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 ====== Miles Gunn ======
-Miles is a Humanoid, working for [[/lorath matriarchy | The Lorath Matriarchy]] as a technical consultant carrying the [[lorath matriarchy/group/lsdf | rank]] of Sub-Commander. He is an independent contractor who resides on [[/planet/lor]].
+Miles is a Humanoid, working for [[:lorath_matriarchy | The Lorath Matriarchy]] as a technical consultant carrying the [[lorath_matriarchy:group:lsdf | rank]] of Lieutenant. He is an independent contractor who resides on [[:planet:lor]].
 ^  **Image Not Found**  ^ Miles Gunn |||
 |  **Image Not Found**  ||||
 ^ Species | Humanoid ^ Age | 40 |
-^ Weight | WEIGHT ^ Height | 5’11 |
+^ Weight | 162lbs/73.48kg ^ Height | 5’11 / 180.33cm |
-^ Affiliations | Contracted with [[/lorath matriarchy | The Lorath Matriarchy]] |||
+^ Affiliations | Contracted with [[:lorath_matriarchy | The Lorath Matriarchy]] |||
 ^ Occupation | General Discipline Research Engineer ^ Organisation | Independent |
-^ Rank | Lieutenant ^ Home | [[/planet/lor]] |
+^ Rank | Lieutenant ^ Home | [[:planet:lor]] |
-^ Theme |  To Be Announced  |||
+^ Theme |  [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMnrl0tmd3k | Turnabout Jazz Soul - Godot - The Fragrance of Dark Coffee]]  |||
 ===== Description =====
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 === Languages ===
   * Basic
-  * Fluent [[lorath_matriarchy:culture:language | Ly’thir]]
+  * Fluent [[lorath_matriarchy/culture/language | Ly’thir]]
-  * Beginner in [[lorath_matriarchy:culture:language | Ci’eska]]
+  * Beginner in [[lorath_matriarchy/culture/language | Ci’eska]]
   * Advanced aptitude in Lorath developed cybernetic component coding languages.
   * Fundamental understanding of Lorath basic computer coding languages.
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 ===== Skills =====
->Describe your character's skills here. Read more on [[guide:skills]] for skill areas. Starting characters usually have 4 to 7 skill areas, with the following skill levels available for distribution:
->>Expert (1 Skill may be assigned as Expert)
->>Advanced (Up to 2 Skills may be assigned as Advanced)
->>Intermediate (Up to 3 Skills may be assigned as Intermediate)
->>Basic (Up to 4 Skills may be assigned as Basic)
->Character skills may improve, or new skill areas will be available
-=== Skill Area [Skill] ===
+=== Beginner Skills ===
->Describe your character's skill here, and their level of competence within the square brackets. Competence levels include Beginner, Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Expert, and Master.
->A skill area listing is not necessary for representing daily tasks at Beginner level. For example, the Vehicles skill doesn't need to be added to your character's biography if they will only use it to commute to work.
+  * **Senses**
->>If they get involved in a car chase though, a GM using these guidelines is unlikely to rule in the character's favour over someone with the Vehicles skill.
+  * **Thaumaatology**
+  * **Basic**
+  * **Psi**
+  * **Animals**
+  * **Arts**
+  * **Entertainment**
+=== Intermediate Skills ===
+  * **Archaic Weapons**
+  * **Hand to Hand**
+  * **Construction**
+  * **Culinary**
+  * **Communications**
+  * **Fitness**
+  * **Piloting (Advanced when cybernetic tools are applied) **
+  * **Stealth**
+  * **Vehicles**
+  * **Domestic**
+  * **Humanities**
+  * **Leadership**
+=== Advanced ===
+  * **Explosives**
+  * **Gunner (Expert when cybernetic tools are applied) **
+  * **Technician (Expert when cybernetic tools are applied) **
+  * **Repair**
+  * **Mathematics (Expert when cybernetic tools are applied) **
+  * **Concentration**
+  * **Starship Operation**
+  * **Survival**
+=== Expert ===
+  * **Firearms (Master when cybernetic tools are applied) **
+  * **Biology**
+  * **Chemistry**
+  * **Research**
+=== Master ===
+  * **Artillery**
+  * **Powered Armor**
+  * **Craft**
+  * **Engineer**
+  * **Medicine**
-=== Basic Skills ===
-  * **Basic or Beginner Skills** - Can be listed like this.
 ==== Abilities ====
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 **Theme** - List the source of your character's abilities here. This can include Martial, Gadgets, Artificial Intelligence, Cybernetics, Racial, Mutations, Psionics, Spellcasting, and more.
-  * **Theme** - Ability themes are described in bullet points.
+  * **Street Rat** - Raised far away from any silver spoons, Miles’ early development was spent with a sink-or-swim necessity to know how to walk the walk and talk the talk of his homeland’s scoundrels.
-    * **Ability ** - Describe the character's ability here.
+    * **Ability ** - Being able to keep up with a three card monty, picking a lock, resisting and evading arrest, taking cover from gunfire, returning fire, burning down someone’s flat, reading and creating graffiti to communicate, being able to take a hit and give one right back, and most importantly being able to talk a good talk to avoid doing any of the aforementioned activities. Those are the things which come together in a man who had successfully navigated the urban jungle and came out on top.
+  * **Man of Science** - Even a man of the streets needs to know a trade, to chase the dream of being able to hang up a shingle and make an honest dime. Miles was no different in his wants, as he found his calling in questions, observations, testing, and documentation. After all; the skill to do a task was commonplace, the ability to do so with creativity, dedication, and originality was a talent.
+    * **Ability ** - Starting from a foundation in industrial production focused education in physics and chemistry introduced in his childhood, and enough to get him into a vocational study program that held his interest in adolescence despite the daily charms of sex, guns, and drugs which was rampant outside of academic life, Miles’ initial focus was one built around an engineer’s skillset. Skills to put metal to metal, mixing elements, and applying forces to guide these fundamental components into being useful products and substances was the tooth-cutting for the man.
+Sex, guns, drugs, metals, substances, there was a theme there in Miles’ life, the way in which these things all meshed with the condition of humanity. Influences of biochemistry, prostheses, physiology, pharmacology, biomechanical augmentation, genetic modification, surgical alteration, ministration of medicine, and **creation**. There was a carnal appeal in it all, to have such a means to apply influence through such a seemingly fundamental expertise. For a young man from a rough world, it was a meal ticket, it was a promise for prosperity, and it was a shot at becoming a ‘somebody’ and enjoying the hell out of it. Age and wisdom mulled the prospect from merely being a means to make a bankroll, to being something greater; to become a ‘somebody’ who can be remembered for __doing the right thing__, usually, at least. From this, Miles has a high-end expertise in multiple scientific disciplines and the mindset to expand further.
+  * **Mil-Spec** - __Join the Navy they said, see the world they said__. As part of Miles’ aim at scientific endeavors, there was a need for resources, and opportunities. Much like many human men before him, he figured military service would be the solution to his needs. Serve, get rank, get money, get tenure in a government funded gig, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
+    * **Ability ** - Signed up as a field scientist and medic, Miles’ service in a military a universe away has ingrained into him a particular set of skills. His time in service had far more time behind a trigger than a microscope, to say the least. Engagements had him exchanging fire in a power armor in the void of space, to being kilometers beneath secret government facilities taking fire from biological super weapons with beam weapons.
+As a requirement in his military career, Miles firearm expertise went beyond how to use a gun in a back alley shootout, to being able to use various forms of personnel operated weaponry in short, mid, and long-range engagements. Miles’ capacity to use such weapons have been developed largely for close range engagements however, for purposes of close-range urban combat and in-ship combat. Miles’ affinity for such engagement distances had even prompted his successful modification of standard issue equipment into superior close-range kit.
+Operational skills for Miles extended beyond mere infantry operations, as his expertise was extended into power armor operation, starship operation, piloting, and crew served equipment operation. His expertise grew with exposure to the battle craft needed to survive, but survival was something which was supplemented during his time in the field, as he also learned how to perform repairs on the equipment he was to work with while in service.
+Success in service led to a raise in rank, with rank came responsibility, responsibility over others. As part of his responsibility to his rank Miles developed his capacity for communication to allow for effective leadership in the field and aboard ship, able to relay information effectively in or out of combat. His communication skills also expanded in his exposure to the world around him, as he learned several languages to supplement his ability to lead, and to communicate with those he would work with in his capacity as a medical officer.
+  * **”Better than he was before, better, stronger, faster.”** - As was common practice in his culture of origin, Miles’ body was cybernetically enhanced through elective modification and addition of augmentations.
+    * **Ability ** - Technological improvement loans itself far less to an emotional account, as Miles’ cybernetics can be accounted for as a laundry list of augmentations consisting of a cybernetic optical implant and housing assembly, protective ‘brain case’ assembly housing Miles’ brain and providing critical I/O and UI functionality and self-contained life support, synthetic muscle tissue augmentation, internally housed neural data processor and storage, autonomic function control, motor control refinement and enhancement, and a prosthetic leg. Recent additions consist of a Lorath developed multi-lobe [[lorath_matriarchy/technology/lorath_medical_implants | medical implant]] which was embedded in his abdominal cavity, providing redundant and enhanced endocrine, hepatic, and nephratic functions, along with added capacity for synthesis and internal administration of various biochemical and pharmaceutical compounds including [[lorath_matriarchy/technology/lorath_medical_nanomachines]]. Miles’ other recent addition includes an infusion port for nutrient compounds, medical treatment compounds, and biological material infusions such as blood or organic [[lorath_matriarchy/technology/pico-jelly]].
+  * **More Human Than a Human** - Miles’ skills and capabilities have a guiding principle behind their effectiveness; the human predisposition toward doing the things that really would not be recommended as ‘best form’, and this is made evident by some of the ways his penchants have directed his expertise.
+    * **Ability ** - Abilities to ‘feel the world’ in a heightened state, to concentrate through the extreme, to reach out with the mind; while some seek gurus, and others may reflect upon fabled words, Miles’ ability has come from taking large quantities of drugs. Abilities to entertain, to interact, to make a personal impact; they come from his brash ability to flirt, and back it up with carnal expertise and capability. Abilities to survive a firefight, or evade an enemy, come from his distinctively human capacity to rationalize and apply concepts of; “Better you than me” and “Every man for himself”.
+Rotten in many ways but redeeming in others; Miles’ capacity for raw humanity has extended into his responsibilities. Love, empathy, duty, even a touch of a homebrew ethical morality, they come together to sculpt his ability to be a lover, a fighter, a creator, a killer, and knowing how and when to apply what he knows and what he does to a situation appropriately.
 === Spellbook ===
->Characters with skills and abilities in spellcasting can start knowing a few spells. They can be committed to memory, written in a book, or manifested some other thematic way. Describe how they learn and prepare spells, and their source of power.
->This section can also be used for Psionic abilities.
->This section can be omitted from the character biography if your character knows no spells, psionics, or other magic-like abilities.
-  * **Spell Name** - Describe your character's spells in bullet points.
+  * **Machina caro et Magia** - Magic of flesh and machine. Miles’ cybernetically augmented body is in possession of a genuine __soul__ allowing for his essence to interact with the essential energies of life and being which comprise the universe. Despite his living soul, his natural magical potential is limited by inexperience, an inexperience which he has partially bridged with the technological.
-    * Subspells from a root school, an item in an array of spells, or variants can be listed like this.
+    * **Spellcap:** Incorporated into the thigh of his cybernetic leg, a capacitor system has been incorporated. Synthetic tendons, grafted nerves, micro-crystalline fibers, amalgamations of magically reactive metals, all crafted and woven into a high-energy transfer system. Effectively coming down to be a capacitor receptacle, the spellcap system allows Miles to insert a cylindrical capacitance vessel which has been infused with the concentrated life energies of donor flora and fauna, as well as the focused spellcraft of contributing magic wielders. Once the capacitance vessel is tapped, Miles is able to route the energy contained through his cybernetically augmented tissues, allowing for the contained energy to be released as an imitation of the original spellcraft imbued into the vessel, or, to be used as a catalyst for Miles’ own magic potential.
+    * **Essence Siphon:** Incorporated as a secondary function of the Spellcap system, the essence siphon allows Miles’ body to function like an antenna, as naturally occurring magical energies surrounding Miles interact with him, excess that would simply pass over and through him is instead caught, and routed into a spellcap vessel if an empty or partially filled spellcap is chambered in the spellcap receptacle.
+    * **Oculi Verax:** Commissioned as another eye to be fitted into his skull at his choosing, Miles is in possession of a spherical orb, precision crafted to fit correctly in his cybernetic optic socket. This orb has been crafted using a layered lattice of Lorath rune scribed crystal. Through the spellcraft embedded into the crystalline structure, not only visible light, but magical energy flows and irregularities are interpreted into electric signal impulses routed into Miles’ optical processor and interpreted into visual perception of energies tied to souls, spellcraft, and the interaction between the two.
+    * **Telepathic Augmentation:** As a holdover of modifications made a universe away to permit rapid and silent communication between persons with their minds linked through biotechnology, the capability to communicate through telepathy exists for Miles as a product of repeated and continued use of the method, a practiced synergy between brain and processor, Miles is able to telepathically communicate with organic ‘sensitives’ able to perceive telepathy, as well as with computerized I/O systems outfitted with appropriate transceiver hardware.
+  * **Read The F!@#ing Manual** - Like any proper engineer, technician, mechanic, or scientist, Miles recognizes the importance of user manuals. This importance extends to spellcraft, as documentation of spells, written with step-by-step instruction for implementation, can serve as a suitable framework for Miles’ use of the spell. So long as the spell is documented fully, and is legible, Miles can perform limited degrees of spellcraft using magic suited for students and novices.
+    * **What the Hell am I Reading?:** What serves to hinder Miles’ ability to  advance in magical arts is the language of magic. Beyond the simple cantrips which exist for the most novice of spell weavers in various fields of magic, Miles is unable to go much further due to not having a comprehension of the written or oral structure of advanced magic usage which relies on concepts far outside of normal linguistics.
+  * **Neurokinesis** - As an extension of Miles’ ability to exert limited control over magical energies, his limited telepathic ability, and mostly his expertise in biological sciences Miles is able to exert short-range limited projection of bioelectrical discharges. Miles’ relatively weak bioelectric discharges are calibrated to interact with neural receptors in biological organisms with a nervous system reliant on bioelectrical impulses. Effects of this ability are relatively minor when held in comparison to the abilities of Occhestians, or dedicated spellcrafters focused on controlling magics.
+    * **Numbing:** Through precision bioelectric stimulation, Miles can temporarily numb tactile sensation receptors, and immobilize exposed muscle tissue.
+    * **Stimulation:** Applied in much the same manner as numbing a subject, Miles is able to apply bioelectric impulses to induce sensations in nerve endings, creating momentary or temporarily lingering sensations in nerve groups. Miles’ limited proficiency prevents him from applying this skill to induce any pain beyond a mere sensation of a soft pinprick or a static shock. This ability can also be used to induce contraction in exposed muscle tissue.
 ===== Inventory =====