ClearThoughts

Life is getting a bit busy with me, apologies as I haven't seen this until now, the few rounds I have been able to log in and play were usually interrupted, and I don't think I have the time to put into this right now. Unless my existing playtime and record can go to bat, I can't be putting in any hours onto Aurora in a serious regard for the next week or two. Thanks.

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BYOND key: Clearthoughts Discord Username: Testopringo Character names: Tsi Jho Kiqo'teio Vulun-Suul Skull Eaton Xeriu Xiru-Yullra Night Null How long have you been playing on Aurora? About as long as its been out. So, 7-8 years or so, mind is fuzzy. Have you received any administrative actions? And how serious were they? Yep. Post-break i think ive only received warnings, or notes, and changed behavior accordingly. I think the most serious was a Skrell whitelist strike I received for a character's alcoholism, which I rectified by having that character (Tsi Jho) gain a redemption arc and become a driving voice for sobriety/recovery advocacy for the rest of the crew. It actually turned out really well, and deepened the character interactions I got with them. Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph each. What do you think the OOC purpose of a Head of Staff is, ingame? To provide a sense of direction for the crew's response to ongoing events, to advocate for structure in the face of adversity, and to encourage cohesion amidst chaos. They're high value characters, which are both a tool and a target for and against antagonistic elements to the Horizon. What do you think the OOC responsibilities of Whitelisted players are to other players, and how would you strive to uphold them? I think the best way to answer this is how the players interact with the community. Encouraging others to act creatively, working both in game and out of character to act in such a way as to provide openings for people to tell their stories, or make meaningful actions towards a better experience overall. We all want to walk away from this at the end of the session with an excitement, a satisfaction. I think WL'ed players have extended toolbelts to accomplish this goal, or facilitate it, to the rest of the community. Explain how the recent events in the Spur changed your character and how they came to be employed on the SCCV Horizon. [Makarii Dublesse] Makarii was a freighter coordinator working for Chainlink's logistics group under NanoTrasen, benefitting the beleagured planet of Konyang after its recent hiver tragedies. Acting as the Freighter Captain's hand to ensure the ship, and its sister crafts were organized and efficient was a priority to ensure none of their aid was spent in vain. It was upon a short visit to hash out a shuttling issue that Makarii did visit the SCCV Horizon, and quickly fall in love with the flagship. A transfer was put in, and from one ship to another did this officer move. Finding pride and grace that the Horizon moved, to be one savior to the next, Dublesse was filled with admiration and duty. Quickly, their idea of what the Horizon was, or should be, reflected in an outward, stiff-backed demeanor. Such a beautiful white cruiser should be an avatar of Ennoia's grace to each world it visits; its crew ought be proper, and well groomed ; its reputation untarnished and lined with lucein grace. While others might think him upstuck, he finds pride in every shined shoe, in every clean bridge console, abhorring disorderliness in fear it might invite darkness, first into the hull, and then into their very souls. What roles do you plan on playing after the application is accepted? Most likely, an XO, due to their peculiar status on the Horizon as the "second hand" to the Captain, in charge of the business that a higher officer would be too busy or too important to busy themselves with. Ship readiness, cleanliness, and orderliness are the mark of any good XO. Disruptions to these three marks are to be dealt with, swiftly and orderly, by the necessary chain. Have you familiarized yourself with the wiki pages for the command roles? Yes. Characters you intend to use for command or have created for command. Include the job they will be taking: Liwish-Malai Gobi - Captain (Old WL) Makarii Dublesse - XO (Fresh) Do you understand your whitelist is not permanent, and may be stripped following continuous administrative action? Yes. Have you linked your BYOND account to the Forums? Yes. Extra notes: I held this whitelist prior to 2020 when i took a long hiatus from ss13, and returned to find I required a re-application. I hope Ive answered enough to provide an ample requalification.

AI, law 2, unbolt the SM and flood engineering! I have a lot of faith in Lmwevil, their characters are believable and a pleasure to interact with, even if theyre verbally reaming mine. A good roleplayer and a positive influence to the community. +1

Bayar is good. As a miner player, an OM can make or break Operations as for the workflow. Getting one that understand what needs to happen between the crew, the hangtechs, and the miners is a godsend. Tones is both competent at the game mechanics, as well as a pleasure to roleplay with. Thankful for their time on this server.

brox commits a little oopsie-daisie with the drill caller

I'll take that Hephaestus suggestion into consideration, I didn't originally imagine them as being a part of Hephaestus, but then again, the Machinist role is combinative of what used to be Roboticist, a catchall for augment-surgeon, robotic-mechanic, mech-producer, etc. Guess I'm using old-ss13-brain there. There'd have to be some consideration to a Ta urging the Akaix aboard to make some distinction. What's left to individual interpretation would likely fall into one of two brain-slots: Are they complaining about their body? -Yes "Do hyuu hwant uzz to give hyuu new hand?" -No "Ghood. Let uzz know when hyurr hand izz broken." Things need fixing, and modifying. Regardless of what 'flavor' your meat/metal is. I'd say they're generally non-dscriminatory, but for the 'wrong' reasoning to arrive at that conclusion. A human may very well be just someone who hasn't received "enough" augments yet to be perfect. vice versa, a synthetic may have been augmented in the wrong way, or imperfectly.

BYOND Ckey: Clearthoughts Discord username: Testopringo Character names: Tsi Jho, Kiqo'teio Vulun-Suul, Skull Eaton, Xeriu Xiru-Yullra, Tuquu-Ielliu Nuouu, a few others but i havent played any more of them recently in any long capacity Species you are applying to play: Vaurca (Bugbugbugbugbug) ------------------------------ General Whitelist Requirements What colour do you plan on making your first alien character?: Vedhra Mucus Yellow Have you read the lore pages for the species you wish to be whitelisted for?: Yes Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph format. Why do you wish to play this species?: I didn't really like Vaurca when they were first released, mostly as an out-of-character, "ew bugs" reaction. However, the more that I learned about their lore, as they were expanded to include Ta, Ra, over the years I became more and more interested. Most recently I've had the good-blessings to have played with a number of vaurcae characters aboard the Horizon, naming a few but not limited to: Nangeren, Pleig, Nakoz, Yir, and they've inspired me to read more about the lore. Having done some reading while we were recently anchored over Adhomai, I became quite interested in Vedhra, of K'lax, and more importantly Tret and the terraformed-gigafactory that it's become. It's good lore, it's a great lunch-break read, and I'm excited to get a whitelist approved to start playing one. What makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a human?: Oh jeez, where to start. Humans are endurance-hunter primates that evolved wide and far, with adaptation and wide-skillset/tool usage being our bread-and-butter for success. Vaurcae are inverse, producing new Vaurca with purpose in mind in the case of Bound/Viax, and an allowance of freedom with their Unbound/Akaix. With a priority on a near-religious worship of their progenitor queen and breeder lineage, you won't find a more alien race to try to live with. Truly, I think they are apart from Diona, one of the least-compatible species to co-opt a planet with, as they're so fundamentally different in goal and objective-planning. While humans might build a fabrication facility with the ability to swap out any-old-human with any other squishy meatbag, the Vaurca will ask themselves if they can engineer a new kind of Worker made to work as close to the sun as possible to increase efficiency, knowing that the decisions they make on their workers will only last as long as they plan to. Where Humans may take a generation and a social shift to encourage new schools of thought, the Hives can obtain a near-complete paradigm shift in a few years. It's unthinkable, at scale, but to the Queens, it is the nature of their existence. ------------------------------ Character Application Character Name: Ka'Akaix'Ikaa K'lax Write a backstory for your character. This may include their origin, education, personality and how they arrived to the SCCV Horizon: Ikaa has been a virtual-resident of Kreapa for centuries, biding its time within VR until its purpose was needed outside of Vedhra's realms. A fervent-proclaimer of the benefits to the Queen of Configurations' augmentation drive, Ikaa quickly adopted a mindset focused around "Nothing good remained as it was". Everything must be, and can be, continuously improved until it achieves the Queen's Ideals. Between sharing ideas into Retek for practice, Ikaa's main focus was weaponry. Anything to give the Warriors of the hive an edge over the Lii'dra, or their best idea of them. 2460, the Queen of Configurations, in co-op with the rest of the K'lax Hive, had begun the plans for the Neutron Forge. Among its many designers and planners was Ikaa, who was sleeved as a worker and directed to work on the project until its completion, operation, and eventual decommission in 2463. During which, the Phoron Crisis in full swing had caused the re-application of many of the K'lax's greatest thinkers to be assigned elsewhere. Returned to Tret to theorize on production-efficiency changes, Ikaa was contracted with Nanotrasen, and became assigned to the SCCV Horizon upon its arrival into the Badlands, less than a month ago. It has since been working as a Machinist, in support of the Operations sector of the ship. Quietly, however, Ikaa retains the same, secretive overgoal that all of its Queen's hive seeks: Finding Lii'dra, reporting their location, and awaiting their Queen's divine wrath upon the ancient enemy. Until then, it will bide its time, and produce ever-wondrous labors in service to its masters. How has the recent events of the Orion Spur impacted your character? The Phoron Crisis and its subsequent Federal scandals beginning in 2463 until present have been a source of concern from Ikaa, and others within the K'lax Hive. As a source of life for all Vaurca, running out or even low on Phoron is a threat to their very existence, and should be considered with no less than vital importance. Beyond which, correcting the scarcity with new supplies could lead to further megaprojects by the K'lax Hive, or the recommissioning of the Neutron Forge, a favorite project of this Ka. It has led it to seeing losses or misuses of Phoron to an almost insulting degree, or a personal attack on the future of the Hive. While it can not produce any violence to rectify this matter, Ikaa has begun calling for mediation by security aboard to any misuse of the rare, exotic fuel. News from Konyang and the included viruses induced upon synthetics has led to a few, uncomfortable questions Ikaa has added to its roster of diagnostics. Having to ask if this synthetic may attack others, or discerning whether an IPC may be suffering from another wave of the Hivebot's virus now lingers in its mindspace. It has no pretense for refusing to repair its synthetic coworkers, but a slight hesitation in watching IPCs wield weaponry has driven a spike in this Worker's fear-response as of late. How does your character view the megacorporation they work for: "Eet izz a vhezzell vvhor uzz to make do, az zzhe Queen kommandzz." NanoTrasen is a sponsor to Ikaa, but they hold no loyalty to it that they would not attribute primarily to their desire to improve the K'lax hive standing, or the standing of their Queen in regards to the rest of the Spur. Cooperation with other races may come secondary to furthering this goal, but this has yet to be seen. The work Nanotrasen does with phoron extraction and excavation is an exacting reason as to why Ikaa finds this megacorp more convincing than others. Discovering a new source of phoron, or a way to acquire phoron in anything more than trace amounts would land them favorably in the many eyes of Vedhra.

Barrrrrros!

Thanks Evan, much appreciated.