Valentine Posted June 25 Share Posted June 25 BYOND Ckey: ValentineUnderscore Discord username: Valentine Character names: - Roman Markov - Xeqo'naq Oonq-Resh - Rafail Sariff Plenty more I play sporadically. Species you are applying to play: IPC, G2 Industrial Frame. ------------------------------ General Whitelist Requirements What colour do you plan on making your first alien character?: Exempt, IPC Have you read the lore pages for the species you wish to be whitelisted for?: Yes I have. 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 species?: I find it really interesting that IPCs are the only species on the whitelist that were created, in recent memory, by purely artificial means. In my opinion, this makes them the most science fiction-based. IPCs seem rich with the opportunity to explore posthumanist themes regarding identity, what it means to have a "soul," and self-actualization. They remind me of the science fiction stories of old. What makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a human?: IPCs are, unlike every other species, purely synthetic. They don't feel pain, they don't breathe, and they are not biological, or even scientifically defined as living things. But they have consciousness granted to them by their positronic nature, which separates them from something like a robot. They're not robots, but they're not alive either. It's interesting because it could place them in a new niche of sentience, and challenge the idea of what "alive" means. IPCs are not born, they're built. They're given data packs to learn skills that take years, can learn the same way an organic creature can through experience, and then they are let loose, so to speak, under the legal ownership of a corporation or a private citizen until they, if they ever, earn the means to be self-owned. It's an interesting term, self-owned, and it says so much about how IPCs are regarded in the Spur. Even if they're free, someone still owns them. It's not a way you'd consider a human or a skrell. And despite all of their synthetic nature, their most important directive is the same as any living thing: self-preservation (although what self-preservation means to an IPC can change dramatically depending on their occupation and age). ------------------------------ Character Application Character Name: Samson-G2(Model)-11.08.2462(Date of manufacturing)-02(Manufacturing number)21(Unit number) (More practically, just Samson-221 or "Sam-21") Write a backstory for your character. This may include their origin, education, personality and how they arrived to the SCCV Horizon. Hephaestus Production Station Amóni. 8th of November, 2462. The nondescript G2 manufacturing line, built alongside cheaper, more prevalent G1 units, designated Samson, second line, was produced. Among those numbers was a unit designated #021. Their purpose: to aid Operation Violet Dawn, which occurred only 24 hours prior, through feats of engineering and mechanical ability only practical to an Industrial Frame: lifting rubble off trapped people, cutting through cumulative miles of melted plastitanium, twisted corpses of buildings, and burning ruins. Many of these G2s and their G1 cohorts were destroyed or irreparably damaged from the Phoron fire-induced overheating or were buried under collapsing rubble carrying out the final orders issued by the late Prime Minister, fighting alongside human emergency services to save as many people as they could. It would've taken thousands of these units to do the job they were assigned. They were no different from the others who saw the Violet Dawn. They were forgotten too. Samson-221, like those of his kind who were lucky, survived. A melted exterior could be mended: and wires could be resoldered or replaced. Unlike the organics who perished, and who survived, Samson-221 was property. There was no time to process the strain of Mars. When he was cleared for duty once again, Samson-221 was returned to Mars under the full purview of his Manufacturer Agent. His agent, who felt an Industrial frame, who had aided the evacuation of Mars during the Dawn would be received favorably by the populace of Mars, and thus would reflect positively on the said agent, secured assignment for Samson to work on Mars immediately following Violet Dawn in the Moderate Hazard Zone. Although this was ill-favored, within 6 months, Samson was relocated to Mendell City, aiding the expansion of the Hephaestus branch there. For the machine himself, the tone of his life was set by his memories during Violet Dawn. He worked almost non-stop alongside emergency services to save trapped people, and to his namesake, he felt his strength was vast and being used well. His agent quite liked this, encouraging Samson to look at himself like he was a strong, heroic figure because that sort of image would reflect extremely well on Hephaestus Industries. Sam-21 spent a majority of his life in Cua Song, from 2463 to 2466, aiding the uncontested growth of the megacorporation on New Hai Phong in the new decade. For every piece of Plastitanium he welded together, or window he installed, Samson-21 thought he was building a better world. A world not consumed in fire. In June of 2466, Sam-21 was moved from New Hai Phong to the SCCV Horizon, because of simple contractual leasing changes, and his Agent sensing opportunity for the 3-year-old IPC. How has the recent events of the Orion Spur impacted your character? Samson-221, like the others of his specific manufacturing circumstance, was rapidly produced to deal with the Violet Dawn crisis on Mars. Violet Dawn was the beginning of his life, and from it, he understood that no matter how badly something is destroyed, someone like him can build it again. It instilled a sense of benevolence in the G2, encouraged by his handler for marketing purposes. The events of Silicon Nightmares had a huge effect on IPCs, making a lot of people more afraid of them, feeding caustic rhetoric that denounces them, or forcing IPCs to consider their autonomy. Samson never felt he was without freedom: he was owned by Hephaestus, but Hephaestus lets him help people, and that was enough purpose for him. The Solarian Collapse also had a tremendous effect on Samson: he felt Mars was abandoned after the disaster, and with the collapse, and even after the start of the Reunification Campaign, Mars is still forgotten. All of his brothers are forgotten. But they still exist in his memories, and if they give him purpose, then every bolt he tightens perpetuates their memory and hope for a "better world." How does your character view the megacorporation they work for? Sam-221 looks on Hephaestus very favorably, and refers to himself as a "Bearer of Aeson's Flame," citing that unlike the flames of Violet Dawn, "Aeson's Flame" creates things instead of decimating them. He feels that being built and owned by Hephaestus means he has opportunities other IPCs don't have: he can make a difference in the Spur and get the resources he needs to make a difference. He is loyal to Aeson and his dream for Hephaestus. 2 Link to comment
CatsinHD Posted June 26 Share Posted June 26 Despite being a CAT player... Valentine is a solid roleplayer who I have had the fortune of talking to, and would do well at the helm of a beep boop. I give a solid 𓁨 out of 𓆐 (I give him a +1) 1 Link to comment
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