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The Zo’ra join the fight! Dis opened! Following a brief announcement from High Queen Vaur’skiyet’sca of Hive Zo’ra, it has been determined that the Republic of Biesel will be allowing Hive Zo’ra to deploy over 8,000 Unbound Warriors and over 300 Warforms belonging to the Zo’ra that were previously being held under supervision in a facility codenamed ‘Dis’ on Caprice for the purposes of repelling the recent Solarian invasion force, with the majority of these warriors and warforms being from Lesser Queen Zoleth’s brood. These forces will likely be concentrated on a mix of both boarding Solarian vessels and repelling incursions on friendly vessels at the same time, playing a crucial role in both the offense and defense of the conflict, aiding the stressed TCFL and Corporate forces as they struggle to keep up with the 35th Fleet’s invasion. The following is an excerpt from a speech given by Ta’Akaix’Zoleth’akeh Zo’ra shortly after the announcement of the Zo’rane troops joining the war effort. “For the past five years, The Zo’ra have lived in Tau Ceti peacefully alongside its citizens. It was a time of peace and, to an extent, prosperity. But alas, times have changed. I am able to recognize when the time for war has come, and I will do what is necessary to ensure both my hive’s safety, and the safety of Biesel as well. We will drive the intruders from the system, or die trying. And they cannot hope to stymie our wrath for their transgressions.” Following the end of this speech, the official order for the Zo’ra to move out was given, and thousands of warriors, as well as the feared warforms, have already joined the battle raging in the system to great effect. Due to the Vaurca being naturally resistant to the vacuum of space, they make stellar candidates for exterior boarding of vessels. At the time of writing, eight ships have surrendered to Vaurca boarding parties, with more assured to come in due time.

The K'lax brood of Leto has been rewritten by yours truly. https://wiki.aurorastation.org/index.php?title=Leto,_The_Seeker Now with no Vox.

Possible operations on Mars! New information from a source inside of the Alliance of Sovereign Solarian Nations has revealed the possibility of a large operation being performed on Mars by the Solarian Government, though not all details are known. Currently intel suggests these operations are no coincidence; as the Alliance's supplies and reserves of phoron begin to dwindle during the shortage, more and more fleets of government freighters are rumored to be carrying this crucial material. Since there have been no major military movements in Martian space, this can only lead more credence to the theory. Alliance officials have condemned what they view as an 'unrestrained rumormill', insisting these suspicions have no basis in reality and that further allegations of irregular phoron movement or usage are nothing but unsubstantiated speculation by parties uninvolved and uninformed. Our insider source has refused to give more information at this time, though we will be closely investigating the situation for any further details, so stay tuned!

Well, the answers to the questions satisfy me enough. I support the app.

I miss the days of Obrigald and that one IPC who sold magic to people. Unfortunately good wizards seem to have gone effectively extinct, so cutting this tumor out now would likely be a good idea, though my only real concern is that the antag list grows ever shorter.

Sorry, but Trix are for kids. Denied In all seriousness, I have quite literally never had a problem with Shen OOCly, as they are an amazing person, writer, and roleplayer. I am very confident in her ability to play a character, even though a medical Za makes me a little skeptical. The backstory is definitely one of the more fleshed out ones I have witnessed of late, and stands out in a few areas, which is very nice considering that is one of the hardest parts for a Vaurca character in the works. That said, I have questions. 1) What does Trix think of the Mi'kuetz? Being a K'lax in the wastes, they likely know what they are. 2) How does Trix view the hegemony? 3) How do you plan on showing how a Za is not typically meant for a healer's role?

Some of these are good suggestions, and the point made at the beginning is definitely true. I stopped playing recently for a combo of reasons, but medical being bulldozed and changed every other day somehow was definitely one of the biggest ones. (SERIOUSLY STOP CHANGING THE FUCKING CHEM NAMES, CHRIST) As for infections and what Prate said, more often than not shrapnel doesn't actually do anything other than the occasional pain message. I have never seen it lead to an infection personally. And even then all infections are solved magically by constantly pumping Thetamycin into the patient's bloodstream. Different types of infections with different treatments could do wonders to keep things interesting, as medical has turned back into a conveyor belt as almost all problems can be solved by throwing the patient onto the surgery bed and healing organs while you fix the original problem. Sleepers only really get used for dialysis and the stomach pump, and so on so forth. As for Cryo Tubes, please god do that. They are literally more harmful to the patient than helpful. Putting someone with an injury in there is basically a death sentence. Making them actually stabilize people means they could actually get used for once. As for addictions and physical therapy, these sound like very nice additions. It would also give Nurse characters more to do as it could fall in line with them to help (or at least would, I looked at the git log and noticed all the alt titles are getting nuked anyway hahAhahAHH). Not to mention I have not seen an actual psych for weeks on end due to the lack of mechanics and the role not being fun in general. All in all, spicing up medical a bit with changes like this would be wonderful. +1

Hep definitely has my support. They’ve been a good influence for as long ad I can remember, and I am very confident in their ability to be Central Command. +1

+1 please god yes I beg of thee the amount of times people have rammed Iv's away from patients is staggering and is annoying as fuck

Well, its fairly obvious that you care about the app, with the proofreading, questions to myself and others, and even pointing out lore issues in the lore chat. And from your player backstory I can tell you obviously know the gist of vaurca and how they operate. That being said, I have questions™ 1) What was their first reaction to the world around them once exiting VR? 2) What is their opinion on the hegemony?

I may just be dense but what exactly do yoh mean by flipped?

Hiiii. Glad to see someone finally noticed the dev apps are still open. So, that said, I find this intriguing and have questions™ for you. 1) What would you change first about the queenless? 2) Warforms are generally pretty up to the imagination even if most of the time it does translate to 'big bug go smash and puke napalm'. What is one of the ideas you have in mind for a warform? Can be minor or major. 3) How willing are you to work with other species in terms of lore arcs and the like? 4) Are you willing to run events? If so, how big?

Not a +1 or a -1, but my opinion is that this will only turn into a fuckload of drama over people 'throwing' or being accused thereof, or people half ass playing because they didn't want to be forced into playing cultist. I personally think the rune should just kill someone after a certain number of tries.

-1 on armored gloves due to the reasons Hepatica stated. They would be COMPLETELY resostant to stuns and would take an absolute fuckton of lasers or bullets to actually go down, speaking as someone who has been cult a bit as well. And thats for more than one cultist as well. The cult robes already need to be toned down, removing one of the only counters is a bad idea until that happens.

I don't think lings need an out tbh. Most of the time their rounds end with either them in custody, decapped/gibbed/incinerated, or causing an evac shuttle.

I don't think I have literally ever had a bad interaction with Abo or his characters. He is always a delight to see IC and has always been friendly and agreeable OOC. I have also never heard any ill of him from....pretty much anyone else, really. Has a good handle on the rules and a level head. +1

From what I remember, the problem with humans having alien races is that humans literally cannot produce the right sounds, or understand them. Or do any body language required like that one tajaran language I forget the name of.

I feel like having two of the same role with the same gear, job expectations, and etc will only cause the two to step on eachother. There are so many mysteries a round and both of them doing the same thing might cause some annoyance.

Those pretty much solves my grievances yeah, thanks!

I also think the OD for tricord should either be removed or raised to 40-60. The main reasons for this is that A, tricord is very VERY slow and typically means people will inject a shitload regardless, and B, medibots. Medibots inject 15u at a time and in the cases there are 2 in the medbay lobby, people with minor bruising would be immediately OD’d.

Believe it or not, this is indeed how applications work when the lore writers have no feedback to go off of. Just because you submitted answers to their questions does not mean that they are obligated to respond in kind, and the questions are usually used to determine how your character is different on an individual basis and to affirm that you do know some of the niches of the species' lore. In the case where they already made up their mind, the questions were likely just your chance to change their mind. We look for people with enough time to where someone can list your character and we can get a rough gist of how you play, hence why getting some game time is important. Sorry, but that is just how this works. Also, the attitude is not doing you any favors. Relax.

I can definitely agree with pretty much all of the points Sherman brought up, and can also back up the fact that they would definitely be a valuable lore team member. The points on Dominia are the part I want to see change with the most, as it does seem that most Dominian players follow a sort of template to being a religious ass who cause trouble just because. Seeing that change would be lovely, because I do very much like the concept of Dominia as a whole. However, like Matt, I feel like asking a question. So, that question is: What would you change about Dominia first?

I agree with pretty much everything Kermit had to say. More or less what I have attempted to convey, but looking back on my previous posts and discord conversations, my comments have been more like angry rambling than anything constructive, which I apologize for, so Kermit puts it a lot better.

I did read the thread. And telling people to fuck off and deal with it when they interpret something means you clearly didn't think about it too hard. The fact you seem to not care about the feedback only worsens my impressions on both the result and the intentions of this thread overall. Doing that RP is made harder by the fact everyone is the same damn role now, so you'd have multiple people stepping on eachother trying to do the exact same thing The point about it not solving the problem in the first place still stands, you saying 'see above' and ignoring it does not help. As for number 6, that isn't even what I said. I said you can't use Star Trek as an excuse.