underground, where they have been living for thousands of years.
Characteristics include dark skin and hair, long, clawed digits (three of them) on both hands and feet and short, mainly useless tails. Their eyes are large, adjusted for the general dimness of their environment, and their ears are large and sense of hearing heightened. Their skin is thicker and tougher than a humans, and hair grows in thick, flattish chords. They are not furry.
The Tel share their world with a race of cold-blooded, Lizardlike beings that settled the surface relatively recently. Despite initial conflict, the two species now get along quite well. Most space travel uses the Coldblood's technology and crafts.

Other Notes: Being a Tel, Neri requires her sunglasses to be able to see during the day while on Gliese
581. They are, in fact, tied around the back of her head, beneath her hair. Without them, the light would be too intense and she would be unable to open her eyes.
Also, most Tel have round ears. The scalloped look is like the Tel equivalent of tattooing.



SILAS SKINNER
Age: 22
Height: 5ft 11in.
Weight: Light
Species: Doppelganger
Weapons:
- Pair of Colt Revolvers
- Throwing knives. He keeps them hidden just about everywhere on his person. He's... Decently skilled with them.
Job: Crewmember on "The Heaven's Eye" - Part-time pilot, spy, recon and general sneakiness.
Likes: Sweet foods, reading, gloves
Dislikes: Conflict, danger

Silas is a pretty cowardly guy, and almost a little childish. He'd prefer avoiding conflict altogether, if he could. Sadly, while traveling with the Eye's crew, and Neri in particular, such a thing is not liable to happen. His role aboard the ship is part-time pilot (when the actual pilot has other things that need doing) and spying/recon when the job calls for it. He's also a pretty good chef.

Doppelgangers
Tending to appear randomly, with no real rhyme or reason, Doppelgangers remain something of a mystery. Groups of them have been noted in many different systems. What is known about them is that all of them have photographic memories; they can transform into anyone they have ever seen- though unseen details will be missed (ie. if you have a tattoo on you and they can't see it, they will not have it when assuming 'your' form); they cannot take non-bipedal form; they cannot reproduce smell- a being with a keen sense of smell would be able to tell a Doppelganger from the Original. Doppelgangers also have the ability to regenerate from almost any wound, even going so far as to reattach limbs. They can also morph specific body parts- giving themselves claws etc.
Doppelgangers are known to be sneaky, vicious and cunning, often employed as assassins, or simply sowing havoc for their own personal enjoyment. They are creatures of chaos. No solid facts exist on how their society or physiology actually work.

Other Notes: Silas is pretty much the poorest excuse for a Doppelganger you will ever meet.
Being on Gliese 581 has had a strange effect on his ability to morph. He can change his features around, but not for very long and never perfectly. His healing ability, while still present, is greatly reduced. Thankfully for him, his "Base Form" is very agile and fast- Great for taking cover.


THE STORY

The Heaven's Eye, named after a mighty powerful artifact from her Captain's homeworld, is a small spacecraft with a small crew, often found taking on random jobs that danced on either side of the legal lines. The Captain, "Spin" Taylor's, main goal is to track down the man who stole the ship's namesake.

On the Eye's last job many of the crew were separated from each other. For the past month and a half, crewmembers Nerina Telnaan and Silas Skinner have found themselves drifting about the systems on whatever crafts they can get jobs on, attempting to contact their ship and Captain to no avail.

Most recently the two took a job on a Freighter hauling cargo. However, while passing by the planet Gliese 581 the ship suffered, for reasons yet unknown, several catastrophic system failures, with the engines and life support systems ceasing to function. Neri and Silas managed to take an escape pod away from the ship, heading towards the nearby planet.

Having landed on Gliese 581, the pair have ended up in Spektre with no ship and little money. They're going to have to get creative if they want to get back into space to find their ship and Captain...


Once again limbo'ing in under the wire.
I know this is a terribly, terribly bare bones, buuuuut ohwell. 8D
Poor planning on my part.