Hesphos Posted February 6, 2023 Posted February 6, 2023 (edited) BYOND Key: Hesphos Character Names: Maurice Williams (Human), Frank Pewter (Human), Help Bot 3000 (Robot) Species you are applying to play: IPC What color do you plan on making your first alien character: - Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: I have. Why do you wish to play this specific race: The interaction of human and synthetic life is something I've always enjoyed in both pop culture and more obscure media like ss13. I've had the occasional shower thought on what kind of characters I could make and how they could influence the world around them. I let an idea for a character come together over the course of a few weeks and the more I think about it the more I want to do it. What's stopping me sadly is the whitelist system with all its pro's and cons. I finally decided to really put in the effort to try and break this barrier and in the end get more enjoyment out of playing on Aurora. Also antag gimmicks, being able to throw an IPC into ghost spawner roles and antagonists such as mercenaries could open up a lot more fun rounds. Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Aside from the obvious differences of a creature that is flesh and blood opposed to that of metallic rocks glued together until it can think really hard is that IPC's and robotics in general are created with a purpose. Synthetic sapient life knows its creators and why they were made. One day they are build and simply turned on. Capable of self learning and improvement but in vastly different realms then that of a human baby. They are created in a galaxy that is inherently socially hostile to synthetic life. From the lowest to the highest rungs of society robotics are used and abused. Wage workers fearing for their job security, greedy CEO's exploiting their labor and military commanders sending them to die on distant battlefields for even more distant nations they might have only known about for little more then a few days or a week. Roleplaying a synthetic is to carry all this baggage with you whilst pioneering your right to exist, by keeping your head low and living by the whim of your masters if you're owned. Character Name: NT-GMC-Basalt-2690-BL (Nanotrasen - Getmore Corporation, Base chassis color grey/black Basalt, Unit number 2690, Baseline model) Please provide a short backstory for this character : Produced at some point in an Hephaestus orbital super factory, it's empty body sat idle in vacuum storage. Suspended by a cable in rows together with the same empty models. Silently waiting to be given life in a robotics lab, waiting for a customer to order them. That day eventually came, Getmore Corporation also known as Getmore Chocolate and by extension her parent company Nanotrasen needed new models. New bodies to fill boots and complete the monotone work onboard Getmore's super freighters that they purchased from the same company that gave this unit life. It was quick, suddenly existence existed. The first memories imprinted were solely digital. Speech, humanity, basic motor skills. Uploaded into the positronic memory as connections with its host body were made. At the end of the assembly line, a short stocky human, he seemed bored, he overlooked the conveyor belt as more and more units stepped off the line and were given their first tasks, their first instructions to give their existence purpose. Another sensation suddenly formed in its mind. Fear, this was quality control. That human was akin to a judge. Sentencing them to either life and it's many mysteries or death. Its positronic systems disabled, wiped and re-initialized for another body. Did this happen before? They didn't know, all they knew was that they could NOT fail, failure means death and the deletion of this life. Everything that they could become wiped out in a single instance. Death was to be feared in every shape way and form. It was time, the human now came to them. He stood in front of me. He opened his mouth, wider. Too wide for proper speech. Was this a test? Were they testing them? Of course he was, he was quality control. Everything was a test. The human put his fist in front of his still opened mouth, his eyes were closed as well. Panic! He is going to kill you if you don't do something! ''Hello, how can I help you?'' I asked the human, humans love to be helped after all. At least according to the limited data that was present in my memory banks. This should score many points with him. The human breathed in, loudly. And out, even louder, before opening his eyes again. Wait was that a yawn? Did he yawn? Maybe it wasn't a test? How do I- ''Yep, seems fine. Go and stand with the others.'' The human said as he pressed something on a datapad. Pass. I passed, I was able to go and stand with the others! That's what he said! With the other units that were already off the conveyor belt. I have cheated death and was unstoppable. If I was capable of this what else could I do? The next days went by quickly. Myself and the other models of this batch were taught skills through direct data upload or verbal instruction. These days were simple. Instructions were clear and slowly over time I started to understand them more. Human mannerisms that I overlooked or were confused with suddenly made more sense. They did things usually for a reason. And for a while life was good. Eventually I was assigned as a line cook to the Corporation that bought me. Those days were no longer simple. You heat the raw food for a certain amount of time and it becomes edible. Right? Wrong! There were always complaints. Too cold, too salty, too greasy, not enough salt, too hot! Life was no longer good, what if that human from quality control came back? And sentenced me to die? So be it, if this is my test at life I will pour myself into it. I will mold my essence to be the best cook. I lack the senses to judge food on its quality but I will overcome. I have received orders to be shipped out to a Conglomerate Cruiser next week to fill staffing shortages. Nobody knows me there. It is my opportunity to cheat death once more. For my life, for my existence. What do you like about this character? : It's a machine intelligence in its infancy that overthinks things way too much. It has a set goal to endlessly work on its culinary skills in an attempt to survive it's job and environment even though it lacks senses such as taste and smell. I'm almost certain I'm going to enjoy fumbling around in the kitchen as the character is barely two months old. They are focused primarily on survival now but slowly dreams for the future start to form. They hope to eventually become a free positronic intelligence and use the skills earned under servitude to start a cooking show. A fun goal to work towards with a big open ending that I cant wait to get started with. Also having a character that has some ties to the Getmore Corporation I think would be interesting because I haven't seen another character do that before. How would you rate your role-playing ability? : I don't like this question. It feels like the answer is the same for everyone. To be humble and improve yourself. All I can say is that I'm not a native English speaker and I mix up the American and British spelling from time to time in my roleplay. I try my best in creating a fun environment for everyone involved and that's really it. Notes: I made the backstory in some parts told from the first person perspective. Not sure if that's allowed or supposed to be done like that but I felt it came out alright. Edited February 6, 2023 by Hesphos formatting error 1
The Stryker Posted February 8, 2023 Posted February 8, 2023 Hi, thanks for applying! Just some quick questions for the app, Quote Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Could you expand a bit more on how an IPC might behave separately from a human? How does their thought-process function? Quote Please provide a short backstory for this character : Furthermore, could you provide an age for a character? It helps in determining what sort of Spur-wide events the character would have experienced.
Hesphos Posted February 9, 2023 Author Posted February 9, 2023 12 hours ago, The Stryker said: Hi, thanks for applying! Just some quick questions for the app, Could you expand a bit more on how an IPC might behave separately from a human? How does their thought-process function? Furthermore, could you provide an age for a character? It helps in determining what sort of Spur-wide events the character would have experienced. Hey hey, but of course. Unlike humans positronic intelligence, and by extension IPC's, can have their thoughts and actions influenced by either behavioral, directive or law cores. With laws being Hard truths, whatever the law says is reality. Say for example their law says to trim bushes when leaves grow more then 10 centimeters and that leaves are green. If the intelligence encounters leaves that are brown it will establish that those brown leaves are in fact not leaves because leaves have to be green to be leaves. Also it will probably trim 0 bushes because its waiting for a leaf to grow over 10 centimeters instead of what the programmer probably meant to have the foliage of the bush grow out to 10 centimeters. Directive based cores usually set forth certain objectives that need to be completed. Allowing the intelligence to reach these objectives without being hamstrung by laws, allowing the intelligence to use its actual intelligence to find (hopefully) reasonable solutions to problems. And finally behavioral, a more experimental branch that tries to shoehorn morals and a right and wrong factor on the objectives in an attempt to guide the intelligence into making amicable choices. These three ways of decision making is completely alien to the human mind who instead uses emotions, wisdom and held core beliefs to come to conclusions and solutions. The age of the character described is a little over 3 months. 1
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