5 Rival Parties

 

 

Intended for Mothership but they'd work in any scifi setting, and in Esoteric Enterprises with a few tweaks.

 

1.  

Filaq- Scoin of deposed corporate royalty. Looks entirely too soft for this life. Suprisingly empathic for managment. Holdout pistol. Massive bounty on his head. Flight suit decorated with elephant motifs.

 

Unnman- Willowy, standoffish. Wields a monowire sword, lethal with it. Collects lenses from laser weapons, intricatly engraves them.

 

Amar- Veteran boarding trooper. Massive axe, collapsible shotgun slung on the shoulder. Quiet, careful. Last-gen battledress, patchwork repairs. A dozen campaign patches from a half-dozen armies.

2.

Mendicant_Emerald5- Tech-priest, exiled for her heresies. Intricate braids of steel cables and fiber-optics, delicate arms branch from spinal rig.

Korz- Battle-sister of Our Lady of Absolution. Kind of a scumbag. Wild mane of hair, mortified skin, smokes drinks and gambles. Hired by Mendicant as a bodyguard, is catching feelings. 

Rosemary- Short, plump, rosey features. Pacifist healer. Raised by 7 forks of the same mother, of who she is clone. Often nonverbal, knows every sign language under the stars. Many many bangles, necklaces and charms.

3.

'Fetch'- Uplifted dog. Tower of muscle and subdermal armour and cybernetic claws. About as smart as an 11-yr old. Behaves like a friendly dog. Entirely too trusting. Excellent tactician.

'Woods'- Uplifted bear. Rex's secound, usually handles negotiations. Wields an enormous recoiless rifle. Calm, always has a plan. Carries Petal's mobile hives on her back.

'Scales'- Various kinds of lizards, crocodiles and other bits, blended into a 11-ft long predator. Tactical cloak, poison and designated marskman. Lazy, only really cares about food, killing and the other three.

'Petal'- Autonomous swarm of bees guided by emergent intelligence. Weird as fuck. 

4.

Jean- Legendary thief. Swaps sleeves regularly. Leaves backups of himself everywhere. The plan you're seeing is definetly not his real plan.

Mieli- Warrior from far-outer-system colony. Ascetic. Very good at seperating men from their ghosts. In thrall to a posthuman ego-thief, who holds her lover to ransom.

 

5.

Lander- Washed out of marine corp. Bulky armour. Practically immune to fear when it comes to space horrors, and is writing an almanac on them. Also fond of eating them, when he can. Searching for his sister, consumed by an alien megastructure.

Marcia- Flouncy, fussy. Corporate nobility. Wielder of the Art- her devil marks number over 20. Despairs at Lander and Zanshi's culinary habits. In love with Lander's sister, and would go do terrible things to save her.

Chilk- Long-suffering hacker and infiltrator. Seperated from his wife, misses his kids. Descended from Neotenic colonists and is often mistaken for a child.

Zanshi- Spent too long in the depths. Expert chef, hunter, gardener and gatherer. Can turn pretty much anything into a meal. His boarding shield and blade double as cooking tools. Heavyworlder, large bushy beard.