test content
Logo
What is the Arc Client?
Install Arc
Options
What is your character background with Tovan Khev?
feiqa
Member Posts: 2,410 Arc User
For those of you that make bios for your characters. What is/was your relationship with Tovan on Virinat?
Echo Moiraine (Delta Recruit/Alien Gen): 21st century human college student. Signed up for an experimental cryo suspension experiment that was only supposed to last a week. Centuries later D'vex bought the canister from a ferengi and took it to Virinat. When Tovan opened it salvaging for parts he found me. Since then he has been tutoring me in what has happened in the past several hundred years and in basic romulan. I have been working with him in the local constabulary, handling odd jobs and helping to keep my new home running. He has been my first teacher and comrade in these trying times. And we won't let anyone mess with the other.
Echo Moiraine (Delta Recruit/Alien Gen): 21st century human college student. Signed up for an experimental cryo suspension experiment that was only supposed to last a week. Centuries later D'vex bought the canister from a ferengi and took it to Virinat. When Tovan opened it salvaging for parts he found me. Since then he has been tutoring me in what has happened in the past several hundred years and in basic romulan. I have been working with him in the local constabulary, handling odd jobs and helping to keep my new home running. He has been my first teacher and comrade in these trying times. And we won't let anyone mess with the other.
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
Post edited by feiqa on
0
Comments
I'll just leave this from another post as my Tovan Backstory.
My first Romulan I play as a Star Empire officer. So her relationship with Tovan is..... well, in my fanfic, she and he were friends from the age of 5. The colony they were on was one of the ones assimilated by the Borg in the erly 2360's. They remained friends all teh way through to their adult life. She was present at Virinat during the assault, but only for visiting her friend. Tovan joined her crew as an 'unofficial member of the Empire' to find his sister. Once she was found, he left her crew to remain on New Romulus with her (he isn't on awway team, nor ship stations. And he wears the TNG Rom uniform, like the rest of the crew).
A Romulan Strike Team, Missing Farmers and an ancient base on a Klingon Border world. But what connects them? Find out in my First Foundary mission: 'The Jeroan Farmer Escapade'
An'riel had a very different life before Hobus and its after-effects burned the heart out of the Empire. It'd been a life intending to teach one the basic skills one needed to survive Romulan politics regardless of career. The chain of events that led her as a refugee to Virinat she prefers not to dwell on, but a definite desire for avoiding politics had been part of it.
She became full time water dowser for the perpetually dry settlement, and part-time militia member, as a sort of conscious effort to tie herself to something better than the RSE had been. As a result, she ended up working with Tovan, who's general level of higher passion ended up having them work together, An'riel falling into a sort of older sister role, with a tendency to spend time in the taprooms debating over what could or should be done for the greater Romulan people... a fairly common topic wherever refugees gathered out from the Tal Shiar's shadow, admittedly.
Unfortunately, thanks to Hakeev, the debates stopped being so hypothetical.
Member Access Denied Armada!
My forum single-issue of rage: Make the Proton Experimental Weapon go for subsystem targetting!
My Fed aligned Romulan wasn't actually on Virinat (I pretend
My projected headcanon for my stories is that the Romulan Republic will of course overpower the Garidians once again in the long run. They also will start waging war against the other powers at some point, basically repeating history.
Get the Forums Enhancement Extension!
The ironic part is that the colony was never attacked by predators; most of their training was for naught.
Now that Kelah has hooked up with the Republic fleet, Tovan has tagged along as her major-domo and first officer (of sorts; she doesn't run a terribly military vessel). He's also pretty good with the plasma-torpedo launcher.
Draba of the Reman Resistance was on Virinat looking for support for the Reman Rebellion on behalf of Obisek. His presence was politely tolerated by Quintus Arrius, though Arrius was looking for an excuse to have Draba removed. That Draba was technically a citizen of the Klingon Empire (being from the Reman colony in the Klorgat System), and from a Reman colony Arrius worked behind the scenes to create only made his presence much more complicated. Tovan, having gotten bored serving the Noble Arrius family was greatly moved by Draba's words about fighting the Tal Shiar. After Hakheev's assault on Virinat, Tovan found himself fighting alongside Draba as an ally and comrade. While Draba retains some suspicion because Tovan is Romulan, Tovan has proved himself a reliable wingman and Draba has come to trust him to watch his back as he would trust one of his Reman bretheren.
I'm curious about this character - do you just stop playing at level 10 or 15 or did you actually grind it to high levels somehow? And if so, what can this character do? It should be locked out from basically anything?
Get the Forums Enhancement Extension!
Tovan Khev was one of many friends she had gotten to know over the years. Both of them were in the local security establishment, so had already been accustomed to working together on a regular basis. Triana was one of the more senior leaders, while Tovan enjoyed flying shuttles for airborne patrols.
After the escape from Virinat, they joined the Republic Fleet. They both settled into their natural positions - Triana being given a command post, and Tovan being her helmsman.
Lydia Mahariel, my Romulan was found living as a refugee by D'Vex a few years before 2409. He brought her to Virinat where she worked as a farmer and as part of the local security force/militia. According to the loremaster Tovan was also found by D'Vex at a mining colony relatively recently and was brought to Virinat. Obviously he was also put on the security team/militia.
It was inevitable that Lydia and Tovan would end up working together doing security work and it was during those short encounters that they became mild friends. This mild friendship continued on until the Tal Shiar invaded Virinat and they fought their way free and she assumed command of the old warbird in orbit.
Tovan just happened to be there escaping with her. He just happened to help her activate the old warbird and rescue a bunch of fellow colonists. Afterwards after they joined D'Tan's rebel movement, well, Tovan was a capable fighter and tactical officer so Lydia kept him around.
I kicked him off my bridge, and have been hanging with my other bros ever since Virinat.
Yes, pretty much the only thing this character can do is grind the intial Romulan story arc from the Suliban Helix to finding New Romulus. I actually re-created him after deleting my previous version. In both cases, I didn't advance them much past level 12. I got pretty tired of doing the same few missions over and over. I really wish I could grind some foundry missions just for variety, but alas, I cannot.
I am tempted to go ahead and grind him up to level cap just to see how those early missions really play when I am in a Dyson Psi-Destroyer, Command Warbird, or Intel ship, but I can easily to that with my KDF-allied Reman. I do kind of wonder what Cryptic/Perfect World would do if a majority of players created one of these Star Empire-Romulan only character, and did indeed do a power grind to level cap.
So, while the Reman is kinda like a big brother she can always trust, no matter what, Tovan is just a buddy I had on Virinat. Not the best one, but still I will not kick him, he is still a friend.
On my other 2 rom, I have no idea. It's difficult to have the same BOFF on 3 different character, and make it work. It's like "oh wait, I know that guy...". So I just pretend it's "a guy".
USS Casinghead NCC 92047 launched 2350
Fleet Admiral Stowe - Dominion War Vet.
My "alien" is from a group where the mantra "peace at all costs" means "kill all who aren't peaceful".
Having met Tovan, who already had his rebellious streak against the Empire in him, Eurthyr bled him for information, and reported it back to his high command.
When High Command was beginning their invasion preparations, Eurthyr reminded them of their previous beliefs that peace could be attained without killing all non-peaceful "barbarians". Banished to the hinterlands for his hearsay, Eurthyr instead went to Virinat and struck up a further relationship with Tovan, now both expatriates from their respective navies. When the Elachi and Tal'Shiar started their things, Eurthyr took up arms in support of his allies on Virinat, which eventually expanded to him being an "inside agent" attempting to stave off the conquering of the universe.
Having gathered a crew of Republicans and other "like minded" refugees like Satra, Hiven, etc., Eurthyr provides the calm, strategic viewpoint to Tovan's hot headed and impulsive nature. Despite Eurthyr's preference of naming Satra XO, Tovan frequently pipes up and reminds the crew of his concerns, one of which is how many of the recent ladies of the Romulan High Command - Donatra, Taris, Sela to name a few - have treated the Romulans, and he frequently (ab)uses his long standing friendship with Eurthyr in an attempt to practically run the ship - as he says it, "Romulans won't stand to take orders from an Alien, so let me do the ordering".
Whether or not Eurthyr likes it, he maintains his usual calm demeanor as Tovan goes about his merry way - and Satra makes sure the crew is closer to Eurthyr's plans than Tovan's. The primary reason Tovan remains aboard the Little Paradise is that Tovan's quite a crack shot with the phaser arrays...
To rob a line: [quote: Mariemaia Kushrenada] Forum Posting is much like an endless waltz. The three beats of war, peace and revolution continue on forever. However, opinions will change upon the reading of my post.[/quote]
I think I'll have to do this for my KDF aligned liberated borg female romulan...
where to start?
The natural start involved Virinat. I would also look at the various options on how the character started out on Virinat, whether since foundation, recruited by the Maori, D'Vex, or even more recent arrival. How the player character met Tovan, whether on Virinat or before both arrived at Virinat should help you to craft a good backstory.
Ta'eth's relationship with Tovan started when Temer convinced her to leave the Tal Shiar. Her shuttle was shot down in orbit of Virinat by Tal Shiar fighters. She was lucky that Tovan found her in the wreckage and got her to the colony hospital. She chose to remain friends with Tovan and wanted to find the remnants of her family (her mother and three siblings died on Romulus). Tovan helped her get past greaving for her father after she watched him die. She is trying to find her two brothers but is having no luck.
Vranuk was born an orphan in the Reman mines. He was found in the mines by Zden who took him in and treated young Vranuk as if he was his own son. They eventually found a home on Crataris and Vranuk married Zden's daughter Veril. Vranuk was sent to Virinat to negotiate trade with the colony and that's where he met Tovan. They worked together to set up trade agreements with the Maiori and Obisek but it was cut short by the Tal Shiar attack.
Ta-da!
Grand Master Thotok, son of Koloth, I.K.S. Sompek==Dahar Master Shanara, I.K.S. Balth'Quv
Admiral R'Tath V'Tirex, R.R.W. Dhael Glohha'enh==Commander Ta'eth Korval, R.R.W Hachae ch'Rhian==Admiral Vranuk, R.R.W Delevhas
Tovan is the party stooge placed on my ship to keep an eye on me.
So you said in another thread that the Republic is just a bunch of Federation and Empire bootlickers, if you take it that way then you've just called the 'Star Empire' a bootlicking faction.
And the Republic CAN be everything the empire was and more, at least the RR is not run by psychotic, corrupt, d*ckheads like your empire Ugly Spock
Grand Master Thotok, son of Koloth, I.K.S. Sompek==Dahar Master Shanara, I.K.S. Balth'Quv
Admiral R'Tath V'Tirex, R.R.W. Dhael Glohha'enh==Commander Ta'eth Korval, R.R.W Hachae ch'Rhian==Admiral Vranuk, R.R.W Delevhas
Come come now, this is not a thread to start flame wars. This is where people put their backstory with Tovan.
Well the lore keeper on Virinat will tell you Tovan is someone recruited by D'vex four years prior. And she will ask when you came. And you can claim to be native, immigrated or a D'vex recruit, I think you can even claim to be a member of the maori's crew.
So where do you come from? Once you know that you can see where you might have met Tovan.
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
Touchy subject?
I don't see how I called the RSE a bootlicking faction. I said the RR was.
The Senate itself was never the problem, that's why Shinzon killed them. The Senate could limit the power of the Praetor. He knew they could stand in his way. So, in one fell swoop, the governing body of the Empire was eliminated and after Shinzon was killed, the power grab began.
Unfortunately, the Tal Shiar was allowed to get too big, too powerful. It conducted quite a lot of activities (allegedly) without the knowledge of the Senate. Sela is largely to blame for that, and I am all for seeing her head on a pike somewhere. The Tal Shiar can't exist again - at least not in the same manner it did. We do need an intelligence service, but it must have significant oversight.
The Remans need to be reintegrated as well. It was foolish to oppress them for as long as they were, and now it would be impossible to subjugate them again. They need representation in the Senate, and rights as every other Romulan.
Anyway, in this game we have the Romulan Republic and no Romulan Star Empire. It is not an independent faction, but it is dependent on either the United Federation of Planets or the Klingon Empire. Therefore, the Romulan Republic as it stands, is a puppet of the UFP or KE, because we are beholden to them for many things. I want a truly independent Romulan faction and it should be a new RSE.
See my reply in the Dead Star Empire thread
Grand Master Thotok, son of Koloth, I.K.S. Sompek==Dahar Master Shanara, I.K.S. Balth'Quv
Admiral R'Tath V'Tirex, R.R.W. Dhael Glohha'enh==Commander Ta'eth Korval, R.R.W Hachae ch'Rhian==Admiral Vranuk, R.R.W Delevhas
I made the decision to ignore him and come up with my own background story as it seemed to make it too generic, since they meant for the Romulan story to be single player instead of a broad range of players contributing. and not everyone can have him/want him on their ship.
A brief description of My character is that was born on Romulus Decades before the disaster, and has served in the Star navy fighting the Tal'shiar and defending the Empires territory.
[/SIGPIC]