[Accepted] AllyBearsley IPC App

[AllyBearsley]

BYOND Key: AllyBearsley

Character Names: Francis Martonis, Sheila Mortiz, Matsuo Tatsuya.

Species you are applying to play: IPC (Baseline)

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

Have you read our lore section's page on this species?: Yes, I have. It mostly goes over synthetics in general, but I can understand since it’s technically listed as the synthetics page on the list. IPCs are also synthetics but given a lot more freedom than the bound/lawed units we have on the station.

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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 specific race:

I want to get my toes wet and try out a non-human species. Robots and robotics has always been interesting for me, even though I haven’t participated in many activities involving it. IPCs seem very interesting to me since you can play a sentient robot or a preprogrammed one without being a cyborg/android. I like the fact they seem to play more like a regular character and would love to Roleplay a bot as it grows.

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

As an IPC you are not born, you are created. This means a lot of things are chosen for you at birth, more so than an organic being. How you think, how you feel, and other things are literally set up for you. Not being given true free will is a very interesting concept and I’d love to play it out.

 

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Character Name: Official Designation: Unit B-02312 nicknamed “Thrive” by previous owners.

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

There was a simple IPC made from a small manufacturing firm in Tau Ceti sometime in early 2457. It was given a processing chip so it could handle menial labour jobs. After testing to ensure the unit could function, it was deactivated so it could be sold. It was purchased for a family on the Frontier, who needed aid farming. After taking some time to get the unit to actually activate, the family found the unit to be very adequate at the simple job of farming. Over time they began to call it Thrive, since it helped the family and farming community do just that.

The farmers eventually saved up and paid their way into Tau Ceti. One family decided since Thrive helped them all so much it would only be right to bring it with them. Unfortunately the family fell on hard times as they tried integrating into Tau Ceti. Every member had to find a job, and even Thrive had to find some kind of work that paid. Although Thrive excelled at farming, the unit’s programming allowed it to handle a number of jobs including janitorial and basic maintenance work.

With the recent political changes and the New Republicans being more open to synthetics than ever, the family was able to easily get some takers for Thrive. Eventually NT picked up the unit. Whether this was due to a shortage of qualified hydroponicists, general care for helping a synthetic or family, or NT looking to keep the New Republicans appeased by hiring more synthetics, is unknown. What is known is that Thrive was accepted into NT with a basic pay grade. Most of this money is transferred directly to the family that owns Thrive, while only a little is kept in a company savings account to pay for repairs/upgrades to the unit.

Thrive now works in hydroponics for NT on the Exodus (and possibly the Aurora II when we get there).

What do you like about this character?

As stated before I like the idea of playing something that resembles humans but isn’t necessarily a human or even a real person for that matter. I want Thrive to be a machine first and foremost. As a machine it has functions to perform and it will work to perform them. It doesn’t have a true personality, instead it mimics organic emotions and mannerism to better fit in.

How would you rate your role-playing ability? 6/10 on a scale where 5 is average. I definitely feel I am above average but not by much. I definitely feel I don’t emote enough and am working to get better.

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Notes: By light maintenance work I in no way mean “engineering” I mean like real life light maintenance, which is mostly upkeep on a building/location. Replacing light bulbs, keeping an area clean, crafting basic things like tables and chairs. Things along those lines.

[AllyBearsley]

Bump.

I really picked a bad time to make this app with the weekend being for mod apps now, and I haven't been on server to advertise it any yet.

[Coalf]

I know Ally and I know his character, he's actually pretty good.

Backstory is, well it's quite bland but functional a few questions though.

1: If the family was so poor, how did they get on the Frontier? After all it's the wild west of space and people go there to get fast cash, seems kinda iffy that a family would be able to go there but not go back.

Huh actually I guess I just had one question, well alright.

[AllyBearsley]

Good question. I will not lie and did not think of it like that. In my head the family was part of a poor community living on the frontier who banded together to buy a synthetic to help get them some more money. I will say they were hired as something like indentured servants, where they must live and work in a place until they have earned enough money for their boss. With the IPC they were able to earn the money much faster and leave.

Also I'm very slow at making backstories for a character. Perhaps I should have spent a bit more time on the backstory to give it something a bit more spicy. I'll definitely consider that in the future.

[Lualyrr]

I have to admit that I quite like the idea of a IPC working in Hydroponics or Farming. Its a nice contrast. The whole 'Artificial being creating life' is a nice touch.

I cannot comment on whole frontier thing, as I am not knowledgeable enough on the topic. To me atleast the whole story seems plausible and I like it.

[AllyBearsley]

Thank you for your comment.

I really wanted to have Thrive working in Hydro because Hydro seems kind of fun to me and I don't think I've seen an IPC actually working Hydro (if someone glances at this and they are a hydro IPC I'm sorry). I thought it would be interesting to have an IPC running around checking the plants, wordlessly making produce. It would also be fun for cooks/chefs to basically use Thrive as a request console for certain types of produce for cooking.

As for the Frontier, from my understanding it's literally the Wild West of the universe. It has a sort of "anything goes" with lore for it, so long as it follows basic in-universe logic. I like Wild West things and use the Frontier a lot for my characters. I will start looking into more stuff for characters as time goes on, but right now I'm content. Also still pretty new to the server and overall setting.

[CakeIsOssim]

Application accepted.