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BYOND Key: 1glitchycent Total Ban Length: Permanent. Banning staff member's Key: Banned by host. Reason of Ban: Multiple Nazi and SS references. This kind of behavior is unwelcome on Aurora. QC ban enacted per admin. Reason for Appeal: To preface this, I will state that I have not been allowed to inquire further on the reason of my ban. If there is something unaddressed here that an admin would like to discuss, I am happy to do so. Presently, I am assuming it was caused by an unserious message on the discord in which I referred to Solarian Prime Minister Strom's Coalition w/ Sumida as a galactic alliance of imperialist fascism, or something to that effect. This message included two lightning-bolt emotes replacing the "S" in Strom & Sumida, alongside several other intentionally wrong spellings, as it was written in Maoist Standard English, a sort of slang which basically just spells things one would regard as opposed to Maoism in various contemptuous ways. I am assuming the admin team is not familiar with MSE, as its contemporary usage is generally rather unserious, and not an indication of any real political alignments or held beliefs that would align with racial extremism, as mentioned in the discord ban. Regardless, I do understand that political statements and discussions, satirical, ironic or serious in nature are against community rules, for reasons which are made self-evident by the quality of the Aurorastation community. I understand that these rules are in place to help maintain an atmosphere free of unnecessary conflict when we are ultimately all just people trying to play a game about spacemen on a space station. For that reason, provided my appeal is accepted, I would obviously refrain from making similar inflammatory posts. Additionally, I would like to note that my discord ban reason listed previous offenses alongside what I have discussed above, which I assume is the primary reason for the ban. I would like to note that these offenses were of an unrelated nature. The first discord note is simply describes me using crude-language to refer to someone standing around and doing nothing. My two in-game notes are in reference to conduct while playing hostile offships, which was also a behavior I did not repeat after the issuing of the notes(And one of these notes was primarily caused by a miscommunication). I believe I played on the server in good faith, which I hope is taken into account when this appeal is processed. With these reasons in-mind, alongside the fact that it has been a month, I would like to ask for my in-game ban to be lifted, or that the ban length be reduced. Thank you for your time.

BYOND Key: imienny Total Ban Length: Perma Banning staff member's Key: mattatlas Reason of Ban: Sticky ban Reason for Appeal: I did nothing i swear! (https://forums.aurorastation.org/topic/19701-unban-request-imienny/ again)

Before working on Horizon? Bed bugs. They were a constant issue back in her Europan lodging Currently? Greimorians, mostly due to their stench and cleaning up required after they've been terminated

Hey, thanks for applying, I’ll contact you soon about scheduling an interview.

I've been really enjoying watching Bava's development and I look forward to seeing where you take her! She definitely feels like a character that reacts very dynamically to how she's treated, you can check back on her a week after your last major interaction and see that it's still on her mind. It feels responsive and well-executed, and it particularly doesn't feel rushed or as if it's railroaded a single direction. Also, what's her least favourite species, animal or sapient?

1. Well, it has definitely been a process. Bava's character development has been deliberately slow but she is slowly getting there, little by little. But yeah, it's been fun slowly getting there. 2. She absolutely would seconds before getting shot

Two things: I have to appreciate my interactions with Bava, as limited as they still are, over the course of her return and her redemption arc. I was never originally here during her cargo years, so its been fun learning her story through her own actions and the talk of others. Has it been fun to play? And for a funny question: would Bava hit the dougie on the antags?

BYOND key: Acetrea Discord name/id: beeffrustration Borg / AI names: KIT (Knowledgeable Interface Terminal) Have you read the Aurora wiki page about the AI?: Yes Why do you wish to be on the whitelist?: I've always had an interest in playing roles that aren't played often, are unique, or have a very different playstyle than what is the norm. I find that an AI fulfills all three of those criteria. On top of that initial interest that pulls me toward playing AI, I also enjoy doing different mechanics of the game, and I like to do tasks that assist different departments. Overall, I think I'd have a lot of fun being a helper, door opener, warehouse searcher (when there are no HTs), button clicker, and all the other things an AI can do. Have you received any administrative actions? And how serious were they? I have not had any warnings nor have I been bwoinked recently. Do you understand your whitelist is not permanent, and may be stripped following continuous administrative action? Yes.

SANN LIVE: Department of State to Announce New Diplomatic Initiative Article 1 of Pharsalia After the SANN’s opening jingle the camera focuses in on the ever-present face of the network: Harold MacMillan. The newscaster nods to the camera, slides his dataslate away, and begins speaking. “Good evening, and welcome back to The State of Sol. As always I’m your host, Harold MacMillan. Today’s feature story is an impending announcement by the Secretary of State, Carmen Mercado Ortiz, following her recent confirmation by the Senate after weeks of hearings related to Strom’s cabinet formation. With the press conference about to begin, let’s go to our reporter on-scene: Cèline Eylenbosch.” The camera switches from MacMillan to a blonde-haired Cytherean woman — now dressed in spring fashion — standing in a fairly crowded conference room. “Hello Harold, and hello dear viewers,” Eylenbosch smiles at the camera. “Cèline, what does it look like in there? How’s the atmosphere?” “Oh it’s practically electric, dear viewers. Rumors have been spreading for most of today about what these new initiatives are — Secretary Ortiz has only ‘officially’ been in her position for a week. So what could she possibly have dreamt up in that time, hrm? Dare I say, could it be a rapprochement?” “With what?” “Well, the most rumored-about one is, of course, Tau Ceti, Harold. Not even the most speculative Binyarian tabloid would guess Gadpathur!” Eylenbosch laughs at her own joke! “But Biesel? The Spur wonders, don’t they?” “Right. How long until it starts?” Eylenbosch looks down at her watch, bringing it up far enough for the viewers to get a look — and Idris-produced Model 89 Ophelia, by the looks of it. Holographic too, and apparently in the colors of Venus’ flag. After a moment of viewing it — long enough for anyone watching to get a good look at the Ophelia — she looks back to the camera and smiles at it, letting her watch-hand drop back down. “In a few minutes, Harold, so let’s switch this to the stage view,” Eylenbosch gestured to the camera, causing the viewer’s eye to swap to a different camera overlooking the stage. As per most Solarian Alliance press conferences the podium is covered in microphones from various agencies and nations — some from as far away as Assunzione or Novi Jadran. After a few moments a Solarian Army guard touches his earpiece and leans over to open a door behind the podium, letting a middle-aged woman in a typical Solarian business suit out. She says something to him briefly, then takes the podium, taking some glasses out of her pocket and putting them on. On her lapel, right below the Solarian flag pin, is a Mictlani flag pin. “Thank you for your presence,” she begins, leaning a bit towards the microphones. “I am pleased to, on behalf of the Solarian people, discuss our upcoming diplomatic agenda for Prime Minister Strom’s term. “As our Alliance is emerging from a period of struggle unseen since the Interstellar War, I wish to assure the Spur writ large that our nation wishes, above all, to seek a peaceful future in the wider interstellar community, while respecting the interests of Solarians everywhere. With that said, the main purpose of this conference is to announce that we are seeking to reopen diplomatic relations with nations Frost’s dictatorship severed relationships with.” A murmur goes through the crowd of reporters as camera lenses flicker. “First among these is the nearby system of Tau Ceti, also known as the Republic of Biesel,” Ortiz pauses for a moment, letting her words sink in. “There are, as the interstellar community is aware, numerous diplomatic conflicts which may ‘bubble over’ between the Alliance and Tau Ceti. It is in the interest of both our government and Tau Ceti’s to ensure war does not break out, and that a diplomatic solution may be reached.” More murmuring and camera lenses flickering fills the air as Ortiz stops talking for a moment. “I now leave the floor open to questions.” A sea of hands shoots up. Ortiz points to a well-dressed man in the front row. “Secretary Ortiz, Liao Qi with XNS. Does the Alliance have any interest in changing its relationship with the Coalition, particularly around Konyang?” “At the time our government believes our relationship with the Coalition, where we maintain diplomatic missions with nearly every member-state aside from Gadpathur, is not in need of further modification. We trust our partners sitting in Xanu feel the same.” “Thank you, Secretary.” Another sea of hands shoots up. Ortiz picks out a well-dressed, if pale, woman in foreign clothes. “Senator Ortiz, Anastazija Leno with the Novi Rijeka Gazette. Over the past years we’ve seen further cooperation between the Empire of Dominia and the Alliance. Can you speak to any plans to further strengthen this relationship?” “Cooperation between the Empire and Alliance has mostly been under the purview of the Department of Defense, so it’s outside of my responsibility. I can, however, say that the Solarian people appreciate the cooperation with your navy to reduce piracy near the Southern Reaches.” “Thank you, Lady Secretary.” The sea of hands goes up yet again. Ortiz picks out a distinctive blonde-haired woman in the first row. “Hello, dear Secretary. Cèline Eylenbosch, SANN. How long have these negotiations been ongoing for, with Tau Ceti?” “Roughly two weeks, with them having started under the acting secretary. There haven’t been any official diplomatic meetings, yet, but I can say Prime Minister Strom has approved this initiative — he wants to see the Alliance’s border security issues handled within his term, and so do I.” “Thank you.” The sea of hands goes up again. Ortiz picks out a man further in the back who is dressed sharply. “Secretary, I’m Baqir Yassin, ENN. With the Alliance posed to reopen relations with Biesel, are there any plans to change its relations with the Republic of Elyra?” “Not at this time, no. So long as Elyra tightly restricts its fuel exports, we cannot see a deeper relationship with it,” Ortiz looks down at her podium, then back up. “And I must apologize, that’s all the time we have for questions. Thank you for coming, and long live the Solarian Alliance.” Ortiz waves to the crowd, then turns and walks back through the door to the shouted questions of unlucky reporters and the snapping of cameras. The view switches back to Eylenbosch, who looks positively thrilled. “Well, dear viewers, isn’t this exciting news?! Back over to you, Harold!” Eylenbosch waves to the camera, which then switches to a view of MacMillan. “It is,” MacMillan straightens his posture, looking at the camera/viewer. “The State of Sol will be right back after this short break, so stay tuned!”

Hey uhh...... I'm here to ask you all what do you think of Bava, her criminal past and my attempts on redemption arc for her. Additionally, I've decided to do a light-hearted Q&A- ask any questions you have about her and I will answer (bonus points if they are funny)

We are looking for applicants to fill the position of synthetic writer. When making your application, please include the Lore Developer Template: Ckey/BYOND Username: Position Being Applied For (Wiki Maintainer, Lore Developer, Deputy Lore developer): Have you read the Lore Team Rules and Regulations wiki page?: Past Experiences/Knowledge: Examples of Past Work: Include answers to the following questions in your app as well. 1. What do you think are the primary themes of synthetic lore? If you got this position, how would you develop them? 2. What do you think is the strongest part of synthlore currently and why? 3. What do you think is the weakest part of synthlore currently and why? 4. The Synthetic Team recently got a faction of it's own, with Pactolous/the Golden Deep; what would you plan to do with this faction? 5. What do you think are your strongest and weakest attributes in terms of working on a team, and why? 6. As the writer of synthlore, you will often find yourself required to work with other teams, primarily the human team, consistently to further your lore, and reach compromises as their lore is highly intertwined with other species. Therefore, how do you think you'll deal with not being able to do what you wanted, either in part or in full? 7. The synthetic writer is a position that comes with two deputy writers under them on the team. It is the writer's job to manage their team, in addition to their duties of moderating the WL. Given that, what skills do you have that you think will assist you in this? On the opposite end, what do you believe is your weakest link regarding management and moderation?

TO: Azarii Marrkarr, Bridge Crewman, SCCV Horizon FROM: Gerard Greyswandir, HR, NTCC Odin SUBJECT: RE: Incident Report -------------------- BODY: The investigation of this incident has concluded, and appropriate action has been taken for affected individuals. This matter will now be considered resolved. -------------------- DTG: 07-02:15-TAU CETI STANDARD-04-2467 SIGN: Gerard Greyswandir

Hello and thank you for your application. Upon further review and consultation with the IPC team and the Lore Team Management for the IPC and phoron-related parts of this post, we must decline the addition of these proposed changes and deny this application. They are not concurrent with how the IPC team wishes their species to be written with new synthetic vaults added to planets elsewhere than Konyang. Also, we the Human team disagree with their additions as part of Dominia's history. However, this was really interesting for us to read and we enjoyed the concept. It's made us think about adding something to the Dominian lore which gives them a broader explanation for the anti-IPC part of their faction beyond a religious doctrine that appears unjustified from an OOCly position. We want to add some explanation for that in the future and we wouldn't have thought of that unless it were not for this application. As such, when we add that content, whenever that might be and whatever form it takes, we will be crediting the both of you as writers in the announcement we make on the Discords and in the wiki's changelog. Thank you again for submitting your application.

Hello and thank you for your application. We are reviewing it currently and will have an answer for you shortly.

Hello and thank you for your application. We are reviewing it currently and will have an answer for you shortly.

Hello and thank you for your application. Upon further review by the Human Lore Team, we have decided to accept your application. It will be edited as the team sees fit and also added alongside some of our own additions that we have been wanting to make to Callisto for a little while now. Thank you again for making this application; it will be added to the wiki shortly.

I was trying to go with what @Shimmer said and make it look more like a holiday destination flag rather than an actual political flag for a nation. I get what you're saying though, I don't really know much about the actual "rules" of flags and was just going off what looked pretty! LOL As for the Medina's purples looking too close... it had a equal three colour split but then I realised it looked exactly like the bi flag and I had accidentally made all of Medina bisexual... I went with purple since phoron is their entire deal. And the hammer and sickle I added just because they're communist... can you tell I don't know anything about flag etiquette yet? Thank you for the critique though. ❤️

While I cannot speak for Campin and Lain, I am not interested in modifying the cantons in this manner. I do not doubt they are going to stay as-is, in the upper corner of the flag. This topic — modifying Solarian flags to remove their cantons — tends to come up every few months, and my response has always been the same: there is not a great interest on the team to make modifications to these flags. I understand there are size inconsistencies in the cantons, and one could correct them, but I do not want to see the design modified.

Flag sprites are always going to be a pain in the cunt if you design them with any degree of complexity :p The Callistean banner I had to cut out one of the circles just so it works, with flags I believe the priority should be that it looks competent as a general design, translating it to banners is always going to be a compromise. ...especially when you remember its not even 32x32, the canvas itself is closer to 15x15 because 32 is the size of the sprite file, 15 is the pixels you get to actually work with.

also when it gets compressed down into the 32x32 in game sprites it'll be impossible to actually tell and we'll have to fall back to straight lines

It fits the aesthetic of silversun. It's a planet caught in the vice of a corporate power, so it feeling corporate and artificial while retaining some of the almost vaporwave vibe of the planet makes sense to me. It doesn't need to be designed conventionally, and in the case of Silversun it not being designed so conveys the feeling its meant to invoke a lot better.

Honestly, these flags are great, Goolies. I have a bit of feedback, if you don't mind. - I love the Greenland-ization of Silversun. Makes the colors really *pop*. However, the bezier-curve wavy reflection is just too digital. Flags are designed physically, with straightedges and compasses. It's too obvious that this was made in a computer program. Of course, you could argue that this is the future and this doesn't matter, but this just means the flag looks more like a corporate .svg free online powerpoint graphics starter kit, rather than a sit-down serious flag. - I think the hammer and sickle is a bit too on-the-nose that "VENUS IS COMMUNIST". I feel the deep crimson red and yellow stars already evokes strong soviet vibes, and it doesn't necessarily lock the planet into full on communism, but rather more broader strokes of socialism. - Pluto, I think the pink/purple are way too close together. Once you squint (or better yet, squish them down to the 32x32 pixel art flag size), they're basically indistinguishable. I think they should be made the same color, or have them be completely different. As for the cantons, personally, I like them staying, mainly because of what the Solarian Alliance really represents. It's an authoritarian empire first and foremost, under the guise of democracy. It's Sol-dominated, and it shows that the planets are obviously under the heel of the Alliance, as compared to the comparatively laissez-faire Tau Ceti and the loosely held together CoC.

Medina flag is so good Goolies.

❤️ to you for liking the designs, I kind of went for prettiness over accuracy, but it's SS13, so I'm not sure if we even want accurate... the cantons are staying for now, as said by @NewOriginalSchwann so instead, I would be down for it to be integrated into the flags since removal isn't an option.