Kara “Starbuck” Thrace Quick rundown of her canon since in this instance she went thru all of it: People make robots, robots do not like people, there is a war and then a truce, it’s forty years later and now the robots are sexy teens, robots blow everything up, humans are like, “ : ( “
Starbuck’s spent her entire life in the military, most notably as a pilot. After the destruction of the 12 Colonies (the planets that held all of humanity), she’s one of the few military personnel left, and the Best Pilot. Things happen, she dies, she gets better, and now strange Powers that Be (think Green Lantern style Guardians, but snappier dressers) have decided to drop her off in the here-and-now. She works for CONDOR, because it’s the closest she can get to home, and she thinks college basketball is way better than pro ball, though both pale in comparison to the Sports she played back in the day.
Short version: cocky, sometimes abrasive, often surprisingly upbeat in the face of terrible odds, was born 100,000 years ago. She’s been in LA for six months now, and still thinks the fact that cards on Earth are rectangles is weird.
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You work with or for CONDOR, potentially if you’re a Trailblazer, you fly jets, you are into conspiracy theories about ancient astronauts and DNA and shit.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You do stuff for CONDOR on the less flashy more blow-shit-up side of things. Is that a side CONDOR has? If you unflashily blow things up, and also if you can fly a plane. She is also sometimes talkative on the internet, but not generally in places where the public has full access. I sort of want to have Starbuck be one of the people who goes and checks on the Trailblazers once in a while to make sure they’re playing nice, because a. it is hilarious 2 me b. she, in the past, worked as a flight instructor, and I think it would be kind of cool to explore that some more.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: I started flailing my hands a little when I saw how many robots/cyborgs/AIs were in the game so far, because I would really like to get her into some CR with some Mechanical Friends. I don’t plan on Starbuck being as immediately hostile towards anybody robot-y as she is at the beginning of her canon (I mean, she does marry a robot and stuff I guess technically? cylons.) But still, she’s got a certain amount of healthy (“healthy” in heavy air quotes) paranoia about AIs and transhumanism and giving robots guns. I really want to do Character Arc things with Starbuck where she, again, is struggling with her ~destiny~, and why she was put in this time and place specifically, as well as her trying to move on from the life she used to have.
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: The Rom Ants. Starbuck’s husband died six months ago (or 100,000 years ago), and she’s got a pretty shitty romantic history, so I want to steer away from that, at least for now.
ANYTHING ELSE: She is a Sports, and not a very good poet.
Kara "Starbuck" Thrace
Quick rundown of her canon since in this instance she went thru all of it: People make robots, robots do not like people, there is a war and then a truce, it’s forty years later and now the robots are sexy teens, robots blow everything up, humans are like, “ : ( “
Starbuck’s spent her entire life in the military, most notably as a pilot. After the destruction of the 12 Colonies (the planets that held all of humanity), she’s one of the few military personnel left, and the Best Pilot. Things happen, she dies, she gets better, and now strange Powers that Be (think Green Lantern style Guardians, but snappier dressers) have decided to drop her off in the here-and-now. She works for CONDOR, because it’s the closest she can get to home, and she thinks college basketball is way better than pro ball, though both pale in comparison to the Sports she played back in the day.
Short version: cocky, sometimes abrasive, often surprisingly upbeat in the face of terrible odds, was born 100,000 years ago. She’s been in LA for six months now, and still thinks the fact that cards on Earth are rectangles is weird.
YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THIS CHARACTER IF: You work with or for CONDOR, potentially if you’re a Trailblazer, you fly jets, you are into conspiracy theories about ancient astronauts and DNA and shit.
YOU MAY KNOW THIS CHARACTER IF: You do stuff for CONDOR on the less flashy more blow-shit-up side of things. Is that a side CONDOR has? If you unflashily blow things up, and also if you can fly a plane. She is also sometimes talkative on the internet, but not generally in places where the public has full access. I sort of want to have Starbuck be one of the people who goes and checks on the Trailblazers once in a while to make sure they’re playing nice, because a. it is hilarious 2 me b. she, in the past, worked as a flight instructor, and I think it would be kind of cool to explore that some more.
PLANS & IDEAS FOR THIS CHARACTER: I started flailing my hands a little when I saw how many robots/cyborgs/AIs were in the game so far, because I would really like to get her into some CR with some Mechanical Friends. I don’t plan on Starbuck being as immediately hostile towards anybody robot-y as she is at the beginning of her canon (I mean, she does marry a robot and stuff I guess technically? cylons.) But still, she’s got a certain amount of healthy (“healthy” in heavy air quotes) paranoia about AIs and transhumanism and giving robots guns. I really want to do Character Arc things with Starbuck where she, again, is struggling with her ~destiny~, and why she was put in this time and place specifically, as well as her trying to move on from the life she used to have.
THINGS YOU'D PREFER TO AVOID: The Rom Ants. Starbuck’s husband died six months ago (or 100,000 years ago), and she’s got a pretty shitty romantic history, so I want to steer away from that, at least for now.
ANYTHING ELSE: She is a Sports, and not a very good poet.