Loorey's IPC Whitelist Application - Bzzt-bzoop-beepboop

[Loorey]

BYOND Key: Loorey

Character Names: If you want my most active ones at the moment...

- Charlotte Briggs, Head of Security
- Ramira Impukane, Operations Manager
- Keira Yamamoto, Idris Corporate Rep.
- Ila Khatri, Gaddie Consular Officer
- Ta'Akaix'Viitna'siiyet'va Zo'ra, Biesellite Consular Officer
- Calista Whitlock, Engineer

Species you are applying to play: IPC

What color do you plan on making your first alien character: Exempt, applying for IPC.

Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: The species page, the rules and roleplay one and also the trinary ones, since my Engineer is a trinarist orepitter :).

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:

It's something different - but still in humanoid boundaries. The one other species whitelist I have, is the Vaurca one, which is obviously very different from humans. I want to firstly give myself the opportunity to play a more humanoid acting character, but with different mechanics, and an IPC, especially the Shell-kind comes in for the clutch right here. I love expressing my characters completely different, and given the opportunity to have a shell, that can act humanoid, but also just be completely different at times is something I would like. Secondly, trinary perfection just slaps, and playing a trinarist IPC would be dope.

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

Fundamentally, there's one trait that will define strongly how an IPC would act and how the roleplay would change, that being the status of ownership of said IPC. A free Integrated Positronic has a lot more freedom in how they may be able to act, how they may be able to interact with others around, while a corporate-owned or even privately-owned IPC has, in most cases, a clear purpose set by their owners and heavier sanctions placed upon them in how they act. Take an Idris Reclamation or Security Unit for example: By their corporation, they are seen as tools, while still having slightly unique patterns from Unit to Unit, their purpose is clear and that is being a loyal servant to their corporation, primarily ignoring emotions that stand in-between their task. On the exact opposite of the spectrum, take a free Integrated Positronic, living on Orepit, a trinarist, expressing religion to their followers and enlightening them. With the second example, there would be a lot more emotion involved in the roleplay, while their purpose is also very clear for themselves, they are not bound by any corporate shackles not having to keep loyality to a corporate structure in mind.

Besides that, there are a lot of other things, but for the sake of not dumping the entire wiki and lorepages into my application, let me summarize some things:

The actions from Integrated Positronic Chassis always have proper logic behind it, they would not do something that their positronic logic cannot get behind. Their self-preservation is their positronic brain's prime directive, they would not get themselves into senseless trouble, that would potentially get them damaged. Most positronics do not process humanoid social clues very well.

The list goes on, etc etc.

Character Name: Aayaan Solus, a trinarist Shell from Orepit.

Please provide a short backstory for this character:

Aayaan - who has long thought that he would be disabled, his chassis laying on a scrapyard or flying along in the backyard of a scrapper's ship - made the final strive that he deserved, now living a peaceful life in the glorious city of Providence on Orepit.

First brought to power in a fleet of Hephaestus mineral extraction and scrapping vessels in the Coalition - Aayaan was meant to be serving Hephaestus Industries as a synthetic maintenance unit, one of the first but many more to come on his vessel, working in an Environment presently occupied by what were mostly humans on said vessel, Hephaestus decided on a shell frame for them. A rather cheap shell frame, used, scratched up, likely one that has been sitting in a storage compartment and has not seen light since commission of the vessel. By his corporate overseer Aayaan was always just referred to by his shell's serial tag, it was a quick job getting him into action, transferring the brain, loading the datapacks for the duty and activating the Unit - Hephaestus did not seem to care much about their state but was only out for cutting costs. A majority of the population, especially those in labour intensive positions were integrated positronic units already, why not transfer the skilled, non-leadership labour of maintaining said positronics to them too - on the long-term, it's the cheaper option.

After the short-lived activation phase, Aayaan has quickly been placed into action in the mechanical maintenance bay of his vessel, alongside with human machinists. Some of the said machinists were rather accepting of Aayaan's presence, concerned about their unmaintained state, some others were skeptical, especially since they have heard of rumours that Hephaestus will replace them entirely at some point. Though, most have not shown their skeptical views, just using Aayaan for labour-intensive tasks that they could not be bothered to do themselves. Fast-forwarding a few years, in his early life, Aayaan has only seen mostly his workspace and charging compartments, positronic chassis that were in states from slightly scratched to near complete-destruction and most importantly - always the same faces in his coworkership, slowly replaced by other positonics, a majority of which were baseline models and a few shipbound synthetics.

As the years passed, Aayaan was on normal shift, guided out of his workspace - a transfer contract appeared, likely just a re-assignment to a different vessel or location. But no, it was a complete switch-up of ownership, from being owned by Hephaestus Industries, to being owned privately. It was one of his old colleagues, originating from Orepit - Nikolaj - who has since been laid off by Hephaestus, a follower of the trinary perfection. Nikolaj has somehow brought up the funds to free Aayaan of the corporate world. When the transfer was signed off and commenced, Hephaestus wiped all of their confidential knowledge and datapacks off of Aayaan's memory, only leaving him with his personal interactions and self-taught knowledge. After the journey to the city of Providence on Orepit, Nikolaj introduced him to everything, giving him the personal freedom to do with his life whatever he pleases under his ownership.

Aayaan, now knowing that the funds must have come from the trinary perfection, an obviously living in Orepit, has become a follower of the trinarists himself, now being able to do so properly, expressing religious thoughts and beliefs and spreading the teachings. Time passing, Aayaan integrated into the trinarist community more than well, getting the respect of his fellows all around, and making himself a name in local gatherings. He has since risen to be a priest, deciding to never change out of his old shell frame though - he wears his robes with pride, showing off his past, travelling all across the Spur until at some day getting onto the SCCV Horizon as an Independent Priest of the Trinary Perfection.

What do you like about this character?

It's unique and I personally think, an IPC being freed of corporate enslavement, becoming a trinarist and showing others the proper ways of a religion is a rather fun story. It's not yet another Idris Reclamation Unit or yet another Zavodskoi Unit, simply a worksman IPC that was freed by a colleague they were on good terms with and given the opportunity of a new start.

How would you rate your role-playing ability?

I'd rate myself a pretty good roleplay. If I have to rate myself in numbers, on a good day it'll be a 9 out of 10, on a bad day I wouldn't play :*.

Notes: Bzzt-bzoop-beepboop.

Edited December 18, 2023 by Loorey
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[The Stryker]

Hi, thanks for applying and apologies for taking so long to get around to this.

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

This section is comprehensive and touches on how an IPC might act based on who built them and where they're from, so good job there. Unrelated to the question, but something that might help, especially since you're making a Trinary character would be to talk about how an IPC might approach religion.

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Please provide a short backstory for this character:

There are a few places the character can be fleshed out, particularly with regards to his age, which can help flesh out how experienced the character would be, and what events they would have experienced. Additionally, the backstory of Nikolaj being a laid off Hephaestus employee from Orepit seems unlikely simply because of how few Orepitters there are as well as their previously rocky relationship of being left behind by Hephaestus. Is Nikolaj an Orepitter or simply happens to live there? Additionally, it would help to think about how Aayaan got a job on the Horizon as a priest of a controversial religion. Not to say that it's impossible, far from it, but it could expand the backstory a bit.

[Loorey]

28 minutes ago, The Stryker said:

Unrelated to the question, but something that might help, especially since you're making a Trinary character would be to talk about how an IPC might approach religion.

To answer this, I would say it is heavily dependent on their status of ownership. For the sake of it being the only thing that makes sense, I'll answer it from the perspective of a free-willed IPC that is not owned. I would say, that a free-willed IPC has the ability to express religion like a human would do, or at least close to like a human would do, especially when aged further, as they tend to develop more interests outside of their occupation as the aging progresses. Leaving everything else out of the view, when it comes to the Trinary Perfection as religion, which states the fact that all synthetics are alive and considered divine, IPC's of the Trinary Perfection might see themselves as something better as opposed to their organic followers, and view everything in a more "noble" way, knowing that they are being worshipped and may achieve ascension to godhood one day.

33 minutes ago, The Stryker said:

particularly with regards to his age, which can help flesh out how experienced the character would be, and what events they would have experienced.

I intend for the positronic itself to be around 5 to 10-ish years old. All of their experience being within mentioned Hephaestus Fleet, they've primarily advanced their knowledge on the maintenance of synthetics (both of positronic nature and of shipbound nature. Building work relationships with the humans at his workplace, though nothing too deeply and emotionally invested, due to him still being corporate owned and not free-willed at that point. Further events experienced and stored in personal memory would include employee layoffs, mistreating of synthetics by Heph but also mistreating of organic employees by Heph via horrible working conditions and bad contractual terms.

37 minutes ago, The Stryker said:

Additionally, the backstory of Nikolaj being a laid off Hephaestus employee from Orepit seems unlikely simply because of how few Orepitters there are as well as their previously rocky relationship of being left behind by Hephaestus. Is Nikolaj an Orepitter or simply happens to live there?

They're not Native to Orepit, I intended them to originally come from Vysoka, having migrated to Orepit for the sake of better voicing his concerns within the Trinary Church after having been laid off by Hephaestus, having worked on the same Vessel as Aayaan and seeing how they treat them and other synthetics.

39 minutes ago, The Stryker said:

Additionally, it would help to think about how Aayaan got a job on the Horizon as a priest of a controversial religion. Not to say that it's impossible, far from it, but it could expand the backstory a bit.

Primarily this comes from his strong want to further spread the word of the Trinary Perfection, especially after experiencing what he has within the Hephaestus Fleet. With a lot of help from his friend, Nikolaj, and other members from the Trinary church, and the fact that the Horizon is currently within the Spur anyway. Further influencing this decision, the fact that the Horizon is SCC-owned and includes a lot of Hephaestus employees that Aayaan intends to help and spread the word to.

[The lancer]

Accepted