TheGreyWolf

She doesn't like them. The PRA is mostly the propaganda after she was taken in by the guerilla group, as before that the entire fighting was scary for her but not something she understood. She has more issues with the NKA though, since her parents disappeared after they rose up so in her mind, she blames them for causing it rather than the PRA or DPRA. It sucked, it was dangerous and despite what she would actually tell to people, she wished it didn't happen. Despite all that, she does believe the DPRA is the better group that came out of it. Overall though, she would have wished to have a normal childhood, but instead it caused her to focus on her own survival above everything else. As far as she cares now, her life matters the most. She has been heavily influenced by them, having effectively spend more of her life working with those two than she have been a civilian. Her feelings towards the military is pretty positive, in strong parts due to both the propaganda as mentioned above and she liked the sense of power she had as a member of the military, despite her dislike of the fighting. Her feelings towards the wider DPRA is not as positive though. She acknowledges there are attempts to make things better, but at the same time she thinks they were part of why she was in danger during the attempted secession. If one were to ignore that, she likes them. She had power as the military and the civilian government seems to be fixing things. As for the school of thought, I would say she most closely follows the Natediism school of thought. The military is necessary, because of all the rebels and foreign hostiles. This comes heavily from all the issues that were on Amohda and how locked down the island became, something she came to see as a necessity to bring back order and safety. At the beginning, she did not realize it. For her it was a deal for safety. Over the years since as she continued it, she began to realize it more and more, but it was first near the end that she fully accepted her part in it too. Until then, she considered it very strictly a something for something situation. After she fled her post, she has outright embraced. She considers them the only ones that has actually helped her and the only ones she can depend on, and even then she is wary of depending too much on them.

BYOND Ckey: TheGreyWolf Discord username: TheGreyWolf Character names: Sofia Zeil Species you are applying to play: Tajara ------------------------------ General Whitelist Requirements What colour do you plan on making your first alien character?: Primarily white-ish #9E9A9A with small variants for body markings Have you read the lore pages for the species you wish to be whitelisted for?: Yes. Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph format. One paragraph minimum per question. Why do you wish to play this species?: I would say their rich and varied lore is one of the primary reasons. They have a lot to offer and have experienced a ton in a short timeframe, which allow a lot of options to play with and make use for. What makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a human?: Lore-wise it would be the way their society is, with the three major factions (and Himeo) and recent wars and now cold war they have. The events on their homeworld are very near to them, affecting how they are and with their culture also greatly changes how they view the world around them in a way that I would say feels different than a lot of the human cultures. It gives them a lot of archetypes and themes to play with, where while some could fit with parts of human lore, a lot of it also feels unique to them and the combination itself of all the small bits being important. From soldiers in the war to officers, nobility, peasants and anti-royalty, and that’s not even getting into the distinction between things like those who live under the DPRA civ government and the military juntas, nor how Crevus is a place of its own in all this chaos. Mechanically/gameplay I would say there is a lot to it on its own. Their accents with the rolled R and way of speaking are of course some of the more obvious ones but also how they need to act around situations. A M’sai is not going to have a good time if they get hurt or especially if they are around flashbangs or other loud noises like that. Oh yeah and the bit that they are better with cold temperatures but suck in hot environments. ------------------------------ Character Application Character Name: Tulkir Zarkiirran Write a backstory for your character. This may include their origin, education, personality and how they arrived to the SCCV Horizon. Early Life (0-17 years) Tulkir was born on the island of Amohda around 2442, near the coast. Her father worked in a warehouse, while her mother took care of rations for a local garrison. The first part of her life was relatively stable, until the start of the second revolution began to stir up trouble in 2449, when she was around 7 years old, with her parents now getting involved in the war effort due to their work. This got worse again when the monarchists got involved, creating a three-way problem on Amohda and would eventually be part of the chaos that got her parents killed a year later. Though she never learned of the circumstances surrounding their disappearance, she began to realize it as they did not return home one day. It first got to her that she was not seeing them again, when a group of guerrilla soldiers found her, and they took her with them to help ferry supplies, though she was lucky enough as well as hiding enough to avoid getting into combat with them, though at times it was close as she hid from the war around her. Adulthood (18-25 years) After going through another six years of the war, barely surviving at times, starving at others and overall just trying to get by, the ceasefire with the NKA was finally signed. There was still the war with the PRA, but this gave a much needed breathing room and gave her the first time where she had to pick her own way, after the guerrilla group she was with disbanded to join the proper army. With little knowledge of what else to do, she did the same and was assigned to work at a military warehouse/depot, primarily being tasked with helping out with logistics until the armistice was signed a year later, which let her finally breathe free. Or so she would think. A year later again, in 2462, the Amohdan Junta attempted to secede, and war was once more coming near. This time, it was even closer to her as she realized that between the Junta rebelling and the eventual response the rest of the DPRA would give, she would be stuck right between them as a part of the military, just as she thought it was calming down. As she became more desperate to find a way out of the consequences from taking either side, she was given an offer by a group, a simple one at that: Take a few packages they had, and let them go on a few supply trucks, no questions asked. In return, they would make her problems fade to nothing. Despite not knowing who they were, she took them up on the offer as it was the best shot. The packages went out like a charm, and when she returned the next day she found instructions. Times to not be around, when a set of supplies should go or be rerouted. It continued, but once the attempted secession failed and the junta leader replaced, she found herself almost free of the consequences and back to her work, though not quite as well regarded anymore by the few who were still left at her warehouse. Issues which soon would be solved in similar manners. A few deliveries out, some going missing, a few things from the warehouse to go elsewhere and the paperwork changed to fit, sometimes even new packages with the deliveries or to be dropped off on the route. She never questioned it, even as the military checkpoints got heavier and she barely managed to avoid suspicion at times. But the trouble? That stopped. The coworkers changed, a suspicious soldier being reassigned, even some hard to get medicine for when she sustained an injury. It all went smoothly away like it never was, and all for things nobody would ever miss. At least until an unexpected audit appeared, where she previously had warnings before, she was surprised by this one, and they had their own numbers to go by. The others began to get questioned, soldiers escorted coworkers and there was talk of serious consequences. Escaping the island would be near impossible as it was, especially if they began searching for her, so once more she had to pray. One group had gotten her out of similar trouble before, so surely they could again? Just one last thing: a package to leave in the warehouse, they said. Once it was done, a letter to a waiting ship. She didn’t understand, as nothing before was a letter, but she did it anyway. She soon learned it was passage to Crevus and an ID card. Whatever her former name was, it didn't matter anymore. She was now Tulkir Zarkiirran, a recently hired employee of Orion Express on her way to work on the SCCV Horizon, far away from Amohda. How has the recent events of the Orion Spur impacted your character? Events such as the Phoron Scarcity, the Solarian Collapse or even the Invasions of Biesel for interstellar-wide affairs, while region-specific events such as the Peacekeeper Mandate, The Titan Rises or even Cold Dawn may impact your character. Having grown up on Amohda, most of her life has been affected by the second revolutionary war. One of the bigger events being when the previous Junta leader attempted to secede, which put her on a hard spot between that and the eventual retaliation from the rest of the army and as a result, it is also what put her on the path of being in contact with a raskariim cult. This cult is then the cause of her reason to eventually end up leaving Adhomai. Her leaving the planet is then facilitated in part by the Phoron Scarcity too, as the creation of the Orion Express came as a result of it, and their low hiring standards worked in her favor. How does your character view the megacorporation they work for? She doesn’t like them, or most megacorps for that matter, but she keeps quiet about it to avoid trouble. Out of all the megacorps, Orion Express is the one she has the least issues with in part because of how recently it was made.

You can actually. If you use harm intent then you will escape the cuffs in 1 min or slightly less but dislocate an arm (or hand, can't quite remember but it was one of the two) in the process, compared to the 2 min escape time where you won't dislocate anything. The dislocating won't apply when breaking cuffs though.

Reporting Personnel: Kathira El-Hashem Job Title of Reporting Personnel: Investigator Game ID: cgg-c2so Personnel Involved: Kathira El-Hashem, Investigator: Victim Mike Bisenti, Warden: Offender Secondary Witnesses: Nariah Sewell, Head of Security: Witnessed at least one of the interactions over the radio, where they told him to stop it Nassa Zisk’as, Security Officer: Witnessed at least one of the interactions Rrhuyala Rrhakaslav'Karimi, Warden: Witnessed at least one of the interactions Azhara Shas’kui, Security Officer: Likely witnessed one or more of the interactions Alison Wilson, Security Officer: Likely witnessed one of the interactions Madyson Boyer, Captain: Resolved the initial incident that would lead to the harassment Larisa Hunter, Station Engineer: Witnessed the initial incident that resulted in the harassment Nzar Sa’Tak, Station Engineer: Directly involved in the initial incident that caused the harassment Time of Incident: 21:10 Real Time: About 21:33 GMT, 31/01/2022 Location of Incident: Aurora, security comms, NTCC Odin Nature of Incident: [ ] - Workplace Hazard [ ] - Accident/Injury [ ] - Destruction of Property [ ] - Neglect of Duty [X] - Harassment [ ] - Assault [ ] - Misconduct [ ] - Other _____ Overview of the Incident: Over a period stretching from 21/01/2464 to the date of this report, this one (K. El-Hashem) has been harassed by M. Bisenti, who has been constantly remarking on her religious beliefs and insinuating she is making a ‘church of pacifism and being a pussy’ after an incident wherein due to lack of proper communication, Bisenti was temporarily detained for shooting a crewmember until captain Boyer resolved the incident, wherein no lasting charges were brought against Bisenti. Bisenti’s harassment of this one has included attempts to provoke her by talking about her faith, which she has a hard time not reacting to due to the state of her home on Adhomai and has even done so while she was praying in the chapel. He has also attempted to provoke her through her sensitivity to loud noises, latest the time given in this report when he sat across from this one on the NTCC Odin with the intent to annoy her. Submitted Evidence: N/A Would you like to be personally interviewed?: [X] - Yes [ ] - No Did you report it to a Head of Staff or a superior? If so, who? If not, why?: Yes: Karl Voigt, Head of Personnel Actions taken: He spoke to both Bisenti & This one in his office regarding the harassment, but that didn’t stop Bisenti from continuing. Additional Notes:

Reporting Personnel: Kathira El-Hashem Job Title of Reporting Personnel: Investigator Personnel in Question: Samantha Welstrom Job Title of Personnel in Question: Assistant Reason for Review: [ ] - Extended Arrest History [ ] - Grievous Infraction on Record [X] - Other: Repeated infractions while hired on probationary basis Notes: During another recent incident, This one was forced to see Samantha Welstrom arrested on the transfer shuttle for the third time in a short timespan despite their records clearly stating they were already terminated from Hephaestus due to misconduct onboard the station, then hired by Nanotrasen to work on a probationary basis where any further incident is a potential cause for employment review. Attached: Security record as of the recent incident

https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/12798 and here we go. Except it doesn't have the range to go over tables but otherwise it works.

So an update: I made a coatrack version of the cloak too. kath coatrack.dmi

https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/12619

Actually there already is. Though I might make it bigger given the feedback in this thread.

Alright, I made a PR that adds a filled variant like that: https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/12584

decal - quarter-turf on the paint gun is what I believe he is speaking about at least.

BYOND Key: TheGreyWolf Discord Username: TheGreyWolf#0535 Character Name: Kathira El-Hashem Item Name: NKA side: handmade royalist cloak Idris side: handsewn Idris cloak Item Function(s): It is a cloak that can be shifted between two variants of itself. One matching Idris and one closer to the NKA. Item Description: NKA side: A blue cloak with the symbol of the New Kingdom of Adhomai proudly displayed on the back. Upon closer examination it appears to be a patchwork of older textile and newer fabrics, with the inside of the cloak appearing to be colored differently. Idris side: A carefully handsewn cloak proudly emblazoned with the symbol of Idris Banking in silver treading and the words ‘Astronomical Figures. Unlimited Power.’ Embroidered beneath it. On close examination, the inside of the cloak appears to be colored differently. Why is your character bringing this item to work?: Beside being one of the reminders of her home, Kath made it to work both when she is free and at work and it is rare she leaves it far away due to the ‘barrier’ it provides between her and other people. How did your character obtain this item?: Kathira herself made the cloak over time, using her old cloak as the base for the NKA side of it, as she finally decided to take a contract with Idris, clearing the permission with one of the liaisons she has been talking with about it. What value does this item have to your character, and what story does it tell?: The cloak shows Kathira’s attempts to fit in where she can and the influence the corporations have on her and her loyalty towards her employer ever since she left Adhomai. That isn’t to neglect her loyalty towards her home country as can be seen with the more traditional side of the cloak or the way she continues to keep patching the cloak she had since Adhomai even as her situation slowly improves. For the few who knows her closely, they would also notice that unlikely how her previous cloak was, this one shields her less from the world around her as she gets more comfortable with living among humans. Sprites: Kathira cloak.dmi Additional Comments:

From my experience with your other chars I always found them fun and interesting. Mahara isn't an exception to this and given they only had so much interaction so far, I found it interesting. I do believe there are points that can be improved upon such as the time Mahara kept trying to talk to the two armed burglars in security when they told her to leave, while not having any backup at the time (even if there were kinda hostages she tried to assure the safety of) and perhaps trying to keep in better contact with security when there was a raised alert and they were the only command character in the round. Tho I firmly believe you'll improve with time and feedback so I got only a +1 to give.

Reporting Personnel: Kathira El-Hashem Job Title of Reporting Personnel: Investigator Game ID: cdj-cR1r Personnel Involved: Victoria Parker, Head of Security: Witness Kaxto Sss’ska, security officer: Witness Huey Thorburn, security officer: Witness Mikolaj Talmarfaiiq, cargo technician: Offender Secondary Witnesses: ISU-Courtier, security officer: Was present during the cargo detainment Kathira El-hashem, investigator: Witnessed the cargo detainment over cameras as well as the fight in the secure shuttle holding Time of Incident: Roughly 20:10 to 00:20 Real Time: 20:10 GMT 1/08/21 Location of Incident: Surface cargo & Shuttle secure holding Nature of Incident: [ ] - Workplace Hazard [ ] - Accident/Injury [ ] - Destruction of Property [ ] - Neglect of Duty [ ] - Harassment [X] - Assault [X] - Misconduct [ ] - Other _____ Overview of the Incident: Near the end of the shift, this one overheard on comms that mister Talmarfaiiq had found a monowheel and was riding it in the hallways. Commander Parker in response issued an order for Talmarfaiiq to not ride it in the hallways. Upon being informed of this, Talmarfaiiq became argumentative and called the commander a ‘Cry baby’ and continued with mocking the commander on the public comms. After repeated warnings, the commander decided to detain Talmarfaiiq. This one watched the detainment, handled by officer Sss’ska, ISU-Courtier and the commander, over the camera network , where she noticed Talmarfaiiq attempted to fight back but was apprehended without any injuries to either party as far as this one is aware. This one sat in the brig section of the shuttle to try to gather what decision the commander was going with in regards to mister Talmarfaiiq, when he broke out of his cuffs. Upon attempted re-detainment he attempted to claw officer Thurburn but their armor appeared to absorb the blow. After being detained again by officer Sss’ska he was put back into his seat, but attempted to break out of his cuffs soon after recovering from the stun batons used during the detainment. He managed to once again break out of his cuffs and immediately bit officer Sss’ska in the head, causing a bleeding the commander had to treat after Talmarfaiiq was detained again. She notes the shuttle came to a halt after this which tossed both Talmarfaiiq and the commander around, but everyone else were buckled in safely to her memory. Officer Thorburn brought Talmarfaiiq to the Odin holding area from here and this one didn’t follow at first as she was concerned about officer Sss’ska’s bleeding and had to speak shortly with the commander. Afterwards she headed to the Odin holding area and heard Thorburn call for a doctor as she arrived and checking on the cause, she noticed Talmarfaiiq’s elbows had been dislocated. So with some annoyance she entered the cell due to the lack of doctors to check on him, but he voiced that he did not wish her to be there which she accepted and left it for the officers and Odin to handle. Submitted Evidence: Would you like to be personally interviewed?: [X] - Yes [ ] - No Did you report it to a Head of Staff or a superior? If so, who? If not, why?: No, commander Parker was already handling the situation Actions taken: Commander Parker issued the arrest warrant and was part of the officers arresting mister Talmarfaiiq. This one remains unaware if they have filed a report but they appeared reluctant to do so, so she filed one instead. Additional Notes:

Made a PR: https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/12234