Coalf

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An interesting essay, short sweet and to the point I like it. But I have a question. Over time I have noticed that the idea of a "Frontier Alliance" as an entity isn't really existant. Sure people are from there, but they'll usually state they're from the individual parts/colonies rather than support the alliance as a whole. Do you think this is good, bad, do you have different experiences and would you fix this?

I know my own intentions and feelings and I'd like to disagree with your assesment as they're not, in any way geared towards controversy. HOWEVER, I cannot. In the past I have spoken out against hiring of controversial developers and while I do really want to be a developer, I still hold that sentiment and I recognize my own controversiality. Thus, I couldn't disagree with your assesment Mofo without labeling myself as a hypocrite, essentially proving that I have not changed at all. Thank you for the overall feedback and support. tl;dr

I have been doing my best to fix it. I can't really send gift baskets with a "Sorry for shitting on you tee hee ;p" because I don't know your addresses, but I've been doing my best to offer council, respond to people in a civil fashion and keep my work and my private opinions seperated. If you have a guide on a non-shitty apology I will heartily give it to you. But right now, I am genuinly sorry, is all that I can offer you in regards to what I wrote about you and others. Also "apperantly got", I've been on the team for nearly two months, hell I pinged you last Sunday about the Aut'akh images that were unsourced. You can dislike me all you want, after all I am not entitled to forgiveness but it is unfair to label my addittion to the team as "secret club behaviour", mainly towards Chada and others. Everyone who judged my first application, which was rejected, judged my second application which was accepted. This gives me hope that I have actually improved, I don't believe it is their fault you did not notice me being a staff member for nearly two months now. Lastly, anyone on Aurora will tell you that literally everyone gets a second chance. There is plenty of people both on/off staff who have been banned, or even permabanned for their actions and/or behaviour. Some of them are lore developers that work with you every day. All in all, yes you are fully entitled to not accept me, to reject my application or to block and ignore me. I accept that, I made a mistake. I will continue working as a wiki developer regardless of the decision and I will continue to make future applications, again regardless of the decision.

I don't believe total consistency is achievable, well not if you want to keep the department like actually desirable. But an ideological and aesthetical consistency, is. The fact is human lore is human-gous, it's big, swollen to the brim due to the fact that most players we have are human. Thus most lore canonization applications, criticism, requests, developers and deputies focus on human lore. Hell other species constantly bounce off of human lore to faciliate their own. Total consistency is unachievable, unless literally every single piece of content was not only checked personally by you, but also archived in some kind of a very easy to read document that On the other hand, aesthetic and thematical consistency is easily achievable, and that is via an informational funnel. Species benefit from this. Even if right now Alberyk died due to a mysterious disease of two bullets to the back of his head, the next Tajara developer would most likely not actually change that much. Simply because in order to become a Tajara player, you need to read at least part of the lore and understand or aknowledge at least, the "idea" and general "theme" and "aesthetic". Plenty of humans factions have started benefiting from this: Dominia, Elyra, Eridani, Scarabs - They have a distinct type of person coming from them, you can see someones behaviour and look and go "Yes, that man is from X faction". Meanwhile things like Sol, Tau Ceti, Alliance or billion other colonies have, well nothing. If you stood a Solarian, a Tau Cetian and a general Alliance member next to each other, nobody would know what is the difference until you place a Tajara next to them and saw if They kill, exploit or ignore him. In this way, lore can be preserved. Yes there will be loose ends, and yes I believe that cannot be prevetend, it can only be remedied, things get forgotten constantly. But ultimately if people know what the "theme" or "idea" behind a faction is. They will follow it and understand not to deviate from it. Right now if you and VT were to be, I don't know involved in an accident with snipped car breaks, I would know how to continue Eridani, Elyra, Dominia and Scarabs easily, because there is a thematic and aesthetical consistency. While the thematical subject is going to change course into more domestic issues and less invader issues, I have no reason to change the way the articles have been writen in terms of galactic scale up to this point. I want to keep the general feeling of optimism, but also highlight that a LOT of shit has happened to Elyra and that it can't just be brushed past. Instead of introducing a "new threat", I want to také the results of the previous threats, the Unathi incursion, Liidra incursion and Mushroom incursion and have THOSE be the dramatic foil of the day, not another "This just in, aliens are kicking our favorite friend! Again!. Galactically yes, I want to keep Elyria as a moraly interesting foil to the general degenerative and depressing themes of NT and Sol. But domestically, I want to see how a nation this quickly militarized, strongarmed into a deal by NT due to mushrooms and having the rural areas be more split than the urban areas, would deal with such issues and struggles. Ultimately, The final goal is to provide players with more backgrounds than "war survivor" or "war veteran". For example, someone who became a doctor and wants to help NT after They gave humanitarian aid for mushroom coughs, a staunch conservative who is sick of the infighting in the rural areas and thought changing systems would help, a fresh soldier who is now without a job due to wark ending and so he bums to NT for security work since They love hiring Private Sec Companies. A supporter of aliens who had to run away after his family grew to resent them due to all the invasions and decided to reach Tau Ceti as a liberal beacon. etc. etc.

Ckey/BYOND Username: Coalf/Coalf and Coalf Position Being Applied For: Human Deputy Past Experiences/Knowledge: I've worked with the team for about 4 years in an, off/on relationship. I have been an admin, a forum mod, a head whitelister, a lore-deputy for the Tajara and now I am working as a wiki_developer and I quite enjoy it. I have gained new experience with the wiki and how the formatting functions (thanks VT and Chada, not you Matt, never you). I've played the game on/off for about 4 years. I drew a few memes once. Examples of Past Work: I've worked extensively on Tajara and have rewriten, refurnished and dusted off everything regarding Tajara religious lore from adding Raskara to adding debth to the S'rrendar and Messa religion: I have helped in development of Scarabs/Offworlders, particurarly their basic history and synopsis alongside a few ships, including everyones favorite Mayfly: I have added through lore canonization both Mictlan and Trummer, the former of which I hope to rework to be more interesting as it isn't my best work: Additional Comments: Ye Olden Esaay, by Coalf Elyria

Seems the external site i was hosting these on died lmao, whoops.

Type (e.g. Planet, Faction, System): Mictlan Colony Describe this proposal in a single sentence (12 word maximum): me make gooder How will this be reflected on-station? It'll affect all characters from that area. Does this faction/etc do anything not achieved by what already exists? It already exists, I'm just fixing it to be more culturally accurate and interesting. Why should this be given to lore developers rather than remain player created lore? Because it already exists, It's just a rework. Do you understand that if this is submitted, you are signing it away to the lore team, and that it's possible that it will change over time in ways that you may not forsee? It's already in it. Long Description: Old Description for Comparison: New Description: Lore Addendum: (I was told that I can make it longer, I was still operating within the idea of "It should be short" in the new writeup since that was the requirement on the original application.)

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In Zatusha, near the source of the Kishara lake, They stood, brothers, defending their homes. There stand Tajara next to Tajara, they're all brothers, You won't get in Shastar while we are alive! Fire his Icelance, Tsarrayut’yan and Lawgiver! Throw grenade, chase the gang trough the spring! Step forward, guns ready, let all of them sing the song: "For their homes, brothers, for freedom they are fighting" Listen them, band of Sol volunteer guerillas, Their revenge will get them even in PRA! S'rrendar's justice will get them, everyone knows that. The soldiers from Shastar shall judge them! Listen now the message of Saint Ma'ta'ke: "They won't get in Shastar as they couldn't enter it before!" Oh, tajara, dear brothers from Shastar, DPRA won't ever forget them!

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Mofo is a good guy, a good roleplayer from the few interactions I've had with him. Application is, very solid, I can't actually really find something egregiously wrong with it, maybe besides the fact it's a bit boring but that's not really the point. So yeah, I approve.

Shit bugged nothing here I guess.

And I wouldn't have it any other way.

Yes, I meant it as in "How could I even change it, changing the lore myself?", it was a rhetorical question, not a confirmation of what I want to do. I have already told Geeves earlier in the thread that I am not applying for a lore developer, yes I intend to in the future, but this is a wiki developer application. I don't plan to subvert lore, change it, add to it etc. That is not my role or my goal, if I wanted to act in this partisan way I could have done it already, wiki-developer or not. The only difference would be that it would get reverted slightly faster.

I won't, even if again the staff would refuse to address my issues in PMs, I have already expressed disgusting and disagreement with my previous actions. Define "Backseat-lore-writer". I enjoy lore, I talk about lore, I will continue to talk about lore but I can do that already. In the terms that I can write new lore on the wiki whenever I want? I mean I guess? But the wiki is instantly reversable and everyone can see that. In terms of interjecting into lore_chat? Admins, Developers you included, WikiDevs everyone chimes in all the time or at least did when I was a lore_writer. But I guess I can just mute it. A contributor is effectively identical to a developer, a lore_writer is as effective as someone making a Lore_suggestion application and an ahelp does the same thing a moderator does. Staff roles serve to streamline the process, direct energy into the proper areas and speed up the effectivness of the team. There is no reason for me to just sit there all day, going up and down the wiki searching for issues if I could instead just have a chat where someone gives me an objective, or directs my attention to a specific area. Yes I could PM chada/Matt whoever constantly throughout the day but that's just dumb. EDIT: You can scratch the second answer I guess.

Deleting old pictures to clear up space for new ones.

And yep, I give all my assurance that I will not act out of line and interact with others as smoothly as possible.

I accept that.

I do still hold the position that you are a bad leader and a writer. But yes, I regret all the insults, I regret attacking your character and you as a person, I regret posting it somewhere where you could not defend yourself in the first place. That was scummy me of me, I made a mistake. Again, I am sorry. I have not acted morally. However I am still allowed to hold my opinion that you are not capable staff, which is the same opinion you are allowed to hold. Ergo the -1, +1 system we are employing here. At this point I don't know how to apologise to you, if I bent the knee and said I love your writing and you are a great leader and the sun of my morning, I would be lying, which is even worse than just saying I don't think you're that good at leading or writing, which is just expressing my opinion. I apologise for attacking you as a person, I apologise for attacking your character, I apologise for posting it in a place where you were unable defend yourself.