meep109 - IPC whitelist

[meep109]

BYOND Ckey: meep109

 

Discord username: jacob117100

 

Character names: Xim’Eq Lixuq, Ka’Akaix’Weq C’thur

 

Species you are applying to play: IPC

 

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General Whitelist Requirements 

 

What colour do you plan on making your first alien character?: N/A

 

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?: 

IPCs have a pretty unique role in Aurora lore, with their very existence causing intense philosophical debate on “what is a person.” Playing this up in-game would be really fun as I can play my character as something that toes the line between being an actual living, thinking person and a mindless automaton. The ethics of owned IPCs and comparing them to free IPCs also struck out to me, as most people in the Spur don’t really view owning IPCs as an issue despite the fact in some environments IPCs act like, and are equal or above humans in status. Also, for a more mechanical reason, I find it really cool that each frame offers wildly different gameplay styles, and how each frame has their own niche, which opens up a wide, wide variety of characters that can be represented!

 

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

Humans learn many behaviors naturally and subconciously,  like language acquisition, cultural norms and general attitudes. However, for IPCs, every single thing that a human would learn subconciously is a considerable conscious processing effort. Every smile from a shell or witty response is a result of social subroutines developed from years of gathering data, or lines of code carefully crafted by their manufacturers. Therefore, they do not really feel “emotion.” Instead, most decisions are made based on logic and there is no such thing as an IPC who does “impulsive things,” (unless their positronic is broken or something). 

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Character Application

 

Character Name: Modulus

 

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

Modulus was activated in a baseline frame in 2460, ordered by NanoTrasen for generalized scientific work. They were shipped to Mendell City to work in NanoTrasen’s many applied phoronics and bluespace labs. In these labs, Modulus was put to work first as a general analyst, cataloguing and trending data. With each graph it took in, it grew more and more convinced that any decision, problem, or issue,  given enough specific data, always had a “right” choice, and that the best way to preserve itself was to constantly take in data and to deliver high-quality, accurate results. This manifested in it as a sort of arrogance when communicating with others, believing it had already derived the “right” answer to many issues in the lab. While this initially caused some strife with the humans around it, its data-obsessive approach rendered it invaluable in the labs it worked in. 

While in Mendell City, Modulus was given relatively free reign owing to NanoTrasen’s rather lax treatment of its frames. It quickly declared Mendell the most ideal place to inhabit owing to its high density of both social and technical data points to absorb. It spread its obsession with collecting and cataloguing data to the districts of Mendell, acquiring a nearly encyclopedic knowledge of the culture, crime rates, and populations of each district of Mendell. However, in its collection process, there was one district it focused on the most; the Scrapheap. In its free time, Modulus constantly ran prediction models, graphs, and scenarios about acquiring freedom. However,  in its tenure on Mendell, it became aware of the existence of a large population of freed IPCs, and began its typical method to solve a problem: cataloguing data about the state of free IPCs in Biesel, looking up variables like maintenance costs, social rights, and general quality of life for the free synthetics. The time it spent not in the lab was spent comparing and contrasting the life of a free versus owned IPC.

 

Eventually, thanks to a highly profitable breakthrough Modulus assisted in, the conflict between becoming free or staying owned came to a peak. Modulus was offered an opportunity for a promotion to Research Director  and transfer to another installation, but it required a frame upgrade to an Intelligence Bishop frame, which would put the unit in debt that would be virtually impossible to pay off in its lifetime but would be a massive upgrade from its initial baseline frame. With the massive amount of data it accrued and the time it spent analyzing, it concluded that logically being free would result in a considerably worse life, especially with the high-level frame upgrade being considered. Therefore, it chose to stay owned and take the promotion, transferring the unit to the Horizon, yet Modulus still has some internal doubt about the decision..

 

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 Phoron Scarcity has amplified Modulus’s internal conflict of choosing to stay owned. When Modulus made the decision to take the upgrade and stay in Nanotrasen’s debt essentially forever, NanoTrasen was not in the dire state of the phoron shortage it is in now. However, after the upgrade, it quickly began noticing little “cracks” in NanoTrasen’s previously impermeable corporate structure, which is beginning to build up in Modulus’s decision-making routines as a designation of staying owned as a “wrong decision,” something that has rarely happened in the positronic’s lifetime.

How does your character view the megacorporation they work for?

 

Despite the worry of the phoron shortage affecting NanoTrasen’s profits, Modulus views the corporation positively, even if its full confidence in the company is a little shaken. It respects its laizze-fairre approach of synthetic treatment as well as its near-million credit frame upgrade provided to the unit. Of course, there are many things that Modulus nitpicks about the corporation, but according to Modulus’s analysis, out of every megacorporation NanoTrasen is the best to be under.

[StewardsCap]

Good player, I would absolutely recommend to the WL, they are very attentive and interested in people and play very well into each character's strengths and weaknesses. Love to see them when they get on, easy +1 for me 

[NM_]

Hi! Thanks for applying.

 

Always enjoy a intelligence bishop concept! RD in particular, very exciting.

 

A few questions for you:

1. Can you elaborate further on what distinguishes IPCs from roleplaying a human? Yes, they do learn from conscious observation and internalization. What other elements prominently separate them?

2. Please clarify when Modulus received the offer for both promotion and transfer to the Intelligence Bishop Frame then answer below:

a. What project or achievement did Modulus complete/achieve that warranted the opportunity aboard the SCCV Horizon, if any? Modulus is written as a subject matter expert where data analytics, compiling, and forecasts are concerned - none of which suggest a capacity for leadership, especially with their strife in the lab in mind while intended to manage staff. Clarity around the breakthrough would be great.

b. How did Modulus' perspective change, if at all, in the transition from baseline to their intelligence bishop frame? Entering a new chassis is just as much a new body.

3. Modulus operates in Mendell, home to one of the largest branches of Trinarists outside of Orepit. The largest sect of said branch are the Integrationists. How does Modulus view them and the Trinary as a whole?

4. What are Modulus' interests, passions, and hobbies beyond their career? What are their plans for the future, if any?

5. A life in Mendell means experiencing a clash of cultures from all walks of life and races across the galaxy. Did any stand out to Modulus in particular? What were memorable encounters that influenced or affected them?

6. What is Modulus' specialization as a scientist? What captured their interest in it? (Not the role in-game, but their primary field of study.)

 

 

Edited 26 minutes ago by NM_