04-06-2016, 01:51 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-07-2016, 11:39 AM by homin-Ratione.
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Character name:
Homin-Ratione (hoe-min Rat-ee-oh-nay)
Means “Son of Reason”
Character source:
Original
Character history:
Abstract
Homin-Ratione is a Novan, a space-faring race that existed far before the evolution of mankind on a foreign world and conquered a large portion of their galaxy. He served in the first fifty-year war against the Sar-Kuhn, an opposing galactic power that was still leagues behind the Novan empire in terms of technology, resource, and sheer military might. Despite this, blood was shed quite heavily, and many once nationalistic Novan soldiers were now understandably resentful of their own ruling bodies. As a Knight (Furtumin), Ratione was no exception. Sent deep into the fray of a battle, he witnessed up close and personal just exactly how savage a man, Novan or Sar-Kuhn, can become. However, with all of the pressure of his peers and higher officers, family, friends, and himself he forced himself to fight. As a Knight, Ratione wore a fully-enclosed power-suit that enhanced his strength and speed and allowed him to fight in the middle of an enemy formation for hours on end. His weapons were made to be significantly heavier than a regular soldier’s, and thus could fell three or five Sar-Kuhn with only a few swings. As a result, a fight against even a twice as experienced and skilled opponent was still a one-sided combat. When the war started Ratione would be pushing thirty in our standards of age (the statistically average maximum lifespan of a Novan in good health is around 300 years due to advanced medical technology), and at the end was pretty much fifty-plus. During the war, he had met what was the Novan equivalent of a wife (they have no concept of marriage, only really devout relationships) by the name of homina-Bonibus (Daughter of Good Hands) who was soon carrying his child. The daughter was born some time later, around twenty years before the war ended, and was named homina-Bonibus-Ratione for her first few years before being renamed homina-Bonent (traditionally, Novan children are simply named either “daughter of” or “son of” followed by some sort of combination of the parents’ names, then later a name that fits their personality is decided upon. This time in-between the two names varies, but is usually not more than two or three years). The mother passed in childbirth.
For most of Bonent’s life she was raised by Ratione’s immediate family on the outer rim farming colony of Mulcibus, only able to speak to her father through electronic messages or the very few opportunities he had to visit home. At the end of the war however, Ratione finally demanded retirement and was met with no objections. Finally returning for his daughter’s twentieth birthday, it is only about a week that passes before the Sar-kuhn make a comeback. Seemingly having bolstered their military out of thin air, with new ships, weapons, and their own power-armor they begin invading outer-rim colonies to surround the Novan empire. Mulcibus is attacked, and Ratione is forced back into fighting in order to defend his home. After about a month of a one-sided siege, the Novan military garrison convinces the Sar-Kuhn naval fleet to allow all women and children to evacuate the planet while leaving all of the men behind. The Sar-Kuhn do not go back on their agreement, and in the final defense the Novans are defeated in one last stand.
When everything suddenly goes black for Ratione while he is surrounding by axes and spears, his blood on his visor and the ground, gasping for air, he is suspended in darkness for what feels like eternity.
Then, a bright white figure of bizarre proportions appears, telling the Novan their name, where he is, and what the world he is about to enter holds for him.
Physical Description: (originals only)
Novans are incredibly humanoid, however in earlier generations of the Three-Thousand Years War they have some distinct differences.
First off, their legs resemble those of saurian raptors. They have large and long feet, the heel extending off the ground and giving the appearance of “bending backward”, their five toes being a little more elongated and thicker than our own. They lack claws, but their nails are still thick. They are also slimmer and more “straight” in comparison to raptor legs.
Novan heads are somewhat oblong, akin to an australopithecus skull. Their ears are small and close to the sides of the head. Novans still have flat faces, but the eyes are slanted and the jaw line somewhat more pronounced. Their noses are also consistently small and narrow.
In terms of hair, it is almost the exact same as a humans in terms of growth, types, and range of colors. Same goes for eye color.
Novans are on average taller than humans, the shortest Novans being around five feet and the tallest being almost eight feet tall. As such their limb proportions are longer but still even with the rest of the body. Arms, hands and torso are very similar to humans, however female breasts never get very large. Novan skin is also somewhat rougher than human skin, not so much leather-like in texture but definitely never very smooth.
Novan teeth are also more primitive, with small and sharp canines. These never really grow too far out.
Specifically, Ratione is around six and a half feet in height. He is built and physically fit. Eyes are hazel, and hair is a dark brown and is cut short against the scalp.
On his armor: As said it fully encloses the user, and the design reflecting that of general western European plate armor, specifically the mid to late-medieval periods. While the plates themselves are basically invulnerable to swords, small-caliber bullets, and most other solid projectiles (arrows and stuff), like actual plate armor, if joints are targeted or the armor’s power source is damaged it can render Ratione completely immobile in one or more or even all portions of the armor. Lasers and plasmas weapons do have the ability to cut through the plate, however. Extreme temperatures can also overpower life-support and either freeze or boil Ratione inside the suit. The only distinguishing properties are the leg armor, which has to be forged to different proportions, and the characteristic Novan helm. The suit’s energy reserves can last up to three or so days, which then varies on amount of usage. In heavy fighting this time can be halved. The suit must then be recharged, either with raw energy or some other sufficient power source.
http://imgur.com/FHqpCy4
Very basic representation of the pattern. Most if not all Novan helms followed a similar design, with the two prongs in the front protecting the visor where a virtual HUD appears. With the suit Ratione is easily seven feet tall. When Ratione appears at the Nexus he is fully armored, and his suit has a full charge.
Stats:
ATK:2
DEF:2
SPD:2
TEC:4
Starting Proficiencies:
Physical Strength (1000 OM): Without his power armor, Ratione is still physically built and trained in martial arts (Novan martial arts is largely the same as human martial arts), his calves, forearms, and back being where most of his muscle comes from.
Starting Powers:
Super Speed (1000 OM): When it concerns speed, Ratione’s armor technically only enhances the user’s strength. It does this by detecting muscle movements and causing the armor to move with the body, and eliminate work load. Thus Ratione can leap incredible distances with each step, up to twenty meters each.
Advanced Super Jumping (500 OM): Ratione’s armor has a jump pack on his back. While not allowing flight, it can accelerate him up to ten miles per hour in any direction it’s pointed at.
Basic Enhanced Senses (short range radar, radius of twenty meters. Displays basic geography and most high-profile movement) (1400)
Important thing to note
These enhancements are only given by Ratione’s advanced power armor. If he is caught in combat without it he is at a severe disadvantage, but still dangerous to an extent.
Starting Moves:
Novan Hand-and-a-Half Sword (600 OM): Ratione uses his sword. The sword does have a function to open up and reveal a smaller greatsword that is light enough to be wielded without the suit’s strength enhancement. The design is similar medieval European bastard-swords, with a straight crossguard and a hilt long enough to be wielded with two hands but also able to be wielded with one (when using in a two-handed fashion, Ratione would be gripping the pommel). The blade itself is a full meter long, with an extra .3 meters being added by the hilt. In its secondary form, the blade itself is only .7 meters long, with .1 meters being added on by the hilt (proportions can always be changed since I’m terrible at visualizing length). Made similarly to his armor, so it the primary form is incredibly heavy at around twenty or so pounds, whereas the secondary form is only around seven or eight.
I confirm that I have read and agreed to the Rules of Conduct.
Where did you find us?
This is an alt for Aadibah.
Homin-Ratione (hoe-min Rat-ee-oh-nay)
Means “Son of Reason”
Character source:
Original
Character history:
Abstract
Homin-Ratione is a Novan, a space-faring race that existed far before the evolution of mankind on a foreign world and conquered a large portion of their galaxy. He served in the first fifty-year war against the Sar-Kuhn, an opposing galactic power that was still leagues behind the Novan empire in terms of technology, resource, and sheer military might. Despite this, blood was shed quite heavily, and many once nationalistic Novan soldiers were now understandably resentful of their own ruling bodies. As a Knight (Furtumin), Ratione was no exception. Sent deep into the fray of a battle, he witnessed up close and personal just exactly how savage a man, Novan or Sar-Kuhn, can become. However, with all of the pressure of his peers and higher officers, family, friends, and himself he forced himself to fight. As a Knight, Ratione wore a fully-enclosed power-suit that enhanced his strength and speed and allowed him to fight in the middle of an enemy formation for hours on end. His weapons were made to be significantly heavier than a regular soldier’s, and thus could fell three or five Sar-Kuhn with only a few swings. As a result, a fight against even a twice as experienced and skilled opponent was still a one-sided combat. When the war started Ratione would be pushing thirty in our standards of age (the statistically average maximum lifespan of a Novan in good health is around 300 years due to advanced medical technology), and at the end was pretty much fifty-plus. During the war, he had met what was the Novan equivalent of a wife (they have no concept of marriage, only really devout relationships) by the name of homina-Bonibus (Daughter of Good Hands) who was soon carrying his child. The daughter was born some time later, around twenty years before the war ended, and was named homina-Bonibus-Ratione for her first few years before being renamed homina-Bonent (traditionally, Novan children are simply named either “daughter of” or “son of” followed by some sort of combination of the parents’ names, then later a name that fits their personality is decided upon. This time in-between the two names varies, but is usually not more than two or three years). The mother passed in childbirth.
For most of Bonent’s life she was raised by Ratione’s immediate family on the outer rim farming colony of Mulcibus, only able to speak to her father through electronic messages or the very few opportunities he had to visit home. At the end of the war however, Ratione finally demanded retirement and was met with no objections. Finally returning for his daughter’s twentieth birthday, it is only about a week that passes before the Sar-kuhn make a comeback. Seemingly having bolstered their military out of thin air, with new ships, weapons, and their own power-armor they begin invading outer-rim colonies to surround the Novan empire. Mulcibus is attacked, and Ratione is forced back into fighting in order to defend his home. After about a month of a one-sided siege, the Novan military garrison convinces the Sar-Kuhn naval fleet to allow all women and children to evacuate the planet while leaving all of the men behind. The Sar-Kuhn do not go back on their agreement, and in the final defense the Novans are defeated in one last stand.
When everything suddenly goes black for Ratione while he is surrounding by axes and spears, his blood on his visor and the ground, gasping for air, he is suspended in darkness for what feels like eternity.
Then, a bright white figure of bizarre proportions appears, telling the Novan their name, where he is, and what the world he is about to enter holds for him.
Physical Description: (originals only)
Novans are incredibly humanoid, however in earlier generations of the Three-Thousand Years War they have some distinct differences.
First off, their legs resemble those of saurian raptors. They have large and long feet, the heel extending off the ground and giving the appearance of “bending backward”, their five toes being a little more elongated and thicker than our own. They lack claws, but their nails are still thick. They are also slimmer and more “straight” in comparison to raptor legs.
Novan heads are somewhat oblong, akin to an australopithecus skull. Their ears are small and close to the sides of the head. Novans still have flat faces, but the eyes are slanted and the jaw line somewhat more pronounced. Their noses are also consistently small and narrow.
In terms of hair, it is almost the exact same as a humans in terms of growth, types, and range of colors. Same goes for eye color.
Novans are on average taller than humans, the shortest Novans being around five feet and the tallest being almost eight feet tall. As such their limb proportions are longer but still even with the rest of the body. Arms, hands and torso are very similar to humans, however female breasts never get very large. Novan skin is also somewhat rougher than human skin, not so much leather-like in texture but definitely never very smooth.
Novan teeth are also more primitive, with small and sharp canines. These never really grow too far out.
Specifically, Ratione is around six and a half feet in height. He is built and physically fit. Eyes are hazel, and hair is a dark brown and is cut short against the scalp.
On his armor: As said it fully encloses the user, and the design reflecting that of general western European plate armor, specifically the mid to late-medieval periods. While the plates themselves are basically invulnerable to swords, small-caliber bullets, and most other solid projectiles (arrows and stuff), like actual plate armor, if joints are targeted or the armor’s power source is damaged it can render Ratione completely immobile in one or more or even all portions of the armor. Lasers and plasmas weapons do have the ability to cut through the plate, however. Extreme temperatures can also overpower life-support and either freeze or boil Ratione inside the suit. The only distinguishing properties are the leg armor, which has to be forged to different proportions, and the characteristic Novan helm. The suit’s energy reserves can last up to three or so days, which then varies on amount of usage. In heavy fighting this time can be halved. The suit must then be recharged, either with raw energy or some other sufficient power source.
http://imgur.com/FHqpCy4
Very basic representation of the pattern. Most if not all Novan helms followed a similar design, with the two prongs in the front protecting the visor where a virtual HUD appears. With the suit Ratione is easily seven feet tall. When Ratione appears at the Nexus he is fully armored, and his suit has a full charge.
Stats:
ATK:2
DEF:2
SPD:2
TEC:4
Starting Proficiencies:
Physical Strength (1000 OM): Without his power armor, Ratione is still physically built and trained in martial arts (Novan martial arts is largely the same as human martial arts), his calves, forearms, and back being where most of his muscle comes from.
Starting Powers:
Super Speed (1000 OM): When it concerns speed, Ratione’s armor technically only enhances the user’s strength. It does this by detecting muscle movements and causing the armor to move with the body, and eliminate work load. Thus Ratione can leap incredible distances with each step, up to twenty meters each.
Advanced Super Jumping (500 OM): Ratione’s armor has a jump pack on his back. While not allowing flight, it can accelerate him up to ten miles per hour in any direction it’s pointed at.
Basic Enhanced Senses (short range radar, radius of twenty meters. Displays basic geography and most high-profile movement) (1400)
Important thing to note
These enhancements are only given by Ratione’s advanced power armor. If he is caught in combat without it he is at a severe disadvantage, but still dangerous to an extent.
Starting Moves:
Novan Hand-and-a-Half Sword (600 OM): Ratione uses his sword. The sword does have a function to open up and reveal a smaller greatsword that is light enough to be wielded without the suit’s strength enhancement. The design is similar medieval European bastard-swords, with a straight crossguard and a hilt long enough to be wielded with two hands but also able to be wielded with one (when using in a two-handed fashion, Ratione would be gripping the pommel). The blade itself is a full meter long, with an extra .3 meters being added by the hilt. In its secondary form, the blade itself is only .7 meters long, with .1 meters being added on by the hilt (proportions can always be changed since I’m terrible at visualizing length). Made similarly to his armor, so it the primary form is incredibly heavy at around twenty or so pounds, whereas the secondary form is only around seven or eight.
I confirm that I have read and agreed to the Rules of Conduct.
Where did you find us?
This is an alt for Aadibah.
"Our fear is our weapon."
