Lore Canonization Request - The Station is a Social Experiment

[BurgerBB]

I propose the station is now secretly a social experiment. This secret is known only to: The Head of Security, The Captain, the AI, CIAA, top NanoTrasen officials, and select operatives. I feel that this change is much more immersive given how a lot of people's characters fit a lot of these criteria, and the only way they would last this long as an employee is if their serious and crippling flaws were desired by NanoTrasen.

The NSS Aurora is the answer of "What would happen if we put a bunch of crazy people in the middle of space, on an unstable asteroid, light-years from civilization?" The research itself is incredibly useful to pharmaceutical companies that develop medication as well as to various psychological methods to controlling population.

So In order to be assigned to Aurorastation, one or more of the conditions must be met.

• The employee has crippling depression or anxiety to the point where it disrupts other people's work.
• The employee is incredibly advert to social activities, and would rather work or sit around than have human contact with the rest of the crew.
• The employee has a very high opinion of themselves; they believe that everyone but them is insane despite not knowing about the experiment.
• The employee is willing to suffer injury or death if it means protecting the few friends they have made on the station (attachment issues.)
• The employee is a lesbian lizard.
• The employee advocates for incest. (Njarir’Akhran are hired on the spot.)
• The employee must have at least one or more outstanding bounties, whether legal or illegal.
• The employee previously participated in criminal activity, usually not logged in any government's system.
• The employee is a unathi who, when evaluated by a board of professional psychologists, is determined to be at least 90% gay. Bonus points if they have an affinity for """spears""".
• The employee, despite being non-security, knows 1001 different martial arts moves.
• The employee is ex-military and desires to become a member of the internal security department despite their PTSD of combat situations.
• The employee prefers eating mass-produced and mass-advertised unhealthy junkfood despite being offered professional chef-level food (scared of the unfamiliar.)
• The employee shows a hidden, unhealthy and inexplicable desire for bloodlust. (IPCs looking to take security positions are hired on the spot.)

Additional Lore:

Loyalty Implants are not actually loyalty implants, but "rational limiters" which limit the amount of insane thoughts a carrier can have. They're mistakenly called Loyalty Implants because it turns out that going against the company as a seasoned and well-paid higher-up is fucking stupid.

Baldies who look the same every time are NanoTrasen sent experimental clones, also called "Tubies" (TOOB-ees) who are directly tasked with disrupting the station. Many people assume that these bald grey-suited individuals are of low intelligence, however their intelligence levels rival even the most brightest and wisest of Skrell. Their training surpasses ERT, and are considered one of the most deadly secret operatives at NanoTrasen's disposal.

The station is specifically designed in a way for the experiment to yield better results. Various forms of entertainment and activities are provided to the crew to encourage them to relieve stress to remove test results that might have been affected by the workplace. The work culture was specifically developed for the crewmember to take breaks as much as they please, for as long as they want so they can use these facilities as much as possible.

A lot of crewmembers come and go. Sometimes a crewmember has become more saner over time due to outside help and assistance, that they leave the station permanently. Sometimes even after one shift, a crewmember is never to be seen again because they are deemed "too sane" by comparison.

Edited December 13, 2018 by BurgerBB

[EngineersDream]

+1

I think this will benefit the lore as a whole and will provide interesting hooks for RP.

[Sytic]

I'd give my left nut for this. +1.

[Scheveningen]

I just noticed the area where this posted and almost made a call-out response over this. why.

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

sure i guess

[DeadLantern]

refuse

[ben10083]

This will provide stimulating rp of people attempting to escape the sim, +1

[KingOfThePing]

*hits blunt* bruh

Edited December 13, 2018 by KingOfThePing

[Warbidon]

I would prefer if the options to be "assigned" to our dear space station should be decided by a nutso fucking computer whos logic is only beholden to the single programmer, a man in his late 50's who has a history of making suicide pranks to his bosses, and that reflects the computers decision making; the list shown is actually one of many ways someone could get on, and other, unmentioned ways of acquiring psychopaths, nutters and stupid idiots as well as isolated individuals who may very well be normal to further test the social experiment. How would a seemingly normal person react ot being placed in the nutshow?

 

What a wonderful place to watch.

[VoltageHero]

"It's just a prank, bro."

[tbear13]

Why is the new lore in off topic? Moving to announcements and pinging everyone on discord brb

[Hendricks]

lmao, snowflake station for the win. 

[VTCobaltblood]

+1 Very unique, provides a lot of RP opportunities. I don't see any issues with this.

[Stink100]

Do not want ☹️