The7thLain

Hi again. I'm sorry you couldn't get around to answering my follow-up questions. I understand, life happens. Thank you very much for your application here. I think you made a strong showing and posed some ideas that were unique and thought provoking. I've made the decision however to pick a different candidate. Nevertheless though, I sincerely appreciate you applying and I hope that you can continue to be member of the Aurora community who is passionate and knowledgeable about human lore. Thank you very much for applying.

Hi again. Your responses to my follow-up questions were fun to read and I sincerely appreciate you taking the time out of your weekend to answer them. I have decided to move forwards with another candidate, however, you and the other applicants to the position did not make this easy. This was by far the most competitive race for the position that I've ever seen and everyone had strong ideas and made a great showing, you included. I am very happy to have had you apply for this position and I hope that this refusal does not discourage you from continuing to be active and show a passion for human lore in the form of your characters, roleplay, and contributions to our wiki pages in the form of LCAs. I think you should be proud of what you've made here. Thank you very much for applying.

Hi again. Thank you very much for taking the time out of your weekend to answer the follow-up questions I posed to you, I sincerely appreciate it. I think you have some wonderful ideas for what human lore might have been under your direction, but I have decided to pick another candidate. This wasn't an easy decision for me as all of our candidates showed a lot of promise and made this race a very competitive one. However, I want to thank you for applying and showing a commitment and passion for human lore. I sincerely appreciate your effort here and I think you should be proud of what you've written and submitted. Thank you so much for applying.

Hi again. Thank you very much for your answers to these feedback questions, I appreciate you taking the time out of your weekend to do that. After some consideration though, I have decided to pick another applicant for the position. This was not an easy choice for me to make as this round of applications was by far the most competitive that I have seen in the five years that I've been the human lore maintainer. You should be proud of how good your showing was here. I hope to see you continue to have a passion for human lore and see your contributions in our community in whatever form they take, your, LCAs you might make, or in the RP you might bring to the server. Thank you very much for applying.

Hello again. This was not an easy decision for me to make; this round of applications was by far the most competitive I've ever seen in the 5 and a half years I've been the human lore maintainer. Everyone had a very good showing, but, congratulations! You you have got the job. I will reach out to you on discord shortly.

Hi! Thank you for your application. Please pardon my delay in posting these questions, it's been Thanksgiving week and I've had little time to get to responding to you and the other candidates. I've read it over and I have a few questions for you to answer at your earliest convenience, but preferably by the end of this weekend if you can manage it. If you do not answer by then, I will move forward with making a decision on your application without the information sought by the questions below. 1. You have submitted a number of LCAs to our team over the course of your time playing here on Aurora. What does the writer position allow for you to do that simply making LCAs doesn't? You mentioned that you can contribute more than just by simply submitting LCAs, but I would like to hear your thoughts on why you are applying for the writer position specifically. 2. Your ideas for arcs are interesting and certainly seem to stick to an event-focused story rather than using articles or the like. Do you have any experience in running or volunteering for story or non-canon event rounds beyond just being a normal player in them? 3. Your thoughts on what to do for Elyra are interesting. I think the inter-faction dynamic could be a unique change to the country, but I do worry about it falling into some of the traps that some other factions in the setting have, that being a sort of frozen political conflict, where the factionalism and rivalry is stated to exist but nothing ever really happens with it. Could you elaborate some on how you would play with that dynamic in the future?

Hi! Thank you for your application. Please pardon my delay in posting these questions, it's been Thanksgiving week and I've had little time to get to responding to you and the other candidates. I've read it over and I have a few questions for you to answer at your earliest convenience, but preferably by the end of this weekend if you can manage it. If you do not answer by then, I will move forward with making a decision on your application without the information sought by the questions below. 1. You mentioned the material scarcity and economic conditions being something that you would like to expand upon and describe how they impact the lives of humans in the spur. Please name some ways specifically that you might write these impacts into our lore. These can be general or location-specific if you want to get that granular. 2. Elyra seems to be a hot-button issue for many of our applicants this time around. Could you explain some more on what your rework would entail beyond the crisis you mentioned? What would Elyra look like after the crisis has finished? 3. Beyond your ideas of setting importance and article complexity ratings for pages, what other ways would you like to streamline the organization/digestion of human lore pages? We on the team also agree that some of our pages can be somewhat intimidating to newcomers or even longtime players due to their length, complexity, or both, and would like a more thorough explanation of your ideas in addressing this issue.

Hi! Thank you for your application. Please pardon my delay in posting these questions, it's been Thanksgiving week and I've had little time to get to responding to you and the other candidates. I've read it over and I have a few questions for you to answer at your earliest convenience, but preferably by the end of this weekend if you can manage it. If you do not answer by then, I will move forward with making a decision on your application without the information sought by the questions below. 1. I am intrigued by your assertions on the ideas of the Solarian and Coalition Super Cultures in comparison to the Elyran and Dominian ones. Given Sol's current state, how would you try to highlight this super culture more beyond the general rhetoric that the Sol Alliance might say about itself? How would you square this strengthened super culture with the diversity of Sol's various worlds? 2. Elyra is a topic that many applicants have brought up as "something in need of a look at." Due to the popularity of this topic, I would be bereft if I didn't ask you about your thoughts for the what the future of the faction might hold from the OOC standpoint of a human writer. What are your goals for the faction and what do you want it to look like once you have achieved them? 3. The phoron scarcity is likely going to last until the soft-reboot/NBT2-ening that is being worked on at the moment by the devs and the lore team. The "aftermath" of the scarcity is likely going to be a team-wide decision and has yet to be determined. Since you cannot write about the aftermath, I would like to hear a little more about your thoughts for just what the corporate-unrelated (since the Human Lore Team doesn't have direct purview over what corporations do or how they act most of the time) impacts of the scarcity might be on a general scale or location-specific scale, specifically impacts that escalate as time goes on.

Hi! Thank you for your application. Please pardon my delay in posting these questions, it's been Thanksgiving week and I've had little time to get to responding to you and the other candidates. I've read it over and I have a few questions for you to answer at your earliest convenience, but preferably by the end of this weekend if you can manage it. If you do not answer by then, I will move forward with making a decision on your application without the information sought by the questions below. 1. I would like to hear your ideas for what the "vibe of economic depression" might look like in your writing. I agree that it is something we should have, but how would you personally try to achieve that in the lore you would write? 2. Your idea for an arc does seem fun-fun-fun, as you put it. I think that we sometimes do forget that this is a game we play for fun. What I am interested in though is what impact this arc might have in the Horizon's story as a whole. Arcs take time and planning and because of that we usually want them to be tied into the ship's/crew's/setting's overall narrative, even if just ostensibly with the latter. How would connect it? 3. A lot of the additions you've mentioned seem like they have some promise, but they all sort of fall into the category of broader explanations of extant socio-cultural or scientific factors that exist within human factions and cataloguing them. Do you have any additions that you would want to add that are outside of this sort of statistics-minded lore?

Hi! Thank you for your application. Please pardon my delay in posting these questions, it's been Thanksgiving and I've had little time to get to responding to you and the other candidates. I've read it over and I have a few questions for you to answer at your earliest convenience, but preferably by the end of this weekend if you can manage it. If you do not answer by then, I will move forward with making a decision on your application without the information sought by the questions below. 1. When you mention fleshing out the daily life for what planets in the Sol System might look like, what do you have in mind? I don't need a full explanation for all the planets (that would be too much work for just this question), but I would appreciate some specifics that are illustrative of the trend you would want to write out. 2. A Dominian arc focused on the colonial empire flexing its muscles is something that holds a fair bit of potential in my opinion, to the point where the concept has been thrown around every now and then within the human lore team itself. It's an interesting idea for sure, but I would like to know a little more about what your narrative goals would be for an arc like that, should you have a part in writing it. What do you want to achieve in the story? 3. A lot of what you have mentioned here is very setting-wide and big picture. A wide outlook is good for writing something as large as human lore, but we also write this lore for a game that we all play set on a ship flying through space. How would you want to see these changes or impacts that you've proposed effect the Horizon and its crew? You can pick whichever ideas that you've already mentioned and apply them to answering this question.

Hello everyone! Once again the time has come for us in the Human Lore Team to fill a vacancy in our ranks. We are quite excited to open up applications for a Deputy Writer position here and are excited to see what thoughts and ideas our candidates might apply with and how the greater Aurora community might perceive them. I have headed the human lore team for over five years at this point and I am very excited to help usher in this next chapter of what human lore on Aurorastation might look like. My deputy @NewOriginalSchwann and I both will be watching these applications with great interest and will offer feedback to the candidates after the community has been given some time to interact with their submissions. Before I show the questions that the application consists of, it would be prudent of me to express some of the Expectations and Standards that apply to a person in a human lore deputy writer position. They have been included in a spoilerised dropdown below. To our potential applicants, please be sure to thoroughly read and digest these before you apply. Rules for Commenters: Anyone can comment on the application, however those offering comments to the applicants must maintain good conduct and follow the server & forum’s rules. The same goes for applicants responding to those offering feedback on their applications. Brigading is strictly prohibited. Mass -1’s without any sort of substance or feedback of an applicant’s applications will not be tolerated and will result in moderation actions being taken. Applicants are free to comment on the applications of their fellow candidates and leave constructive feedback, however comments that are seen as unprofessional or comments that disparage one candidate in favour of the commenter’s own ideas or application are prohibited. Those candidates that comment in this manner will have their applications swiftly rejected. Format: Candidates must make their respective applications as new topic forum posts under the applications boards sections and clearly title them in a way that it would communicate to a reasonable Aurora forum browser that they are indeed applying for the Human Lore Deputy position. Along with this, applicants should clearly provide their BYOND Ckeys and how long they have been a member of the Aurorastation community at the top of their applications. Please also tag your post with the tags of "lore writer," and "human." When answering the questions asked in the application, please copy and paste the questions onto your application and then provide your answers to each question respectively. Application Questions: The application questions can be found below in a spoilerised drop-down. Time Parameters: These applications will be open for three weeks (2025/10/28 - 2025/11/18) so as to allow our prospective candidates enough time to get their ideas out there. While an applicant is free to post whenever they please within that time window, we encourage those interested in the position to apply early so that there can be more community participation and engagement on their posts. We want to inspire discussion and conversation with these applications and look forward to reading the interactions between the community and the applicants themselves.

Hi! Thank you for applying. After looking this over, we have decided to accept your application. It will be on the wiki shortly after some edits have been made on our end.

Hi. Sorry for the substantial delay in getting to this. After reading it over we have decided to move in a different direction with the political lore of Sol and will not be accepting this application. Thank you for applying, however. Best, Lain

Sorry on the substantial delay on this. Your additions have been accepted and will be posted to the wiki pending edits.

Hello and thank you for your application. Upon further review and consultation with the IPC team and the Lore Team Management for the IPC and phoron-related parts of this post, we must decline the addition of these proposed changes and deny this application. They are not concurrent with how the IPC team wishes their species to be written with new synthetic vaults added to planets elsewhere than Konyang. Also, we the Human team disagree with their additions as part of Dominia's history. However, this was really interesting for us to read and we enjoyed the concept. It's made us think about adding something to the Dominian lore which gives them a broader explanation for the anti-IPC part of their faction beyond a religious doctrine that appears unjustified from an OOCly position. We want to add some explanation for that in the future and we wouldn't have thought of that unless it were not for this application. As such, when we add that content, whenever that might be and whatever form it takes, we will be crediting the both of you as writers in the announcement we make on the Discords and in the wiki's changelog. Thank you again for submitting your application.