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BYOND Ckey: LynxQueen Discord username: LynxQueen Character names: Kerensa Yan Species you are applying to play: Vaurca ------------------------------ General Whitelist Requirements What colour do you plan on making your first alien character? (RGB 13, 66, 27), the color of unbound bulwarks, which will be detailed further below, of course. Have you read the lore pages for the species you wish to be whitelisted for? That I have. I’d keep them open even while roleplaying as I do with Kerensa Yan so I can quickly reference things in conversation. 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 find the Vaurca the most fascinating of the Aurora races, likely due to my bias and interest in insectoid alien lifeforms. I think Aurora has done an excellent job in making the Vaurca both aesthetically and lore interesting. Their lore is varied, and about what I’d expect for a species who’s civilization is nearly a million years old. What makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a human? Well, for starters, they aren’t oxygen bound primate-based organisms. They’re Phoron based insectoids, with many varying different job-specific forms. Human bodies aren’t quite so focused. Humans are born to find their own purpose. Vaurca are born with a purpose. Biology aside, their civilizations are massively different, as Vaurca (outside of the Queenless) are beholden to a queen of their brood. ------------------------------ Character Application Character Name: Ra’Akaix’Kraz K’lax Write a backstory for your character. This may include their origin, education, personality and how they arrived to the SCCV Horizon. Kraz is a Vetju Hive Bulwark, with the purpose solely of engineering. Construction and deconstruction, along with entering hazardous locations within Kloz’xera to do such work. It is a diligent worker of even temperament, often going out of its way to do good work. One could say it is an exemplary member of it’s workgroup. It exhibits relatively decent curiosity, though not any more than what would be above average for a Vetju Vaurca. Kraz is an ‘older’ Bulwark, currently at four standard years, though all those years have been spent working exclusively at Kloz’xera. When not dutifully attending to it’s duties, Kroz is often found working on personal engineering projects in meatspace, and in the Klo’vtak realmspace, working on theoretical designs it can use in meatspace. Kraz recently seeked, for reasons seemingly unknown to most, employment with Hephaestus as an engineer, who eagerly accepted what would be defined as a ‘veteran bulwark worker’. This has ultimately led them aboard the SCCV Horizon as an engineer, where they do much of the same work. Repair, construct, deconstruct, repair. It is hoping that it will learn new, possibly more efficient methods to these techniques from the aliens aboard. 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. The Phoron Scarcity is the biggest one for Vaurca specifically, I feel, as they breathe phoron. Obviously this would be of utmost importance to all Vaurca, as to not waste it and the insistence on finding more. K’ois, I imagine, can only bring the Vaurca so far on it’s own. So the scarcity would affect Kraz as much as it has any other Vaurca, especially on the Horizon where it is all the less readily available. How does your character view the megacorporation they work for? Well enough, I imagine, with some level of distrust and suspicion that comes naturally with the Vetju Hive. Kraz would know well that it’s time with Hephaestus is temporary at best, and that it will inevitably return to Tret to work in the Forges once again. For now, it serves a means to an end - one that comes with pay and invaluable off-world experience.