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| * **Hair** - Fibres can be woven together from structol strands to create a formation analogous to a haircut, down to the look and feel. Adagio hair is normally worn white, or they can choose to bind all a manner of dyes within the form. | * **Hair** - Fibres can be woven together from structol strands to create a formation analogous to a haircut, down to the look and feel. Adagio hair is normally worn white, or they can choose to bind all a manner of dyes within the form. |
| * **Outerwear and Apparel** - Adagio Sourcians who move around people and other aliens generally wear body-suits, to keep dust particles and grit out, shield from electromagnetic interference, and retain heat and moisture. Atop this suit, additional gear may be worn and carried, and some suits come with pockets that reach inside the Sourcian, for easy access. Sourcians also accessorise decoratively with with soft fabrics, structol protrusions and outcroppings, valuable jewellery and precious metal. | * **Outerwear and Apparel** - Adagio Sourcians who move around people and other aliens generally wear body-suits, to keep dust particles and grit out, shield from electromagnetic interference, and retain heat and moisture. Atop this suit, additional gear may be worn and carried, and some suits come with pockets that reach inside the Sourcian, for easy access. Sourcians also accessorise decoratively with with soft fabrics, structol protrusions and outcroppings, valuable jewellery and precious metal. |
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| | | {{ :ccg:sourcian_space_structure_by_osaka.png?600 |}} | |
| | | A Sourcian-built mega-structure. Note the use of hexagon-centric design meshing with an interconnecting lattice to affix and connect the many sub-structures. Render by [[user:osaka]]. | |
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| ===== Common Skillsets ===== | ===== Common Skillsets ===== |
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| * **Ambassador** - Sourcians like this are shaped in the approximation of a human with two legs, two arms, a head with long ears, and a body structure best described as a long person. They are modelled to act as approachable faces towards other species. Ambassadors also act as cultural beacons for the species too, trying to integrate with a foreign system's arts and culture by bringing their perspectives and to light. An example of an Ambassador Sourcian is [[location/sargasso#notable_people|45.6C.65.6E.61 'Elena']]: A Sourcian shaped as a woman who works in the local film industry, radio, and appears on morning talk shows. | * **Ambassador** - Sourcians like this are shaped in the approximation of a human with two legs, two arms, a head with long ears, and a body structure best described as a long person. They are modelled to act as approachable faces towards other species. Ambassadors also act as cultural beacons for the species too, trying to integrate with a foreign system's arts and culture by bringing their perspectives and to light. An example of an Ambassador Sourcian is [[location/sargasso#notable_people|45.6C.65.6E.61 'Elena']]: A Sourcian shaped as a woman who works in the local film industry, radio, and appears on morning talk shows. |
| * Arts or Entertainment - A common avenue for Ambassador Sourcians is to integrate with a culture's artistic avenues. This can include radio, tapes, movies, games, dance, and more. | * **Arts** or **Entertainment** - A common avenue for Ambassador Sourcians is to integrate with a culture's artistic avenues. This can include radio, tapes, movies, games, dance, and more. |
| * Fitness - Where possible, a Sourcian will want to maintain an aesthetically pleasing exterior. Creating functional and aesthetic muscular arrangements requires reference, trial, error, and gainful exercise. Sourcians who engage in sporting events((Understanding them to be a contextualised form of ritual warfare.)) may wish to be 'fit' for purpose within the rules of the game. | * **Fitness** - Where possible, a Sourcian will want to maintain an aesthetically pleasing exterior. Creating functional and aesthetic muscular arrangements requires reference, trial, error, and gainful exercise. Sourcians who engage in sporting events((Understanding them to be a contextualised form of ritual warfare.)) may wish to be 'fit' for purpose within the rules of the game. |
| * Humanities - Being able to study a culture's patterns, likes, dislikes, and taboos lets an Ambassador work cleanly and effectively with other species. | * **Humanities** - Being able to study a culture's patterns, likes, dislikes, and taboos lets an Ambassador work cleanly and effectively with other species. |
| * Communications - Being able to tap into the local communications networks and keep atop the local goings-on, events, news, and to reach out to other Sourcians. | * **Communications** - Being able to tap into the local communications networks and keep atop the local goings-on, events, news, and to reach out to other Sourcians. |
| * **Apothecary/Builder** - Apothecary is a historical term given to Sourcians who work as living, biological and material industrial processes; [[territories/aleph_null]] and [[territories/acala]] refer to Sourcians filling these roles as Builders((Both terms are accepted - the lines have become sufficiently blurred among the Sourcian community at large.)). This role involves the operation of organs, glands and other viscera to change one substance into another. The essential Apothecary Sourcian integrates nearby materials into picora, which is then woven into solid Structol. A good operational equivalent would be a 3D printer and lathe fed with plastic prills, creating objects within its space. Salaxi/Crudes in particular are known for their insights regarding hydrocarbon based propulsion, and frequent collaboration with mechanics and engineers. | * **Apothecary/Builder** - Apothecary is a historical term given to Sourcians who work as living, biological and material industrial processes; [[territories/aleph_null]] and [[territories/acala]] refer to Sourcians filling these roles as Builders((Both terms are accepted - the lines have become sufficiently blurred among the Sourcian community at large.)). This role involves the operation of organs, glands and other viscera to change one substance into another. The essential Apothecary Sourcian integrates nearby materials into picora, which is then woven into solid Structol. A good operational equivalent would be a 3D printer and lathe fed with plastic prills, creating objects within its space. Salaxi/Crudes in particular are known for their insights regarding hydrocarbon based propulsion, and frequent collaboration with mechanics and engineers. |
| * Craft - A builder's bread and butter. Seniority, experience, and the right tools allow for fine and mechanically complex, multi-stage creations like vehicle and spacecraft components and weaponry. | * **Craft** - A builder's bread and butter. Seniority, experience, and the right tools allow for fine and mechanically complex, multi-stage creations like vehicle and spacecraft components and weaponry. |
| * Construction - Builders can work with a 'large-scale' implementation to mold larger structures for Sourcian habitation, understanding the fundamentals of sound building, geographical constraints and material tolerances to build once, and build right. | * **Construction** - Builders can work with a 'large-scale' implementation to mold larger structures for Sourcian habitation, understanding the fundamentals of sound building, geographical constraints and material tolerances to build once, and build right. |
| * Biology and Chemistry - Where the term 'Apothecary' catches traction: as the study and creation, mixing, filtration, distilling, recycling, and disposal of substances and chemicals including structol, picora, freshwater, petrol, food, and more. | * **Biology** and **Chemistry** - Where the term 'Apothecary' catches traction: as the study and creation, mixing, filtration, distilling, recycling, and disposal of substances and chemicals including structol, picora, freshwater, petrol, food, and more. |
| * Mathematics - Though they won't need a Calculator's level of precision, a builder needs a grasp on mathematics in regard to plotting, planning, and machining components. | * **Mathematics** - Though they won't need a Calculator's level of precision, a builder needs a grasp on mathematics in regard to plotting, planning, and machining components. |
| * Engineering - These skills serve more of a Builder than a true Apothecary, for planning, prototyping and creating marvels of engineering. | * **Engineering** - These skills serve more of a Builder than a true Apothecary, for planning, prototyping and creating marvels of engineering. |
| * **Calculator** - The blanket term given for a Sourcian who acts a living, biological information process. Whether as a computer program, database, algorithm like space navigation vector-gathering, or any other clerical knowledge-heavy role. Elder calculators with access to petabytes of data, information, media and knowledge also act as community leaders and administrators. The work of a calculator is a cushy, but necessary task by Sourcian standards. Travelling Calculators are also known to work with operations run by non-Sourcians, lending their insights to the business as contractors, or becoming a permanent fixture of a business' day-to-day operations. | * **Calculator** - The blanket term given for a Sourcian who acts a living, biological information process. Whether as a computer program, database, algorithm like space navigation vector-gathering, or any other clerical knowledge-heavy role. Elder calculators with access to petabytes of data, information, media and knowledge also act as community leaders and administrators. The work of a calculator is a cushy, but necessary task by Sourcian standards. Travelling Calculators are also known to work with operations run by non-Sourcians, lending their insights to the business as contractors, or becoming a permanent fixture of a business' day-to-day operations. |
| * Mathematics - The bread and butter of a Calculator's work. Crunching algorithms and returning sums, coefficients, vectors and more. | * **Mathematics** - The bread and butter of a Calculator's work. Crunching algorithms and returning sums, coefficients, vectors and more. |
| * Communications - Being able to communicate the information a Calculator manages to other Sourcians is critical to success. | * **Communications** - Being able to communicate the information a Calculator manages to other Sourcians is critical to success. |
| * Biology - A Calculator is expected to be versed in the workings of organs they administrate within their medium, and their tolerances. | * **Biology** - A Calculator is expected to be versed in the workings of organs they administrate within their medium, and their tolerances. |
| * Humanities - A Calculator may process and log inputs from hundreds of other Sourcians in their area. | * **Humanities** - A Calculator may process and log inputs from hundreds of other Sourcians in their area. |
| * Concentration - A single-minded focus on intense computing tasks in critical moments. | * **Concentration** - A single-minded focus on intense computing tasks in critical moments. |
| * Starship Operation - A team of Calculators act as the bridge crew on a Sourcian starship. | * **Starship Operation** - A team of Calculators act as the bridge crew on a Sourcian starship. |
| * **Myrmidon** - The Sourcian term for a member of a caste or clade of soldiers, traditionally protectors of Sourcian residential structures. Sourcians leverage their versatile anatomy to become monstrous combat machines, able to hide blades and firearms within limbs, create , and taking advantage of the principles of the six-axis doctrine of combat((See [[guide/skills#powered_armour|Powered Armour]] skill.)). Sourcians of Adagio and Salaxi types may develop combat-optimised, inhuman. A [[species/sourcia#variants|specific adaptation]] of Sourcian known as the **Maevallis** is a duellist, a diplomat who conducts their bargains through warfare. | * **Myrmidon** - The Sourcian term for a member of a caste or clade of soldiers, traditionally protectors of Sourcian residential structures. Sourcians leverage their versatile anatomy to become monstrous combat machines, able to hide blades and firearms within limbs, create organs and glands for augmenting their combat style, and taking advantage of the principles of the six-axis doctrine of combat((See [[guide/skills#powered_armour|Powered Armour]] skill.)) to push the doctrine to its limits. Sourcians of Adagio and Salaxi subtypes expected to see combat for prolonged periods develop develop battle-optimised, inhuman bodies closer to quadruped or bipedal beasts. A [[species/sourcia#variants|specific adaptation]] of Sourcian known as the **Maevallis** is a duellist, a diplomat who conducts their bargains through warfare - a pertinent fact discovered during [[guide/theoldwar|The Old War]]. |
| * **Archaic Weapons** or **Hand to Hand** - For bladed weapons of short and long sizes, and grappling with bizarre anatomy and inhuman layouts and joint ranges. | * **Archaic Weapons** or **Hand to Hand** - For bladed weapons of short and long sizes, and grappling with bizarre anatomy and inhuman layouts and joint ranges. |
| * **Firearms** or **Gunner** - Another staple of conventional warfare, dependant on the scale the soldier is expected to inflict upon potential threats. | * **Firearms** or **Gunner** - Another staple of conventional warfare, dependant on the scale the soldier is expected to inflict upon potential threats. |
| * You can change the balance between skills 2/4 or 4/2 if you'd like, but this will present accordingly: Discrete Symbionts require less maintenance, while obvious combat adaptations are likely to scare pedestrians. | * You can change the balance between skills 2/4 or 4/2 if you'd like, but this will present accordingly: Discrete Symbionts require less maintenance, while obvious combat adaptations are likely to scare pedestrians. |
| * **Weaver** - The Sourcian equivalent to a medical professional. While all Sourcians are able to make changes to their biology, Weavers can read the DNA of patients as tapestry, drawing from an abyss of patterns and desirable structures. They regard their work much like sculpting with clay, fingers and hands from bone and raw material, or engaging the patient as a symbiont within a fluid medium to perform deeper intense reconstructions or tumour absorption. They prefer not to use sharp implements - a soft touch is possible, and can work best for the patient. | * **Weaver** - The Sourcian equivalent to a medical professional. While all Sourcians are able to make changes to their biology, Weavers can read the DNA of patients as tapestry, drawing from an abyss of patterns and desirable structures. They regard their work much like sculpting with clay, fingers and hands from bone and raw material, or engaging the patient as a symbiont within a fluid medium to perform deeper intense reconstructions or tumour absorption. They prefer not to use sharp implements - a soft touch is possible, and can work best for the patient. |
| * Medicine - The Weaver's premier skill. The discipline runs the gamut from DNA and XNA plotting, patterning and editing, cybernetics installation, limb reconstruction, cancer treatment, regeneration, and cosmetics. | * **Medicine** - The Weaver's premier skill. The discipline runs the gamut from DNA and XNA plotting, patterning and editing, cybernetics installation, limb reconstruction, cancer treatment, regeneration, and cosmetics. |
| * Biology - A pillar of knowledge supporting the Weaver's medical skills. | * **Biology** - A pillar of knowledge supporting the Weaver's medical skills. |
| * Arts - Their ability to sculpt new flesh for a patient requires the study and reproduction of the shapes and textures which make up established Sourcian adaptations. This includes but is not limited to limbs and body chassis, vascular systems, nerve cluster arrangements, hair formations, genetic tattoos and body painting. | * **Arts** - Their ability to sculpt new flesh for a patient requires the study and reproduction of the shapes and textures which make up established Sourcian adaptations. This includes but is not limited to limbs and body chassis, vascular systems, nerve cluster arrangements, hair formations, genetic tattoos and body painting. |
| * Technician - For cybernetics and computational organ installation and programming. | * **Technician** - For cybernetics and computational organ installation and programming. |
| * Repair - As Technician, but for reconstruction and maintenance. | * **Repair** - As Technician, but for reconstruction and maintenance. |
| * Culinary - Navigating the Sourcian palette and beyond to nourish is second nature to a kindly Weaver. | * **Culinary** - Navigating the Sourcian palette and beyond to nourish is second nature to a kindly Weaver. |
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| Written by [[user:luca]] via adapting [[user/osaka]]'s writings on Sourcians. | Written by [[user:luca]] via adapting [[user/osaka]]'s writings on Sourcians. |