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Captain Veracity [Ready]


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Roleplay Type:

Canterlot Chronicles

Name:

Captain Veracity : Delta Company, 10th battalion “Orlov”

Sex:

Female

Age:

Middle age mare. (Analogous to mid forties human years)

Species:

Pegasus

Eye colour:

Stark light blue contrasting her dark muzzle colour. Eyes

Coat:

Dark Roan. Soot black on her muzzle and legs, changing to a light grey around her body core. Her wings also follow this colour pattern the leading edge is soot black with the tips of her pinion feathers being a very light grey.

Coat

Mane/Tail:

Midnight black, usually kept in hunter braids aside from the forelock which she keeps in a style known as bumper bangs. When they are unbraided, her mane is of a medium length.

Style: Mane Tail Forelock

Physique:

Well toned from military Physical Training. Veracity’s stature is that of the average Stalliongrad mare, slightly taller than the ordinary Imperial mare but not overly enormous. Her presence, however, commands attention, respect, and obedience.

Residence:

Currently deployed aboard the “Moral Constraints” as the commanding officer. She also has quarters befitting her station at the Stabil Krasnyi, along with a small second story apartment in the Kuznitza District.

Occupation:

Veracity is a career military mare having enlisted as soon as she was able to during her fillihood and rose through the ranks to her current station as Captain of Delta Company in the10th battalion “Orlov”.

Cutie Mark:

Veracity was brought up in a military family by military parent, which meant that obviously she would be attending the KOG Academy in Stalliongrad when she was of age. Unfortunately Veracity was a late bloomer when it came to her cutie mark and social interactions alike. She was still a blank flank when she was shipped off to the academy; by that age most other fillies and colts had discovered their true callings. This predicament lead to many incidents of the older ponies making fun of her, and her small group of fellow blank flanks. Veracity spent most of her time wrapped up in her studies and fencing practice while trying to ignore these goons. However, during her second year, there was one incident to which she took extreme exception. A large Earth Pony, who had received his cutie mark already, and his gang of ruffians had a small and diminutive filly first year cadet cornered while on break. They were making fun of her and encroaching closer, looking as though they were going to pick her up and throw her into the nearby dumpster. Veracity had quite enough of this and flew in from above and placed herself in between the group and the filly. She politely asked the group to disband, when they did not comply with her request she drew her practice foil and laid the group of ruffians low with precise jabs and painful whacks from the flat of the blade. Caught up in the scuffle, Veracity did not feel the tingle on her flank. In fact while she was checking to see if the young filly was okay the cadet had to inform her of the new addition. From that point forward, she knew that her place in the World was to protect the ponies that could not protect themselves. She would be the champion of the ponies of Stalliongrad, even if most of them never really knew of her actions or station.

Her cutie mark is an Algiz rune (denoting the urge to protect others and be a shield) surrounded by a pair of stag antlers (which mean, to the residents of Stalliongrad, strength and honour). These symbols are all white against her dark coat.

Cutie Mark

Unique Traits:

Glasses: Veracity wears rather dainty hoof made glasses, made in the Rasya district by a very renown artisan. She is slightly farsighted from years of scanning the horizon. This requires her to wear small reading glasses on the tip of her nose. She uses these to read maps, reports, and see details of battle strategies. Most of the time these are left on the tip of her nose, unless a battle is imminent, then she stows them in her uniform.

Inspired by - These

Uniform: Veracity is almost always seen in her military uniform. This is of standard VSS design, light grey with white details.The fabric is a medium thickness felt and meticulously tailored to fit her form. The collar is higher than normal REA collars and the tails are moderately longer than standard REA all to keep out the cold. She always keeps it clean, crisp, and perfectly ironed.

Almost identical to - This uniform Cap

Rapier: Veracity carries a beautifully hoofcrafted rapier on her person at all times. She is never without her trusty tool. Yet another artisanally crafted piece, the rapier was handed down in her family from generation to generation. It was originally crafted for her great-great-great-great-great-great Grandsire, being a VSS commander himself he had it commissioned from one of the best smiths in the Kuznitza district. She is more than proficient with it’s use, in fact she refuses to use any other weapon whilst engaged in combat. The rapier itself is exceedingly light and precisely balanced. It was crafted for aerial combat, being held in the mouth whilst flying.

Similar to - Rapier hilt

Airship “Moral Constraints” : Veracity is the current commanding officer of the VSS “Moral Constraints”. The "Moral Constraints" is an impressive large/medium size airship of Stalliongrad pedigree. She is fast, stealthy, maneuverable, and has above average endurance. The "Moral Constraints" was designed and retrofitted with a very special purpose in mind; she is a pirate hunter. Able to achieve high speeds both in the air and in the water, it would be a very lucky or an especially cunning pirate that outran her. She is a formidable sight but with Veracity at her helm she is a force to be reckoned with.

For people who are concerned with a more lengthy and technical description of the "Moral Constraints" and her specifications take a peek behind the spoiler tags and you won't be disappointed.

The “Moral Constraints” is a Rapid Offensive Vessel [ROV] in the Inquisitor class of Stalliongrad Airframes. These airframes are equitable to the Aqueilian Very Fast Frigate [VFF] class, however being of Stalliongrad design they use Aether Reactive [AR] gas in a center chamber rather than lighter than air [LTA] gas in an overhead envelope. This allows the airframe to have greater maneuverability and a more aerodynamic structure allowing for a higher top speed. The AR gas also allows for iron scantlings and steel armour making for an incredibly durable and damage resistant ship. The powerplant is a highly experimental rotary steam engine, known simply as, “The Halo”. Each Halo unit has thirteen cylinders and they are stacked five deep, meaning that there are sixty five cylinders driving the main shaft at very high speeds. These units were installed in the relatively older Inquisitor Airframe by a military contractor known as Northern Star Industries [NSI] in conjunction with a freelancer named Rivet. This overhaul, which took place at a quaint little Lighthouse outside of Hoofington, laid the ship up for over five months but was completely worth the time in drydock. The superstructure of the ship is attached to the central AR gas envelope and each crew deck is connected to the other by a series of ladders and bulkheads. The main bridge rides atop the superstructure of the main top deck, this affords for high visibility whilst retaining stealth capabilities. The blisters on the side of the AR envelope contain the water required for the massive aft engineering bay. The Halo supplies power only to the main propeller to the aft of the ship. However there are four ducted fan pods equally placed port and starboard, fore and aft. These pods are powered by a thirteen cylinder Halo engine each and are used for maneuvering, breaking, and docking. The pods can rotate to slightly over one hundred eighty degrees meaning that they can also supply additional thrust when in emergency conditions. For lateral movement, steam can be vented from special thruster ports to adjust the lateral trim. There are also weapons blisters studded along the outside of the ship, along with the twin linked forward mounted cannon, making it more than capable of defending itself and the greater Stalliongrad area from pirates and monsters alike.

All in all the “Moral Constraints” was designed and retrofitted for stealth, speed, endurance, and maneuverability. With a displacement of 3,800 tonnes, a length of 141 meters, a beam length of 14 meters, a draft of 10 meters, and a top speed of over 130 kph in the air and 25 knots while floating on the water. It is an imposing ship, especially with its full complement of 230 or so ponies including; officers, enlisted ponies, flight squadron with support staff, and occasionally the ISU-143 “Molot”.

Inspired by - Art Design (Please note, I do not own this picture. All credit to the owners. I simply used it as an inspiration for the design of the “Moral Constraints”.)

History:

Veracity was born into a military family living in the Kuznitza District of Stalliongrad, both her mother and father were distinguished military commanders. Being an only foal her father was disappointed that she was not a colt. Instead of treating her like a dainty little filly, though, her father instead treated her as he would have a colt and brought her up in the military style. She was taught the meaning of respect and honour at a young age, along with tactics and swordplay. She was never concerned much with the fact that her cutie mark had not yet appeared by the time that she was shipped out to the KOG Academy. During her tenure at the KOG Academy not only did she gain a superior knowledge of tactics, swordplay, strategy, discipline, character, and most of all leadership, but she also gained her cutie mark and a new determination in life. Veracity excelled at the military life and way of thinking that was being taught in the academy. She managed to graduate with honours high honours. After her graduation speech, at which her mother and father were present, her father presented her with his family rapier, a very meaningful gesture to the still young Veracity. After the academy she immediately joined the VSS as a cadet in the Naval operations sector. She rose through the ranks and over the years she served a very distinguished career in the VSS 10th battalion, eventually being promoted to the rank of captain and being placed in command of both Delta company and the “Moral Constraints.”

While she is a career military mare, who leads a very structured and disciplined life, she still enjoys the simple things. Along with her military quarters she maintains a simply furnished and very civilian second floor apartment in the Kuznitza District. This apartment is her get away from the grind of her military life and just slow down and relax, though she uses it very rarely. She also occasionally likes to go up onto the flying bridge and let the wind flow through her mane and tail, after untying them of course, though again this is very rare, and very few of her crew know that she ever undoes her mane, let alone lets the wind blow through it. She also enjoys a good glass of Stallianoya, this is a habit that slightly more of her crew know about however. She is not a friend to her crew, she is a commanding officer. This does not preclude her from having meaningful relationships with a select few of her crew, but it does mean that most of her crew do not know more than is customary for a crewmember to know about their captain. Her crew is comprised of loyal, disciplined, and driven individuals that were hoof picked for their assignment on the “Moral Constraints.”

Due to her upbringing and her goal in life she finds ponies that are without discipline or that put others in harm’s way, by action or inaction, contemptible. This ire is mostly directed at the scourge of the skies, pirates. She finds their lack of discipline, honour, and just utter brashness repugnant. That along with the fact that they routinely put civilian ponies, and even entire towns at risk by their actions has caused her to take it upon herself to hunt down these rag tag scoundrels and show them what justice truly is.

Character Summary:

Veracity is more than your typical military mare. While she holds deeply the tenants of honour, discipline, and respect, she also holds deeply the enjoyment for the simple life that most residents of Stalliongrad strive for. She is an accomplished captain and swordsmare that commands respect with her mere presence and steely gaze. She does have her soft side however, which she indulges in now and again. She has an utter contempt for anyone who breaks the laws, or puts other ponies in danger and is dedicated to bringing them to justice. Though tough and cold at first, once one gets to know Veracity they may find a friend forever.

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