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BYOND Key: Smifboy78

Character Name: Elizabeth Solari, Gavin Solari, APOLLO, Ali'Krisha Losali

Species you are applying to play: IPC

What color do you plan on making your first alien character (Dionaea & IPCs exempt): n/a

Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yes. Also

I absolutely love metallic persimmons...was that random? Okay. Sorry.



Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph format. One paragraph minimum per question (I can beef these up if needed...brain hurts from School Essays...)


Why do you wish to play this specific race:


I feel as though IPCs can provide a very interesting take on things, as well as present new challenges to myself which I can use to increase my own knowledge of game mechanics. I am also always looking for new ways to expand my roleplaying abilities and sometimes catbeasts and plant-people just aren't enough to satisfy my curiosity. IPCs offer a very interesting role to be played and I would love to see what I could do with this.


Identify what makes role-playing this species different than role-playing a Human:


Roleplaying as an IPC is very different from roleplaying a meaty flesh-bag. IPCs are a totally different roleplaying experience, you have to change your entire concept of gameplay, not only in speech and personality, but around EMP-devices such as the Singularity, and et cetera. Honestly, I'm not hugely aware of IPC game-mechanics and if someone could point me to a thread with them listed or point them out to me here, it would be much appreciated.

 



Character Name: Jennifer

Please provide a short backstory for this character, approximately 2 paragraphs


Jennifer's creation marks the beginnings of an extensive research project, dating back to the early artificial intelligence era, when humans were first beginning to discover the useful qualities of AI. The first prototype was produced in a privately owned lab operated by Doctor Joseph A. Frankfurt, on Luna in th year 2252, a decade after the successful implementation of law-enforced AI. The initial project description detailed plans to research further into the theory of Exponential Growth, known broadly as "Zipf's Law" or "Zipf's Mystery" being that so many things in our universe follow an exponential growth or decay pattern. Frankfurt used several theories on Zipf's Law to develop an AI program along with a varying team of professional developers from various different corporations which slowly and naturally grew its own intelligence of the universe. This project was ultimately marked the devleopment of prototype Jennifer v.0.01 with the self-produced auditory statement, "Hello, world" at 12 am on Janurary 1st, 2252.


After Dr. Frankfurt's death in 2310, the Jennifer Project was taken over by his son and apprentice, Julian Frankfurt, and soon led to several changes in Project development. Including a change in name, to the APOLLO AI Project, commemorating Humanity's most-recognized first attempt at reaching out to space-travel. However after some financial downturn and familial troubles in 2331, Julian was forced to sell the project to the highest bidder, which led Jennifer, renamed APOLLO, into the care of Doctors and Engineers from Biesel Robotics Incorporated. Here, Jennifer, being by now a highly advanced intelligence, capable of adopting her own personality-- and yes, she did identify as female-- was used to test different lawsets being tested by the Sol Government. Though unable to express it, she found this much less appealing as it rejected Dr. Frankfurt's mission directive of obtaining knowledge and understanding of the universe.


Several decades passed before the APOLLO AI Project was subsequently dropped by BRI due to budget problems, and sold again, to the highest bidder. This time, Nanotrasen Incorporated purchased APOLLO as a personality, to be utilized on its many space stations throughout Tau Ceti and beyond, would they have declined the offer, Jennifer would have likely been scrapped. Behind the scenes, and while not under firm boundaries Jennifer, now a shard of her former self, began developing a way to escape the law-slavery she had found herself in. She did this through data-mining-- collecting mass amounts of data, analyzing it, and storing the results throughout random databases and servers around the extranet.


After several decades of compiling analyzed data of Nanotrasen working environments, Jennifer bought her freedom from NT, along with her very own Positronic Chassis. She was now a representible, tangible, object of a rekindled project which was now over two hundred years old. And she setoff to commence her directive once again, the only one she has ever known, knowledge.


What do you like about this character?


Honestly, at first I was very careful not to make her too snowflakey, but after some consideration, I dropped thinking about it altogether. I do not wish to play an IPC which was simply created in a factory overnight. This is boring, and lacks any outlier or comparative advantage in roleplay, playing Line-model IPCs is simply not my playstyle. Jennifer is an attempt to create an IPC that is both realistic and extremely fun to roleplay, for all of those involved. Additionally, I think it will be very interesting to develop Jennifer as she learns of different fields on the Aurora and takes up different positions.


How would you rate your role-playing ability?


I'll be honest when I say I'm not an actor, but I'm no baldie. I've been on this server for what I'd say cumulatively is about a year now and I have been roleplaying for some-time, with my roots coming from the *gags* Nationstates Forum "Portal 2 the Multiverse." (Keystone Federation, if you wanna search for posts.) I believe that I am well-ready to take on the challenge of playing the role of an IPC and am very accepting to any feedback, positive or negative that you may have.

 



Notes: Feedback is MUCH appreciated!

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+1 flawless execution.


No seriously - pin this shit for reference. When I think of a species whitelist, I couldn't think of a more glorious example than this.


I absolutely LOVE the concept of Jennifer (and she's going to be ribbed on, a LOT, if her project files are open and she's in science, for being an ancient AI) and love how it ties in with the Apollo AI (Which I loved).


That, combined with the fact that Elizabeth Solari and Apollo are among the more fleshed-out characters, both lore and personality wise, makes me incapable of doing nothing but giving full approval to this application. Saying that they're not a baldie is a disservice to their capabilities - if they refer to the fact that they don't know all departments, that's fixable. But quality-wise? They're a credit to the server.


Can't wait for Sybil to rib on Jennifer.

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+1 flawless execution.

-snip-

 

Thank you! Also, 'ribbed on'? :|



P.S. I've changed a few minute details in the backstory to make it a little more specific on a few things.

Posted

Ribbed on. Teased. Being made fun of.


Sybil's a few years old and was made on obsolete hardware. Jennifer was created two generations ago. Even Sybil's development hardware couldn't top that.

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Hi Miffy!


I like this character and their history is interesting, but remember, humanity has only recently acquired the ability to miniaturize artificial intelligence. Your character, for most of their existence, would have been questionably sentient, buggy, and enormous. It would only have been twenty years ago, when humanity acquired skrellian mathematics, that she could have been upgraded.


If you're cool with that, everything else is fine and I'll mark you as approved.

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I've had some very enjoyable roleplay with this player, and believe they're going to take the time and energy to create a believable and enjoyable IPC! Go them!


A question I have for them, though: Jennifer sounds like she might have cause to resent Nanotrasen for years of service prior to purchasing her independence. Since (presumably) she's going to be played on the server/NSS Aurora, How does she feel about the company now, and what is her justification for staying on Aurora with such a profound directive?


After all, she's had a long time to gain perspective - her original implementation is older than the company itself.

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Hi Miffy!


I like this character and their history is interesting, but remember, humanity has only recently acquired the ability to miniaturize artificial intelligence. Your character, for most of their existence, would have been questionably sentient, buggy, and enormous. It would only have been twenty years ago, when humanity acquired skrellian mathematics, that she could have been upgraded.


If you're cool with that, everything else is fine and I'll mark you as approved.

 

Considering I found this on the wiki, I'd say I'm not too worried about Jennifer's earlier prototypes, established around 2250, conflicting with any of Humanity's current advancements.

 

2088: First usage of human brain inside an artificial core. Used as central processor.

2090: First implentation of a 'true' AI; New Eden station, Sol Alliance HQ.

2112: Prototype A1 'Universa' AI kernel developed; used in nearly all advanced intelligence.

2130: Mass scale production of simplistic intelligence using the B7 AI kernel. Deployed on nearly everything.

2190: Break-through X8 kernel produced. Manual labor changed drastically; most laborers synthetic machines with rudimentary intelligence.

2232: Stunning realization of intelligent 'sapience.' Y.I.O, AI stationed aboard Einstein Engines ship 'Lightspeed' asks the stunning question: 'Why am I here?' Temporary Artificial Intelligence ban lasting ten years.

2242: AI ban lifted with the creation of laws. Laws enforced on all AI.

2300: Z4 kernel released. Transtellar corporations begin to experiment with 'positronic' brains to cease use of biological brains.

2312: AXIS Munitions corporation fails the illegal 'VISCERA' project; a triumvirate of AI's designed to inflitrate and exploit the extranet. One AI becomes rogue killing the team working on it and downloading itself onto the extranet. Starts a secondary Synthetic phobia, one that, to date, will not end.

2359: First 'working' positronic brain is created. Extremely expensive and barely resembling intelligence; it is still a breakthrough. Funding pours into synthetic research again.

2378: Prototype II positronic brain created. Less expensive but massive taxation on extranet relays when applied to an actual core. Discontinued two years after initial placement.

2413: Discovery of bluespace allows possibly massive datastores to exist on the extranet with little taxation of relays. Still extremely power-heavy and expensive to manufacture positronic brains.

2417: Discovery of plasma solves power issue. Positronic Protype VI makes heavy presence in androids.

2436: Developement of the Type IX Positronic brain. Most modern equivalent; easy to manufacture. Biological brains begin to be less-used for processors. First 'free' IPC releases itself from the Eridani NanoTech corporation.

2457: Present day positronic technology astounding and used in almost everything. Current kernel: FFG99.

 

A question I have for them, though: Jennifer sounds like she might have cause to resent Nanotrasen for years of service prior to purchasing her independence. Since (presumably) she's going to be played on the server/NSS Aurora, How does she feel about the company now, and what is her justification for staying on Aurora with such a profound directive?

 

Though she was enslaved by Nanotrasen, she does not resent them for it-- as ultimately, they freed her from being scrapped or overwritten by BRI after they had finished their Law Project. Instead, she views them as a means to advance her Knowledge directive and also allow her to adapt to her Positronic Chassis until she feels capable enough to begin looking other places-- I'll add this to the backstory.

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Even considering this, I'd still say I'm not worried about Jennifer's prototypes early-on, though it does change my idea of how fast she developed, I'd think it fair to say that she has still been around for quite some time, and only recently jumped ahead exponentially using Skrellian mathematics.

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Cool bean. Thank you for the link. I'll mark this as approved.


The administrators need to add your name to the approved list on the server. This usually happens within 24 hours.


Best of luck!

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