Requeium for a Starblazing Witch

Astrea Andromeda, the Celestial Starblaze, the Comet of Glory, the Witch of Thousand Suns, 3rd Chair of the Sidereal Chancellory, or most common the Starblazing Witch is dead. The former freedom fighter turned mercenary turned general lived a life of adventure and ups and downs and great changes of fortune. Now in the city planet of Medieas, A group of disparate renown pilots of their own legends and stars have gathered upon a rainswept cemetery following a magic letter delivered to them upon her death to find the truth of her death and dare to change the fates and gods themselves.

Character Creation

Character Archetypes picked one

• Her Ex-Apprentice
• Her Rival
• Her Childhood Friend
• Her Ex-Lover
• Her Blood-Brother
• (Write in)

In you bio you should have the reason how you fell in with the Celestial Starblaze, your adventure with her and why you grew apart.

Pilot Classes

• Knight: No magic, only techniques and piloting skills
• Sorcerer: Magic Support Officer (backseater in double seat)
• Wizard: Magic focus piloting

Personal Class

• Wizard
• Street Samauri
• Cleric
• Assassin
• Thief
• Heavy Infantry

Techniques

While magic is for the most part the realm of those favored by fate and the gods, Techniques are open to all with the strong enough will. By learning how to do a certain action superlatively well, the very process of doing so imbues the action with arcane power that gives the action supernatural strength. By focusing more and more on it, the arcane strength grows. Thus, for the warriors it's a balance between having a variety of techniques at their disposal and the time and training to give them enough strength.

Non mage classes have 5 Techniques slots already at the start.

Magic

Magic is divided up a thousand different ways by differning schools, from the 5 paths of watchtowers, to the 9 spheres of the Sidereals, to the 108 disciplines of the Yukari Sect. For this game we will take from obvious inspiration into 5 categories and at 5 levels. Magic characters will have one 1 category maxed out, 1 at level 4, 2 at level 3, and at level 1. They are allowed 3 signature spells at the start.

Magic Categories:

• Destruction
• Creation
• Alternation
• Movement
• Mentalism

The Starblaze

Those who were close to the Witch found themselves gaining a minor version of her signature power. Effectively a limited break, when under the Starblaze your techniques and spells are greatly enhanced and the impossible becomes possible. At the start of the campaign pick one signature move or spell. Starblaze can be activated one per session.

Armored Knights

Giants Robots: TBD

Setting

Medieas: City planet of eternal smog and acid rain. Home to growing undead and demonic problem sitting precariously on the border of the expansive Thulian Ascendancy, the Ostreich, and the Corporate Alliance, High Hyberborea, and the Deague. Ruled by a coalition of powerful corporate wizard-tech overlords, control of its vast necromantic industry in the undercity below, as well advance labs in the glittering sky cities in orbit would shift the balance of power to any other of the powers what would take it.

Thulian Ascendancy: Hailing beyond the Netherrift, scouts from the enigmatic sorcerer-kingdom had found 2 routes past the destruction left by the Nameless God death in the Great Celestial War. They have made alliances with the winter court of the dark elves, who at once point claimed Medieas as one of their own worlds.

The Great and Bountiful Ostreich: While lacking the sorcery and technological might of other powers, the Germania expanse is the largest inhabited and their starfleet and mobile weapons while not flashy are very durable. Making up for their lack of homegrown magic talent is their alliance with the Summer Court and many of the more advance Ostreich mobile weapons are double seaters with a elf WSO.

The Corporate Alliance: is in odd place. It technically counts Medieas is its members, however it's the smallest of the factions in terms of military might, being confined to a few heavily defended forge worlds and locations spread out across the other states. A fact due to most of the Alliance's upper leadership are dragons guarding their fortunes and lairs and playing the long game with the other powers.

High Hyperborea: The Transhumanstic Military state either focuses inward on internal perfection or outward on the destruction of worthy opponents, of which the Thulians are now providing. Patterned of idealized version of Sparta, combined with genetics and cybernetics, the Hyperboreans are feared opponents, though limited in number.

The Deague: Is a newcomer to the region, large expansive semi-centralized democratic stratocracy, the Deague's presence in the region mostly frontier units for peacekeeping with the local government more interested in the status quo then changing anything up, mostly due to their other borders bunching up against the Thulians.