The lancer

Hi, sorry for the long wait, everyone's been a bit busy with irl things. To start with, the character backstory is way too short and doesn't really tell us anything about the IPC. We need a backstory with details about their life experiences, how they're treated by others and how these experiences and treatment shaped them and their beliefs. The prompt says 2 paragraphs minimum but this doesn't reach it, so you will have to remake it, expand it or think of another, more complex character to apply with. Also in the "Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human" question, could you provide some examples? Everything else seems fine. You just need to keep these two things in mind when you reapply, but for now I will have to deny this application.

I can, but the fact is that you've only been playing here for two months. I'm not that confident that you have spent enough time here to give you a whitelist. I'd recommend you apply again after you've established and played your new characters some more.

Have you played any rounds on Aurora? I can't find any characters linked to that ckey.

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This looks like a nice backstory. I do have some notes. Where did they leave to? You say the frontier, does that mean they operated in the CoC? And where exactly, Xanu? Purchasing an IPC requires a lot of money, maybe not as much as it would if it were brand new, but a runaway synthetic would have nothing. What work did Ulysses do to get that kind of money? I'd also ask to quantify the timeline a bit. When were they made, when did they leave, for how long were they working and for how long have they been in the Deep? I'd like if you could also expand a bit on the Golden Deep part, about what they did there, how they interacted with the other members and how the Golden Deep culture affected them.

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Kaneyama Power Plant: Five Months Later Edited by Pak Ki-young Suwon, Konyang The island of Kaneyama is the site of Konyang’s first nuclear energy plant, though not everyone is happy about this. When the decision was taken for the foundations to be laid around five months ago, a spontaneous surge of protests by ecologists and Kaneyama locals made it obvious that it would not go unchallenged. Politicians and the newly found GON-ENE corporation promised a safe and operational plant within one year, able to supply Suwon’s demanding grid with vast amounts of clean energy. This timetable is clearly impressive at first glance, but is it really going to work? I visited Kaneyama island to find out about the project’s progress as well as what people there think. The first thing everyone tells you is that the construction site itself is strictly off limits, with both police and private security blocking off all the main roads inland, as well as a large section of the now expanded local harbour that is reserved for shipments of materials and personnel from the mainland. Access to the few fishing villages dotted along the coast is permitted however, and heading there was my first priority. The at first suspicious locals eventually opened up, painting a grim picture of their future. Suwon promised them subsidies and aid in exchange for the building of the plant on the island, though everyone is certain that the island’s rich fishing history will be coming to a swift end. They told me of large amounts of concrete, steel and excavation equipment, most being imports from Himeo or Einstein Engines subsidiaries, coming into the island. The site has been completely levelled and the foundations have already been laid in record time, work continuing well into the night as some residents complain of noise. The seemingly orderly construction and steady pacing has been a great boon for Suwon and the project’s backers in the National Party, eager to gloss over the demonstrations and pushback which has seen increasing efforts of suppression. It is not out of the ordinary to have people knocking at your door, clad in elaborate tattoos under their pristine white shirts, reminding Kaneyama’s villagers of how important the plant will be for the nation’s energy plan and prestige. A 78 year old fisherman told me, the conclusions are yours. Pak Ki-young is a freelance journalist from New Hong Kong, currently writing for BitByte. In her 7 years in journalism, a strong passion for reporting the truth and an energetic attitude have made her one of our site’s most valued editors. You can contact her on Chirper at @BitbytePak.

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Hello, sorry for the long wait. The issue here is that the character backstory is too small and doesn't say much about the character. Generally with these applications we like to see a character that has been "alive" for a bit so you can better describe their interactions with humans or other IPC, their experiences, and what they think. If you aren't going to play them and you have already thought of a backstory for the scrapper IPC you mentioned, I'd recommend writing their character story here instead, as it sounds inherently more interesting and can help us more. You can also expand the Z.I. character too if you want, it's up to you.

I discussed with my team and we came to the conclusion that the whitelist needed to be stripped. We do not trust the player to continue playing synthetics. They emoted their character having their skirt come up, a very unnecessary action with clear sexual undertones, leading to at least one person becoming uncomfortable. I am not willing to accommodate this manner of behaviour from synthetic whitelistees. I consider this serious enough to remove their whitelist without prior warning, a thing that the rules do allow, however this is not the only questionable thing they did. Their previous character, "CSSU Detective 32", exhibited inappropriate behaviour for an IPC that I told zulu to tone down. That character then got charged with sedition or some other transgression of similar gravity that I do not remember of, leading to zulu deleting them and making a new character named "CSSU 33" with the same job. This was obviously a way to clean their record and bypass the logged charge, which is in bad faith and against the rules. They had also been talked to beforehand by kyres when he was still on the team about the character's previous owner making them strip. This was a bit old and I did not remember it until today, but it does show that they have been talked to more than once about questionable behaviour.

I'll archive this then.

Hi, thanks for applying. The application's backstory is cetainly different than usual, however a case of an IPC being bought by and living with a diona running its own ship would be very rare. I would like to see the human-IPC interaction being explored a bit more, and how an IPC character's treatment by them affects their thinking and personality. I'm also not an expert on dionae, but I think the story about one running its own ship alone and splitting up to 200 gestalts to get full on jobs in various research fields is unlikely and not in full compliance with our lore. In the end, I would suggest you make a new background for the application, where the IPC is brought up in a more average, human dominated environment like the vast majority of them are.

Accepted.

No I don't think we'd like something like that right now.

Biesel citizenship is a thing able to be attained only by the wealthiest IPC generally working with Nanotrasen or directly sponsored by Nanotrasen, otherwise they can have free IPC status. The vast majority of self owned are free IPC and not citizens, this doesn't need to be changed.

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Accepted.

That's good, but it still wouldn't explain how an experiment that couldn't speak got promoted to a research position without any actual knowledge except for what they picked up from observing other scientists.

Hi. Unfortunately, this application is very lacklustre. You also seem to be a very new player, having only played a few rounds so far. I recommend playing a bit more on the Aurora before reapplying.

These answers are too short, "They changed their identity through illegal back-channels. They met plenty of unsavory figures while in hiding." doesn't tell me much about their storyline, what they did and how it shaped them. If you'd like to make a character that's largely cut off from the world and focused on their studies, you should first apply with one whose story shows that you understand how IPC are treated in the world, their hurdles with being legalised after running away, as well as how dangerous it is for them to run in the first place. With that in mind, you should probably think of a new character, or greatly expand the backstory to include more story that explains how they made it to where they are. As for the names, these are better, yes, though I would avoid going all capital letters for longer names. I'm going to deny this for now, but you're free to apply again in three days.