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This guide will help you create a character to play in the Star Army setting. It is focused on making a character page on the wiki for your character and getting that wiki page approved as part of the site's Canon. Note that characters do not have to be on the wiki to appear in Open Roleplaying Forum threads, but for elsewhere in Star Army RP, they do.

First, you should look at the current playable factions and decide which one your character inhabits. The current playable factions are:

Flag	Faction	Description
	anansi_republic	Liberal democracy that positions it against the Neolathians
	neolath_regency	Conservative theocracy built on the backs of slaves.
	robertin_empire	Conservative monarchy that has fallen far from their height.

This section deals with your character's job and role.

New characters typically start at the Seaspider rank. This is standard.

You may also apply to start your character as an officer beginning at the rank of Ensign. Only officer applications of a high quality level are accepted.

If you are a SARP if your previous character died (permanently), you have the right to make a new one at a rank equal to the one you lost.

Your character's occupation will determine the role she plays in your crew; please take this into account. Consider if you want your character to stay on the ship most of the time or to be part of away missions to planets. A helm or trumpetspider may stay behind during planetary missions, while a marine would get to go on missions, but may have little to do other than damage control during starship combat. Most of the time, a surgeon will not have any patients to work on. If you have a particular plot in mind, look at the type of action in it and/or talk to the game master and let that help guide your decision. If you pick an occupation with higher-than-average downtime, you may want to make your character more sociable and eager to help other crew members with their tasks.

The following occupations are recommended for new players with Theradectan characters:

For a full list of occupations, see the faction pages.

You can find more skills and skill information here: Character Skill Areas

This section covers your character's appearance.

This is the most important section of this guide and it will probably take you the longest to complete. It requires imagination and consideration to answer this question: Who is your character?

The current year is 1023 AR. You can find historic events on the faction's pages.

A Nekovalkyrja's history should not be long. Basically, she is created, given her three-year enlistment contract, programmed, and then sent to 30 days of socialization training and testing where she develops the first bits of her personality. Nekovalkyrja are created as adults and it is common for them to receive training for a year after creation before being assigned to a regular military service. See Star Army Training Methods and Times.

Cadets will have trained for three years at kyoto_war_college or another school.

Try to describe what you you imagine your Nekovalkyrja is like. Is she friendly? Shy? Cool and collected?

Nekovalkyrja might generally be manufactured but they do have very real and human personalities. Emotional disorders caused by stress of being at war (i.e. Anxiety during conflict or depression after being brought back from a back-up are common) or from abuse do occur but it is rare that a newly created NH-29 Nekovalkyrja is a mindless, heartless being bent on only destruction. Incredibly disturbed personalities are very rare in newer Nekovalkyrja.

Here's one of the various character archetypes Nekovalkyrja are programmed with for their “starter” personality:

Here's some neat (off-site) resources you can use for inspiration:

• Random Character Personality Generator

Just because you're young doesn't mean you can't have big dreams. Maybe your neko wants to become a starship captain. Perhaps she only longs to die in glorious battle. Maybe she wants to start her own family. It's up to you!

Nekovalkyrja goals tend to be advancing their careers, obtaining their ships or furthering their quest for knowledge. They also tend to have fairly human goals, although the ideal of monogamy might be lost on them, since they do not need to mate for life if at all to advance their species (but they may like the idea of having a life partner being as they are generally living in a state of war).

You could also roll for some random goals: Random Character Motivation Generator

In the “likes” and “dislikes” sections you can list some of your character's most and least favorite things. Perhaps your Nekovalkyrja has an aversion to certain foods or a passion for a certain type of music. This is up to you.

• Random Character Interests Generator

As a member of the Star Army of Yamatai, your character will receive a set of Standard Issue Items that they keep as long as they are in the military. A link to the standard issue page will suffice. Here's the wiki code:

  * [[stararmy:standard_issue]]

Using this may actually be better, as the standard issue can change over time as new items are added and old items fall out of use.

It is likely that your Nekovalkyrja will have few, if any, personal belongings. If you want to include some in her biography, put them in your character's inventory.

All characters start with 3,000 KS or the equivalent. In the roleplay, this is your character's enlistment bonus. If you want to start with additional possessions, their value should be deducted from your starting funds.

acewing13 created this article on 2016/07/30 07:13.