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RIO BRAVO

Rio Bravo is a Colonial settlement on the southern shore of the third largest island in the New Hawaii chain, Oahu. The town is 993 Kilometers Northwest of Atlantis or about a four hour flight via standard patrol jumpcraft with a range of 900 Km, including the routine stop over at the Incorporate Headquarters City/Platforms of Biogene about three hours and 738 Km into the trip to refuel.

The town sits at the confluence of the Rio Bravo River, which flows out of the heavily rain forested mountain ranges to the north on the islands interior dominated by the dormant volcano Kiluea at 2550 Meters elevation and the Los Isolotes Straights.

The origenal colonial settlement began in the early days of the Long John Rush in the nineties, before the Incorporates came to New Hawaii, as a small base of operations and Rest and relaxation for the many independant prospectors that used to prowl the Kaui reef in surface and submersible craft. Its heyday as a rough and tumble lawless frontier town was from 2190 through 2195, before Biogene arrived and built its massive sea surface platform/undersea city of Cliffside on the continental Shelf of the Kaui Reef and began to dominate the Long John Prospecting. In the years since only a few stubborn independants and small time outfits have managed to hold out and continue to use the port facilities as a base of operations for prospecting. In the last four years, Rio Bravo's economic base has shifted towards traditional farming along the cleared slopes up river from the town, providing much needed foodstuffs to support the needs of the huge population living on the platforms and habitats of Biogenes largest and most prodcutive Long John prospecting and processing facility, as well as its planetary headquarters.

The town consists of its older section, with its shallow harbor suitable for medium draft water craft, docks and warehouses along the shore and west bank of the Brave river. A fishing cannery and the old dillapidated and long abandoned Long John refining facility can be found along the beach near the water as well. Up from these facilities, River Street runs along the West bank of the broad and shallow river. Along the oldest street with access to both water craft along the river and vehiculat or foot traffic are all the old establishmnets of the former boom town, mostly a series of combination saloons/casinos/brothels that still cater to the independent prospectors as well as the crews of the supply vessels running to and from Cliffside, and Rio Bravo's own long shoremen and sizeable community of terrestrial farmers and the support network of commercial enterprises that has grown up around the thriving town. Its buildings meander out from river street in no discernable pattern as the rich alluvial plains here have been cleared of tropical rain forest for both structures and to grow the crops that support many thousands of Incorporate employees to the south. Farms of terrestrial crops hardy enough to grow on Poseidon as well as native crops such as the "Popo" dot the surrounding countryside and can be found as far 20 Km up river from the town proper. Most farmers own at least one cargo hovercraft, using the river as a highway to transport goods and crops to town and back. The town and scattered farms support a population of nearly three thousand persons. They get their power from a small Biogene

The eastern Bank of the Rio Bravo fans out into more of a traditional delta and wide tidal swamp

Characters

Sara Mayer NAME Sara Mayer, GEO Detective AGE 21 SEX Female SPECIES Human

GOAL Accomplishment MOTIVATION Compassion ATTITUDE Humble

BACKGROUND

MOTTO '"Slow and steady wins the race."'

Sara is a True Believer to the point of naivete. A daughter of GEO functionaries who died when she was small, Sara grew up in a GEO hostel, went to GEO schools and knew almost only GEO people. This did not stop her dreaming of a life of excitement and, especially, emigrating to Poseidon. Her quietness and watchfulness was noted by instructors at her school and she had little trouble meeting the intellectual requirements of the GEO law enforcement program (although the physical ones were more difficult). Sara quickly found her way into the detective side of the organization and was overjoyed when she recently was posted to Poseidon. Although she isn't completely green when it comes to detective work, almost all her knowledge of Poseidon is from books.

TRAINING PACKAGES

EXCEPTIONAL LEVEL ORIGIN URBAN BACKGROUNDS INDEPENDENT GEO PROFESSIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT (EXPERT - DETECTIVE) DIPLOMACY (SPECIALIST)

PRIMARY ATTRIBUTES

BUILD -1 FITNESS -1 AGILITY 0 DEXTERITY 0 AWARENESS +2 CHEMICAL +2 HEARING +2 INTUITION +3 TOUCH +1 VISION +2 INTELLECT +2 PRESENCE 0 WILL +1

 DERIVED ATTRIBUTES

ENDURANCE 0 REFLEXES +1 STRENGTH -1 TOUGHNESS 0 ABILITIES JUMPING VERTICAL 60cm STANDING 100cm RUNNING 5m MOVEMENT LAND WALKING 6km/hr RUNNING 15km/hr for 50 mins AQUATIC 1m/hr THROWING 25m

 SKILLS

ADMIN 2 BUREAUCRACY 9 ECONOMICS 2 LAW 7 MANAGEMENT

AGRICULTURE 1 ANIMAL HUSBANDRY AQUACULTURE FARMING HYDROPONICS

ATHLETICS 1 AQUATICS 2 ARCHERY FREEFALL PARACHUTING SPORTS THROWING

CLOSE COMBAT 1 ARMED COMBAT 3 UNARMED COMBAT 3

COMMAND 1 LEADERSHIP LOGISTICS STRATEGY 2 TACTICS

COMMUNICATION 3 LANGUAGE 4, 5 NEGOTIATION 4 ORATION 2 PERSUASION 8 WRITING 4

CULTURE 3 CETACEAN COLONIAL 3 EARTH 5 GEO 5 INCORPORATE 1 MILITARY NATIVE 3 SPACER STREET 3

FINE ARTS 1 ACTING ARTISAN DANCING MUSIC PAINTING PHOTOGRAPHY 3 SCULPTURE

FIREARMS 1 HANDGUNS 4 LONGARMS 2

HUMAN SCIENCES 1 ANTHROPOLOGY ARCHEOLOGY HISTORY 3 POLITICS 3 THEOLOGY

LIFE SCIENCES 1 BIOCHEMISTRY BOTANY GENETICS ZOOLOGY

MEDICINE 2 FIRST AID 3 FORENSIC MEDICINE 4 GENERAL MEDICINE PHARMACOLOGY PSYCHOLOGY 4 SURGERY VETERINARY MEDICINE

MILITARY WEAPONS 1 HVY WEAPONS GUNNERY

PHYSICAL SCIENCE 1 ASTRONOMY CHEMISTRY GEOLOGY METEOROLOGY PHYSICS

STEALTH 2 HIDING SHADOWING 4 SNEAKING

SUBTERFUGE 2 BRIBERY DISGUISE FAST TALK 3 FORGERY LOCKPICKING 3 SLEIGHT OF HAND

SURVIVAL 1 FISHING FORAGING MOUNTAINEERING NAVIGATION ORIENTEERING TRACKING

TECH 1 COMPUTERS 3 DAMAGE CONTROL DEMOLITIONS ELECTRONICS MECHANICS REMOTE OPERATIONS 3

VEHICLES 1 DRIVNG 7 PILOTING SAILING [edit] BIO MODS 2-4 minor , 1-2 major Neural Jack, Enhanced Smell Multiglands [edit] ARMOUR [edit] WEAPONS Weapon Name ROF MAG PB S M L DR - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

GEAR

Joe Denero

Joe Denero (name is subject to change!) Male Goal altruism Motivation duty Attitude holistic

Build1 Fitness1 Agility1 Dexterity0 Awareness1 Intellect0 Presence0 Will1 Senses: Sight+1 Hearing+1 Intuition0 Touch-1 Chemical-1

Derived attributes: Endurance 3 ("I can go all day...and then all night, baby!") Reflexes 1 Strength 1 Toughness 1

Administration (Average) Bureaucracy4 Law3

Agriculture (Average) Aquacultures2

Athletics (Strong) Aquatics 6 Throwing 4

Combat (Strong) Close combat 5 Armed combat 5

Command (Average) Leadership 5 Strategy 2 Tactics 5

Communication(Average): Language1 Persuasion 3

Culture(Average) Colonial 3 GEO3 Incorporate1 Military3 Native5 Street2 ("I specialise in eradicating street scum, not talking to them. They send me in when the talkers are going out!")

Fine Arts "Uh, what?"

Firearms(Superior) Handguns 6 Longarms 6 (And a +3 bonus, except he never misses anyway)

Human Sciences(Average) History 1 ("It's fucking important to know why life sucks now, man!")

Life Sciences "Life ain't no science, you dickhead!"

Medicine(Average): First Aid 5 ("If you ever have to use this stuff, you screwed up!") Forensic medicine 2 ("Sometimes, dead guys are talking. They just don't seem to be talkative with me, screw them. Not in that way, you pervert!")

Military weapons (strong) Heavy weapons 5 ("You taking cover? I've got a surprise for you!")

Physical sciences(Average) "What do you mean, I don't look like a scientist? I know my bullet trajectories just fine!"

Stealth (Superior) Hiding 3 Shadowing2 Sneaking 3

Subterfuge(Average) "There ain't anything that might not use some subterfuge, that Sun guy said. I leave the fine details to other people".

Survival(Average) Fishing 2 Navigation 1 Orienteering 1 ("What, you think we natives don't need GPS? You racist or something?")

Tech(Average) Computers 1 Demolitions 2 ("I passed the exam, at least!") Remote operations 5

Vehicles(Average) Driving 2 Sailing 3

Targeting interlink, uplink (minor) Programmed reflexes (Major) Echolocation (minor) Augmented hearing (minor) Multiglands (Major) Improved blood oxygenation (minor)

He's a diver, edited to add it. And yes, I'm not really crazy about the name, either. As I said, it's still subject to change.

Parts of the native community view him with suspicion, of course. Others consider him "their guy within the GEO". The latter are closer to the truth. When on leave at home, he always runs a self-defence class, more like a workshop, for the kids and youngsters of the community, because in a remote place like this, the people are the first line of law enforcement. There are parents, now elders, that he supports financially. And of course, a couple uncles, aunts, nieces, and... well, pretty much everyone in a small village is a relative. There is also this Linda girl that isn't a relative, her parents having moved from a nearby community to live with their uncles here. This is the reason they were viewed as a likely match as they both were growing up before he went on to enlist in the army. She was too small at this time, so he slipped a few years before getting married by societal pressure. Now he's not quite sure whether she still thinks they're a likely match, and is having trouble asking straight. Her brother still gets special attention at the aforementioned workshop. She's a stunning beauty, if you ask him, and the fact that he also calls his personal rifle Linda is, of course, entirely coincidental! You don't touch Linda without permission, though! Yeah, of course I'm talking about the rifle. There are also a couple other guys that are roughly his age. You can call them rivals for her attention, but of course, they kinda have an advantage. She's not giving any clear signs yet, although it's about time for her to marry. I guess she enjoys looking them squabbling and trying to prove them better than each other. Enemies are mostly from Haven, parts of the mobs. He doesn't like mobsters, and has acted with extreme prejudice before when called to capture or neutralize some of them. Some of them are due to be released soon, and others have relatives. Of course, he doesn't like criminals, period. In his view of society as a living being, they are the parasites. Some of his superiors consider him "the token minority guy, showing the natives we consider them equal". He considers them a necessary evil and a proof that some higher power is testing the limits of his patience. That makes them about the equivalent of paperwork, BTW. Of course, others respect him in his own right, especially the weapon instructors at the range! He spends a considerable amount of time there. Of course, you can also find him in music clubs. Haven't become close with anyone after the move, yet.