HOMEWORLD: The Sword of Caaliburnous (She-Ra/Homeworld crossover)

DragonCobolt · Jul 16, 2022

NAME	Lieutenant Ajora Eytapea	PEOPLE	Taiidani
POSITIVE TRAIT	Tough: Once per combat, if taken out, she survives just fine without problems.	NEGATIVE TRAIT	Hunted: Ajora lives a dangerous life - all encounters are at +1 danger.

SKILLS

SKILL	LEVEL	MANIFOLD
Close Combat	2	(Brawling), Blunt, (Edged), Polearm, Flexible
Guns	2	(Pistols & SMGs), Shotgun, Assault Rifle, Sniper Rifles, (Vehicular Weapons)
Personal	2	(Awareness), (Athletics), Finesse, Stealth, Endurance
Social	1	Charm, Bluff, Empathy, (Leadership), Taunt
Tech	0	Construction, Tinkering, Repair, Computers, Sabotage
Taiidani Noble (Background)	1	Courtly Relations, (Imperial Law), Intrigue, Noble House Ciphers, Noble House Contacts
Imperial Pilot (Background)	2	Fellow Pilots, (Fighter Identification), Fighter Specifications, Imperial Navy Regulations, (Tactics)

THEMES

Bold Leader: Ajora leads from the front, with heart and passion. She will never back down from risks, and inspires great loyalty in her troops.

Warrior for Justice: Ajora won't allow injustice to go unpunished or unremarked on. When needed, she'll fight for what is right.

Religious Figure: Ajora is rumored to be the Sajuuk-Ra, a figure of prophetic legend among the Kushan and others. What could this mean...

GEAR

The Sword
Adds: +1 | Speed: Fast | Range: 0-1 | Base Damage: 1

Lord of War: Both adds and base damage improve as your Close Combat Skill improves.

TI-90 Recoilless Pistol
Adds: +0 | Speed: Medium | Range: 1-6+ | Base Damage: 1

Dance, Fucker, Dance: Gain 1 heat before resolving an attack to apply the Off Balance oomph to an enemy as a free action.

Vac-Suit: Allows survival in space.

VEHICLE

Blade class Heavy Interceptor
RU Cost: 26 | RU Cost to refuel: 3
Hull: +6, contains six slots (uses five)
Cockpit: A cockpit containing the pilot and life support system
Main Fusion Drive: +21 Realspace Speed Scale
Armor Cladding: +15 Armor Cladding
NM-98 Twin-Linked Mass Driver: Twin rapid fire mass drivers slaved into a single burst.
Adds: +1 | Range: 1-12 | Speed: Medium | Base Damage (AOE): 7 (None)
Frangible Rounds: may optionally double target's armor to double base damage.
Armor Piercing: Ignore 7 armor
Targeting Scanners: +6 to scan at ranges 1-6

Damage Silhouette (damage/destroyed)
Hull: 6/12 | Cockpit: 0/1 | Drive: 11/21 | Cladding: 8/15 | Mass Driver: 3/6 | Targeting Scanner: 3/6

Penalties

Fuel Requirement: (-10x2): it's a gas guzzling fighter, obviously

Environmental Limiting (-6x1): it cannot fly in atmosphere

Weak Points (-15x1): If the enemy manages to get 5 "weak point" oomphs, they can ignore the armor cladding.

RELATIONSHIPS

Bowdora is...

OBLIVIOUS
Adora can take heat from Bow at a 2 to 1 ratio as a free action (this is a net heat loss.) Bow gets +1/2 of Adora's skill when she and he cooperates.

Glimdora is...

SMITTEN!
When fighting side by side, you can EITHER: "If one of you takes a hit in combat, the other can take one action before the NPCs do" OR "negate someone's heat source in combat by physically intervening", but not both. You choose before battle.

NAME	Lieutenant Kaja	PEOPLE	Taiidani
POSITIVE TRAIT	Shapeshifter: Kaja may 3 heat to alter her physical form to be between cat sized and human sized.	NEGATIVE TRAIT	Medically Dependent: Kaja requires constant Bentui crafted medical injections (5 RU per month.) If she misses it, her heat cap is reduced by 1, per session you miss out until you hit 0 Heat and are Taken out.

SKILLS

SKILL	LEVEL	MANIFOLD
Close Combat	2	(Brawling), Blunt, Edged, Polearm, (Flexible)
Guns	2	(Pistols & SMGs), Shotgun, Assault Rifle, Sniper Rifles, (Vehicular Weapons)
Personal	2	Awareness, Athletics, (Finesse), (Stealth), Endurance
Social	1	Charm, (Bluff), Empathy, Leadership, Taunt
Tech	0	Construction, Tinkering, Repair, Computers, Sabotage
Facedancer (Background)	2	Impersonation, Formsculpting, Deep Contacts, (Dirty Tricks), (Dark Secrets)
Imperial Pilot (Background)	1	Fellow Pilots, Fighter Identification, Fighter Specifications, Imperial Navy Regulations, (Tactics)

THEMES

Genius Commander: Kaja, despite her social status as a mutie, might be the most skilled tactician and strategist in the Taiidani Empire. Now, try and convince them of that.

A catgirl in disguise: Kaja has an ideal form she can never truly use in her life - but thanks to her being a facedancer, she can still tap into it from time to time.

Cynic looking for love: She won't admit it, but she feels deeply, loves harder...and hurts most of all.

GEAR

Claws
Adds: +0 | Speed: Medium | Range: 0-1 | Base Damage: 2

Buff or Whippy: Base Damage is equal to Athletics or Finesse.

TI-90 Recoilless Pistol
Adds: +0 | Speed: Medium | Range: 1-6+ | Base Damage: 1

Dance, Fucker, Dance: Gain 1 heat before resolving an attack to apply the Off Balance oomph to an enemy as a free action.

Vac-Suit: Allows survival in space.

VEHICLE

Triikdor class Space Superiority Fighter
RU Cost: 26 | RU Cost to refuel: 3
Hull: Size: +6, contains six slots (five are used)
Cockpit: A cockpit, containing the pilot and life support system.
Main Fusion Drive: +28 Realspace Speed Scale
Armor Cladding: +10 armor scale
TI-0101 Mass Driver Cannon: A high powered, heavily offset coaxial mass driver cannon.
Adds: -1 | Range: 11-16 | Speed: Fast | Base Damage (AOE): 7 (None)

Suppression!: Can apply one off balance and pinned oomphs even on a miss.

Armor Piercing Ammo: Ignores 7 armor.

Fuel Requirement (-10x2): burns through more fuel than anyone likes to admit.

Skill Penalty (-10x2): Whenever sudden, erratic turning is required, the heavily offset main gun can produce wild instabilities that can make piloting extremely difficult.

RvengefuLobster · Sep 27, 2022

[X] Plan "Percussive Maintenance, Percussive Firing"

It's a good plan.

w34v3r · Sep 28, 2022

[X] Plan "Percussive Maintenance, Percussive Firing"

Ajora unlocks sidereal martial art: fist of the IT professional.

DragonCobolt · Sep 28, 2022

Adhoc vote count started by DragonCobolt on Sep 28, 2022 at 11:09 PM, finished with 13 posts and 9 votes.

4 people have voted
[X] Plan "Percussive Maintenance, Percussive Firing"
-[X] Use skill checks to get two Jerry Rigged oomphs to keep the Sensors running for this round and next
-[X] Fire into the Bandits to do as much damage as possible without raising heat
-[X] Cooldown 1 Heat so only 1 Bandit can act, letting Bow and Glimtara clean up shop and protecting the corvettes
3 people have voted
[X] Bash the Bandits (use your guns to explode two of them, gaining 3 heat in the process, then vent 6 heat using hold it together.)
1 people have voted
[X] Bash The Bandits
- beowolf
1 people have voted
[X] Fix It First (Create as many Jerry Rigged oomphs with a skill check, then just end your turn - dropping your heat to 2. This will mean only one bandit acts - and frees up Bow and Glimtara to start cleaning up shop.)
- CrabTravelLLC

Lets seeeee

Diff 1 to make a Jerry Rig. And since you're using brawling to kick it into shape (an eminently HEAT system thing to do) you have a skill of 2, so that nets you a success +1 oomph, which means you have 2 Jerry Rig oomphs. Huzzay!

Now, diff 2 to shoot, with +1 add, -1 for evasion, will do 4 damage, +2 from the flack guns. That'll disable a Bandit. Then you vent down to 2 and one will act!

Not the most dramatic turn, but it does mean Bow can get to work without a ton of fighters throwing in - which, fun fact, is enough to break their morale and send em running!

DragonCobolt · Sep 28, 2022

Ajora scowled as she saw the buzzing spray of useless info from her targeting computers. "Come ON!" she shouted, lifting her foot up and kicking the console. The loud thump rang through her boot, up her spine, into her helmet. Glimtara laughed.

"Ajora! What are-"

Ajora kicked again.

The screen buzzed, flickered, and snapped back into focus.

"Hah!" Ajora laughed as she threw the thruster on full. Her back smashed into the curved edge of the seat and her teeth clenched as she saw the snaking lines of movement and gunfire - and saw her opening. One of the bandits was right there, right...she drew the bead on it and felt time slow and still. Her thumb jerked back on the trigger and the mass drivers rattled. THe Bandit started to tumble, trying to show its strongest points to her guns. Instead, several rounds perforated the blunt wing-shape of the left side, and fuel began to explode into space around it, tumbling outwards. The Bandit started to flip and over end as Ajora pulled away - watching as traceries of bullets hammered into another Bandit, sheering it in half as Bow's fighter whipped past her in a streamer of blue-white contrails.

"They're breaking off!"

Ajora watched as the surviving Bandits peeled away, their yellow contrails cutting through the air. The evacuation of an entire fighter group - especially one that hadn't come with support frigates or carriers - was a pretty forlorn sight. Nothing was quite as easy to gun down as a bunch of people running in a straight line, no matter how hard they were jetting. But the Turani were nothing if not...inventive. Two Assassin frigates turned away - and their hyperdrives began to open and sweep them up, and the pilots just...flew straight into the quantum waveform as it swept along the frigates.

It was a neat trick.

It only got one of them killed - sheered in half as they missed the angle and hit the edge of the hyperspace waveform as it swept forward. The mirror bright shine of the perfect cut caught a glint of starlight...and then the fusion engine released from the magnetic bottle burst - sweeping the half of the fighter out of existence.

Ajora breathed a slow sigh of relief - and watched as one Assassin started to get towed towards the yawning hole in the side of the Mothership. In an attempt to make life more difficult, the struts on the ion arrays were flapping uselessly, like it was a kind of a bird, but the corvettes had latched on in juuuuuuust the right spots to drag it and so were unmolested. The other assassin had two corvettes, and they hadn't quite managed to lock her down. The Assassin tumbled and the winking red beam of its ion weapon speared into the night, waving erratically.

"That's going to be fun to police," Glimtara said as she cruised to a steady stop within a stone's throw of Ajora's fighter. Ajora could see her craning her head, peering out and through her cockpit. Her soft, slow whistle came over the radio. "Ajora, it looks like your nose got a bit bloodied in there."

"Yeah," Ajora said, shaking her head slowly. "I should fly into the docking bay verrrry carefully, huh?"

"Think of it like this," Bow said over the other line. "Trajtaa is going to have lots of fun fixing it up!"

He did have a point.

Ajora began to squirt her thrusters gently - cruising towards the maw of the docking bay. The sensors being...shall we say...intermittent did make it harder than she expected, as the telemetry the ship was feeding towards the docking computers kept getting confused and muddled. So, Ajora had to take it in manually, frowning as she watched the guidelights through her screen. The yawning clamps that she flew towards seemed to grow larger glacially slowly - but then suddenly, they were sweeping out towards her far too fast. She tensed...and then breathed out a slow sigh of relief as they locked in tight around her fighter.

The cockpit popped and a grinning Sommtaw man looked in at her. "Good flying out there, Taiidani," he said, dryly.

Ajora swung herself out, blinking. "I didn't even shoot down that might ships," she said, a bit confused. "Not even an ace."

"Ace hell - we were all braced for impact and then, nothing. According to DC, you saved a few hull-decks a sudden trip to vacuum," he said, slapping the side of the Blade. "Better than a dozen aces, if you ask me."

Ajora blushed, not sure how to...to...

Well.

She shook her head. "Just...doing my job," she said. Her eyes fell on the Assassin. In the docking bay, it became overwhelmingly clear just how big it was - and by comparison, how big the Mothership herself was, that she could fit several of those things inside of her without blinking. The arrays were locked down and the gunmetal gray hull had been affixed into place by several huge gantry arms. She could see the microgravity harness clad, armored shapes of red clad Kushan moving into positions around the hull, taking advantage of the fact they could breach and enter the ship from every direction.

They had knives and shotguns and pistols.

Ajora felt a cold, crawling sensation shooting along her spine. Turani were pirates and...this was a war.

She could imagine those same red clad figures, grimly arraying themselves around a captured Taiidani frigate. The sudden mental image of Kaja in a corridor, pressed up against a wall, nowhere to run, nothing but her own hands and a pistol to defend herself. Ajora forced the image away before the red splattered and the eyes went dead - but the cold certainty of it made her want to throw up. Post combat shakes were hitting too.

Bow's Blade slotted in next to hers - much faster and more smoothly, the hallmark signs of docking by computer. His cockpit popped open and his own support crew started to bustle around his ship, and the sound of cheers and laughter could be heard over the sparks, hisses, and clamor of the repair crews.

Ajora wanted to smile for him.

Instead, she kept watching the red figures.

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CURRENT HEAT: 2 (it takes 1 hour to lose all heat, fun fact)
[ ] ...fuck this. Go and offer your help to the boarding party. (Diff 1 charm check)
[ ] ...fuck this. Go and offer to try and talk the Turani down. Maybe we can end this peacefully, with an exchange of prisoners. (Diff 3 charm check)
[ ] ...fuck this. You're not going to watch. (Go and cool off with your friends.)
[ ] Write In

StrigaRosa · Sep 28, 2022

[X] ...fuck this. Go and offer your help to the boarding party. (Diff 1 charm check)

I want to hit things with a sword.

Tabascoheath · Sep 28, 2022

[X] ...fuck this. Go and offer your help to the boarding party. (Diff 1 charm check)

THE RED! THE RED! THE RED! TAKE THE RED AND A WARRIOR PRINCESS ONCE MORE!!! This is it, kill some pirates and make friends with the boarding squads, shoulder to shoulder in the halls of this ship we shall prove ourselves worthy of being Kiithid!

Hatter · Sep 29, 2022

I wonder if it would be less bloody to just out wait the pirates. I guess boarding mechanics don't mean that it's a possibility.

[ ] ...fuck this. You're not going to watch. (Go and cool off with your friends.)

Downtime! Motivated solely by us just having like four chapters full of combat.

DragonCobolt · Sep 29, 2022

Hatter said:
Downtime! Motivated solely by us just having like four chapters full of combat.

It is called High Excitement Action Tabletop!

LawsOfRobotics · Sep 29, 2022