ClearThoughts Posted June 6 Share Posted June 6 (edited) BYOND Ckey: Clearthoughts Discord username: Testopringo Character names: Tsi Jho, Kiqo'teio Vulun-Suul, Skull Eaton, Xeriu Xiru-Yullra, Tuquu-Ielliu Nuouu, a few others but i havent played any more of them recently in any long capacity Species you are applying to play: Vaurca (Bugbugbugbugbug) ------------------------------ General Whitelist Requirements What colour do you plan on making your first alien character?: Vedhra Mucus Yellow Have you read the lore pages for the species you wish to be whitelisted for?: Yes Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph format. Why do you wish to play this species?: I didn't really like Vaurca when they were first released, mostly as an out-of-character, "ew bugs" reaction. However, the more that I learned about their lore, as they were expanded to include Ta, Ra, over the years I became more and more interested. Most recently I've had the good-blessings to have played with a number of vaurcae characters aboard the Horizon, naming a few but not limited to: Nangeren, Pleig, Nakoz, Yir, and they've inspired me to read more about the lore. Having done some reading while we were recently anchored over Adhomai, I became quite interested in Vedhra, of K'lax, and more importantly Tret and the terraformed-gigafactory that it's become. It's good lore, it's a great lunch-break read, and I'm excited to get a whitelist approved to start playing one. What makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a human?: Oh jeez, where to start. Humans are endurance-hunter primates that evolved wide and far, with adaptation and wide-skillset/tool usage being our bread-and-butter for success. Vaurcae are inverse, producing new Vaurca with purpose in mind in the case of Bound/Viax, and an allowance of freedom with their Unbound/Akaix. With a priority on a near-religious worship of their progenitor queen and breeder lineage, you won't find a more alien race to try to live with. Truly, I think they are apart from Diona, one of the least-compatible species to co-opt a planet with, as they're so fundamentally different in goal and objective-planning. While humans might build a fabrication facility with the ability to swap out any-old-human with any other squishy meatbag, the Vaurca will ask themselves if they can engineer a new kind of Worker made to work as close to the sun as possible to increase efficiency, knowing that the decisions they make on their workers will only last as long as they plan to. Where Humans may take a generation and a social shift to encourage new schools of thought, the Hives can obtain a near-complete paradigm shift in a few years. It's unthinkable, at scale, but to the Queens, it is the nature of their existence. ------------------------------ Character Application Character Name: Ka'Akaix'Ikaa K'lax Write a backstory for your character. This may include their origin, education, personality and how they arrived to the SCCV Horizon: Ikaa has been a virtual-resident of Kreapa for centuries, biding its time within VR until its purpose was needed outside of Vedhra's realms. A fervent-proclaimer of the benefits to the Queen of Configurations' augmentation drive, Ikaa quickly adopted a mindset focused around "Nothing good remained as it was". Everything must be, and can be, continuously improved until it achieves the Queen's Ideals. Between sharing ideas into Retek for practice, Ikaa's main focus was weaponry. Anything to give the Warriors of the hive an edge over the Lii'dra, or their best idea of them. 2460, the Queen of Configurations, in co-op with the rest of the K'lax Hive, had begun the plans for the Neutron Forge. Among its many designers and planners was Ikaa, who was sleeved as a worker and directed to work on the project until its completion, operation, and eventual decommission in 2463. During which, the Phoron Crisis in full swing had caused the re-application of many of the K'lax's greatest thinkers to be assigned elsewhere. Returned to Tret to theorize on production-efficiency changes, Ikaa was contracted with Nanotrasen, and became assigned to the SCCV Horizon upon its arrival into the Badlands, less than a month ago. It has since been working as a Machinist, in support of the Operations sector of the ship. Quietly, however, Ikaa retains the same, secretive overgoal that all of its Queen's hive seeks: Finding Lii'dra, reporting their location, and awaiting their Queen's divine wrath upon the ancient enemy. Until then, it will bide its time, and produce ever-wondrous labors in service to its masters. How has the recent events of the Orion Spur impacted your character? The Phoron Crisis and its subsequent Federal scandals beginning in 2463 until present have been a source of concern from Ikaa, and others within the K'lax Hive. As a source of life for all Vaurca, running out or even low on Phoron is a threat to their very existence, and should be considered with no less than vital importance. Beyond which, correcting the scarcity with new supplies could lead to further megaprojects by the K'lax Hive, or the recommissioning of the Neutron Forge, a favorite project of this Ka. It has led it to seeing losses or misuses of Phoron to an almost insulting degree, or a personal attack on the future of the Hive. While it can not produce any violence to rectify this matter, Ikaa has begun calling for mediation by security aboard to any misuse of the rare, exotic fuel. News from Konyang and the included viruses induced upon synthetics has led to a few, uncomfortable questions Ikaa has added to its roster of diagnostics. Having to ask if this synthetic may attack others, or discerning whether an IPC may be suffering from another wave of the Hivebot's virus now lingers in its mindspace. It has no pretense for refusing to repair its synthetic coworkers, but a slight hesitation in watching IPCs wield weaponry has driven a spike in this Worker's fear-response as of late. How does your character view the megacorporation they work for: "Eet izz a vhezzell vvhor uzz to make do, az zzhe Queen kommandzz." NanoTrasen is a sponsor to Ikaa, but they hold no loyalty to it that they would not attribute primarily to their desire to improve the K'lax hive standing, or the standing of their Queen in regards to the rest of the Spur. Cooperation with other races may come secondary to furthering this goal, but this has yet to be seen. The work Nanotrasen does with phoron extraction and excavation is an exacting reason as to why Ikaa finds this megacorp more convincing than others. Discovering a new source of phoron, or a way to acquire phoron in anything more than trace amounts would land them favorably in the many eyes of Vedhra. Edited June 9 by Desven Link to comment
Desven Posted June 8 Share Posted June 8 Hi. I only have one comment, mainly. I think machinists are currently a position covered mainly by Orion Express and Hephaestus Industries. I think your character would fit a lot better in Hephaestus given their background, but I'd like to know what you think. And I guess I also have a question. Vaurcae really don't distinguish humans and synthetics that much. They understand they're different, but as many Vaurcae are so highly augmented, to them its almost as if synthetics are just a different flavor of humans. How does your character bring this dynamic to their workplace? Link to comment
ClearThoughts Posted June 9 Author Share Posted June 9 I'll take that Hephaestus suggestion into consideration, I didn't originally imagine them as being a part of Hephaestus, but then again, the Machinist role is combinative of what used to be Roboticist, a catchall for augment-surgeon, robotic-mechanic, mech-producer, etc. Guess I'm using old-ss13-brain there. There'd have to be some consideration to a Ta urging the Akaix aboard to make some distinction. What's left to individual interpretation would likely fall into one of two brain-slots: Are they complaining about their body? -Yes "Do hyuu hwant uzz to give hyuu new hand?" -No "Ghood. Let uzz know when hyurr hand izz broken." Things need fixing, and modifying. Regardless of what 'flavor' your meat/metal is. I'd say they're generally non-dscriminatory, but for the 'wrong' reasoning to arrive at that conclusion. A human may very well be just someone who hasn't received "enough" augments yet to be perfect. vice versa, a synthetic may have been augmented in the wrong way, or imperfectly. Link to comment
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