Roostercat's Vaurca Lore Deputy App

[Roostercat]

Ckey/BYOND Username: Roostercat12

Position Being Applied For: (Species Maintainer, Wiki Maintainer, Lore Developer, Deputy Lore developer): Vaurca Lore Deputy

Past Experiences/Knowledge: Literally none. This will be my first time developing anything, ever. Except for that part about Shapers on the Wiki.

Examples of Past Work: I recently made a bit about Preimminent Shapers that was added to the wiki. 

Additional Comments: This is the part where I explain what the hell I plan on doing with the Vaurca, if given permission by Jam.

Zoleth hit squads: For those who do not know, Zoleth, the warrior lesser queen of the Zo'ra, once ordered the formation of hit squads to take out various crime lords throughout Biesel. This worked, ending a particularly nasty gang war. The end result of this is basically that no-one either cared enough or wanted to press charges onto Zoleth... so nothing happened. I feel like this can be expanded on more. My idea is simple; The wiki states that another fellow Queen revealed that Zoleth made the hit squads, I believe this could be made to create some rivalries that would hopefully end up in game, This could be a Queen from another hive, worsening inter-hive relations, or the even juicier concept is to make it another Zo'ra Queen, Causing conflict between 2 queens of the same hive. the 2 most likely candidates for the Queen that revealed all IMO would be Scay or Xakt.

Asteroid farms: There are a lot of economic problems with the Vaurca. One of these is food. Many broods try to help with the food problem in any way really possible, but most seem to just try mass agriculture. The thing is, K'ois can grow pretty much anywhere other than places that are overly wet, like swamps or oceans. Thus my idea is a farm that is exclusively inside of an asteroid field around Pid, Tret's one natural satellite. This means of course that Leto, the brood that houses the general Ka population of K'lax, would be the brood to undertake this venture. The idea is that the Ka hurl K'ois spores onto the various asteroids, with Bound workers checking up on them every so often, then harvesting them when they are ready. This means that K'ois could be mass farmed without risk of it spreading too far and causing an outbreak of Mycosis, and that famines could go onto the road to recovery. I chose Leto for a number of reasons. The Chief among them being that I feel the K'lax is the least interesting hive of the big three. I want to give them more things to look at, more lore mechanics that could make them more interesting to play, as I believe the lack of interesting things is why most people play either Zo'ra or C'thur. And this is step one to possibly solving that issue.

Changing some things about Vedhra: Speaking of the K'lax, I would like to change some things about Vedhra. Vedhra's brood exists for the purpose of preparing for a war with the Lii'dra. But the thing is, the wiki page does not describe very well how she even goes about this. The best explanation right now is that she canvasses all the species of the Orion Spur, trying to find the perfect genetic information for bridging the gap between species, to tip the favor of the inevitable war in their favor. I believe that Vedhra can do more than this. Currently, the K'lax do not really have a brood that is fit for Warriors, most, if not all, revolve around logistics and technology. And while that is their schtick as the K'lax, I do not believe it meshes very well ICly or in general, as even the technological powerhouse needs a way to defend themselves. So my idea is to essentially make Vedhra the 'warrior' Queen of the K'lax, housing the general Za population of the hive while still having Ka dedicated to genetics research and the like. Since Vedhra is supposedly meant to prepare for a war with the Lii'dra, this also gives another very reasonable reason as to why Vedhra would have so many warriors. I plan on adding said reasons to the wiki page on top of other things. An example of 'other things' would be the possible idea of Vedhra donating some warriors to the Hegemony, as again, most of the K'lax is worker based, and I imagine that they would have to give some sort of levy, since they are the vassals to the hegemony. This could go as far as them giving Warforms for the hegemony's use. The final idea is adding some juicy events to the Recent Events part of Vedhra's page, Which is currently empty as hell. The main event I want to put down is the spontaneous influx of new Warriors into the brood, and aggressive attempts by Vedhra to expose pockets of Lii'dra with some form of Shock Troops. Warriors and Warforms swarming places believed to be inhabited by Lii'dra. Capturing when possible and trying to uncover any information they can about Lii'dra's plans.

Now, those are my main three ideas I can think of off the top of my head. And you may be wondering "Why are the explanations so short? WHERE THE FUCK IS THE ESSAY? " The thing is, these ideas are just that, Ideas. They are things that I have put a good amount of thought into, but don't want to go too far with to keep myself flexible. On top of the fact that Jam has not verified or given permission for any of these. I do not feel I should be wasting too much time developing an idea if Jam has not even confirmed whether or not he likes it in the first place. This is the point of deputies in my mind, to discuss lore and how it could be changed, voice their opinions, and offer advice and suggestions for change. I have plenty more ideas, but putting them all here would be incredibly long and tedious when what I have now could do to serve as an example as to what I can do in the future. I still have a lot to learn, but I feel I can accomplish the duties of a lore deputy just fine. If you see anything lacking or false information, PLEASE tell me over DMs or as feedback on this thread. Thanks for reading this big chunk of text.

[JamOfBoy]

Athvur was the one to out Zoleth as the queen responsible for killing the tajara. Athvur used this to propose the revitalisation of the TCFL. It went through, and, behind the scenes, Athvur did a lot for the Legion. Zoleth didn't really agree with this, but the TCFL was another way of solving the problem of the tajara killing vaurca, by giving a place for the tajara gang members to go.

On the topic of the K'lax, I too would like to change Vedhra, and make the hive as a whole more interesting. The asteroid farms can serve as a good excuse for how the K'lax source local k'ois. The k'lax do not have a defined warrior brood, but Zkaii provides a lot of warriors, as per the hive's treaty with the hegemony.

As the person who was tasked with coming up with the original concept of Vedhra, I would be interested to see what you would make out of them, regardless of whether you end up getting deputy or not. 

[Roostercat]

14 hours ago, JamOfBoy said:

Athvur was the one to out Zoleth as the queen responsible for killing the tajara. Athvur used this to propose the revitalisation of the TCFL. It went through, and, behind the scenes, Athvur did a lot for the Legion. Zoleth didn't really agree with this, but the TCFL was another way of solving the problem of the tajara killing vaurca, by giving a place for the tajara gang members to go.

 

My bad. It did not specify on the Zoleth page, so I had thought it was left vague on purpose. 

[BoryaTheSlayer]

Hi, rooster, I'm glad to see your application. I have had only positive interactions with you so far and it's very easy to see your enthusiasm about vaurca. Taking all that in consideration, I would like to see you as a deputy on our team.

I'm glad both you and Pan want to give K'lax some love as they do seem underwhelming to me, as well. Anyways, I'll ask you the same questions I asked pan:

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Do you plan on hosting any events in the future? Bygone did overfeed us with vaurca events, but that doesn't mean we can't have more in the future.
Do you intend to work with other species writers should you be accepted as a deputy?
 

Good luck, and I might ask you more questions later on.

[Roostercat]

4 hours ago, BoryaTheSlayer said:

Hi, rooster, I'm glad to see your application. I have had only positive interactions with you so far and it's very easy to see your enthusiasm about vaurca. Taking all that in consideration, I would like to see you as a deputy on our team.

I'm glad both you and Pan want to give K'lax some love as they do seem underwhelming to me, as well. Anyways, I'll ask you the same questions I asked pan:

Good luck, and I might ask you more questions later on.

Thanks for the feedback! I am going to answer both questions, starting with the first one.

Events: While I have no experience in hosting events and very little in participating either, I do feel as though I can come up with concepts for events that the playerbase should find fun and engaging. They do not necessarily have to be hostile, could be some stuff with the IAC, or it could be Vaurcan crewmembers that are secretly Lii'dra. Though, due to both the lack of experience running events and me wanting to focus on other things first, these may be few and far between.

Working with inferior other species developers: Considering that all three hives have a pretty big stake in the lore of other species, with the C'thur in Jargon and the K'lax in the Hegemony, and even Zo'ra within Tau Ceti with the humans, I have every intention of working with the developers, deputies, and maintainers of other species. Some of the best lore can happen when multiple species devs work together for something great. This goes for either them coming to me, or me going to them to start something.

I hope that those answer the questions to an acceptable standard, feel free to ask for more if needed!

[JamOfBoy]

Your answers are superb, and while you have some gaps in knowledge, this is fine. You remind me a lot of myself when I first applied for vaurca deputy.

So,

Application accepted.