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To: Julian Chet From: CCIA Division of Appeals Subject: Appeal 12/02/2462 _______________________________ BODY: After thorough review of your conduct over the course of your demotion, we believe you have learned an important lesson and have come to understand why you were demoted in the first place. Your appeal will be approved and your demotion lifted. We trust you will understand that future mistakes of a similar nature will be met with far harsher consequences. Those that have vouched for you will be held responsible for your actions as well, should it come to such a thing. Behave, and try not to disappoint them. As of 2462/12/10, 01:58, your appeal is approved and you may begin working as a full time engineer once more. _______________________________ DTG: 10-1:58-TAU CETI STANDARD-12-2462 Sign: Caroline Jameson

The idea I was going for here was that, while Linha does not believe themselves to be a woman, nor have the soul of one, they also do not believe themselves to be a man, nor to have the soul of a man. Rather, the soul they have is their own soul, hence the struggle and the emphasis on trying to prove themselves. Others might assume they have the soul of a warrior regardless, and Linha likely wouldn't correct them on it, but Linha is meant to be portrayed as some one fiercely proud of who they are and who they've become. While younger they would become enraged from being referred to as a woman, but as they got older and more mature, they stopped caring about being referred to as either, not caring for gender one way or another, though naturally they were almost always referred to as a he. As a warrior soul is considered a male's soul, and Linha does not consider them self a male, it felt wrong to me to go with this approach. Plus, I personally think it makes for a better back story. The long story short being, Linha is Linha, as far as they're concerned, they don't have a man's soul in their body, nor a woman's soul, they have their soul and that's that. What other Unathi think on the matter, Linha accepts as it's customs and tradition, and nothing Linha could or has any interest in changing, so long as they don't consider them lesser or weak as a result, in which case Linha would absolute rebuke.

@DeadLantern I tried to not go too overboard with the character, and yet ended up with 13 paragraphs, so I tried to leave some things more up to implication to cut down on length. For example, the fact that Linha practically abandoned their clan and left their father on his death bed without a word is suppose to sort of hint at how they feel towards their father. I could have done this in a few more places as well I feel but I was already feeling bad for the length of the backstory, tbqh. But essentially it's meant to show that while Linha did care for their fathers approval at first, and their father was always a good parent to a degree, that Linha grew out of both wanting that approval and being close to their father, as clearly their father only cared for them to be an upstanding Unathi in many ways. I only didn't expand on that as much as I could have for the sake of it meaning to be a short backstory in the first place. Their faults are most certainly there, be they implied or otherwise, but again in the interest of not loading a massive backstory onto everyone reading it, which I already failed at doing a bit, I chose to keep things like that a bit more subtle and implied. Linha was a child, seven I believe when the war started. At the time all they cared for was how much glory could be gotten from coming out as the victor of such a war. At the time they had no interest in if it was honorable, who was in the wrong or who was in the right, they were interested primarily in the glory of it. As they grew up with the war in the background of their life, and living in Skalamar, they were exposed to a lot of anti-traditionalist propaganda. They saw the dishonorable acts some took just to survive, but at the end of the day, more then anything, Linha only wanted to test their prowess in the war. As the war dragged on, Linha grew immense disgust for the traditionalists, in part due to the propaganda, but also due to the usage of nuclear weapons, which they considered to be an affront to true combat. As far as the cost of life, Linha thought little of it for the ones who fought and died for what they believed in, but they were unnerved by the innocent lives taken by the nuclear devices. Linha sees the wasteland as a threat to the livelihood of the very planet, and the Traditionalist remnants as nothing more then cowardly, useless things not even worth the effort of being put down. Linha actually holds somewhat of a fondness for the Queendom, at least for their leader, though they consider it a futile effort, and one that will certainly not last. Linha doesn't focus as much on religion as many might, but it is still an important part of their life. They, however, accept that there will always be differences in religious beliefs, and that such petty things, to them anyway, are not worth coming to blows over. Linha is confident in themselves and who they are, and doesn't feel the need to defend such a thing now that they are older, and likewise doesn't go out of their way to chastise others of a different faith. Linha has a great deal of respect for the perseverance of the Akhanzi order after what had occurred to their temples, and considers the elders of this order to be honored religious folk. As for Si'akh and Aut'akh, they spare no thoughts for the two any further then being heretical scum, while Linha does not believe in conflict over religion, they all the same have no interest in interacting with followers of either such things, nor even learning about them past what is common knowledge. Thank you for the feedback!

BYOND Key: hepatica01 Character Names: Klementine Kuznetsov, Meria Volvalaad, Zoya Kuznetsov, Jeremy Kemmer, Seymour Dahahn, Karyme Moghadam, Salvation, Saa Linha (ERT Kataphract, the very one my character is based on) Species you are applying to play: Unathi What color do you plan on making your first alien character: Green Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: I have, once last night, and various parts while writing this app 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: I've never been against the idea of making an Unathi whitelist, outside of making jokes. However, I've had 30/30 characters for years, and am constantly having to delete characters when I come up with a new idea. Basically what I mean by this, is that I've never had a great idea for an Unathi character that I would commit too, let alone be able to apply with. But after playing Kataphract ERT quite a few times, including on a canon round, and having a few ideas for this character floating around in the back of my mind, I decided to apply for it with this character as a visitor. I've always found Kataphract to be so interesting and cool, and I figure it'd be interesting to visit rarely every now and again to see people I had met on the canon round, and if Kataphract ERT pops up again, it'd be neat to have people know the character assuming I'm in the role, in the same idea of TCFL. Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Well, aside from the extremely obvious, they have a completely different set of moral and spiritual views (for the most part) then a lot of humans do. While in a select view ways they are similar in their backstory (civil war, religious conflict, etc), at the same time they are also different in their way of handling their society, such as the feudal system, or the wastelanders and the various ways they etch out their existence in the desert lands. Their culture, the way they interact with each other, such as frowning on hugging amongst adults, showing your neck as a sign of submission or intimacy, etc. But especially the code of honor and of course, one of the biggest differences from modern in universe humans, the separation between women and men in Unathi society, which is likely seen as barbaric and outdated amongst other races. Character Name: Trazarial Linha Please provide a short backstory for this character https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CZ76SHNE9pG8FkGUrSKkib_P89YcqFniSJ6ZKqDXm_w/edit?usp=sharing What do you like about this character? This character is one I had played as a Kataphract ERT a number of times, and had slowly thought of a brief backstory for while doing so. It wasn't until I played them in a canon round that I thought about making them an actual full fledged character. I started writing what I thought would be maybe a three or four page paragraphed, and... Well, ended up with a 13 paragraph backstory complete with it's own prologue and "where are they now". Whoops. I can't even begin to fully describe how much I love everything about this character, from their struggle to prove themselves, to their casting aside what their father wished of them to pursue their own goals, to their view on the spirits and how they live on within her. I would hope all 13 paragraphs of this character would truly show how much love I put into this character. How would you rate your role-playing ability? I consider myself to be an average roleplayer, sometimes above average. Notes: I didn't expect the 13 paragraphs, but I started writing and by the time I realized how deep in I was I was nine paragraphs in without an end in sight. It was a bit hard writing the story without using he/him or she/her, so I had to constantly use their name so people wouldn't be confused by they/them usages at a number of points.

Reporting Personnel: Meria Volvalaad Job Title of Reporting Personnel: Captain Game ID: b9Y-daxp Personnel Involved: Bjorn Agni-son, Scientist, Offender Sam Chalgre, Roboticist, Offender Que Tup'Xequal'Valurex, Head of Security, Witness Xiao Zemin, Research Director, Witness Meria Volvalaad, Captain, Witness Time of Incident: Around 20:00 Real Time: About 4:40 PM GMT-6 Location of Incident: NSS Aurora Nature of Incident: [ ] - Workplace Hazard [ ] - Accident/Injury [ ] - Destruction of Property [ ] - Neglect of Duty [ ] - Harassment [ ] - Assault [ ] - Misconduct [X] - Other Stealing of the Research Shuttle, disobeying Command orders. Overview of the Incident: Towards the end of a shift, an expedition team led by Xiao Zemin returned from some site. This team included many members of science, including Bjorn Agni-son, and Sam Chalgre. When the expedition returned, it was stated that they wished to assemble a team to check to see if there were survivors within the cryo pods of the away site, some derelict station. It is important to note that when I told them that, considering the transfer, there was no point in mounting some rescue mission. Instead, I would inform Central of the situation, and if they so chose to do so, could send a team to check for survivors, or more likely, inform whomever owned the station instead so they could send a team to see if there were truly any survivors. Naturally, Sam Chalgre seemed quite displeased about this. So, while I was conversing with Xiao Zemin, Sam Chalgre and Bjorn Agni-son stole the shuttle on their own prerogative, armed with weaponry from both the armory locker as well as bolt action rifles purchased from cargo in clear defiance of my orders. Intent on playing hero, the two failed spectacularly as the shuttle was recalled back to the Aurora, the two injuring themselves in the process as they attempted to leave the shuttle. When they returned, both were apprehended by the Commander and by security force, Sam Chalgre needing medical attention as a result. Without mentioning the clear disregard for their own personal safety, disregard for my direct orders, and thinking that they can steal an entire shuttle belonging to the company for their own use, they also wholly disregarded any and all resources belonging to Nanotrasen, namely the phoron fuel required to operate the shuttle, completely wasted on their childish act of defiance. Submitted Evidence: ((As the round was ending I did not have the chance to screenshot everything, however my Captain had the away site waiver on her person at the end of the round)) Did you report it to a Head of Staff or a superior? If so, who? If not, why?: I was the highest ranking authority on station. Transfer prevented me from taking any further action aside from detainment against the two. Actions taken: They were detained for transfer to Odin, but the transfer shuttle had long since left. Additional Notes: I cannot stress the importance of, during a galaxy wide phoron shortage, the absolute buffoonery of their actions causing a large waste of phoron marked specifically for scientific expeditions, not wanton, foolhardy rescue missions.

It doesn't make sense to do this. Science sub level is designed the way it is with the thought in mind that if something terrible happens, be it a horrid anomaly from xenoarchaeology, some kind of containment breach in xenobiology, or an outbreak in xenobotany, that the sub level can be safely locked down in a variety of ways, and the only ways out are the elevator, which can be secured, or going out through space, which, no matter what you do that's always going to be an option on a space station. Looking at this from a purely in universe perspective, they would never, ever, EVER remove the blast doors from xenobotany, especially not with the chance of a kois outbreak present, let alone something worse, and they wouldn't add an easy access ladder incase some worst case scenario happened in any one of those departments, which is always a possibility,, not even factoring in antags, in the Aurora SS13 universe.

I have to agree with Schwann on this, very droopy, not a fan of that. It looks very, very strange as a result

I think Head of Security's should absolutely know about the Nuke. I wouldn't trust a single Chief Engineer with this knowledge, though. Not even a little bit. I don't think the CMO needs to know either. An argument could be made for the Research Director, BUT I think Research Directors should have a mind shield as well, aside from the fact that they're expected to be trusted with all of the Aurora's research, they are suppose to be one of the most important staff aboard a research station. I think the Head of Security, Captain, and Research Director should know, and the Research Director should be mind shielded to prevent that knowledge from leaking out in a worst case scenario of their kidnapping or someone trying to get information out of them via some form of mind manipulation. The Head of Personnel doesn't need to know either, they're just a glorified paper pusher.

TO: Safaa Sadar, Assistant, NSS Aurora FROM: CCIAAMS, NTCC Odin SUBJECT: RE: Incident Report -------------------- BODY: This is an automated message to inform you that an investigation has now been closed and archived. -------------------- DTG: 20-3:26-TAU CETI STANDARD-10-2462 SIGN: CCIAAMS

It's the most low RP game mode conceivable on a High RP server. It's not worth the 2 rounds that were good out of the trillion that were not. Remove wizard, remove magistake, and do what we did with malf AI. Replace them with something new, like Burglars. Pleeease.