stevIII Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 (edited) BYOND Key: steviii Character Names: My main characters are M.ART-YR, Dr. Byte, Iszrls Kuizuh, Scarlet Wynter, plus a variety of minor characters I don’t play anymore. Species you are applying to play: Vaurca What color do you plan on making your first alien character: 27, 44, 35 Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: none, not even a bit, what is vaurca Why do you wish to play this specific race: Obviously there’s the reason of collecting all the little green check marks on the web interface, but also because Vaurca seems like a very alien race compared to everything else I’ve played, in that they’ve got the hive aspect, along with the whole Viax v Akaix thing, and the close to complete lack of individuality; which all sound pretty interesting to roleplay. From my limited experience with vaurca, they seem like I’d get a bunch of enjoyment out of role playing them; especially with the limited Vaurca players. Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: well, bug.Akaix: Vaurca are very specialized to a specific task, and would likely not spread out as much as other species, such as humans with their cross department knowledge. Plus, Ka utterly do not fight, and Ta don’t do labour; Whereas Za are just specialized for combat, but can do other things. The hive aspect and lack of serious individuality compared to other species allows for a very alien playstyle, largely relying on hive aspects with other vaurca. Also, the fact that Vaurca are commonly taught the majority of their knowledge through virtual reality, Akaix even being able to spend years in VR.Viax: “haha organic borg go brrrrrrrrr” Bound do absolutely nothing deviating from their original order - excluding self preservation - without direct orders from a superior, and well; act similar to robots in certain situations. They have exactly one department of knowledge, even scrapping the very slight spread that an Akaix might have, instead sacrificing it for even more unwavering loyalty - Not that I'm even entirely sure that’s possible with vaurca. - Character Name: Za'Akaix'Avek K'lax Please provide a short backstory for this character: Like all my recent applications, this is going to be done in three phases with short stories, with roughly three stories each allowing for better variety in the backstory of the character. Bliss phase: 2455 - 2457Story one: After Avek was hatched, they were only given very lessened access to the hive VR, but they still managed to get all the knowledge from it they could in about a year, before they were dubbed sufficiently trained by their breeder, to be shipped out for tasks around the hive ship. Aveks main tasks largely consisted of guard duty around the hiveships landing site, or escort duty on cargo transferral. Story two: Eventually, in a growing effort to improve relations between the k'lax and izwezki hegemony, Avek and a number of other warriors were sent out to the great wasteland planet of Moghes to train and fight with the fabled Kataphract knights of the hegemony. Avek joined a company of Saa as a K'laxan Zo'saa, serving alongside a great kataphract knight called Iszll Skkoieh. Their time in the Kataphracts training was a successful time, being taught all the virtues of the kataphract honour system, and training with all the weapons of the hegemony available to a K’laxan Zo’saa. Struggle phase: 2457 - 2461 Story one: After finishing their hypothetical training, they were grouped up with four other K'laxan hopefuls and two knights to adventure around, looking for glory. After a while of exploring, protecting the helpless and other honorable things, they all settled in at a village for a while to rest and recuperate and get medical aid. While most members of the village and all of the knights were asleep, a terrible noise was heard as engines roared, intertwined with the sounds of screaming peasants as, in the darkness and relative silence, a band of Gawgaryn raiders had managed to get in range of the village, encircled it, and were now charging towards it on scrap bikes and captured vehicles, attacking anyone in their way and looting any undefended building or body. The Kataphracts assisted the village guard, but had two losses, which forced them to fall back to a more defensible position. In the coming struggle, Avek managed to escape with three other kataphracts. Story two: The survivors, reeling from their defeat at the hand of the Gawgaryn savages, took to instead hunting down and snuffing out any Gawgaryn activity in the area, going so far as getting the two Vaurca to use their tunnel warfare knowledge from their limited time in VR to infiltrate bunkers and destroy them from inside. Eventually, after months of this, the numbers of the force dwindled till it was just Avek and their superior, Kriiu. Kriiu, deciding enough was enough, made contact with the Kataphract seniors and requested reinforcements, recuperation and for Avek to be returned for evaluation by senior kataphracts. Story three: Avek was eventually returned to the Kataphract base in To'ha'dat for evaluation, and was dubbed sufficiently trained and experienced for re-assignment, so Avek asked the hive, who sent them a communication saying they had a new task for Avek instead of continuing training with the Kataphracts; as a deal had opened with Nanotrasen to train and employ a wide group of Vaurca in a variety of jobs. Thus, they were once more shipped away, this time to a training facility in the Republic of Biesel, where they were for the third time, trained. Acceptance phase: 2461 - now Story one: Avek was sent to a NanoTrasen corporate security training camp, where they were informed procedures on arrests, regulations and how to use NanoTrasen weaponry; along with other minor skills. During this time they were largely discriminated against by the majority of the people in the area and other trainees, excluding some higher-ups who tried to instill discipline, which further fuelled their undying loyalty to higher ups. Story two: After Avek finished their training, they were eventually transferred to the Aurora for practical training, and to bolster the Aurora’s security roster. Plus, their hive decided that they'd get the most use out of Avek if they were on a large installment, instead of some tiny mining facility.e station, instead of some backwater nanotrasen facility. After the transfer, Avek started their work; with the eventual intention of gaining further information about NanoTrasen, and security procedure on their vessels. What do you like about this character?: I like Avek cause they are rather different from all my other characters, having less of a sense of individuality. Also, strange backgrounds are always fun to play, And kataphracts are pretty cool. How would you rate your role-playing ability?: Always said about 7, cause that's what literally everyone says, cause 6 means you have no confidence in yourself, and 8 - 10 means you’re a narcissist. Notes: I have to say this was my least solid application cause I procrastinated it severely; so if it's mediocre, blame my mind being a jackass. if anyones wondering, the backstory is 692 words, and about 3500 characters minus spaces. haha bound go *brrrrr haha bug go *chitter haha cephalon go *brain haha ta go “im not that scary” bites your head off “oops” Edited November 27, 2020 by stevIII Fax Link to comment
Roostercat Posted November 29, 2020 Share Posted November 29, 2020 Hi. Sorry it took this long for a response, but I have been busy with stuff™ To get to my problems with this application, the story is both in a weird format that is sortof hard to understand, and has a glaring problem. I am reaaaaaally not sure if characters on station can be former kataphracts. This is more unathi lore's decision, but I am unsure on whether NT would hire Kataphracts to the station. Not to mention the tidbit on the end that sounds almost like corporate espionage if I am interpreting that correctly. I also have some questions. 1) Which brood is Avek from, and how does this shape how they behave? 2) What is Avek's view on the Hegemony? 3) What is Avek's view on the other two hives? 4) Which religion does Avek follow, if any? Link to comment
stevIII Posted November 30, 2020 Author Share Posted November 30, 2020 The wait is fine The formatting is something I've just done lately for my applications to make them slightly different, and more interesting than the wealth of identical applications. if it's hard to read, I'll apply using a more normal format if I re-apply, to make it easier to read. Regarding on-station kataphracts, while I was writing this application I asked a few questions regarding kataphracts and was never informed that they can't be played on station. Obviously if they can't, I'll write something different if I re-apply. 12 hours ago, Roostercat said: Not to mention the tidbit on the end that sounds almost like corporate espionage if I am interpreting that correctly. This was unintentional, was more meant to just be gathering information to learn more about NanoTrasen, not gathering secretive or private information; Just what a cadet could get on the surface. 12 hours ago, Roostercat said: 1) Which brood is Avek from, and how does this shape how they behave? Right. in the earliest draft of this, I mentioned that "Avek only had lessened access to the hive VR, on account of being a queenless" but accidentally cut it out when I re-wrote large swathes of the application after the fact. This shapes how they behave in the fact that well; They had lessened access to VR, and spent larger parts of their early life in actual physical space, thus meaning they're slightly less de-sensitized to how the universe actually works outside VR. 12 hours ago, Roostercat said: 2) What is Avek's view on the Hegemony? Going off the fact that Avek trained with the hegemony for a long while, and rather respected their senior Kataphracts, I would guess that they have a rather positive opinion of the Hegemony, since they were instilled with plenty of the values of the Hegemony to a lessened extent. 12 hours ago, Roostercat said: 3) What is Avek's view on the other two hives? Living the majority of their.. existence? life? On the wasteland planet of moghes/on their hiveship, they have had very low interaction with the other hives. But, going on the fact that Avek is a preimminent, they believe that the other hives should all be united together, conforming to their natural places in the universe, to create a perfect equilibrium and eventually identify god. 12 hours ago, Roostercat said: 4) Which religion does Avek follow, if any? As I mentioned in point three, they follow the preimminence religion, believing all Hives should be united and put in their rightful place in the universe, to aid in finally identifying god.Notes: this application has been the hands down hardest for me, as I had absolutely no ideas; so if some of it was very shaky, I apologize and will do better when/if ever I re-apply. Link to comment
JamOfBoy Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 Hello. I'm here to squash the claims of a 'lack of individuality' running through your application. Akaix are individuals. They are capable of their own thought and feeling and the only thing they're incapable of doing is working against their own hive. This means they can argue, contest ideas, disagree with decisions their hive makes. None of them are clones, and although a lot of their experiences can be very similar and production line-esque, they're all made differently in psyche and physique. The more angles covered, the more beneficial a consensus. As cool as the Kataphract element of this application is, I'm not sure if it's... allowed. @Shenaanigans @Haydizzle Your input is required. Link to comment
Haydizzle Posted December 1, 2020 Share Posted December 1, 2020 In my own opinion, being a former Kataphract is fine if you wish to be security or command, speaking in a broad sense. It would likely work the same way as the TCFL, in that being command/security and also a Saa or Zosaa is a conflict of interest. Otherwise, I would have no issues with say an engineering apprentice who is also a Kataphract-Hopeful. I will need to chat with Shen about it more in detail for a final decision and something to put on the wiki. There's not really anything on the lore page regarding this, and people have played Kataphract characters on station before, so as of right now it's pretty unclear and I apologize for that. Link to comment
stevIII Posted December 2, 2020 Author Share Posted December 2, 2020 8 hours ago, JamOfBoy said: Hello. I'm here to squash the claims of a 'lack of individuality' running through your application. This was my fault. I misconstrued my point, saying "A lack of individuality compared to other species" but in hindsight, that statement is just completely incorrect. I was more intending that Vaurca have a considerably more integral over-arching sort of society, with the hive aspect of their life being considerably more important; Compared to humans who only normally work together, but it isn't completely integral. I wrote a large portion of my application late at night, as it was the only time where I had a clear mind; but it still meant lots of things were incorrect/misconveyed since I was tired. If anything else is blatantly wrong/clearly misconveyed, please point it out so I can clear it up. Link to comment
JamOfBoy Posted December 14, 2020 Share Posted December 14, 2020 This was last edited on the 27th, it's now the 14th, and you had received feedback between the two dates. Thus, I'll be denying this application, but you're free to reapply whenever you like. Link to comment
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