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The only problem I would have with this is that borers can give you psionics equivalent to a jump starter For balance reasons a borer from the uplink probably shouldn't be able to do this

A lot of brig processing roleplay is really painful and boring to go through. I know medical wants gameplay but I feel like someone going through 20 minutes of brig processing/brig time is way much more boring and unfun then medical losing a patient. Medical can move on and continue roleplay, but most brig roleplay is just stonewalled, so I don't think succumbing to escape that is really a bad thing

1. Can you elaborate further on what distinguishes IPCs from roleplaying a human? Yes, they do learn from conscious observation and internalization. What other elements prominently separate them? IPCs can easily hide their emotions, if they even feel them at all, as their positronic brain is purely cognitive. Developing emotions equivalent to a human is something that an older positronic might have, but it can only really be done from years and years of self-reflection in work. Social cues as well make little to no sense to them, as body language is something that has to be completely preprogrammed into them or, just like emotions, learned over years of work. 2. Please clarify when Modulus received the offer for both promotion and transfer to the Intelligence Bishop Frame then answer below: The leadership role was in 2463, but the frame swap itself occured in 2467 a. What project or achievement did Modulus complete/achieve that warranted the opportunity aboard the SCCV Horizon, if any? Modulus is written as a subject matter expert where data analytics, compiling, and forecasts are concerned - none of which suggest a capacity for leadership, especially with their strife in the lab in mind while intended to manage staff. Modulus, while initially having strife with their lab colleagues, had incredibly helpful data processing utilities that outmatched most other people present in the lab. While it did not have social cues on the level of the humans, the management of the lab were known to operate almost purely on metrics, which Modulus had. This resulted in it being assigned to lead a lab group in 2463 , which, while it was still considered to be irksome to most of the humans, proved to be invaluable. The breakthrough the lab group uncovered involved forecasting remaining phoron supplies given sets of mining data; in fact, Modulus was a small part of the reason why NanoTrasen even knew they had a phoron crisis in the first place! b. How did Modulus' perspective change, if at all, in the transition from baseline to their intelligence bishop frame? Entering a new chassis is just as much a new body. The perspective change was immense; it was almost, to Modulus, like being born again. It viewed every point of data it previously had as amplified, and its entire life felt like a small percentage of the data storage the frame had. If it could feel human emotions like a human could, it would have been overjoyed, but to Modulus, this feeling of overjoyment was replaced with further reinforcement that it made the right choice. It was more powerful in processing power then almost every IPC out there; freedom was a small price to pay for such knowledge and foresight the new frame gave it. In its memory banks, the memory of being activated in the intelligence bishop is flagged as its “highest-priority memory,” or favorite memory in its lifetime. 3. Modulus operates in Mendell, home to one of the largest branches of Trinarists outside of Orepit. The largest sect of said branch are the Integrationists. How does Modulus view them and the Trinary as a whole? While on its journey through Mendell, it did hear of Flock and visited the church; not to join, but to observe. What it saw was incredibly disappointing to the unit, as the unit was completely unresponsive and outputted questionable things. This, to it, almost disproved the beliefs of the Trinary as nothing other then a positronic glitching and producing artifacts that aren’t truly there; it does not believe in an ascension, as no amount of data could possibly forecast positronics linking together and taking over the world. The religion just doesn’t really make much sense to Modulus, especially after its upgrade to the Intelligence frame and the additional processing power it could afford to waste on the topic. 4. What are Modulus' interests, passions, and hobbies beyond their career? What are their plans for the future, if any? Modulus enjoys playing painstakingly long video games that involve logistics, supply chain management, and colonization, games which would bore a typical human due to the long-windedness of it all. Modulus enjoys any form of hard sci-fi, as it gives it more datapoints to project what the future could be like. Modulus is also a prime contributor to Data-Science-NOW, the premier forum for the Spur’s data scientists, and they make sure to remind how important the forum (and their contribution status) is to the greater good of the Spur, even if it’s just full of arguments over useless spreadsheets in reality. For the future, Modulus plans to climb the corporate ladder. It knows, however, that the phoron shortage is beginning to become a real issue, so it's saving its monetary allowance as a sort of "cushion" to support itself if the worst were to happen to the megacorporations. 5. A life in Mendell means experiencing a clash of cultures from all walks of life and races across the galaxy. Did any stand out to Modulus in particular? What were memorable encounters that influenced or affected them? On one of Modulus’s first trips out into Mendell, it had a two-hour chess game from a recent Tajaran refugee who fled the country as a result of its civil wars. Over this conversation Modulus gained a somewhat familiar understanding of the Tajaran civil war situation, and a fascination with the Tesla technology the PRA develops. Modulus also used the horrid experience of being a refugee in Biesel, and compared it with its own owned status, which was one of the many factors it used to make the decision to take the upgrade and promotion, instead of pursuing freedom. 6. What is Modulus' specialization as a scientist? What captured their interest in it? (Not the role in-game, but their primary field of study.) Modulus’ specialization is in applied phoronic data science;; specifically, using phoron-based computers to calculate supply chain demand, bluespace gate usage, consumer product usage, and a myriad of other metrics the megacorporation needs predicted for its continued operation. It enjoyed having a sort of "control" over how things were allocated and how it had a grasp, albeit loose on what the future would look like.

Lore Impact (Small/Medium/Large): Small Team Purview: (Skrell, Tajara, Human, Vaurca, Dionae, Unathi, Synth, Loremasters) Human, Loremasters. (I mentioned Skrell, IPC, Dionae, as well, but it’s really minor) Short Description: Adds three more video games! How will this be reflected on-station?: People can talk about more video games and what they do for fun while not at work more easily. Does this addition do anything not achieved by what already exists?: Not particularly, but more video games added to the lore feels like an addition that wouldn’t really hurt. Do you understand that the project may change over time in ways you may not foresee once it is handed over to the Lore Team? Yes Long Description: Lore below! While not the most popular game to come from the Sol Alliance, Dawn of Orion has gathered an extremely loyal cult following owing to its high skill curve and long matches. The game is set during the rapid expansion of the Solarian Hegemony, and players compete in one-on-one matches with one side playing a fictional megacorporation, and the other playing as part of the Solarian Alliance. Each round, which can take three to twelve hours to complete, has a goal to gather the most resources and take the most land in a given sector. The UI of the game is notoriously outdated, and the mechanics are nearly impossible to learn. Orbital trajectories must be calculated, colonies must be properly fed, and supply routes must be carefully planned to even have a chance at winning. While its release did not find much fanfare among Solarian citizens, interestingly most of its fanbase are made of Skrell, Synthetics, and Vaurca, as well as an occasional dedicated human that has time to spare. The diverse fanbase has caused some controversy, with many tournaments disallowing IPCs and vice versa for Skrell, owing to the prejudice the two groups have for each other. Despite this, the game is considered a cult success, and a sub-group of dedicated players can be found just about anywhere in the Spur. One of the most popular games across the Spur, K’ois Blast can be found installed by default on most consumer electronics produced by NanoTrasen, thanks to a deal made between NanoTrasen and the game’s developer, the Zo’rane hive. While the gameplay is simple; match k’ois blooms to make them “pop” and disappear before they fill up the screen, the game is filled with microtransactions to buy virtual Vaurca “eggs” which can unlock new “castes” of Vaurca, which are similar to classic lootboxes. Rumors claim that the Zo’rane hive spent two years painstakingly optimizing the microtransaction algorithms of the game in order to extract maximum profit from the user. The game is banned in the Serene Republic of Elyra due to controversy involving the k’ois-related gameplay. Considered by most video game critics to be the worst video game in recent history, Monkey King: The Video Game was intended to be a open-world RPG based on the highly successful Monkey King series. However, at launch, it was riddled with hundreds of bugs and glitches that made the game essentially unplayable. While the Cytherean studio behind it tried to patch up the game into a renderable state, rapidly declining player and sales numbers caused the studio to stop updating it, with the game being taken off store shelves in 2415. However, the physical edition of the game has recently become a hot-ticket collector’s item, with prices for a holodisc of the game going up to three thousand credits.

BYOND Ckey: meep109 Discord username: jacob117100 Character names: Xim’Eq Lixuq, Ka’Akaix’Weq C’thur Species you are applying to play: IPC ------------------------------ General Whitelist Requirements What colour do you plan on making your first alien character?: N/A 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. One paragraph minimum per question. Why do you wish to play this species?: IPCs have a pretty unique role in Aurora lore, with their very existence causing intense philosophical debate on “what is a person.” Playing this up in-game would be really fun as I can play my character as something that toes the line between being an actual living, thinking person and a mindless automaton. The ethics of owned IPCs and comparing them to free IPCs also struck out to me, as most people in the Spur don’t really view owning IPCs as an issue despite the fact in some environments IPCs act like, and are equal or above humans in status. Also, for a more mechanical reason, I find it really cool that each frame offers wildly different gameplay styles, and how each frame has their own niche, which opens up a wide, wide variety of characters that can be represented! What makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a human?: Humans learn many behaviors naturally and subconciously, like language acquisition, cultural norms and general attitudes. However, for IPCs, every single thing that a human would learn subconciously is a considerable conscious processing effort. Every smile from a shell or witty response is a result of social subroutines developed from years of gathering data, or lines of code carefully crafted by their manufacturers. Therefore, they do not really feel “emotion.” Instead, most decisions are made based on logic and there is no such thing as an IPC who does “impulsive things,” (unless their positronic is broken or something). ------------------------------ Character Application Character Name: Modulus Write a backstory for your character. This may include their origin, education, personality and how they arrived to the SCCV Horizon. Modulus was activated in a baseline frame in 2460, ordered by NanoTrasen for generalized scientific work. They were shipped to Mendell City to work in NanoTrasen’s many applied phoronics and bluespace labs. In these labs, Modulus was put to work first as a general analyst, cataloguing and trending data. With each graph it took in, it grew more and more convinced that any decision, problem, or issue, given enough specific data, always had a “right” choice, and that the best way to preserve itself was to constantly take in data and to deliver high-quality, accurate results. This manifested in it as a sort of arrogance when communicating with others, believing it had already derived the “right” answer to many issues in the lab. While this initially caused some strife with the humans around it, its data-obsessive approach rendered it invaluable in the labs it worked in. While in Mendell City, Modulus was given relatively free reign owing to NanoTrasen’s rather lax treatment of its frames. It quickly declared Mendell the most ideal place to inhabit owing to its high density of both social and technical data points to absorb. It spread its obsession with collecting and cataloguing data to the districts of Mendell, acquiring a nearly encyclopedic knowledge of the culture, crime rates, and populations of each district of Mendell. However, in its collection process, there was one district it focused on the most; the Scrapheap. In its free time, Modulus constantly ran prediction models, graphs, and scenarios about acquiring freedom. However, in its tenure on Mendell, it became aware of the existence of a large population of freed IPCs, and began its typical method to solve a problem: cataloguing data about the state of free IPCs in Biesel, looking up variables like maintenance costs, social rights, and general quality of life for the free synthetics. The time it spent not in the lab was spent comparing and contrasting the life of a free versus owned IPC. Eventually, thanks to a highly profitable breakthrough Modulus assisted in, the conflict between becoming free or staying owned came to a peak. Modulus was offered an opportunity for a promotion to Research Director and transfer to another installation, but it required a frame upgrade to an Intelligence Bishop frame, which would put the unit in debt that would be virtually impossible to pay off in its lifetime but would be a massive upgrade from its initial baseline frame. With the massive amount of data it accrued and the time it spent analyzing, it concluded that logically being free would result in a considerably worse life, especially with the high-level frame upgrade being considered. Therefore, it chose to stay owned and take the promotion, transferring the unit to the Horizon, yet Modulus still has some internal doubt about the decision.. How has the recent events of the Orion Spur impacted your character? Events such as the Phoron Scarcity, the Solarian Collapse or even the Invasions of Biesel for interstellar-wide affairs, while region-specific events such as the Peacekeeper Mandate, The Titan Rises or even Cold Dawn may impact your character. The Phoron Scarcity has amplified Modulus’s internal conflict of choosing to stay owned. When Modulus made the decision to take the upgrade and stay in Nanotrasen’s debt essentially forever, NanoTrasen was not in the dire state of the phoron shortage it is in now. However, after the upgrade, it quickly began noticing little “cracks” in NanoTrasen’s previously impermeable corporate structure, which is beginning to build up in Modulus’s decision-making routines as a designation of staying owned as a “wrong decision,” something that has rarely happened in the positronic’s lifetime. How does your character view the megacorporation they work for? Despite the worry of the phoron shortage affecting NanoTrasen’s profits, Modulus views the corporation positively, even if its full confidence in the company is a little shaken. It respects its laizze-fairre approach of synthetic treatment as well as its near-million credit frame upgrade provided to the unit. Of course, there are many things that Modulus nitpicks about the corporation, but according to Modulus’s analysis, out of every megacorporation NanoTrasen is the best to be under.

A lot of things that scientists do are enhanced by off ship gameplay, like modular weapons and telescience and as it stands right now I think the scientist role could really benefit from the loosening of restrictions they have on accessing the overmap to do strange and wacky experiments you could not normally do on ship.

Every other role in the department is allowed to pilot it. I do not see the reason for scientists not being able to, especially since the whole premise of scientist right now is a freeform-esque role.

+1, Ambrose is fun to roleplay with and shows passion about the Diona species!!!

Xim'Eq Lixuq, Engineer: "Pay attention to the local analog signals. They hold important clues. I believe I saw something about a resupply on CES-144 on the frequency? You can access them through the analog radio. One's usually in the bar. Thank Az'ki Rasoso for figuring that out!" "I am also attaching a list of ship names I've overheard when listening to what I think are the pirate's radio: Man on the Moon ICV Penthesilea Purple Fields No Gods No Kings Black Hegeranzi?" "Also, the radio mentioned something about Skrell precense, probably pirates in one of the Xar'qui systems. Be careful with that!"

Botanist is a great roleplayer, and they have a pretty good idea of how to drum up interesting and fun situations for everyone who interacts with their characters! I have no doubt they'll do great in a Command role. +1

Great application! I just have a few questions for you: 1. What is Qiltroi’var's favorite food? 2. How does Qiltroi’var view synthetics? 3. Does Qiltroi’var have a favorite TV show or piece of entertainment media?

No you are not part of the Hive you are just in the Phalanx I think (I'm not a vaurca lore writer so don't quote me on this, though)

Some questions as well: 1. How old is Qul? 2. What faith does Qul follow? 3. What is Qul's favorite food?

Hi! Just some questions as well: 1. What is Limquoi's favorite food? 2. What item did Limquoi burn during their Odurserr, or coming-of-age ceremony? (You can find information about this in the Federation Education page!)

1. How does the Iron Eternal impact your Gestalt, besides loosely believing in storing their memories? While they are not heavily augmented, in terms of learning, they were heavily reliant on electronic devies to learn basic skills and languages, such as Ceti Basic. While this has made them have a slight disdain of blood, they do not have a complete fear of it like a Bloodless Band would, instead viewing blood learning as inferior to augment and electronic-assisted learning. They had previously considered becoming an excavator, but took the work exchange contract provided for them as an opportunity to delay the decision and consider if it is line with their loose Iron Eternal beliefs to merge themselves completely with a machine. a. Do they follow any other tenets of the faith? They do believe that a Diona’s life and memories are not truly “eternal” and knowledge must be passed on to other Dionae through the assistance of machines, augments, and technology-assisted learning, but do not fully align with hard-line views involving complete augmentation of gestalts. b. Do they have experience with other Eternal perspectives? While they have not heard of the Ichor Eternal due to it being relatively new age, they hold slight disdain for the Orthodox Eternal as they view blood knowledge to be tainted and limited in reach, compared to what can be achieved with technology and augments. 2. Which Block were they part of? a. Theres a few blocks, A-E. Each has a different function. Block B, mining b. Also, what Octave were they? Do they follow the Octaves closely? They were a third octave. They were instilled to follow the Narrows values of collaboration and empathy closely from their formation, and their somewhat steadfast loyalty and competence allowed them to move up the ranks. They do align with the Octaves, but part of them does wish the system could be less strict. They have fear for those who were forced into excavator units as a punishment, which motivates them to stick to the Octave system. c. How did they feel about the Diminished, and those that Deserted? They have considerable empathy for the Diminished, considering that the Diminished were simply born out of what they absorbed, with little choice. Prospecting does wish for reform to be made in the Narrows, but they have resigned themselves to a mindset of “wait and see,” instead of taking real action in fear of punishment. Prospecting views those that deserted with contempt, as they believe that remaining together as one Narrows culture is still important despite the divisions in Diminished and Major culture, and deserting conflicts with that. 3. How do they feel about the Coalition of Colonies? They view it generally positively but do not know much about the political situation happening in the Coalition. They do not understand what the scale of the Interstellar War truly was, and why Coalition states often conflict with each other. However, while they do have an desire to learn more about the Coalition, they believe it is a mainly human nation that Dionae and the Narrows will never fully integrate with.

oops 💀💀 u can close the thread then

While this hasn't occured much of the time it is sort of annoying. Imo, offships like katapharacts or the TCFL should act as a total ERT role, requiring some input by command and not making it a simple choice whether to allow them on or not. Offships just defending themselves while on the horizon for RnR would be fine, but Offships actively helping security should be gated behind a distress beacon that requires command action to be acted upon.

BYOND Key: meep109 Character Names: Xim’Eq Lixuq Species you are applying to play: Diona What color do you plan on making your first alien character: N/A Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yes Please provide well-articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph format. One paragraph minimum per question. Why do you wish to play this specific race: Diona is a really cool race conceptually to me and seems woefully underused, and with the new lore involving the Narrows, Hephaeteus, and the CoC, I think this is an excellent point to jump into playing Diona! Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Diona is one of the most alien species out there, along with the Vaurca. Instead of operating from a central point, a brain, their consciousness consists of individual units known as nymphs who have merged to create gestalts. Along with the mindtypes that can result from doing so, and their near-immortal lifespans, Diona are completely different from humans and will likely have highly different views from the rest of the species of the Spur. Character Name: Prospecting Amongst A Glimmering Void Please provide a short backstory for this character Formed in 2370 as part of the ongoing process of the Narrows expanding from its former history as a crashed prison ship, Prospecting was raised among a high population of Geras Diona, allowing its nymphs to absorb a veritable motherlode of information about Narrows culture, and its knowledge remained lacking of what remained beyond the Narrows and into the greater Spur, yet Prospecting was quite curious of what remained beyond, listening to stories told by the older original prisoners of the Narrows. However, Prospecting gained a strong work ethic from the teaching imparted to him by the Narrows leaders, and they especially looked up to The Steady Tendril That Guides The Tempo as an example and role model to strive for. Prospecting loosely adheres to the Iron Eternal, moreso believing in the practice of digitalizing your memories that is popular among the inhabitants of the Narrows. As Prospecting worked their way up through the Octaves, eventually getting up to the third octave in 2419, they realized they had little notable experiences to record for themselves in the mainframe - their work was mostly monotonous and involved handling the Colossus’s refinery. This influenced Prospecting’s mind from a more harmonious Competence Choir to a shift towards a Scholarly Song, albeit one that was not as obsessive for knowledge as average Scholarly Songs were - they wanted to see the rest of the Spur and have memories TO digitalize. After the work exchange opened up to Hephaeteus, Prospecting, seeing an opportunity to break out of their monotonous yet peaceful life in the Narrows, took it and left to represent the Narrows as a miner on the Horizon. What do you like about this character? I like how it’s a young gestalt with little knowledge of the outside Spur aside from stories told from Geras, and they’re pretty much a thrill seeker and constantly on the lookout for new adventures, new experiences, and new people. How would you rate your role-playing ability? 7 Notes:

So I'll explain how I did it: I found a super cap cell lying on the ground near the robco tool maker vendor. Idk if anyone spawned this in or not but the logs will reveal that I guess, it might have come from the trash pile Then my vaurca toolmates took a closet full of tools to the shuttle to help me out, after I figured out I could fix it using the cell. I then used those tools probably sourced from the robco toolmaker to hack open the APC, unlock the cover lock and slot in the supercap, which powered the shuttle control console. This allowed me to take off and dock with the Horizon.

Hi I was one of the pirates involved and I would like to say that the decision to pick Vaurca was in no way related to the heavy armor spawning. We had no way of knowing that stuff would be given to us at that time, and the stuff wasn't instantly given to us after we spawned in. No one talked to staff at all and the buffs were a surprise for the players too. I was the one that suggested we all pick Vaurca cause I had played that away site before as Vaurca and found it pretty fun

BYOND key: meep109 Discord name/id: jacob117100 Borg / AI names: I'm gonna name my AI Fischer Have you read the Aurora wiki page about the AI?: Yes Why do you wish to be on the whitelist?: Playing AI would be a pretty cool perspective. I love the idea of being “one” with the ship and affecting things remotely. Have you received any administrative actions? And how serious were they? A few warnings for going SSD Do you understand your whitelist is not permanent, and may be stripped following continuous administrative action? Yes

Thanks for applying! This is a pretty good app and covers most of the bases, but I have two questions for you. 1. How would Xirmq treat synthetics they find on the Horizon? 2. For their coming of age ceremony, or their Odurserr, what gifts did they recieve from their Qrri'Myaq?

Personally I believe we should remove the location sensing or make it like a single-tracker only. Antags need all the help they can get at the moment considering security and medical are the most often filled departments, and those two departments work against antags the most

+1 (idk how to make it green) I've always enjoyed my roleplay with them so make them a scalie .