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Lore Impact (Small/Medium/Large): Small Team Purview: Skrell Short Description: "Qr’xuqm, or the “Far-Violence”, is a term referring to the pattern of violent and anti-civil activities conducted by foreign communities. It is marked by a spike in anti-federation sentiment, violent acts, and protest, as well as affiliation with organized crime. While Federalist citizens demonstrate the civil virtues of discipline and obedience, communities in foreign nations seem to have loosened interpretations." Adds a section to the Skrell Aboard talking about Qr'xuqm; the pattern of anti-federation activity that Skrell communities outside of the federation apparently get up to. It's a catch-all term that describes a lack of nralakk values, anti-civil, and violent activity that is abhorrent to those from the homeworld. Its accuracy is pretty controversial, and many with a more cynical worldview see it as authoritarian overreach. How will this be reflected on-station?: I think it plays into the superiority complex the Skrell have when it comes to interspecies relations; my hope is that characters who come from law enforcement or live near embassies will have some conflicting views of the Skrell that they can use in-game. It could also be great for the more 64tan-minded person to look at another conspiracy to justify their surveillance state. On the Skrell side of things, it should further separate those from the core and those outside it. Given that Skrell are very inquisitive, it will put a name and a face to Skrell abroad as well as give them some talking room. Does this addition do anything not achieved by what already exists?: It's going to expand a little into the whole idea of how the Federation watches its citizens, and how it enforces this outside their own country. While the elitism of the inner systems over those outside of it is implied, there isn't too much of a relationship between the Federation and those outside it. While we do have the "dry list", we really don't see how the Federation's overwatch ties into foreign communities. While this is just a short and general snippet, I hope it can provide the one other Skrell player with an idea or give a non-Skrell something to talk about. Do you understand that the project may change over time in ways you may not foresee once it is handed over to the Lore Team? Oh yeah, change it however you like. Long Description: Qr'xuqm - _Far Violence_ (2).pdf

Thank you! I'm hoping to make it a routine to go to the bar, like the olden days. Also looking forward to write more memos/interdepartmental communications!

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From what I've seen of mills over around 5 or so rounds, a good solid Rper. I like the backstory and I think it's a cool way to interact with both skrell and human lore. +1

Yeah, this is something I noticed myself on the merc round. I was thinking "I feel like a glorified Security Officer", I think I improved in the ops round, but I am definitely being a little more laid back than I should be. I'll start getting into that leadership role, and making my voice heard for the public as well.

Yeah pretty understandable critique, I tend to play the game differently depending on which character I choose, and the character I assume you are referring to is one I do not take very seriously. I can understand your distaste towards me, and if accepted or not, I hope I can spin that around.

BYOND key: unionguy Discord Username: unioncap Character names: Bishiop Sterling Tuiru Juiqii'Juukxu Zuir Isiak Limpopo Greophnadah Eternal Knowledge Birthed Through Blood Rite Husso Szs'Koask, Josh Zachery, Sezi Orgesk, Josiah Oved, Qadir Aranan, are some others that I think are notable but retired. How long have you been playing on Aurora? Ever since 2023, roughly in the earlier months. Have you received any administrative actions? And how serious were they? I have received three major administrative actions, the first was about me murder-boning when I first started and DC'ing, The second was me using troubling language, and the third was the accusation of being a nazi dog-whistler. However, the last was sorted out, evident by my ability to play the server. Please provide well-articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph each. What do you think the OOC purpose of a Head of Staff is, ingame? My answer hasn't changed much from my last application, that being a mentor and voice of the department. While it is easy to understand as a new player that the HoS is supposed to be a leadership role. It is harder to grasp the influence on the atmosphere and theme of a round that a HoS has. When another crewmember has an opposing theme or tone to their character, the player can just ignore them, but the same cannot be said for the player's boss. For example, my former OM Ooruex'Yutiex Lish-Xoio was big on paperwork and attentive to the mission. This contrasted with another OM, who did not care about either. While the crew stayed the same, how they interacted depended on the OM that round. This is why in my original application, I say that " For the player, a HoS gives them the relief that a true patriot is in control, someone they can go to if things trouble them." and that the HoS has to strike a gimmick if they wish to enjoy the role or have others consider them noteworthy. The HoS is a banner, and one who is able to put things in motion for his underlings. What do you think the OOC responsibilities of Whitelisted players are to other players, and how would you strive to uphold them? Relatively unchanged; to set a standard. You have a lot of power and can use this power to turn an event around or ruin a character's life. It is the reason for the strictness and low tolerance, the WL is for veterans who are mature enough to make good decisions in the round and for the horizon’s story. However, you also have to understand that this is just a game, and that realism does not equal fun, immersion does. Explain how the recent events in the Spur changed your character and how they came to be employed on the SCCV Horizon. Josha Sloan is around 48 by the present day and has spent half that time within some form of enforcement position. Born in the heart of the republic, Sloan got to enjoy the Selene countryside for much of his younger life, deeply contrasting with the tumultuous period that was the early 20’s and 30’s. The most frightening would be the Contact war, an event that would mold his fear of nuclear Armageddon and his anti-solarian sentiment because of the actions of the APP. Sloan was mostly a bully in school and wouldn’t deviate from that. He worked a few service jobs before landing on security, enjoying the routine and kitted work of standing around public centers. He had considered military service, but was too afraid and discouraged by his peers, settling on acquiring a criminology degree at Tripneck university in northern Selene. He would complete his bachelor's by 2446, naturally entering law enforcement. He would also complete his academy training with very little hiccups and enter the service just a year later. Stationed closer to Belle Côte, he would begin to mingle with the more corporate aligned, shifting further from his alliance roots like the rest of the planet. His track record would be just serviceable, and much of it was overshadowed by the independence about a half a decade later. The new government had come with new regulations, which the then Corporal Sloan disagreed with. After a fallout with his superiors, he would retire from public law enforcement. Rather entering into private security in the year 2455, and surprisingly playing very little part in the 1st Solarian Invasion, which would only cement his abandonment of solarian identity. He would work for various small private security firms, before working under Nexus as a lead security officer in 2459. He would have a very mediocre service, before seeing action in 2461 with the SLF attacks. He would get into about four or so gunfights, all successful, and showing very little regard for the synthetic life he fought against. Regardless, he would land himself in Asset Protection Management aboard major nanotrasen facilities. He wouldn’t get comfortable though; the 2nd Solarian Invasion, D6 riots, and the Solarian collapse would only further strain the company line. By the modern calamities of Moghes, Qerrballak, and the Great Scarcity, Sloan could only wonder if he would retire in a largely stable world. The dream would only dim with his new assignment, getting aboard the notorious capital ship of the SCC. What roles do you plan on playing after the application is accepted? Pretty much all the command roles at some point, barring CMO. Have you familiarized yourself with the wiki pages for the command roles? Yes Characters you intend to use for command or have created for command. Include the job they will be taking: Josha Sloan, Head of Security Do you understand your whitelist is not permanent, and may be stripped following continuous administrative action? Yeah Have you linked your BYOND account to the Forums? Yes Extra notes: Applying for Command again was no easy decision, but I firmly believe in its requirement and hope to use it wisely. My hope with Sloan is to push my leadership ability to the limit and see how well I can do under more, quick-paced, on-the-fly situations.

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Yeah, this is fine bro 👍

No, that is not at all what I said when describing "de facto" worldbuilding, it requires it to be intuitive to the reader. For example, Biesel is a government, so it can be intuitionally deduced to have Taxes and a Postal Service, both of these things are systems that affect a good deal of people and are on the table to be talked about pretty much everywhere. Something wrongfully Ad-Hoc would be me, creating the "Human First Party" for sol, and using it as a rationale to say spacist slurs. This Party cannot be intuitively deduced and is not immersion breaking if removed from the equation, unlike a postal service or a tax bureau (under most normal circumstances). Likewise, MAPPA was not created by me, it is actually a thing from real life if you can believe it. It preceded me, as it was intuitively deduced by medical players taking to more detailed RP, realizing that sharing peoples mental and physical issues was not something medical centers do. Pysch players also reasonably deduce that gossiping about their patients' traumas or personal secrets would be a violation of what they do. You say that I used this system to lord over you, and that it helped 'shield my LRP behavior', I can't really figure out what you mean by that. Do you mean the Vandalism? I was arrested for that, Lange and his imperial army could've cared less about MAPPA. Did it stop you from suspending me? No, and when you went to suspend me, I didn't call you out for "breaking patient confidentiality!" or whatever. Do you mean me denying an eval of the survivor? I've already explained that me doing that had reasonable intentions, didn't ruin any RP, and wasn't a gamey/no intention to roleplay move since I gain nothing out of denying it. The only thing the Patient Confidentiality Clause did was deny you hearing my explanation of what Sterling and Garcia talked about. If I didn't pull that, the only thing that would change would be me giving you a roughly two-minute recounting of a conversation. Which your response would most likely be "Hmm, okay" or something around those lines. Instead, I pulled that clause because sterling's kind of a moron and gave you a situation to RP out. Being a moron isn't FRP, as I had done my job to satisfactory standards; I started a therapy plan for an infamous employee, I allowed security to handle the survivor but checked on them 2-3 times. I didn't fail at my job; however, the toy wand joke and accidental vandalism were things that detracted from my work, and I got the IC consequence for it. The idea that doing your job to a reasonable but not exemplary extent, as well as being a moron, shouldn't be an OOC rule break.

The reason for me expanding on the IC detail was not to seek pity, if I wanted people to have good faith in sterling, I would've not made him how he is now. It was to explain what I was doing during the round and showing my intentions. You say that MAPPA is a system that doesn't exist, or simply too unbelievable in what you call 'collaborative/improvisational world-building' within aurora. I don't think this is true, as can also be said about patient confidentiality, both of these falls under what I believe as "de facto" world-building; things not outright stated but must be there due to how the world works. If you're running a professional medical center you have to have medical privacy procedure, if you're a psychologist you have to have patient confidentiality, these don't need to be outright stated but I do think they are important for HRP as a medical member. I have seen people take medical privacy into account, hell sterling himself got in trouble for violating MAPPA by him carelessly disposing records. I have also seen people use the patient confidentiality to deny people specific details on patients, usually non-medical of course. However, psychologists realistically have a stricter confidentiality to uphold, in-which certain details cannot even be known by the other medical staff (if it isn't necessary to their duties of course). If you think about it, it makes sense, since it stops the pysch from using his/her position to manipulate or abuse their relationship with patients. Now obviously the main issue isn't MAPPA itself, it's how I used it in this conversation. I can understand that hearing it from sterling, it makes it seem like I am saying a big "Fuck you" OOCly. I'll admit my original post is very brief, so I was exaggerating with my "bluff". The actual one is sort of a half-lie, after you ask to oversee sterlings work on garcia, sterling says something along the lines of "No Doctor, I cannot have you oversee the personal conversations, logs, or reports between me and garcia due to patient confidentiality and MAPPA. You'll have to get access from the Head of Psychology if you want to see my reports." The actual lie is you needed authorization from the Head of Psychology (who again, for a ship this big, would realistically exist), and the bluff was for you to be doubting your authority in a field you are not familiar with. I think this lie isn't absolutely unsalvageable if it doesn't work out for him, given that it just looks like is him arrogantly trying to shield his patient with the confidentiality card. There is also plenty of motivation to try and pull off this bluff here, but I've already spoken enough about the IC context. I do understand that using patient confidentiality is a gray-area, as it can easily be manipulated to block people from having meaningful RP. It can also be used to run-around people who have very little knowledge about real world medical terminology, or how something as niche as privacy works intricately in a medical setting. Again, hearing sterling say it can seem like I was just dangling the keys to the kingdom right before your eyes and teasing you, but that wasn't my intention. I think I used it for good reason here, even if it wasn't for a good cause. You ask how are things supposed to play out; how would your character retaliate? I don't think utilizing patient confidentiality here to shield garcia is something that warrants termination, as on the surface at least, it doesn't look malicious. A psychologist mistakenly asking the Chief Surgeon/Chief Physician/Chief of Medicine, to get the Head of Psychology's permission before seeing personal logs about psych patients isn't the most unbelievable thing out there. Yet understandably, it can play off as me using the gray-area of MAPPA and patient confidentiality to get back at you OOCly. I have to stress that it wasn't meant to be an OOC retaliation, all of it was meant to be IC coercion. But going forward, I will be more careful with how I use it and word it. It is obvious I underestimated how unfair it can be to the recipient, and how if the person is unfamiliar with it can seem like an unwinnable tyrant to reason against. It is easy to make it seem like a personal attack, and for that I am sorry.

I figured that at some point this was going to happen, surprisingly I have a good reason for why bishop did what he did. Even though I think most people knew I played him, I tried to keep it a secret and go with the "This guy is some rando" aspect given the gimmick. This, coupled with his fake personality, makes him I guess sort of an "enigma" and without knowing his intentions or the player behind him yeah, I can see it as LRP. I can understand where you're coming from here, but I don't think denying a recently arrived non-SCC patient under the guise of "I am busy, I am currently doing psychology things, they will need to slot in for next week" is LRP, I actually think it's the most realistic thing sterling could've done in the situation. Besides of course him goofing off with a toy wand, he was genuinely discussing Garcia's issues over cigars, his reasons for why he made threats, and then after that putting him on a plan. This is pretty much as "doing his job" goes for sterling and given that I was going to record a statement after the session I wasn't really interested in figuring out the actor's trauma; since the investigators were already doing that. I know in the past I have, amusingly, denied visiting patients, but at the slightest resistance I'd abdicate. The vandalism thing was breaking the already broken floor light on a misclick, but given the character, I just kind of rolled with it. Going back to the negligence, no I didn't ignore the patient, he had actually visited the ward three times after garcia, checking in and seeing the investigators talk corporate to them. He actually gets told to leave the ward because he goes in and starts shooting the toy wand at guwan as a joke. Now, the shielding thing with MAPPA is an old psychologist trick, but I did have good reasoning. You had made a lot of wrong assumptions when you pulled me into your office. 1) You said that I was lying about garcia being put on watch, and that he wasn't discussed about in the relay, then I asked you to pull up the console that had his record set to "Watch" under mental status, which I then pointed out to you ICly. This, to sterling, showcases that your CMO didn't do a lot of digging. 2) You said that because of me "failing to do my duties", Usul Guwan had to conduct the pysch evaluation in my absence. Now first, I knew ICly that this wasn't true and that Guwan was just watching the patient in the ward with a coffee cup in her hand. As I mentioned before, I also noticed ICly that two investigators were talking with this survivor, so pulling them away would not only interrupt security procedure but take away from their roleplay. Secondly, if you knew that guwan was conducting an illegal evaluation, why didn't you stop her? This was something I brought up to you in that office like three times, which your angerly brushed off before confronting by making guwan stand witness to say that she didn't do an eval. This again showcased to him that you weren't really here about his "negligence", you just didn't like him. Given that after I defeated your points, you'd just say, "Well yeah but getting arrested isn't professional", which is fine, but it seems OOCly you weren't trying to go for that. 3) You absolutely misunderstood the "excuses" sterling was giving, saying "Doctor, I think the survivor should get acquainted with the vessel before I conduct an evaluation" or "Doctor, I can't just throw my schedule away to attend to a patient not assigned to me this week, and who isn't in a emergency situation." aren't excuses, and you playing it that way just made him believe you had no idea what you were talking about when it comes to how he does his job. So, with these reasons, ICly sterling had good inclination to believe that you were bluffing and exercising a bias against him. This is reasonable, given sterling's black sheep status he is used to people wanting him gone and left for dead. However, your incompetence when it came to the psychological field, is the real reason I did the shielding thing. Sterling figured that because of your lack of knowledge, he could pull the MAPPA bluff and get them off his back. Assuming that the CMO takes a Chief of Surgery/ Chief of Medicine in practice, generally you can't just dig through their files.... to share them (The part I conveniently forgot to mention). Yes, your CMO was right in general, and the whole "oh so how do you know my scheduling plans?" was just him bluffing, as realistically yeah, you could see it off shift. You've not gotten the chance to really meet sterling on a high pop medical round, because I think you would've seen these consequences for yourself. He is absolutely hated, isolated, with some of the staff not even looking him in the face. He was arrested three times that round, the vandalism charge was purposely exaggerated by the player of othurr (who I had a good laugh with about the situation) for good reason. Security literally called me playing with the toy wand (which shoots a beam) Infront of Rrashs as me literally shooting her. Again, for good reason! Due to how he has acted, security and medical don't like him at all. He has done things that are more personal, unknowingly maiming a certain dionaes nymph, who confronted him at gunpoint about it. He had a toy gun, so he pulled it out and figured it was a joke given the pistol the dionae was using was the experimental sci-chipped one. Yet right now oblivious to him, that dionae is planning on hurting him and getting their retribution. Trust me, he is not getting away scot-free for all the things he's done. Again, as I showed you, he did actually do his job and the "in-accessible system" that he mentioned was just a bluff on MAPPA law. I didn't leave the patient without the chance of RP, much better roleplayers who were around for when the survivor was picked up gave them really good moments like them getting to pray at the chapel and just generally talking in the ward. I also think denying the patient can serve to strengthen RP in certain circumstances, it shocks both the patient and the entire command/medical department. It also showcases something that is a little rare as far as I have seen; people betraying their core virtues. Sterling acts like an agent of emotion and unprofessionalism, but when it suits him, he falls back to corporate policy and becomes socially sterile to the obvious moral issue. It also isn't FRP, again, it's not insane for a psychologist to ask for a reschedule on a walk-in. When ordered too, like with Pitra, he abdicates and is forced to conduct the psych examination. The "something of a comedian" comment isn't serious, it's him dodging his recent history since time and time again he cannot come back with his dignity after explaining the context. The "pysch who heals with laughs" isn't his intention, more so a cover. Sterling was, before I deleted him after a burnout, my first ever character for this server. If I'm allowed to connect him back pre-deletion, he has been around with the SCCV Horizon since 2464, and he has seen his fair share of incidents. If you read into his history, I believe under his medical records, it mentions an incident with a Unathi patient in his previous job working for corporate prisons. In short, the young bishop believed that he was making a breakthrough with a guwan, when in reality this wasn't the case. The guwan lied to him so that he could lower the medical teams guard, which would allow him to take its own life without being stopped. On a spacewalk with just it and sterling, it overpowers him, jumps off the vessel and dies quickly to exposure. At first this incident was added to compliment his standoff nature with aliens, and his personal lack of confidence, the events of the horizon turned it to a deeper wound. When I had played as him, trying to be sincere and sane, people would brush him off saying "I don't need to be shrinked" or "I am all good." Most of these folks, a month or so later, would either lose their mind or take their own life. Hell in a few cases, sterling almost lost his to these supposedly "sane" spacers. After trying and failing, using things from bribery to literal command orders to get people to seek therapy, he was absolutely devastated. He figured that people didn't want to seek help because it made them feel week, and an upper-class posh fellow conducting an evaluation on you would signal to your fellows that you were not okay. After spending a lot of time in the residential wing, he gained a epiphany, if he didn't take himself seriously, people would be more comfortable going to his sessions, being able to play them off as a joke which he could then get them to confess in private. He figured if he came off as an unprofessional clown, no-one would be afraid of him. Is this the solution? No, in reality it has been only semi-successful at the cost of him being a major pain-in-the-ass. but I think it's pretty funny and allows for wacky things to happen, like me cursing a tajaran with a wand while failing to do a backflip. Stuff like that lightens the mood, and I think he fits the gimmick okay at least in my eyes. Look at the difference with him pre-deletion and post-deletion. You can tell that there have been some exaggerations in grooming style, as well as a lack of personalization of their uniform.

I do hint that they are a Hadiist, so naturally they are against the NKA and ALA. Kir credits the ALA, and the royal revisionists, for the brutal outrages in D6 and its disunity. When I say Kir went from cover to cover, I really mean it, he was paranoid of being assaulted or mugged due to his affiliation. In a political sense, he believes Nated and his supporters are inconsistent and selfish; proof due to their initial denouncement of their first elected president during the 2nd revolution. Furthermore, he thinks they are brutish and militant and are basically traitors to the tajaran dream. The NKA is a little less abhorrent to him, however his indoctrination keeps him from forming a real positive view on them. Since the 2nd revolt would go on for the rest of Kir's developing years, the frequent riots and violence sent him into an introverted lifestyle. The 2nd Revolutions influence on D6 is really what caused him to delve into mystic and theological works of literature. It also developed his behavior, disgusted with the violence he grew more supportive of mediation and peaceful resolution. I do forget the family here, it's often a problem I have in these, safe to say that the family business gets broken into once or twice. Kir's father gets more involved with the SHC to protect his business, and thus the whole family is partially more radicalized as a result of the whole thing. If it weren't for it, Kir probably wouldn't become interested in the priesthood or any religious affair for that matter. By off-world temples I assume you mean off-Adhomai? He has only known the Parivara as a good thing, and their neutral stance to war is what led to him joining in the first place. The bigger picture mindset is something Kir loves, and he is passionate about it. If you're speaking about off-adhomai, he doesn't like that there is not council members outside adhomai, and that it is chalked up to local priests. He thinks it gives people the idea that adhomai natives are inherently superior and more holy. If you mean literally in space? He isn't familiar with the concept, which is the fun of a 'fish out of water' character I am going with here.