Transformers: Battle Ground EARTH (Interest Check)

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A Very Brief History of Cybertron and the Transformers
Credit to Hasbro

The Transformer race was born an untold amount of time ago. No current Transformer alive remembers or knows the origins of the species. Whether this is because it happened so long ago or due to some sort of race wide memory wipe is unknown. To them, they and Cybertron have simply always existed. There are a variety of beliefs about their origins, but with the war consuming everything few have little time to dwell on religion and philosophy.

What is known is that the Transformers lived on Cybertron for ages in peace at a high tech and highly industrialized level. Cybertron was ruled as a republic, with the city-states having their own senates and courts and representatives on a larger, planetwide federal system. As time went on, problems arose in the structure of society. As time passed the natural occurring energon deposits found on the planet began to dwindle. More and more Transformers were brought in to continue mining for the life fuel of the race. These miners were gradually worked harder and harder and were modified for the difficult and unpleasant work in the mines. The only thing keeping them in check was their unsuitability for most other work and the dire nature of their jobs. Still, the situation was a powder keg waiting to ignite.

Few would realize that the spark was lit when automation began to be introduced in the mines. The miners, seeing their livelihood being taken from them, began a small revolt. Initially this revolt was put down, but a young Transformer by the name of Megatron was able to escape into the slums of Kaon. There he joined in the organized underground fighting matches, gaining skill, experience and power in battle. He began to develop a cult like following, drawn to his raw power and charisma. It wasn’t long before he successfully seized control of the fights and began leading the entire Kaon underground.

The Autobots, originally the military and security forces on the planet, began to counter Megatron’s growing power in the Kaon region. Scouting operations and spy rings were formed, with only moderate success. Megatron brutally crushed any who betrayed or opposed him. Megatron and his ‘Decepticons’ were receiving heavy weaponry from an outside source and were proving to be quite a match for the Autobots. It wasn’t until Sentinel Prime, the military commander of the planet, got personally involved, that Megatron and his followers were brought down.

Unfortunately, that is what Megatron wanted. With the assistance of his follower, Megatron orchestrated the mass execution of the Kaon ruling senate and instigated a mass breakout of the city’s main prison. These prisoners were quickly armed with high tech weaponry and unleashed on the city-state. The Autobots rapidly deployed to fight back, with Sentinel Prime himself leading the charge in his apex armor. He met Megatron on the field and a titanic battle occurred. In the end a nearly deactivated Sentinel was dropped on Autobot forces. The Autobots withdrew and Kaon fell to the fully forged Decepticon forces. And thus began the great war….

The war would rage across Cybertron for several millennia, with both sides gaining and losing territory. Various technologies were invented to increase lethality and to stretch the rapidly dwindling energon supplies with varying degrees of success. In the end the war proved too much for their homeworld. Stripped of resources and battered by constant warfare, Cybertron suffered a full environmental collapse. Its atmosphere was stripped away, leaving the surface unprotected from cosmic radiation and wracked by plasma storms, rendering it uninhabitable by Transformers without extra protective shielding. All energon deposits have been depleted and no new ones appear to be forming. Cybertron is currently a dead world.

The war did not end with the death of Cybertron. Megatron and his Decepticons were still bent on conquest, and turned to other planets to help provide materials and fuel to continue against the Autobots. The Autobots, now led by Optimus Prime, were bent on stopping the Decepticons once and for all. The war now continues across the stars…

Notes

• Cybertron is uninhabitable and landing on it is forbidden by both factions.
• Transformers are powered by energon but there are alternate fuel types. Creating this fuel is energy inefficient and is terrible taste.
• The history is kept vague for a reason. I may or may not introduce further elements to it at a later date. For now focus on current events: The first landing of Earth.
• Cannon and Fanmade characters are allowed! (Limited to two Fanmade)
• The character cap is 3 characters maximum. If a player proves him/herself capable of handling 3 characters additional ones may be allowed.

Stats

A total of 70 points is allowed to be divided among the following stats: Strength, Intelligence, Dexterity, Speed, Endurance, Courage, Firepower, Accuracy, Melee, Tech Skill and Charisma. The rank stat will be determined by me upon approval of the character.

• Strength is defined as the amount of mass or weight a character can lift. This also determines how hard a character can hit in melee combat. A stat of 10 is massive, capable of lifting small to medium buildings while a stat of 1 is slightly stronger than an average human.
  
  • If you want your character to have a strength/endurance of 9 it means your character has to be bulkier than average. Your character will also suffer two point penalty to his/her maximum dexterity and one point penalty to speed. Same goes other way around, a fast, lithe character with a 9 in dexterity/speed suffers a 2 point penalty to his/her maximum strength and one point penalty to endurance.


• Intelligence is defined as the ability to solve complex problems whether they be mathematical, practical or social. Examples are decoding an encrypted transmission, coming up with a battle plan or deducing the fact that someone in the ranks is a spy. A stat of 10 represents a genius who solves major problems in minutes, if not seconds. A stat of 1 represents a character who can barely speak and cannot solve simple problems such as opening doors.


• Dexterity represents the skill and grace in physical movement in both robot and alternate modes. A stat of 10 represents someone with acrobat like ability, capable of complex flips and rolls and hairpin turns in alternate mode. A stat of 1 represents an extremely clumsy character who is constantly tripping over their own feet.


• Speed represents how fast a Transformer can travel over a given terrain usually dictated by their alternate mode. Below are two different scales for land speed and air speed. It should be noted that two Transformers may both have a speed of 9 but a speed of 9 in flight is much higher than a speed of 9 on the ground. These stats are for alternate modes only. All Transformers have a roughly equal ground speed in robot mode when running across the ground.
  
  Speed Chart

  
  Flight:
  10 - Character is fast enough to reach escape velocity and can travel in space with extremely high speeds
  9 - Speeds from Mach 3 to the limit gaining of escape velocity.
  8 - Mach 2 to Mach 2.9
  7 - Mach 1 to Mach 1.9
  6 - Flying speeds from Mach 0.5 (~370 mph) to Mach 0.9
  5 - Speeds from 250 mph to Mach 0.5
  4 - Speeds from 150 mph to 249 mph
  3 - 100 mph to 149 mph
  2 - 60 mph to 99 mph
  1 - Speeds less than 60 mph
  
  Land:
  10 - Speeds higher than 500 mph.
  9 - Speeds from 300 mph to 500 mph.
  8 - From 250 mph to 299 mph.
  7 - From 200 mph to 249 mph.
  6 - Speeds from 150 mph to 199 mph.
  5 - Speeds from 100 mph to 149 mph.
  4 - Speeds from 60 mph to 99 mph.
  3 - 40 mph to 59 mph.
  2 - 20 mph to 49 mph.
  1 - Speeds less than 20 mph.


• Endurance represents the amount of damage a character can absorb and how long they can keep active without running out of energy. A character with high endurance would be able to absorb great amounts of damage and/or function at peak efficiency with relatively little fuel. A character with low endurance damages very easily and/or consumes great amounts of energy to remain fully functional.
  • If you want your character to have a strength/endurance of 9 it means your character has to be bulkier than average. Your character will also suffer two point penalty to his/her maximum dexterity and one point penalty to speed. Same goes other way around, a fast, lithe character with a 9 in dexterity/speed suffers a 2 point penalty to his/her maximum strength and one point penalty to endurance.


• Courage represents the ability to overcome one’s fear and perform a difficult or dangerous task. A stat of 10 represents a character that has no fear and may perform tasks that border on suicidal. A character with a stat of 1 is frightened by nearly everything


• Firepower represents the amount of damage the character can do by firing their weapons. A stat of 10 represents the ability to level a city block or greater in a single blast while a stat of 1 will only scratch an average transformer.


• Accuracy represents the ability of a character to hit a designated target with a ranged weapon. A character with high accuracy can hit minute targets from hundreds of yards, or possibly a few miles, away. A low accuracy indicates a character who has trouble hitting stationary buildings from very short distances.


• Melee represents a character’s skill in short range non-projectile combat. This can involve bare hand and feet, bladed weapons or blunt weapons. A high stat typically indicates a character with martial arts training or great experience and expertise in this form of combat. A low stat indicates inexperience and lack of skill and ability in this form of combat


• Tech Skill represents a characters ability to use tools, computers, technology and mechanical devices. For Transformers this also translates into the ability to conduct repairs on themselves and others. A character with a 10 in this ability is capable of complicated and delicate surgery on a Transformer and can create and invent new devices for nearly any occasion. A Transformer with a 1 in this ability may have difficulty cleaning and operating their weapons and cannot perform even basic maintenance on themselves.
  
  • The Tech Skill attribute can be only 2 higher than character's intelligence at maximum.


• Charisma represents a character’s ability to get along and make friends with others along with the ability to lead and inspire. Characters with high scores in this ability make friends easily, are liked by most others and are often capable leaders. Those with low scores in this generally have negative attitudes, have trouble making friends and tend to be loners.

~No stat is permitted to be greater than 9 for fanmade or original characters. One stat may be equal to 9 but no more than one. No stats can be less than 3.
~Characters are permitted to have some special abilities, but these require stat points from the characters base stat pool of 70 points. Limited to two special abilities. All Decepticons Seeker are assumed to have robot flight mode with no stat penalty.

• Shield Generator -> (-8) Average. The negative bonus here depends on the strength of the force field.
• Teleportation -> (-15) And a good explanation why your character should have this ability.
• Triple Changer -> (-6 to -12)
• Robot mode flight ability -> (-2 for flying transformers, no penalty to Decepticons Seekers)
• Cloaking Device/Invisibility -> (from -6 to -12)
• Weapons I determine to be more than typical -> (Penalty is variable)
• Radar/Sonar -> (-2 each) All transformers have a limited radar. This is about long range ones.
• Above average sensory, includes audio, visual, touch, smell -> (Penalty is variable)
• EMP weapons -> (-5) (variable depending on the power of the weapon)
• Nontypical offensive and defensive abilities -> (Penalty is variable)
• Ability to create multiple holograms or large scale holograms-> (-6)
• Being able to reach the escape velocity from Earth's gravity field -> (-5)
• Low fuel consumption-> (-4)

~Things that are not allowed:

• Targetmasters
• Headmasters
• Powermasters
• Pretenders
• Combiners
• Quad Changer
• Six Changer

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Transformers

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[b][size=150]Name of your character[/size][/b]

[b]Allegiance:[/b]
[b]Function:[/b]
[b]Alternate Modes:[/b]
[b]Weapons:[/b]
[b]Special Abilities:[/b]
[b]Height:[/b] 0ft/ 0m
[b]Quote:[/b] [i]“Your motto.”[/i]


[b]Strength:
Intelligence:
Dexterity:
Speed:
Endurance:
Courage:
Firepower:
Accuracy:
Melee:
Tech Skill:
Charisma:
Rank: (Leave Blank)[/b]

[b]Profile:[/b]

[b]Personality:[/b]

[b]Abilities:[/b]

[b]Weaknesses:[/b]

[b]Sample Post:[/b]

Name: Name of your character
Allegiance: Autobot or Decepticon
Function: What your character specializes in ( examples: Warrior, Scientist, Engineer)
Alt. mode: your character’s non-robot mode(s)
Weapons: a list of all of your character's weaponry
Special Abilities: any abilities beyond what a normal Transformer possesses (examples: cloaking device, extra sensors, fuel efficency)
Height: How tall your character?
Quote: A quote from your character that represents their personality, outlook or attitude

Stats: See Stats in first post:

Profile: A description of your character's history. Minimum of one paragraph

Personality: A descriptions of your character's personality. Minimum of one paragraph. 

Abilities: Your character's physical abilities, weaponry and any special abilities should be described here. Minimum of one paragraph

Weaknesses: Any weaknesses or vulnerabilities your character may have whether they be physical or mental. All Characters must have one weakness!!!

Sample Post: an example of your writing that you would post with the character you are applying for in the game. Minimium of 3 paragraphs

Humans

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[code][b][size=150]Name of your character[/size][/b]

[b]Allegiance:[/b]
[b]Job:[/b]
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Weapons:[/b] (If so must be approved by me.)
[b]Special Abilities:[/b] (If so must be approved by me.)
[b]Height:[/b]
[b]Quote:[/b] [i]“Your motto.”[/i]

[b]Looks:[/b]


[b]Profile:[/b]

[b]Personality:[/b]

[b]Abilities:[/b]

[b]Weaknesses:[/b]

[b]Sample Post:[/b]

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GM: Oracle Eyes
Co-GM:
Co-GM:

Characters

Autobots:

Leader: Optimus Prime...open

Decepticons

Leader: Megatron...open

Seekers
Oracle played by Oracle Eyes

Humans
Allison Martin played by LimitlessNikkie

[Karasu]

Oh my god.. Transformers!!!! I am soo interested ^^

[Spero]

Okay :3

When ever you have the time just get a character sheet in.

[Karasu]

I shall indeed, I may jsut bring over my character from another RP and tweak it to fit to this RP XD

[Spero]

Sounds good

[Karasu]

BASIC INFORMATION
Designation: Starblade
Creation Date: unknown (younger than the rest of the big bots tho)
Gender Programming: Female
Fraction: [Can go either way in roleplay]
Function: Flight and Steath
Personality Programing: Quiet, yet this femme bot has a temper that might rival megatrons (metaphoricly) She sometimes will act first adn think secondly, but this is usually when shes pissed

Strength: 5
Intelligence: 8
Dexterity:7
Speed:8
Endurance:4
Courage:8
Firepower:5
Accuracy: 6
Melee:3
Tech Skill:8
Charisma:5
Rank: 1

Abilities: Long Range Sonar

Weaknesses: Her temper is often times what gets her into trouble, she has an insatible curiosity that leads her into more trouble than her temper.

History: Back during the war on Cybertron, Starblade was a great scout and spy, having once been a decepticon herself. Of course it was Primes actions that indirectly led her to stop being for megatron's side in favor of his peaceful ideals..

Starblade had a brotherlong ago, his name was StarJumper, He was a great fighter jet much like starscream (minus the cowardence) and thought megatron was the way of the future mostly.. Until Starblade and he got into a big fight over who was really right in the end.. Optimus or Megatron..Thsi led to them being enemies some time later.. and eventually, Starblade saw him killed by the very team he had served just because he refused to kill her.. Starblade became furious and attacked decepticons without mercy. just before she killed her brother's murderer, she spoke a phrase
that the two of them had always used.. "The Binds of the Spark, connect us in ways you cannot imagine.." This was always true for the Star Twins (as they were commonly called)

Starblade had vanished form cybertron sometime after the minicons had left.. A part of her jsut couldnt let it go after so long of fighting for it. This led her to earth, where she easily enough integrated herself among the Humans, taking on various forms or just hiding away, waiting for her kind to come, like she knew they would.. And she would soon reveal herself to the Autbots once again.


FORM INFORMAITON
Alt Form: Predator Jet
Alt Form Visual: http://members.cox.net/renegade_sith2/miscjunk/predator-reaper-uav.jpg

Exoskeleton Height: 25 feet
Exoskeleton Weight: 4.0 metric tons
Exoskeleton Shape: http://www.scififantmodmadrealm.com/PGW-GundamZeroCustom/PGW-GundamZeroCustom-20.jpg

WEAPON SYSTEMS

LIST THEM ALL HERE
Wing missles
Sonic Gun (right arm becomes this when active)
Left wing can become a sword (similar to starscream)
Items: Data Disk (whats on it she never tells but its a memory of her lost brother) Scanner (for use on scoutng missions)

Roleplay Sample:

StarRunner woke once more after her long hibernation, Some human miners had discovered her but what woke her was call of the Matrix, she stood and copying an overhead predator jet on a routine mission to use for her alternate mode. She streched and smiled transforming and Taking off into the sky, she was on scout mode now. "Gee.. things change a lot when one slumbers for a while.. these human creatures work fast.."

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Name of your character Oracle

Allegiance: Decepticons
Function: Sniper/Seeker
Alternate Modes: F-45a
Weapons: Cybertronian Sniper Rifle, Twin Blade Swords (Hidden in wings), Side Pistol
~Wing Missiles (Alternate mode only)
Special Abilities:
~Cloaking Device/Invisibility
~Above average sensory (visual)
~Robot mode flight ability
Height: 45ft
Quote: "Why do they call me Oracle? Well that's because I can see when someone is about to die."


Strength: 5
Intelligence: 6
Dexterity: 6
Speed: 8
Endurance: 6
Courage: 6
Firepower: 7
Accuracy: 8
Melee: 7
Tech Skill: 3
Charisma: 5
Rank: 6 (Warrior Class)

Profile: WIP

Personality: WIP

Abilities: WIP

Weaknesses: WIP

Sample Post:

[Karasu]

updated mine with your stats XD

[LimitlessNikkie]

Let me know if anything needs tweaked on this. Thanks!

Name of your character Allison Martin

Allegiance: Decepticons
Job: Computer tech and code breaker for the government
Age: 23
Weapons: A taster, a butterfly knife and her vast intelligence.
Special Abilities: (If so must be approved by me.)
Height: 5'8
Quote: “Only the cunning come out on top.”

Looks:Allison is fair skin standing at five feet eight inches she's just above average. She has a long lean build with long legs and smaller more understated curves to her supple body. She has midnight black hair she wears long down her back in an ebony fall and penetrating silver blue eyes.


Profile:Allison was a child prodigy. Math and numbers laid them selves out for her as if they were child's play. She came for a neglectful home the middle child of 4 she was often overlooked because of the troublesome older child or the fussy younger ones. Her talent for numbers didn't shine through until she was almost 6 when for the class counted to a hundred without hesitation and without the aid of fingers or other visual aid did every simple equation they through at her.

Testing started in earnest after that and she was placed in advanced classes. By the time she was 14 she'd graduated MIT and taken up a research post there. Allison works mainly on government contracts focusing on and around military defense. She is one of the top minds in the country in her field though in most respects she seems rather normal.

Personality: Allison cares about only one person in the world, Allison. She works entirely for herself. Everything she does serves her in some purpose. She is never flighty or distracted, she lives her life with a focus that is unshakable. With others she's polite and even nice, she can banter and flirt and her social skills aren't lack like most in her field though she seems to resist forming long term friendships.

Abilities:Allison is an avid runner with a fair level of stamina for someone who works behind a desk. She learned to use a butterfly knife from a father with odd hobbies and learned the Taser durning a class to help protect herself in the dangerous city. She's fairly limber can hold her breath for just over a minute and can type faster then some people can think.

Weaknesses: Allison's weakness is her connections to people. She keeps separate from people because they sway her, she often finds herself caring far too much of what someone else will think of her, especially with someone she'd attracted to. On the flip side alone as she is, she is easily isolated and cornered leaving her vulnerable. She also allergic to peanuts.

Sample Post:
For the first time in three hours Allison was alone. The room smelled of stale cigarette smoke and burnt coffee from the hours logged in the airless little room trying to crack the coding for a nasty virus someone had created to worm it's way into the the missile defense systems. More and more of those nasty buggers had been popping up each more complicated then the last. If they didn't stop the creator soon chances were something would get leaked, the security was goo be the bug was proving better with each new turn.

Allison leaned back rubbing her tired eyes the only sound in the room the whirl of computer fans as processors worked to decode the rest of the virus so they could build a defense against it. it was pointless they'd never see this bug again, they'd see it's cousin as it tried to burrow it's way into CIA encrypted files. It didn't matter Allison didn't care. She did her job nothing more.

Slowly she stood up and clicked a few keys on her key board the command streaking through the computer as she plugged in the slender usb drive as it copied the worm to her thumb drive. She slimed lightly as the transfer completed and she tucked the drive in her pocket. She could think of a few people who would pay top dollar for a bug such a this a smile curling her lips as she though about it.

Knowing no one would look twice at the girl who'd basically broken the program to begin with she picked up her purse and tucked it under her arm as she swept her hair back and left the room heels clicking lightly on the concrete floor as she made her way to her car already imaging the satisfaction of selling her little jewel of a bug to  one of the nations biggest cyber enemies.   

[Karasu]

ooooooooooooo love your girl!!

[LimitlessNikkie]

Thanks ^_^

[Spero]

Let me know if anything needs tweaked on this. Thanks!

She looks good :3

[drezdock]

So, just out of curiosity, is this rp going to be taking place mostly on earth? And if so, will we be playing the autobots and decpticons first arriving and blending in with the local populace?

[drezdock]

oops. My bad. Saw it in the description there! :-)

[LimitlessNikkie]

She looks good :3

Yay thank you!

[Spero]

So, just out of curiosity, is this rp going to be taking place mostly on earth? And if so, will we be playing the autobots and decpticons first arriving and blending in with the local populace?

Yep Yep

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Strength: 4
Intelligence: 9
Dexterity: 9
Speed: 9
Endurance: 4
Courage: 8
Firepower: 4
Accuracy: 6
Melee: 3
Tech Skill: 8
Charisma: 6
Rank: (Leave Blank)

Rank: 1 (Because she would be seen as a Merc. and not a member of ether army)

Note: Remember because of her week combat stats she would not do well in a fight. Thus if she would get into a fight with someone with higher Strength, Firepower, Melee she might be able to doge but she would not be able to inflict heavy damage and might lose such fights.


Abilities:

Weaknesses:

You also need to feel out these two.

Also only one stat can be as high as a 9, the other two needs to be brought down to 8s.

[Karasu]

Remember her main thing is Intel you see,  she's not supposed to fight head on but use subterfuge and sabatouge as her weapons. Knowledge is power muahah XD

and I'll get right on that.