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The Eight-Of-Hearts, a modified Orca class transport, is now the home of a small crew running small scale transport, both legal and illegal, usually the latter. Not many people have heard of it, but for those in the know, the word is that the Eight-Of-Hearts will get the job done.

(Hey guys, I don't intend this to have a set end, just places where plot arcs end and new ones start. I also have no intention of letting the events of Serenity come into play, because I can't reasonably think of a way to continue from there.)

Crew needed:
Captain: Ky Jacobs (Panthera_enigma)
First Mate:
Pilot: Ethan Alphonse Kaze (Ethan Kirito Soul)
Medic:
Engineer: Nine Emerald Softer (Saki-stranger)
Extra crew:

Character profiles: (Just dump them in this thread.)

Player: Panthera_Enigma
Name: Ky Jacobs
Gender: Male
Age: 40 ish (doesn't keep track)
Description: Ky stands just under 6 foot tall, has a medium build and is easy on the eyes. His hair is perpetually in a scruffy, loose ponytail, framing his grey eyes. He tries to keep himself well kept, but no matter how hard he tries, ends up with a 5 o'clock shadow regardless. He wears loose fitting clothing that doesn't get in his way when he needs to try and fix things, and that don't look too bad when he needs to meet with people that his first mate doesn't or can't.
Messiness aside, Ky is quick witted and a little bit of a prankster, though knows when to reign it in. Incredibly quick to make decisions, right or wrong, he can usually find his way out of a situation he's gotten himself into. He's not afraid to take extra, well paying jobs if they're illegal, as he was brought up on an outer rim world and has no love for them. While he wasn't part of the Brown Coats, he does sympathise with them.
Strengths/Weaknesses: Due to his inquisitive and prankish nature, Ky can jury-rig nearly every system on his ship, and many others, making him backup mechanic and pilot. Besides that, he's able to talk to nearly anyone he meets, making him the usual face of the ship, whether he wants it or not. However, he's not great when it comes to violence, preferring to leave that up to the ships defences and the crew. He will use stun grenades and doesn't mind them, but has an aversion to actually killing someone.

Player: Ethan Kirito Soul
Name: Ethan Alphonse Kaze
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Description: Ethan is 6ft 2, and hee weights about 168 pounds. Incredibly pale, and has a odd condition which makes his eyes become two different colors.( Heterochromia ) One eye is a bright green while the other is blue, he has a somewhat muscular build but nothing really noticeable. He usually wears clothing that covers his body and can hide his face, he doesnt really like to be looked at. Especially because of his eyes.
Strengths/Weaknesses: Ethan is a pretty strong fighter when it comes to close combat, hes only really good when it comes to Long Range fighting with a Handgun. He likes to think of himself as a Jack of all Trades but isnt really that skilled in everything. Primarily his skills are in the Pilot Category, despite not knowing much of the technically Jargon. Although, he is desperatly afraid of Heights, clowns. (Which oddly enough he still sees around and almost shoots on sight.)

Player: Saki-stranger
Name: Nine Emerald Softer
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Description: Nine is quite tiny for an adult. Standing at 5' 3", she is very slim and flexible. Her bright green eyes hidden behind her glasses and her long curls held back by a bandanna. But naive to a dangerous point. She loves getting to the dirty work and fixing machines. Grease or not, she can do it. Her intellect in science and mathematics are shining in and of their own, but Nine can't read much and usually stays on the ship. She is easily tricked, can speak three different languages fluently and doesn't mind a dirty job.
They call her nine because she changes to another personalty very easily. It's any angry and aggressive state, in which she can't speak and just grunts to yes or no questions. She'll sit in a corner or next to somebody she is most comfortable with when in this personality.
Strengths/Weaknesses: Thanks to her home plant being destroyed by its sun, Nine has moved to many different places. Learning more languages fluently. She is best at long range shooting, and incapable of hand to hand combat. Her nativity has caused a few of her past ship mates to be killed or gotten herself kidnapped.

Player: Cai-ann
Name: Sargent Zara Sloan
Gender: Female
Age: 28
Description: Zara is 6 foot 2, athletic build woman with extremely short black hair and vivid blue eyes with multiple tattoos. Commonly found waring leather pants and dark tank tops with an ankle length leather jacket.
A special forces sniper that was honorably discharge after 10 years as a NCO in the military she now works as a mercenary to get her kicks.
Strengths/Weaknesses: Highly combat effective with very few morals, specialized in assassination and interrogation. Used to working with a small groups and co-coordinating those groups. However when not on a active mission has an extremely short attention span and is prone to doing stupid and/or dangerous things when bored. When utters the word' Bored' please duck and cover.

Heh, I like, accepted. I'd like to wait for one more person first before we start, but if you want to, we can start now.

Player: Saki-stranger
Name: Nine Emerald Softer
Gender: Female
Age: 21
Description: Nine is quite tiny for an adult. Standing at 5' 3", she is very slim and flexible. Her bright green eyes hidden behind her glasses and her long curls held back by a bandanna. But naive to a dangerous point. She loves getting to the dirty work and fixing machines. Grease or not, she can do it. Her intellect in science and mathematics are shining in and of their own, but Nine can't read much and usually stays on the ship. She is easily tricked, can speak three different languages fluently and doesn't mind a dirty job.
They call her nine because she changes to another personalty very easily. It's any angry and aggressive state, in which she can't speak and just grunts to yes or no questions. She'll sit in a corner or next to somebody she is most comfortable with when in this personality.
Strengths/Weaknesses: Thanks to her home plant being destroyed by its sun, Nine has moved to many different places. Learning more languages fluently. She is best at long range shooting, and incapable of hand to hand combat. Her nativity has caused a few of her past ship mates to be killed or gotten herself kidnapped.

The ship shuddered under his feet. It wasn't the first time the Eight-Of-Hearts had done so recently, but this was the first time it felt like something vaguely wrong. The shudder happened again and the ship lurched, falling out of hyperspeed.

"What the name of all the hells is going on?" Ky yelled as he ran from the common room to the bridge in under five seconds, putting his long legs to use. "Ethan! Did we just drop to normal space? The hell man?"

Opening the door to the bridge, Ky noticed a few thin streams of smoke rising from a console at the empty co-pilots chair.

"Hell, get Nine up here," he said, crouching next to the console himself.


((Btw, I don't like quoting to get people's attention, cause I generally prefer that it doesn't happen to me, cause I check the threads I'm involved in. However, if you so request it, I will keep doing it for you))

Ethan was clutching the controls trying to keep the ship on a steady path, he had really been hoping something like this wasn't going to happen," We might need to make a stop somewhere for some parts or something!" The brown haired pilot was trying to stay calm, he pointed to the small fan nearby," That thing might help with the smoke some. "

(Im fine with being quoted. But I wont quote ya friendo,helps me where I get offline and then people post XD)

((I've just been on gaia for so long that I remember a time before all those notifications up top and having to check everything manually if I want to know if it's been updated blaugh ))

Ky started swearing under his breath as he worked with Nine to pull at wires and find the ones that were fried and anything that was still salvageable.

"Ethan, we were due to make landfall in a couple of hours, ne? Figure out where we are and if we can limp our way there on sublight engines or if we have to call for help. I'd prefer not to call by the way."

Moving completely out of Nine's way, he found a nearby toolbox and started opening the console from up top. "Is it just wires and basic stuff? Is it anything serious? Was anything in the engine room affected or just up here? And why the co-pilot's console, which I'm pretty sure was powered down?"

He could swear his paranoia was getting to him. He had done a check over of most of the systems and the controls himself in the last two weeks, though it was mostly Nine who did it. There was only so much Ky knew about the systems on his ship and usually what he knew was what could be bypassed, usually through trial and error.

((XD. I dont think I remember that far back, except for when I was on my old account. ))

Ethan had been listening to the two quietly, but he did reply to the Captain,"Yeah I say we can make it there without help. The hard part would be if someone shows up because I doubt we'd escape them, so its a good thing we dont have any...important cargo right?" He chuckled a tiny bit to himself, and then said," I didn't even notice it was turned on. Then again, it was off a little while ago..Or I thought it was?" he scratched the back of his head before looking to Ky then at Nine.

"What planet are we landing at anyway? I'm still not very good with planet names." He looked back to his Console focusing on keeping the ship moving from there."I didn't know that."

Nine scratched the back of her head, she had said it would be better than the old engine. "Would you rather be stuck in the middle of space? Or with a broken co-pilot console..." She grumbled as she left for the engine room again.

The engine was making it's usual noises along with the occasional ding or clank. Hopping off the sides of the giant metal, she hung from the ceiling. Hanging over the engine she set to work, tightening down a few loose pieces.

"Hey, Ethan! We should be able to hold a decent speed for a few minutes. Can you keep it even?" She yelled up from the engine room.