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Aww thanks! I'm absolutely horrible when it comes to color, so Im proud of it. Ever wonder why she shouts this so much...? XD

You have been invited into a chatroom. Members: Echo A-001 Do you wish to accept? (Y)/(N)

I want to be a part of this...so bad. Did I miss anything major?

Well, my IPCw Echo 1 and 2 were formerly pAIs. I haven't been informed it wasn't possible. Echo 1 is a shard of a larger system, who was disconnected from her network due to corruption. Instead of wiping her, researchers transferred her data to a posibrain to study her corruption develop. Since she was able to remain stable, Echo 2 was made next, a shard that was uploaded into a posibrain without the corruption.

To b honest I really like the tags as well. I still arpee them even if we lost them to new code. I'm sad I missed their first implementation and I'm bummed that I might miss out a second time. My poor desktop doesn't want to power on. Q.q

Excellent choice, sir. HIIIIIIIIIISSS

Well then...I missed that news article. This will be interesting...I should play my Tajara Tavaku more...

Wait, when was this changed? Last I remember Tajara were more accepting to homosexuality. They were tolerant on interspecies too - not all out accepting, but tolerant.

Omg I love this. I adore this so much. I can't wait to get back and partake in the shenanigans Woo

Minerva Linville: A link to Researcher Mo'Taki's speech - http://forums.aurorastation.org/viewtopic.php?f=69&t=6512

Okay, so I'm working on one of my IPCs criminal records, and I just want to make sure this is plausible: The IPC is a property unit, owned by a human. One day while they are out and about in the city of Mendell, a thug comes over and assaults the owner, with a dangerous and lethal weapon. The IPC intervenes, defending its owner - albeit a little too viciously. After the attack, paramedics are called to the scene, and the attacker is rushed away to the hospital, where he later dies of his injuries. The IPC is seized because of the death of the attacker, even if it was defending its owner. What would this be classed as? Self-defense? Excessive use of force? Negligent Manslaughter on the owner's part? And who would receive the blunt of the law, the owner or the IPC? If this was discovered to be an issue in the IPC where it could physically be unable to gauge how 'effective' its strikes were (It is a service unit, not a combat unit - it could not control it), would the IPC be forced for mandatory repairs, or would it be seized by the city and decomissioned? Or, would the owner have a say in keeping their unit from being scrapped as it is their rightful property, take the blunt of the blame themselves for not fixing the issue earlier, and seek out repairs for their unit? In the end, the IPC was only defending its owner from a dangerous weapon, that could have severely wounded/killed their master. There was no malice in there. How would the court handle a case like this?

I would say they would be expected to remain off duty, unless a crisis happens where their specific talent is needed. For example, say Chief Engineer Jane comes to the station, off duty. But no one is setting up power. She can get herself promoted to her job, set up power, and then go back to being off-duty. Odin would receive a log that so-and-so had been temporarily given a job, and they'd get a nice little off-duty bonus for their work. From what I get, you're thinking this scenario: let's say CE Jane wanted to be CE that shift, but the job was already taken by John. John saw what was happening, went, "Oh eff no, I don't wanna be head," and goes into cryo. Few minutes later, no CE for the station, and the position Jane really wanted to play, is empty. But she's already ingame as a visitor, and would have to wait an entire half hour and miss out on fun shenanigangs to come on as CE. A bit of a jerk move on John's part, and he denied Jane from the role she wanted. It's even worse when the role you wanted to play was taken up by someone who doesn't want to play, and they don't even have the decency to cryo. They just go SSD and keep the slot occupied. (That initiates a head-ban, but it happens in slot-limited roles too). It's about gaming etiquette. One incident I so vividly recall was when a cult round was voted, and I truly wanted to play my chaplain. But some random snagged the role, and just logged off in the office. Quite a jerk move, if they had done that specifically to job-lock me out of the slot I wanted. HoP was nice enough to switch my job to chaplain. HoPs are there to fix up tiny issues like that IC-wise, because we don't have the mechanics to do so. I don't see what's wrong with a visitor going OOC: "Hey, I really wanted to be officer/chaplain/Head of Staff and this guy just SSDed/Cryoed at roundstart. Can you give me the slot I really really wanted to play?" Every effort should be made to get the slot legitimately, yes, and if someone else grabbed it and played it, then the other player will just have to suck it up.

If they're smart, this won't play to their meta sense at all. It shows the sprites of the specific radio used by the name, including bounced/headsets/synth headsets/comms/etc. Which is why you steal a normal headset to do anything over the radio. Then no one will know. At least. As long as you don't pretend to be a station unit. Yeah. You can't mimic those.

Wait. That's a thing? Also: IAN SHIRT

Wow. Um. Okay. Snowflake as ever! But all robots are snowflake, and I see nothing implausible here! Except, I dunno. I feel like any scrapheap that was picked up off of the outskirts of Biesel would be meticulously combed for ulterior and shady motives, before even being allowed to set foot in such sanctified human grounds. ...Who am I to talk, I have a Frontier robot too, heh. Yeah, I can see this working. It's just riiight on the border of 'approval'/'disapproval' But..it's over the fence. I just want to ask, what's the plausibility of this Director setting up a lab in the middle of nowhere?

The war is very recent in Tajaran history. He wouldn't have enough time to be influenced by its effects, then travel all the way to Biesel, get into prominent schooling, get good grades, and graduate as a full-fledged station engineer. That takes a great deal of time and effort. At most, I'd see him getting lucky and landing an apprenticeship, especially if he was brand new to the field.

Minerva Linville: If you haven't heard yet, Mendell City Bugle has posted a news article for Neopolymus, an IPC who will be facing charges for murder. The IPC is a free unit, and allegedly acted out in self defense. Several protest groups have been organized, and we of course have been joining them. This unit deserves a fair trial, not one that is balanced on ignorance and unjustified fear. I urge you all to go and show your support.

Login > Shadow Password > *************** Access Level > Cell Network Informant Net Access > Granted Welcome ...Welp, it was nice knowing you. Maybe I'll attend your funeral.

Ew. No. Gag. But on topic, the idea of having food lose their temperature is a good point - it's also not too sanitary to leave food out like that for so long. What we could do is replace the marble tables with buffet tables, and people could pick up ready made food from there. That way, food stays heated and yummy, and we don't need to change it out. If chefs want to be fancy, they can take orders as well.

You... *Sharpens axe*

*points to own signature* It's a theme.

Synthetic Intelligence Movement armband, yep!

Oh, good heavens. Okay. I've gone ahead and updated the original post, explaining things a bit more further in detail. Go ahead and skim it over again since a few things were addressed and changed. FIRST: Vegetarianism/Veganism is not unnatural. I was primarily-vegetarian/pescatarian for over ten years of my life. I lived. You gotta do your research, but you can live a very healthy, proactive lifestyle without meat. There are actually health benefits for cutting meat out of your diet and replacing it with healthier protein-based plant products. It's not so strange as so many people make it out to believe. Truuuuust me. Biting is not to make Tajara more furry. Nooooo. But, I concede - people brand new and unfamiliar with Aurora lore are going to see it this way. But I hope our community had been entrenched enough in the Tajara lore to understand this is not the intent at all. I'll admit - I am very naive of the furry community. I know nothing about them. In my eyes, biting is a strictly animal-like behavior, and the goal was to add a spice to these aliens and make them completely out of the norm. @Hive: I haven't seen that behavior from tajara since I came back, really. They're pretty passive because of their culture, yeah, but M'Sai were once hunters. Can't you trust the current whitelist holders not to go pure feral at just being called a catbeast? They'll go through the means of filing incident reports first. They'll talk it out before claws come out.

I tried. I truly did. I wanted to give her a more elongated snout, but it just looked weird. She still looks alium, right? There.