The Argonauts

*For the campaign, see Argonauts Campaign.*

The Argonauts is an adventuring guild from the campaign of almost the same name. It's the main connecting factor among the player characters.

## Description

The Argonauts is a good aligned organization created by Jason in 2009. Originally the name given to the crew of his space ship, the guild expanded as the group settled down. Now it's a solar system spanning organization with bases on most planets and moons, the main one being stationed on Ceres.

In the beginning, The Argonauts were focused on helping the solar system with god level threats, though as its grown, so has its mission request, to the point that pretty much anyone with any standing can send an official request, and those without can submit one to a much larger forum, but not every Argonaut will find the time to sort through the spam.

## Bases

All Argonauts bases function as temporary safe houses, providing shelter for members of the guild. They're also often used as meeting place with other members or clients.

### Main Base

The Argonauts's main base is stationed on Ceres, the main travel hub of the solar system. The base isn't much visually, a small bastion equipped with an armory, mess hall, training arena, and a housing area.

#### Housing Section

The on base housing at the Ceres base is a mix of the hostel-type communal bunkspaces common on every base and military family-esque housing with small apartments. These aparnemts of course come with their own additional cost, but they are considered safe. Many Argonauts use them for housing their families.

#### Quest Board

The quest board is a massive screen that displayed the currently open official request as well as any requirements chosen by the requester. From there, Argonauts can claim quests assuming they meet the requirements. Most quests only requirement is a minimum number of people to partake in it, as the requester feels any less would be doomed to fail and a waste of time, though some request specific skillsets, access to specific spells, "level" in The Argonauts, or even request specific members.

Unofficial quests aren't found on the board itself, but in archives. A massive list of missions requested by literally anyone, it can be searched and sorted, but it's very slow and laggy. There is only one admin, an extremely overworked dwarf named Kysg.

#### Magic Shop

Another feature of the main Base is a small broom closet sized room in the back labeled Magic Shop. Unassuming at first, but it leads to a story slightly larger on the inside, with magic items piled high on disorganized shelves. The store is run by Thallan, though despite presenting it as a store, they give items to members of the guild for free periodically, either ones they request, or ones they (read: that character's player) decides would be good for them. Other than that duty, Thallan spends most of their time vibing and telling stories to anyone that visits to talk. Their desk has a wooden sculptor of themself on it, as well an orb of ice like an eye, but the iris is composed of a vibrant display of colors: red, blue green, yellow, orange, all colors spanning the spectrum, each shade becoming more vibrant as you approach from a different angle

### Mars Base

The Mars base is currently decommissioned due to the ongoing war.

### Saturn Base

The base on Saturn is just a small outpost at High Noon.

## Emblem

The Argonauts emblem is a empty golden circle with a smaller golden circle along it's edge. The main circle represent Ceres. It also represents The Argonauts main base, its well rounded community and members with wide ranging skillsets, coming from anywhere in the solar system. The smaller circle represents the smaller bases that are found on other worlds as safe houses and communication hubs. It represents the ever watching eye of the guild, always looking for trouble and quest.

It is stolen directly from the Jupiter Ascending poster lmao

## History

Jason and the original Argonauts traversed the solar system in a ship called The Argo for most of the early 2000s.

In 2009 Jason settled down on Ceres and began to expand, knowing and seeing first hand that one crew is not enough to solve all the solar systems major issues.

After a few years, the guild grew too large for Jason to lead on his own and he stepped down, handing over control to his crew/now board of directors. Quickly after, the guild lost it's lawful good hard focus, and expanded to assist pretty much anyone who paid, and hiring anyone that signed up and passed an entry test.

As of 2020 The Argonauts now have a base on every planet and major moon except for Jupiter, Uranus, and Pluto. The ones on The Moon and Neptune were hard sells, but eventually accepted.