The Korathraz Sector was thought to be a lost claim. The issuing of the claim was incredibly controversial in its time and even threatened the alliance between the Humans and the S'lettexik, who were furious at the very idea of the Korathraz sector being offered up as a guild claim.

Korathraz is one of the most distinctive features in the night sky of the Squid homeworld, and a number of factions view the apparently color-changing binary star as an object of great religious significance, the revolving orbit and the changing color it produces once even used to mark the seasons in the old religious calendar of the Glowing Sea Scrolls.

Such was the controversy that when the deed went missing, and its owner crew with it, the Guild silently let the statute of limitation pass without issuing a new deed ... until now. Perhaps hoping that time had healed all wounds, the Guild quietly slipped Korathraz back in the queue of claims, only to have the information leaked by an inside source.

With growing threats from Squid fanatics of the Order of His Luminescent Splendor, rumors of S'lettexik military intervention in the sector, the low value rating given to the sector, plus the still unknown fate of the previous claim owner and his crew, few surveyors were fool enough to even apply for the claim.

Except of course, for you.  Congratulations, guildsperson. May you find fortune before death.

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The Korathraz Conflict will be a play-by-post campaign for Hulks and Horrors, open to all classes, level 1 PCs.  The players will need a ship, and it is recommended that said ship possess weapons as ship-to-ship combat is expected in this contested sector.

You can find the game here: http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/111781/Hulks-and-Horrors---Basic-Black-Edition?manufacturers_id=4617

I'll be running this as time permits and as prep is ready, rather than on any specific schedule, so any time zones are welcome so long as everyone is patient enough to deal with that. I'm in PST but as a writer I basically spend all my time on the computer so I'm pretty much around all of the time, though I may at times be busy with work.  

If anyone has any suggestions for a die rolling server their free to share in the thread below but I'm generally cool with the honor system. Anyone who cheats at a roleplaying game is a coward to be pitied and thus not of huge concern to me unless it becomes problematic to other players fun, and thus as the wearer of the Viking Hat I reserve the right to mercilessly feed their character to a Maw and eject them from the game.  

Post in the thread below if you're interested. Looking for around 4-6 players.

I'm game, and for a dice roller I suggest Invisible Castle because it's the only one I've ever used.

Still undecided on class. I'll let other players join in and decide on what I'll play once everyone's announced what they're playing.

Cool. Cool cool cool.

Oh, and provided I get it done on time, the new Engineer class I'll be posting as part of the FTL series will be fair game as well.

Interested but as I don't yet own the game I have no class preference.

I will obviously have to rectify this oversight of mine.

I snagged a copy of the basic game when it was free, haven't read it yet, but would love to roll up a character and jump into a game.

Bueller?

Anyone?

My apologies. I was waiting until we had at least 4 volunteers, though if folks are willing I suppose I could give it a shot with three, though the body count could be brutal without plenty of redshirts as backup PCs.

I would like to participate in this game.

If no one else already wants to play one, I would like to play a Bearman.

I'm actually thinking now that a soldier or a psyker would be more my speed.

I'd like to play a Scientist, but depending on how we're rolling ability scores (3d6 down the line?) that may change.

I know I said I was going to wait for everyone else to announce their choice of class. But Scientists just rock.

I rolled the stats for my character over on Invisible Castle, and the rolls qualify the character for a Bearman.  I'm going to start on creating the character.  He's going to be a sexy Bearman, LOL!

STR 13, DEX 11, CON 11, INT 8, WIS 12, CHA 14

FYI:  It looks like Table 12: Bearman in the Hulks & Horror: Basic Black Edition is off because it lists the hit dice as 1d6 per level instead of 1d10.

Well, if we're using Invisible Castle's 4d6-take-highest-3, I got a pretty good string of stats:

STR 15, DEX 14, CON 10, INT 15, WIS 15, CHA 16

One badass Scientist coming up!

Quote from: The Butcher;643706Well, if we're using Invisible Castle's 4d6-take-highest-3...

Well, I used the 3d6 Ironman method at Invisible Castle to generate my Stats as per the Hulks & Horrors: Basic Black Edition.  

And the dice gods shine on Kur'Uk the Bearman because I rolled a '10' for his Hit points and 1,700 starting credits!

http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/search/1223622/

I uploaded a fix for the Bearman table to the PDF version.

I really wish I could afford a second pair of eyes for this stuff.