SPACE FORCE INSTRUMENTALITY - Amber Security Status
Issuing Authority: SecSurvSubBur; ExpBurCom; Space Force Hub Winter Palace; Pecus Minor, Tormipidee Pansectorate
Full Conceptual Verification: cozy|*the color light green*|aperture|*sawtooth waveform tone at 475 hz*|z=sqrt(pi*34)^e|*smell of roasting peanuts*|stoicism|*pins and needles in lower extremity*|ready|757723
Issuance Index: 192.246
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Contents
COOPERATIVE 54[edit]
Summary of Cooperative[edit]
Cooperative 54 consists of a hybrid Chembu/Commonality deep-space exploration vessel and its crew of 34. This crew consists of...
- 5 Ursoid members from the Ursoid culture world Alosso, including Surge
- 4 Chembu scientist/engineers responsible for and evaluating the hybrid vessels systems
- 25 other crew members from a wide variety of backgrounds and genotypes (including Borges, Jason Venture, and {KATHRYN'S URSOID COMBAT MEDIC})
In addition to the crew itemized above, Cooperative 54 includes a semi-autonomous sub-fraction of the Planetary Intelligence referred to as "the Swamp", see below for details.
The Cooperative has several interest groups. These interest groups are not self-contained, a crew member is likely to be a member of several interest groups. SHIP is, of course, a member of all Interest Groups.
These are the standing interest groups.
- Command Interest Group: led by Jason Venture. Provide primary direction to the activities of the Cooperative.
- Contact Interest Group: led by Borges. Provides capability and services for contact with intelligences (hominid and exo) that are encountered.
- Security Interest Group: led by Surge of the Glacier. Provides protective and, if necessary, violent services on behalf of the Cooperative.
- Technical Interest Group: led by Gyaltsen Mazarine D. Provides engineering and maintanence for SHIP and its crew, including medical support.
- Scientific Interest Group: led by ???????. Provides scientific services, particularly stellar and planetary survey services.
- Archaeological Interest Group: led by ??????. Provides historical and archaeological services, particularly with respect to possible Predecessor sites.
There are also temporary interest groups, which form around specific problems or issues and then are disbanded when no longer needed. Here are the temporary interest groups of note.
- Autumn Tidal Flow Interest Group: led by ?????. This group is focused on locating the currently lost Chembu deep space bioship Autumn Tidal Flow.
Crew Dossiers[edit]
SHIP (Derek)[edit]
JASON VENTURE (Kel)[edit]
- PATRIOTIC' Space Force Officer ON A MISSION TO EXPLORE THE FRONTIER
- Saved a Planet on the verge of extinction but broke the rules to save it by revealing his identity to them because he is a RISK TAKER
- Helped Surge pass his Assessment because he SEES THE BEST IN PEOPLE
- NATURAL LEADER because (I forget why)
URSOID COMBAT MEDIC (Kathryn)[edit]
SURGE OF THE GLACIER (Micah)[edit]
- Ursoid security chief and Loyal Protector of Commonality Ideals
- Surge is a (+1) ursoid xenomorph, with the bearing and dexterity of a man and the stature and features of a polar bear.
- Surge joined Space Force shortly after his homeworld, Alosso, entered Stage Three.
- While his family held on to some old traditions (like naming), he essentially grew up in the Commonality culture and has a clear sense that Humanity's Destiny is in the Stars.
- During aptitude testing, Surge's Affinity for Hierarchy and Large Size earned him a position in security, despite an incidence of acting like a Bear with a Sore Head after an injury.
- After being accepted into Space Force, he was outfitted with several upgrades and recieved some training with an energy mace to replace his traditional hammer.
- Surge's Empathy for Lost Colonies led him to accept a position with Cooperative 54, searching out other lost colonies. However, he is still acclimatizing to his new position and Unused to Off-World Service.
SYNTHETIC GESTALT EXPERT (Alex)[edit]
CHEMBU CONTINGENT[edit]
These crew members are all Chembu, onboard SHIP as consultants and to help evaluate and maintain the radically new hybrid biological/technological components of SHIP. All of them are Melancholy from Separation from the Planetary Intelligence. They are clearly adapted for an aquatic existence, with mostly hairless, slightly blubbery flesh. There is an area on SHIP filled with an organic soup rich in life forms from Chembu, where they typically spend much of their leisure time; the other crew members call this the "Swamp", which the Chembu crew find quite funny for some reason.
GYALTSEN MAZARINE D (NPC)[edit]
- Chembu engineer/genurgist, primary developer with Doctor Hesper Vide of the hybrid biological technology that makes up SHIP.
- Brilliance born of intimacy with the Planetary Intelligence, Difficult to Comprehend
JONGEY PRIMROSE X (NPC)[edit]
- Chembu engineer, assistant to Gyaltsen Mazarine D
- Dedicated to serving genius
RABTEN SEPIA N (NPC)[edit]
- Chembu ecologist
- Searching for the next Planetary Intelligence
TSERING OLIVE C (NPC)[edit]
- Chembu genurgist
- "What are the boundaries of life?"
THE "SWAMP"[edit]
- A Sliver of the Planetary Intelligence
ALOSSAN URSOID CONTINGENT[edit]
These ursoids are all from Alosso, the same world that Surge of the Glacier is from. They were accepted into Space Force Instrumentality as a cohort, a kind of tribute from their world to the Commonality to fulfill what that world's society felt was a duty and responsibility for the benefits brought by contact.
JUMP OF THE SEVEN-FISH (NPC)[edit]
- Ursoid Drone/Robotics Technician
- Heart as Big as Her Head, Fascinated with Synthetics
TASTY IS THE NECTAR (NPC)[edit]
- Ursoid security operative
- Occasionally Cruel Sense of Humour, Natural with a Null Rifle
LAST APPLE IN THE BARREL (NPC)[edit]
- Ursoid Weapons Technician
- "Call me 'Cute' and your dead", The Bigger the Bang the Better, Baby!
RAIN ON THE MOUNTAIN (NPC)[edit]
- Ursoid security operative
- Slow and Steady, And You Thought the OTHER Bears were Big
OTHER CREW MEMBERS[edit]
- Nutritionist/Cook?
- Resident Artist/Poet/Musician?
- Mindscape technician (or does Borges handle all of that)?
- Several cosmologists/stellar scientists/planetary scientists, experts in such surveying
- Several biologists/ecologists, experts in detecting and studying biospheres
- Other security staff, I'm thinking there are probably at least two non-Bears in addition to Surge, Tasty, and Rain (with Apple and Jump being support).
- Several "command" staff, such as pilots or tactical officers, responsible for working with SHIP to get SHIP and its crew where SHIP needs to be in one piece (navigation, docking, monitoring data streams, etc.)
- At least one proper doctor, probably two, responsible for the health and well-being of the organic crew.
- Probably at least one other synthetic?
- Information accountant?