Mew Master
4th March 2003, 06:21 PM
Heya, did you eve have a story idea that you wanted to expand on? Well, I had several, however they wheren't original and my mom always bugged me to be original, so here goes.
I got several "HOW TO DRAW MANGA" books recently and have begun work on my new story/Manga/ Anime(HOPEFULLY) however, the story development and character designs are still in the works. Anyone care to read the info I have and help me out. Maybe I cna help you out if you have a Manga you're working on. It's a win-win situation. Okay enough about that, here is what I have for STAR'S END
Overall: Welcome to the future. A place where good guys finish last. A quick draw, is the best defence. And your wits are all that you can count on..... Whoops! That was Outlaw Star's intro on Toonami!
Take 2: The future, one place where space criminals freely travel from planet to planet. Where the only defense against these outlaws are bounty hunters who are smart enough, quick enough, and strong enough to get these outlaws at their own game. It is also a place where magic and technology collide. But through this chaos of Darvor arts verses Technoid know-how, more danger arrives as a new society order, called the Archangels, slowly rises into the mainstream. Now the Archangels threaten more than just the Darvors or Technoids, they threaten the survival of the universe itself. Strap in. Charge your blaster. It's gonna be a wild ride. STAR'S END, only Toonami.
KEI KIAKA: Bounty hunter, Kei Kiaka. A man with a past, something to prove, and nothing to lose.
ISHA TAOYA: Isha Taoya. One woman who seems quiet, seems shy, but is deadly. Just watch out for her feet.
JARED KARD: Millitary Weapons Specialist, Jared Kard. The one man who you do not want to cross, esspecially when he's at the other end of the cannon.
JI OMON: Star Ship Systems Specialist, Ji Omon. When in a fix, he's the best one to count on. Just don't ask him to cheer you up in a crisis.
Chapter One: Kei Kiaka is on the trail of Kal Kipyard, a major bounty head with impressive security. Will Kei risk his own life to save one of Kal's emploies from the employer?
Chapter Two: Isha Taoya was saved by Kei once, but can the bounty hunter save both of their lives from Kal's vicious Biolizard?
Chapter Three: After narrowly escaping the jaws of the Biolizard, Kei and Isha are pursuied by Kal's enforcers. Can a discharged millitary officer help save their lives?
Chapter Four: Isha has no choice but to join Kei, Jared, and Ji on the Star Falcon, as their new team mate. But can the three guys handle this new twist of events?
Chapter Five:
Chapter Six: Ji used to have a sweatheart while attending school. Now, several years later, she's the latest bounty head, and Ji has to make a choice: Let her go, or be killed by her.
Chapter Seven: For a change of pace, the Star Falcon's crew find themselves at the other end of a bounty. Someone wants them out of the way, and they have no clue.
Chapter Eight:
Chapter Nine: The kidnapped daughter of a Technoid official manages to escape from her captors and runs right into Kei and the others.
Chapter Ten: The kidnappers want the girl back, but they have to get through the crew of the Star Falcon first.
Chapter Eleven: Kei decides to head to his home planet of Harfou, for some R&R as well as to check in on his mother. Isha tagges along, and ends up finding out more about Kei's past than he ever would have told her. Things get more complicated when Kei's hometown is under attack by a woman with unimaginable powers
Chapter Twelve: With only a small emblem to go with, Kei begins to head out after the woman who attacked his home and killed his mother. But the Darvor High Council puts a grave decision on his shoulders: Should he leave, he jeprodizes everything, including his birth-right.
Chapter Thirteen: As the crew of the Star Falcon regroup and ponder the latest events, they find that not everyone is who they think it is.
Chapter Fourteen: A Technoid house of government is bombed, and Jared's to blame. Can the other's prove his innocents before he is exicuted?
Chapter Fifteen:
Chapter Sixteen: After the recent events in the universe, the Star Falcon's crew goes back to being bounty hunters. But this bounty has a price, and the cocktails tain't cheap neither!
Chapter Seventeen: Several Technoid officials have been taken hostage by members claiming to be a Darvor activist group. With not much to go on, can Kei disprove the rumors and clear his people.
Chapter Eighteen: With the info from his father, Kei heads to the streets. After getting the lowdown from Mark, Kei finds himself the latest target.
Chapter Nineteen: Taken captive, Kei tries to wait as Jared, Ji, and Isha move in to break him out. What they all don't know is that is what someone wants them to do.
Chapter Twenty:
Chapter Twentyone: Kei failed to capture the head of the Archangel Order. As he regroups with the others, the Archangles make their move.
Chapter Twentytwo: Half of a contenient has been destoryed by the Archangel's latest weapon. Now it's time for the Falcon's crew to make a decision: To go up there and die, or watch as the universe is torn apart by an intergalactic war.
Chapter Twentythree: Against the wishes of a Technoid Senator, the Star Falcon heads towards the destructive satillite orbiting the planet. As they split up to go after the weaknesses of the satillite, Kei and Isha run into an enemy from the past. The Final Battle has only just begun.
Chapter Twentyfour: The Mecha-Biolizard hasn't stopped Kei from going after the Archangels head man. Now its a clash of powers and Kei and Alzar battle for the fate of the universe.
Chapter Twentyfive: Kei's been beaten, but he's still alive. As Alzar is attacked by each of Kei's friends, and each is beaten, Kei finds more strength to fight on than he ever thought he had in him.
Chapter Twentysix: With the energy of every species in the galaxy flowing through him. Kei and Alzar battle once again, this time with more at stake, than just their lives.
Name: Kei Kiaka
Sex: Male
Age: 21 Earth Years
Description: 6'3", Hazel Green eyes, blue hair. Large build, and big feet. Special markings on his left arm, covers it with a tied piece of fabric, and the palms of his hands, the palms are kept covered with hand protection that lets his fingers through and cover his palms. All darvors have markings on their faces, but Kei was born with only the markings on his arm and hands, and no others.
Personality: Overall, a even tempered person, it would take a lot to get him rilled up. Cares deeply about his friends and family, and would do anything to help them. Clumsy, and tends to stutter around members of the oposite sex. Unrealisticly fast reflexes and excelent hand-eye cordination.
Weapon(s) of Choice: Has many derived from both Darvors and Technoids, but prefers three. A biasha (special high endurance wood) staff, about six and a half feet long Octigonal sai, a common used weapon of Darvor pereference. Katsana, a technoid developed weapon that uses a beings own energy, as well as special bullets, to fire a super-charged beam of Gera energy. The three different sections of the gun spin and gather energy for the spell bound bullet from the one pulling the trigger. Also has a small double barrel mini-gun on the bottom of the handle. Blue in color.
Proffesion/Alliance: Bounty Hunter, Nuetral
History: The son of a Technoid father and a Darvor mother, Kei always felt he was different from everyone else on his home planet of Harfou. Ridiculed and shunned, for the first 15 years of his life he was specifically trained by his ailing mother to master the darvor arts. After he passed the right of passage test, much to the dismay of the darvor elders, he was given a new type of starship for his use from his distant father. Interstellar flights alone where boring, until he met several friends through out most of the Core and Outer Rim. Two of them would join him on his new quest. After an accidental run-in to a famous bounty hunter in a tavern, Kei then made up his mind to be a bounty hunter. Only to wander the stars and stop criminals that the law couldn't, because he couldn't live in either Darvor, or Technoid societies.
Name: Isha Taoya
Sex: Female
Age: 20 Earth Years
Description: 5'7". Sliming female build. Deep brown eyes and dark red hair. Thin legs that appear to be longer than normal.
Personality: Usually quiet unless talked to. Tends to have dry sarcastic wit that makes the others in the group do double takes, due to her quietness. Can take them by surprise with her comments. When irritated, she feels obligated to whack them along the back of the head, but it's all done in good humor.
Weapon(s) of Choice: Two common laser blasters. Uses her feet as well.
Proffesion/Alliance: Bounty Hunter, Nuetral
History: A traveller, she drifted from planet to planet, through the Core and Rim. Taking any jobs for money, she would stay for a few months and then pack up and leave. She was hired by Kal Kipyard as a waitress for a few months. When she tried to quit Kal wouldn't let her. After she slapped him, Kal threatenend to kill her to make an example to the rest of the staff. Kei intervined at the last second, saving her life but endangering them both in the battle with Kal's pet, the Biolizard.
Name: Jared Kard
Sex: Male
Age: 23 Earth years
Description: 6'1", dark brown hair blue eyes, medium build. Small frame glasses that rest on his nose.
Personality: Good natured, likes to think of possibilities that would make an event more fun, or dangerous. Good friends with Kei and Ji. Also likes to blow things up. Extenisive planner, sets traps for the unsuspecting.
Weapon(s) of Choice: Shoulder-mounted Pulse Cannon. A Shoulder Class Cannon, fires a pulse of energy at the target. Pulse Pistol, a Double Barreled pistol that fires a smaller pulse than the Pulse Cannon, setting on the back. Starburst Pistol, a Single barreled pistol that fires pulses much like the Pulse Pistol and Cannon. Settings for all weapons at the back of the barrel. Energy clips placed in different areas, depending on the weapon type.
Profession/Alliance: Ex-Technoid Millitary Officer, Bounty Hunter (Weapons Specialist), Technoid
History: After his graduation from the Technoid schools, Jared was offered dozens of positions in the Technoid Millitary Force, some of them high and others lower. He took the highest rank for anyone his age, a General's rank. Other Generals avoided Jared and never listened to him because of what they thought was inexperience on his part. Being interested in the weapons systems, Jared pointed out several design flaws in some of the latest Pulse Weapons, that proved to be more powerful, but take longer to recharge, and the risk of overloading increased after every shot. Jared was apointed to the head of research and development as a general for the mistakes he brought to light. The new weapons systems worked flawlessly for the first few tests. But disaster struck when the next few tests caused the weapons to overload, killing two soliders in the process. After an investigation, it was found that two wires within the weapon's main design where not allined properly. Because Jared was supposed to look over all designs and search for flaws, he was deamed responsible for the death of two men, and dishonorably discharged after two years in jail. He wandered the galaxy, before meeting up with Kei in a run down tavern in the Rim. Kei had met Jared two years before in another tavern, on the Technoid planet of Jikal. A friendship had struck up instantly. After the second meeting, Jared was asked to join Kei in his new proffession. Already being an expert in several feilds of weapons, Jared accepted the offer from his friend.
Name: Ji Omon
Sex: Male
Age: 23 Earth Years
Description: 5'8" with black hair and red eyes. Small build, slightly rounder face.
Personality: "Voice of Reason." Ji is the only one out of the group that takes everything into account, and even warns Kei and Jared if the stakes are too high, even if they never listen. Is joked about being pesimistic, but both Kei and Jared know he's just making sure they know the stakes before jumping in head first.
Weapon(s) of Choice: Not really a fighter, but if he does he uses a sword that can have a field of energy surround it and be able to slice through any material. The energy sword is powerful, but the energy can only last for five minutes.
Proffesion/Alliance: Bounty Hunter (Systems Specialist), Nuetral
History: Ji Omon, began life a planet drifter. His family constantly moved from planet to planet, trying to settle down. When he was 7, in Earth Years, his family moved to a darvor planet, Harfou. As fate would have it, he met Kei as the darvor walked along on a errand for his mother. Ji was lost in the maze of dirt roads in the town of Nuraka, and stopped Kei for directions. They ended up walking along together, and became friends over the next two years Ji's family stayed there. When Ji left, he lost the only friend he had ever managed to keep. After finally settling down on a nuetral planet, Ji went to school and was determined to learn all the baisics of the computer designs for technoids and darvors. He became one of the most influential minds in the main frame circles. Bored with the routine of his day-in day-out mediocraty, he recieved a vid-message from Kei, asking for some help with a new turn in his own life. Ji was excited to get out of his office with the promise to check in on an old friend. Kei introduced Ji to Jared at that meeting and the three decided to form a Bounty Hunter team, each with their own strengths.
Name: Alicia Kiaka
Sex: Female
Age: 42 Earth Years
Description: 5'7" with green eyes and dark brown hair.
Personality: Usually witty and sarcastic. Friendly, someone who you can count on to get the job done.
Weapon(s) of Choice: None
Proffesion/Alliance: Instructor of Darvor Arts, Darvor
History: Alicia is a member of the original bloodline on Harfou, both from earth and Harfou itself. Because of her status, she was entrusted to keep peace and pass on her past to a succesor. When tempers began to fly between the Technoids and Darvors, she wanted to stop the conflict before it esciliated. A collection of the Darvor Elders from the different darvor planets, accepted her request and sent her, along with several other representatives from the other planets. There, along with members from the Technoid peace party, they sat down and discussed ways to avoid a war between the two. It was there that Alicia met Waren Jihard. The two fell in love over the two month period, but they realized that they could never truely be together, so regretably, they went their seperate ways. Months after the peace aggrement, Alicia found herself pregnant with Waren's child. The Elders on Harfou, held a meeting to discuss the current situation. A Darvor having a Technoid child was unheard of! But because Alicia was a direct decendant of the original earth pilgrams as well as Harfou's own line, it was found that nothing could be done unless she opennly violated the Darvor law. Alicia knew the laws, and since her newborn son was half Technoid and half Darvor, he couldn't train with other darvor students, so she had to train Kei by herself, in her own home. Her life became more complicated, when she was diagnosed with a wasting disease, she might have a decade left. Alicia never gave up and continued to live to the fullest, teaching her son all of the darvor arts she learned, and continued to fufil her duties for her status, even after Kei left Harfou for the stars.
Name: Waren Jihard
Sex: Male
Age: 44 Earth Years
Description: 6'1" large build, with brown eyes and blue hair.
Personality: Kind and easy going. Loving towards family.
Weapon(s) of Choice: None
Proffesion/Alliance: Scientist, Technoids
History: Born to a prestigious family, Waren went to the best schools money could buy. Thorugh his teens, he disagreed with his family's views on the darvor societies and joined in the peace cause that other Technoids felt would solve the problems between the two factions. Durring the peace talks, he fell in love at first sight with Alicia Kiaka. They both knew their love couldn't last so they went their seperate ways tearfully. He had no idea of the son he had until two years later when a vid-message from Alicia told him about her deteriorating health and her worry for their son. Determined not to let his beloved die too soon, he secretly sent money to help cover her medical expenses. Alicia and Waren kept in touch through coded messages though the years and when he found that his son was saving up for a ship, Waren set to work. Designing the fastest starship for his son, with some of the most advanced weapons available on or off the black market. By the time it was finished, Kei had already completed his right of passage so it was sent by Waren, who disguised himself as he delivered it. His son had grown to be almost taller than him, and he was proud that he wanted to go do something among the stars. After that he went back to work and only got messages from Alicia on Kei's progress.
Name: Mark Tarka
Sex: Male
Age: 21 Earth Years
Description: 5'9" dark green hair, and brown eyes. Medium build.
Personality: A smark alek, Mark tries to be a comedian but mostly comes off as being too sarcastic.
Weapon(s) of Choice: Calapsable Bazooka, that fires a mini-missle with a very exploasive warhead.
Proffesion/Alliance: Scrap Drifter, Nuetral
History: Mark is one who has never had a hard time making friends. Even after moving to different planets Mark had made several friends on each. On Harfou, the only friend he could make and keep was Kei. Because Kei was ridiculed by the others Mark found it was better to be with one decent person who wasn't liked, than with many indecent people who where looked apon highly. Mark and Kei stayed best friends even through the years that Mark continued to move across the planets. Mark's specialilty relies in his ability to buy and sell scrap. Because of his personality, you wouldn't expect him to be able to deal on the black market. With his slight connection to some of the under world bosses, he usually pays Kei and company a visit with nicely budgeted bounty info.
Name: Robert Young
Sex: Male
Age: 22 Earth Years
Description: 5'6" Brown hair and yellow eyes. Small build.
Personality: Slightly pesimistic, has a sense of humor. Prefers to work on his own projects before anything else.
Weapon(s) of Choice: Small palm-top computer. Cable to uplink into any computer.
Profession/Alliance: Known Hacker, Neutral
History: Robert, better known as Bobby, originaly lived on a Technoid planet. His father lost his position and they later moved to Harfou, a Darvor planet on the Rim. Because they where originaly from a Technoid planet, they weren't trusted. Robert went through some of the local termenals and managed to hack his way through most of the firewalls. Someone popped in behind him and caught him hacking through the Darvor computer network. Bobby tried to explain but Kei decided to forget the whole incedent. The two managed to cover Bobby's tracks when someone noticed that the system had been hacked into. One year after that Robert's family moved again. Bobby continued to improve his hacking skills and several times managed to hack through the school's records in order to prove it could be done. After school, Robert managed to take low pay jobs in order to have his own home for his hacking abilities. A vid message from Kei asked Bobby for the whereabouts of both Jared and Ji two years later. Because of Bobby's hacking abilities, he is usually asked for locations and secret access codes into areas where the high bounty heads are usually hiding.
Humans: Although earth was once thought to be the only place where humans could have evolved on, many other human-like sub-species of humans where discovered during the original exploratory mission. Except for subtle differences in appearences and on the genetic level, they are all considered human.
Homo Sapiens: Humans who have evolved from ape or ape-like creatures on various planets. Appearences are the same, but the differences are more apparent on the genetic level.
Anthromorphic Tellurianas: Humanoids that have evolved from other creatures, other than apes. Human-like in most appearences, depending on the ancestors, may have ears, tails, or both from the creatures they are decended from. Different strengths also depend on the animal ancestor.
Elvin Sapiens: Humans with elongated ears and expressive eyes. Have the appearences of elves from old earth mythology, but have no other simillaraties. Hearing is excelent.
Darvors: Darvor history is complicated and somewhat long when compared to other societies. The whole society structure revolves around a place in the universe that is only reached once every two thousand years, during the rotation of the galaxy as a whole. The Source of Gera, as would later be named, was found to be in a region of space that is not reached very often. As a creature is born, during the same time as the universal rotation puts the planets in the Source of Gera, the newborns are entuned with a sense for Gera, and the uncanny ability to control it. When the first senient life evolved on these planets, rules where put into play to make sure that the Source's power would not be courupted for evil. Such as the saying goes: "Absolute power courupts absolutly." Much of the current Darvor laws involve much disipline to be entrusted to use the abilities. As the creature's continued to evolve, they began to sense that there possibly was a higher power controlling the Source of Gera. This "higher being" was named Gera, as was this was the name for the abilities she endowned on the lesser biengs. Why Gera is so often refered to as female, no one is sure.
Bloodlines are an important factor when it comes to the ableness to control Gera. If one is of the direct bloodline, he/she has a better sense for Gera and can control it with less training than someone who is a distant relative. Gera's use passes through the family. And depending on who mates with who, can either ensure the sensitivity or lower the chances. Some say that the Source of Gera shooses who you may mate with before you are even born, and that it had a part to play in meeting that special someone.
The strength of Gera's use also depends on the strength of one's heart. When one is thrown into dangerous situation, stress, endurence, determination, and emotional levels greatly affect the effectiveness of the spells used. When one is angery, tests have shown the user's power to greatly increase, sometimes ten fold! Just as when someone's beloved is threatened, and there is no more endurence. The other levels comprimise for the lowness of the other level Even when one has no great control of Gera, the spells can still be devastating under the right conditions.
Gera also enables some races to have a seventh sense. Although the ability to use Gera is considered the sixth sense, this other ability has to do with Gera power, there is controversy about this, even to this day. Those that have the Gera ability are also able to sense whether or not a situation is too dangerous. These "vibes" are what help darvors get out of, otherwise, life threatening situations. The strength of this ability depends on the pureness of the person's blood from the original bloodline. One who is a direct decendant is more likely to have a more sensative reaction than one who is distantly related.
The Darvor's society is one based with out much need for technological advances. But because curiosity is one attribute that all species share, it was not surprising for Darvor scientists to go and search the stars for other beings. Letting their senses guide them, the Darvor planets communicated with one another, and formed a government seat based on Gera, before setting out for other life amongst the stars.
Technoids: The Technoid's history is less complicated than the Darvors, but it is prone to controversy. As the different species evolved and became more sophisticated, they constantly storve for technological dominance. During this "Tech Rush" fossil fules burned and polluted the skies, sickness became a constant threat, and the life span of some plante's inhabitants became extremely short.
To combat the threat of illness and the poisons, doctors and scientists worked continually for a way to combat the viruses and illness that plaeged them. One found a way to use evolving nanobots to enter a person's blood stream and combat the illness firsthand, learning what was the fastest and best way to terminate the intruder. As the nanobots where put into production to save lives, scientists tired to clean up the skies as the species flourished. Cleaner fule and other advances cleaned up many of the original problems, but now new ones kept comming up.
The nanobots began to enhibit strange activities as they continued to thrive in the blood. Some attachted themselves to the muscle tissue and the subjects strength, speed, and endurence increased two fold. Others had simillar reactions. Some of the original test subjects began to outlive some of their peers, the eldest dieing at 172 earth years of age. Even stranger was the way the nanobots moved from parents to children during reproduction.
After the female egg was fertilized, nanobots from both parents combine to inhabit the child when it has developed enough for the nanobots to enter the fetus and not disrupt the natrual development. The children were born with immunity to every illness previously known as well as increased strengths. The nanobots continued to evolve to the different situations they were exposed to.
Hundreds of years later, the nanobots originally injected to preserve the life of the people, began to finally deteriorate. Now the latest technology was being used to update and improve on the old design, improving the chances for survival through different environments. The newest models doubled the previous nanobots success rate and increased the stats of the subjects almost four times what it had been.
As the nonobots preserved lives, scientists and millitants tried to keep the peace using technology as their weapon. Robots, mechs, and other scientific improvements lead to the development of star ships that could travel through hyper space, a faster than light travel. When other technologically advanced speicies were found, the fact was that the society dubbed "Technoid" mostly lived in star systems near the core of the galaxy.
Even after simmilar societies had been found, the Technoids still searched for more life among the stars.
Killiaks: The Killiaks are a race of beings that are similar to minotaurs from Old Earth Mythology. The upper torosos are close to human shape, but from the waist down is more animalistic. Different styles of horns crown their heads, and also count for social status.
Quews: The slug-like race of Quews, pronounced "checks", are notorius for being the mobsters of the galaxy. Almost every family has some criminal connection, but because they know how to cover their tracks, Quews have never spent any time in jail.
Anyone have any suggestions for stories, Alien species, weapons?!
I got several "HOW TO DRAW MANGA" books recently and have begun work on my new story/Manga/ Anime(HOPEFULLY) however, the story development and character designs are still in the works. Anyone care to read the info I have and help me out. Maybe I cna help you out if you have a Manga you're working on. It's a win-win situation. Okay enough about that, here is what I have for STAR'S END
Overall: Welcome to the future. A place where good guys finish last. A quick draw, is the best defence. And your wits are all that you can count on..... Whoops! That was Outlaw Star's intro on Toonami!
Take 2: The future, one place where space criminals freely travel from planet to planet. Where the only defense against these outlaws are bounty hunters who are smart enough, quick enough, and strong enough to get these outlaws at their own game. It is also a place where magic and technology collide. But through this chaos of Darvor arts verses Technoid know-how, more danger arrives as a new society order, called the Archangels, slowly rises into the mainstream. Now the Archangels threaten more than just the Darvors or Technoids, they threaten the survival of the universe itself. Strap in. Charge your blaster. It's gonna be a wild ride. STAR'S END, only Toonami.
KEI KIAKA: Bounty hunter, Kei Kiaka. A man with a past, something to prove, and nothing to lose.
ISHA TAOYA: Isha Taoya. One woman who seems quiet, seems shy, but is deadly. Just watch out for her feet.
JARED KARD: Millitary Weapons Specialist, Jared Kard. The one man who you do not want to cross, esspecially when he's at the other end of the cannon.
JI OMON: Star Ship Systems Specialist, Ji Omon. When in a fix, he's the best one to count on. Just don't ask him to cheer you up in a crisis.
Chapter One: Kei Kiaka is on the trail of Kal Kipyard, a major bounty head with impressive security. Will Kei risk his own life to save one of Kal's emploies from the employer?
Chapter Two: Isha Taoya was saved by Kei once, but can the bounty hunter save both of their lives from Kal's vicious Biolizard?
Chapter Three: After narrowly escaping the jaws of the Biolizard, Kei and Isha are pursuied by Kal's enforcers. Can a discharged millitary officer help save their lives?
Chapter Four: Isha has no choice but to join Kei, Jared, and Ji on the Star Falcon, as their new team mate. But can the three guys handle this new twist of events?
Chapter Five:
Chapter Six: Ji used to have a sweatheart while attending school. Now, several years later, she's the latest bounty head, and Ji has to make a choice: Let her go, or be killed by her.
Chapter Seven: For a change of pace, the Star Falcon's crew find themselves at the other end of a bounty. Someone wants them out of the way, and they have no clue.
Chapter Eight:
Chapter Nine: The kidnapped daughter of a Technoid official manages to escape from her captors and runs right into Kei and the others.
Chapter Ten: The kidnappers want the girl back, but they have to get through the crew of the Star Falcon first.
Chapter Eleven: Kei decides to head to his home planet of Harfou, for some R&R as well as to check in on his mother. Isha tagges along, and ends up finding out more about Kei's past than he ever would have told her. Things get more complicated when Kei's hometown is under attack by a woman with unimaginable powers
Chapter Twelve: With only a small emblem to go with, Kei begins to head out after the woman who attacked his home and killed his mother. But the Darvor High Council puts a grave decision on his shoulders: Should he leave, he jeprodizes everything, including his birth-right.
Chapter Thirteen: As the crew of the Star Falcon regroup and ponder the latest events, they find that not everyone is who they think it is.
Chapter Fourteen: A Technoid house of government is bombed, and Jared's to blame. Can the other's prove his innocents before he is exicuted?
Chapter Fifteen:
Chapter Sixteen: After the recent events in the universe, the Star Falcon's crew goes back to being bounty hunters. But this bounty has a price, and the cocktails tain't cheap neither!
Chapter Seventeen: Several Technoid officials have been taken hostage by members claiming to be a Darvor activist group. With not much to go on, can Kei disprove the rumors and clear his people.
Chapter Eighteen: With the info from his father, Kei heads to the streets. After getting the lowdown from Mark, Kei finds himself the latest target.
Chapter Nineteen: Taken captive, Kei tries to wait as Jared, Ji, and Isha move in to break him out. What they all don't know is that is what someone wants them to do.
Chapter Twenty:
Chapter Twentyone: Kei failed to capture the head of the Archangel Order. As he regroups with the others, the Archangles make their move.
Chapter Twentytwo: Half of a contenient has been destoryed by the Archangel's latest weapon. Now it's time for the Falcon's crew to make a decision: To go up there and die, or watch as the universe is torn apart by an intergalactic war.
Chapter Twentythree: Against the wishes of a Technoid Senator, the Star Falcon heads towards the destructive satillite orbiting the planet. As they split up to go after the weaknesses of the satillite, Kei and Isha run into an enemy from the past. The Final Battle has only just begun.
Chapter Twentyfour: The Mecha-Biolizard hasn't stopped Kei from going after the Archangels head man. Now its a clash of powers and Kei and Alzar battle for the fate of the universe.
Chapter Twentyfive: Kei's been beaten, but he's still alive. As Alzar is attacked by each of Kei's friends, and each is beaten, Kei finds more strength to fight on than he ever thought he had in him.
Chapter Twentysix: With the energy of every species in the galaxy flowing through him. Kei and Alzar battle once again, this time with more at stake, than just their lives.
Name: Kei Kiaka
Sex: Male
Age: 21 Earth Years
Description: 6'3", Hazel Green eyes, blue hair. Large build, and big feet. Special markings on his left arm, covers it with a tied piece of fabric, and the palms of his hands, the palms are kept covered with hand protection that lets his fingers through and cover his palms. All darvors have markings on their faces, but Kei was born with only the markings on his arm and hands, and no others.
Personality: Overall, a even tempered person, it would take a lot to get him rilled up. Cares deeply about his friends and family, and would do anything to help them. Clumsy, and tends to stutter around members of the oposite sex. Unrealisticly fast reflexes and excelent hand-eye cordination.
Weapon(s) of Choice: Has many derived from both Darvors and Technoids, but prefers three. A biasha (special high endurance wood) staff, about six and a half feet long Octigonal sai, a common used weapon of Darvor pereference. Katsana, a technoid developed weapon that uses a beings own energy, as well as special bullets, to fire a super-charged beam of Gera energy. The three different sections of the gun spin and gather energy for the spell bound bullet from the one pulling the trigger. Also has a small double barrel mini-gun on the bottom of the handle. Blue in color.
Proffesion/Alliance: Bounty Hunter, Nuetral
History: The son of a Technoid father and a Darvor mother, Kei always felt he was different from everyone else on his home planet of Harfou. Ridiculed and shunned, for the first 15 years of his life he was specifically trained by his ailing mother to master the darvor arts. After he passed the right of passage test, much to the dismay of the darvor elders, he was given a new type of starship for his use from his distant father. Interstellar flights alone where boring, until he met several friends through out most of the Core and Outer Rim. Two of them would join him on his new quest. After an accidental run-in to a famous bounty hunter in a tavern, Kei then made up his mind to be a bounty hunter. Only to wander the stars and stop criminals that the law couldn't, because he couldn't live in either Darvor, or Technoid societies.
Name: Isha Taoya
Sex: Female
Age: 20 Earth Years
Description: 5'7". Sliming female build. Deep brown eyes and dark red hair. Thin legs that appear to be longer than normal.
Personality: Usually quiet unless talked to. Tends to have dry sarcastic wit that makes the others in the group do double takes, due to her quietness. Can take them by surprise with her comments. When irritated, she feels obligated to whack them along the back of the head, but it's all done in good humor.
Weapon(s) of Choice: Two common laser blasters. Uses her feet as well.
Proffesion/Alliance: Bounty Hunter, Nuetral
History: A traveller, she drifted from planet to planet, through the Core and Rim. Taking any jobs for money, she would stay for a few months and then pack up and leave. She was hired by Kal Kipyard as a waitress for a few months. When she tried to quit Kal wouldn't let her. After she slapped him, Kal threatenend to kill her to make an example to the rest of the staff. Kei intervined at the last second, saving her life but endangering them both in the battle with Kal's pet, the Biolizard.
Name: Jared Kard
Sex: Male
Age: 23 Earth years
Description: 6'1", dark brown hair blue eyes, medium build. Small frame glasses that rest on his nose.
Personality: Good natured, likes to think of possibilities that would make an event more fun, or dangerous. Good friends with Kei and Ji. Also likes to blow things up. Extenisive planner, sets traps for the unsuspecting.
Weapon(s) of Choice: Shoulder-mounted Pulse Cannon. A Shoulder Class Cannon, fires a pulse of energy at the target. Pulse Pistol, a Double Barreled pistol that fires a smaller pulse than the Pulse Cannon, setting on the back. Starburst Pistol, a Single barreled pistol that fires pulses much like the Pulse Pistol and Cannon. Settings for all weapons at the back of the barrel. Energy clips placed in different areas, depending on the weapon type.
Profession/Alliance: Ex-Technoid Millitary Officer, Bounty Hunter (Weapons Specialist), Technoid
History: After his graduation from the Technoid schools, Jared was offered dozens of positions in the Technoid Millitary Force, some of them high and others lower. He took the highest rank for anyone his age, a General's rank. Other Generals avoided Jared and never listened to him because of what they thought was inexperience on his part. Being interested in the weapons systems, Jared pointed out several design flaws in some of the latest Pulse Weapons, that proved to be more powerful, but take longer to recharge, and the risk of overloading increased after every shot. Jared was apointed to the head of research and development as a general for the mistakes he brought to light. The new weapons systems worked flawlessly for the first few tests. But disaster struck when the next few tests caused the weapons to overload, killing two soliders in the process. After an investigation, it was found that two wires within the weapon's main design where not allined properly. Because Jared was supposed to look over all designs and search for flaws, he was deamed responsible for the death of two men, and dishonorably discharged after two years in jail. He wandered the galaxy, before meeting up with Kei in a run down tavern in the Rim. Kei had met Jared two years before in another tavern, on the Technoid planet of Jikal. A friendship had struck up instantly. After the second meeting, Jared was asked to join Kei in his new proffession. Already being an expert in several feilds of weapons, Jared accepted the offer from his friend.
Name: Ji Omon
Sex: Male
Age: 23 Earth Years
Description: 5'8" with black hair and red eyes. Small build, slightly rounder face.
Personality: "Voice of Reason." Ji is the only one out of the group that takes everything into account, and even warns Kei and Jared if the stakes are too high, even if they never listen. Is joked about being pesimistic, but both Kei and Jared know he's just making sure they know the stakes before jumping in head first.
Weapon(s) of Choice: Not really a fighter, but if he does he uses a sword that can have a field of energy surround it and be able to slice through any material. The energy sword is powerful, but the energy can only last for five minutes.
Proffesion/Alliance: Bounty Hunter (Systems Specialist), Nuetral
History: Ji Omon, began life a planet drifter. His family constantly moved from planet to planet, trying to settle down. When he was 7, in Earth Years, his family moved to a darvor planet, Harfou. As fate would have it, he met Kei as the darvor walked along on a errand for his mother. Ji was lost in the maze of dirt roads in the town of Nuraka, and stopped Kei for directions. They ended up walking along together, and became friends over the next two years Ji's family stayed there. When Ji left, he lost the only friend he had ever managed to keep. After finally settling down on a nuetral planet, Ji went to school and was determined to learn all the baisics of the computer designs for technoids and darvors. He became one of the most influential minds in the main frame circles. Bored with the routine of his day-in day-out mediocraty, he recieved a vid-message from Kei, asking for some help with a new turn in his own life. Ji was excited to get out of his office with the promise to check in on an old friend. Kei introduced Ji to Jared at that meeting and the three decided to form a Bounty Hunter team, each with their own strengths.
Name: Alicia Kiaka
Sex: Female
Age: 42 Earth Years
Description: 5'7" with green eyes and dark brown hair.
Personality: Usually witty and sarcastic. Friendly, someone who you can count on to get the job done.
Weapon(s) of Choice: None
Proffesion/Alliance: Instructor of Darvor Arts, Darvor
History: Alicia is a member of the original bloodline on Harfou, both from earth and Harfou itself. Because of her status, she was entrusted to keep peace and pass on her past to a succesor. When tempers began to fly between the Technoids and Darvors, she wanted to stop the conflict before it esciliated. A collection of the Darvor Elders from the different darvor planets, accepted her request and sent her, along with several other representatives from the other planets. There, along with members from the Technoid peace party, they sat down and discussed ways to avoid a war between the two. It was there that Alicia met Waren Jihard. The two fell in love over the two month period, but they realized that they could never truely be together, so regretably, they went their seperate ways. Months after the peace aggrement, Alicia found herself pregnant with Waren's child. The Elders on Harfou, held a meeting to discuss the current situation. A Darvor having a Technoid child was unheard of! But because Alicia was a direct decendant of the original earth pilgrams as well as Harfou's own line, it was found that nothing could be done unless she opennly violated the Darvor law. Alicia knew the laws, and since her newborn son was half Technoid and half Darvor, he couldn't train with other darvor students, so she had to train Kei by herself, in her own home. Her life became more complicated, when she was diagnosed with a wasting disease, she might have a decade left. Alicia never gave up and continued to live to the fullest, teaching her son all of the darvor arts she learned, and continued to fufil her duties for her status, even after Kei left Harfou for the stars.
Name: Waren Jihard
Sex: Male
Age: 44 Earth Years
Description: 6'1" large build, with brown eyes and blue hair.
Personality: Kind and easy going. Loving towards family.
Weapon(s) of Choice: None
Proffesion/Alliance: Scientist, Technoids
History: Born to a prestigious family, Waren went to the best schools money could buy. Thorugh his teens, he disagreed with his family's views on the darvor societies and joined in the peace cause that other Technoids felt would solve the problems between the two factions. Durring the peace talks, he fell in love at first sight with Alicia Kiaka. They both knew their love couldn't last so they went their seperate ways tearfully. He had no idea of the son he had until two years later when a vid-message from Alicia told him about her deteriorating health and her worry for their son. Determined not to let his beloved die too soon, he secretly sent money to help cover her medical expenses. Alicia and Waren kept in touch through coded messages though the years and when he found that his son was saving up for a ship, Waren set to work. Designing the fastest starship for his son, with some of the most advanced weapons available on or off the black market. By the time it was finished, Kei had already completed his right of passage so it was sent by Waren, who disguised himself as he delivered it. His son had grown to be almost taller than him, and he was proud that he wanted to go do something among the stars. After that he went back to work and only got messages from Alicia on Kei's progress.
Name: Mark Tarka
Sex: Male
Age: 21 Earth Years
Description: 5'9" dark green hair, and brown eyes. Medium build.
Personality: A smark alek, Mark tries to be a comedian but mostly comes off as being too sarcastic.
Weapon(s) of Choice: Calapsable Bazooka, that fires a mini-missle with a very exploasive warhead.
Proffesion/Alliance: Scrap Drifter, Nuetral
History: Mark is one who has never had a hard time making friends. Even after moving to different planets Mark had made several friends on each. On Harfou, the only friend he could make and keep was Kei. Because Kei was ridiculed by the others Mark found it was better to be with one decent person who wasn't liked, than with many indecent people who where looked apon highly. Mark and Kei stayed best friends even through the years that Mark continued to move across the planets. Mark's specialilty relies in his ability to buy and sell scrap. Because of his personality, you wouldn't expect him to be able to deal on the black market. With his slight connection to some of the under world bosses, he usually pays Kei and company a visit with nicely budgeted bounty info.
Name: Robert Young
Sex: Male
Age: 22 Earth Years
Description: 5'6" Brown hair and yellow eyes. Small build.
Personality: Slightly pesimistic, has a sense of humor. Prefers to work on his own projects before anything else.
Weapon(s) of Choice: Small palm-top computer. Cable to uplink into any computer.
Profession/Alliance: Known Hacker, Neutral
History: Robert, better known as Bobby, originaly lived on a Technoid planet. His father lost his position and they later moved to Harfou, a Darvor planet on the Rim. Because they where originaly from a Technoid planet, they weren't trusted. Robert went through some of the local termenals and managed to hack his way through most of the firewalls. Someone popped in behind him and caught him hacking through the Darvor computer network. Bobby tried to explain but Kei decided to forget the whole incedent. The two managed to cover Bobby's tracks when someone noticed that the system had been hacked into. One year after that Robert's family moved again. Bobby continued to improve his hacking skills and several times managed to hack through the school's records in order to prove it could be done. After school, Robert managed to take low pay jobs in order to have his own home for his hacking abilities. A vid message from Kei asked Bobby for the whereabouts of both Jared and Ji two years later. Because of Bobby's hacking abilities, he is usually asked for locations and secret access codes into areas where the high bounty heads are usually hiding.
Humans: Although earth was once thought to be the only place where humans could have evolved on, many other human-like sub-species of humans where discovered during the original exploratory mission. Except for subtle differences in appearences and on the genetic level, they are all considered human.
Homo Sapiens: Humans who have evolved from ape or ape-like creatures on various planets. Appearences are the same, but the differences are more apparent on the genetic level.
Anthromorphic Tellurianas: Humanoids that have evolved from other creatures, other than apes. Human-like in most appearences, depending on the ancestors, may have ears, tails, or both from the creatures they are decended from. Different strengths also depend on the animal ancestor.
Elvin Sapiens: Humans with elongated ears and expressive eyes. Have the appearences of elves from old earth mythology, but have no other simillaraties. Hearing is excelent.
Darvors: Darvor history is complicated and somewhat long when compared to other societies. The whole society structure revolves around a place in the universe that is only reached once every two thousand years, during the rotation of the galaxy as a whole. The Source of Gera, as would later be named, was found to be in a region of space that is not reached very often. As a creature is born, during the same time as the universal rotation puts the planets in the Source of Gera, the newborns are entuned with a sense for Gera, and the uncanny ability to control it. When the first senient life evolved on these planets, rules where put into play to make sure that the Source's power would not be courupted for evil. Such as the saying goes: "Absolute power courupts absolutly." Much of the current Darvor laws involve much disipline to be entrusted to use the abilities. As the creature's continued to evolve, they began to sense that there possibly was a higher power controlling the Source of Gera. This "higher being" was named Gera, as was this was the name for the abilities she endowned on the lesser biengs. Why Gera is so often refered to as female, no one is sure.
Bloodlines are an important factor when it comes to the ableness to control Gera. If one is of the direct bloodline, he/she has a better sense for Gera and can control it with less training than someone who is a distant relative. Gera's use passes through the family. And depending on who mates with who, can either ensure the sensitivity or lower the chances. Some say that the Source of Gera shooses who you may mate with before you are even born, and that it had a part to play in meeting that special someone.
The strength of Gera's use also depends on the strength of one's heart. When one is thrown into dangerous situation, stress, endurence, determination, and emotional levels greatly affect the effectiveness of the spells used. When one is angery, tests have shown the user's power to greatly increase, sometimes ten fold! Just as when someone's beloved is threatened, and there is no more endurence. The other levels comprimise for the lowness of the other level Even when one has no great control of Gera, the spells can still be devastating under the right conditions.
Gera also enables some races to have a seventh sense. Although the ability to use Gera is considered the sixth sense, this other ability has to do with Gera power, there is controversy about this, even to this day. Those that have the Gera ability are also able to sense whether or not a situation is too dangerous. These "vibes" are what help darvors get out of, otherwise, life threatening situations. The strength of this ability depends on the pureness of the person's blood from the original bloodline. One who is a direct decendant is more likely to have a more sensative reaction than one who is distantly related.
The Darvor's society is one based with out much need for technological advances. But because curiosity is one attribute that all species share, it was not surprising for Darvor scientists to go and search the stars for other beings. Letting their senses guide them, the Darvor planets communicated with one another, and formed a government seat based on Gera, before setting out for other life amongst the stars.
Technoids: The Technoid's history is less complicated than the Darvors, but it is prone to controversy. As the different species evolved and became more sophisticated, they constantly storve for technological dominance. During this "Tech Rush" fossil fules burned and polluted the skies, sickness became a constant threat, and the life span of some plante's inhabitants became extremely short.
To combat the threat of illness and the poisons, doctors and scientists worked continually for a way to combat the viruses and illness that plaeged them. One found a way to use evolving nanobots to enter a person's blood stream and combat the illness firsthand, learning what was the fastest and best way to terminate the intruder. As the nanobots where put into production to save lives, scientists tired to clean up the skies as the species flourished. Cleaner fule and other advances cleaned up many of the original problems, but now new ones kept comming up.
The nanobots began to enhibit strange activities as they continued to thrive in the blood. Some attachted themselves to the muscle tissue and the subjects strength, speed, and endurence increased two fold. Others had simillar reactions. Some of the original test subjects began to outlive some of their peers, the eldest dieing at 172 earth years of age. Even stranger was the way the nanobots moved from parents to children during reproduction.
After the female egg was fertilized, nanobots from both parents combine to inhabit the child when it has developed enough for the nanobots to enter the fetus and not disrupt the natrual development. The children were born with immunity to every illness previously known as well as increased strengths. The nanobots continued to evolve to the different situations they were exposed to.
Hundreds of years later, the nanobots originally injected to preserve the life of the people, began to finally deteriorate. Now the latest technology was being used to update and improve on the old design, improving the chances for survival through different environments. The newest models doubled the previous nanobots success rate and increased the stats of the subjects almost four times what it had been.
As the nonobots preserved lives, scientists and millitants tried to keep the peace using technology as their weapon. Robots, mechs, and other scientific improvements lead to the development of star ships that could travel through hyper space, a faster than light travel. When other technologically advanced speicies were found, the fact was that the society dubbed "Technoid" mostly lived in star systems near the core of the galaxy.
Even after simmilar societies had been found, the Technoids still searched for more life among the stars.
Killiaks: The Killiaks are a race of beings that are similar to minotaurs from Old Earth Mythology. The upper torosos are close to human shape, but from the waist down is more animalistic. Different styles of horns crown their heads, and also count for social status.
Quews: The slug-like race of Quews, pronounced "checks", are notorius for being the mobsters of the galaxy. Almost every family has some criminal connection, but because they know how to cover their tracks, Quews have never spent any time in jail.
Anyone have any suggestions for stories, Alien species, weapons?!