[Accepted] Vaurca Application (Charger10k)

[Charger10k]

BYOND KEY: Charger10k

Character Names:

- Bao Minh Tran, Engineering Apprentice

- Honcho Khanna, Security Officer

- Kanoa Tangaroa, Quartermaster

Species you are applying to play: Vaurca

What color do you plan on making your first alien character?: (61, 0, 0)

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:

 

    Aurora’s recent Vaurcan events and the introduction of Bulwarks has brought Vaurcan lore to the forefront of my mind and after reading over all the relevant pages, creating a Vaurca sounds like fun given the depth of their lore and the vast differences between them and every other race on-station.

 

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

 

    Putting aside the obvious physiological differences between Vaurcae and humans, Vaurcan society is centered wholly around the development of its four respective hives, with each developing its respective hive members from birth to fulfill a specific purpose. Loyalty to one’s hive is paramount and all a Vaurca’s hivemates are united through a hivenet that allows universal communication. VR is another large component of Vaurcan society, forming not only a digital home for living Vaurcae but also for those deceased hivemates uploaded into virtual reality. The three playable hives are working to survive in charted space to varying degrees of success, each latching onto the closest nexus of political power and clinging on tightly in hopes that its sponsor's success will skyrocket its own.

 

Character Name: Ka’Akaix’Zek Zo’ra

Please provide a short backstory for this character:

 

    A recent addition to High Queen Ta’Akaix’Vaur’skiyet’sca Zo’ra’s brood, Zek was hatched in August of 2462 to supplement the brood’s lower management. As the brood continued to integrate itself into NanoTrasen’s corporate structure, a steadily increasing quantity of Zo’ra cargo staff necessitated more Unbound supervisors to manage large Unbound and Bound work crews effectively. After six months of larval development, Zek’s successive six months of training consisted of little but the necessary facts of logistics management and a smattering of cross-cultural training to deal with non-Vaurca coworkers and superiors. While still able to function as both a warehouse worker and mineral excavator in a limited capacity, Zek’s upbringing focused more on the quantitative side of cargo - how to plan purchase orders, maximize refinery output, and execute real-time supply requests as quickly as possible. This was also augmented with extensive instruction in Tau Ceti Basic, for a brood notable for its communicative ability would be served poorly by its members being ineloquent and mistake-laden in their speech.

 

    Leaving VR upon the completion of its training to begin work on the NCV Ikon, Zek ended up in a situation quite different than what its training suggested. Instead of all-Vaurcan work crews, Zek found itself supervising a mixed cargo department primarily consisting of humans with several Unathi and Tajara workers to boot. Wanting nothing more than to prove the utility of the Zo’ra hive to NanoTrasen’s success in phoron extraction, it quickly became frustrated by a cargo staff that it perceived as lazy, incompetent, and unable to meet the high standards of Vaurcan workers. Vaurcan workers required no meal breaks, did not complain about their workload even under strenuous conditions, and followed work orders without fail, vastly exceeding the productivity of their non-Vaurca peers. While Zek did its best as any loyal hive-driven Vaurca would, its departmental metrics failed to meet its own high expectations. Three months were spent attempting to coax better performance out of its technicians and excavators to little success. While still receiving an above-average rating by its managers, Zek nonetheless requested a transfer away from the Ikon to any other location that might promise better results. The NSS Aurora, with several quartermaster billets available and a roster featuring a sizable Vaurcan population, appeared to be a logical choice.

 

    Sharing a two-bedroom apartment in Flagsdale with thirty of its closest broodmates, Zek retreats to VR shortly after returning from work each day to escape the endless irritation of its coworkers interfering with its attempts to further the Zo’ra hive’s interests. There, Zek is able to attend classes on its faith of choice (the Modern Hive Pantheon, a popular belief among the Vaur brood), complete a variety of puzzles that challenge its wit, and independently study rhetoric in Tau Ceti Basic to better influence its team. While initially indifferent to the K’lax and C’thur hives, Zek has felt an increasing sense of solidarity with them after being subjected to its non-Vaurcan coworkers on a daily basis. While the IPCs and the majority of the Skrell Zek has worked with have come close to meeting its relentlessly high standards, it views its human, Tajara, Unathi, and Dionae coworkers with considerable disappointment. Nonetheless, these negative views fail to affect Zek’s ability to work with and supervise those of other species. After all, the Zo’ra hive requires cooperation with its human hosts to survive on Biesel, and it would be disloyal of Zek to needlessly damage NanoTrasen’s relationship with its hive.

 

What do you like about this character:

 

    Zek is struggling to adapt to its environment, despite the considerable resources its hive has invested in it. However, this can’t be helped, can it? How can a Vaurca driven solely by loyalty to its hive effectively relate to and motivate others that don’t share its background in a workplace setting? This is a challenge that I’d like to explore further and Zek is the perfect vehicle for playing it out.

 

How would you rate your role-playing ability?:

 

    While there’s always room for improvement, I’d like to think that I’m competent enough to roleplay characters of widely varying backgrounds and personalities with only the occasional misstep.

Edited November 30, 2021 by Charger10k

[Desven]

Hello, sorry for the delay. I really like your app, the only nitpick being that I believe you meant 2462 instead of 52.

 

I have some questions:

 

What does Zek think about Flagsdale, particularly the chaotic late Summer the district had?

 

On the same line, what does it think about the Queenless factions that roam around the City, and the introduction of the Bulwark caste?

[Charger10k]

1. While Flagsdale fulfills the Vaur brood's basic needs, Zek is nonetheless cognizant of the negative optics of its district's condition. How is the local community supposed take the Zo'ra hive seriously if it demonstrates poor stewardship of the little land on Biesel that it's been given? While the recent unrest in Flagsdale was damaging to both the Vaur brood's physical health and its reputation among the Bisellite public, it hopefully highlighted the importance of cleaning the streets of Queenless marauders and repairing many of the underdeveloped facilities of the district. If government assistance to the hive is necessary to make progress in this area, so be it.

2. As demonstrated by several enclaves of Queenless Zo'ra refusing to stand down following one warrior's attack on a Bulwark transport, Queenless Vaurcae lack cohesion with the remainder of their Hive in the absence of their High Queen and pose a threat to the Hive's future success in Tau Ceti. However, so long as High Queen Vaur tolerates the Queenless and their presence in Flagsdale, so will Zek. A firm believer that the Zo'ra hive engineered its Bulwark caste entirely independently from the C'thur, Zek does look forward to the Bulwarks' success in their designated fields. Its previous encounters with Bulwarks as a quartermaster reaffirmed Zek's already natural conclusion: like any other Vaurcae, the Bulwarks' dedication and loyalty to their Hive will make them an incredibly useful asset.

[Roostercat]

We're satisfied with the apllication and the answers provided. Application accepted!