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Gaheris Rhade
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Character's Full Name: Gaheris Rhade
Character's Canon: Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
Character's Journal Name:truth_is_cold
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Answer the following questions in no less than 300 words but no greater than 1000 words put together...
Character's background (their past and present):
Character's personality:
Character's skills/abilities/powers:
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Why do you want to play this character in Ten Forward, and what do you plan to do with them? I have never had an actual cast contribute to a redemption arc before, and I would like to try it. And there are other schemy schemers to play off of.
Writing Sample #1: Test Drive
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macguffinplurkCharacter's Full Name: Gaheris Rhade
Character's Canon: Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda
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truth_is_coldWhat would you like your character's tag to be?: gaheris rhade
Answer the following questions in no less than 300 words but no greater than 1000 words put together...
Character's background (their past and present):
Rhade (code-named Mr. March) first met Dylan Hunt (Mr. April) on a mission from Admiral Stark as a part of Argosy Special Operations to bring the dictator President Ferrin to stand trial for his crimes against personal freedom and to allow democratic elections. Rhade wanted to kill Ferrin, insisting throughout the mission that the efficient way to go about it was assassination. Dylan said that he wanted Ferrin to live and came up with every excuse to avoid killing him. In the end, President Ferrin attempted to shoot them the moment they entered his office, and Rhade killed him defensively. He helped an injured Dylan escape the facility and planet, received commendation and became the first officer aboard the warship Andromeda.
Rhade served under Dylan Hunt and the two began to regularly play Go together, and became fast friends. It was during his service that Rhade bore firsthand witness to the devastation of the Magog. During this time he caught wind of the first signs of revolt among the Nietzscheans, but Rhade at first refused to help the insurrection as he felt the Nietzscheans stood a better chance with Commonwealth resources. The first speech given by the Than Triumvir Spring Rivers Flowing insinuated that there would be countermeasures by the Commonwealth.
But then the Treaty of Antares was signed. The Nietzscheans felt the treaty was an insufficiently aggressive response to the Magog invasion, as many frontier dwelling Nietzscheans lost their worlds during the invasion and the agreement would allow the Magog to keep these Nietzschean settled worlds (even though the Magog had long since ruined them). Rhade decided to help with the revolt though his role would probably mean his death. He believed he would be helping his people continue on, that his children would be safe and the Nietzscheans would see a glorious victory. He found the Magog reprehensible and a scourge upon the face of they universe and hated that they lived off sentient beings and reproduced through rape (like wasps, using a host sentient to inject their larvae into and they would later erupt and devour the host completely). He began to conspire against his friend for the good of the Nietzschean people and as he thought the good of all the unified worlds. He saw the Commonwealth as weak and coddling, that the Magog should die and the Commonwealth should be destroyed before they would consider collaborating with them. Still, he didn't inform his wives of the treachery, wanting them to remain unaccountable. He did try to warn Dylan, however, not feeling entirely comfortable with his role.
Canon update will start here.
In the end, he did sabotage the Andromeda, after the Andromeda neared a black hole during a Nietzschean ambush in the Hephaestos System. When he returned to the bridge where he shot Refractions of Dawn, the Than Pilot, and then killed Dylan Hunt. The Andromeda's artificial gravity caused a time dilation aboard the ship as it approached the event horizon. The ship became trapped at the edge, and Rhade was delivering Dylan's body to the Captain's quarters to lay in temporary rest when the final time dilation occurred, keeping him in stasis for 300 years.
The crew of the Eureka Maru claimed the Andromeda for salvage. Guilty over Dylan's death, he made an agreement with Andromeda that he would turn himself in if the ship that was rescuing them was from the Commonwealth, even though he knew the penalty for treason was death. When it wasn't, he killed the invaders that he found hostile or useless and used the others as crew to help him rebuild the Commonwealth. He had a hologram made of Dylan Hunt to play go with, but it ended up being his personal adviser.
Through a slipstream accident he became the Nietzschean Angel of Death, a mysterious force at the Battle of Witchhead that killed off much of the Nietzschean fleet sent to intercept the Commonwealth ships that were on their way to obliterate the Nietzschean homeworld. After discovering that he was the greatest single butcher of the Nietzschean people ever known, his attitude toward his own kind hardened considerably as he felt that his people had betrayed his confidence in them. He refused to allow Nietzscheans into his re-envisioned Commonwealth, and the Nietzscheans began to blackmail potential member worlds into not joining, or harass current ones into leaving.
He struck up a relationship with Beka Valentine, but after a particular stand-off with an infertile Nietzschean pilot that reminded her of herself, she decided that she couldn't be a part of the crew anymore and she left both him and the ship. Rhade also caught Tyr Anasazi with the remains of the progenitor on board. Knowing he was scheming to betray the ship and was using it as his own personal protection, he murdered Tyr.
After Harper was infested with Magog during their encounter with the Magog World Ship, he began work on a tesseract machine to remove the larvae without surgery by phasing them into a different portion of space. Beka returned to the ship to see Harper, but told Rhade she couldn't stay with him. When he activated the machine, it caused temporal rifts throughout the ship. Trance Gemini switched places with her future self and informed Rhade he needed to use the incident to transport himself back to the past because there was no way they were going to be able to stop the Magog. He insisted that he could do it, but she said there was no option. He kissed Beka farewell and returned to the past. There he killed his former self and put on his uniform. He allowed Dylan to beat him in the fight, and said "I'm proud of you," before dying.
Rhade served under Dylan Hunt and the two began to regularly play Go together, and became fast friends. It was during his service that Rhade bore firsthand witness to the devastation of the Magog. During this time he caught wind of the first signs of revolt among the Nietzscheans, but Rhade at first refused to help the insurrection as he felt the Nietzscheans stood a better chance with Commonwealth resources. The first speech given by the Than Triumvir Spring Rivers Flowing insinuated that there would be countermeasures by the Commonwealth.
But then the Treaty of Antares was signed. The Nietzscheans felt the treaty was an insufficiently aggressive response to the Magog invasion, as many frontier dwelling Nietzscheans lost their worlds during the invasion and the agreement would allow the Magog to keep these Nietzschean settled worlds (even though the Magog had long since ruined them). Rhade decided to help with the revolt though his role would probably mean his death. He believed he would be helping his people continue on, that his children would be safe and the Nietzscheans would see a glorious victory. He found the Magog reprehensible and a scourge upon the face of they universe and hated that they lived off sentient beings and reproduced through rape (like wasps, using a host sentient to inject their larvae into and they would later erupt and devour the host completely). He began to conspire against his friend for the good of the Nietzschean people and as he thought the good of all the unified worlds. He saw the Commonwealth as weak and coddling, that the Magog should die and the Commonwealth should be destroyed before they would consider collaborating with them. Still, he didn't inform his wives of the treachery, wanting them to remain unaccountable. He did try to warn Dylan, however, not feeling entirely comfortable with his role.
Canon update will start here.
In the end, he did sabotage the Andromeda, after the Andromeda neared a black hole during a Nietzschean ambush in the Hephaestos System. When he returned to the bridge where he shot Refractions of Dawn, the Than Pilot, and then killed Dylan Hunt. The Andromeda's artificial gravity caused a time dilation aboard the ship as it approached the event horizon. The ship became trapped at the edge, and Rhade was delivering Dylan's body to the Captain's quarters to lay in temporary rest when the final time dilation occurred, keeping him in stasis for 300 years.
The crew of the Eureka Maru claimed the Andromeda for salvage. Guilty over Dylan's death, he made an agreement with Andromeda that he would turn himself in if the ship that was rescuing them was from the Commonwealth, even though he knew the penalty for treason was death. When it wasn't, he killed the invaders that he found hostile or useless and used the others as crew to help him rebuild the Commonwealth. He had a hologram made of Dylan Hunt to play go with, but it ended up being his personal adviser.
Through a slipstream accident he became the Nietzschean Angel of Death, a mysterious force at the Battle of Witchhead that killed off much of the Nietzschean fleet sent to intercept the Commonwealth ships that were on their way to obliterate the Nietzschean homeworld. After discovering that he was the greatest single butcher of the Nietzschean people ever known, his attitude toward his own kind hardened considerably as he felt that his people had betrayed his confidence in them. He refused to allow Nietzscheans into his re-envisioned Commonwealth, and the Nietzscheans began to blackmail potential member worlds into not joining, or harass current ones into leaving.
He struck up a relationship with Beka Valentine, but after a particular stand-off with an infertile Nietzschean pilot that reminded her of herself, she decided that she couldn't be a part of the crew anymore and she left both him and the ship. Rhade also caught Tyr Anasazi with the remains of the progenitor on board. Knowing he was scheming to betray the ship and was using it as his own personal protection, he murdered Tyr.
After Harper was infested with Magog during their encounter with the Magog World Ship, he began work on a tesseract machine to remove the larvae without surgery by phasing them into a different portion of space. Beka returned to the ship to see Harper, but told Rhade she couldn't stay with him. When he activated the machine, it caused temporal rifts throughout the ship. Trance Gemini switched places with her future self and informed Rhade he needed to use the incident to transport himself back to the past because there was no way they were going to be able to stop the Magog. He insisted that he could do it, but she said there was no option. He kissed Beka farewell and returned to the past. There he killed his former self and put on his uniform. He allowed Dylan to beat him in the fight, and said "I'm proud of you," before dying.
Character's personality:
As with all Nietzscheans, Rhade's entire philosophy stems out of self-interest, individualism, realism, and some humanism. He values survival, not just his own survival but the survival of his genes above all else. This means that he's able to write off his own self-destructive behaviors as for the greater good, as it is very un-Nietzschean to be at all self-destructive. He's formed his own morality to greater benefit himself, but it also gives him room to assist his associates when it might be valuable to him to do so. In fact, he seems to go out of his way in some cases to find excuses over why an act is for him and not just an act of benevolence and seemed to enjoy playing dark knight to Dylan's white knight. His Pride and wives and children inevitably come first, however. He faces all obstacles and challenges with the intention of bettering himself so that he might be a suitable husband and father.
He views himself as simply a vessel for a woman's ability to reproduce a superior child. While Nietzscheans have polygamy and Prides, a woman chooses her mate and has the option to reject a child if she finds her mate inferior. It's a very matriarchal society and often the matriarch of the Pride has to approve a coupling before it can come to pass. Because of this, he will always regard women with reverence and tends to be biased toward female authority and competitive with men. Unlike some later Nietzscheans he isn't so committed to the Nietzschean race that he won't consider mating outside of his subspecies. Superior genes are superior genes. If he should find a man that he's comfortable with, he becomes intensely attached to them. He's less likely to betray someone he acknowledges as family (or a love interest). Less likely. Not completely out of the question.
Rhade is more of a cynic but claims to be a realist as most Nietzscheans are meant to be. He often suspects the worst of people and himself, but still sees this as realism rather than pessimism. He is committed and earnest to his duties as an officer as another means to prove himself, even when he betrayed his Captain and best friend. His intentions were good, his means were extremely misguided. He tends more toward the bluntly honest when giving his opinions about things (of course blatantly lying when he had an agenda), so people rarely suspect him when he's being dishonest. One of his individual quirks is that he loves Go and games in general. Being competitive like most of his kind, he enjoyed tactical games as much as athletics. He tends to cheat at both, but he does it in hopes that the opponent will too and will be doubly impressed if they catch him, or if he can manage to find loopholes in the rules.
Rhade has a strange habit of presenting Dylan with his plans as a warning, such as telling the Captain to take him to the brig because he couldn't trust him, or during Go games warning him how many moves it would take before he won (and also cheating during the game and telling him that people would do anything to win). It would seem that it wasn't in his best interest to do this, and he wouldn't warn any other person that he came up against before he attacked them. It's almost a bizarre way of showing respect and affection. That he wants someone to remain a challenge in order to keep their relationship interesting and stimulating, so he provides them with tactical advantages. He also wanted to give them a chance to avoid the result and absolve himself of guilt if they fall into a trap. This is even evident in how earnest he is in maintaining the crew drills. He is very strict and very adamant about them being able to efficiently perform their duties. When they couldn't, he presses them harder until they can make the time he required. He wants them to be competent against the Nietzschean fleet they were going against, and to be efficient game pieces for Dylan to use during the battle even if Gaheris would be his enemy. At the point that I'll be bringing him in from, he has guilt for an act that he hasn't even committed yet.
He views himself as simply a vessel for a woman's ability to reproduce a superior child. While Nietzscheans have polygamy and Prides, a woman chooses her mate and has the option to reject a child if she finds her mate inferior. It's a very matriarchal society and often the matriarch of the Pride has to approve a coupling before it can come to pass. Because of this, he will always regard women with reverence and tends to be biased toward female authority and competitive with men. Unlike some later Nietzscheans he isn't so committed to the Nietzschean race that he won't consider mating outside of his subspecies. Superior genes are superior genes. If he should find a man that he's comfortable with, he becomes intensely attached to them. He's less likely to betray someone he acknowledges as family (or a love interest). Less likely. Not completely out of the question.
Rhade is more of a cynic but claims to be a realist as most Nietzscheans are meant to be. He often suspects the worst of people and himself, but still sees this as realism rather than pessimism. He is committed and earnest to his duties as an officer as another means to prove himself, even when he betrayed his Captain and best friend. His intentions were good, his means were extremely misguided. He tends more toward the bluntly honest when giving his opinions about things (of course blatantly lying when he had an agenda), so people rarely suspect him when he's being dishonest. One of his individual quirks is that he loves Go and games in general. Being competitive like most of his kind, he enjoyed tactical games as much as athletics. He tends to cheat at both, but he does it in hopes that the opponent will too and will be doubly impressed if they catch him, or if he can manage to find loopholes in the rules.
Rhade has a strange habit of presenting Dylan with his plans as a warning, such as telling the Captain to take him to the brig because he couldn't trust him, or during Go games warning him how many moves it would take before he won (and also cheating during the game and telling him that people would do anything to win). It would seem that it wasn't in his best interest to do this, and he wouldn't warn any other person that he came up against before he attacked them. It's almost a bizarre way of showing respect and affection. That he wants someone to remain a challenge in order to keep their relationship interesting and stimulating, so he provides them with tactical advantages. He also wanted to give them a chance to avoid the result and absolve himself of guilt if they fall into a trap. This is even evident in how earnest he is in maintaining the crew drills. He is very strict and very adamant about them being able to efficiently perform their duties. When they couldn't, he presses them harder until they can make the time he required. He wants them to be competent against the Nietzschean fleet they were going against, and to be efficient game pieces for Dylan to use during the battle even if Gaheris would be his enemy. At the point that I'll be bringing him in from, he has guilt for an act that he hasn't even committed yet.
Character's skills/abilities/powers:
- Enhanced hearing.
- Enhanced sense of smell.
- Strength and speed proportionate to a Trekverse augment.
- Lethally sharp bone blades.
- A very dry wit.
Any special equipment your character is bringing along? This includes weaponry, magic items, etc.:
- Force Lance
Are you bringing your character to
ten_fwd from another game? If you are, which game?: n/aWhy do you want to play this character in Ten Forward, and what do you plan to do with them? I have never had an actual cast contribute to a redemption arc before, and I would like to try it. And there are other schemy schemers to play off of.
Writing Sample #1: Test Drive
18 June 2013 @ 04:57 pm
[Public | Audio]
[Rhade's voice, steady and flat.] I have my deal, and my mission is over. If you have any parting wishes, I would like to hear them now. I am sincerely hoping that returning won't be necessary.
[Private to Riddick | Audio]
The invitation stands when you're ready. I'll leave you with the access code to the planet. You'll have to forgive the defenses, we have more thieves to worry about in the galaxy these days. Giant civilization shattering wars tend to do that.
[Private to Ben | Audio]
You make me very proud. Take care of your people.
[Private to Friends | Audio]
Thank you. I would never have returned in the first place if I didn't know that people like you would be there. If you have something special that you would like to be kept safe, I'd like something to take back to the Collection with me. [He wants keepsakes, and keepsakes that'll be preserved for a very long time.]
I do want to see you again. Come find me when you have the chance. The Barge has been helpful in giving me that chance.
[Rhade's voice, steady and flat.] I have my deal, and my mission is over. If you have any parting wishes, I would like to hear them now. I am sincerely hoping that returning won't be necessary.
[Private to Riddick | Audio]
The invitation stands when you're ready. I'll leave you with the access code to the planet. You'll have to forgive the defenses, we have more thieves to worry about in the galaxy these days. Giant civilization shattering wars tend to do that.
[Private to Ben | Audio]
You make me very proud. Take care of your people.
[Private to Friends | Audio]
Thank you. I would never have returned in the first place if I didn't know that people like you would be there. If you have something special that you would like to be kept safe, I'd like something to take back to the Collection with me. [He wants keepsakes, and keepsakes that'll be preserved for a very long time.]
I do want to see you again. Come find me when you have the chance. The Barge has been helpful in giving me that chance.
17 June 2013 @ 03:44 am
[Private to Ben | Audio]
[As soon as Rhade wakes up on Monday, and before he goes to see Dylan he sends Ben a private message.]
Ben. Ben, do you have a bathroom? [Groggily. It's sort of a sleepy way to ask why Ben isn't on his item.] I don't warden I did anything wrong. I don't see why I can't be your warden anymore if he unpaired us. I am going to protest. When my head stops hurting.
[There are muffled noises as he's rubbing his face.]
[As soon as Rhade wakes up on Monday, and before he goes to see Dylan he sends Ben a private message.]
Ben. Ben, do you have a bathroom? [Groggily. It's sort of a sleepy way to ask why Ben isn't on his item.] I don't warden I did anything wrong. I don't see why I can't be your warden anymore if he unpaired us. I am going to protest. When my head stops hurting.
[There are muffled noises as he's rubbing his face.]
10 June 2013 @ 09:53 pm
( Open Spam )
OOC: So, for the first time ever on spontaneous whim I'm doing a truth thing with Rhade. He won't ramble on the network but if he runs into someone he will.
OOC: So, for the first time ever on spontaneous whim I'm doing a truth thing with Rhade. He won't ramble on the network but if he runs into someone he will.
07 June 2013 @ 02:02 pm
[Public | Audio]
My name is Gaheris Rhade. If you recognize me as crew of the Andromeda Ascendant, be aware that this is just faulty communication. [Though he doesn't quite look the same. He slicks his hair back now. He's in civilian clothes rather than a uniform.]
If you know anything about the Barge, I would appreciate a response.
[This time Rhade's not lurking over Dylan's shoulder. He puts a call out on his own and just... waits.]
My name is Gaheris Rhade. If you recognize me as crew of the Andromeda Ascendant, be aware that this is just faulty communication. [Though he doesn't quite look the same. He slicks his hair back now. He's in civilian clothes rather than a uniform.]
If you know anything about the Barge, I would appreciate a response.
[This time Rhade's not lurking over Dylan's shoulder. He puts a call out on his own and just... waits.]
30 May 2013 @ 01:50 am
[Public | Audio]
I'm going to need extra help on the dinner shift for a few days until Ben is prepared to assist me again. I don't care who.
[And that's the extent of that message. He's guessing if anyone wants to speak with him, they will. And if they don't, they hopefully just got tired of this place and left.]
[Private to Dylan | Audio]
Did you make it out alright?
I'm going to need extra help on the dinner shift for a few days until Ben is prepared to assist me again. I don't care who.
[And that's the extent of that message. He's guessing if anyone wants to speak with him, they will. And if they don't, they hopefully just got tired of this place and left.]
[Private to Dylan | Audio]
Did you make it out alright?
14 May 2013 @ 04:45 pm
[Private to the Investigation Team | Audio]
Has there been any progress concerning locating Kozak's actual attacker?
[Private to the Admiral | Audio]
I would like two kittens. Both of Sherry's breed, whatever she was, and the supplies to care for them. [Tiny sharp puff-monsters.]
Has there been any progress concerning locating Kozak's actual attacker?
[Private to the Admiral | Audio]
I would like two kittens. Both of Sherry's breed, whatever she was, and the supplies to care for them. [Tiny sharp puff-monsters.]
09 May 2013 @ 04:41 pm
( Privates to Ben, Zack, Charles, and Dylan )
[Warden Filter | Audio]
Who here is a competent detective or is experience with forensics, or alternately has an inmate you would trust to assist in an investigation? [He wants to be careful and not get Ben into more trouble.]
OOC: And I'll be adding a bunch more to this, and there will be a plotting post for detective types to investigate.
*Timed to after his conversation with Ben.
[Warden Filter | Audio]
Who here is a competent detective or is experience with forensics, or alternately has an inmate you would trust to assist in an investigation? [He wants to be careful and not get Ben into more trouble.]
OOC: And I'll be adding a bunch more to this, and there will be a plotting post for detective types to investigate.
*Timed to after his conversation with Ben.
06 May 2013 @ 07:36 pm
[Public | Audio]
[Who is not talking at all about the previous breach? Rhade. But he is talking, because he likes to hear the sound of his voice as it's supposed to be right now.]
If anyone is interested, some of the kitchen staff has been preparing dried foods- with vegetarian options available -in the event that we will be allowed to leave during the port with some minimal supplies, there will be some sustenance available. In the meantime, Riddick has recommended the construction of more durable canteens because water will also be essential. I would also like to request that the infirmary consider supplying vitamin packets. Most people don't want to find themselves short on energy in some of the Admiral's settings and we should be prepared for the worst.
[And on a completely different note.]
Also, since it has been requested I'll see if I can have pizza on the menu more than once a week. [He thought people might get tired of it more often than that, but possibly not?]
[Private to Ben | Audio]
How are you doing? [Breaches can affect him badly, after all.]
[Private to Dylan | Audio]
We need to talk. [And he doesn't sound very pleased to do so, but Dylan is the one person that he does need to talk about the breach to. It has made him realize something, and it's breaking his heart as hard as it did when Una left.]
[Who is not talking at all about the previous breach? Rhade. But he is talking, because he likes to hear the sound of his voice as it's supposed to be right now.]
If anyone is interested, some of the kitchen staff has been preparing dried foods- with vegetarian options available -in the event that we will be allowed to leave during the port with some minimal supplies, there will be some sustenance available. In the meantime, Riddick has recommended the construction of more durable canteens because water will also be essential. I would also like to request that the infirmary consider supplying vitamin packets. Most people don't want to find themselves short on energy in some of the Admiral's settings and we should be prepared for the worst.
[And on a completely different note.]
Also, since it has been requested I'll see if I can have pizza on the menu more than once a week. [He thought people might get tired of it more often than that, but possibly not?]
[Private to Ben | Audio]
How are you doing? [Breaches can affect him badly, after all.]
[Private to Dylan | Audio]
We need to talk. [And he doesn't sound very pleased to do so, but Dylan is the one person that he does need to talk about the breach to. It has made him realize something, and it's breaking his heart as hard as it did when Una left.]
05 May 2013 @ 12:24 am
[Filtered to Friends | Audio]
How did you fair the storm. And with pirates on the Island, what should we do to protect our illustrious passengers? [This may be genuine, but he also may be a dick.]
OOC: Rhade is a British Royal Marine stationed aboard the Redeemer, but originally came from Croatia and has a thicker accent. He's had feelings his superior officer, Dylan Hunt, for some time and knows that Dylan's fiancé has been unfaithful. He's avoided telling him because Dylan has unwavering confidence in her. He's been investing much of his time in the little powder monkey, Ben.
It can safely be assumed that he's still a cheeky, cagey bastard and relatively friendly, so I'm open to most of the Redeemer crew assuming friendship.
How did you fair the storm. And with pirates on the Island, what should we do to protect our illustrious passengers? [This may be genuine, but he also may be a dick.]
OOC: Rhade is a British Royal Marine stationed aboard the Redeemer, but originally came from Croatia and has a thick
It can safely be assumed that he's still a cheeky, cagey bastard and relatively friendly, so I'm open to most of the Redeemer crew assuming friendship.
23 April 2013 @ 07:24 pm
[Warden Filter | Audio]
My inmate has made notable progress recently, but still has difficulty understanding certain basics of interacting with his culture. This I'm not sure that I can help him with because while I've gained some knowledge from ports and breaches, it's not a lifetime of familiarity and certainly not enough to help him with the basics of interaction. I grew up in an entirely different environment [a surprisingly healthy one] with different standards of interaction, more confrontational. There's a cultural divide that I can't help him with.
So I need help from someone from the early 21st century to assist him. His has minor differences to the ones that we've encountered, like a class divide with technological capabilities, stronger military authority, and different popular figures, but otherwise on basic interaction it would be the same.
[Private to the Admiral | Audio]
I would like Ben's room changed to a hotel room appropriate to his universe, era, and geographical location if he should return.
Also, a sleeping bag should he decide he would like to entertain company again. [He knows Ben would probably sleep on the floor before sharing a bed with someone, otherwise he would have asked for a queen sized bed.]
[Private to Dylan | Audio]
[A flicker of silence, then he just turns it off because that is the most awkward conversation either of them could possibly have.]
[Private to Perry Van Shrike | Audio]
How is Dr. Kozak?
My inmate has made notable progress recently, but still has difficulty understanding certain basics of interacting with his culture. This I'm not sure that I can help him with because while I've gained some knowledge from ports and breaches, it's not a lifetime of familiarity and certainly not enough to help him with the basics of interaction. I grew up in an entirely different environment [a surprisingly healthy one] with different standards of interaction, more confrontational. There's a cultural divide that I can't help him with.
So I need help from someone from the early 21st century to assist him. His has minor differences to the ones that we've encountered, like a class divide with technological capabilities, stronger military authority, and different popular figures, but otherwise on basic interaction it would be the same.
[Private to the Admiral | Audio]
I would like Ben's room changed to a hotel room appropriate to his universe, era, and geographical location if he should return.
Also, a sleeping bag should he decide he would like to entertain company again. [He knows Ben would probably sleep on the floor before sharing a bed with someone, otherwise he would have asked for a queen sized bed.]
[Private to Dylan | Audio]
[A flicker of silence, then he just turns it off because that is the most awkward conversation either of them could possibly have.]
[Private to Perry Van Shrike | Audio]
How is Dr. Kozak?
20 April 2013 @ 01:46 am
[Public | Audio]
I'm completely certain that this will be ignored, but with a flood on I would recommend that people refrain from extremely intimate activities or brazen murders until it's over with. We've all seen the worst case scenarios more than once.
...I am noticing that certain things don't seem to... line-up, properly, at the moment. Has anyone else noticed this?
[Private to Ben | Audio]
I should speak with you.
OOC: Rhade is affected. His Barge memories are spotty; he may remember someone as their original self or their alternate self. He vaguely remembers being an inmate even though with his history he has no reason to ever have been. He managed to warn Dylan of the Nietzschean insurrection and both ended up weathering the Long Night together. Now he's actually closer to an inmate than he ever has been in this timeline, because he's never properly dealt with his rationalizing the Battle of Witchhead (where he had to participate in the destruction of thousands of his own people) and starting to act a little bizarrely towards Magog-infested Dylan. Canon point is early Season 2 AU.
I'm completely certain that this will be ignored, but with a flood on I would recommend that people refrain from extremely intimate activities or brazen murders until it's over with. We've all seen the worst case scenarios more than once.
...I am noticing that certain things don't seem to... line-up, properly, at the moment. Has anyone else noticed this?
[Private to Ben | Audio]
I should speak with you.
OOC: Rhade is affected. His Barge memories are spotty; he may remember someone as their original self or their alternate self. He vaguely remembers being an inmate even though with his history he has no reason to ever have been. He managed to warn Dylan of the Nietzschean insurrection and both ended up weathering the Long Night together. Now he's actually closer to an inmate than he ever has been in this timeline, because he's never properly dealt with his rationalizing the Battle of Witchhead (where he had to participate in the destruction of thousands of his own people) and starting to act a little bizarrely towards Magog-infested Dylan. Canon point is early Season 2 AU.
28 March 2013 @ 10:00 pm
[Public | Audio]
Deal with this however you deem necessary. I don't care. I don't have any information that I can give outside of a functioning warden item and the assurance that there is still food available. What I do care about is that the people demoted, some of them worked hard to get there.
I sometimes have doubted my abilities as a warden, but I don't doubt that my inmate needs me. That as an inmate, there were intolerable conditions that no one should have to go through. And it wasn't the torture of alternate histories, it wasn't a lack of food or necessities, it wasn't the conflicts that we had to rise to. It was the indifference. We were disposable, we knew we were disposable. Many of the wardens here- new wardens that fought their way up from that -that gave their own lives meaning again rather than just hoping that they would find a permanent death.
They have to stand here and be told that was for nothing? Just because they know it's hard. Just because they have to look at their inmate and face the same odds that they faced, they have to be told that they don't deserve what they earned? These people are not punch clocks. None of us were.
Most of us had some warden that believed in us, even if it wasn't our own. So those of you that were demoted that worked hard to get here, those of you that feel guilty and worthless, or remotely incapable, this judgment is absolutely false. If you have it in you to disagree with any of this insanity, that's just as flawed. And to the current Admiral, I think you know it as well as I do.
[Spam for Ben]
[Rhade knows that Ben needs him, and he's not got the capacity to do any bridge raids. So it's Ben's room that he goes to next. He thumps on the door, and has a look either way down the hall.]
Deal with this however you deem necessary. I don't care. I don't have any information that I can give outside of a functioning warden item and the assurance that there is still food available. What I do care about is that the people demoted, some of them worked hard to get there.
I sometimes have doubted my abilities as a warden, but I don't doubt that my inmate needs me. That as an inmate, there were intolerable conditions that no one should have to go through. And it wasn't the torture of alternate histories, it wasn't a lack of food or necessities, it wasn't the conflicts that we had to rise to. It was the indifference. We were disposable, we knew we were disposable. Many of the wardens here- new wardens that fought their way up from that -that gave their own lives meaning again rather than just hoping that they would find a permanent death.
They have to stand here and be told that was for nothing? Just because they know it's hard. Just because they have to look at their inmate and face the same odds that they faced, they have to be told that they don't deserve what they earned? These people are not punch clocks. None of us were.
Most of us had some warden that believed in us, even if it wasn't our own. So those of you that were demoted that worked hard to get here, those of you that feel guilty and worthless, or remotely incapable, this judgment is absolutely false. If you have it in you to disagree with any of this insanity, that's just as flawed. And to the current Admiral, I think you know it as well as I do.
[Spam for Ben]
[Rhade knows that Ben needs him, and he's not got the capacity to do any bridge raids. So it's Ben's room that he goes to next. He thumps on the door, and has a look either way down the hall.]
21 March 2013 @ 09:28 am
[Public | Audio]1
Has anyone seen Satsuki? I've not seen her since a few days before port, but the door to her room appears to have remained the same.
[Private to Dinner Crew + Arya | Audio]
Are you interested in hunting? [They talked about it before, and putting some predatory skills to good supervised use for the carnivore set wouldn't be a bad idea.]
[Infirmary Filter | Audio]2
Be prepared for Satsuki to be brought in. She's dead. Her throat has been slit.
[Warden Filter | Audio]
Satsuki's throat was slit. [Curt and to the point.]
OOC: 1Timed to after the Kraken attack and whatever clean-up was necessary.
2 Timed to after Satsuki's body is found.
Has anyone seen Satsuki? I've not seen her since a few days before port, but the door to her room appears to have remained the same.
[Private to Dinner Crew + Arya | Audio]
Are you interested in hunting? [They talked about it before, and putting some predatory skills to good supervised use for the carnivore set wouldn't be a bad idea.]
[Infirmary Filter | Audio]2
Be prepared for Satsuki to be brought in. She's dead. Her throat has been slit.
[Warden Filter | Audio]
Satsuki's throat was slit. [Curt and to the point.]
OOC: 1Timed to after the Kraken attack and whatever clean-up was necessary.
2 Timed to after Satsuki's body is found.
14 March 2013 @ 11:46 am
Headcanon is italisized.
Superscript leads to footnotes.
Gaheris Rhade was born on the Enkidu colony to Morgause of the Majorum Pride by Lot1. He was raised well and received a formal education, and like most Nietzscheans was considered an adult by the time he hit puberty. He took his first wife soon after and went to the All-Systems University.1 He became a member of Argosy Special Operations soon afterward, and during the time between joining and his final Ops mission earned the attention of his other two wives2.
Rhade (code-named Mr. March) first met Dylan Hunt (Mr. April) on a mission from Admiral Stark as a part of Argosy Special Operations to bring the dictator President Ferrin to stand trial for his crimes against personal freedom and to allow democratic elections. Rhade wanted to kill Ferrin, insisting throughout the mission that the efficient way to go about it was assassination. Dylan said that he wanted Ferrin to live and came up with every excuse to avoid killing him. In the end, President Ferrin attempted to shoot them the moment they entered his office, and Rhade killed him defensively. He helped an injured Dylan escape the facility and planet, received commendation and became the first officer aboard the warship Andromeda.
Rhade served under Dylan Hunt and the two began to regularly play go together, and became fast friends. It was during his service that the an evacuation of Brandenburg Tor occurred 4, and the Andromeda was used to ferry victims away from the planet. Over 3 billion people died over a matter of days and Rhade bore firsthand witness to the devastation.
During this time caught wind of the first signs of revolt among the Nietzscheans, but Rhade at first refused to help the insurrection as he felt the Nietzscheans stood a better chance with Commonwealth resources. The first speech given by the Than Triumvir Spring Rivers Flowing insinuated that there would be countermeasures by the Commonwealth.
But then the Treaty of Antares was signed. The Nietzscheans felt the treaty was an insufficiently aggressive response to the Magog invasion, as many frontier dwelling Nietzscheans lost their worlds during the invasion and the agreement would allow the Magog to keep these Nietzschean settled worlds (even though the Magog had long since ruined them). Rhade decided to help with the revolt though his role would probably mean his death. He believed he would be helping his people continue on, that his children would be safe and the Nietzscheans would see a glorious victory. He found the Magog reprehensible and a scourge upon the face of they universe and hated that they lived off sentient beings and reproduced through rape (like wasps, using a host sentient to inject their larvae into and they would later erupt and devour the host completely). He began to conspire against his friend for the good of the Nietzschean people and as he thought the good of all the unified worlds. He saw the Commonwealth as weak and coddling, that the Magog should die and the Commonwealth should be destroyed before they would consider collaborating with them. Still, He didn't inform his wives of the treachery, not wanting them held accountable for his actions.5
-In the event of a canon update-
He sabotaged the Andromeda, and during an emergency with a black hole the Commonwealth ordered an evacuation of a nearby planet in the Hephaistos System. The Nietzscheans set up an ambush, and he directed Dylan to send him to the brig because he couldn't trust him. Once the ship-wide evacuation began and he knew that his family had escaped, he resisted the officers escorting him and he returned to the bridge where he shot Refractions of Dawn, the Than Pilot, and then killed Dylan Hunt.
The Hephaestos System was chosen for the first Nietzschean battle because of the rogue black hole that was nearing it making a good excuse for an emergency beacon. The Andromeda neared it, and her artificial gravity caused a time dilation aboard the ship as it approached the event horizon. The ship became trapped at the edge, and Rhade was delivering Dylan's body to the Captain's quarters to lay in temporary rest when the final time dilation occurred, keeping him in stasis for 300 years.
The crew of the Eureka Maru claimed the Andromeda for salvage. Guilty over Dylan's death, he made an agreement with Andromeda that he would turn himself in if the ship that was rescuing them was from the Commonwealth, even though he knew the penalty for treason was death. When it wasn't, he killed the invaders that he found hostile or unuseful and used the others as crew to help him rebuild the Commonwealth. He had a hologram made of Dylan Hunt to play Go with, but it ended up being his personal advisor.
Through a slipstream accident he became the Nietzschean Angel of Death, a mysterious force at the Battle of Witchhead that killed off much of the Nietzschean fleet sent to intercept the Commonwealth ships that were on their way to obliterate the Nietzschean homeworld. After discovering that he was the greatest single butcher of the Nietzschean people ever known, his attitude toward his own kind hardened considerably as he felt that his people had betrayed his confidence in them. He refused to allow Nietzscheans into his re-envisioned Commonwealth, and the Nietzscheans began to blackmail potential member worlds into not joining, or harass current ones into leaving.
He struck up a relationship with Beka Valentine, but after a particular stand-off with an infertile Nietzschean pilot that reminded her of herself, she decided that she couldn't be a part of the crew anymore and she left both him and the ship. Rhade also caught Tyr Anasazi with the remains of the progenitor on board. Knowing he was scheming to betray the ship and was using it as his own personal protection, he murdered Tyr.
After Harper was infested with Magog during their encounter with the Magog World Ship, he began work on a tesseract machine to remove the larvae without surgery by phasing them into a different portion of space. Beka returned to the ship to see Harper, but told Rhade she couldn't stay with him. When he activated the machine, it caused temporal rifts throughout the ship. Trance Gemini switched places with her future self while the temporal anomalies were occuring and informed Rhade he needed to use the incident to transport himself back to the past because there was no way they were going to be able to stop the Magog. He tried to insist that he could do it, but she said there was no option. He kissed Beka good-bye and returned to the past. There, he killed his former (alternate) self and put on his uniform. He again went to the deck and shot Refractions of Dawn, though this time he told Dylan his reasoning as he fought, purposefully giving Dylan the edge yet again. Hunt beat him in the fight, and he died saying "I'm proud of you."
Superscript leads to footnotes.
Gaheris Rhade was born on the Enkidu colony to Morgause of the Majorum Pride by Lot1. He was raised well and received a formal education, and like most Nietzscheans was considered an adult by the time he hit puberty. He took his first wife soon after and went to the All-Systems University.1 He became a member of Argosy Special Operations soon afterward, and during the time between joining and his final Ops mission earned the attention of his other two wives2.
Rhade (code-named Mr. March) first met Dylan Hunt (Mr. April) on a mission from Admiral Stark as a part of Argosy Special Operations to bring the dictator President Ferrin to stand trial for his crimes against personal freedom and to allow democratic elections. Rhade wanted to kill Ferrin, insisting throughout the mission that the efficient way to go about it was assassination. Dylan said that he wanted Ferrin to live and came up with every excuse to avoid killing him. In the end, President Ferrin attempted to shoot them the moment they entered his office, and Rhade killed him defensively. He helped an injured Dylan escape the facility and planet, received commendation and became the first officer aboard the warship Andromeda.
Rhade served under Dylan Hunt and the two began to regularly play go together, and became fast friends. It was during his service that the an evacuation of Brandenburg Tor occurred 4, and the Andromeda was used to ferry victims away from the planet. Over 3 billion people died over a matter of days and Rhade bore firsthand witness to the devastation.
During this time caught wind of the first signs of revolt among the Nietzscheans, but Rhade at first refused to help the insurrection as he felt the Nietzscheans stood a better chance with Commonwealth resources. The first speech given by the Than Triumvir Spring Rivers Flowing insinuated that there would be countermeasures by the Commonwealth.
But then the Treaty of Antares was signed. The Nietzscheans felt the treaty was an insufficiently aggressive response to the Magog invasion, as many frontier dwelling Nietzscheans lost their worlds during the invasion and the agreement would allow the Magog to keep these Nietzschean settled worlds (even though the Magog had long since ruined them). Rhade decided to help with the revolt though his role would probably mean his death. He believed he would be helping his people continue on, that his children would be safe and the Nietzscheans would see a glorious victory. He found the Magog reprehensible and a scourge upon the face of they universe and hated that they lived off sentient beings and reproduced through rape (like wasps, using a host sentient to inject their larvae into and they would later erupt and devour the host completely). He began to conspire against his friend for the good of the Nietzschean people and as he thought the good of all the unified worlds. He saw the Commonwealth as weak and coddling, that the Magog should die and the Commonwealth should be destroyed before they would consider collaborating with them. Still, He didn't inform his wives of the treachery, not wanting them held accountable for his actions.5
-In the event of a canon update-
He sabotaged the Andromeda, and during an emergency with a black hole the Commonwealth ordered an evacuation of a nearby planet in the Hephaistos System. The Nietzscheans set up an ambush, and he directed Dylan to send him to the brig because he couldn't trust him. Once the ship-wide evacuation began and he knew that his family had escaped, he resisted the officers escorting him and he returned to the bridge where he shot Refractions of Dawn, the Than Pilot, and then killed Dylan Hunt.
The Hephaestos System was chosen for the first Nietzschean battle because of the rogue black hole that was nearing it making a good excuse for an emergency beacon. The Andromeda neared it, and her artificial gravity caused a time dilation aboard the ship as it approached the event horizon. The ship became trapped at the edge, and Rhade was delivering Dylan's body to the Captain's quarters to lay in temporary rest when the final time dilation occurred, keeping him in stasis for 300 years.
The crew of the Eureka Maru claimed the Andromeda for salvage. Guilty over Dylan's death, he made an agreement with Andromeda that he would turn himself in if the ship that was rescuing them was from the Commonwealth, even though he knew the penalty for treason was death. When it wasn't, he killed the invaders that he found hostile or unuseful and used the others as crew to help him rebuild the Commonwealth. He had a hologram made of Dylan Hunt to play Go with, but it ended up being his personal advisor.
Through a slipstream accident he became the Nietzschean Angel of Death, a mysterious force at the Battle of Witchhead that killed off much of the Nietzschean fleet sent to intercept the Commonwealth ships that were on their way to obliterate the Nietzschean homeworld. After discovering that he was the greatest single butcher of the Nietzschean people ever known, his attitude toward his own kind hardened considerably as he felt that his people had betrayed his confidence in them. He refused to allow Nietzscheans into his re-envisioned Commonwealth, and the Nietzscheans began to blackmail potential member worlds into not joining, or harass current ones into leaving.
He struck up a relationship with Beka Valentine, but after a particular stand-off with an infertile Nietzschean pilot that reminded her of herself, she decided that she couldn't be a part of the crew anymore and she left both him and the ship. Rhade also caught Tyr Anasazi with the remains of the progenitor on board. Knowing he was scheming to betray the ship and was using it as his own personal protection, he murdered Tyr.
After Harper was infested with Magog during their encounter with the Magog World Ship, he began work on a tesseract machine to remove the larvae without surgery by phasing them into a different portion of space. Beka returned to the ship to see Harper, but told Rhade she couldn't stay with him. When he activated the machine, it caused temporal rifts throughout the ship. Trance Gemini switched places with her future self while the temporal anomalies were occuring and informed Rhade he needed to use the incident to transport himself back to the past because there was no way they were going to be able to stop the Magog. He tried to insist that he could do it, but she said there was no option. He kissed Beka good-bye and returned to the past. There, he killed his former (alternate) self and put on his uniform. He again went to the deck and shot Refractions of Dawn, though this time he told Dylan his reasoning as he fought, purposefully giving Dylan the edge yet again. Hunt beat him in the fight, and he died saying "I'm proud of you."
- Themed names seem pretty common in Nietzschean marraiges, and there's pretty heavy sympolism in setting Rhade up as the "dark knight" against Dylan's white knight.
- In reference to his education, Admiral Stark refers to Dylan as having good common sense, not like one of these ivory tower war college students, before Rhade is later asked to enter the room in "Forced Perspective".
- Dylan mentions Rhade's "wives" after his death in "Under the Night", and he's mentioned as having more than two in one of the books.
- In "Tunnel at the End of the Light" the Perseid representative mentions to Andromeda her role in the evacuation from Brandenburg Tor.
- Telemachus Rhade in "Home Fires" had heard two different accounts of his ancestor's death. He was hailed as a hero on his planet, but a revered traitor among Nietzscheans. So I assume he went out of his way to keep his family from suffering consequences.