#imperator crew

Isshan : They were the first to leave their home planet and make contact with the other people of the star cluster, first the Armisians, then the KseIn and finally the humans. Their society is mainly made of nomadic clans, with only a few permanently settled cities on their home planet. Many spationaut legends and superstitions find their origin in Isshan religion, and spationaut common tongue is an evolution of Isshan trading language. The name of the star cluster comes from the name given by the Isshan to the night sky, Laani nab'ataream, the one with a thousand stars.

Human : They arrived in the star cluster long after Isshan and Armisian mastered space travel, in two fleets of old generation ships. The ships' record were corrupted and the only logs recovered were from the end of their journey. With no homeworld in the cluster and their ships falling apart, humans spread across the cluster, and their high adaptability, durability and small stature made them great spaceship and station workers. The older generations decided to stay on the ships they came with, and other set their sight on terraforming a barren planet in the Center, Noutéra. Humans are, with the Isshan, the most represented species across the cluster.

Armisian : They are a telepathic species, communicating mainly through emotions and impressions. On their homeworld, they are part of a network of individuals, surrounded by the experiences, feelings and presence of others, but as they leave the planet, they become separated from this network. Loneliness is extremely painful for Armisians, and prolonged isolation can become dangerous. Some do leave their planet, but never alone. Armisians have a hard time adapting to the other species technology and communication style, as words are not used to convey important information in their culture : the real conversation is made through thought.

Powerpoint ID :

A 7-slide powerpoint, written in comic sans.

Slide 1: The Radio Isotope (working title) : a comic sans presentation by Sanasean. This story has been a work in progress since 2016 and i’m finally making progress. also powerpoints are harder to do than i remember.

Slide 2 : What ? When ? Where ? Space pirates ! In the future ! In SPACE !!!!       In the Andromeda Galaxy, approx. 1000 years in the future. Humanity left the earth and somehow ended up a whole galaxy away. Their spaceships were discovered by Isshan explorers (the Isshan are one of the many aliens species that live in Andromeda and the founder of the Union, the galactic government) and they were given a planet (Noutéra) and Union citizenship.        Why did the humans leave the earth ? Where the fuck is even the earth ? idk lol (the Noutéran government says they fled because an asteroid was going to destroy the planet. Weirdly enough, people who try to investigate the earth and humanity’s exodus tend to disapear under mysterious circumstances).        The inhabitants of the galaxy don’t care about why humans came to Andromeda, they just want to live their lives in peace. It’s pretty easy when you live near the Center, where the seat of the Union is located, but a bit more difficult for the people who live on the Edges, near the unexplored parts of the galaxy, where space pirates, mercenaries and bounty hunters thrive. And that’s where our story takes place.

Slide 3 : Plot (aka where are the protagonists and antagonists at the beginning of the story).       The Captain is… the captain... of the Radio Isotope, a small spaceship with a small crew of space pirates. Well, space smugglers more exactly, but the Captain IS a space pirate so his crew are pirates as well. They are not having a lot of luck lately, and going from failed job to failed job. After a botched scavenging mission (the spaceship they were supposed to loot was not even there), they finally land a pretty easy smuggling job AND they get a paying passenger, a young human named Nua. Except luck is still not on their side because Nua is hunted by bounty hunters for reasons she doesn’t even know, and the tiny radio isotope ends up prey to the biggest bounty hunter spaceship of the galaxy, the Imperator.        The Emperor is a mystery. Captain of the Imperator, immortal (?), a robot (???) and obsessed by the earth. They will stop at nothing to get the information they want, and with the imperator’s firepower rivaling that of a planet’s army, they do not fear Noutéra. They are the scourge of pirates, the hero of the Edges, a thorn in the Union’s side . And for some reason, they’re after the radio isotope.

Slide 4 : Main characters : the ones whose problems end up ruining everyone’s day. Above the text describing each character is a portrait of them.

The Captain (he/him) : Image ID : The Captain is a humanoid alien, with warm brown skin, four red eyes, dark red hair and beard, cat-like whiskers and a pair of horns, the right one broken at the base. He is looking at the camera, unimpressed, frowning slightly. End image ID. - Isshan - he’s the boss of the RI. - lived his whole life in space, and most of it as a pirate. - never stays more than one month in a place. - never talks about his past. - great storyteller, atrocious liar. - walks with a cane, which can turn into a rapier. he’s pretty deadly with it.

The Emperor (They/Them) Image ID : The Emperor appears to be a robot. Their head is vaguely shaped like a tortoise skull, with three more eye sockets, two behind the normal eyes and one on the top of the head. They have four fangs and the shape of their jaws make it so they are always slightly smiling. Neon green light comes from the inside of their head, contrasting with the dark metal the rest of their relatively humanoid body is made of. They are wearing a light gray-green cape covering their shoulders. End image ID. - ????? robot ??? haunted armor ??? - they have been haunting the Edges for more than 100 years. - there are a LOT of legends about them, and most of them are true. - where they go, the Imperator goes. - they have an informator network that spans half the galaxy. - strict but fair captain.

Slide 5 : The Radio Isotope’s crew : Lovable space pirates. Above the text describing each character is a portrait of them. 

Etha (she/her) Image ID : Etha is a humanoid alien, with light blue skin, white feathery hair and very large white eyes. Her nose is almost non existent, and her mouth opens from ear to ear. She is looking straight at the camera, head slightly tilted to the right. End image ID. - the first mate. - armisian (alien with telepathic abilities). - cartographer, ethnologist and linguist. - braincell of the crew.

Jill (she/they) Image ID : Jill is a human with dark brown skin, straight black hair cut short on the left side and a black right eye. She has scars across her nose, her lips and around her artificial left eye. They are smiling to the camera. End image ID. - the mechanic. - fixed the ship so it could fly, lost her right arm and eye in a reactor accident. - first recruit. - fiercely loyal to the captain, but argues with him on a daily basis.

Meden (ael/aer) Image ID : Meden looks exactly like Etha, being her twin sibling. Ael is looking to aer right, and seems a bit confused. End image ID. - the doctor. - etha’s twin. - not really a fan of the pirate or spationaut life tbh. - mom of the crew.

Nua (she/her) Image ID : Nua is a human, with light beige-pinkish skin, green eyes and light brown hair in a bun. She has freckles on her cheeks and nose and a wide smile. End image ID. - the lost human. - pretended she could pay to travel to another planet to flee her pursuers. - stuck on the RI now. - kinda maybe in love with jill.

Slide 6 : The Imperator’s crew : scum and villainy (unless ?...). Above the text describing each character is a portrait of them. 

Wënn (she/her) Image ID : Wënn is a human with pale beige skin, long straight black hair let loose on her right side and braided on her left side, and sad blue eyes. She has freckles all over her face and is smiling apologetically at the camera. End image ID. - the second in command. - she doesn’t really know what she’s doing here, she was a docker before the Emperor made her their second. - very kind. - swears like a (space) sailor.

The Lieutenant (he/they) Image ID : The Lieutenant is a humanoid alien, with reddish beige skin, short cold dark pink hair and cold purple eyes. He has small scales on his cheeks and long ears, and is smiling broadly to show his shark-like teeth while looking away from the camera. End image ID. - the mercenary. - somewhere between a human and a lizard alien. - very random loyalty, his only motivation is money and he’ll change sides on a whim. - excellent pilot, races regularly. - extremely arrogant.

Raki (any pronouns) Image ID : Raki is a human with very pale skin, short dirty blond hair and cold grey eyes. The right side of their face is covered in burn scars. She has a hearing aid in her left ear, and is looking pretty angry, frowning at the camera. End image ID. - the loose cannon. - who the fuck are they ? - cyborg, ~ 50 % of their body is artificial. - she has a tendency to appear where she’s the least expected. - tired™. - he’s looking of the earth too.

Slide 7 : What else ? ●LGBTQ+ characters, queerplatonic relationships. ● found family ! ● space magic ! Stories and words have power, semi sentient spaceships, space ghosts and weird spacey timey stuff, singularities as power source, playing very fast and very loose with physics, mentions of space dragons. ● billionaires and capitalism = bad. ● struggling with identity, wether it be lost by accident, shed voluntarily or imposed by circumstances. ● the futiliy of fleeing from the ghosts of one’s past, learning how to face them. ● also i plan to illustrate the whole novel so… yeah.