[Accepted] It's finally happened, I will be bug.

[Kelnor]

BYOND Ckey: kelnor

Discord username: Kelnor9781

Character names: Nira Sawant, Dumitra Moore, Hailey Wise, Dimah Al-Bashar

Species you are applying to play: Vaurca

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General Whitelist Requirements What colour do you plan on making your first alien character?: Purple

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. One paragraph minimum per question. Why do you wish to play this species?:

Part of this is to better RP one of my most played characters (Nira) by improving my understanding of the alien lore she's heavily involved with (via the Phalanx.) Beyond that, understanding the greater lore will help all my characters better integrate. Lore knowledge is something I only recently began focusing on. I will play the character listed here to get an idea of what being a vaurca is like and I have at least 3 throw away characters that became my mains at various points so who knows, but I'm mostly here to better RP Nira.

What makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a human?:

We're eusocial, I should think less selfishly and try to think about the group more, while putting more effort towards trying to understand where the group consensus lies in situations than I would as a human. Ambition is fine, but it's to be recognized for bettering your hive or brood not yourself alone. Most Vaurca likely have spent the majority of their life in VR and post birth, preparing for and improving in one and at most 2 specialized fields with that being their main purpose to benefit the hive/brood. This would focus their mentality, I imagine Vaurca approach learning more methodically and using repetition. Being Unbound, some flexibility is required or you would just be a bound but compared to humans Vaurca are more focused.

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Character Application

Character Name: Ka'Akiax'Plicg C'thur

Born 4 months ago after 2 years VR learning to be a physician and spending time being wounded as a Skrell/Human/Za/Ka/Ra to better be able to treat them, understand what they're going through during their injury and for them to better be able to communicate symptoms. Being a Xetl it loves the sensation of a scapel on skin now after VR, having been on both ends, and wishes it were a surgeon instead. The sight of blood repulses it (any blood now that they spent time as a human and a skrell.) but it loves that and has come to enjoy the discomfort during work. It's on the Horizon because it's Brood needs money more than it need it's services directly right now. It does not care about the Horizon but is happy to work on strange species. It's also been promised an extended (by Xetl standards) stay in VR again upon return if they did well and earned enough money for it's Brood.

How has the recent events of the Orion Spur impacted your character? Events such as the Phoron Scarcity, the Solarian Collapse or even the Invasions of Biesel for interstellar-wide affairs, while region-specific events such as the Peacekeeper Mandate, The Titan Rises or even Cold Dawn may impact your character.

Very little directly, being so young, it doesn't care much about the Horizon or the SCC or it's crew (directly,) it's here because it's brood needs resources more than it needs a physician. The overall decline and poor state of the Vaurcan hives and the phoron crisis deprive it of being happy in VR. It will work to save crew because losing crew that should have been saved will get it fired and sent back to a VERY unhappy Ta and probably Queen. Like-wise it will want very much to save crew in difficult situations because this will give it's Brood the ability to negotiate better compensation and possibly a faster return or more voracious access to VR.

How does your character view the megacorporation they work for?

Zeng Hu is nice corporation, they give my brood something called money, this is good, it allows more time in VR. I work for them, I save their employee's lives, they see Xetl smart, Xetl capable, they happy, they give more money, then I return and I feast. Is good.

Edited July 2, 2024 by Desven

[Desven]

Hi, thank you for applying. I want to clear up some misconceptions and I'll ask a few questions.

First of all, Vaurcae follow a cycle similar to insects. So the eggs grow into larvae, that grow into pupae, eventually growing into full Vaurcae. I just noticed that the Vaurca biology page doesn't have an exact period of development for Workers, but I've always pictured them to take around a year in total. It's probably the last six months (from pupae to adult Vaurca) that their training in Virtual Reality is intense. However, Virtual Reality dilates time, so it's entirely possible that Pilcg spent what felt two years of training. The actual requirements of the training may depend on the profession, so it makes sense that a surgeon would train for what feels even longer.

Secondly, think of a Hive as a federation and a brood as a state. So because the brood is a big entity, the actual operations of everyday affairs are ran by hive-cells. The hive-cell is commanded by an Alate (Ta) that actually assigns the Vaurcae. So a hive-cell is a bit like a big family that's really controlled. The hive-cell might specialize in a niche, or command its members to fulfill a new job. In this case, Pilcg would be requested by their hive-cell to join a job as something they trained in (this part you've got right). Because Pilcg is a C'thuric Vaurca, this comes with the extra layer of C'thur, LLC. However, this is more advanced lore and you're not required to know that for your application.

At last, Vaurcae aren't limited to visit Virtual Reality until they die. I know that there are no Virtual Reality mechanics in game and we wish to change that, however, I'm not so sure if hard-working Vaurcae get promised something in the afterlife. They might, and I might add this as part of the upcoming religion expansion. That aside, I'm not so sure if a Worker that was designed for surgery can simply be promised to return to VR full time and enjoy leisure time. Workers already live 20 years or so, so 20 years of service for eternity in Virtual Reality seems like a fair bargain. Though likely, what you could have is make Pilcg resent everyone because it was forced to come to the real world. This doesn't mean Pilcg is rogue or hates its Hive or even Xetl, but it could make Pilcg be somewhat moody. Maybe that can interest you.

 

Now, as for the questions:

1. How does Pilcg plan to adapt to human space? Has its hive-cell done anything in preparation for this? Is Pilcg coming in blank?
2. While Pilcg is young, it might have formed an opinion about recent Vaurca events. How does Pilcg feel about the upcoming Biesel elections, or the current war between the K'lax?
3. How does Pilcg relate to the other C'thur broods? What does it think about the other Hives?
4. There are many Queenless Vaurcae on board, including some Punished. How does Pilcg feel about them? Did the Alate warn Pilcg to steer away from those crowds? Is Pilcg naive or does it hold resentment towards them?

[Kelnor]

I'm not worried about the time in VR, just that it's enough to explain why they can Physician, and some time for the "spend time as the species you'll be working on" VR. So 6 months VR, probably felt like 4 years. And to clarify he was chosen to be a physician, he just wishes he was a surgeon because he developed a liking to doing them during his training.

I'd probably say Pilcg sees this entire thing as we saw our first day of school or our first real job. Excitement, wonder, then.. oh.. oh I want to go home and never do this again sets in very quickly. He'll accept that it's required and I may make something of an arc about it where he starts mad and depending on how it goes probably settle in for his 20 years and do his best to warrant an afterlife?

1: How does Pilcg plan to adapt to human space? Has its hive-cell done anything in preparation for this? Is Pilcg coming in blank?

They'd have told him what definately don't do, what try not to do, and what to do. He'd probably just focus on looking for negative reactions and not doing that again, possibly with an apology if they convince him it was warranted. He'd have the regs memorized (at least the ones he figured were likely to pertain to him in medical.) His Alate played him some sim maybe Zeng Hu and a Dreamweaver or Ta made about workplace HR crap so he's got that. His Cell would maybe be a Cell that specializes in making (or retraining) Vaurca for SCC employment as part of some plan a higher ranking Ta has for the Brood, hence a better pre acclimation to the SCC environment?

2: While Pilcg is young, it might have formed an opinion about recent Vaurca events. How does Pilcg feel about the upcoming Biesel elections, or the current war between the K'lax?

Violence bad, some violence is good, like dead Li'idra. Fight between kin though, wrong, can't understand why they fight over which Queen should rule, hard question, too hard, and questions for Queen to decide, I do what Alate say and Alate say I fix people. Maybe I learn why one queen should rule but not another one day, but now I fix people, and C'thur do not have this problem.

3: How does Pilcg relate to the other C'thur broods? What does it think about the other Hives?

K'lax work too much, Leto is intriguing however, The Exhibition could have curious experiences and things impossible to experience elsewhere, but more likely I find all the things they got wrong, not like our Royal Chronical. I pity them for being stuck with the Hegemony instead of the Federation. Federation much better.

Zo'ra are in charge, they win right by.. being better? Still, C'thur strong, maybe we lead one day? But for now. I fix people.

C'thur, I don't talk about the High Queen's.. condition, she is the only reason we made it to the Spur.

Mouv, scientists, and merchants?, the bazaar would be an experience but there are better things to focus on now.

Vytel, wielder of violence, violence good when they do it. Still stay clear when it happens. May meet some on ship, may trust them more for unbiased views.

There are many Queenless Vaurcae on board, including some Punished. How does Pilcg feel about them? Did the Alate warn Pilcg to steer away from those crowds? Is Pilcg naive or does it hold resentment towards them?

Alate warn Pilcg, still what if they not so bad? I can form opinion later, avoid for now but be friendly. For Punished, hmm, definitely avoid. Why they hire Punished?

[Kelnor]

On 28/06/2024 at 15:25, Desven said:

Hi, thank you for applying. I want to clear up some misconceptions and I'll ask a few questions.

Quoting so Devsen notices me the reply to my WL app

Edited July 1, 2024 by Kelnor

[Desven]

Sorry, I had a very busy weekend. I'll come back to this app later tonight.

[Desven]

This application is approved. If you have any more questions about Vaurcae when playing, please ask me, my deputies, or just drop by the Vaurca channels at lorecord.