Sent to Mars (Accepting! Please join!)

It is the year 2100 and planet earth is overcrowded. Everyone knew it would come to this someday so scientists have been working on a secret project for years. It is finally time to take action. For years people have said that it’s possible to live on Mars, and now with the scientist’s new inventions it just might be possible. Sadly the inventors of the Mars technology are long dead and most of the scientists that know about the project are far too old to go themselves. For this reason they are picking ten able-bodied young adults to partake in this dangerous mission. No one will be forced to go but the future of humanity could very well be saved by these valiant teens. But Mars is not uninhabited. The scientists have known this for a long time. Extraterrestrials do exist and they are running the planet Mars. Not much is known about the inhabitants Mars and part of the teen’s mission will be making contact with them.

You can pick to be an earthling or an inhabitant of Mars. Rules apply to both.

Humans

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You may not have any superpowers; you will use technology. Since it takes place in the future there will be a lot of tech that may not be invented yet. Feel free to create a kind of gadget that does something but make it believable. Also you must pick a talent, maybe for instance you are extremely smart, or a great runner, etc.

Fill out the following:

Name:
Age (under 25):
Gender:
Role:
Appearance (a pic would be great):
Personality:
History:
Talent:

Available places (humans)

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Captain: KeiPie
Co-Captain: PixieStix
Technology coordinator: SidereaAquila
Survival guide: claimed by live1out2loud7
Protectors (2):KRose, tenshou
Communication experts (2):
Scientists (2):Satan


Role explanations:
Capitain-obvously the person in charge of the mission and who everyone takes complaints to
Co-Capitain-the person who will take charge if something happens to the captain. Also takes front line in any action.
Technology coordinator-the person who designs and knows how to use tons of gadgets. Also the person who supplies everyone with intercom devices and weapons before any exploration outings.
Survival guide-the person who knows how to create food from almost nothing, how to set up a tent, basically how to survive in an unknown place.
Protectors-guards mostly. They are trained fighters who are sent to protect the rest of the team.
Communication experts-experts in language and conversation. They are the people who will be contacting the Martians.
Scientists-the apprentices of the scientists on earth. They will control the portal (the means of transport from earth to Mars and back) and also conduct tests.

Martians

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As a Martian you are nervous about the arrival of humans to your native land. You can team up with other Martians or team up with the humans or just go solo. You may have some sort of power but nothing overboard. PM me if you think it might be too much. Your weapons are fairly primitive but you can have special abilities like mind reading, sensing danger, etc. You can pick one power and one special ability only. You may create a new specie or use one of the already made ones below. If someone else creates a new specie I will add theirs to the list.

Elttabs
They are very tall. Their powers are fiscal varying from extreme speed to super strength. Their special ability is sensing their enemy’s weakness giving them a great advantage in battle. Some but very few can actually transmit pain to that weak point but this is very rare.


Thorpines:
These are small but stocky and very heavy. They sometimes hurl themselves at the enemy to squish them. They are not fast but they can read minds. Their special ability is camouflage. They can blend into wherever they are and are very hard to notice. They are known to be mostly friendly but of course, there are those who are not. It’s up to you.

Grazers
These run on all fours like horses but are shaped more like a centaur. They have six arms and legs total. Four to run on and two above the rest. Just like a centaur really. Their power is that of invisibility while they stand still. They appear again if they move. Their special ability is the ability to mimic other species. They can learn different speech, actions, and can also pick up new skills by just watching.

Create your own.
Name of new specie:
Description (including their powers and abilities and any other key details):

Fill this out:
Name (feel free to make it something wacky):
Gender:
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Special Ability:
Allying with some one? (if so please name who or you can be general like ‘humans’)

Name: Josh Tanner
Age (under 25): 21
Gender: male
Role: Captain
Appearance:

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Tall and muscular. Blonde with gray eyes. He has a kind smile that is rarely shown and his face shows the hardness of a soldier. He dresses mostly in army-issued clothing.
Personality: He is kind and understanding and only wants the best for his team. But he's tough and doesn't let anyone slack without punishment.
History: His parents sent him to a military school when he was 17 and Josh has been training ever since. He did so well in the school that he was sent to work with the ss when he was 19. He passed every test given him and worked very hard to make it to where he is. He is overjoyed to be picked as Captain and the years of military work have hardened him to a rock.
Talent: His mind works fast and he can solve problems on the spot. He is also very strong and fast.

Human--technology coordinator


Name: Addy Barlow

Age: 22

Gender: Female

Appearance: Short, athletic, dusty brown hair, usually in a ponytail, hazel eyes, likes to wear jeans, a track jacket, and sneakers, has rimless glasses, lopsided smile (will insert picture later)

Personality: Addy is upbeat and positive, and enjoys making nerdy jokes. She is good at making friends, but she's not always the most tactful. She's competitive and confident, and she likes a challenge. At times she can be stubborn, but that usually serves her well. She's good with people, and often serves as a therapist for her friends. She has an analytical mind, and looks at everything like a math problem. She's not afraid to show her emotions, but she tends to be drawn to more secretive types.

History: Addy grew up in a small town near an air base. Both her parents flew unmanned drones for the Air Force, which is where she got her love of computers and technology. She was studying astrophysics in college and was working as an intern for the national space agency when she was given the opportunity to go to Mars. She immediately said yes.

Talent: Addy is very good at computer programming, from website design to basic programming and binary code. She can fix almost anything electronic, and likes to build her own little gadgets. She can also hack into secure electronic files, and break electronic codes.

I like it! Sounds like a great character. Oh could you include a brief history? Thanks!

I'll take the co-captian if It's available. This sounds really interesting!

Name: Cassidy "Cass" Wellings

Age (under 25): 20

Gender: Female

Role: Co-Captian
Appearance (a pic would be great):

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Cassidy

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straight Bleach blonde hair, no blemishes what soever, she's very curvy and stands at 5'6". Has blue eyes. A few freckles across her nose. She usually wears skinny jeans, a white tank top or a leather jacket. She rarely ever takes of her shades.

Personality: She's really confident. She hates it when someone corrects her. She's usually described as Bad-ass and she seems really mysterious. The only person that knows the real her is the captain or her brother. She usually ends up being the one to stop fights or solve a problem. She's smart and manipulative. She tends to make people laugh alot, she has an additude. Cass loves to fight and doesn't back down from any fight, which makes her opponent usually back off before she does.

History: Cassidy was born on October 18th. She has three older brothers which give her upper-hands in fights, beacuse it was either she gets held down or she has to fight back. Her mother abandoned her when she was three, leaving her dad, who is in the military. She has brief trainibg with guns, knifes, and the vehicle she usually ends up taking is the motorcycle.

Talent: She's an amazing fighter.

Other: She has a British accent.

Looks good! She sounds really cool. You're in!

Thanks

Here is the link to the discussion for this SB. If you have any questions feel free to post them! viewtopic.php?f=200&t=93963

Name: Tillie Grethern
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Role: Protector
Appearance: Tillie has light brown hair, and brown eyes. She has blonde highlights.

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Personality: With a strong determination, Tillie is a “obey me and no questions” kind of girl. She is gruff, and has a stiff, solemn attitude. Once you put her in charge of anything, she will never give up, and she will never give in. Only a good friend can stop her from doing something that could hurt her. She would give her life for somebody she loves. Responsible and smart both describe her. She is witty, but can get over-cocky when dealing with things that really bother her. She would be a great friend to have.
History: After her poor father kicks her out of her house, because of the lack of food and money (which every cent they get goes to the care of her 4 other younger siblings), and only a few days later, her mother dies from cancer, Tillie is alone in the world. She wants to be strong, fearless, and she never wants to show her feelings again. The pain of losing her mom makes her sad, and bitter. She is very strong and pretty, but her appearances don’t matter to her anymore. She would rather die herself than lose another loved one. She cannot face other people's death easily. After 2 years in a military academy, she became the top gun shooter. She can shoot moving targets easily, but will not shoot if anybody else could be in danger... She is very talented.
Talent: She is a strong girl, and can run very very fast. She doesn’t fear her own death, and doesn’t mind taking big risks. Although she doesn’t know much about new tech, she is a very quick learner, and learns from her mistakes. Also, she has learned how to aim very well with guns, or laser guns. She can shoot from very far away, and not easily miss. She has good eyes, so she never misses a shot...

Hmm KRose, this part here:

With a strong detirmination, Tillie is a “obey me and no questions” kind of girl. She is shy, and she doesn’t make friends easily.

it kind of clashes for me. How can she be shy also cocky? Please make her consistant. Also the same thing, her history doesn't tell me anything about why she's on the team. Is there any training there? Maybe a military acadamy? At least some fist fights and weapons training. Please make one of her talents a weapon specialty.

I'd like to reserve a Human Scientist spot, if I may.
I'll have a character up by tomorrow.

Sure thing!

Name: Nicholas Queen
Age: 24
Gender: Male
Role: Scientist
Appearance:

Nicholas is tall and what some might describe as skinny-fat, though he’s gotten a bit more fit after undergoing the training for the Mars mission. He has a mess of mousy brown hair, a case of acne that shall not be overthrown, and blueish greenish eyes hid under a pair of thick glasses. He also has two left hands -- literally, due to a birth defect.
Personality: Nicholas is an INTP, which stands for Introverted iNtuitive Thinking Perceiving. This means he is more likely to spend time alone, though will certainly spend time interacting with his peers, though he prefers small groups of people of lower intelligence than him. It also means he has a passion and drive for higher education and knowledge. His brain is constantly working, taking in information, processing it, storing it away, and repeating. He’ll often study another’s body language and speech patterns, and has a tendency to perform small social experiments on his comrades. Besides a yearn to learn, Nicholas enjoys being snarky to people to see how they react (Though he should know by now that it’s almost always negatively).
History: Nicholaswas homeschooled until he attended university at age sixteen. He graduated high school early due to the fact that he did school all year round, with only a day long break for certain holidays, and also because he skipped the fourth and fifth grade. He would have been done faster, if he wasn’t such a pathologically slow learner. When he started college, he did fine. Studied most of the time, and didn’t make too many friends besides the gents in chess club. He graduated with a Bachelor’s in physics at age twenty, and spent the next two years working on getting hid PhD in Astrophysics. A year later, PhD in hand, Nicholas searched for a job researching. He submitted his thesis and resume to nearly twenty different space programs, and got rejection letters and white noise from all of them.
But one of the programs, impressed with his resume but unable to use him, sent his thesis off to a different, rather more secret program, who were also quite impressed with his theories and research on alien plant life, and offered him a spot on their trip to Mars.
Nicholas, worried another oppourtunity wouldn't come along, though confused as to how they got his thesis, gladly accepted.
Talent: A knack for Social Sciences, and Astrophysics, and a brain that won’t quit.

KRose i revised the comment on your character.

Satan that looks really good just that the members are picked, they don't go looking for the job. So if you could just make him do something that would catch the senior scientists' attantion then get the offer. Other than that it looks good.

just that the members are picked, they don't go looking for the job. So if you could just make him do something that would catch the senior scientists' attantion then get the offer.

Err, yeah, he was looking for jobs, but got the offer after failing to find a job. He didn't go looking for this job.
What kind of thing would he do to...do that