Murdoch's Tajaran application

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BYOND Key: William Murdoch

Character Names: Angel Shaw, G.Y.V.E.R. (Only notable characters)

Species you are applying to play: Tajaran (M’Sai)

What color do you plan on making your first alien character: Silver

Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yes and I still am reading it to ensure I have my facts straight.

 

Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph format. One paragraph minimum per question.

 

Why do you wish to play this specific race:

 

        I think the Tajara are a very unique species who sit in an interesting position. They are a space-faring race, yet really on humans for equipment that is beyond 20th century technology. They are from a divided planet which has a deep and interesting conflict. Their culture is unique and a speech pattern that is solid and fun. I think they’d be interesting to play in security (which I main) because of the possibilities for backgrounds, former PSIS, Ha’narr corps, or the others.

 

Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human:

 

        Tajaran presents, like all the races, its own unique style and RP possibilities, one that I like and can RP well. The inherent disputes that appear from the fact that Adhomai is in a cold war are bound to appear and present an interesting battle of either ideological discussion or, for the more brawl inclined Tajarans, an interesting escalation into a fight, involving sec or creating conflict within the department should it be a sec officer involved. This is similar to how the ethnicities of Tajara play into how each are treated and stereotyped. The Ma’Sai are slender and typically soldiers, mild-mannered but are more than ready to fight when they’re riled up. The Njarir are persecuted for their ties to nobility and a largely burned down culture, and the Zhan-Khazan who are the brute workers, and so on.

        Another difference is their biological features. Their sleep cycle opens up possibilities for unique RP moments when you are pissed and paranoid for a shift because you pushed too far beyond your waking period. Momentary breaks that not only allow for the RP of the small naps that are present with Tajara but also give some lee-way for players who need to go AFK for a moment without going SSD and potentially stumping a scene. Their biology even plays into mechanics with their need to limit heat which allows them to be the one species that can roll down their jump-suit and not get yelled at immediately. Their language is notorious for being used constantly but only displays their troubles with understanding and speaking Basic, despite passing the test to get a job.

       

 

 

Character Name: Ra Kharek’Moro

Please provide a short back-story for this character:

 

        Ra Kharek’Moro is a female M’Sai Tajara born to a Hadiist family within the PRA on December 19th, 2435. Her parents were former revolutionaries during the first civil war and were granted membership into the party shortly after the end of the first civil war. Due to this she had spent much of her time in Nal’tor, where her family resided, and developed a strong loyalty to the PRA.

Her father had taken her on many hunting trips, showing her the ways of hunting any beast he could. This would form a strong bond and begin the love of hunting and her expertise in the use of guns. During a hunting trip an injured Ha’rron was found by the pair and brought back to a small shack outside the city. After a year of caring and work it was domesticated and became a beloved hunting companion. Ha’rri, as her father called it, died a few years later, being mistaken by another hunter for a wild Tundra Hound. Her mother, who had largely stayed out of the fighting and war, was a blade smith. She took any opportunity she could to bring Ra Kharek’Moro to her work and teach her the ways of forging blades, which despite being ancient even for Adhomai, were still used as self-defense weapons or ornaments to hang within the homes of their buyers. Later, when Ra Kharek’Moro had joined the military, this skill would prove useful when Ra used her own knife on many occasions.

        Ra Kharek’Moro is heavily against the caste system. She holds the opinion that no Tajara should be bound to a set of rules because of something they could not choose. She agreed that each ethnicity had different biological traits but also believed that they could break the mold and do work that would normally not compliment their ethnicity. Her family was a mostly atheist family which led to Ra Kharek’Moro being Atheist herself. Her upbringing in a revolutionary family led to the homeschooling of Siik’tajr, further enforced by the nature of her family being M’Sai.

        Her father died at the onset of the second civil war, he was killed during a battle with the New Kingdom when an artillery shell struck the tent he was in. His death had pushed Ra Kharek’Moro to join the army and avenge his death and ensure the PRA’s dominance over Adhomai. She had applied to the Mountain Ghost Corps in 2453 and was accepted in at the age of 18.

        Ra Kharek’Moro’s service in the Ha’narr Corps lasted 8 years and was filled with many missions, often placing her in New Kingdom territory. On one mission Ra Kharek’Moro and her team of 6 were discovered by a Royal guard defending an anti-air radar. The firefight that had followed found Ra Kharek’Moro assisting 3 team-members in a retreat. While providing covering fire an enemy had thrown a grenade which had landed nearby her. In attempt to save her team mates and herself she drove onto her team-mates, driving them to the ground and covering them the best she could. The following explosion tore off her right leg, forcing her to receive prosthetics and forever changing her view on life and death.

        After the Armistice of Shastar, Ra Kharek’Moro had become discontent with the state of the PRA and Adhomai as a whole. Being unable to further assist, with almost all fighting having stopped, she had made the decision to leave the army in search for a more impactful and adventurous job. While in Nal’tor with her mother, Ra Kharek’Moro had found a job opening within Nanotrasen, who was searching for security officers and ERT members at the time. She had applied to both jobs and left in 2461 to the nearest NT security academy. The following career has seen her placed onboard a Nanotrasen research ship for her time as a cadet and later transferred to the NSS Aurora when a position opened up. She spends much of her free time in Little Adhomai within the PRA sympathetic side. In an attempt to begin the process of gaining dual citizenship with Tau Ceti, Ra Kharek’Moro bought a small apartment in District 6. When she is not spending time in a dive bar chatting with others she is forging a knife or hunting carp with the few hunting expeditions that come by the Mendell City spaceport.

 

What do you like about this character?

 

This is a hard question for me as I struggle to describe why I like things in general. I like her heavy ties to the PRAI like Ra Kharek’Moro’s upbringing with a Commissar father who served the PRA well. I like the many stories that can stem from her 8 years in the Har’Narr Corps. I like the unique situation that a former Mountain Ghost has to adapt to the lifestyle of security and learn to tolerate the other factions that are bound to show up in Tau Ceti.

 

How would you rate your role-playing ability? 8/10

 

Notes: None that I can think of.

[CatsinHD]

I'd like to clear something up, I made a slight mistake on my background. I listed Siik'Tajr as a language that was reinforced by the M'Sai, I meant to write Nal'rasan. Sorry about the mix up.

[Alberyk]

There is nothing wrong with the application that I can see, besides some confusion in regards to semantics. Tajara is the plural and singular, there is no such thing as Tajaras or Tajarans. Tajaran is the adjective. Anyway, just two questions before I can decide into this:

1 - How does the character see the other Tajaran factions, the NKA and the DPRA?

2 - Can you explain more what are her plans with moving to Tau Ceti? What is she trying to accomplish with it?

[CatsinHD]

Thanks for responding. Sorry about the confusion of Tajara, Tajarans, etc. I have the urge to right Tajarans as the plural for whatever reason so it was a few slip ups here and there.

In regards to the questions:

 

1. Ra Kharek'Moro hates the NKA with a burning passion on both a personal and ideological level. She believes the nobility and Caste system is an evil on the Tajaran race. Personnally she hate the NKA for the death of her father, who died to NKA artillery fire.

Her view of the DPRA are more tolerant. She hates to see a faction break from the PRA but she also believes that they will fall under their own system. Her main problem against the DPRA is their advances onto PRA territory and their actions against the state.

 

2. Ra Kharek'Moro is moving to Tau Ceti in search of more adventure and a better purpose. She has never had any desire to enter into the government and politics of the PRA. After the Armistice her job in the military no longer had the ability to make pushes or fight so in response she signed on with Nanotrasen hoping to make an impact as a Security Officer.

Edited July 31, 2020 by William Murdoch
Clarifying point 1

[Alberyk]

Application accepted then.