Aenon
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It feels like you have been in here for years. Probably because you have been, actually, here for years.
It isn't all bad. You have each other, and while the training program is meant to make you compete with each other, with only each other for company all those years you are closer than if you were actual siblings. The facilities are spacious (and except for the droids empty). You have a nice pool where you can go swim, and all kinds of entertainment. Your supervisor, Officer Flair is very kind with you - as long as your behaviour is good - and she made sure that you got whatever you wanted.
She is always there to check you are doing well, and she is practically like a mother to you. She has always been there to discuss anything with you. You can tell that she cares a lot about you.
And then there are the bad things. You have to train your body in the special gyms of the facility. You have to train your skills in the VR capsules, with
specialized training made just to mess with you. You have to compete with each other on who got the best scores...even if the tests you take are different.
Still, those are still acceptable. One can get used to the extreme training conditions.
The absolutely worst part, is Alk'ula, your teacher in the ways of the force and lightsaber combat. An ex-Jedi, he visits every few days for some more 'training'. His training is a series of getting physically beaten and mentally abused. He leaves you half dead, ready for a painful round of healing with the empires medical droids, and he goes to have fun before the time for his next 'lesson' has come.
If nothing else could keep you together, your shared hatred for him would surely do the trick.
However, soon your training is coming to an end. Or is it?
If Alk'ula had any say in it, it would go on forever. Luckily for you, it isn't for him to determine. It will be determined by a test - a test to see if your overall training has paid off, if you are ready to take missions and do your part for the empire. If you pass the test, you will be free to visit the outside world, and to avoid the cruel training. If you failed...you would have to get trained for a few more years.
The bad news, is that the one who will design and oversee your test will be Alk'ula. You shouldn't really expect it to be easy, and he will surely not let you pass except if your performance is undeniable.
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@ Taken
Over the years of your training, you have found a mentor everyone else has been overlooking. The Memory Droid of the facility, the droid that has been modified to create your VR training scenarios. While most droids tend to be
wiped when they become somewhat independent, this one has managed to avoid this fate. As far as you know, it has only ever talked with you. It has told you of many things about the amazing things one can find in the universe. It also told you that while you are classified as 'Pantoran', your actual species isn't that based on his data, but an obscure species called Chiss. Maybe one day you can find your home planet and your origin?
His stories are always educational and you have learned many things from it. It had also told you it's own desires - it wants to know more about this world. While to you it looked "all knowing", it only knows what has been stored in it for the purpose of building a realistic VR environment.
If you have agreed to help him with collecting new data, it will also agree to help you in other ways. If not, the offer still stands. Yesterday, it told you that it found out what the test will be about.
Alk'ula will take you to 'The Wheel', a space station filled with Casinos and other entertainments. There you will have to find and apprehend a criminal, while keeping your identity as imperial agents hidden. According to its calculations, your cruel instructor has probably arranged to make the already hard mission harder.
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This morning, you were woken up by Flair who explained you that you would start your test mission tonight. You are supposed to take your own gear with you for this mission (your own gear being what was calculated as the basic gear you would need by the VR system). However Flair will smuggle in some extra equipment for you - you will have to return it afterwards undamaged and keep it a secret.
She can get you items worth up to a total of 6000credits, however she can't provide official licenses. If you reveal that she gave you those items, she will be in trouble, and you will also fail your test. You have few hours to decide what items you want, as a team.
However the purpose of the test mission is secret, so there is a good chance you will get inappropriate gear if you aren't careful.
You have now gathered together in the dining room, to discuss with your brothers and sisters.
[Note: The PCs are the only ones who are trained in this facility]
It isn't all bad. You have each other, and while the training program is meant to make you compete with each other, with only each other for company all those years you are closer than if you were actual siblings. The facilities are spacious (and except for the droids empty). You have a nice pool where you can go swim, and all kinds of entertainment. Your supervisor, Officer Flair is very kind with you - as long as your behaviour is good - and she made sure that you got whatever you wanted.
And then there are the bad things. You have to train your body in the special gyms of the facility. You have to train your skills in the VR capsules, with
Still, those are still acceptable. One can get used to the extreme training conditions.
The absolutely worst part, is Alk'ula, your teacher in the ways of the force and lightsaber combat. An ex-Jedi, he visits every few days for some more 'training'. His training is a series of getting physically beaten and mentally abused. He leaves you half dead, ready for a painful round of healing with the empires medical droids, and he goes to have fun before the time for his next 'lesson' has come.
If nothing else could keep you together, your shared hatred for him would surely do the trick.
However, soon your training is coming to an end. Or is it?
If Alk'ula had any say in it, it would go on forever. Luckily for you, it isn't for him to determine. It will be determined by a test - a test to see if your overall training has paid off, if you are ready to take missions and do your part for the empire. If you pass the test, you will be free to visit the outside world, and to avoid the cruel training. If you failed...you would have to get trained for a few more years.
The bad news, is that the one who will design and oversee your test will be Alk'ula. You shouldn't really expect it to be easy, and he will surely not let you pass except if your performance is undeniable.
___________________________________________________________
@ Taken
Over the years of your training, you have found a mentor everyone else has been overlooking. The Memory Droid of the facility, the droid that has been modified to create your VR training scenarios. While most droids tend to be
His stories are always educational and you have learned many things from it. It had also told you it's own desires - it wants to know more about this world. While to you it looked "all knowing", it only knows what has been stored in it for the purpose of building a realistic VR environment.
If you have agreed to help him with collecting new data, it will also agree to help you in other ways. If not, the offer still stands. Yesterday, it told you that it found out what the test will be about.
Alk'ula will take you to 'The Wheel', a space station filled with Casinos and other entertainments. There you will have to find and apprehend a criminal, while keeping your identity as imperial agents hidden. According to its calculations, your cruel instructor has probably arranged to make the already hard mission harder.
______________________________________________________
This morning, you were woken up by Flair who explained you that you would start your test mission tonight. You are supposed to take your own gear with you for this mission (your own gear being what was calculated as the basic gear you would need by the VR system). However Flair will smuggle in some extra equipment for you - you will have to return it afterwards undamaged and keep it a secret.
She can get you items worth up to a total of 6000credits, however she can't provide official licenses. If you reveal that she gave you those items, she will be in trouble, and you will also fail your test. You have few hours to decide what items you want, as a team.
However the purpose of the test mission is secret, so there is a good chance you will get inappropriate gear if you aren't careful.
You have now gathered together in the dining room, to discuss with your brothers and sisters.
[Note: The PCs are the only ones who are trained in this facility]
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