» Mon Mar 07, 2016 11:47 pm The new survival will likely soon be released and seems like many will start a new character when it drops.
I'm interested to see what backstory you give your characters, or if you give them any at all?
Just thought I'd create a thread where you can write the story of your character in case you decide to roleplay anything else than the given vanilla character. I'd love to read them!
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When the survival overhaul releases it will most likely do so along automatron and for this I wanted to create a kind of character I usually don't play.
Which is a science oriented character, haven't thought of specific stats but it will obviously be high on intelligence and I'll also go for the robotics expert perk early. Also a focus on crafting and tinkering to use the "Science!" perk which I haven't had the chance to do with my other 3 character.
He will also be asian, never played an either when I think of it. He's a chinese communist, who (unlike my other characters) will be prepared to survive a nuclear post-apocalypse.
Backstory (yea, got a bit out of hand when I wrote it, sorry about lenght, no need to read it as long as you post yours 
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Age when the game starts: 48
Spoiler
One of the main advantages China had in terms of technology over the United States was their "Hei gui", or stealth suits. When the Chinese People's liberation army was being pushed out of Alaska the United States manage to get their hands on a captured stealth suit for the first time ever. It was quickly sent down west for intense research and hope of reverse engineering it.
Once the Chinese government knew that their stealth technology was in the hands of their enemies they quickly forged a plan to halt their ability to research it. The presence of Chinese spies in the US was high and there was numerous cells but they rarely had the ability to gain a foothold on the inside of the research facilities.
While the stealth suit in the hands of the Americans was a recipe for disaster, it was also a great possibility. This was a chance to get one of their own scientists on the other side of the fence without the hinder of ethnicity, something that had become a problem since the intensified conflicts.
A Chinese scientist trained in robotics and weapon engineering by the name of Huang Tao-Gui was chosen for the task. He was quickly trained with basic agent guidelines for covert operations and dispatched. Disguised as a Chinese scientist wanted for treason and seeking asylum in the United States in exchange for his knowledge of Chinese stealth technology he caught their attention.
After weeks of isolation and interrogation he was deemed trustworthy and was hired by the government contracted RobCo industries. He got a place within the development team focused on reverse engineering the Chinese stealth suit. The progress had been slow and it proved easier than Huang thought to gain the team's trust since they were desperate to make progress. It also gave Huang greater control over the research team than expected and as a result the device called "stealth boy" was created.
Robert House, founder of RobCo industries, personally rewarded Huang for what seemed to be a success. Although no one knew what Huang really had done was to avoid a disaster and prevented the the U.S to fully acquire the Chinese stealth technology and therefore a full replica of the Hei gui could never be made. Much later it would also be discovered that the stealth boy had some nasty side effects concerning mental health.
Nevertheless, Huang had secured his place within RobCo industries and a personal relation with Robert House that gave an extremely important insight into the technological advancements of the United States. Not only progress made by RobCo but also several other rival government contracted companies that Mr. House kept a close eye on.
Information was directly forwarded to Beijing who praised Huang's work. At this point he was also assigned a partner from the Soviet Union intelligence service, this was a result from a series of new efforts to strengthen the relations between USSR and China. It also proved a perfect opportunity to show how well Huang had adapted to American society by already finding himself an "American" wife, avoiding potential suspicion.
Around the year of 2074 Robert House began to isolate himself and his company more and more, cutting back on development for national defense and shifted focus to projects unknown to many of RobCo's employees. Huang's valuable information pool began to dry up and HQ became restless because the lack of information. Huang took advantage of what relation he had left with Mr. House and through some persuasion he was sold off to the “Commonwealth Institute of Technology" where former student Robert House was held in high regard.
Once settled in Boston Huang began working at the university's advanced engineering department, introducing a fresh new pool of classified research.
The direct contact with the HQ back in China became less and less frequent since the US forces set foot on China's mainland in late 2074 and all contact eventually went dead a few years later when Shanghai and Nanjing had fallen to the US armed forces. Huang's life had changed a lot during recent years, he had become more and more comfortable with his new American lifestyle. Huang and Nora, the USSR agent, also had developed a much more intimate relation than planned and as a result they were soon to have their very own child. Something that they had hidden well from their respective HQ's.
Life almost started to feel normal for Huang with his own house with a wife, son, car and a job he loved. He could see a new life taking shape before him, but he knew this was far from the truth. There was only one possible end to this war. It was the end Huang had been preparing for ever since HQ went silent or even from his very first step on American soil. He had a far too great insight into the nuclear deployment to think otherwise.
What he didn't know was that when the bombs dropped he would already be safely tucked away thanks to an unknown friend that had secured him a place in an official vault-tech vault. A vault specialized on life-preservation chambers...
