🪐 AU WORKSHOP

[mnemosynecrew]

AU WORKSHOP

TIMELINE
2024-2100: Foundations of Change

• 2057: An international agreement known as the Great Climate Accord is reached to combat climate change, with ambitious goals for reducing carbon emissions, transitioning to renewable energy, and preserving biodiversity.
• 2060: The development and deployment of advanced green technologies, including carbon capture and sustainable agriculture accelerates. This marks the beginning of a major shift towards environmental sustainability.
• 2068: The first commercially viable fusion reactor is developed, providing a nearly limitless and clean energy source. This technological leap greatly reduces humanity's reliance on fossil fuels.
• 2075: Massive efforts in the great ocean restoration project are made to restore damaged marine ecosystems and halt the acidification of oceans, leading to the gradual recovery of marine biodiversity.
• 2100: Despite significant progress, the late 21st century sees a severe environmental collapse due to previous delays in action and unexpected consequences. Only half of Earth's surface remains viable for human habitation.

2101-2200: Expansion and Innovation

• 2120: The United Planet successfully establishes the first permanent base on Mars, "New Horizon," to conduct research and prepare for future colonization.
• 2195: Revolutionary hard-light technology is developed, allowing the creation of highly flexible and durable holographic interfaces and structures.

2201-2300: The Age of Change

• 2224: The first Hybrids are created.
• 2247: The Elheen became the First Contact with an alien species for humanity.
• 2250: An asteroid collision destroys Tellus' moon, causing widespread panic and a significant impact on tidal forces and satellite operations.
• 2275: The Tellurian Space Academy is established as a prestigious institution for training future generations of space explorers and researchers.
• 2289: Genetic eugenics is banned.

2301-2400: Challenges and Advancements

• 2350: Advances in cryosleep technology enable long-duration space travel, allowing crew members to remain in stasis during extended missions beyond the solar system.
• 2389: Mechs are classified as a species.
• 2400: New biomechanical technologies are introduced, allowing for advanced integration of human and machine capabilities, improving both medical treatments and operational efficiency.

2401-2524: The New Frontier

• 2439: The Hybrid Liberation Act is passed.
• 2427: A stable wormhole is discovered leading to the Andromeda Galaxy, opening new avenues for exploration and colonization.
• 2464: The Mnemosyne embarks on its historic mission to explore galaxies beyond the Milky Way, carrying a crew of 300 and 100,000 settlers in cryosleep.

2525: The Current Era

Humanity stands on the brink of new discoveries and challenges as the Mnemosyne ventures into uncharted territories, navigating through both known and unknown cosmic phenomena!

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Vash the Stampede 🥬 Trigun Stampede

[plantussy]

Picking between Human or Elheen for the canon long life and weirdness lol

Might stick him in Science as a Botanist or in Engineering as a Power(Electrical) Engineer.

[plantussy]

If elheen I might crop his ears as part of the canon's 'humans are bad' thing, plus icons
Not sure if I wanna crash a wholeass ship though.

Vash would most likely have been out in the wastelands a lot to explain looking like someone ran him over with a lawnmover, plus i feel like it would be somewhat lawless like the canon.

Also might want him to have some black hole studies that would explain the missing arm event

Maybe school buddies?

Edit: loose idea

He and twin brother found as babies in an escape pod, raised by human woman Rem. Later finds out they're actually elheen but someone cropped their ears. Even worse unethical experiments on previously unknown older sister.

Twin pissed off, even more so when learning about the destruction of nature on Tellus. Breaks into Rem's computer thanks to Vash's knowledge of her passwords and falsifies a bunch of data, that later leads to a mass casualty - including Rem.

Twins split into foster care, as Vash doesn't want to be around Nai. Luida and Brad raise Vash, Conrad raises Nai.

Very intelligent brothers, goes to really fine schools and even skip several grades

Loses arm as teen when accidentally opening a mini black hole in science lab while arguing with his brother, brother hacks it off to avoid having them both sucked in. Vash is bleeding to death, so Nai cauterizes the wound to save him. Now cannot regrow arm. Gets a biomechanical one.

Probably fucks off into the wastelands and collects scars like it's skittles while helping people and gets in trouble a lot. trying to stay out of sight of his brother and whatever he's got going on

eventually hears about the Mnemosyne and signs up because holy hell he can get a whole planet away from his twin? yes please.

Maybe 'The Stampede' is a nickname for him being a clumsy jinx rather than a wanted gunman? Like "Wow, good going Humanoid Typhoon! Now we need new samples!"

Bertholdt Hoover | Attack on Titan

[skyscrapes]

Leaning slightly towards Elheen just to explain why Bert is so Tall, or human. I want a character who's memory regain/powers would actually be horrifying to them~

As for ship division, leaning towards something that is much different than his canon history of soldier: probably field researcher in Science or what I'm leaning more towards, hard light engineer in Engineering.

attack on titan spoilers, tw: fictional racism, child endangerment

[skyscrapes]

Given his canon history is pretty heavy and dark, especially with regards to growing up in an interment camp, being experimented on and committing mass murder at twelve and dying at 17, I'm aiming for something a BIT LIGHTER for his au history.

I do think, however, that his mother is absent/died early in his life, and his father died around the time he enrolled in the Tellurian Institute of Advanced Exploration. Leaning towards a nod to his canon about undergoing experimentation by having him volunteer for more radical mods-testing and being financially compensated for it in order to go to school. I don't think this would give him a big edge (maybe some processing or healing stuff) but he'd have a ton of scars from all that! The biggest downside is he sweats more than normal due to fuckery with his adrenal glands.

jiaoqiu | honkai: star rail

[flavourtown]

tl;dr for anybody that doesn't know the character: Jiaoqiu is a Foxian (a humanoid with fox traits) that was born a spaceship named the Xianzhou Yaoqing, a massive city-ship that was often waging one war or another against a plague on the universe. He had a peaceful childhood, and went into medical science, before eventually trailblazing in a relatively unknown field: food as medicine, capable of healing disease and most ills, capable of boosting natural ability, and encouraging fast healing. He joined the war effort as a healer, and while he did a lot of good, he also grew jaded and deeply traumatized from watching those he healed and saved have to go off into battle once more just to die. He retired after the war effort seemed to have been won (at least temporarily), went back home to run a restaurant, and eventually came back out of retirement to serve the Yaoqing's General and attempt to cure her seemingly impossible-to-cure malady. He's the type of character that almost always has a genial smile on his face, hiding any of his true emotions he might be feeling, and is largely polite, though he can easily descend into sarcasm. He's deeply depressed, to the point where lost most of his sense of taste and has a poor memory, but he cares deeply to the point of overworking, and will do anything to save a life

He's very obviously going to be a Hybrid lmao

As for ship division, I'm torn between Medical (because he's canonically a doctor) and Operations (because he's also canonically a chef and I'm sure the ship needs chefs, or if everything is made by machine then Jiaoqiu would 100% stubbornly create a chef job just so the crew can taste food made by a real person)! Probably I'd lean toward whichever of these is the least staffed, so if Medical is packed, he'd probably go to Operations, and vice versa

[flavourtown]

please ignore the above typo, he was born ON a spaceship, not AS a spaceship, rip

I'm thinking I'll go with: Jiaoqiu was born in Lagoberra (West United Planet), the biggest city on Tellus, and came from a long line of fox hybrid slaves and rebel leaders. The city of Tellus is something he both loves and hates; he can walk past a building and know that that was where his great-great-grandmother was kept in slavery -- but he can also find Hybrid support groups for establishing cultural identity and dealing with those that are still prejudiced, or he can go see a new art exhibition by an up and coming Hybrid artist. It's a city that would contain a lot of bad memories, but a lot of newly emerging good ones

He would have gone into medical science at university, and gained a name for himself by trailblazing several new methods of dealing with certain illnesses and diseases

Simultaneously, he had a moderately popular online following for his cooking streaming channel: Spice It Up With Jiaoqiu. There, he cooked incredible looking dishes that always had his chat furious with envy, with a focus on old Chinese dishes, Asian fusion, and new Hybrid culinary creations

Because of his love-hate relationship with Tellus, and his wish to see the stars, Jiaoqiu would have signed up for the Mnemosyne with some doubts, but ultimately with a spirit of adventure

Regarding certain things that happened recently in Honkai: Star Rail (SPOILERS FOR PATCH 2.5 UNDER THE CUT):

click here for thoughts regarding spoilers and things that will be regained

He also has several physical conditions that won't be present at the start of his journey here because, like it says in the FAQ, the ship probably wouldn't hire people that are anything less than totally fit. As of 2.5 Jiaoqiu is officially blind, has massive scarring with chronic pain, and is prone to nightmares from the aftereffects of a toxin. These things I will gradually re-introduce with regains, I think!

he's also?? maybe a werewolf now??? probably? that may also be regained lmao

I'm not sure if it's possible for them to have formed relationships with people on the ship already (between the fuzzy memories and the ship shifts), but if so, he's definitely made a lot of friends because he's just that guy

he's also DEFINITELY going to run a hybrid support group

2b | NieR Automata

[execu2able]

2B is an android in her canon, so she's very obviously going to be a Mech here.

She is pretty combat-oriented so most likely going to be in Security (maybe special ops??) or potentially Operations (probably operations assistant)

some implied automata spoilers

[execu2able]

2B will probably be a newer model of Mech, maybe even something a little bit experimental (don't worry she's clearly the equivalent of like her 20s). She's designed for advance combat, and to work solo to handle issues.

Given her designation and skills she probably fell into or was gently pushed into a position of being some kind of security agent for whatever group might have need of someone to... deal with high-risk issues. An assassin bot, basically. Even in a post-scarcity environment there's gotta still be conflicts that require a few hitmen

She got worn down emotionally from this and quit to join the Mnemosyne, since security there seemed less likely to involve lots of killing.

Her past makes her pretty closed off so she unintentionally falls into the "seemingly emotionless Mech" kind of stereotype that puts people off, so she's probably not super social.... oops

Daan | Fear & Hunger: Termina

[cattatonic]

Daan is most likely going to be human, or maybe hybrid with cropped cat ears/docked tail to tie into his connection with Pocketcat. It also kind of fits the history of abuse thematics

He's a doctor so likely going to be in Medical, or... maybe Operations if it's too filled? Putting a Fear & Hunger character in charge of the food supply seems like it might fit

CWs will be listed in in-depth AU ideas but please mind them, F&H is a very dark game

[cattatonic]

CW - abuse, i thought i'd have to put more but his AU history isn't nearly as bad

Daan's AU history is a bit tricky since his canon history is pretty dark but relies on the world being kind of fucked, so his AU history might be... a bit lighter!

His parents abandoned him at some point, and so he was on his own for a bit. He would've eventually been taken in by Baron von Dutch, who was in... some kind of position of power. Maybe government? Anyway he would've been the one to encourage Daan to pursue medical training, but also to crop his ears to fit in a bit more with the Baron's social circle.

Eventually he married the Baron's daughter. He went off to serve as a medic in a war (or maybe just on a ship somewhere?). When he returned, the Baron was missing and his wife was found gruesomely murdered (?). That would've sparked Daan to hop on board since his life had basically fallen apart.

Honestly I am open to suggestions since I'm still working on it!!

Luz Jimenez | Werewolf the Apocalypse OC

[dogyears]

Honestly coming from Werewolf being a hybrid in security suits her perfectly. I also kind of love the idea of playing her in a setting where the moon was destroyed.

In her original life she grew up without her mom and a serious chip on her shoulder and took to being a warrior as the first thing to give her any meaning. Even then she had trouble with wanting to appear tough and dealing with Garou with different viewpoints.

For this universe I figure she was a bouncer or private security and after a particularly nasty fight she decided to join the academy to get away and found that it suited her. She's mostly human in appearance with a few wolf features like ears and a tail that she keeps hidden most of the time to maintain her image. Higher than average strength and speed and maybe a weakness or two she keeps to herself.

[cattatonic]

A Garou in a setting with a destroyed moon is SO mean I love that concept so much

Caitlyn Kiramman | Arcane

[no1cupcake]

Hello! This is the first time for me crafting AU story so I accept any and all advice :)!

My goal is that Caitlyn's canon story and AU story intertwine in some parts so much she can't tell which is which.

Cait is a normal human. In her AU, she attended the Academy and was top of the class, grade A sharpshooter, just like in Arcane.

I plan for her to get a cybernetic implant in her eye; a subtle urge from the military crew to get once she joined the ship to enhance her shooting even further.

I plan to suggest she be in the Security Division as an Investigator as her first choice because in Arcane she is investigating Jinx and the Undercity and getting so deep into it (not detailing because of spoilers). If not that, she'd be a normal officer, again paralleling her role at the beginning of the show when she was just a guard.

She was born noble in her canon, so having a prestigious family background in AU would be very cool because it would spark arguments about whether she was privileged during schooling and getting a spot on the ship.

I am down that she had started a private investigation on something but was never taken seriously (again, mirroring Arcane canon). I am taking suggestions on what that SOMETHING could be.

Open space to accept any other spice to add to her AU story!

[cattatonic]

At some point Daan would have been pulled into the prestigious social circles so maybe they could have run into each other once or twice… especially since I imagine both didn’t like parties too much

Nanachi | Made in Abyss

[naaa]

I Was thinking of a rabbit hybrid but beyond that I'm unsure.

To go with their canon story, Nanachi would probably be a loner who wanders from place to place after losing an important friend and most of her purpose in life. Shes incredibly adept in surviving in frontier planets and other inhospitable places and shies way from civilization to keep herself sane.

Alexander Hilbert | Wolf 359

[tarakan]

I know that nobody knows this ten year old podcast, so here's a quick tl;dr of Hilbert's deal. He's a grumpy Russian medical doctor / science officer who initially is part of the ~wacky workplace comedy~ on a space station, but then when the space station picks up signs of extraterrestrial life, it's revealed that Hilbert's true purpose is to take command of the space station, killing/incapacitating the crew, and reporting this information back to their evil spaceship bosses and oh yeah, he was also using one of the crewmembers as a host for a deadly virus. He fails at said 'taking over command' and then spends the rest of the show in the position of "we really don't trust you but this other guy is worse so I GUESS we're working together."

I'm leaning towards either Medical (he's the ship's doctor back home) or Scientific (he's also one of those fancy sci-fi scientists with like fifty degrees). Definitely human, definitely far too old for this shit, why are you trying to do things like 'get his opinion on things' or 'be nice and friendly,' go awaaaaay. he had fun once in his life. He hated it and does not plan on having fun ever again.

Other possible ideas/traits/whatever for his AU backstory...

• Worked at the Academy in some sort of capacity (does the Academy have tenure? Hilbert probably has tenure). Definitely vaguely knows anybody who went to the Academy and probably gave them a terrifying lecture about how horrifying it is to die in space.


• Absolutely does not talk about his family / upbringing / etc. because he used to live in a barely habitable town that suddenly became entirely unhabitable due to the degrading ecosystem and acknowledging your trauma is for losers.


• He's a shady bastard, so if anybody has any point in their backstory where a shady asshole with a love of unethical experiments and a bit of a body count could fit in, hmu and let's plot something.


• said shady bastard nature is probably why he signed onto the Mnemosyne in the first place. Take detailed notes/data/samples and bring it back to our evil space startup, we'll fund more of your under the table drug trials.

[skyscrapes]

RE: shady bastard, I put in Bertholdt's backstory that he consented to radical trials in order to pay for his Academy training - perhaps some of them were ones Hilbert ran? I specifically noted he has side effects from said trials in his adrenal/nervous system; maybe he was aware they weren't fully on the level, so he's never sought treatment in order to keep people from questioning how it happened.

Side note: I had no idea this is part of what Wolf 359 was about and now I kinda wanna give it a go! :D

Nicholas D Wolfwood | Trigun Maximum

[lastdecember]

Grumpy, practical jerk with a soft squishy center, who spends his childhood adultified into an assistant at the orphanage he was raised in. Wolfwood's everyone's big brother -- he cooks, he cleans, he decides who gets what toys and who is going to help with which chores -- and his love is definitely of the tough variety.

He'll be fully human in this AU, with no mods or other perks -- his people are into austerity as a lifestyle, and that's what will make him such a good resource manager (operations). He's got no family to speak of, no friends, no connections anywhere. He's adrift in life, with only a general idea that he's supposed to 'do good' and help others... but as an awkward bastard with terrible people skills, he's not very good at communicating with others. He joined the Mnemosyne to get away from Tellus more than anything -- he never had any dreams of travel, but he was raised with the idea that there's still too many people on the planet, so he got himself off-planet as soon as he was able.

He'll surprise himself with how eager he is to be of help on the ship once things go wrong, but don't expect that blunt practicality to fade any time soon. Chances are nobody on the ship likes him much, and the feeling's mutual. He's rude, y'all.

[plantussy]

Another one for the middle-of-the-night coffee pot crew, trying to stay awake so no remembered horrors™ come at night...

Cole | OC

[jaiet]

The tired and bored-looking quirky genius, specializing in fixing virtually anything mechanical and will sleep on any surface on the ship. She's part of a space mercenary group back home, but here she'll be part of the engineering crew. She'll stay a cyborg who fights with guns and some self-made jetpacks, rocket boots, and with the same augmentations as her original self. She is very much the same as her original self, and I picked her for this because of how well she fits the setting, so the info in her journal should still hold up! Anyway, let's discuss!

Zaeed Massani | OC

[anesthetic_rage]

Likely Department: Security or Scientist (Field-Research/Locked)

Zaaed is a soldier through and through. It would be hard to see him in any role outside of security, or as a Field Researcher taking point in hostile conditions to get advanced readings on the habitability of new territories. I'm currently thinking Security is the better choice, though he would be one who would eagerly work alongside field research teams to set up forward bases as needed.

Zaeed, as I conceive of him in his AU state, is a grizzled veteran of sorts. In a mostly utopian world, armed conflict is certainly not something that's completely unheard of (given that they have highly trained security forces), but I imagine it's a rarity. Before entering into Academy training, I envision him as someone who has served at the fringes of UA space on Tellus, working in containing a few conflicts and brush fires with rare malcontents who were not on board with UA policies and practices. The work was rare and lacked excitement, though he earned a few scars in his younger years because he was not able to get proper medical treatment before they set in.

After leaving UA service, he spent his 30s working as security for outfits doing environmental research and cleanup on the very fringes of inhabitable land. His skin shows the signs of someone accustomed to harsh environments and harsher life. He is as close to a mercenary veteran as one comes in a largely stable society. His body is the product of genetic breeding programs to ensure peak strength and agility, cybernetic enhancement to improve reflexes and optic implants to improve targeting (which ironically makes him physically identical to his counterpart in mass effect, as that's basically what the "Soldier" class is: An engineered, cybernetically enhanced human.). His entry into the program came with the hopes of "getting off of this forsaken rock," though this may have been more because of a sense of wanderlust and a desire for adventure, rather than distaste for current conditions in Tellus. Exploring the fringes of another galaxy certainly will give him something new to experience.

10H | Nier Reincarnation

[whowatches]

(returns here with another robot)

In her canon, 10h is an android specializing in repairs (Healing-type) that's in charge of maintaining a massive data server on the moon. It Gets Complicated but basically it's lonely and boring up there and it's shaped her a lot. Until it isn't.

So obviously, for the AU she'll be a Mech in... most likely Engineering, but maybe Operations if that's super filled up. Prrrobably Computer Systems since that seems like the most appropriate translation of her original duties.

Previously she was stationed on one of the Artificial Moons and basically tasked with upkeep and making sure it stayed in orbit as necessary (assuming the moons would have something like that? I figure sending up One Mech is pretty reasonable). But after years of spending it in near isolation except for the AI systems, she sought something new.

Sooo she jumped at the chance to join the Mnemosyne because at least she wouldn't be ALONE on the ship. There are people of all sorts there! And they're going somewhere new and exciting!

Murderbot | The Murderbot Diaries

[itdoesntlikeyou]

In its canon Murderbot is a artificial construct with a human brain and some other human fleshy bits - I'm considering here making it human with a decent spread of mods, and a habit of changing names; Rin, Eden, etc etc. Still deciding how I want to use pronouns for murderbot - canonically it's an it.

Also because I think it would be more interesting, I'm considering some of the non-security based roles for its alternate life - some sort of low-level tech or operations role, in contrast to its canon where it's done nothing but security.

'It/Rin/Eden/Hey You' would be from one of the megacities, but contracted to work regularly on the edge of those nonviable reasons, in various roles and for various purposes. Over the course of those expeditions they experienced some injuries that led them to adopt various mods to compensate, and they continued to collect others over time, the most obvious being prosthetic feet. It's probably this experience that brought it onto the Mnemosyne, but you wouldn't know from the utter lack of ambition it displays day to day. And it's one of those people who's always listening to something at x2 speed while working.

Madison Montgomery | American Horror Story: Coven (CW: mind control, murder)

[backtoretail]

Madison is a well-known, well-paid actress in canon. She's recognized by other people in canon, although her personal Hell involves her being mistaken for Lindsey Lohan. She's also a witch, capable of teleportation, mind control, sending her soul to Hell and bringing it back, pyrokinesis, bringing people back from the dead, and her real specialty--telekinesis.

She's also a murderer. She killed a director who wanted her to play a scene in a way she didn't want to play and she killed a fellow witch she saw as a threat. She also declined to save another witch who'd died, again because she saw that witch as a threat (and also hypothesized that she had some sort of confused sexual/emotional attraction to).

Madison dies three times in canon. Once by the Supreme (the leader of the world's witches and warlocks) because she was seen as a threat, once by a guy who loved the girl Madison refused to revive, and once by the Antichrist.

When getting her memories back, I'd like to start with her memories in Apocalypse, the final season we see Madison in. During Apocalypse, she undergoes a redemption arc, swearing to be good if she's revived from her third time in Hell and follows through to the point of being willing to take on a situation she knew would end in her own death in an effort to buy time for the other witches to stop the Apocalypse before it even happens.

I'd like for her to take a security role, specifically the Security Officer role since she's a nosy person and insists on everyone's business being her business, she's shown prowess at hand to hand combat without magic, she knows how to use guns, and she refuses to back down, even when she likely should.

I'd prefer her to stay a mainline human, but if anyone has any suggestions for how another setting would suit her better, I'd love to hear what you think!

[plantussy]

ooh witchiness!
what would her AU story be, you think?

qilby | wakfu

[zinit]

So here's this guy - quite late (or early?), but I see someone else above me commented recently, so I'm going for it! There's a wiki here for anyone who cares for context someone on it has dubbed his augmented form "lobotomized" LMAO and I've given you some below... tried to tl;dr but it ended up like six paragraphs, sorry.

click the arrow above for a detailed canon background

Qilby is an Eliatrope, a race of ancient space-elves with goofy hats and the ability to manipulate wakfu, the life-force inhabiting all things. Specifically, he's one of the original six birthed directly from their Goddess, who were born with a dragon twin each and the ability to reincarnate when both the Eliatrope and dragon twin had died. His other five siblings forgot everything upon reincarnation; he's the lucky one who didn't, keeping memories of each of his lives for the next as a "living record."

He was a scientist and doctor with talent beyond compare, living alongside his siblings and his people in harmony... But after lifetimes of learning the same things and seeing the same people, he became unsatisfied with the same damn planet. After all, the essence of wakfu is motion, and motion cannot be stilled; he felt it was the Eliatropes' destiny to move from planet to planet, learning and creating connections along the way.

So when a giant mech race called the Mechasms very creative, ankama comes to colonize the planet, after doing his very best to coexist nicely with them, he steals the youngest one's heart out of its chest and creates an artifact of unimaginable power called the Eliacube with it. This starts a war that forces the Eliatropes and dragons off their home planet and on a wild goose chase through the stars.

Since they've used wakfu to power everything up until now, their fuel is (naturally) the wakfu from the planets they land on intermittently. This kills these planets, along with all of their inhabitants. Qilby is beyond caring; he gathers samples of their flora and fauna, then promptly fucks off. This is just the kind of horribly nihilistic guy he is.

Eventually, they settle on the future World of Twelve and decide to make it their home. Qilby, displeased, eventually tries the same fuckery again and manages to cause the almost-total obliteration of their people. In rage, the dragon Phaeris bites off his arm. The newly-crowned king, his brother Yugo and yes, there are Politics about this comes in for the slam-dunk and, because killing him obviously doesn't make him die, punts him into a pure-white Blank Dimension to seal him away.

He remains there for 10,000 years, over which he sits and accumulates Angst and becomes even more insane. The aftermath is what we see in canon.

One sees why a space game with unreliable memories is the ideal spot for him.

Since he's already a space elf, Elheen is the obvious choice. I'm thinking he's even an older guy by Elheen standards, somewhere around 350 - enough to have established himself on their home planet as a talented young xenobiologist (though with heterodox views), and old enough to have actively assisted in the evacuation. He'd been secretly hoping for such an event - he held the extremely heterodox view that Elheen should actively colonize other planets, so he saw an opportunity and took it. Not too much for the harmony and coexistence thing, this one.

His twin sister Shinonome died somewhere between the two planets (open to ideas here), and Qilby has never quite forgiven himself, Earth, the Elheen, or any other involved party for it. Nevertheless, even through the bitterness, he forged on through a pathological need for knowledge: xenobiology, astrophysics, chemistry, he wants to know it all. Secretly, he's doing all he can to research immortality, because any less than a thousand years simply isn't enough for all the work he wants to do.

Naturally, when the Mnemosyne project began to enroll, he signed up immediately. It wasn't like he had any living family, nor any particular tie to the planet itself; he saw only Science that has Not Been Done and new frontiers to explore.

He's not shy about mods, and he even has a few: a replacement left arm (lost his doing field work somehow, also open to ideas on this), a general-purpose cognitive enhancer, some sort of personal knowledge repository, and a mod that inhibits dreaming.

Extremely normal old man, nothing to worry about.

[plantussy]

The workshop is always open so neither late or early!

also another elheen would be both great and so awkward for Vash, especially an elder elheen where he's just a bit over 40 and had his ears cropped as a baby by some evil scientists. Looking human and raised by a human, he doesn't have a lot of elheen ties and just never corrects anyone calling him human... he's fine with that.

Another elheen waking up will give him all the mixed feelings!

Edit: OH and no left arm buddies!

makima (csm)

[overlies]

hello hello i wish i knew about this place sooner, love this premise!!!! and look how cozy y'all are!! 🥹

thinking of two characters, one of which is this dangerous gal that i'm waffling between making either an elheen or a mech so that it's a touch bit easier to slip into the i know what's best for humanity mindset. i personally find it hilarious if she's on the mental health front of things genuinely at first and then slowly morphs into lady hannibal the more she remembers who she is....... basically the biggest corruption arc of all time 🥲

i'm truly open to any established cr already!! backstory wise there's nothing exactly tragic other than the elheen backstory itself. she's a mother of many children i suppose? either way, i want her to start out as pristine, altruistic and mentally healthy as possible so that it can all crash really hard 👀

[itdoesntlikeyou]

Hello and welcome!

I admit I'm not too canon-familiar with makima, so I'm curious what division you're thinking of slotting her into?

lois lane (my adventures with superman)

[metrop_lois]

So I've been eyeballing this place because I really love AU games and finally decided Lois would probably do pretty well here!

My current plan is to slot her into the Science Division as a field researcher. Given her proclivity to investigating damn near everything I figured she'd love exploring alien worlds and uncovering their secrets as much as she liked uncovering juicy stories for the Daily Planet.

I did considering slotting her into Operations under pilot and maybe navigator divisions but kind of so-so over it. I think she'd fit better into the Field Researcher role.

Backstory wise she's still thoroughly human with the usual background -- absentee military father who drilled her on survival skills. Maybe he had a thing about augmented humans and insisted Lanes didn't need any augmentations? I dunno, just throwing that out there.

[itdoesntlikeyou]

Insatiably curious scientist sounds like a pretty good fit! I guess hybrids too might also fit the DC universe conception of metahumans, but depends how you want to adapt that. She'll definitely end up working alongside at least one very augmented human, though

rukia kuchiki (bleach)

[chides]

WAVES, hello! Recently found this place via EMP and really loving everything I'm seeing so far! I'm interested in sliding onto the tdm if I can, so I figured I should post a comment here and see how it goes 👀

Rukia Kuchiki is from the popular shounen series Bleach, being one of its duotagonists! In canon, she's a spirit – a Shinigami, if you will – and was born into the lower class who got adopted into nobility. She carries herself with a lot of grace but has a hard time getting close to people. Still, she gives the other protagonist, Ichigo Kurosaki, his Shinigami powers at the cost of her own, which is a big crime in the Soul Society. There's a LOT to her story that I cannot sufficiently recap, her Wiki is here for the curious!

Anyway, for her AU stuff, she'll likely be a regular human here with a similar background in which she was adopted into nobility. Rukia will have an older sister who has sadly passed, one she was rather close to. She's a highly capable individual who trained to become a Pilot under her brother-in-law. Unsurprisingly, I'd like to put her in Operations as a Pilot, and when she's not needed, she'll be part of the the Administrative Crew as a subdivision. Need records, medical files, a history of disciplinary actions taken? She's your girl! Or something like that. Either way, she's really organized, so none of your paperwork in her hands will get misplaced. 🫡

She'd likely have endurance and recovery mods, and I think she'd be very private about having dream recording so she can view happy memories and dreams of her with her sister.

[plantussy]

ooh Rukiaaa, I used to be obsessed with Bleach back in the day.
The new TDM goes up the 27th so if you hold on a bit we'd love to see you there.

...and YES more Ops people! Our current only Ops guy did a little bit of mutiny >>;

Kaidan Alenko / Mass Effect

[bigplace]

Interested in the premise + seen you all around in EMP.

I'm a bit torn on where to stick Kaidan, however. In Mass Effect he's a Sentinel, which is a support-oriented class, a jack-of-all-trades. He can fight, he can hack, he can heal. My decision hinges upon how I'll be able to work in his biotics, basically.

I could start him off in Engineering or Medical, depending on what's needed more then slowly, as he regains his memory and powers, transition him into more a combat-oriented role. Above all Kaidan wants to be useful, so if we already got enough maniacs running around blowing stuff up hello Zaeed, he wouldn't be offended if he's asked to remain a technician/medic.

My biggest question is: would biotics count as a power he could start off with via mods? Or, given their strength and versatility, is this something better left to a regain?

Unfortunately biotics features prominently in his canon backstory, so until I get that squared away, I can't figure out how to proceed for his AU'd backstory.

[itdoesntlikeyou]

Hi and welcome!

I can't speak for the game mods but I also play a character here with pretty extensive modifications - I saved some of the more intensive canon ones for regains (inbuilt weapons for example) partially because I had a less fighty AU background and wanted to make the shift from AU to canon memories distinct

If you've already checked out the mods list at the bottom of the species page then figuring out what would be a fun power to suddenly regain is my personal recommendation, lol.

As for division, whatever you think would be fun - though I know every character would be very happy to see another engineer right now since the ship just turned off the AI pilot

handsome jack // borderlands

[thehandsomejack]

Hello guys!! Stumbled across the game and I love the premise! I'm thinking I'd like to bring this jackhole here and I've got a couple ideas of what to do for his backstory, but some that I'd love help with.

For any who are canonblind, Jack here rose to power and became the CEO of a corrupt war-mongering company by manipulating his daughter and using her powers to his own advantage after the death of her mother. In game, my thought is that I'd have his wife and daughter leave him before he gets a chance to. However being a company man is integral to his identity and he'd still do everything in his power to climb ranks so, though he may not be an Arms Dealing CEO, he'd still be middle management in something toxic.

My question becomes this: can the crew be apart of other companies with their own interests in colonizing deep space?

If it would fit game canon, I'd be thrilled to throw a Hyperion-coded BBEG company with profit margins being the main goals, and a history of Questionable Humanitarian Practices. Canon Hyperion makes everything from genetic modifiers to guns to cities. Their earmark is creating AI mechs (called Loaders) to do menial labor as well and I feel like that could be a fun dynamic to add. Any thoughts or feedback?

[itdoesntlikeyou]

Hello!

Can't speak for an official ruling obviously, but I think that sounds fun to be at the very least trying to bring his corporate interests along with him! We've already got a couple of doctors who came into space to get away from pesky things like medical boards, lol.

Questionable humanitarian practices The Company have already come up in Rin's backstory thanks to their mods, so if the subject ever comes up (which it might since regains, and also they're not exactly hiding their mods generally) Jack could definitely be familiar with it as some sort of competition in the business space, or whatever makes sense there.

Curious too what division you're thinking he might slot well into!