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I also just realized this is kinda mess up lorewise. Invading Elyra? Good news, just wear standard ablative and you can't die unless you get hit by artillery. (Exageration) I'm now imagining a firing line of Elyrans in Kevlar wrapped Ceramic plates standing in the open shooting ballistic armed Dominians in ablative doing the same and everyone's just fine.

Well, the antags are still playing the game with weapon choice (somewhat.) but "The Horizon can always win" isn't really true unless the HoS is willing to burn 10-20 minutes swapping armor regardless of the fact that a transfer vote is about to happen and that the Antags didn't split their TC on energy and ballistic. They probably should split their buys too from a mechanical point of view, but then that screws with their Gimmick potentially (Sol Marines rocking even a few laser rifles would raise eyebrows. Merging armors could let the Antags choose weapons based on window penetration/injury/capability/lore or at least not worry about whether they're gonna get hard countered. And if we do really want this for, "the Horizon will always win" we should have 4 of each armor + something for the HoS preferably (even if it's just a plate for the chest carrier and a good helmet and standard limb guards? The HoS shouldn't have to worry too much about limb shots if they have 4 officers.) I caught some stray 7.62 once from across the dining room out of sight wearing standard HoS plate because i had a full team and died almost immediately. If we're going to make armor that important, I should at least have my vital organs protected.

I also think Riot/Standard/Military distinctions make more sense for escalation. We could also lock our military armor and weapons behind Red Alert or Captain access and lock out high caliber dangerous antag weapons if no command. Standard armor can be balanced to do decent (but not impervious) versus mid range pistol and 5.56 and normal antag energy rifles, you'll go down fairly easy if 5.56 hits you, but as long as your buddies pull you back you'll live. This means military level escalation requires a Captain or Command that can take the spare or order the AI with a Command Level Vote or two Command initiating Red Alert. For Odyssey, the ST can unlock the military armory without Command or to make it so the Command team doesn't have to steal the spare or have an AI (ICly it's a remote unlock from the SCC.) I also just realized, military weapons shouldn't be locked behind the access, just the ammo (so officers can train with the weapon without a Captain.)

My main gripe here is going to be Ablative vs Ballistic armor and what that does to the round. I think it's a rock paper scissors mechanic that's too powerful. (all other things being equal, armor choice hard decides the outcome.) and should really just be removed (I have some other options too.) First, armor is bulky and hard to transport, meaning changing armor takes time, and usually happens after the standoff phase (since that's when you know what the Antags are packing.) There have been times I've ordered an assault when I know I should change armors, and we're all going to die unless the antag really really sucks, but my Command WL tells me now is the time to go, and it feels horrible. Second, since, imo, armor choice is so impactful, both sides commanders really should avoid engagement unless they have the correct armor, this is difficult for antags (they might have spent their TC already) and it's time consuming for Security (especially without a Warden) Armor choice just eats time, and adds annoying complexity. Third, out of all the things I have to deal with as a HoS, scouting the Antag's weapons is the least enjoyable for me, but also the most important thing (outside of commanding the actual assault) I could be coordinating officer deployment, or RP Negotiating with the Antag, instead of I'm asking officers to report their weapons and using binochs to try to scout theres. The only justification I can think of for this is to have the commander scout weapons and order the correct armor in first. Then use the wrong armor to follow up to add their guns while minimizing their exposure. I feel like, while that's kind of cool, why not just let everyone participate in the assault instead of just the officers that happen to have the right set (there's only two sets of each and four officers remember.) Also, I think it makes defense a bit too easy, mercs can just put their lasers up front, and if they see ablative enter, they can fall back and let their friends with 7.62 handle it, then by the time the Ballistic armor gets in behind, the lasers just step up and blat them. I must ask, why have a difference in armor at all? Especially when there's plenty of other (more fun, and meaningful) differences between Laser and Ballistic. My three suggestions: One: Remove the distinction between armors, just make them the same, the only distinctions being Riot (for protection against the kind of weapons crew reasonably might get,) Standard, good against concealable weapons, and anti-boarding (the best armor security can have against high caliber small arms without science/mining/whatever) Two: Close the gap a bit, I feel like winning against someone while in the wrong armor requires you to be much much better than your opponent, even to the point where the significantly less skilled player will likel8y win. I might be wrong about how significant the difference is. Three: Give Security Carriers, and the armory plates, plates are long and wide but don't take up much space. You need a bag to carry them, but they don't' take much space. This would make it easier to change armors in the field but see below why I think we should just get rid of the distinction completely I'm in favor one option one, since, imo, the other two don't really make sense, if we have to close the gap between the two armors, we should ask why the gap exists at all. There's already a huge difference in how ballistic vs energy works, I don't think enemy armor type needs to complicate the matter. And option three, would likely result in an officer at a barricade seeing the antag pull out a laser weapon, then swapping in ablative plate, then watching them pull out a 7.62, and switching back to ballistic, then they pull out the laser... you get the idea.

Reporting Personnel: Dumitra Moore Job Title of Reporting Personnel: Surgeon Game ID: cwX-aNcb Personnel Involved: Dumitra Moore (Surgeon) Secondary Witnesses: Optic (Hazel-S-H14.47), Paramedic, Serene Collins, (Security Officer), Eva Meier, Commadner Khun. Time of Incident: 04:52 about there. Real Time: (E.g 0450GMT 2/12/2024? maybe I don't know time zones) Location of Incident: Service hallway ATM Nature of Incident: [ ] - Workplace Hazard [ ] - Accident/Injury [ ] - Destruction of Property [ ] - Neglect of Duty [ ] - Harassment [ ] - Assault [ ] - Misconduct [ x] - Other ___Theft__ (Place an x in the box that applies. If other, replace line and specify.) Overview of the Incident: I left my ID in the ATM, and shortly after that there was a withdrawl of 4991 credits, I reported to security, Meier spoke to me and started an investigation. Submitted Evidence: Meier Should have some maybe? 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?: (Name, Job Title) Yes, to Commander Khun, he assigned Dectective Meier's who interviewed me there should be a transcript. Actions taken: (Description of efforts made by the reporter, security, Heads to resolve this incident): They were investigating, I don't know if any results or filed. Additional Notes:

So I have a very old character (OOC age) that was a Sadar Atmos Tech. I had them join the Phalanx so they could augment and tolerate gravity. I'm now considering having them change their last name to represent their new family? Thoughts?

Tried to involve themselves in the peacetag, they didn't really have time, but the point is his CE didn't just hide in engineering and handled things before I had to worry about them. +1 from a Cappy point of view.

Quoting so Devsen notices me the reply to my WL app

I'm not worried about the time in VR, just that it's enough to explain why they can Physician, and some time for the "spend time as the species you'll be working on" VR. So 6 months VR, probably felt like 4 years. And to clarify he was chosen to be a physician, he just wishes he was a surgeon because he developed a liking to doing them during his training. I'd probably say Pilcg sees this entire thing as we saw our first day of school or our first real job. Excitement, wonder, then.. oh.. oh I want to go home and never do this again sets in very quickly. He'll accept that it's required and I may make something of an arc about it where he starts mad and depending on how it goes probably settle in for his 20 years and do his best to warrant an afterlife? 1: How does Pilcg plan to adapt to human space? Has its hive-cell done anything in preparation for this? Is Pilcg coming in blank? They'd have told him what definately don't do, what try not to do, and what to do. He'd probably just focus on looking for negative reactions and not doing that again, possibly with an apology if they convince him it was warranted. He'd have the regs memorized (at least the ones he figured were likely to pertain to him in medical.) His Alate played him some sim maybe Zeng Hu and a Dreamweaver or Ta made about workplace HR crap so he's got that. His Cell would maybe be a Cell that specializes in making (or retraining) Vaurca for SCC employment as part of some plan a higher ranking Ta has for the Brood, hence a better pre acclimation to the SCC environment? 2: While Pilcg is young, it might have formed an opinion about recent Vaurca events. How does Pilcg feel about the upcoming Biesel elections, or the current war between the K'lax? Violence bad, some violence is good, like dead Li'idra. Fight between kin though, wrong, can't understand why they fight over which Queen should rule, hard question, too hard, and questions for Queen to decide, I do what Alate say and Alate say I fix people. Maybe I learn why one queen should rule but not another one day, but now I fix people, and C'thur do not have this problem. 3: How does Pilcg relate to the other C'thur broods? What does it think about the other Hives? K'lax work too much, Leto is intriguing however, The Exhibition could have curious experiences and things impossible to experience elsewhere, but more likely I find all the things they got wrong, not like our Royal Chronical. I pity them for being stuck with the Hegemony instead of the Federation. Federation much better. Zo'ra are in charge, they win right by.. being better? Still, C'thur strong, maybe we lead one day? But for now. I fix people. C'thur, I don't talk about the High Queen's.. condition, she is the only reason we made it to the Spur. Mouv, scientists, and merchants?, the bazaar would be an experience but there are better things to focus on now. Vytel, wielder of violence, violence good when they do it. Still stay clear when it happens. May meet some on ship, may trust them more for unbiased views. There are many Queenless Vaurcae on board, including some Punished. How does Pilcg feel about them? Did the Alate warn Pilcg to steer away from those crowds? Is Pilcg naive or does it hold resentment towards them? Alate warn Pilcg, still what if they not so bad? I can form opinion later, avoid for now but be friendly. For Punished, hmm, definitely avoid. Why they hire Punished?

Having played a scientist that was asked to make an EMP. I did 20u each Uranium and Iron, considering a basic beaker is only 60u and you need two, this seemed reasonable to me. I then tested it and dumpsterred the entire ship, not just IPCs, engineering spent the rest of the round resetting APCs I'm pretty sure. I'd suggest instead of a cap, just reduce the overall impact, or require more reagent. You can go up to 120u beakers by simply visiting an Autolathe so if a 40u EMP is that destructive, I don't want to think about what a 240u grenade would do. I'd just scale back, it would also mean better beaker tech (and size) allows stronger EMPs, the way it's balanced now, noone would dare do a max grenade (600u? I think with two bluespace beakers) emp and that doesn't make much sense.

BYOND Ckey: kelnor Discord username: Kelnor9781 Character names: Nira Sawant, Dumitra Moore, Hailey Wise, Dimah Al-Bashar Species you are applying to play: Vaurca ------------------------------ General Whitelist Requirements What colour do you plan on making your first alien character?: Purple 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?: Part of this is to better RP one of my most played characters (Nira) by improving my understanding of the alien lore she's heavily involved with (via the Phalanx.) Beyond that, understanding the greater lore will help all my characters better integrate. Lore knowledge is something I only recently began focusing on. I will play the character listed here to get an idea of what being a vaurca is like and I have at least 3 throw away characters that became my mains at various points so who knows, but I'm mostly here to better RP Nira. What makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a human?: We're eusocial, I should think less selfishly and try to think about the group more, while putting more effort towards trying to understand where the group consensus lies in situations than I would as a human. Ambition is fine, but it's to be recognized for bettering your hive or brood not yourself alone. Most Vaurca likely have spent the majority of their life in VR and post birth, preparing for and improving in one and at most 2 specialized fields with that being their main purpose to benefit the hive/brood. This would focus their mentality, I imagine Vaurca approach learning more methodically and using repetition. Being Unbound, some flexibility is required or you would just be a bound but compared to humans Vaurca are more focused. ------------------------------ Character Application Character Name: Ka'Akiax'Plicg C'thur Born 4 months ago after 2 years VR learning to be a physician and spending time being wounded as a Skrell/Human/Za/Ka/Ra to better be able to treat them, understand what they're going through during their injury and for them to better be able to communicate symptoms. Being a Xetl it loves the sensation of a scapel on skin now after VR, having been on both ends, and wishes it were a surgeon instead. The sight of blood repulses it (any blood now that they spent time as a human and a skrell.) but it loves that and has come to enjoy the discomfort during work. It's on the Horizon because it's Brood needs money more than it need it's services directly right now. It does not care about the Horizon but is happy to work on strange species. It's also been promised an extended (by Xetl standards) stay in VR again upon return if they did well and earned enough money for it's Brood. 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. Very little directly, being so young, it doesn't care much about the Horizon or the SCC or it's crew (directly,) it's here because it's brood needs resources more than it needs a physician. The overall decline and poor state of the Vaurcan hives and the phoron crisis deprive it of being happy in VR. It will work to save crew because losing crew that should have been saved will get it fired and sent back to a VERY unhappy Ta and probably Queen. Like-wise it will want very much to save crew in difficult situations because this will give it's Brood the ability to negotiate better compensation and possibly a faster return or more voracious access to VR. How does your character view the megacorporation they work for? Zeng Hu is nice corporation, they give my brood something called money, this is good, it allows more time in VR. I work for them, I save their employee's lives, they see Xetl smart, Xetl capable, they happy, they give more money, then I return and I feast. Is good.

I apologize, this was compiled near shift end and the paperwork was lost by the next shift. It's possible Central has a copy of the faxes sent but on ship copies are missing. Reporting Personnel: Atheer Makos on behalf of Mythos (Licenced Merchant) Job Title: Executive Officer GameID : crl-aV8C (the round before it) Personnel Involved: Mythos Kauser Bloodclaw Secondary Witnesses: Keala Nalika, An'khaia Lun'azhak, Usul Guwan Time of Incident: 0400 Ship Time (Approx.) Real Time: 0400 GMT 12/18/2023 Location of Incident: Hallway between medical and the Merchant ship. Nature of Incident: [] - Workplace Hazard [] - Accident/Injury [] - Destruction of Property [] - Neglect of Duty [x] - Harassment [] - Assault [x] - Misconduct [] - Other: Would you like to be personally interviewed?: [ x ] - Yes (but not neccessary) [ ] - No Overview of the Incident: Merchant Mythos testified to myself that Bloodclaw threatened to rob her. Based on context I believe this to have been a joke, but this behavior is still unacceptable. I had a recorded statement from Mythos, however the transcript seems to have been lost. It may be possible to get a new statement over extranet access. I am unsure. Security was too busy dealing with a hivebot issue to investigate properly before the merchant had to depart.

Reporting Personnel: Atheer Makos Job Title: Executive Officer GameID : cri-bkUS Personnel Involved: Rudimer Bird Secondary Witnesses: Yekta Nazeri (Pharmacist - Interimmed CMO), Saira Rivas (Security Officer), Clark Coldsmith (Investigator), An'khaia Lun'azhak (Xenoarchaeologist ) Time of Incident: 0930 Ship Time (Approx.) Real Time: 0930 GMT 12/16/2023 Location of Incident: Pharmacy, and generally about the ship. Nature of Incident: [] - Workplace Hazard [] - Accident/Injury [] - Destruction of Property [x] - Neglect of Duty [] - Harassment [] - Assault [x] - Misconduct [] - Other: Overview of the Incident: Pharmacist Bird has neglected his duties aboard the Horizon in order to pursue a side job as a drug dealer. I am not sure about the strength of the evidence as I was not present on shift at the time. I am instructing Security to build a case. I have decided not to suspend Doctor Bird at this time as we have another Pharmacist that can watch them. Interim Nazeri has spoken with Bird and feels they may understand their new surroundings and may adapt. Addendum to 2465-12-16-0109/01 (index 2465-12-16-0109/01A0,) further investigation yielded that a bottle of salt actually contained Heroin. As confirmed by Interim CMO Yekta Nazeri. CMO Nazeri believes the employee now better understands the expectations placed on him but the severity of the matter requires escalation. As such I am submitting this and requesting SCCIA investigation into the matter. This form is to be completed and handed in to the Internal Affairs branch of SCC Central Command following shift the incident occured in. Attach submitted evidence to this form, including recorder logs, photographs, signed forms. This paper has been stamped with the executive officer's rubber stamp.

I've only really had one round with Fluffy's CMO (Several with his HoS, but I don't play sec so can't comment.) Not much happened that round, he did a good job of facilitating roleplay but didn't really get a chance to give any feedback beyond doing well with the conversation with my surgeon. I can't +1 or -1, but would support an extension. Will add a post if I get a good enough round to give + or - feedback. I will say, I don't think this is the place to complain about him giving you an order you don't agree with.

+1 for the trial. <Zeng Hu Stare>