Ambrose Diona Deputy Application

[Arbiter_Ambrose]

Ckey/BYOND Username: Arbiter_Ambrose
Discord Name: master_ambrose
Position Being Applied For: Deputy
Past Experiences/Knowledge: I have written some poems, small proses, but not much else, I hope that I can expand that portfolio in future even if not accepted.
Examples of Past Work: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xegIv9GnS1aP2iMps7602oDZaIbMkocvJdXd7HctkOc/edit?tab=t.0 I do not have access to the anything else sadly in terms of writing, https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/pull/21525 this was majorly helped by thegreywolf so it is more of their PR, but I still did do some of the code in this.
(list of pull requests you made to the Aurora repository or other relevant work)
Additional Comments: I know this is specifically based on the application gabby did, and this is because it is a bit of a old application, I have refurbished it up to my current beliefs and skills and hope that it gives a good insight into me and I made sure it fufills the categories given for the current requests.

 

1. What other skills related to lore development do you have, besides writing, if any?

Various skills that I thought may be useful to mention would be basic photo-editing, knowledge of mapping to a degree, although at this time of writing I have not completed anything aside from a minor addition to the ti’rakqi smuggler with a lot of help from thegreywolf but I have several things in the work and am always learning. 

 

2. Choose any Dionae background besides Moghresian, Hieroaetherian, or Voidtamer, and write a 2-paragraph summary of some cultural additions that you believe would improve the writing as a character building resource. 

Right, I am going to be hopping about for this but I think that covering multiple concepts would be good since I have a few basic ideas for two cultures, I think it would be really good to get a better idea of how other species are interacting with Voidic Dionae and most particularly in that regard harming them.

In the Modern era, Voidic dionae have found themselves more and more inhibited by other species with the most prominent being humanity, ships crashing into them, the gas emissions from ships shifting migration spots, and the metals and alloys created by Voidic dionae being hunted for. While the chance a single ship crashes into a gestalt even of Cetus size is low, when many ships in a unregulated system pass through the chance is greatly increased given sensors can struggle to detect gestalts drifting through space as the skrell first discovered themselves.
Some Voidic dionae have taken to trailing ships for the exhausted gases that they spew from their thrusters, despite being slower than the ship themselves, this has found some success as the motion of the gas transfers to them, although in a opposite direction meaning it requires some precise considerations from the gestalt, this is not only a benefit to dionae however given stray thruster burns can sometimes knock them dramatically off path hindering long established plans to meet up with a fellow gestalt sometimes even centuries or eons in the making.

However while dionae have also been assisted by these circumstances occasionally, not all harm to a gestalt is accidental, many voidic gestalts create special alloys and find rare metals that can assist them in spearing carp swarms for sustenance, where stellar radiation is thin (like the lemurian sea?) or providing a sort of shield from space dust that would otherwise injure or irritate a gestalt moving through it and various other reasons, this has become a great interest to mercenaries and miners, such behaviours has been seen in Xelp III with a Echion’s death at the hands of miners to seek the wealth inside their gestalt, though at the time they were viewed as a weed. Some have even found a living hunting Trirerne across the spur given most Echion are protected by system defense forces, scientific research teams or surveillance drones and satellites, and this comes with much profit as even the biomass of the gestalt has become a luxury among some elites, dominian nobles are known to enjoy roasted nymphs at specific expensive functions, though they require treatment to remove lethal reagents.

Gestalts have adapted to this, albeit very slow given the nature of the voidsong network, learning the markings of infamous hunting vessels, moving their drift to avoid previously popular routes and decentralise, sometimes even grouping up to provide a more difficult assault on the ‘caravan’, and governments of the spur have acknowledged the illegality of the hunting, though some more than others.

 

3. Do you have any thoughts regarding Xrim or Nralakk-integrated Dionae? What direction would you take with them?

I think they are a interesting concept regarding xrim and have alot to be used for, being one of the most intraspecific conflict for dionae, though hierotheria has it’s own though now much smaller in a way, not to mention being less directly violent and more neglect, I think the history is a bit confusing in some extents as it doesn’t make sense to me how the enlightened advanced farther than the scorned with their ruthless advancement, however I understand it is partially a choice to make the culture work and also possible since their industrialism doesn’t inherently equal more superior technology and other than that I would like to see perhaps a bit more expansions in culture, which can be seen above, maybe some additions to their war history to push the harshness of it and elaborate on how the scorned got integrated so easily, I like the origin and think that if it was to get some further conflict between the scorned and enlightened current day, well more than it has already that would be neat.

Regarding purely Nralakk-integrated Dionae, I think they are cool, much like xrim dionae but they lack the same.. Lore about them and they don’t really feel prominent in the Nralakk lore from what I have seen, which isn’t a issue but I would like it if they were explored more, perhaps exploring the political field and perhaps more on how they have adapted to their replacement from generally being the labourer species, though they obviously have many other purposes in the federation  it was a core aspect of their time, I don’t think what we have right now needs much more than a small expansion though.
 

4. Our primary factions as of now are The Eternal, The Voidtamer Confluence, and Hieroaetheria. What are your thoughts on them as of now, and how could you see them progress?

Regarding The Eternal as a faction, I think that it could use some work as at the moment it simply does not really appeal to the average player in my opinion, while I enjoy the way it has been implemented it kind of lacks any substance to latch onto beyond that, and I think it would be nice to expand on the identity as a religion and lifestyle in some way,  I am not quite sure how I would work towards this and make the faction more appealing in both ways but I hope to collaborate with the team to achieve that, it definitely has foundations for alot more expansion in that way like the eternal gardens in biesel, or iron eternal in the narrows, this isn’t to say I dislike the faction, I really like it as a concept and want to see it go in a direction that highlights the difference from the other religions species have while making it interesting to explore and play and I personally thing simplemaroon has posited a few good ideas on that end.

As for the Voidtamer Confluence, my opinion is mixed, I like the faction and how it expands voidic dionae, it definitely has alot of connections like to the rueltab tragedy and I initally disliked the history page for being a bit difficult to read out but after a recent reread, I think the poetic nature is well balanced with readability. I think we could perhaps work with the ever-modernising galaxy clashing with the faction? Perhaps the ever-expanding piracy problem of the spur could be affecting them or maybe something else, I hesitate to say anything internal since they seem quite tight knit and the kind of group that would mainly have external issues, but I could see it working, I definitely have to agree with simple maroon’s prior stance on some of their capacities and connecting what makes their methods either more advanced or different from other factions like hierotheria would be good.

New Hierotheria is very fun, I like it, it is very organised like a diona and gives you a few ideas on the ends of consortium and even still on the states left on the wayside, while I miss them, I think it is a fair choice to make as it was really disorganised in terms of focus and the new compact is much more clearly defined for me. Maybe we could see the other nations slowly opened up to the outside world and maybe we could get some more articles out about how operations is going around the Titan’s Rapture System and it’s vicinity.

5. What is your availability?

I am very available, I only have at current 3 days of college in the middle of the week, with 4 free days, something I quite enjoy, obviously sometimes I am going to a family member’s house, or something similar to that maybe a walk even but those are atleast for me sparse, to clarify as a editted comment, I am in BST as a timezone though I have irregular hours compared to the average of that timezone.

6. What would I like to contribute to the team personally?

Well, I really, really, like ships, but I don’t really think diona lore needs all that much of that, maybe some ruin refurbishments however, I want to mainly contribute articles or additions to already existing pages since I personally feel I do best when I have a clear goal and a basis to work on, and articles while a bit different from what I just said could be similar to that, and additions are likewise. Maybe a few more famous dionae so they can get some sorts of idols outside of just skrellian kind, like celebrity kind of idols. I also want to collaborate with what I have mentioned here to hopefully made the areas mentioned better, I think diona lore has alot going for it and I know I have somewhat been negative, but I love alot of the lore and I just want to highlight areas for improvement.

Edited Wednesday at 19:24 by Arbiter_Ambrose
Clarity on timezone.

[Tex-Mex]

+1, Ambrose has passion and I like what he’s put forward so far.

[meep109]

+1, Ambrose is fun to roleplay with and shows passion about the Diona species!!!