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I'm of the personal opinion that the detective's office is no where near as hard-boiled as it needs to be. Throw some cigarette butts around, maybe a newspaper or two, hide a bottle of liquor.

With plenty of time played with Sofia and some with Sunzhou, I can definitely vouch for this player's ability to write cleverly and be entertaining (even when their characters are being absolute terrors). They come up with fresh ideas consistently, are generally helpful in the OOC, and create engaging moments for the people who stick around. I believe they'd take the time to make a worthwhile bugthing. This application could be turned down though, if the stuff in it doesn't display an understanding of the species being applied for. The question that asks what makes Vaurca different from humans is more a test of your knowledge from the server lore, and it's a good one to answer in full. While it's not strictly necessary to write to a length requirement, I think it's better to put too much into these apps instead of not enough. It might also be worth expanding on why you like the character as well. Do they have certain motivations or qualities you don't often put into other characters, beyond what the race forces you to?

All I could think of when I saw those combined with the medbay above was a

Lyall Donne frightens me, but that's a compliment to his character. I wouldn't mind seeing more bugs aboard! There's one little thing I thing to point out, and that's just about your timeline. Unless it's been edited, first contact with hiveships was made in 2456, and NanoTrasen didn't start integrating them into their workforce until either laaaate that year or in 2457. Was his 2453 acquisition by NT intentionally meant to be before their public discovery as a species, or is this just a number that can be adjusted?

NanoTrasen install sprinkler systems please.

I love the idea of this, but don't own the game. If you manage to create it, please modify Xenobiology to include a self-destruct/jettison charge.

I'm with Nanako here. I like that there's a welcome risk of danger in the protolathe. The people in science are supposed to be trusted with the responsible use of the things they create and test. If they fail in being responsible, it's an IC problem on the part of the RD, security, and other authorities.

Baycode may not have as many clowns, but still one of my favorites: Also, a good thing for security to keep in mind:

Aside from my comment being lighthearted, I don't necessarily want to subvert the conflict so much as give someone the option to be on whichever side of it they want to be. It was not an entirely serious suggestion.

Maybe not as official procedure, but useful for that rare Rev shift where one gender suddenly gets its pay halved

I saw that news event today too, but I'm pretty sure that Nar'Sie, along with changelings, the Spider Clan, the Space Wizard Federation and most Syndicate tech is still largely unknown to most NT Personnel. Can this new event be rewritten to be less about Nar'Sie, and more about crazy spooky cultists that no-one really understands?

I don't get many chances to play with Lukas, but the few interactions I've had with him indicate to me that he is capable of displaying both reasoned decision making, and a touch of humanity at the same time. Also, he looks good with holographic cat ears. Our wiki indicates any HoS candidate needs to have a decade of security experience, but it sounds as though Lukas spent a good chunk of his adult life in med school, and if his focus was heavily on that he'd only just be coming out of it around age thirty. How do you imagine him being considered for promotion in Security, when stacked up against candidates with more experience, or true law enforcement experience?

I agree with this, and would even enjoy that dynamic on the Command Staff, but to successfully skirt the rules and still be taken seriously, I would also argue that she needs to be at least a little subtle. Her tendency appears to be to not only ignore procedures, but then aggressively challenge and fight all the people who are trying to do things the "right" way by checking her. She's constantly on the radar, not getting results beneath it. She can also get very hostile in the process of doing that. I think being known for having a hot head is something that would discourage Corporate from giving her a chance to prove her own brand of leadership.

I'm okay with this being a thing, but I like the 'once over five months' statistic Skull mentioned. It should be an exceedingly remote possibility that leaves people wondering. Generally speaking, I'm one of those people who, if voting for Extended, is not looking for a crisis. The roundtype is a good way to cool down after a bad antag round, or something weird or high-stress. It would be a shame to replace it with "More-Secret Secret" by upping the frequency.

Hi there! I've played with Cecilia on a few shifts as my Lab Assistant, and I both enjoy her as a character and appreciate the level of effort you put into the writing during the round. She's a face I like to see around Research as a scientist, and I think you understand the OOC sections of the application well, reading your responses. With that in mind, I'm not sure that Cecilia would be considered by the company for a Directorship based on her backstory. In my opinion, the two years between finishing her doctorate and her NanoTrasen employment just doesn't leave someone with enough time to assemble a body of work impressive enough. The company is gigantic, with resources all over inhabited space and a tremendous hiring pool. I think it's unrealistic that they'd place someone out of academia for two years in charge of an elite team of people who have been in their respective fields for decades - even if that candidate is some kind of prodigy. There doesn't seem to have been enough time for the peer-reviewed scientific community to vet and acknowledge her as someone NanoTrasen would want to take the risk on. The medical half of her education is a similar story. In the RL system we have to base this world's med school off of, most doctors doing nothing but med training as hard as they can can't qualify for independent practice until their early 30s, let alone take on the role of some kind of space-hospital director. That Cecilia was hired on for both medical and science implies that she must have positively blasted herself with education and advanced programs (while splitting her attention between both studies), which to my mind would leave very little time for her to actually get her own work out there to be judged by. There is an implication that the science staff on Aurora/Exodus is supposed to consist of the best people in their fields, despite how many toxins fires and slime outbreaks prove that false during actual play. She'd be competing against people who have worked just as hard to get into the same shoes she's wearing, over much longer time periods. There are also the hard age and experience requirements that she doesn't meet, which have already been pointed out by another poster. If characters that are exceptions to those rules exist and aren't synthetic, I haven't met them yet. Since I think you have a clear idea of the OOC expectations, do you believe it could be worth designing a new/more eligible character directly for the Head of Staff role you're applying for? These issues all seem to be solvable with a little fiction, which is the easiest fix to make.

If only there had been a mouse around to take some of that chocolaty heat for him. -1 Geckers

It took me far too long to notice the obvious, obvious pun in 'shipping manifest.' Sigh@me. This is a fun document, even if the many of the people I know don't seem to be on it yet. Little bump for visibility.

While I appreciate the sentiment, she's just a lab tech with a chameleon kit fetish Also, if you have any thoughts on the application itself, they are much appreciated!

Hi there! I like Sofia, despite her tendency to end rounds in custody for filling the station with radioactive fungus. My lab assistant has developed a new respect for her after a very negative first impression was gradually turned around. However, I worry a bit about her eligibility for leadership from an IC viewpoint. Like you point out, she has a history of rule-breaking and a disregard for personal safety. This translates to me as a perceived lack of respect for the regulations she'd be expected to uphold, and for the crew she'd be expected to keep safe and on-task as a Research Director. If I were looking at her record on the HR desk, I'd have to give it some serious scrutiny. She doesn't give many reasons to prove she's worthy of being an administrator on paper. She also seems to love hands-on science, and while she excels at a lot of it, taking the step towards Command means backing out of the field a bit, and trusting other people to do the dirty work. Do you consider that natural progression, for someone with her lust for experimentation? On the OOC, I appreciate the attention you call to making a round cohesive and fun. We're all playing a game, at the end of the day, and those are supposed to be fun. You're a strong writer in my mind, and seem to have other players in mind while you're writing. If the character and her potential new duties could be reconciled, I can see this working out.

A well-reasoned response here is important to showcasing an understanding of the differences between the species, which is central to getting a racial whitelist application accepted. You start to answer this question in bits around the rest of your application, so I'm sure the rest can be clarified with some review. A good way to think about this question is "why is a Skrell more interesting to me, when compared to a human?" Reading the biography, I like that you are creating a Skrell who seems to be a little dishonest and self-serving, and I appreciate that the character became that way to try to measure up to his family professionally. It's a reasonable motivation for playing someone a bit different from many Skrell I've noticed, and allows him to have a built-in reason to be where he is, doing what he does. I would like to see some more clarity in regards to the bio-computing mentioned at the end of the biography, and his motivations for pursuing such a drastic, society-affecting technology. While plenty of Skrell distrust AI and can find motivations to replace it, replacing sentient machine intelligence with a multiracial psychic gestalt seems like something that's both equally scary and immeasurably complex as a project, especially for one person. How much of his end-goal is publicly known, and what kind of support is he seeking from Humanity at large? The biography implies that NanoTrasen somehow supports this idea of his research, and if they do, how were they convinced? Without the support of his own people, it seems like there would be some hesitation there. How did he sell the idea to the company, and is the company directly helping him at all? Lastly, just for clarity's sake, if you had to shorten that biography to two short paragraphs (I don't believe that you do), what would be the two most important ideas to communicate to us readers? The sentence structure of the biography makes it difficult to pick out your best points.

This seems well-reasoned, and punitive without going too far. If we can implement this, I'd be for it.

I feel as though Manfred Hayden (Nikov) described it best when he called the vault nuke a scuttling charge. It could be reasonably expected that a megacorp like NT has a plan to neutralize their station in the event of a catastrophic security or engineering failure. As a research station, the things that go on aboard the vessel need to be kept in-house, and a nuclear fission device is a good way to ensure that they don't go elsewhere. I've never played StarCraft to the scene you've described, but I don't know that the obfuscation of the vault nuke would make a significant impact on what it is, or what it means. I don't think that the setting of that particular StarCraft level matches the tone of most SS13 rounds involving the nuke, either. People are going to either know it's there, or not, and react to it accordingly. Dressing it up like a drink cooler seems like it's adding a layer of ridiculousness to a scenario that is already ridiculous.

Name: Zahra Karimi Gender: Female Image URL: https://i.gyazo.com/f0087663cfc79e60901b1dfcb1c2244c.png Avatar Colour: Green Character's Catchphrase: "Glory to lesbay!" Strength: 4 Agility: 5 Endurance: 4 Survivalist Skill: 6 Luck: 7

This was an enjoyable read. I like seeing the earlier history of this setting's Earth. It's not unbelievable, and provides good context for why things happened they way they did as humanity prepared to go interstellar, particularly with Russia. I understand that the changes were made to the timeline specifically before the Second Space Age, but are there plans to connect the second half of the page a little more closely to the first? There's an interesting drama surrounding PMCs and terrorism and government conspiracy that seems to abruptly stop with the first colonies.

I came back to the server on a round where I saw some crazy old guy named Helmut Kronigernischultz speaking in a stupidly thick German accent, and assumed he was a joke. I was very wrong. This player is respectful and invested, and his character gives a damn about crew safety and regulation. I would be pleased to see him promoted.