Lordnesh IPC app

[Lordnesh]

BYOND Key: Lordnesh

Character Names: Xinth, Teth, Kutr, Zizix, Reks, and DIRE are probably my most notable characters at the moment.

Species you are applying to play: IPC

What color do you plan on making your first alien character: N/A

Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yes

 

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've always loved robots, mechs and artificial intelligence for as long as I can remember. I love them for their aesthetics, for the philosophical questions they raise, and for the potential they represent. What separates us from the creatures we deem lesser than us? Can we reproduce that thing? Should we? Is artificial life the next step in evolution? I occasionally enjoy these heavy philosophical conversations, and I think it would be very interesting to argue them from the other side. Plus they just look fucking cool.

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

Identity/Culture: IPCs do not have a singular identity, and instead tend to adopt the culture of their manufacturer or owner. This being the case, there are very few limits on how an IPC can behave. However, being unbound also means they can adopt cultural norms of other civilizations.

Mechanically: IPCs significantly differ from humans mechanically. They do not need to eat, sleep, or feel pain. They are stronger, faster, and able to survive harsher climates more easily.

Motivation/Thinking: Survival motivates both humans and IPCs, but in different ways. For humans, survival is an instinctual thing, but for IPCs it is a programmed directive. And this directive influences every decision that an IPC makes. However, this is not to say that they are limited in the choices they make, just that when you dig down, their choices ultimately revolve around this directive.

Purpose: Humans have no inherent purpose (unless you're religious), but IPCs do. They are built for a reason. Whether that reason is something as frivolous as a personal entertainment device, or a rugged IPC designed for construction. Perhaps this will change when IPCs start making IPCs.

Treatment: Lastly, and most notably, is the difference in treatment between humans and IPCs. IPCs are quite literally not treated the same as humans. Examples of this are the difference in treatment of hurting/destroying an IPC, versus hurting/killing a human. Worse yet, in certain places, IPC's are treated as nothing more than property. To boil it down, IPCs, whether free or owned, face the constant threat of disassembly at the hands of the humans around them.

 

Character Name: Artemis

Bishop Cybernetics, with the help of Zeng-Hu, created a line of luxury medical IPCs using the Bishop Accessory frame. These IPCs were most often seen in use in upper class medical facilities and high-end leisure establishments in Epsilon Eridani. A few were even bought as personal medical staff for extremely well off individuals. However, all were noted for their customer service, technique, and high class design. After several years, and the novelty had worn off to some extent, they began to be sold on the general marketplace.

Artemis was assembled in one of the earlier batches, so she had that privilege of being the hot new thing for several years. Of course, being a Synthetic in Eridani meant that privilege didn't really amount to much. She wasn't worked quite as hard as the other Synthetic staff, and was treated much better in comparison. This difference in treatment led to Artemis' inevitably being ostracized by the other Synthetics that worked alongside her.

Despite her isolation, Artemis continued to perform up to standards. Not because she had any hope of improving her situation, but the alternative was something she had no wish to explore. Thankfully, after seven years working for her owners, her novelty finally wore off. No longer willing to spend the exorbitant maintenance costs, they were happy to sell her off to a Nanotrasen representative. After a month of reeducation and deprogramming, she was shipped off to her new place of work.

What do you like about this character?

The thing I like most about this character is the shear amount of “fish out of water” factor in Artemis' future. She went from the super corporate Eridani city skyscraper life, to working with literal dregs. Dregs, the people she'd often heard talked about, always in a negative light, were now her regular patients. One month is not nearly enough for her to get over her prejudices.

How would you rate your role-playing ability? Solid

Notes:

[niennab]

Thank you for applying! In regards to Artemis' backstory,

Why does Artemis go by she/her pronouns? Why wasn't she worked as hard as the other synthetic staff? How did the other synthetics ostracize her? What was her role in these medical facilities? What will her role be on the Aurora?

Seven years is a long time, what happened during that time? If Artemis comes with exorbitant maintenance costs, why did Nanotrasen opt to purchase it? What sort of reeducation and deprogramming was done?

Lastly, if I need to approach you over whitelist issues in the future, will there be any issues?

[Lordnesh]

10 minutes ago, niennab said:

Why does Artemis go by she/her pronouns?

Artemis goes by feminine pronouns because of two reasons. One, it helps her blend in with humans, and she has a distinct feminine design. Or will.

12 minutes ago, niennab said:

Why wasn't she worked as hard as the other synthetic staff?

Being the hot new thing she was treated marginally better than most of her synthetic coworkers. This was mostly in the form of carefully curated "extracurricular" activities such as shows and novels. This also served as a way to educate her on current events and things, with the added benefit of improving her bed side manner by being able to reference current events and popular topics.

17 minutes ago, niennab said:

How did the other synthetics ostracize her?

By ignoring her. They couldn't do anything that would risk her expensive frame, so they settled for refusing to interact with her outside of professional settings.

17 minutes ago, niennab said:

What was her role in these medical facilities?

Primarily as a primary surgeon for the patients the facility really wanted to impress.

17 minutes ago, niennab said:

What will her role be on the Aurora?

Surgeon

17 minutes ago, niennab said:

Seven years is a long time, what happened during that time?

Not a whole lot from a human's perspective. She lived, worked, and recharged at that facility for the entirety of that time. The monotony was broken up by carefully curated shows and activities. She developed an interest in reading, preferring fantasy over non-fiction or other fiction genres.

17 minutes ago, niennab said:

If Artemis comes with exorbitant maintenance costs, why did Nanotrasen opt to purchase it?

The maintenance costs were only exorbitant because her employers were willing to spend so much to maintain her in her pristine state. And Artemis is only exorbitant in comparison to basic surgical model IPCs. NT paid a little bit more upfront, and will pay a little bit more in maintenance, for a high class medical IPC.

17 minutes ago, niennab said:

What sort of reeducation and deprogramming was done?

As part of the selling process she had all the proprietary information scrubbed from her memory. This, unfortunately, didn't resolve the issue of being raised in the Eridani culture. Namely, her views towards people of a lower class. Her entire life she was surrounded by nothing but suits, so a lot of reeducation revolved around correcting those interpersonal

18 minutes ago, niennab said:

Lastly, if I need to approach you over whitelist issues in the future, will there be any issues?

No. I am always open to criticisms and discussions. I make mistakes and misunderstand things very often, so I am always grateful whenever someone points those things out to me.

[niennab]

Thank you for the clarifications. Your application demonstrates an understanding of IPCs. Accepted.