Arbiter_Ambrose

Ckey/BYOND Username: Arbiter_Ambrose Discord Name: master_ambrose Position Being Applied For: Deputy Past Experiences/Knowledge: I have written some poems, small proses, but not much else, I hope that I can expand that portfolio in future even if not accepted. Examples of Past Work: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xegIv9GnS1aP2iMps7602oDZaIbMkocvJdXd7HctkOc/edit?tab=t.0 I do not have access to the anything else sadly in terms of writing, https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/21525 this was majorly helped by thegreywolf so it is more of their PR, but I still did do some of the code in this. (list of pull requests you made to the Aurora repository or other relevant work) Additional Comments: I know this is specifically based on the application gabby did, and this is because it is a bit of a old application, I have refurbished it up to my current beliefs and skills and hope that it gives a good insight into me and I made sure it fufills the categories given for the current requests. 1. What other skills related to lore development do you have, besides writing, if any? Various skills that I thought may be useful to mention would be basic photo-editing, knowledge of mapping to a degree, although at this time of writing I have not completed anything aside from a minor addition to the ti’rakqi smuggler with a lot of help from thegreywolf but I have several things in the work and am always learning. 2. Choose any Dionae background besides Moghresian, Hieroaetherian, or Voidtamer, and write a 2-paragraph summary of some cultural additions that you believe would improve the writing as a character building resource. Right, I am going to be hopping about for this but I think that covering multiple concepts would be good since I have a few basic ideas for two cultures, I think it would be really good to get a better idea of how other species are interacting with Voidic Dionae and most particularly in that regard harming them. In the Modern era, Voidic dionae have found themselves more and more inhibited by other species with the most prominent being humanity, ships crashing into them, the gas emissions from ships shifting migration spots, and the metals and alloys created by Voidic dionae being hunted for. While the chance a single ship crashes into a gestalt even of Cetus size is low, when many ships in a unregulated system pass through the chance is greatly increased given sensors can struggle to detect gestalts drifting through space as the skrell first discovered themselves. Some Voidic dionae have taken to trailing ships for the exhausted gases that they spew from their thrusters, despite being slower than the ship themselves, this has found some success as the motion of the gas transfers to them, although in a opposite direction meaning it requires some precise considerations from the gestalt, this is not only a benefit to dionae however given stray thruster burns can sometimes knock them dramatically off path hindering long established plans to meet up with a fellow gestalt sometimes even centuries or eons in the making. However while dionae have also been assisted by these circumstances occasionally, not all harm to a gestalt is accidental, many voidic gestalts create special alloys and find rare metals that can assist them in spearing carp swarms for sustenance, where stellar radiation is thin (like the lemurian sea?) or providing a sort of shield from space dust that would otherwise injure or irritate a gestalt moving through it and various other reasons, this has become a great interest to mercenaries and miners, such behaviours has been seen in Xelp III with a Echion’s death at the hands of miners to seek the wealth inside their gestalt, though at the time they were viewed as a weed. Some have even found a living hunting Trirerne across the spur given most Echion are protected by system defense forces, scientific research teams or surveillance drones and satellites, and this comes with much profit as even the biomass of the gestalt has become a luxury among some elites, dominian nobles are known to enjoy roasted nymphs at specific expensive functions, though they require treatment to remove lethal reagents. Gestalts have adapted to this, albeit very slow given the nature of the voidsong network, learning the markings of infamous hunting vessels, moving their drift to avoid previously popular routes and decentralise, sometimes even grouping up to provide a more difficult assault on the ‘caravan’, and governments of the spur have acknowledged the illegality of the hunting, though some more than others. 3. Do you have any thoughts regarding Xrim or Nralakk-integrated Dionae? What direction would you take with them? I think they are a interesting concept regarding xrim and have alot to be used for, being one of the most intraspecific conflict for dionae, though hierotheria has it’s own though now much smaller in a way, not to mention being less directly violent and more neglect, I think the history is a bit confusing in some extents as it doesn’t make sense to me how the enlightened advanced farther than the scorned with their ruthless advancement, however I understand it is partially a choice to make the culture work and also possible since their industrialism doesn’t inherently equal more superior technology and other than that I would like to see perhaps a bit more expansions in culture, which can be seen above, maybe some additions to their war history to push the harshness of it and elaborate on how the scorned got integrated so easily, I like the origin and think that if it was to get some further conflict between the scorned and enlightened current day, well more than it has already that would be neat. Regarding purely Nralakk-integrated Dionae, I think they are cool, much like xrim dionae but they lack the same.. Lore about them and they don’t really feel prominent in the Nralakk lore from what I have seen, which isn’t a issue but I would like it if they were explored more, perhaps exploring the political field and perhaps more on how they have adapted to their replacement from generally being the labourer species, though they obviously have many other purposes in the federation it was a core aspect of their time, I don’t think what we have right now needs much more than a small expansion though. 4. Our primary factions as of now are The Eternal, The Voidtamer Confluence, and Hieroaetheria. What are your thoughts on them as of now, and how could you see them progress? Regarding The Eternal as a faction, I think that it could use some work as at the moment it simply does not really appeal to the average player in my opinion, while I enjoy the way it has been implemented it kind of lacks any substance to latch onto beyond that, and I think it would be nice to expand on the identity as a religion and lifestyle in some way, I am not quite sure how I would work towards this and make the faction more appealing in both ways but I hope to collaborate with the team to achieve that, it definitely has foundations for alot more expansion in that way like the eternal gardens in biesel, or iron eternal in the narrows, this isn’t to say I dislike the faction, I really like it as a concept and want to see it go in a direction that highlights the difference from the other religions species have while making it interesting to explore and play and I personally thing simplemaroon has posited a few good ideas on that end. As for the Voidtamer Confluence, my opinion is mixed, I like the faction and how it expands voidic dionae, it definitely has alot of connections like to the rueltab tragedy and I initally disliked the history page for being a bit difficult to read out but after a recent reread, I think the poetic nature is well balanced with readability. I think we could perhaps work with the ever-modernising galaxy clashing with the faction? Perhaps the ever-expanding piracy problem of the spur could be affecting them or maybe something else, I hesitate to say anything internal since they seem quite tight knit and the kind of group that would mainly have external issues, but I could see it working, I definitely have to agree with simple maroon’s prior stance on some of their capacities and connecting what makes their methods either more advanced or different from other factions like hierotheria would be good. New Hierotheria is very fun, I like it, it is very organised like a diona and gives you a few ideas on the ends of consortium and even still on the states left on the wayside, while I miss them, I think it is a fair choice to make as it was really disorganised in terms of focus and the new compact is much more clearly defined for me. Maybe we could see the other nations slowly opened up to the outside world and maybe we could get some more articles out about how operations is going around the Titan’s Rapture System and it’s vicinity. 5. What is your availability? I am very available, I only have at current 3 days of college in the middle of the week, with 4 free days, something I quite enjoy, obviously sometimes I am going to a family member’s house, or something similar to that maybe a walk even but those are atleast for me sparse, to clarify as a editted comment, I am in BST as a timezone though I have irregular hours compared to the average of that timezone. 6. What would I like to contribute to the team personally? Well, I really, really, like ships, but I don’t really think diona lore needs all that much of that, maybe some ruin refurbishments however, I want to mainly contribute articles or additions to already existing pages since I personally feel I do best when I have a clear goal and a basis to work on, and articles while a bit different from what I just said could be similar to that, and additions are likewise. Maybe a few more famous dionae so they can get some sorts of idols outside of just skrellian kind, like celebrity kind of idols. I also want to collaborate with what I have mentioned here to hopefully made the areas mentioned better, I think diona lore has alot going for it and I know I have somewhat been negative, but I love alot of the lore and I just want to highlight areas for improvement.

Hm, while this sounds like we won't really have as much military offships and offships are going to be very specifically tied to the main ship in a way I don't like, I am looking forward to seeing what happens because I know that this is probably been thought over alot harder than me, this focus on persistence seems interesting and I am very very curious to see what my favourite lore elements turn into from this new change though also a bit frightened obviously.

Of course, thank you for the questions! Lliz views the Zo'ra in a primarily negative light despite their historically positive relations as a hive until recent events, this can be correlated with many things that the Zo'ra hive has done as of late such as their theft of the type E class, the prevalence of criminal queenless which Lliz views as not only a waste to contribute further to the queenless Hivecells but also a disservice to the society they have embedded in. In regards to K'lax, their view is somewhat more positive despite certain accusations that are rather prevalent such as C'thur stealing their Hiveship, though Lliz would not say they are found of the K'lax given the Xathul Xon and the civil war, the voiding aspect of it being one of the most distasteful aspect of it. Lliz has only interacted with skrell and (sparingly in comparison) humans as of prior to arriving on the Horizon, and thus mostly views the other species in a curious and what will hopefully be a positive intrigue if they have a client of a non-human/skrell variety. Regarding humanity Lliz views them as a very disorganised species riddled with a lack of focus, and somewhat views themselves as a means to give that focus and organisation somewhat looking down on humanity, Skrell however are a species Lliz has a somewhat higher internal respect for considering the similarities of skrell and vaurcae's group mindsets aswell as their species being similarly long-storied in history. Lliz is rather optimistic, vaurcae have grown footholds in their new environment and although they were not born in the past prior to this they are well aware of the turmoil went through to come here. Lliz is above all else strongly confident in C'thur's ability as a hive compared to the others however. One could say that Lliz is somewhat more considerate of the erratic behaviours of humanity and the edgepoints their client-states are on in some respects due to their training in psychology.

The most competent practically full interim command the horizon has ever seen..

BYOND Ckey: Arbiter Ambrose Discord username: master_ambrose Character names: Engineer G1-HIBS6-SYW12, Assistant Tinv, Machinist Annissim Zima, Xenobiologist Hesychios Spyrou, Scientist Distant Memories of Night Wishes Iced Species you are applying to play: Vaurca ------------------------------ General Whitelist Requirements What colour do you plan on making your first alien character?: (IPCs exempt) 20,20,55 of the Vytel Unbound Have you read the lore pages for the species you wish to be whitelisted for?: Yes, I have read all of the Vaurca Lore pages relevant to this whitelist and some more, though some may be skimmed just a little I am confident in my ability to answer any questions pertaining to the lore aspect of vaurca. 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 believe Vaurca is a very interesting species that is interconnected in ways they could be compared to dionae which is another species I quite enjoy, them being Eusocial and their everloyal tendencies to their Hive and Queen are a dynamic that other species do not possess in the same way, and they are a what I presume atleast nice and welcoming community and I really want to engage in vaurca lore more than I have with my assistant Tinv. What makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a human?: Vaurcae can easily be compared to ants or termites with their eusocial nature and they display this further by using that nature to display their feelings such as chittering and clacking their mandibles for an example, and unlike humans they primarily convey feelings in a much more abstract way through hivenet directly conveying it to their fellow Vaurca in a much more visceral or definitive way than simple words would convey. Vaurcae also have much decided for them both from the hive and their overlord state, and these can effect them drastically both biologically and mentally and can dictate if they are a Za, Ka, and if they serve icecream at a rollercoaster or work as a Eridani merc. ------------------------------ Character Application Character Name: Ka’Akaix’Lliz C’thur Write a backstory for your character. This may include their origin, education, personality and how they arrived to the SCCV Horizon. (2 paragraphs minimum) Lliz was laid in late 2465 to the Vytel brood as apart of a project aiming to utilise the history of peacekeeping and diplomacy of the brood in human psychology as another avenue of influence, and so Lliz entered virtual reality and began what could be considered it’s learning years, their Imagotis providing the proper instructions for the future. Lliz was taught over the course of twelve dilated years what duties it would be, how to minimise it’s insectoid nature offputting humans, what is expected of a typical Vytel broodmember and what is required of a psychologist allowing them to grow into a at least in theory excellent psychologist. Lliz was somewhat morose to leave virtual reality as it would miss subrealms such as the Bazaar of Curiosity which they enjoyed looking into and the many reality gardens, though eager to put to work it’s now extensive knowledge and they matured, leaving virtual reality to put their learning to the test. Fortunately for Lliz, the interview in order to gain citizenship was not an issue for them given their extensive training and brood’s general attitudes, much less fortunately however was the project’s circumstances which given the population of humans in Diulszi and the federation in general being quite poor it did not garner much success though the project was not a failure in totality so the vaurcae born from it, such as Lliz would be able to be repurposed in a different way which satisfied Lliz from the unfortunate feelings that came with the project’s failure bouncing onto them and their fellow kin. Lliz looked to the Ve’katak Phalanx for that repurposing promptly being assigned to a psychologist position at a SCC facility in need during 2467 which so happened to be the horizon roughly prior to it’s venture into uncharted space. 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. (1 paragraph minimum) While there is a lack of things that have impacted Lliz directly, the ever-looming Phoron Scarity that is above not just the vaurcese war-machines and the continued expansion of the hives but the entire spur’s technology would be an exception to this, Lliz holds a hopeful outlook and tries not to concern itself with the matter if possible. The Caretaker assignments to the hivecells has minimally impacted Lliz, due to it being from Vytel, a brood known for their more pro-federation outlooks and not being particularly a focus of concern due to there being much worse performing hivecells in the area. The Court Of Queens Arc has not been of great effect to Lliz until recently given it was only recently a part of the Phalanx but what Lliz sees like many do theft of the bulwark Caste even if it was not alive for it has shed it’s opinions of the Zo’ra in a negative light. How does your character view the megacorporation they work for? (1 paragraph minimum) Lliz is rather new to the phalanx, however they have built up a few opinions on it and the aspect that they have joined it as, primarily being that it is thankful for it’s ability to contribute a source of work for many warriors and unbound in need of one, the matter of human hivenet integration however is a murky one for Lliz given their age and they are standoffish of the concept even with it being rather primitive as of now though it is hopeful to receive much due to the mental troubles that the integration gives humans and other non-vaurcae. The Megacorporations of the spur in general however are something Lliz has near to no experience with excluding perhaps zeng-hu which provided much data that Lliz learned from and as such Lliz views them in quite a positive light given they also collaborate strongly with the C’thur hive.

Oh, so that is why I can't see those links huh.

As a antag, I think maybe uhhhh, as mentioned above mind-bending gimmicks, uhhh maybe a bit specific but religious gimmick? instant death, death in general maybe? these last two seem pretty important distinctions so I made sure to separate them using the comma, this might be a ton of hyperspecific lists..? Additionally after consulting some colleagues of mine I have concerns it could turn into a moderation tool and I am going to be frank, that wouldn't be very fun if someone says, "oh no, you can't kill me I had death off, or hey you can't blackmail me, I had blackmail off or, why did you not torture me!! I had torture on but you tortured the person with torture off :/" and then you get bwoinked and suddenly you are twenty minutes into a stern talking to from a admin or something, this is obviously a hyper negative situation and it isn't really how I personally think it will go but I am bringing what you said to a kind of full, this is not exactly my mind to be clear, I actually have a really optimistic view I just want to cover all the bases. And that is what I was going to say, and then I forgot to post it, I think everyone has really good points and ultrarat made my point alot better than me but witness what I was going to say.

As a antag, and someone who has had a few gimmicks that require things similar across that line, I would support the above and the concept itself.

I agree about the Visegrad comment, the one where you saw the triangle jutting out was great in my opinion though idk about the colours tbh.

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Hello crew!

I think this would be reasonable, though their lack of hands may hinder them somewhat in helping any situations I am sure they would be a welcome addition to the list of possible ERTs and maybe one that gets activated more often than the others due to their much more simple nature.

Diona Great Consulate and their loyal Security detail in the brig, along with the deserter private that committed suicide when they learned all their bioweapon did was give them a upset stomach 😛 I seriously thought I was going to die honestly.

I see, thank you for these contributions it has given me alot to consider as avenues, while I was aware of their quite harsh policy and such I seem to have not gotten it in there and this has helped with that, I will probably spend a bit mulling these over, thanks.

I may aswell use this for a character concept I am working on, I have decided I want to join in on the Z.I. craze and make my first Zavodski character, I am thinking they would belong to the paramilitary branch and somewhat act... cool yet refined? I do not have a idea of how it'd go but I want to branch into more extroverted characters and having a somewhat cool looking but polite Z.I. seems to work out well to me. this post is mainly to use the image elsewhere since I require a VPN to use discord and I don't have many means to transfer the image to laptop.

Hello, I am aware that this contribution is somewhat minor but I felt it is important as someone who was there for the event as the solarian bodyguard witnessing some of the misgendering and the character Vien pulling a knife and locking them into the commissary (though considering this is not a IR it is somewhat irrelevant) and having interactions with the player, they did not seem to give off weird vibes to me personally and were nice enough in looc when they stunned me with a offer to play a game and biting my neck so I can only assume it was good-natured in intent personally regarding the 'sterotypical indian behaviour' though I personally don't see that I do have impairments in recognising things like that. there is a few possible reasons their character could be saying sir such as a ingrained reaction they want to put emphasises on due to the military aspects of Gadputhur, though other reasons is kind of beyond me I do not think they came here just to play a transphobic character as this seems a relatively minor interaction and quite a jump to considerations of transphobia and such. I think that they seem like a good head on their shoulders and this is just incidentally getting bad vibes off their actions and perhaps a few mishaps on their end, sometimes things can be lost in the flurry and it can seem like someone is bleeding their OOC into IC or trying to do something they aren't and this might have worked out a bit better if you had LOOCly discussed with them, they seem like a reasonable person from my end and I think that it might be a bit too quick on the panic button here.

I think this is quite a nice thread opening up. I am here for anyone who needs a more background-based character with easier to characterise traits like a IPC they own that is quite generic or etc, though I am willing to try more unique and gimmicky stuff I am not as confident and I don't want to ruin your concepts accidentally so consider that at your risk. If I ever was to do something akin to a Duo or a Trio, a group of Diona that knew each other could be interesting, though something taj or IPC based is possibly more easy to find people for, examples of this could include A group of Scrapper IPCs, perhaps Orion Miners from the Free Tajaran Council considering the new news outlets that were buddies prior to coming on the horizon. Perhaps something from the nlarlakk federation or xrim for dionae since there is some room for more of a rivalry dynamic there and it doesn't mean they need a diona whitelist exactly though something based around the Pests of Titan Prime could be quite interesting. I wish Dessysalta and Maxspells luck in finding people for their ideas, they sound quite fun though not something I am capable of engaging in and likewise to future people positing Duos and Trios and so and so forth. BTW just privately message me on the forums or discord and I will see it, probably!

Yea, it was completely unintentional, thanks for unbanning me.

BYOND Key: ArbiterAmbrose Total Ban Length: Uhh, I think it has been 5ish days Banning staff member's Key: Shennaanigians Reason of Ban: I was using a VPN somehow? I thought it was off and caught a ban from 2021 or so about LRP behaviour Reason for Appeal: I decided to use this to take a break from aurora for a little bit anyways and now I want to play again

I think it might be nice to have some cheek references here and there but I think the new name is fine as is now.

I believe personally this is already possible with aides, merging the two roles together works better in my opinion than not, though that is just my opinion, apologises if this contribution is a bit sparse.

While I think it was a well-intented PR and it could have worked in a alternative universe where the situations aligned, I think we should just go back to the consular giving the aide a gun or just having the gun themselves since before it apparently worked fine, a alternative title would be nice but I think the maintainers are against that? I forgot but yea, just my thoughts oon this.

Hello, I know UltraNumeron somewhat as I have played as antag side by side with them, they are a good sport and willing to go with alot to make things work out for everyone in my opinion and have good ideas, I think they understand the dynamics alot better than atleast me since I don't want to speak for others, and I trust them to toe the line between being too much of a pushover with antags and not being too harsh, basically I think they will go well since they are specifically going for one of the roles that see antag interaction the most being security.