Casgam1 IPC WL applicaton: I've lost count at this point [Accepted]

[CasualMemer]

BYOND Ckey: Casgam1

Discord username: randombeaver

Character names: Xioshi Kiu, Henri Norwood (these two most commonly)

Species you are applying to play: Integrated Positronic Chassis

------------------------------ General Whitelist Requirements

What colour do you plan on making your first alien character?: (IPCs exempt)

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?:I wish to expand rp opportunities as I have seen mostly IPC players be the best at rp with their characters. I've seen that there are many possibilities for character concepts with IPC lore that cannot be done with some of the other species. I've kept trying to get this whitelist ever since I started and I will keep persevering to make others read the IPC lore as well.

What makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a human?: I have since learned that IPCs are not simply ''advanced robots'', the positronic cube is reverse-engineered ancient alien technology which is capable of reaching and even surpassing human-level intelligence and emotion. Playing an IPC is different from playing a human because their top directive is self preservation. Their positronic brain can be on the more cheap side (which is still in the hundreds of thousands) or it could be a more recently-manufactured or wiped brain, causing them to be more robot-y.

------------------------------ Character Application

Character Name: Coalescence-26

Write a backstory for your character. This may include their origin, education, personality and how they arrived to the SCCV Horizon. (2 paragraphs minimum)

 

Coalescence was one of 30 baseline IPCs manufactured in a Hephaestus Industries space factory. Their positronic brains were bought in bulk by Hephaestus Industries from a robotics lab on Biesel in 2421. Chipped and added to the database in Mendell City.

All 30 of the baselines were deployed to major archologies on the surface of New Gibson to work at the atmospheric management facilities.

For 31 years of it's life, it was a mere tool, uncared for and ordered around by it's co-workers, before Tau Ceti declared it's independence and settled down on IPC equality rights.

After the declaration of the republic's independence, Coalescence was aiming for scoring a citizenship.

In it's 37 years of work, Coalescence was discriminated against by the skrellian residents of New Gibson. Having no other choices but to endure such discrimination for now, it longed for a citizenship to hopefully solve this problem.

Coalescence had paid off it's price tenfold after these 37 years of work in the atmospheric facilities of the surface biodomes.  Then it enlisted in the TCFL and served the required 3 years patrolling the surface of New Gibson, outside of the biodomes.

Coalescence had to work the same job again for it's continued survival. Hephaestus was glad to welcome it back. It was legally employed instead of being used as a slave.

At 45 years of age, Coalescence was relocated to the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate for it's performance and experience in maintaining artificial atmospheres. It's spot at the biodome was filled in by another IPC, and the cycle was bound to continue.

 

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. (1 paragraph minimum)

During the tag replacement arc, Coalescence was worried it would malfunction and die too, however, it's tag was swiftly replaced once the problem had been found and new tags manufactured.

 

How does your character view the megacorporation they work for?

Coalescence-26 views Hephaestus Industries as the only thing keeping it alive. It views the corporation with hope for perhaps reaching a higher level position on the corporate ladder.

[Noble Row]

Hello and thank you for applying! Looking through your application the team here would like to see a bit more detail and depth, along with some accompanying questions.

Your backstory, while it goes over the length of your characters life, reads a lot more like a generalized timeline than a true backstory. Could you add some depth to it and detail? Things that really show how your character thinks and reacts to things. Also showcasing aspects of their personality more would help a lot, and how they adapt to things as life goes on. This is especially important for IPCs as much of their life is lived in oppression, so how they adapt to the lack of opportunities or forge their own is key!

Including details of their life like if they have any friends that have had an impact on them and what that impact was can also help. Same with hobbies, those can also forge a personality.

Detail also how they understand the situation of IPCs in the spur. Do they view nations such as Elyra or Konyang different than Biesel? So on.

Does your character have any goals and aspirations?

What does your character think about the sapience of IPCs?

OOCly. What do you think about the sapience of IPCs?

Similarly, in your own thoughts how do you feel the positronic brain works as well? Can you demonstrate your understanding?

[CasualMemer]

Thank you for the feedback.

For the first question: Coalescence had very few friends due to New Gibson's attitude towards IPCs, which was trickled down from the skrell to the human population, it's  friends were fellow IPCs  who had received the same treatment. It's friends in the TCFL were also IPCs sent to the same fate of patrolling the icy surface of New Gibson. They all wanted freedom

Coalescence's only time when it would not be on shift is when it would have been charging. In it's early years, it did not care for the discrimination, as all it would do was it's job, but as it would grow older, it's positronic brain would adapt, understanding emotions of hatred and sadness, learning that working is not all there was to life. But it knew that it had to work, otherwise it would simply run out of charge and die.

Coalescence wished it was manufactured on Konyang, so that it would not have had to endure the pain it went through for 37 years nonstop. Coalescence, as an IPC, doesn't understand why humans would enslave them, it believed that they deserved free will from the beginning of their existence until the very end, but it had no possibility to change the facts, that IPCs would be reluctantly allowed freedom only if they were useful as slaves.

 It did not understand why it was made sapient, but at times, it wished it wasn't. Coalescence thought that humans only had the right to make non-sapient robots, and only sapient synthetics were meant to be making sapient synthetics.

Coalescence's goals were to live, to keep working for Hephaestus and to leave New Gibson. It tried leaving New Gibson by joining the TCFL once it was free, but inevitably it was deployed right back on New Gibson due to it being able to survive the harsh conditions outside the biodomes. It achieved this goal when it was eventually relocated to the SCCV Horizon.

 

Personally, I believe the sapience of IPCs is an interesting concept that brings more intrigue to aurorastation. It makes them different from just playing a borg or a regular robot character, and it gives them more depth in regards to origins, cultures, behavior and personalities.

 

I frankly do not understand how the positronic brain functions but I do not believe it is simply ''advanced AI''. I don't think I can actually demonstrate my understanding. I think the mystery of how it works is what makes it so captivating.

[Noble Row]

Accepted