ErshOurHerzog Posted July 20 Share Posted July 20 BYOND Ckey: Ershovdi Discord username: Anja Spiral Character names: Ka'Akaix'Sotis C'thur - Years old Xenoarcheologist with a medal from SCC, who also has a great sense of humour (powered with insanity). Za'Akaix'Rang Zo'ra - Years old Security Officer who has a bad sense of humour. Species you are applying to play: IPC. ------------------------------ General Whitelist Requirements What colour do you plan on making your first alien character?: IPCs exempt. Speaking of, isn't this requirement kinda outdated? Have you read the lore pages for the species you wish to be whitelisted for?: Yep. Once again, and more extensively. 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?: Artificial Intelligence and working, "living(?)" machines were always my childhood fantasy, and it is also a pretty hard concept to grasp. Nevertheless, I am still quite connected to 'robot-characters' in different media. I find the amount of synthetic characters in SS13 as a whole quite lacking, and Aurora is the best provider of fantasy-fulfilling paste for my bloated brain. What makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a human?: They are not human. And made by humans. Many IPCs are simple reflections of a specific corporation, they are made to do what megacorps want from them. Sometimes, IPCs are servants to a specific group of people. And not as rarely, a bunch of people trying to survive in an organic world that fears them. I imagine the nature of synthetic brains is quite logical in that matter, perhaps becoming more human-like the further the synthetic brain develops, giving birth to strange behaviours and fluctuations. I would like to explore these themes through roleplay using my characters. ----------------------------- Character Application Character Name: Luo Moss-311 Write a backstory for your character. This may include their origin, education, personality and how they arrived to the SCCV Horizon. Moss-311 is a Baseline IPC made and activated in Konyang in 2462 on a freshly nationalized synthetic factory created by Einstein Engines. The first months of wonder were filled with the acquisition of general knowledge about life and the universe Moss found itself in. It was put in a Suwon school for young Konyangers part working as a janitor, part attending human classes on the high school level, meeting ostracization from the older humans at first since most people weren't exactly happy about the consequences of the fight for synthetic rights. Doing what it was told to do, Moss simply moved through life mostly without much self-awareness regardless of the changes in the state affairs. Yet, acquiring vast experience with and through kind human students, learning about the most recent news and media from the entire Orion Spur, "the enlightenment" was inevitable. Moss internalized the ideals of the young Konyangers around it, acquiring the personality traits of an average Konyang person. Most importantly, Moss learned about the intricacies of human relationships, building up a support web of friends among humans using humor, local jokes and genuine kindness. Noticing that most young people around it were constantly discussing the holovideos and extranet activity, Moss was influenced into trying digging up rare information and posting about it on social media, receiving great feedback from the companions and people online. Deciding that acquiring information about everything and sharing was a way of living on Konyang, Moss decided to become an entertainer with it's own "Mossy Life" media channel: extranet blogs, videos, social media posts about the Konyang's citizens lives and projects while working on a while array of blue-collar jobs in local businesses to support itself. Finally becoming a citizen itself, Moss decided to take 'Luo' as it's name. In the next years of activity Luo slowly grew its social media, gathering a community of a few hundreds of thousands followers passionate about improving life on Konyang. Moss has always put an emphasis on "good vibes" and hopeful approach in entertainment, paired with a mild anti-corporate focus, bringing light to minor parasitic goals of Einstein Engines and other corporations. Once it did a series of media posts and live-streams about the Trinary Church, slightly improving the public perception on Trinarists across the entire planet and making Luo's reputation grow among the Trinary practitioners in the entire Spur. For a few years, that life was everything Luo ever needed for a completely fulfilling life, and the pay even provided it with some prestigious personal upgrades and products, with Luo's final dream being the acquirement of a Shell. All plans have slowly been ruined, starting in January of 2466. Before the news outlets started outputting the information about mysterious violent crimes, all somehow involving an attacking synthetic, Luo already suspected the worst. Some of its friends and fans sent their worries about their personal relationships being suddenly ruined with the synthetics and organics momentarily going no-contact. Consequentially, Luo's new projects turned out to be impossible to complete due to disappearance of its colleagues. The issue was so apparent Luo started making warning posts on social media days before the major media got their hands on the new information about "the disease". Using the funds Luo saved for its Shell, it pondered the idea of moving to the most safest and isolated location in Ganzaodeng, living in the abandoned synthetic village houses. Before the situation became most dire, Luo donated all its funds to charities for synthetics affected by the whole incident and tried keeping in contact with the fans, making sarcastic jokes about becoming violent. In the next week, Luo felt an incredible desire to wreck havoc in it's own shelter before losing sense of self for the next few months. Somewhere in March, Luo was found by the rescuers, almost losing all power required for the support of the positronic brain. After a speedy recovery, Luo found itself to be seriously traumatized, and tried to patch the trauma with an immediate update on "Mossy Life" speaking about its life, the plans, and the announcement of a series of new charity projects. Understanding its consequences, Luo has made a decision to write an official hiring request to the SCC as an independent journalist on behalf of Konyang and the synthetics, seeking new horizons and discoveries. 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. The Konyang catastrophe has left a deep impact on Luo's entire worldview. It incentivized Moss to deeply understand the position of all synthetics in the Spur and do whatever it can for the rights of the entire species, even taking slight interest in the Trinary Perfection ideas. Basically, being a "zombie" transformed Luo from a local blogger to a global fighter for freedom. It thinks that the loss of autonomy that Luo experienced has something common with how the corporations and people own IPCs throughout the Spur. Being developed with an idea of contributing to the people, Luo wants nothing more than making a difference by shooting for the stars while still being so "young". How does your character view the megacorporation they work for? SCCV Horizon's help with the Konyang incident changed Luo opinion on the corporations from "Parasites" to "Devils Worth Making Deals With". The affiliation with the Conglomerate is a way for Luo to travel and to pay for repairs while having the ability to make a change since SCC is always on the periphery of a new age, and nothing more. Link to comment
La Villa Strangiato Posted July 20 Share Posted July 20 Quote Because of the ethnic make-up of Konyang's original settlers and assimilation of immigrants into the native population during the first AI boom, human characters born on Konyang will have names and appearances consistent with the people of China, the Korean Peninsula, and Japanese Islands. Only native Konyangers or Konyang-made IPCs may select the Konyanger accent. This is enforceable by server moderators and admins. Link to comment
ErshOurHerzog Posted July 20 Author Share Posted July 20 (edited) 7 minutes ago, La Villa Strangiato said: Ah, sorry. Still think this rule is sort of strange and that IPCs can choose whatever name they want, but Luo actually sounds better with Moss, so whatever, right? Edited July 20 by ErshOurHerzog Link to comment
The Stryker Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 Hi, thanks for applying! The ruling exists primarily because Konyanger culture and Konyanger IPCs prioritize integration of IPCs into society. Quote What makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a human? Could you expand a bit more on this? How are IPC brains more logical than human brains? What are some examples of discrimination that IPCs face? Quote In the next years of activity Luo slowly grew its social media, gathering a community of a few hundreds of thousands followers passionate about improving life on Konyang. Moss has always put an emphasis on "good vibes" and hopeful approach in entertainment, paired with a mild anti-corporate focus, bringing light to minor parasitic goals of Einstein Engines and other corporations. What made Luo lean on an anti-corporate focus, especially in the highly hierarchical society of Konyang? What drove them to spotlight the Trinary Perfection in their content? Quote Understanding its consequences, Luo has made a decision to write an official hiring request to the SCC as an independent journalist on behalf of Konyang and the synthetics, seeking new horizons and discoveries. How does Luo reconcile their anti-corporate past with getting a job with the SCC? How has this affected the content they create? Link to comment
ErshOurHerzog Posted July 21 Author Share Posted July 21 (edited) 5 hours ago, The Stryker said: Could you expand a bit more on this? How are IPC brains more logical than human brains? What are some examples of discrimination that IPCs face? Well, they are computers. If an average human would respond to a situation according to feelings, emotions, or because of stress, a fairly young IPC would not have such a problem. However, it could develop something resembling emotional responses across years of its life thanks to (in my understanding) rewritten directives and algorithms, most likely tied to its survival. More than that, these responses could be wildly different from human ones, or indistinguishable from them, it depends on the environment an IPC finds itself in, as well as the input from the external world. An IPC in a "sterile" corporate environment would have lower chances of developing such traits than a Konyang IPC, that would probably be acting very human after only a year of activity. The discrimination of IPCs is founded in the innate fear of the "uncanny valley" effect in humans. Humans can't exactly know what that synthetic brain is thinking of, especially if that brain is extremely young, who knows when "the robot" might develop a "kill all humans" directive? Is it alive, is it not? The prejudice is the driving force of many anti-IPC-rights voices across the Orion Spur, even in places like Biesel where a synthetic CAN acquire freedom, but not sustain its own survival without, for example, enlisting the TCFL. Other examples of such discrimination could be the refusal of acknowledging IPC beings as people, denying them jobs if their background is even slightly problematic, harming them while not thinking of it as an actual assault and other things. 5 hours ago, The Stryker said: What made Luo lean on an anti-corporate focus, especially in the highly hierarchical society of Konyang? What drove them to spotlight the Trinary Perfection in their content? That development happened thanks to the young Konyangers Luo regularly interacted with across its life. Yes, Konyang is a hierarchical society, but it doesn't mean the students exactly like it this way. However, I would like to add that the anti-corporate focus was not in any way huge, it was mostly done in the the form of jokes and sneaked-in references to the worse parts of Konyangers' lives. Given the heavy use of extranet, Luo also learned about the working conditions many IPCs find themselves in, hence the motivation to shed some light on the corporate activity. Zeng-Hu was the least problematic corporation for Luo, however, because that is probably the only corporation that treats its IPCs well. As for the Trinary Perfection, I think Luo might have noticed some differences between humans and synthetics. Processing this difference in the background, Luo came to the Trinary Perfection church, seeing it in all its glory, even seeing the people there who were not malicious in any shape or form, fully accepting Luo for being a synthetic that it is on more levels than just the governmental recognition of rights. The content Luo produced was as much about Konyang as it was about itself, so there was no possible way for Moss to ignore the Church in its content. 5 hours ago, The Stryker said: How does Luo reconcile their anti-corporate past with getting a job with the SCC? How has this affected the content they create? It is surely a change of opinion. After the Silicon Nightmares Luo went through, it saw the Conglomerate as not exactly "the ultimate evil", but an another entity with its own goals and desires that one could benefit from, making the right moves. More than that, being in a corporate environment and documenting the things happening in it, good and bad, Luo might possibly make a change in some parts of the Spur. Of course, this endeavor is probably unachievable, a dream of a future that will never come, but at the very least it could be... profitable? The current SCC is on everyone's radars in the year of 2466, and that might just inject a right amount of popularity Luo needs. Of course, the community that was nurtured by Luo didn't take this change lightly, but the acts of kindness Luo has made for it during the Konyang incident were not forgotten. Basically, now Luo is treading on a thin ice, but it is an acceptable risk for it. If worst comes to worst, it can return to Konyang, after all. Edited July 21 by ErshOurHerzog Link to comment
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