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|Name=Jerusalem Steele
|Name=Jerusalem Steele
|Rank=Knight
|Rank=Knight
|Faction=Imperial
|Faction=Empire
|DoB=4967
|DoB=4967
|Homeworld=Lamorak
|Homeworld=Lamorak
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== Capabilities==
== Capabilities==
A holovid actor from the lost worlds who does all his own stunts, Jerusalem is a grabbag of skills and abilities that always seem to come in handy.
A holovid actor from the lost worlds who does all his own stunts, Jerusalem is a grabbag of skills and abilities that always seem to come in handy. With no loyalties to any one house, he's unpredictable which makes him an exceedingly good agent for the Empire.
== Goals ==
Jerusalem's current project is a holovid series documenting the Crusade, called '[[Sands Of Faith]]'.
''<b>WHEN we last left 'THE SANDS OF FAITH', Jerusalem Steele, Knight of the Phoenix was making his run through the dangerous no-mans land of space between the Shepard's moon and Yathrib's Atmosphere. Two Kurgan spacecraft were hot on his tail.</b>''
<b>FADE IN: </b>
ESTABLISHING SHOT - NIGHTBLOOM dodging among the wreckage of a transport carrier as it orbits Yathrib. Two enemy fighters with red heat trails zoom in behind the NIGHTBLOOM.
<b>SCREEN WIPE</b>
<b>FADE IN: </b>
INTERIOR COCKPIT - NIGHTBLOOM
''JERUSALEM's hands grip the control yoke, fighting for stability. The ship rolls and pitches around, lances of tracer rounds and lasers arcing past him to strike bits of debris in space. There is the blue-flash of the ship's shields activating as debris from the front impacts and rounds from the back. Alarms sound, damage reports rattling off. The ship seems to be coming apart as he runs the blockade.''
JERUSALEM (Voice-over)
I KNOW! I KNOW the port thrusters are
gone! Shut up! Shut up! HARLAN! Can you
do something about that?
HARLAN, A MECHANIC
I'm already on it, boss! Try and hold her
Steady!
JERUSALEM (Voice-over)
Try and hold her steady, she says...
''JERUSALEM punches buttons furiously, flipping switches. Things light up and alarms go silent, but the ship shudders violently. A crack appears in his viewport as the shields fail and a bit of debris slams into the ship at high speed. JERUSALEM picks up the microphone to the radio.''
JERUSALEM (Voice-over)
This is the Nightbloom, in orbit over
Yathrib. I am coming in hot and hard,
I am going to overshoot Akko Spaceport.
I am requesting an alternate landing.
MEEKHAM TOWER
Nightbloom, this is Meekham Tower. Go
ahead, relate your condition.
JERUSALEM (Voice-over)
Oh. You know. Fast reentry. New Kurgan
Friends who'd really like to talk to me,
Shot to hell and back with failing engines.
Also, I am ON FUCKING FIRE LIKE A BLAZING
COMET SCREAMING ACROSS THE SKY AT 10,000
MILES A GODDAMN HOUR!
MEEKHAM TOWER
Uh... Right then. We are transmitting the
coordinates of our landing field and our
approach paths.
JERUSALEM (Voice-over)
Lovely. Thanks so much.
''JERUSALEM looks down over his readouts - gravity etched in his face. The glow from the reentry heat floods the view screen, fire casting him in orange and amber. Sweat beads on his face and tension is etched in handsome features. Either he's a damn fine actor, or this is a truly harrowing situation''.
<b>SCREEN WIPE:</b>
EXTERNAL TRAILING CAM FROM NIGHTBLOOM
''Two angry looking kurgan fighters - damaged but doggedly pursuing the small starship into the upper atmosphere.''
Will Jerusalem Steele make his date with the people of Meekham?
Will the Nightbloom hold together long enough for him to make touch down?
OPEN LANDSCAPE - CLAUDIUS TOMB AERODROME - REALLY A COW PASTURE FOR MIRACLE COWS.
''The thundercrack of a sonic bomb will not be heard until the flash of light comes over the hills to the west. A burning, crackling ball of fire hurtles through the air, under bare levels of power. Inside, Jerusalem and Harlan battle for control of the stricken aircraft, while the forward swept wings of two Kurgan fighters drop out of the clouds, following the smoke trail of the NightBloom.''
JERUSALEM
Frack frack frack frack!
HARLAN
Quit sweetalking and start flying!
Get us underneath their radar cover
and head for Meekhams' guns!
JERUSALEM (Sarcastic)
That sounds like a great idea! WHY
DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT?
HARLAN
Because you're too busy mugging for
a goddamn camera?
<b>SCREEN WIPE</b>
<b>MONTAGE: </b>
''The Nightbloom's shields come back on line, the nightbloom's shields get knocked off line by laser fire from the Kurgans. The Nightbloom clips a tree. Nightbloom crashes, scarring the countryside with the skidmark of a multi-hundred-tonne spacecraft in soft soil. Pom-Pom batteries in Meekham drive off the Kurgans. A cow stands on the tail-section of the Nightbloom.''
<b>FADE IN:</b> NIGHTBLOOM CRASH SITE - NIGHT
''LYSANDRA, HUGH and NAIMA sit ahorse, staring at he wreckage before them, not sure what to make of it all. Especially the cow.''
BARONESS LYSANDRA
Think anyone's alive in there?
CASTELLAIN HUGH
I hope so. This Crusade needs all the
men it can get. See the Imperial Markings?
This ship is from the Empire, not Kurgans.
NAIMA - A HALFBLOOD HEALER
If they are injured, I will heal them with
the power of the Pancreator and my love of
all mankind!
''Lysandra and Hugh glance at each other, then back at Naima. The top hatch of the now half-buried Nightbloom flips open. A pack flies up and out of the hatch, landing in the dirt before a group of the three stunned locals on horseback. Jerusalem and Harlan climb out of the Nightbloom.''
JERUSALEM
YATHRIB! JERUSALEM STEELE HAS ARRIVED!
HARLAN (Sarcastic)
Whoo.
LYSANDRA
I am Baroness Claudius Tomb, and I bid
you welcome to Yathrib, Man of the Emperor!
Come to my crusader camp, where I will see
Your wounds tended and your ship repaired.
HUGH THE BASTARD
Most impressive landing, Questing Knight. I
Honor your bravery in coming to this war torn
world, Pancreator's light upon you. Let us return
to the camp, and we will exchange our stories. We
have need of men of such bravery as your own, here
on the edge of all civilization, reclaiming the
Glory of Revelation for the Empire.
NAIMA
Oh my stars and garters, he's handsome!
HARLAN
Anyone got any spacers tape for that girls mouth?
''Hugh is impressively backlit, giving him the appearance of a mythical general riding out of the night. All persons travel to the town of Meekham. Emphasis is given to showing the hungry and poor of the Crusade, and how Hugh's troops (presumably) defend them from Kurgan depredations.''
<b>FADE OUT </b>
Will Jerusalem get the Nightbloom flying again?
Will he join up with Hugh's Crusade for Revelation?
Jerusalem is a man and he is really really handsome (III) and manly man. With heroic good looks ripped right out of the latest romantic holovid, Sir Jerusalem Steele of Lamorak is to put it lightly, a heart-throb. Men want to be him, women want to be with him and the camera loves him. Short, spiky black hair perfectly accentuates his angular his features, which hold expressive dark eyes. Eyes that stare longingly - or burn with fiery passion.
His long-coat flows dashingly, a black officers coat with captains insignia on the shoulders. When he moves, it is with the grace of a cat, the strength of a bull and the determination of something... really really determined. Confidence exudes from him. Knee boots are polished deep black and tooled with dark purple markings, swirling along the sides, matching the black pants that tuck into those boots. From his hips hangs a gunbelt and sword.
Capabilities
A holovid actor from the lost worlds who does all his own stunts, Jerusalem is a grabbag of skills and abilities that always seem to come in handy. With no loyalties to any one house, he's unpredictable which makes him an exceedingly good agent for the Empire.
Goals
Jerusalem's current project is a holovid series documenting the Crusade, called 'Sands Of Faith'.
Background
Episode 1: Introdiction
Episode 1 - Introdiction
FADE IN:
STARSHIP COCKPIT VEIWPORT 'NIGHTBLOOM'
JERUSALEM sits in the cockpit, looking out over Yathrib as it emerges from behind Shepard's moon. To the distance, a Kurgan cruiser engages with several smaller Crusader craft, the light from meson beams and lasers brilliant in the darkness.
JERUSALEM (Voice-over)
Yathrib. A world soaked in mysticism,
religion, prophecy and blood. The
Kurgans have come, forcing the Empire
of the Phoenix back to the shining gulf.
Only recently have reinforcements from
the Empire arrived, stabilizing the
realm and ready to push forward. Crusade.
The Kurgan ship lists in space, its side gashed open by a strafing run by an Imperial star fighter. The fighter rotates, twin golden plumes of thrust-exhaust trailing behind it as it zooms past the NightBloom. The pilot is captured in the frame for only a moment, seen tossing a jaunty salute to the camera as he passes, Imperial Phoenix Marker's on his wings glinting in the reflected light of the sun.
JERUSALEM (Voice-over)
I am Jerusalem Steele, Knight of
Lamorak - and I am a crusader.
Follow my journey of discovery as I
plumb the depths of what it means
to be a Crusader. A knight. A warrior
for the Pancreator. Explore local
cultures with me, visit exotic locales
and through this holovid series, come
to better know what Crusade is.
FADE IN:
JERUSALEM STEELE's face.
JERUSALEM (Voice-over)
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ABRUPT SHIFT:
Radar screen and instruments
COMPUTER WARNING (ALERT)
WARNING: TWO ENEMY SPACECRAFT ON INTERCEPT VECTOR
JERUSALEM spins the camera to look back at him.
JERUSALEM
That is all for now, space-fans!
It is time to go full burn, make for
Atmo and scream into Akko, the seat
of Crusade. What wonders await me?
Who will greet me? Who's stories will
I tell? Find out next week on...
