IPC Whitelist App | Ershovdi

[ErshOurHerzog]

BYOND Key: Ershovdi
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Species you are applying to play: IPC
What color do you plan on making your first alien character: Dark-Green
Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yeah.

Why do you wish to play this specific race: I like IRL robotics and Artificial Intelligence stuff. If there is a chance for me to play a synthetic character in any game - chances are I'm going to play that character a lot. The whole idea of an artificial mind piques my interest. It is fun to be able to explore different ideas about AI while playing Aurora.
Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human: Roleplaying an IPC is different than playing as any organic species here, on this server. The brain is not organic, it's artificial. Coded, created by a sentient being. Every IPC has a very one-sided yet adaptable personality. The way they think is very different from humans. I mean, do you know anyone who only thinks in 1's and 0's?

Character Name: Cog-AMI
Please provide a short backstory for this character:
Cog-AMI is a baseline IPC unit serving in the Mendell City Police Department after acquiring a synthetic citizenship card, thanks to the prolonged employment in the Nanotrasen corporation. Cog was freed several years ago by it's owner who was deeply sympathizing with the Synthetics' struggles.

It's relevant story starts in a dark place, somewhere in Mendell City's District 14. After activating in an abandoned factory, Cog ran several analyses and status reports that showed all of the parts being functional, but the outer "armor" plates were quite damaged. Finding a roboticist would be simple, if the majority of Cog's memory was not wiped, for some reason. Even the basic knowledge of universal politics and memories about it's owner were all gone. Basically, Cog lost itself. The abandoned factory was a bad place to stay, so the only choice left was going out of the factory and start looking for help. As for the memory, the knowledge of Cog's own basic abilities was enough to escape the district while hiding from the Scrapper gangs.

Navigating through the city was challenging, but Cog managed to get to the Mendell City Metro and finding out about itself. Cog's new identity was basically created from official government and MCPD records. Thinking that continuing the old life after losing most of it's memory is not a stable choice, Cog signed a contract with a PMCG "N4NL Incorporated", getting a job of a security officer on the SCC Vessel "Horizon".

What do you like about this character? I like the theme of finding the true self in this character, while also being able to find out details about it's past through, maybe, talking to other characters (though it would be very awkward thanks to the loss of basic knowledge about stuff). I would love to RP a "weird", yet very stable Baseline IPC with a focus on the current story, not the background.
How would you rate your role-playing ability? 8/10. I'm far from being a genius roleplayer, I'm not very deep into this stuff. Just having fun, that's all.
Notes: im gathering all the whitelists of infinity, muahaha.

[The lancer]

Hi, thanks for applying.

How did Cog end up in that factory to begin with? The story is generally a bit hard to follow. Who was their owner? Did they get a police job before or after the incident?

[ErshOurHerzog]

17 hours ago, The lancer said:

How did Cog end up in that factory to begin with? The story is generally a bit hard to follow. Who was their owner? Did they get a police job before or after the incident?

Yeah, sorry about that, it's probably hard to follow because it's short and the details are, uh, non-existent.

District 14 is a dangerous place, as far as I know. It doesn't mean it has no law. As I said, they were always a police officer in Mendell City after becoming free from their owner. Cog is one of the rare IPC officers who worked in a bad district specifically known for IPC gangs that do all kinds of crime. One day Cog was patrolling the streets with their partner, another IPC, on a car. Unfortunately, they ended up being in the wrong place, in the wrong time -- Cog and their partner met the gang suddenly, they had no previous information about the Scrappers expanding their influence to patrolling area. Their patrol car got hit with a barrage of low-caliber bullets as soon as it was spotted. Somehow, Cog's head-plate got hit with a small bullet, causing sort of a shock, damaging the main memory base - baseline IPCs are not very sturdy in that regard. The partner was less lucky, shutting down quickly.
There were some Trinary Perfection followers in that Scrapper gang, and when they realized that Cog is missing memories, they used it to their advantage and left Cog in the nearest factory, alone. They didn't want to kill a synthetic, even if it's a cop - that can cause bigger attention from the MCPD.

Cog's owner was an old, quite well-known man who was also working for Nanotrasen corporation, but as a lawyer. Cog was generally helping him with the documents, following the man around all the time during meetings even though the clients were uncomfortable with that. With more news about Trinary Perfection and the IPC struggles in the Universe, with issues of an old age, that man started thinking about helping his own IPC to become free. Cog was willing to free themselves as well, otherwise it would hinder the life of their owner - IPCs are very expensive. Now, this man's legacy lives on, but Cog does not remember that part of their past. The rare photos with Cog's owner and official documents from their past 'job' seem like someone different was functioning back then - not Cog.

[The lancer]

But how did they go from lawyer's assistant to an officer in the police? It doesn't seem that their credentials would work there very well.

[ErshOurHerzog]

9 hours ago, The lancer said:

It doesn't seem that their credentials would work there very well.

To be honest, I don't really know how employment in security or police works. I figured that if someone has a background connected to law (even a lawyer assistant), they can train to become a police officer, because they know about law a lot. Perhaps Cog was not content with being just an assistant and wanted to help people actively once they're free. I imagine Cog needed to pass several tests to become an officer. Psychological evaluations, tests about scenarios that might happen on the street, theoretical parts. Being an IPC helped to pass those thanks to the positronic brain Cog has - a very logical processor, able to remember and think about a lot of things.

[ErshOurHerzog]

On second thought, the app is just bad, and I don't want to play Aurora with a bad, underdeveloped character, and I don't have time or will to try and fix this. I'll apply again someday, with a better story. Maybe. Maybe not. Thanks for reviewing the app, though, Lancer. Please close the thread if you have nothing to add :')

[The lancer]

Alright. Just make sure the backstory is a bit more structured next time.