Tiny Frontiers - Character

Still a work in progress, but I'll be playing a hologram in the next game of Tiny Frontiers. And figured this would be a good place to explain my character for the GM. There may be some adjustments to match his game universe, and as I do not have a copy of the rules (I have so many games and sadly this is not one of them - I really am trying to stop getting new games so I can play the ones I already have. Emphasis on try!)

Holograms are AI from the Omni-Matrix. They have not shared their home world with the predominantly human-centric part of the galaxy they are in now. Jem (sigh, yes, decided to go with Jem of the Holograms, a show I never actually watched but it is in my cultural zeitgeist so there you are). She comes from a family of diplomat / explorers. Being artificial. the Holograms are always curious about organic life forms and just how they think. And while the Holograms know how they came to be and how they evolved from self-aware mineral to their current status as self-aware mineral now designed rather than a freak accident of nature, they want to see parallels in how organic life evolved.

While most Holograms are fairly analytical, and most fit well within the hierarchy with well-defined roles, there are some Holograms that seem to evolve in different directions. Jem is one of those "sports" - not fitting into any the well-defined roles most other Holograms are seemingly designed for. Her family matrix is made up of 14 different "parents", which is not particularly unusual. But some quantum difference in how she was formed has led her to be a more independent and even rebellious sophont.  Because of this, Jem, as she named herself on her self-awareness day, was gifted with a lower-level AI helper to help keep her performing within Hologram societal norms. a General Bot.  Over the years, though, she has managed to set the visual representation of GB, who Jem calls Grumpy Butt, to appear as a grumpy bee. And after years of asking "what is the requirements this time, Jem" when she activates his holographic form, he has truly taken on a grumpy attitude beyond his initial programmed parameters. 

Jem has managed to learn to hack into many systems. It helps that she herself is an AI, but unlike many AIs who purge unnecessary data periodically from their evolution from more limited beings, Jem has a perfect eidetic memory. 

Jem is basically a teenager, appearing around 15 years old with a sparkly jacket that, if you squint, you can see she is sometimes translucent. The jacket is a distraction from that. Often a smart-ass, she does not know as much as she thinks she does. While great at computer systems and remembering just about anything, her societal skills are lacking. While GB tries to help, she often will say the wrong thing as she seems almost pathologically unable to lie. She just believes lies are a sign of weakness and is quite blunt with the truth. At least what she thinks is the truth. Her parental quorum has decided that the only way she will learn how to interact with the organics is to basically throw her out there to sink or swim. Though she does have a life jacket in the form of Grumpy Butt.

And I need a bit of help with the rest for hit points, armor, weapon proficiency. Session 0 is Monday though we may get more accomplished before then depending on what else is going on. And looking for pink haired cyberpunk images tends to get NSFW far too fast sadly. But I finally found a few I saved off and then finally decided on this one due to that jacket which is almost holographic, and she uses that to hide behind in some ways. Perhaps even emotionally. Now to see if I can summon my inner rebellious teenage girl. Which, as a 61-year-old guy, is a strange thing indeed. 

Jem

WIP character sheet

Grumpy Butt - no idea how I found this picture or what I was looking for, but I really liked it. And being an AI generated image, fitting for an AI assistant to an AI Hologram.