IAC Contractors

[Kryostro]

It's what it says in the title, add the Interstellar Aid Corps as an selectable faction for contractors. We've already got the uniform and the lore behind them, even if they're tucked away under the Independent tab, better than nothing. It's said in their lore page they have volunteered on NanoTrasen stations and provide equipment for them, so there's no reason the IAC wouldn't send their people to NanoTrasen facilities to help give medical attention. It's all pretty self-explanatory so I don't feel like I need to lengthen this.

 

Small pet peeve on the side here, the loadout selection 'IAC Beret' is actually just a IAC softcap, I don't know if there's a sprited beret in the lore and it was accidentally delegated for the loadout item or what. 

[Roostercat]

In my eyes the IAC has always been an organization characters can belong to secondarily to NT, such as the TCFL. Chars can be a part of it, but are still just NT employees on station regardless. I think it should stay that way, because the IAC is a non profit humanitarian group and not a corporation that sells its workers around. -1

[Kryostro]

Good point! I personally feel the IAC would be willing to lease out their workers to establishments that would need them in a non-profit manner, but in the same light you could ask why would the Aurora need the IAC to help out, or the IAC deeming it needed for them to send people over? I'm not a lore developer or anything, I figured the IAC would open up an option of facilities that have a larger civilian population needing assistance, ergo service, research, engineering, etc. Considering the canon fuckery that's happened the past year, all with the Warbling(?), the cat event I forgot the name of, and the recent Sol invasion, it's probably plausible for the IAC to zoom in on the Aurora. But you do got a point there with it being shaky for them to distribute their workers to non-emergency areas.

 

 

Edited January 17, 2021 by Kryostro
Elaborated the leasing bit

[Carver]

This feels like something that would have been a stronger idea during an event arc as a temporary thing (akin to the many flavours of faction fuckery during the week of pain), rather than a permanent fixture. If the beret has sprite issues though that should probably be looked at.

[CatsinHD]

Honestly, the IAC has always seemed like the 2462 Red Cross and Crescent Organization to me. Their workers are full workers where as the volunteers are volunteers with second jobs, of course. This doesn't come cheap and despite being non-profit that doesn't mean they don't need a way to make money. Considering the 112 million volunteer and worker number, I think that it is reasonable that for the workers who don't get moved to some disaster, since I doubt there are so many disasters that there is no worker who isn't on a disaster mission, they would be "leased" out to help fund operations elsewhere. Whether Nanotrasen would accept those workers is something that would need to be asked, though. If those workers wouldn't be allowed to work on a Nanotrasen station then sure, that is fine and this suggestion shouldn't be ran with. If they are, though, I think it'd likely be as a way for the IAC to keep tabs on NT since they already have showed concern about NT's safety measures.

But that's just my 2 cents in bad formatting.

[Haydizzle]

The IAC is an intended non-profit organization that focuses on providing aid and relief. It would not really make sense for them to have contractors on station as a result. As an option though, they present a good tie in to the lore via character backgrounds, allowing people to say they've been involved in different parts of history where they would otherwise have no reason to (such as in the tajaran and unathite conflicts that happened over the last couple years), and that's pretty good.

[furrycactus]

I agree with most of the sentiments above, I don't think it's necessary for them to be contractors. It's a non-profit volunteer organisation, so I don't see much reason for its members to be working on stations that don't particularly need them all that much. The Aurora isn't really an emergency area that's always in need of medical volunteers, so it seems unnecessary. A nice idea, though.

[KingOfThePing]

I have played an IAC character that has been "leased" out to NT for years now. Not sure if I like this idea. This can be done over records already. Contractors are more for Corps or factions, the IAC isn't really either of them. Or st least doesn't work like the usual corps.