Poker

Name: Katelyn 'Poker' [redacted]

Gender: Female

Species: Star

Species Description: When a star achieves perfect conditions, literally 0.000001% margin of error, the transformation begins. In a matter of less than twenty seconds the star will collapse in on itself, changing from a burning mass to a singular orb of overlapping atomic structure with a density unmatched in any reality. This core is the foundation for the star's sentience. A star's sentience functions very similar to that of a computer, storing and processing data very much in a similar way. At the start of it's life cycle the star's core as access to all of it's energy it had and would have as a star down to the sub-atomic level. This leaves even the smallest of stars as beings with incredible potential.

When a star is first born they are only their core. Everything around them is flung out of the star's vicinity either from the blast wave the process creates or the lack of gravitational pull of the celestial body causing them to slingshot off into space. Fortunately there are only 4 known instances in every time line of these flung planets and comets hitting worlds with life on them. Because there are no worlds with sentient life around them, a good several thousand to several million years will be spent floating aimlessly through space, propelled along by crude propulsion of their will alone. The young star does not know how to traverse the stars efficiently. A large portion of their early life is spent admiring the wonders of the universe. Their cores are dense enough that even pulled into a black hole, it can not spaghettify them, only launch them out of itself with the rest of the material that does not stay.

Once a star has reached a certain vicinity of sentient life they will undergo another transformation. Their core, as it flies through space, automatically scans the surrounding space of everything of note via a sort of electromagnetic radar. This is the core's way of seeing without eyes and is relevant throughout it's entire life. This sight is also a way of processing information down to a molecular level and gives the core information on everything around it. At this stage of it's life it doesn't know what to do with this information. Once it finds sentient life it does a scan of the entire system it's in, taking major traits of every species of note and randomly selecting traits that best suit interaction with the local populace. They also gain a collective of knowledge the sentience species have acquired. In a lot of cases the star will integrate with the local populace in one way or another. It's not always smooth and rarely lasts for long.

Once a star has taken on their new physical form, they gain a whole host of abilities. For starters, now that they are no longer just their core, they have the ability to properly process and analyze all the data they've collected up to this point. Much of it isn't useful but they understand it now. They gain the ability to fly properly now, faster and with more purpose. They gain personalities and emotions respective of their "donor" species. They gain the proper ability to communicate with any other stars existing in the universe via a form of long distance radio transmission, their radio waves superseding all other forms of radio communication. Most of the time, due to how rare it is for stars to coexist, this ability is never discovered.

Their new bodies are organic in a very non-organic way. The body is entirely organic material but is also entirely controlled by the core automatically. If wounded, the body heals instantly. Missing pieces are regenerated from empty matter around the star, transformed via atomic manipulation through energy control. They don't need to eat, sleep, drink, or even breath as their body is automatically restored through their core. These functions are more of a formality than anything else. Vision remains full surroundings however they may focus their attention through their eyes intentionally or unintentionally.

From this point on the star will live among various sentient species when it can, exploring the galaxy when it can't, and generally enjoying existence.

Poker's Traits: Poker was not a usual star from the get go. Her star started off as a trio of stars orbiting each other, massive galaxy spanning stars that shone across the universe. Inevitably the three collided, merging into one star of impossible proportions. This set off the right conditions for transformation. Her core was, naturally, stronger than any star recorded by those who did such things. She was beyond what a normal star was capable of, the initial star she came from already pushing the limits of the maximum rating for stars, three of them combined didn't triple the output but squared it. For Poker, existing as a core wasn't a task of thousands of years but mere hundreds. Her birth did not go unnoticed(it blew a void int he stars hundreds of galaxies wide). She was soon found by a space fairing species-

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After a few thousand years and finally regaining her freedom, Poker was able to set out among the stars with a renewed sense of purpose and ideals. Armed to the teeth, both with weaponry and knowledge, she set out to carve her place in the stars. Since then she has discovered the ability to read the blueprints of reality, giving her the ability to escape reality itself. She met God. Got a job. And now repairs time, space, and reality as it inevitably falls apart because it turns out that shit is complex as fuck. When she's not working she's on vacation in various settings. She has access to them all at her leisure. Anywhere, any time period. A lot of the time when she appears she's actually on business, but you'll never know what in that universe was broken.

Poker's Abilities: Poker has gained an assortment of unconventional abilities over the ages, mostly through mastery of her core's functions. Her all around vision is bolstered by the ability to see standard light, infrared, thermal, astral, hell, etc etc. She has a wide variety of visions she can see into on a variety of planes of existence that overlap with "real" space. Poker's eyes also function with more purpose than just sight. She's able to project a variety of visions ranging from useful to deadly. Examples being a holographic projection for showing information as well as a sort of "Holy" vision, basically reduces entities not limited to organics to salt. She detests laser vision, partially because she has way stronger laser modes than vision, partially because she gets asked if she has it A Lot.

Poker's ability of flight is also enhanced through a variety of personal experiences and studies. Atmospheric flight is often relegated to sub Mach 5 due to actually catching the air on fire. Space flight as a variety of means and consequences. She can fold space at will to instantaneously move from point A to point B. This requires a direct, unobstructed line of sight. She can fly at speeds exceeding light with anything she hits being pulverized on impact without slowing her in the slightest. In densely populated galaxies this can cause issues where she will hit space craft. She can warp travel via alternate dimensions, but she's banned from six of them for fucking the local populations.

Poker's body is enhance as well. Durability is augmented by energy manipulation- impacts against her body when focused on defense are entirely drained of energy, rendering them moot. Her everything is enhanced by her core's processing speed, reactions, vision, etc. Through her studies she has gained the ability to properly manipulate her body's appearance, though the effort is rarely worth it in the long run as her core automatically reverts her to the default setting as she normally looks. Clothes are not included in her body's functions so anything she wears tends to get shredded or burned off pretty quickly.

Extras include an array of 4th dimension/pocket dimension generators housing a variety of weapons at her disposal. Mostly used for convenience since hefting around a two ton rotary canon that fires 30mm triple layered tungsten HVAPFSDS at a rate of 8000 rounds per minute is a bit much even for her. They also house all the ammunition for the variety of heavy weapons she utilizes for space combat, among her other bits and bobs. Dumb munitions, guided munitions, smart muntions, all made by herself in the same way her body maintains itself.

Finally, Poker's more dangerous abilities. She can open portals to the near surface of stars to eject massive bursts of light into enemies. Not to be used in atmosphere for obvious reasons(setting the atmosphere on fire, irradiating the entire planet, etc etc.) Her core regulates it's density's gravity well automatically but she has found the override, allowing her to create a gravity well out of herself strong enough to turn a solar system into a black hole if she were to even turn down the setting 1%. She can connect to the internet when it's available in setting. There is no defense against her processing power, she will get into anything and everything she wants.

Final tidbit- she has an AI companion named Patience, her Weapons Security Officer and former overseer for loyalty, this little cyber elf-esc being lives within Poker's core due to it's computer-like functionality being compatible with her systems. She operates the guided munitions as well as the variety of targeting functions in Poker's HUD vision. Outside of combat she is a small fairy like companion to Poker in a variety of settings with many useful applications in techy settings.

Personality: WIP