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Tropical Storm Ernesto hits Peterdiezel Boating Competition Shortly before passing through the Peterdiezel Boat Racing Competition, tropical storm Ernesto was upgraded to a Category 3, sustaining winds of 182 km/h or 98 kt as it descended onto the competitors that were forced to endure its devastation. Due to the composition of Biesel’s landmass to ocean ratio being disproportionate, creating situations where the impact of these tropical storms can be multiplied two-fold. Several of the competitors chose to cease their efforts in pursuing the competition in the face of Ernesto, attempting to secure their seafaring vessels against the turbulent winds and the torrential downpour that kept worsening as it continued to move south across Xavier’s Sea. Other competitors continued in hopes of reaching the eye of the cyclone, such as the Mendell City Boat Club, New Marfa Yacht Club, and the Sunshine City Sailors. Due to the disturbances created by Ernesto, Ingi Usang Entertainment Company has announced that streaming will return as soon as it has passed over. Despite repeat attempts by the competition authorities to reach the three teams that pushed through Ernesto, all have been unsuccessful. They have affirmed that there is yet to be enough reason to be concerned, however, they will be keeping an eye on the developing situation. NanoTrasen has confirmed that they have search and rescue teams on standby in the event they are required. Regardless, shortly before tropical storm Ernesto hit the competitors, the Mendell City Boat Club had managed to secure themselves in first, with the New Marfa Yacht Club following closely behind as they sailed into the approaching barrage. The Sunshine City Sailors sailed into third, and were last seen trailing not far behind the New Marfa Yacht Club competitors. Until the environmental disturbances have lifted significantly, these positions will continue being reflected. Emblem of the Sunshine City Sailors

Peterdiezel Competition Threatened by Storms Twenty-four hours into the Peterdiezel Boat Racing Competition, we’ve been watching in anticipation as the teams put all their effort into cruising across Xavier’s Sea along the western continental coast of Eos. Drawing from footage provided by Ingi Usang Entertainment Company, it is clear that some team’s efforts have been paying off. The Mictlan Marineros find themselves pulling ahead, tentatively securing first place, with the Europan Submariners following closely behind the Marineros, and in third the competitors from the New Marfa Yacht Club. The next five qualifying competitors are the Sunshine City Sailors, Phoenixport Phantoms, Swimstars, Moghesian Fishing League Guild and Mendell City Boat Club. Despite the thrilling entertainment provided by the Peterdiezel Competition, reality reminds us that mother nature bows to no one. Meteorologists have been studying data gained from early warning detection systems, alongside satellite information, and confirm that the competitors may be facing intense weather conditions as Tropical Storm Ernesto makes its way south across Xavier’s Sea. They have assured that it will likely dissipate before reaching Craterview, but it may negatively impact those caught in it. Several of the teams find themselves sponsored by notable entities, with the New Marfa Yacht Club being awarded a sponsorship by Elco, a state-owned enterprise in the Serene Republic of Elyra responsible for its phoron extraction, refinement and research. Additionally, Mendell City Boat Club has become one of NanoTrasen’s most notable sponsorships, sporting the logo of the megacorporation as a flying flag as it cuts through the competition, slowly but surely. Its rivals the Phoenixport Phantoms find themselves supported by Einstein Engines, the livery across their seafaring vessel making it quite obvious.

Peterdiezel Boat Racing Competition Begins! The annual Peterdizel Boat Racing Competition begins at 09h30am and will only conclude in three days, after a gruelling eighty hours that the competitors will experience together. It is watched by millions across the Republic of Biesel, as well as the greater Orion Spur. For the last few years, Ingi Usang Entertainment Company has been responsible for streaming it and shall continue the annual tradition again. Teams have travelled from lightyears away to take part in the competition, most notably the Sunshine City Sailors who hail from Silversun’s Mulobi-Mbisi. They will be competing alongside the Mendell City Boat Club, the Cape Cods, New Marfa Yacht Club, Phoenixport Phantoms, Mictlan Marineros and many others. Craterview has become their home for the last week as they finish their final preparations before embarking. The competition takes place across a large span of Biesel’s oceans, measuring an impressive one-thousand-eight-hundred-and-eighty-five nautical miles. With most of the seafaring crafts restricted to a speed of twenty knots, it is likely that we’ll see them in the last legs of the competition in the early hours of Monday morning. Regardless of your origin, we wish luck to all those competing in the Peterdiezel Boat Racing Competition. Route of the Peterdiezel Boat Racing Competition Not Drawn To Scale

I will get a decision to you by Sunday, the 5th.

I am one of those who does not wear the uniform, and I've understood that not doing so can land me up in a heap of trouble - ICly, at least. I concur with what Bear has said regarding that people have different subjective interpretations of what is appropriate, and what is not, but I think that an outline on the "Security Officer" wikipage would help clarify the situation. We already have a clarification for Roboticists that refuse cyborgification, which we expect players to adhere to, so I do not think that it would be too difficult to do the same for the Security Officer role.

I think you roleplay well sometimes, but other times you sometimes lean into the mechanics of Security v Antag. You are improving, which is always a good sign, but I think perhaps some more time is required for me to support this application. I'll be keeping an eye on your characters you've listed above when playing, and I'll take note to see if my opinion here no longer applies. Regardless, I wish you luck for your application. Thanks for coming to Aurora!

We have to be very careful what images we place on the Wiki, as it could come back to bite us in the ass. If possible, please reference where you got the images and the licensing that they fall under. Besides that, I enjoyed reading this update, and I give my support for its approval, should Lain accept it.

Please update your format to reflect the changes, otherwise I will place this as 'medium' impact addition - the time interval of a month begins now.

Two weeks start now.

Labelling this as a 'small' impact. Two weeks starts now.

Please adhere to the new requirements. I'm currently labelling it as 'medium' where the time interval of a month begins now.

The Lore Team is at an impasse right now regarding this. There question right now is: do we need this? If you have the time, and are willing to further pursue this, would you mind exploring and expanding on what you've submitted? Maybe throw in some cool history facts, and just generally more. Otherwise it was a good read, but just feels like it could be expanded upon.

Final Round of Bidding Concludes, Einstein Secures Foothold The majority of Phoenixport’s corporate assets have been given out in the three day long auction session, with NanoTrasen Corporation and Idris Incorporated managing to acquire around half of total, maintaining focus on crucial utilities such as shipping, telecommunications, entertainment services and the shuttleport. With this, the corporation’s plan on keeping the city integrated with the rest of Biesel has been achieved, blocking Einstein Engines from turning the city into an enclave, as it was before. On their part, the solarian company targeted the research and media sectors, managing to maintain their hold over the multitude of important laboratories, compounds and offices, securing an important foothold in the city and Biesel. The day began with the arrival of Miranda Trasen’s motorcade, accompanied by close relative Nathan Trasen in a surprise visit. Wearing a conservative white shirt with a black suit jacket, the NanoTrasen Chief Executive Officer entered the building without offering any comments, preferring to let her cousin handle the press. Nathan Trasen's statement: Following the Trasens, Alex Mason’s reinforced Langenfeld limousine came into sight about ten minutes later, with staff clad in dark cyan and coat-wearing shellframe IPC opening the doors and clearing the path for the banking magnate and his team. No comment was given, though very few questions were asked to begin with. Proceedings continued as usual, lasting well into the night, Idris Incorporated securing the Phoenix Agricultural Bank as their newest asset for the modest sum of 272.87 million credits. The final item was auctioned at 11pm Tau Ceti Standard Time, the event concluding twenty minutes after the Trasens and Alex Mason stepped out, of which a video was taken:

Phoenixport Asset Auction Commences The bidding process for the corporate assets located in the city of Phoenixport has been put together in record time, organised and overseen by the Mayor and City Council with support from the central government. The event is open to all parties, though major players include the NanoTrasen Corporation, Idris Incorporated and a determined Einstein Engines, set to defend their holdings. Subjects of the auction include dozens of public and private companies, infrastructure and other assets, most prominent of them being Selene Shuttleport Limited, Phoenix Telecom, the Selenian Agricultural Bank and the Bateau Shipping Company. Analysts see NanoTrasen try to purchase the majority of these holdings in an effort to regain control of the city, though issues with the liquidity required for such an undertaking have been made apparent by the meetings between CEO Miranda Trasen and banking magnate Alex Mason at one of Adram Idris’ estates in rural Ashton. While the subject of the conversation is unknown, it’s widely speculated that an agreement for expedient financial support in exchange for further integration of Idris Incorporated in Tau Ceti is in order. Nonetheless, it is indicative of NanoTrasen’s close relation with their new ally. Commented Rook Keller, NanoTrasen’s 71 year old Chief Research Director, present at the auction house. Leading figures include Mio Suzuki, the famed inventor of the Suzuki-Zhang hammer drive, assigned to Tau Ceti to lead the company’s bidding, as well as Getmore CEO Mataji Khatri and their team. Miranda Trasen is rumoured to arrive during the proceedings, while Idris Incorporated is to be represented by Alex Mason. Other megacorporations such as Hephaestus Industries and Zheng-Hu Pharmaceuticals have sent observers without making any noteworthy intentions of serious participation.

This application has been accepted. Welcome to the Cult that is the Lore Team.

LORE DIARY ENTRY #15 This is a lore diary entry for April 2022. See below for changes to lore in this month! Major changes in the spoiler below! There's 1 Human, and 1 General entries. Medium-sized changes in the spoiler below! There's 1 Human, and 2 General entries. Small additional fluff in the spoiler below! There's 3 Tajaran, 4 Skrell, and 3 General entries.

It's just a name, I don't really see a difference between Chief Security Officer or Chief of Security. It will be shortened to Chief, or Commander, anyway. Regardless, Head of Security's lifeline has passed and it is time to put it out to the pasture.

Valkyrie Exchange Terminal Expands The Council of Valkyrian Affairs, more specifically Director-General Charles Arco, has announced that the Valkyrie Exchange Terminal will commence renovations and additions to both its residential and logistics sectors. Mare Gurgite is the proposed site of the Valkyrie Exchange Terminal’s expansion. Councillor of Economic Developer Arthur O’Donnell has announced that the Council will be contracting both Hephaestus Industries and the Orion Express to handle the logistics and construction of the extensions. Spanning just over a tenth of the lunar surface of Valkyrie, the Valkyrie Exchange Terminal is a non-corporate entity that manages the affairs of the biesellite moon, working closely alongside several megacorporations to fulfil economic quotas set by the greater Republic of Biesel. It has become a bastion of the biesellite multiculturalism in recent decades, which has led to the need to develop additional facilities to increase the number of residents it can house, and also provide career opportunities through expanding its logistics wing - likely to be assisted by the likes of the Orion Express.

Coalition of Colonies becomes the Coalition of Companies. Then, truly, will the Spur burn.

Goldman certainly was a character that you knew would at least make extended interesting - for lowpop, the predominate period which I play in. I do believe that returning as a Captain without additional structure to the character to address the above feedback may not be the best, however, in the position of a corporate liason would work well. Its a roleplay intensive role, which you excell at, and I think his lack of expanded authority would alleviate most of the issues that people have with the character. Additionally, people have different perspectives on Goldman, and I enjoyed most of the rounds that he featured in. I think hosting a forum like this (discussing the criticisms and requesting feedback) is definitely a step in the right direction, and I applaud you for doing so. Goodluck!

I also support Chief Security Officer.

I like this new design, but I agree with some of Yonnimers points. Perhaps it would be better for the Kitchen and Library to swap their location so that the Kitchen is more “central” and not necessarily just a add on on the end of a hallway? Otherwise I like the design you’ve recently done (the one you posted 9 hours ago)

Article #3 of the Training the Horizon Wild Cetus on the Horizon Information gathered from yesterday’s press release by the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate has given us insight into the progression of its flagship, the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate Vessel Horizon. The crew of the Horizon reportedly were made aware of a deep space anomaly through its integrated scanning modules - and upon approach discovered a Stellar Dionae Primo, or a Wild Dionae Cetus - a mass of Dionae so immense, in the numbers of a million Dionae Nymphs, that it can be considered a stellar body, travelling across the Corporate Reconstruction Zone. The crew of the Horizon were able to locate the Stellar Dionaea Primo - a gigantic coalesced being of thousands of Dionae Nymphs that are considered ‘untamed’ and travel across the stars with no knowledge of civilization or culture - thanks to the electromagnetic disturbances created through the Wild Cetus’ connection to a destroyed freighter. While it is unknown how the freighter was acquired by the organisms, it can be presumed through exchanges between the crew and the Dionae, that the Cetus is the likely reason for its derelict state - and based on previous events such as both Dionae-Skrell First Contact and the tragedy of the Ophion, it would be a probable assumption. Dionae present on the Horizon were able to translate the intentions of the Wild Cetus, seemingly travelling across the stars to the location of their seeding grounds, referred to as the “Unabating Call” believed to be a pulsar located approximately less than a light-year from the Cetus’ last known location after the Horizon continued on its journey. There have been discussions from the scientific community within the Republic of Biesel, with many hoping to study and observe the Cetus. Date: 4/24/2464

Hi there. Goodluck, there are no wrong answers.

Deadlantern’s suggestion is actually pretty good, I vote for Crusher!