Taiyou Hoshi

Taiyou Hoshi is a NPC played by Ametheliana.

Taiyou Hoshi
Species & Gender:	Nekovalkyrja Female
Year of Birth:	YE 26
Organization:	Star Army of Yamatai
Occupation:	Captain
Rank:	Taisa
Current Placement:	Kaiyō

In 2017, 2018, and again in 2019, 2020, and 2022 RP with Hoshi has won the Outstanding Original Sci-Fi award in the Tournament of Simulations on the Ongoing Worlds blog. There's no telling what future RP Taiyou Hoshi will be written in, but it's sure fun to write her and, hopefully, fun to read!

The hair atop her head turns from deep blue to a lighter blue that fades to completely white tips below, which touches the tops of her hips. She has wide, large, deep blue eyes and a pink, ovular face that has side-swept bangs and chunks of hair on either side. She is completely flat in the chest with toned arms, defined gluteal muscles, and slender legs. On duty she is often wearing a skin-based volumetric projection of clothes, though she is always seen in black flats despite floating more often than walking. She is the absolute minimum height for a NH-33, four foot nine inches. For her gallery, go here!

Charismatic and confident but also cool and mellow when she needs to be, Taiyou Hoshi is an excitable and affable Neko. She is aged and somewhat wise, but that is not to say things don't pass over her head at times when she is lied to or perhaps not given a true account of events as she likes to see the best in other people. When she learns she has been betrayed in no uncertain terms, though, she has a way of losing contact or ceasing familiarity with the perpetrators forevermore. In private with confidants like Ketsurui Aiko, Hoshi can be very pessimistic and see the worst in situations, requiring the Ketsurui clan member to remind her of the hope that exists.

For a long while, she knew not the perils of introspection as she had never sat down to decide if her morals were properly aligned or if she had ever made any grave mistakes. This tunnel-vision caused by her militaristic worldview waned in the past couple of years after she took a year's long sabbatical. Hoshi has many hobbies for a Neko and likes to tend her wasabi and yak farm, paint, and watch her boyfriend cook for her.

Taiyou means sun and Hoshi means star in Yamataigo (邪馬台語). Taiyou Hoshi was born early in YE 26 in the city of Kyoto, Yamatai in a vat, as one would expect of a Neko. She was sent off as the sensors operator with the crew of the YSS Yamatai for its launch that same year. She stayed with the ship until it was destroyed in YE 34. She was asked to captain the YSS Kikyō. Then she stayed with the First Expeditionary Fleet and fought the wars Yamatai held against others with pride and dignity.

Many months after Taiyou Hoshi's rank up to Chusa in YE 36, she transferred to the YSS Imperator as the XO and left the YSS Kikyō in good hands.

After some successful missions aboard that posting and in YE 39, she was once again asked to captain a ship. This time it was to be the YSS Kaiyō II.

Crew of the Kaiyō then went to recapture a SAoY installation on Komorebi from the L'Kor.

In YE 40 she found herself facing up Nicholas Saiga, accusatorially blaming him for a misstep he couldn't recall. Thankfully, the other chusa knew how to handle her temper tantrum the way she needed.¹⁾ Later that year after she had left for the war, he spoke of her with an adoration unparalleled in Yamatai:

On their next mission far from Yamatai now, they fought on a L'Kor space station of great significance and crippled the L'Kor's stronghold. Effectively, the L'Kor threat became insubstantial thanks to the Kaiyō's efforts.

Soon thereafter, they found themselves exploring the Temple of the Stars.

She was quietly asked to perform a mission after Year-End Holidays in YE 40 in which rogue samurai were to be eliminated.

Soon, the crew left secretly for another universe, Ayenee!

They trained there, with mixed bag results. After training, Hoshi and the crew of the Kaiyō switched universes, named Naze Sorairo for the appearance of the universe's space, which was light blue instead of inky black. They were to take out an unknown threat, which turned out to be an entity living within an aether sphere that was within a water wold.

Back in the Kikyō Sector, the team was to check out a planet once inhabited by Hanako.

The planet split apart, killing some crew and damaging others' Mindy's while a vessel entered the system. She sent her Second Officer on a mission to the vessel. Now the lone command staff on the bridge, she soon made the decision to listen to her bridge crew and blow the planet apart—after getting confirmation from Ketsuru-Shôshô to use whatever means possible to stop the errant planet.

In YE 40 she acquired a kilometer of land through Land Grants and a Star Army Cabin, Type 39 which she built with Asuka. ²⁾

Hoshi lost her friend and XO from active duty when Teien Eden became in control of an enemy dictator in an alternate universe and relinquished her position on the Kaiyō to commit herself to that. Hoshi and the Kaiyō had a new XO, Kaze "Kamikaze" Hikaru as the Kaiyō explored a derelict YSS vessel and the odd sensor scans from the planet it was orbiting.

After that odd and slightly creepy mission end, they would be established the ship in a tour of duty into Kuvexian space, seeking to disrupt the enemy- as was the first Kaiyō's intention. Full of dedication, Hoshi captained the Fuji-class in the belly of the beast in order to dismember it through its most sensitive internals. As of YE 43 she won the war against Kuvexia; all of Yamatai did.

She spent some time after that on her ranch, in which time she bought several parcels of land off of her neighbors. Unfettered by missions, crew, and all the random people that Hoshi had become surrounded by, she was happy to spend a year at Hoshi Ryusei Ranch alone or with her sole partner, Nicholas Saiga. Focusing on one another and having all the fun two people in love for years can have for as long and much as they wanted allowed the pair something members of her military rarely get. The couple cherished that time intensely, even when called back to action. The mission was to learn what Emperor Uesu's fleet was learning from Yamatai… and why. She did so by conventional means, but the team were found out and strong armed into battle alongside Uesu's Fleet. Afterwards, they were allowed an audience with Uesu himself in which a tenuous alliance was formed.

That alliance was tested to its limits when Hoshi led the task force to retake Kessica from the Mishhuvurthyar, some of which had become Enhanced in the years since the last Mishhu war and while in this southern region. It was a trying ground assault that spanned many days, starting at the planet's northern tip where Hoshi kited an enemy Enhanced into the mountains and, with the help of William Sanders and an avalanche of snow, was able to slow its healing abilities and down it. Though they carried the enemy back on their shoulders, Hoshi had gotten very hurt in this close quarters brawl, reinforcing her role as a ranged support. She took up the sniper rifle during the next battle, but her real ability came in concerting an effort to make the task force's smaller numbers work for them as they faked out the enemy. In doing so, they were able to retake the capital city —not without a run-in with a near deadly Phantasm Nightmare Type Mishhuvurthyar that left her Kaiyo Sword in pieces. Though they had retaken Kessica from Yamatai's oldest enemy, the way the enemy had evolved to become more powerful would no doubt continue to challenge Hoshi and her crew in missions to come.

Alongside Aiko on Iðunn, Hoshi recalled the Kuvexian War

Hoshi also lamented how little of her original crew the Kaiyo had since going on a long break. Part of her wanted to believe a skeleton crew was better for her and for the ship. Aiko admitted that she was shocked “to learn the Empire I was created to defend only existed in my mind.” But she was also able to remind Hoshi that Yamatai could be found on the Kaiyō for her. The honesty dried Hoshi's tears and set her on a course to man her crew once more. Coincidentally, this happened alongside the beginning of the Third Mishhuvurthyar War in which missions were not few and far between to battle harden the mostly green crew. They proved themselves not just worthy warriors, but also good company. Hoshi found herself warming to a few of them and once again felt like she and the Kaiyō were particularly lucky when it came to the crewmen assigned to it. Except this time it wasn't in the form of a sole princess, but in a half dozen ardent and astute recruits.

As part of Task Force 282 her continued mission has been to investigate threats to the Empire. She continued to build up an alliance with Uesu, but when she asked Hanako about him, the Shosho's answer muddied the waters of the man she had grown to admire when she implied he had taken advantage of people and abused his power when Emperor. ³⁾

She gave Hoshi a lot to think about, though soon thereafter the need to protect Uesu cropped up when the Kaiyo was tasked with an infiltration mission leading up to The Battle of Venushhurl ⁴⁾ wherein a wormhole that opened into Uesureyan territory and exited in the Kikyo Sector was being utilized by the Mishhuvurthyar. Hoshi and one of the most observant new recruits, Molli Byrne, heard heated argument during a Mishhuvurthyar war meeting that made Hoshi start to question all she knew about the Mishhu despite knowing their true destructive capability. The strategic imperative to push into this discord seemed obvious to Hoshi, but Yui did not agree ⁵⁾. The captain pushed for a compromise to continue investigating this avenue as the words of a Grey Mishhu she had overheard rung in her mind: “Say no. Don't join the NMX. There's no future for us there.”

Because of the small Kaiyo team's heroic efforts, the wormhole was taken by joint Yamataian and Uesureyan forces. But also because of this heroic effort, Hoshi put in a request for a simpler mission after such a trying one. The three month mission on and off Urtullanto come would force Hoshi to continue to more thoroughly question her ethics and the narrow-mindedness in which she had pursued eradicating the enemy under all circumstances.

Taiyou Hoshi has the following notable skills:

• Star Army Common Skills
• Leadership
• Starship Operation
• Strategy
• Covert
• Sniper
• Underwater
• Painting

Taiyou Hoshi is connected to:

• Crew of the YSS Kaiyō II
• Nicholas Saiga (Boyfriend, Soulmate)
• Ketsurui Aiko (Best Friend, First Officer)
• Deio Asuka (Close friend, former lover)
• Teien Eden (Close friend, former XO)
• Kitsurugi Uesu (New friend, Creator/Emperor)
• Hanako (New Friend)

Taiyou Hoshi has the Star Army Standard Issue Items.

• Kaiyo Sword
• Various Aloha shirts.
• Black pleated skirts
• Black patent leather flats for duty wear
• Pajamas and slippers, bunny
• Translucent white one piece swimsuit
• Black satin dress with slitted thighs, ankle-length, thin strapped.
• Other various outfits and shoes
• Hair ties
• Feather pillows and satin sheets
• Teal Uesureyan military trousers
• Cornflower, periwinkle belts
• SSCC-XL containing Palladium
• SSCC-XL containing Phosphorus ⁶⁾
• Medtech MED kit
• Case of sperm sample tubes
• Kaiyō Year-End Traditions
• Star Army Holiday Kit, Type 36
• Star Army Officer Sword, Type 40
• Survival Knife, Type 22 with olive green rubber grip
• GP-13 Pulse Pistol
• SiZi Model 38 Special Duty Revolver with transparent blue pistol grip
• kanzashi
• Hoshi Ryusei Ranch
• Watercolor half pan palette of 40 colors, brushes, and watercolor paper.
• Shipment from Second Chance Salvage Corporation (Not yet picked up from far property on ranch) ⁷⁾
• Yui Star Army Command and Irim First Fleet challenge coins
• Framed picture of Irim, Yui, and herself on the bridge of the YSS Kaiyō II

Taiyou Hoshi currently has 8,378,600 KS.

Ke-M2-4 Series "Mindy" Armor

Past Loadout included: SM-1 Zesuaium Shield

In the case ametheliana becomes inactive:

• Can this character be used as an NPC by a GM or FM? NO
• Can this character be adopted after I've been gone for a year? NO