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STATISTICS

Falling Outside The Normal Moral Constraints

SHIP NAME

Demeisen

AVATAR NAME

The Culture (Book: Surface Detail)

CANON

It (As avatar: currently he/him)

PRONOUNS

Culture Spacecraft

SPECIES

Abominator-class General Offensive Unit

CLASS

PSLs

ACTIVE

FIRST IMPRESSIONS: DEMEISEN

VISUAL: Demeisen's current form is that of a gaunt human man, standing 6'1" in height. His complexion is mid-dark with dark eyes and hair.
FEATURES: Those with advanced sensory capabilities may note that Demeisen's body is strangely impenetrable to their senses. He is not biological, and his body is deceptively dense, making him heavier than his slight build would imply.
AURAL: His voice is dry and smooth, and his speech somewhat quick, though it can vary considerably depending on his mood. Slang and profanity make frequent appearances.
OLFACTORY: Given his nature as an avatar, Demeisen smells slightly of ambient odours and not much else.
DEMEANOUR: Generally flippant and unempathetic; he is self-described as borderline eccentric and very slightly psychotic. Demeisen emotes freely when he talks, broadcasting his moods freely with expressions and gestures.

PERSONALITY

The flippant, insensitive, and somewhat odd avatar of an even more eccentric warship, Demeisen is someone with far too much time on his hands and a willingness to make it everyone else's problem. The ship has spent its entire existence sitting around and waiting for things to happen, and it frequently uses its avatar to relieve its boredom at other people's expense, with Demeisen spending a significant chunk of his time pursuing questionable hobbies or pissing people off just for something to do. He has little interest in understanding most people particularly well, and tends to get impatient with others easily, something he rarely bothers to make any secret of.

Perhaps the most infuriating thing about the ship and its avatar is that, despite its frustrating and abrasive personality, it remains objectively "one of the good guys." Annoying those around it is largely the irritating pastime of an under-stimulated capital ship built to play night watchman for its part of a largely peaceful galaxy—forever alert for potential threats that almost never actually materialize.

ABILITIES & SKILLS: DEMEISEN

SYNTHETIC

As a ship avatar, Demeisen is highly resilient and does not require biological niceties like food, water, sleep, or breathable air. He is also inhumanly fast and strong, and his body can alter and repair itself given sufficient time.

SENSES

Sophisticated sensory equipment allows Demeisen to not only see and hear much better than a human—including seeing without the aid of visible-spectrum light—but also allows him to pick up detailed readings on nonliving material and on biological beings, such as brain activity, heart-rate, capillary contraction, and skin moisture.

SYSTEM MANIPULATION

Demeisen is able to interface remotely with technology, whether for the purpose of communication, sabotage, or outright control. This ability has significant range and scope, being capable of simultaneously activating an entire parking lot's worth of self-driving cars. He can also use it on biological creatures, potentially causing dizziness, or disabling the use of part or all of their body.

APPEARANCE

Demeisen is capable of changing his humanoid appearance to suit his desires, altering his build, features, skin colour, and so on. He can turn silver to reflect harmful light, and deform parts of his body, such as while opening a hole through himself to let hostile fire pass through. In addition, typically his clothing is actually part of himself; he can alter it just as he could any other part of his body.

FIELDS

Demeisen can manipulate force fields of various kinds, including anti-gravity fields that let him fly, zero-friction nanofields to slide materials off himself, and camouflage fields that can make mirror images that obscure his exact location. He can also display images or 3D models using holograms.

WEAPONRY

Demeisen can wreak destruction with incredibly bright blasts of, presumably, either laser or plasma or somesuch. For non-combat purposes, he can also use his finger as a lighter by producing a tiny bit of fire from it.

HISTORY

short summary:
A fairly new class of ship during the late 28th century, the Falling Outside The Normal Moral Constraints is one of 2,000 Abominator-class GOUs scattered evenly throughout the galaxy. The FOTNMC travels to the Sichultian Enablement with a single human passenger, Lededje Y'breq, ostensibly to ferry her back home. On its way there, the ship is attacked by a small fleet of GFCF craft, which it easily destroys, and then lends its aid in the Tsung system, with the aim of eliminating a nanotech swarm outbreak and demolishing a secretly-built fleet of ships, some of which are headed for Sichult itself. The ship's avatar accompanies Lededje to Sichult, where he sabotages her attempt to revenge herself on her one-time owner and murderer, then pretends to leave in order to head back to Tsung. However, he remains at Sichult, and reappears to save Lededje and kill her murderer. Thereafter, the ship returns to its usual life as a picket ship, keeping watch for trouble worthy of a state-of-the-art Culture warship.