MACROSS PLUS
ISAMU ALVA DYSON
Val CHA Cost Roll Notes 11 STR 1 11- Lift 114.9 kg; 2d6 HTH Damage, [2] 15 DEX 10 12- 13 CON 3 12- 10 INT 0 11- PER Roll 11-/13- 12 EGO 2 11- 13 PRE 3 12- PRE Attack: 2 ½d6 5 OCV 10 5 DCV 10 3 OMCV 0 3 DMCV 0 4 SPD 20 Phases: 3, 6, 9, 12 4 PD 2 Total: 4 PD (0 rPD) 4 ED 2 Total: 4 ED (0 rED) 6 REC 2 30 END 2 11 BODY 1 28 STUN 4 Total Characteristic Cost: 72 Movement: Running: 14m/28m Leaping: 4m/8m Swimming: 4m/8m Cost Powers & Skills 6 Brave: +12 PRE; Only To Resist Presence Attacks (-1) 2 Fit For Active Duty: Running +2m (14m total), END 1 2 Natural Pilot: +2 PER with Normal Sight 20 Luck Is One Of My Skills: Luck 5d6; Only In Dangerous/Risky Situations (-¼) Perks 5 Fringe Benefit: Security Clearance (New Edwards military base with experimental technology) 1 Fringe Benefit: Starship License 1 Positive Reputation: ace pilot (A medium-sized group) 11-, +1/+1d6 Talents 3 Natural Pilot: Absolute Range Sense 3 Natural Pilot: Bump Of Direction 6 Combat Pilot: Combat Luck (3 PD/3 ED) 12 Combat Pilot: Danger Sense (self only, in combat, Function as a Sense, Intuitional) 11-/13- 1 Combat Pilot: Lightning Reflexes (+3 DEX to act first with Piloting Skills) Skills 6 +2 with Variable Fighter Weaponry 6 +1 with all Agility Skills 5 Accurate Sprayfire 3 AK: Eden 12- 3 Charm 12- 3 Combat Driving 12- 7 Combat Piloting 14- 3 Defense Maneuver I 5 Navigation (Air, Space) 12- 5 Rapid Autofire 3 Tactics 11- 1 TF: Combat Aircraft, Military Spacecraft, Small Motorized Ground Vehicles 2 WF: Handguns, Vehicle Weapons (Variable Fighter Weapons) Total Powers & Skill Cost: 114 Total Cost: 186 175+ Matching Complications 5 Negative Reputation: Reckless Pilot, Frequently (Known Only To UN Spacy) 15 Psychological Complication: Reckless, Impulsive, And Slightly Selfish (Common; Strong) 15 Rivalry: Professional and Romantic (Guld Goa Bowman; Rival is As Powerful; Seek to Harm or Kill Rival; Rival Aware of Rivalry) 15 Social Complication: Test Pilot/Subject To Orders Frequently, Major 11 Experience Points Total Complications Points: 186
Background/History: Isamu is a U.N. Spacy fighter pilot that spent most of his formative years on the planet Eden with friends Guld Goa Bowman and Myung Fang Lone. The three were nearly inseparable, until one day a serious incident broke up their friendship.
When school was finished, Isamu left Eden not only to become a pilot, but because he didn't know how to confront the problem that drove his best friend away.
Many years later, after a checkered period as a military fighter pilot, he so happened to be shipped back to Eden to become a test pilot for an experimental craft called the YF-19 as a form of "punishment" (yet grounding one as skilled as Isamu wasn't really an option).
Upon arrival, he finds that his former friend Guld is also a test pilot, only, he is representing the YF-21. Also, the presence of Myung, who is now a producer for a singing AI, further complicates matters…
And so, the story of Macross Plus begins.
Personality/Motivation: With an impulsive and reckless attitude that never seemed to fade past adolescence, Isamu just seems to coast through life and take things as they come to him, with a sharp wit and sharper reflexes. He has a long time love of flight and vehicles in general. Equally as strong is his passion of exploring: he just has to see what's around the next corner...even if it could hurt him.
Quote: "Get me up in the air, and I'll heal just fine."
Powers/Tactics: Fairly straightforward in a dogfight, Isamu will take the most direct approach with fancy maneuvers thrown in for good measure. Should his opponent be equally or more skilled, he falls back to complex defensive aerobatics until he can out-think or feint them. He sometimes lacks finesse (especially where other lives are at stake) when he is trying to achieve his objectives, yet can go great things if pushed enough.
In a fist fight, he is not especially likely to give anyone with a modicum of training any trouble, but does make up for lack of experience with tenacity.
Appearance: Isamu is a Caucasian male of about seven feet in height, with brown hair, dark blue eyes and very long legs developed from a significant amount of time in zero gravity.
Designer's Notes: This build represents Mr. Dyson just prior to the end of Macross Plus in that he still has his Rivalry with Guld.
To be honest, there was not much I could expand upon, as he is part of a four episode series that did not focus entirely on him. In any case, he, or a variation of him, could fill in as a capable "Maverick" style pilot in a futuristic campaign with advanced fighter technology.
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