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Sounds good. In order to understand the backstory a bit more, what changed between Rusty starting out in D14 to now that meant they got work at Nanotrasen? Why did they struggle to find work in Mendell City initially? District 14 might not have a sizable human population but there is the rest of Mendell as well as nearby space stations. What were the odd jobs that they did here and there?

Thank you for the clarifications and additional content. Just to clarify, Rusty continued to work at the clinic once free?

Sounds good! Your application demonstrates an understanding of IPCs. Accepted.

Thank you for the clarifications. For a last set of questions: Do you envision character progression for Charlie? If it keeps being wiped, how will it handle daily interactions? Will the character remain the same?

Hello, thank you for applying, I like the idea of reclaiming a word. What do you mean by this line here? When MU-1525 became free, why couldn't they find work as a physician in Mendell City or elsewhere? Especially if later on they were able to find work with Nanotrasen. Was the discrimination MU-1525 faced only verbal? Does Rusty have any particular purpose? How do they view themselves? How did it allocate the needed funds? Was this through tips, friendship between the patients or by just doing a good job? If it was money offered by its patients, how did MU-1525 feel about organics in the face of such kindness? Did MU-1525 cut contact with these people once free?

Thank you for the expansion. After convening with my team I had a few more questions. What is the character beyond the noir aesthetic? How has the constant reconstruction affected Charlie? Has it experienced memory wipes during so? How has that had an impact on the characater? What does Charlie think of self ownership or it's purpose?

More about the lore, how they differ mentally, philosophically, etc etc. If it helps, I try to wrap up an application after at a maximum of 72 hours since it's posted, so you have time.

Hello, thank you for applying. Are you able to greatly expand on the backstory as well as the question of how they differ from humans? Although the blank-slate character is suitable to IPCs, it isn't suitable for whitelist applications where one needs to demonstrate an understanding of the 'race'. I recommend trying to tell a story with it, while delving into what makes up the character.

Xenoarcheology is a nice relaxing job and nothing is really expected of you. The process of finding and extracting artifacts can be difficult and a long wiki dive but generally since the role relies on no one and no one relies on you, you're more than welcome to learn at your own pace. The struggles with the job come if your artifacts are up a z level, down a z level or just generally 230+ clicks away. Sometimes you try to walk around the station to find yourself boxed into the outside of a corridor. But these are things you learn to navigate with time.

Why would a company owned IPC ever deem it appropriate to openly insult someone over the public channel radio? Especially in a way that isn’t vague or thinly veiled enough to disguise their true intention? It is a bad look for the IPC as well as the company that owns them. You are not a person, you are property, and although the EMPC contractor information may be small, the rest of the wiki on IPCs clearly details their nature and status in society. I have also told you almost 2 months ago that it wouldn't be tolerated by the company. You are not human and IPCs are systematically fragile. However people get heated in game sometimes and mistakes happen. You have gone a bit of time not publicly insulting people as an IPC, at least to my knowledge, and so I try to weigh these things. The behavior however remains questionable.

Players as well as staff are allowed to go into a lore maintainer’s DMs in order to talk about potential character issues. I get it all the time. This is not rule breaking. The information came to me in two parts, however I did not know at the time that there was more to come. As such, I rectified the matter. As it clearly states in the logs, even from the beginning, reaching out was not a warning nor was it a threat of losing one's whitelist. I have spoken to you about Swan before and I saw the same behavior repeating. A corporate owned IPC should not be declaring that someone is too poor to afford a lawyer over the public radio channels. However, since it came to light that this situation was in ‘jest’ and the two have a rivalry, I took it as something not worth pursuing, even if on some level it remains questionable. Admins are welcome to reach out to me for screenshots pertaining to Swan’s previous behavior and the warning there.

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Thank you for the clarifications and expansions. Your application demonstrates an understanding of IPCs. Accepted.

A good question about the Elyran system and something I can look into clarifying on the wiki. We've decided that it would reset if the IPC were to change hands before the three year period is up. One last set of questions. Has the act of being repeatedly memory wiped, abandoned, repaired and changing hands effected Domino's outlook at all? How do they view themselves?

Thank you for applying. Was Domino owned by an Elyran? If so, why didn't the three year ownership law apply? Elyra's method of acquiring freedom is not the same as Tau Ceti. Which, as a heads up, the 2500 credits would not fly in Tau Ceti, where an IPC is expected to pay back 10x the cost of their purchase unless the owner chose to accept that low of credits. In what way has Domino been philosophical at times? What prompted this? Why did it choose to go by Domino? What thought process went into Domino purchasing itself only to sell itself instead to Nanotrasen?

I think whitelisting the AI has been a good idea, but I don't know if we need to have the changed laws (in regards to the change once AI was whitelisted). The point of Asimov's lawset was to demonstrate how inherently flawed system was, and how they can be interpreted differently. Although we don't have Asimov's laws exactly, I do feel as though making them more restrictive means a decrease in player freedom. Granted, since we're a multiplayer game, these things need to be balanced. There's also a weird issue now where we have IC vs OOC in the laws itself. Synthetic life is not legally considered sapient, however in the guide, IPCs are considered sapient.

Thank you for the further expansions. Your application demonstrates an understanding of IPCs. Accepted.

Sounds good. Although it isn't clear on the wiki (something we're working on) databases function as an IPCs way of knowing the more complicated actions of their job while also giving us an in-lore reason for why a robot can't know everything (and thus job hop). Nevertheless, your application demonstrates an understanding of IPCs, accepted.

Aah I was worried this was in part the case. As an IPC (and an IPC loaded with information in order to be a Scientist), TalOS should understand the consequence of their actions and thus threatening someone over an item shouldn't ever reasonably happen, even if they've seen it done. An IPC would understand the political fragility they have and that by threatening a person, they are more or less opting to risk dismantlement, which in turn would go against Self Preservation. If TalOS is a chat box in a body, why have him be a scientist over an assistant?

Thanks for the further clarifications. I convened with my team and we just had one last set of questions. Why TalOS over anything else however? In terms of the how they differ from humans question, you get into the fundamentals and where they belong. Are you able to expand on how they think? If Talos hasn't thought about his purpose or existence but chooses to mirror other people/adopt traits, why is this? Where did the choice come from?

Thank you for the clarifications and expansions. I am curious what you mean by the line: Where did TalOS' name originate from? Did they choose it? Since they've spent some time on the station, how do they feel or think about their existence or purpose?

My team found the revised backstory fine. Although not huge or app breaking, one could ask why they weren't made a quartermaster, or if they have any other priorities aside from work.

Poking this just to see if it's still active. Will you be pushing out an expansion to the how IPCs differ from humans question?

Hello, thank you for applying! I like the point about how a lacking a foundational childhood would effect an IPC. Are you able to expand on how IPCs differ from humans? In terms of the backstory, what was TalOS' original reason for manufacturing and why? Was TalOS being smuggled? If so, why, and how did they acquire the cargo? Why were they headed to the Aurora? Why didn't they answer the station? If the units were found to be stolen, why weren't they returned? Why were all the other units sold other than TalOS? What role will they be on station? Lastly, I confirmed with the human maintainer but the NSS Aurora wouldn't shoot down an entire freighter. Although they would shoot down an unresponsive shuttle or escape pod.

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