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I didn't manage my time very well, so I won't be reviewing this until tomorrow. Take the opportunity to go forth and get feedback! It will really strengthen your app no matter how good it already might be.

Hello! I'll be getting to this application tonight. In the meantime, remember to advertise your application once a round in OOC and to let your friends know to come give you feedback.

You have been accepted to SAMPLe as a standard member in the Medical Division under the Patient Treatment Advancements Department, welcome to the League, Dr. Farson.

Tons of support from me. There's so many factions and some of them are really Byzantine. This would help immensely to give everyone a nice snap shot

Congratulations! The beatings will continue until morale increases.

I think there's more merit to this than people seem to give it. If I'm being honest, particularly when I play cargo, I do tend to prepare for trouble when talk of terrorists and monsters starts creeping in on comms. As a botanist I tend to keep a reserve of poppy plants as "herbal medicine" knowing full well it has bicaridine. And when things break loose I tend to hand out the plants or cargo warehouse contents or what have you. I do think we could maybe do better about powergaming on the level of each player ceasing these small and largely imperceptible things like I sometimes catch myself doing. But I think it would be a bit demanding to ask administration to keep track of things that small. How are they supposed to know if I'm stockpiling inconspicuous chekov's guns?

Das'nrra Military District Saved from Rebel Hordes! 11.09.2460 A map of the positions held before the battle started. One hour ago, the last of the ships acquired by the Naval Ship Repossession Act, a small fishing vessel, unloaded the last of the Das'nrra Military District to a massive cheering crowd at a harbor town north of Nal'Tor. The 19 Tajara who disembarked were greeted by Njarir-Ahkran maidens who rushed the soldiers and embraced them with hugs and kisses. Once the humble heroes were able to disentangle themselves from the overwhelming adoration, they were quickly escorted to the town hall where, among party officials and journalists, they met President Njadrasanukii Hadii. After each shaking hands, they all shared a bottle of Victory Gin and talked about various subjects such as life in the People's Republic, the effectiveness of the Tsarrayut’yan rifle, and the heroic sacrifice of the Republican Guard. The meeting is still on-going, with a medal ceremony expected to follow on the third story balcony where the crowd which has gathered in the square can watch. The 19 Tajara who celebrate with Hadii today are the survivors of the Twenty-Third Motor Rifle Division, First Brigade, Fifth Battalion, C Company. Formerly a reserve division of the Nraz'i Front which had taken part in the 2459 Victory Day Parade, they were deployed to Das'nrra in preparation for the offensive which had hoped to take Shastar City. As evacuations took place over the previous weeks the C company unanimously petitioned their commissar to be the last for evacuation. Their heroic decision was granted and other companies within their battalion were evacuated first while they stayed behind to buy them precious time. As rebel forces eliminated pockets of Republican Guard resistance along the coastlines, watching futilely as ship after ship of army units sailed to safety, the offensive against C Company and other units which yet to evacuate intensified. As time passed the occasional wave of infantry attacks turned to motorized assaults with artillery support, and eventually a tank platoon with mechanized infantry support. Only by the suicidal attacks of the Republican Guard, such as running close enough to throw satchel charges and C4 onto rebel tanks, or even using their airborne walking tanks as decoys, were the assaults repelled and the last company of the Grand People's Army able to evacuate. While the situation seems bleak as the ALA have seized the entire Das'nrra continent for themselves and much of the Republican Guard has been killed in action, military correspondent, Eyemre Naah'gy, suggests it is not as bad as it seems. When weighing in on the current state of affairs, Naah'gy compared the Das'nrra continent to a cage full of Ha'rron. He highlighted the inferiority of the rebel navy and the dominance of the republic's air superiority. Additionally, while several armies were lost by Hro'rammhad's encirclement, much of the army on the continent were able to successfully evacuate with far less casualties than expected. With the evacuated soldiers now integrated into the Rasn'rr Military District, the Grand People's Army can now focus on building well defended fortresses along the coasts facing Das'nrra and sending the excess tajarapower to other fronts. "The redistribution of soldiers does carry with it some great challenges," suggested Naah'gy. "Much of the heavy equipment and artillery these units equipped themselves with had to be left behind, and so rearmament will be a key focus for High Command." Adhomai Chronicle Staff would like to remind everyone to buy war bonds in this crucial time. Only with the help of the people can the army hope to defend our republic from tyranny and oppression. Your war bond purchases will help rearm our saved units and to save the legacy of Rhagrrhuzau Hadii.

Why not make the tornado gun a really good niche weapon for hallways? Maybe have the victim take some damage from slamming around into the walls? Or maybe change it into a wind gun of some sort that just flings the target straight back and the closer a wall is to where you flung them back, the more damage they take?

I complain about cliques. My characters have no friends on the station I miss my old cliques. Wojack.png

My Martian miner lives out of an old RV that he refurbished. The hover capability is kinda wonky and the buoyancy is off so he's modified it to take wheels when he doesn't need to hover. This is cool at and exactly the kind of stuff I like.

I swung in to say something along these lines. As someone who concealed carries religiously, I can say that there is a difference between open carrying and concealed even when everyone knows you have a gun on you anyways. When its immediately visible, and god forbid, in hand, no one feels comfortable or safe. Its all intimidation and unease. The holsters are acceptable for security but walking around with a gun tucked in your waistband doesn't make anyone feel safe. I guess what I mean to say is that its a comfort thing. Officers shouldn't have guns in their hand on patrol without a really good reason on code green. And I can't imagine why the captain, HoP, or science staff should need to be patrolling around with guns in the belt either.

I layed adult section books down before and when people got close knocked on a window or made noise to fuck with them like that Best mod 2460? y/y?

As Ninja I just do a bunch of cryptic pseudo-metal gear shitposting and just generally lurk around the station, causing the occasional ruckus and then going back into hiding. I think the key feature is to be ominously omnipresent and somewhat mysterious. I think a good ninja round is one where everyone says, "Could he be right here in this room with me right now?" I've had really mixed results, mostly because I'm better at making a slippery escape than I am at actual combat, so Ninja feels more tailored to my style of antagonism. I try to make it feel like a goose chase for security while dropping in and interacting with the crew across the station, usually stealing some of their items or delivering vague threats or waving my sword around to spook em. When it comes down to it, you're not geared for a direct confrontation with security, so if they whine about having a bad round because you wouldn't give them a decisive battle, then you just shrug your shoulders and remind them you wouldn't be a good ninja if you did. As far as narrative goes, I try to spin one over time but leave it incredibly cryptic at first and clarify going off the cuff over time. "Oh I'm from getmorechoclate corps and I'm here to steal all your vending machines." Something dumb like that. I keep hoping to roll Ninja again so I can bring the new Adhomai lore to the station and be an M'sai samurai from Amohda, there to do some form of espionage I guess.

On the flip side of this, why not incentive people to eat from the chef by adding character buffs to chef food? It might not be the most realistic thing ever, but something like having slightly more health for some half hour because you ate a nice hearty meal from the chef instead of munching on bread tubes. Maybe slight boosts to stamina recovery so you can sprint more, or slightly harder to stun? I feel like timed buffs will grab the attention of the robust minded and the casual players all the same while not too harshly penalizing those who just need to chow real quick and jump right back into whatever RP they're tied up in.

Alexa play despacito

Let's set aside aesthetic for a moment and talk about the grim dark future of the 3rd millennium. In our future, a lot of people are really packed into slums and there's just a mind boggling large number of people in the galaxy. While Tau Ceti has a really high HDI compared to other places (lookin at you Mars) I feel like there's something to be said about large clunky vehicles. Imagine motor homes and RVs, where you need to be able to get to and from work or what have you, but you're also really poor. So you just live out of your whip. Imagine a futuristic motorpark slum where there are just rows of parked hover car homes, and people fly around to park their vehicle elsewhere if they want a change in neighbors, or fly to work and then back to the motor slum. Some people could become known as "Grounded" when they can't afford fuel anymore and their hovercar home is permanently grounded. There's also less depressing aspects to consider. Let's say you do a lot of travelling, maybe as a merchant or what have you. You could have a hover car that's more like a shuttle, hopping from planet to planet aboard freighters with shuttle space. Then you fly about whichever planet doing your business and sleeping in your shuttlecar at night. It's a really big galaxy everyone lives in, so hover homes designed to be used in atmosphere do have a place.

Hi there! I've been assigned to handle your application. So digging in, unit 1360 was built with the purpose for being an accountant, and during its time as an accountant, familiarizes itself with the synthetic rights movement. The first thing I really want to say is that I appreciate how Vanguard is consistently referred to as "it" rather than given a gender. That's one thing that has always irked me about IPC players is that the assignment of gender tends to lead to more humanoid play than synthetic, but you're very consistent. I see that in 2457 it was able to buy its freedom 10x over and that one of his coworkers bought him a chassis and housed him. This is where the application kind of starts to lose its hook for me. Paying his freedom 10x over? The general theme with a lot of IPCs is that conditions are setup to make it so that they're effectively wageslaved into never being able to pay their "debts," that way they can be consistently exploited ad infinitum. 10x over is the cost for freedom is meant to be a hard number to reach. I guess a better question here is how many years did Unit 1360 work its job, and did he have to pay Michael back for his generous purchase? Things like like and dislike seem more emotional and human to me than synthetic. There's a very good depiction of Unit 1360 logical hiding during the Frost occupation where free IPCs were rounded up and sold. But it's pretty puzzling when you state that he started to dislike the Sol Alliance, Skrell, and... Purpose? The synthetic colony? For doing nothing against the largest and arguably most powerful navy in the galaxy? Considering the Frost occupation was over a year before Purpose broke its isolationism by contacting anyone, I think trying to begrudge Purpose is kinda outlandish considering there's a good chance they weren't even watching. The appearance of drones from Purpose is a recent development that happened a full year after the Frost occupation. But going back to terms such as like/dislike, I think distrust would probably capture the synthetic nature of Vanguard better. When it calculates its odds it should just factor them as riskier, rather than having something as human as a feeling. Is this actually what is believed about NanoTrasen's intentions? That's uh, pretty optimistic for the megacorp calling the shots in most parts of the galaxy. Going from accountant to security officer is a pretty big and weird jump of jobs. One so big that 1360 had to get a completely new chassis. Plus, there's nothing anywhere that says baselines can't be security. It's just a really weird change in gears. The whole application so far strongly suggests Vangaurd would have a job like Head of Personnel, or Internal Affairs Agent, maybe even Quartermaster. Something involving the accounting of either money or goods and the management of assets. I don't really see why 1360 would downgrade to security work. It's also not specified to what chassis it changed. Did it just completely change over to an industrial frame to be brawnier like it suggests? Or was its old baseline frame really weak and it just got a newer baseline frame? Either way the shift from accounting to security is a real heel turn with murky motivations. Rereading, I'm supposing the motivation is to protect NanoTrasen from threats, believing that NanoTrasen's goals itinerary include protection of synthetic life. But that's pretty flimsy to put all your chips on a giant corrupt megacorporation. I can't help but feel that the justification is contrived because 1360 was intended to be a security IPC with some backstory, but the way its executed doesn't flow well. The above criticisms, combined with your only feedback on this application being that you have a tendency to play really bloodythirsty and aggressive, lead me to believe the end game might be to rootin tootin robust as an industrial frame IPC. Checking with admins turned up that you didn't have any notes or warnings or anything for that kind of behavior, but it's the only feedback we have to go off of on your application. For now I'm going to deny this application, but I encourage you to take the questions asked over the course of the review as questions which, if answered in a newer better application, would make for a much stronger one. You have a much better understanding of lore now as compared to your first application, but now we need to land good backstory and reputation. In the future, accumulation of feedback should be considered really important. Remember that you can advertise your applications occasionally in discord and once a round on station in OOC.

Republican Guard Deployed to Das'nrra 14.08.2460 Republican High Command has determined the battle for Das'nrra is to end with full evacuation of the Grand People's Army. The decision was made following a month of fighting along the coastlines after a rebel armored assault placed our forces on the defensive. Optimistic estimates put the duration of the evacuation to over a week in time. The primary issue facing the evacuation is the lack of transport ships which can retrieve the over 60 divisions still engaged with rebels, caused by an unfortunate naval defeat by monarchists. In order to buy time for the Das'nrra Military District, over 90% of all active duty Republican Guards have been recalled from counter-terror operations and deployed to the continent. The operation took over a week of mustering north of Nal'Tor before the Guards were deployed by low flying gyrodynes, HALO jumps, and amphibious assault vehicles. The People's Air Force sortied in record numbers to battle for air superiority while the operation was underway, making many brave sacrifices of aircraft and tajarapower. Their efforts maintained a 48 hour window which saw both the successful deployment of the Guard as well as the evacuation of the wounded soldiers and civilian political refugees who feared violent reprisal for their collaboration. Comrade Zima Ta-Alami, the woman at the head of the Republican Guard, pledged that, "The Guard will fight to the very last tajara to save our soldiers. If her men run out of bullets, they will affix bayonets. If they are disarmed, they will bite and claw until every rebel is dead." The Steeple has passed the simply named, "Naval Ship Repossession Act," which grants the Grand People's Navy the authority to requisition, by force if necessary, all ships and sea-based vehicles which can carry at least 30 standing tajara. Anyone whose ship is repossessed is compensated a credit for each Tajara their vessel can hold, while anyone who volunteers their vessel is compensated with two credits per Tajara and the newly made "Comrade of the Navy" medal, commemorating their valuable service to the Republic. Additionally, the Steeple has circulated a memo asking all public offices to loosen restrictions on public and workplace prayer, giving all citizens the freedom to pray for the safety and the lives of the troops in danger on Das'nrra. When asked by Adhomai Chronicle staff, local Nal'Tor priest, Ruj Mak'Taha, suggested this simple prayer which he wrote for our soldiers. S'rrendar's power and Messa's grace Give them power to escape their place.

There's a lot to unpack here. It's a very strong application that shows more than a merely amateur understanding of Tajara lore. While sexuality will always be a very touchy subject, I haven't seen any issues with Dear's Unathi acting out or being absurd. When coupled with widespread community support, I'm led to believe we can trust Doxx with the potentially risky character concept. If anyone notices any risque or unacceptable behavior, report it to me and it will be handled. I would provide a full criticism of the backstory, but at the moment I'm a bit too whipped to, and I don't want to delay any further. It's a very strong backstory with a strong understanding of the three factions, their differences, and how they interact with each other and their own populations. I'm inclined to accept this application.

Read carefully, as the requirements to apply for skrell lore developer have changed. In the past, Loow had acquired his position by barraging Jackboot with messages detailing a litany of complaints he had about the state of skrell. Emerging from his era, skrell have a complex story. Most of the important themes of skrell are made so subtle as to fly under most radars. In an effort to maintain good quality control, we have decided to adopt a two page minimum essay prompt on skrell lore as our application format. The thesis of your essay can be anything skrell related, but over the course of your writing you must be able to demonstrate a deep understanding of skrell lore and its meaning. Grammar will count when determining your capability for the position. Longer essays are welcome, but superfluous or repetitive information will count against the applicant. Peer review from the community is both welcome and requested. Use the following format and include some sort of link to your essay, preferably a google document. [b]Ckey/BYOND Username:[/b] [b]Position Being Applied For[/b] (Species Maintainer, Wiki Maintainer, Lore Developer, Deputy Lore developer): Skrell Lore Developer [b]Past Experiences/Knowledge:[/b] [b]Link to Essay:[/b] [b]Examples of Past Work:[/b] [b]Additional Comments:[/b] Essay formatting is up to writer discretion, however application essays submitted in bad taste (wingdings, comic sans, 30 pt bold font, quadruple space, large filler images) will be denied.

Tomorrow is the big day! You drummed up a lot of discussion, can't wait to read through it.

You guys can take an old character. Her name is Seon-rin von Illdenberg. Here's her flavor text: Medical Record Security Record Employment Record

I was a staunch anti-synth actor throughout the contest, and while the results weren't concrete and had some arbitration in play, it was decided and settled with much debate in spring 2017. While a reversal isn't impossible in the fiction of the setting, it would be wrong to pull a full reversal of a monumental moment in the server's lore history. Players arguably earned it, and it would be a raw deal to snatch it away. I think good judgement in analyzing the various results of the,contest were used, and the current status of IPCs is legitimate.