Subject: There is a seperate backstory
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Posted on: 2011-07-15 19:52:00 UTC
But I read on the Permission page not to go too deeply into the full history.
Anyway, the origin:
Shortly before the Yuuzhan Vong Invasion Arc in the canonical Star Wars Universe, the Titan's Fist was apparently lost in some sort of spatial anomaly in the minimally mapped depths of Wild Space. Imperial and New Republic salvage teams found nothing and the ship was declared MIA.
What actually happened is much more interesting. Slipping through a rupture in time and space, the Fist came upon a giant, ancient construction of unknown design. Having lost almost half the crew including the captain and having sustained massive damage to the sensor and drive systems, Lieutenant Krolek was forced to gather the other junior commissioned officers and decide on a course of action.
Eventually shuttles were sent into the massive structure, in which was found an abundance of non-euclidean architecture and strange technology. Items such as a shrinking device, dimensional dampeners and even a teleportation engine were found, salvaged and incorporated into the engines of the Titans Fist. Specialty sensors that could tune into thoughts, specific locations, the past and the future were also grafted into the systems, with no one yet having a complete understanding of how they work.
Given the command for his role in organizing the salvage, Acting-Captain Krolek also had to deal with one other important fact: he had discovered what others would call the “multiverse”. In short, there was one “real” world (aka Earth 001, aka The Real World) and then there was the universe of all the fictions written of, called “continuities”. While shocked that his own universe was one of these “continuua”, it also presented an interesting path.
In a few instances, the Titan’s Fist woulds jump to these universes in order to witness plots and stories in progress and, on occasion, to hire their services out to the author in order to implement some occurence or another that was vital to the plot of the story. These jobs were responsible for fulfilling most of their supply needs, not to mention gaining new crew. Most of the new recruits came young and, green as they were and as isolated as the ship was, they had to be drilled hard. From universes, fandoms and even Earth 001 did crew come and, with the coming of the Yuuzhan Vong and the destruction they wrought and the time that has passed in the Star Wars EU, many arguments were given for and against going home or staying as effective mercenaries.
"Plot device" is a name snarkily given by a number of the crew who are disturbed, dishonored or tired of playing facilitator to every author and two-bit fanfic writer merely for food. That's why many of the officers voted to come here so that the Fist might be put to good use... whole or as salvage.
The rest of the Crew... are free to go home or to join up, as soon as they are given story identities.
Now, assignments.
Malrun requests placement in the Mary Sue department, as many of then grind his colon.
Portia, as she is of... uncertain mental stability at the moment, will likely be put in the Dept. of Intelligence, drawing up charge lists for fanfics (the reading of which is her hobby)
Joseph has requested a post in the Dept. of Dead Author Electricity Generation, since he will probably get the most out of the Lovecraft Turbine.
Marie is undecided... but because Portia seems to have transferred her protective urges to the older woman, an attempt to lure her into Intelligence and fact checking is most likely.