[Denied]Poopenfarten's IPC Whitelist Application

[HelloSpaceMan]

BYOND Key: Poopenfarten

Character Names: Casval Castlereagh, Satoshi Murugi, Henry Werbell, Mark Sealy, Paul Osteriz, Ida Masaki, Omar Lombardi, Leonard Romanos, Rohan Singh, Ren Chang

Species you are applying to play: IPC

What color do you plan on making your first alien character: Exempted (IPC)

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 would like to try on a different race other than human and IPC seems like an optimal choice do to their relatively easier to understand history and lore. (Which might be because most of their proper nouns are in "human language".) I has always been interested in "android" or other humanoid human-like robot in general, as I am largely inspired by movies like Alien and Bladerunner. After reading its wiki page, I am certain that playing an IPC character would be a fun experience considering its unique mechanic and RP-ing possibilities.

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

In my opinion, IPCs seem to be packed with content in term of both gameplay mechanic and RP-ing, likes the "extensive xenowear", the lack of pain, or the fact that they are positronic and learn from memory and experience. (Which in my understanding mean that they take experience and knowledge a bit more "raw" than organic species). Role playing IPC characters would also be different in term of decision making and reasoning as their self preservation would be stronger than organic species due to their emotion being synthetic or does not exist at all. Although their self preservation would be stronger, the fact that they usually lack the ability to feel pain would means that some minor damage could be ignored for a while if they are occupied with more important things. Also their speech pattern could be less organic like not using contraction or calling themself, "This unit", etc.

Character Name:  Henry-2

Please provide a short backstory for this character

Henry-2, a baseline model IPC, is formerly known as CARE-139 (For being a caretaker IPC, obviously) assembled in 2449. He was a caretaker/servant/friend to a retired detective Henry Holmes (from 2449-2456) in Xansan, Xanu Prime who is out of touch with his ex-wife and children. Over the course of 7 years CARE has grown to be a close friend with Henry who often tell him the story of his works as detective which some details may have been ommited to present himself as a good and virtuous man and some nostalgic feeling may have help hide the ugly parts of detective work. Henry did not has much friend in the rest of his retirement years. When he finally passed away in 2456 due to lung cancer, he did not have any close friend or family but in his will there is two thing mentioned which is the transferring of, then, CARE-139's ownership to themself setting them up as a "Free IPC" and a reasonable sum of money for CARE to afford a small apartment in Xansan for a few months. Aside from their own ownership and the money, Henry also left a letter for CARE. In the letter Henry told CARE that now that they are free and should go live a "good life" and be a "good person". Naturally living with Henry for most of their life, being a "good person" and living a "good life" mean being a detective just like Henry and living just like Henry. When asked whether they would like to change their designation now that they are free, CARE answered, "Can I be Henry too?". Hence, they are now known as Henry-2.

(I will be referring to Henry-2 as a he now.)

The first week of freedom, Henry-2, is unemployed but he has a plan. His goal for now is to become a detective. His first step is to join the Xanusean Military for financial reason and experience, while doing some self study on forensic and investigation in his free time.  After two years and enough saving he retired from the military and went on to study criminal justice (BS), psychology (BA) and forensic science (Master) and finished the master degree in 2462 and immediately hired as a Forensic technician by the local law enforcement authority of Xansan. After a month of evaluation and screening he is then allowed to become a detective in the city of Xansan.

A year later in late 2463 having experience life as a free individual, he decide that it is for the best that he should move on and see the rest of the galaxy as he soon realise that the detective life is in fact not that good. He soon quits his position as detective with the local police and join the Xanu Defense Service as a "Tactical Analyst" before being transferred to SCCV Horizon as an investigator.

What do you like about this character?

Henry-2 is an IPC that works in security and military for the past 8 years but also has a background in "service" in his first 7 years of life as a caretaker, this would give him some dimension as a more human IPC investigator that doesn't only excel at analysis and reasoning but also able to sympathise and perform a more "human" interogation. Also his past relationship and experience with former owner or his co-worker in Xanu as a free IPC would leads him to act more casual with other biological crew while still holds some perspective of an IPC.

How would you rate your role-playing ability?

My role-playing ability has been improving steadily since returning to play on Aurora regularly last weeks. In term of holding conversation/ improvising backstory, I am performing decently but my uses of emotes still need some more creativity. I would rate myself at around 7.5/10.

Notes: 

Edited May 8, 2022 by The lancer

[The Stryker]

Hi! Thanks for applying. To start, I have some questions for the application.

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Role playing IPC characters would also be different in term of decision making and reasoning

Could you talk more about what might factor into an IPC's decision making?

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Henry-2, a baseline model IPC, is formerly known as CARE-139 (For being a caretaker IPC, obviously) assembled in 2449. He was a caretaker/servant/friend to a retired detective Henry Holmes (from 2449-2456) in Xansan, Xanu Prime who is out of touch with his ex-wife and children.

How did the treatment of IPC on Xanu Prime affect Henry? Looking at the backstory, Henry appears to have had a remarkably lucky life. Considering that IPC are very expensive and have mixed treatment on Xanu, the backstory seems overly optimistic, to be honest.

What sort of ideas did Henry Holmes pass on to Henry-2? How did this affect their priorities in life?

Can you tell me more about Henry-2's behavior and mannerisms?

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.After two years and enough saving he retired from the military and went on to study criminal justice (BS), psychology (BA) and forensic science (Master) and finished the master degree in 2462

IPC do not traditionally go to university to study, but Henry-2 could have received a datapack to help them understand these topics, but it would be difficult for them to acquire one without connections or money. In general, it's unlikely that Henry-2 could have changed jobs so quickly, even if he's an IPC.

(Datapacks are covered under this page: https://wiki.aurorastation.org/index.php?title=Positronic_Brain)

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A year later in late 2463 having experience life as a free individual, he decide that it is for the best that he should move on and see the rest of the galaxy as he soon realise that the detective life is in fact not that good. 

Why does Henry-2 think that being a detective is not good, but then turn around to work as an investigator on a ship? The thought process is missing here.

In general, it's difficult to gauge an understanding of the character's personality or what makes them an IPC. What changes if this character was a human instead of an IPC?

[HelloSpaceMan]

7 minutes ago, The Stryker said:

Could you talk more about what might factor into an IPC's decision making?

I think due to priority of self-preservation, an IPC would not go as far to achieve a goal that doesn't has much benefit ( in term of cost-benefit) such as risking being heavily damaged trying to save a Dog/Cat/Cow from a plasma fire/breach, or for a more relateable example would be deciding to not engages in negotiaion when it is very probable that the suspect (of major/violent crime) can be detained/pacified right now with no collateral damage/ negligible risk. Also as an investigator, an IPC wouldn't doubt an obvious evidence (90%++ sure) against a suspect when the suspect trying to appeal for the investigator's doubt and sympathy. Also, IPC's decision making would be depending on an IPC's memory too and would avoid making same mistake or change their approach if last time results were undesireable etc. Basically they are a "computing" brain and should computes their next moves.

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Henry-2, a baseline model IPC, is formerly known as CARE-139 (For being a caretaker IPC, obviously) assembled in 2449. He was a caretaker/servant/friend to a retired detective Henry Holmes (from 2449-2456) in Xansan, Xanu Prime who is out of touch with his ex-wife and children. 

How did the treatment of IPC on Xanu Prime affect Henry? Looking at the backstory, Henry appears to have had a remarkably lucky life. Considering that IPC are very expensive and have mixed treatment on Xanu, the backstory seems overly optimistic, to be honest.

What sort of ideas did Henry Holmes pass on to Henry-2? How did this affect their priorities in life?

Can you tell me more about Henry-2's behavior and mannerisms?

I agree upon rereading the part that it is a very optimistic story. I decide to revise a lot of back story here, hope it's alright:

Then CARE-139 was purchased as a caretaker for Henry (now he's a widower) by his daughter who was keeping in touch with him in 2450. Henry's daughter was working as a researcher for Zheng-Hu at the time. At first Henry didn't really like the fact that his daughter think he need a caretaker but overtime starts to enjoy their company and become a "friend". Being an old retired detective, Henry tends to tell CARE about his time as a detective. (All the good++ memories). Also being an oldman (Clint Eastwood in Gran Torino The Mule level old) Henry spend most of his time at home with CARE around him and therefore a major influence to CARE.  Unfortunately in 2454, Henry's daughter died in a lab accident and Henry himself died a little later that year due to his worsen lung cancer. -- The story about Henry's will, ownership and renaming goes the same + now with Henry's daughter fund too. (so it would be more likely to survive in Xanu as a free IPC)

After becoming Henry-2, the free IPC, he decided that his goal is to become a detective. He know that he is an IPC and he know that he need to acquire the skills necessary to be employed as detective while also still need a steady flow of income to stay afloat financially on Xanu. Knowing these instead of heading for forensic or investigation datapack right away, he opted for a security and combat orientd datapacks since they are more the more marketable skills for an IPC but still relevant to his goal of becoming a detective like Henry Holmes. (also there are more combat datapack in circulation in the market and easier to find, I guess) He then join Xanu Defense Service in 2455. Initially he works as a regular security personnel and steadily climb up and build a reliable reputation with in the company. Despite not getting the Forensic or investigation datapack yet, Henry-2 advocates his time to study the nature of detective works, including various forensic science and detective/ crime fiction. It is only in 2463 when Henry-2 get his hands on a Forensic datapack and coincidentally with the openning for investigators position on SCCV Horizon. (This is as far as my brain could revise it right now.)

The ideas that Henry Holmes pass on to Henry-2:

The ideas that Henry, the original, passed onto Henry-2, the IPC, are the ideas of the "heroic", bittersweet life of detective almost that of Film-noir protagonist. (That is what Henry wish he was and tends to be how he potray himself in the stories he told CARE.)  Henry-2 also took on some habit from Holmes such as reminiscing about old days, "Smoking", "drinking", trying to be philosophical, etc. 

Henry-2 Behavior and Mannerism:

He is trying to be that ideal version of detective. He tends to dress in suit. He is trying to be like the "pop-culture version" of detective. Also his background as originally a caretaker make him very polite and attentive to other "feeling" but that also make him proeficient at detecting and reading a suspect behavior too.

Notes: Thanks for your feedback. There's really a lot of things that doesn't make much sense in the first version. If there's any further plothole/ oversights in this new version please feel free to further comments on them. Thanks.

[The lancer]

Thanks for replying, unfortunately we have to deny this application. The issue with the application currently is that it doesn't adequately tell us about CARE-139/Henry 2's experiences, for example:

- It doesn't touch on how the treatment of IPC on Xanu or the Orion Spur in general affect Henry.

- The backstory should address how Henry-2 went from a caretaker position (and skillset) to a security skillset. Henry still would have required experience and reading literature/crime fiction/listening to stories would not have sufficed.

- This idea could work if it modified a lot, but for the sake of the application, it might be safer to re-apply with a character that shows understanding of the treatment of IPCs in the Spur, how they progress in their career, and how they behave/what their personality is.