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chief security officer sounds like some kind of security middle management roll. chief of security is better

hi. i do have some feed back. if you’re going to play captain, you need to have more of a presence in round. when a captain present, command who otherwise act fairly independent are going to start looking to you for orders and updates. when i played command with you, i think that you had an issue with doing things without telling anyone which made the round pretty confusing, and you weren’t super present on command comm regardless. communication especially in a captain role is extremely difficult but very important

I like Crusher. Naming them after a player is a really bad idea.

Any feedback I could give has been adequately covered by Danse and Matt's posts. The death of the SFA was extremely abrupt and not very fun at all. The Qheles feels like a win button for the already extremely violent and overpowered Federation.

The point is that it is boring? Then why add it? It does not sound enjoyable whatsoever. If i’m playing Commander, there’s no way I’m interrupting peoples RP to polish rifles or toggle sprint around the station.

To be honest, this sounds extremely boring. Especially for the security objectives. Rifle maintenance and running laps is what a Commander who hates you forces you to do.

i agree w/this very strongly. any authority that isn't the CMO's in medical is a bad idea. it's unnecessary and not needed. If the CMO, for whatever reason, needs someone to hold down the fort while they're away, they can already say "hey, x is in charge while I'm gone/unavalible/busy". This would just be a mini-CMO when there isn't a CMO, which would be real bad.

Hi! Could @ReadThisNamePlzplease chime in with their side of the ticket, and their thought process behind it? Additionally, we would like @Flpfs and @CakeIsOssim both to walk us through their interactions with Miyazaki's character, Melody Loop? Specifically, how much attention was levied towards them.

I am, admittedly, unsure if the Practitioner sect needs more elaboration. It is meant, to my knowledge, to serve as a "anything that isn't covered in the other sects can go here" as a sort of "make your own Trinarist" thing. If I was going to add anything to it, I would do so while making sure the freedom to do write what you want remains. I think a job like this would be three parts. 1) Talking to Human Lore aboutt the faction. 2) Examining the lore to see what attitudes could evolve concerning synthetics. 3) Examining current characters from those areas to see how they feel about IPCs. For instance, Himeo is a strongly syndicalist / leftist ideaology. Would they see IPCs as fellow exploited workers, or as a threat to the job of the avg worker? Stuff like that. I would like to see the Church empowered a bit, and turn the Scrapheap into a lore location on par with District 6, Flagsdale, or the SLZ. I would want the Church to be a central power in the district, with a conflict between them and secular IPCs. The Church would become a bit more aggressive, and more focused on Religion rather than IPC rights.

I wouldn't remove them purely because it would take away already played characters, which isn't fair at all. If I was going to edit them at all, it would be to give them more lore to work with.

Self preservation is perhaps one of the most important aspects of IPC roleplay, and one that a lot of new IPC players struggle with the most. Law 0 doesn't mean that IPCs cannot put themselves in dangerous situations or take risks, but it means that said IPC needs to have a reasonable belief that they will survive whatever it is they are doing or engaging in. IPCs cannot be compared to humans in their decision making,- it just doesn't work. An IPC cannot do something very selfless or very irrational - it's against their entire being. When IPCs are written, this really needs to be taken into account more.

Could not remove them anyways. This is just personal preference.

yeah. our characters can just get dressed and ready for work in the below decks. i'd appreciate these removed, especially for how much they end up confusing new players.

i wrote about the wildlands lol. was fun. this is a proof of conceptt. if given deputy i plan to flesh this out into a whole page. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1psCjSIMUwn2zm3oUaCY5VnF253XVLong8vGnhI-wIog/edit?usp=sharing

I think the easiest way is to incorporate lore figures of these lesser-used frames, ones that defy the usual expectations of the frame with interesting personalities and goals. In short: incorporating them in more articles, lore arcs, etc. Give people examples they can see and go "this is pretty cool". One of the things I also plan to try and implement is non-shell IPCs no longer being restricted to neuter or they/them pronouns. I think having gendered baselines/industrials/accessories etc will make them much more accessible, while still allowing for people to play a neuter 'it' industrial if they want to.

what do you think

Synthetics being on the backfoot is a core part of synthetic lore,- they're the eternal underdogs. However, I think it's still important to respect them for the large population they are. It's important to measure the negatives and positives you're bringing to IPCs when you're implementing updates that affect them, given their precarious position. Too dark and it's a misery to play, too light and IPCs loose something important to them - their constant fight for survival. I think it's fine if the JF wants to make Biesel more synthphobic, but I think it's a great mistake to not have the synthetics of one of the few IPC citizenship laws not respond. IPCs being an after-thought the way they were with that update is one of the things that motivated me to apply.

I am more tender-hearted in regards to canon deaths. I don't think it would ever be my goal to kill someone, and I definitely think you can have fun and compelling narratives w/out killing station characters. KOTW week comes to mind as a ton of fun. However, stupidity will usually get you killed. There's a difference from dying from poor luck, and dying because you're acting like an idiot in a canon event. IMO, leniency should be used in the former case. I think having a big scary AI who murdered like 90% of your species in the past is a valid reason to disdain synthetics, and my issue with this is more the influence that the JF has. Synthetics exist on a knife's edge in most regions of the galaxy, and I do not like the current trend in Biesel of Jargon Federation skrell influencing the Republic to become more synthphobic. In my opinion, as I said prior, the setting has more than enough places in which IPCs are not treated as people, or outright killed. I don't think that, you know, 'synthetic revolution in our time' is going to happen, but I do think it speaks for itself that community members had to ask for IPCs to be represented in the Biesellite political lore, while there was automatically a synthphobic Federation inspired party. In short, I do not like that it feels as though one side is being represented, and the other is not. Dominia has next to no foreign influence. The main difference between them and Jargon is that Dominia can't really press their policies abroad, while the JF absolutely can. I like Dominia, by and larhe.

If we go to somewhere like Dominia or the JF, I fully expect Horizon's synthetics to, quite frankly, stay the fuck on-board where it's safe. I can't comment to the rest, because we don't know (or at least, I don't) if foreign law will apply on the Horizon. It could be a like,- SCC territory thing. However, I think that self preservation alone would make an IPC not want to mess around in Jargon or Dominia. I think that straight, 1:1 IPC citizenship is really noteworthy for a major human power, even if a lot of Elyran citizens are disdainful of IPCs. It creates an interesting contrast, and makes Elyra by far one of the best places to be a free IPC in the Spur. I think that like with any concept, nuance is your friend. On said CoC planet, I would want tthere to be reasons for and againstt IPC citizenship, and how it has changed the culture of the planet. I also really enjoy the IPC specific cultural groups in Elyra. I think this is a clear and obvious expansion for the Scrapheap in Mendell City. Communities of IPCs barely scraping by, run-aways going into hiding, long queues for repairs and conflict over energy. A lot of IPC lore's focus is on sleek corporate IPCs, which is good, but imo something could be said for the grimy, fucked up conditions of synthetic slums. I had the idea a while back of the TCFL offering free repair incentives tto get IPCs to join, with the advertisement tthat they would handle your repairs after you got out. The cinch was that waiting times were often fatal, and the repairs offered weren't all that useful.

Personally, I think it's best left up in the air, even if it's rather obvious how I feel about the topic. For synthetic lore to have no official stance on it is really important in my opinion, as it can remain a topic of debate IC'ly and each side can form their own arguments without necessarily being wrong. I'm not against it, though there are not any standalone IPC factions in the setting aside from the Golden Deep or the SLF or something. It would need to be a collaborative project, but I think you could get some interesting character backstories from it. I don't really like Zavodskoi Interstellar security IPCs. I think that they need to be heavily reworked to be more unique, or just outright removed. (Which isn't an option because people have ZI characters.) Idris have the cool like- Blade trenchcoats and the very iconic personalities and outfits, but Zavodskoi units are usually some brand of murderrobot that I personally find boring. Not at all against it, I would be in favor of them. However, it would take a truly massive amount of collaborative effort, as well as money. I do not think that mechanical shells and bio-shells could co-exist, however, and we would need to do something to only have one kind of shell. Either retconning all current shells as always having been bioshells, or having some sort of lore update that somehow upgrades all shells? I'm not sure how it would occur.

give security's armory an emergency access button on the inside, and give the warden access to it. the only emergency access button is in the commander's office, which isn't a big-deal on the aurora b/c the commander's office is right nextt to the armory. however, on the NBT it's on the other end of tthe departmentt.

Honestly, I haven't considered this because I don't really want complete and unfettered access to alter lore in any direction I want. I think a lot of work goes into maintaining all of Aurora's lore across all species, factions, etc, and I'm not sure if I could do that. If I had to do something, though, I would probably focus less on Sol and more on the other factions in the Spur. When's the last time Dominia or Elyra or the CoC did something on their own, right? A special favorite of mine in regards to lore and concepts people is finding something without much lore, and turning it into something special like I did with prosthetics. I would want to emphasize the less-used areas of our lore, and make it feel more alive. The terrible, blank page! I definitely am intimidated by starting a new project from scratch, but I think having lore-team and synthetic lore to ask for advice will be a great boon. I think for Aurora's setting to feel alive and inter-connected, interspecies coordination and consulation is extremely important. Without it, everyone's just on their own island. This is especially important for IPC lore, due to how woven into human lore it is. I do understand, and I don't think it'd be an issue so long as I had the resources to complete said projects. That is what I applied for.

My distaste there was that only detriments to synthetics were being added, rather than a more healthy 'give and take' philosophy that I am a fan of. A good example of this is how Cael re-did synthetics in New Gibson. The first iteration was that in New Gibson, synthetics were disliked with little elaboration. There was nothing for how the synthetics themselves felt - used as more prop pieces than as a community. With the subsequent edit, this was expanded to elaborate as to how IPCs felt about this discrimination, and what some did in response to it. A core part of IPC and synthetic lore is being the (often) exploited minority, but you still need to give IPCs enough agency and freedom to still be fun. Adding lore along the lines of "IPCs are shunned here." with nothing else is, in my opinion, poor practice. IPC discrimination for discrimination's sake isn't fun, at least, not for me. There has to be something with it. As a self-owned IPC command player myself, I think it's fine. I would not want to see it changed, and would fight against any attempt to do so. Elyra, the Golden Deep and Purpose are, as I see them, exceptions rather than the rule. The areas in which positronics are second-class citizens, if citizens at all, vastly outnumber the areas in which they are not. I don't think this disrupts the theme at all. Positronics have a long, long ways to go before common society sees them as equal, if ever. However, much like weeds growing in your driveway's concrete, I think stories of adversity and IPCs carving out their own niche and establishing communities for themselves have plenty of room in lore. I like them. I would consider myself more liberal in regards to IPCs, than conservative. If I am fully honest, I think we have enough synthetic-hating groups. I'd like to see a few factions with more nuanced opinions of them, like Elyra. I think Purpose has a whole lot of future, but not a whole lot of present. Your average post-2020 Aurora player (me) barely has any idea what Purpose is, or what Purpose did. They haven't shown up in a while. I'd like to try and rectify that, at the very least. Quasi-friendly robots with unknowable / enigmatic goals is a fun premise, but they suffer from a distinct lack of presence.

Ckey/BYOND Username: PersephoneQ Position Being Applied For: Synthetic Lore Deputy Have you read the Lore Team Rules and Regulations wiki page? Yes Past Experiences/Knowledge: I’ve been roleplaying and doing creative / recreational writing since I was a child. I’ve also been playing IPCs for a while, and consider myself to have a pretty good knowledge surrounding them. I’ve helped more than a few players with their apps. Examples of Past Work: I wrote the Prosthetic Lore Overhaul which was well-received by the community and accepted with few reductive edits, and co-wrote a Dominian Fencing Overhaul. 1) Which part of synthetic lore do you feel needs to be worked on? In my opinion, creating a new IPC can be quite unclear. When I’ve helped people in the past work on their new robots for their apps, there was generally always some confusion on where they could be manufactured from, the different positronic vs frame manufacturers, and general background questions. I would like to see this made more clearly, and perhaps centralized a bit better. I also think that non-shell frames can be pushed to the wayside a bit (funny, coming from the self-professed shell main) and I’d like to work on ways to incorporate them better, especially less-seen frames like the Accessory frame. As an aside note, because I know this question will be asked, I am in favor of bioshells. However, I’m not the person to say how those could be implemented. It would be something I plan on supporting, though. I also think the ‘notable synthetics’ page is vastly underused. You have an IPC band, a real estate mogul, Big Bad Guy Null and Bubble, but how many of these people are relevant in current lore aside BUBBLE? 2) Which part of synthetic lore are you most interested in and would like to work on? My main interest in synthetic lore isn’t so much the lore itself, but the community. I love synthetic lore, and I hope that the passion and fun I put in my robots speaks for itself. My main goal as deputy would be to get others excited and invested, to get them to feel the same way I do whether about the lore, their characters, or both. I would like to work on player involvement and outreach, and to find ways in which synthetic lore can involve the community more. One of my favorite memories from playing an IPC was the random Ceres Lance visits that synthetic lore-staff and their colleagues would do. It was always a lot of fun to interact with them, and I would like to organize things like that myself. I do not think that you necessarily need giant events to make lore relevant (though it definitely helps), but you have to do something. When I first got my whitelist, it felt like the lore responded to me and that my actions had consequences beyond “The Ceres Lance are the robot police and occasionally perform checks..” on a Wikipage. It doesn’t so much feel like that anymore. I want to see more small things, as well as larger events. Bring back the Ceres Lance visits, maybe something with Renter Maxx, or Trinary missionaries doing a charity drive. I would also be more than happy to work with other teams. One of the biggest strengths of synthetic lore is how interconnected it is. It is very widespread, which means that in one way or another nearly every faction / species can interact with them if they so choose. I would do my best to facilitate that. 3) What do you think is the main problem with synthetic lore right now, and how would you tackle it? My main issue with synthetic lore is that it seems to be in a sort of ‘hibernation mode’, which I think is a great shame. By ‘hibernation mode’, I mean that synthetic lore at the moment feels reactive, rather than proactive. The last IPC-focused lore arc or major event was under the last synthetic lore developer, who resigned quite some time ago. Synthetic lore feels very passive, only accommodating to the changes of the setting rather than driving some of them. Synthetics have a unique viewpoint in that they’re a very disadvantaged, not necessarily small portion of many many worlds populations, but so little comes from that at the moment! In short, I want synthetics to have a place in current lore again. In the past, especially with the current Biesel/Peacekeeper focused lore arcs, I’ve badgered and petitioned for synthetics to be more involved. From Biesellite political parties to New Gibson, I’ve done my best to give lore input as to where IPCs could be incorporated more, or to bring up missed opportunities. Synthetics are the disadvantaged, invisible servant-class that are none-the-less present in nearly every area of human space. I want them to feel like it again. See point two for more of my plan to fix this. 4) How much time can you devote in lorewriting on average? I’m a full-time student, but otherwise I can devote a decent portion of my time. There shouldn’t be any worries as to my availibility.

Hi. I handled the warning. Happy to give my two cents. I will re-iterate what I said in the ticket. Ordering red medical kits on security is powergaming, and it infringes on medical's gameplay. This would usually result in a note. I checked your notes. Your notes show a considerable history of powergaming in security / ERT up to the latest security-related note / warning. It says to ban you if security-related powergaming occurs again. Given it was from six months ago, I consulted staff about a warning over a ban out of respect for it being a few months ago. I think it is strange that you are suddenly contesting the warning, as yesterday you told me yourself that the warning was justified.