[Denied] sdtwbaj Head of Staff/mostly IAA/Captain app

[sdtwbaj]

BYOND key: sdtwbaj

Character names: Marcus Halloway, Harriet Ablian, Lexa Everheart, Lolly Vause

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How long have you been playing on Aurora?: Around a year.

Why do you wish to be on the whitelist?: Because both IAA and Captain sound like good roleplaying gigs, and I like me some roleplaying.

Why did you come to Aurora?: LRP was too chaotic, MRP was too furry, and HRP was sort of my cup of tea coming off of HL2RP and the like.

Have you read the Aurora wiki on the head roles and qualifications you plan on playing?: Yes.

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Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions in a paragraph each.

Give a definition of what you think roleplay is, and should be about:

Roleplay is immersing yourself in a character, taking on and creating that persona in the parameters of the environment. It's about playing fantasy, creating a fun environment for the life that we all wish we could have (or at least, that we want to experience.) Combined with the wacky mechanics of SS13, that is. Roleplaying should be about playing your piece of the puzzle in your own way, and making a compelling, interesting character to support your own story, and others' stories.

What do you think the OOC purpose of a Head of Staff is, ingame?:

Heads of Staff serve as the 'guides' of the whole shebang, coordinating a department and being a good resource for people to turn to. They're sort of the 'representatives' of the community as well, and set the bar for roleplay. if a Head of Staff is being a greytide, then greytiding must be the norm, right? For the purposes of IAA, it's being a 'mod-without-being-a-mod' and being that corporate eye on the station, supporting roleplay and pushing forward the overall goals of the station by encouraging people to perform in the parameters of their job, as well as mediating disputes that come up.

What do you think the OOC responsibilities of Whitelisted players are to other players, and how would you strive to uphold them?:

Like I said above, I think it's the responsibilty of anything whitelisted to set a good bar for roleplay and for action within the game. Whatever you do is being looked at by others as what to be, or what to have as the norm. A greytiding whitelisted person means that clearly greytiding is what's normal, right? You're the person that one looks to for guidance and for reassurance that they're on a good track, and a whitelisted person should really strive to be that good role model. Myself, personally, I would create the type of role model that I've looked at while I've played Aurora, and has created that bar for me. I would set a strong bar for roleplay, less so about 'no shenanigans' and more so about 'play a good, convincing part'.

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Please pick one of your characters for this section, and provide well articulated responses to the following questions.

Character name: Genevieve Bujold

Character age: 59

Please provide a short biography of this character (approx 2 paragraphs):

Genevieve popped onto NanoTrasen's radar in her educational years, when she won a scholarship to a university in Tau Ceti on the basis of her management abilities in High School, during a simulated business venture. While not full ride, she was able to live reasonably comfortably while pursuing her MBA, which would always be ever so valuable in time. Upon graduating, she was approached by both NanoTrasen and Einstein for employment. However, she put off employment until she was of age for qualification of managerial work. This, combined with her post-college adventure phase going strong, ended up with her enlisting in the Sol Alliance Navy, as a Sub-Lieutenant Logistics Officer aboard the SAMV Vigilant. She decided she liked this whole thing, and went for a bit of a career in the expeditionary fleets. During her fifteen years with the SAN, she earned the rank of Lieutenant Commander and turned her head to floating cities of sorts, serving aboard the SAMV Marvus Agrippa as a bridge officer, the Boatswain, akin to a Head of Personnel on NanoTrasen ventures. It was aboard this vessel that her family first begun, and although it was a strike on her record, it was worth it, as she was left with a child.

Toward the end of her Navy career, she earned the rank of Commander, and her own command of the frigate SAMV Shelliac, serving on the Seventh Fleet during expeditionary details. She was never as distinguished a captain as her former captain aboard the Agrippa was. While not enjoying the honor of First Contact as she had hoped, she had a good service record, and retired with an honorable discharge. Throughout her career there, she felt her way around the politics of command, surely coming in handy later. After her discharge, she approached NanoTrasen again, now finding herself pursued as an officer for the NanoTrasen Martial Fleet, ultimately being hired as the first officer of the NMV Apollonius, to both test her mettle in the eyes of Central Command, and to become familiar with NanoTrasen security and martial procedure. When CC felt she was ready, around a year later, she was promoted to the commanding officer of the NMV Paladin, a quick response cruiser. Stationed in Tau Ceti space, she was tasked with defending and responding to NanoTrasen vessels and stations in the sector. Her tactical and command skills from the Sol Navy gave her an edge, and she pulled through her tenure with minimal incident, though she was less than pleased with the incredibly corporate lifestyle she was also faced with. In her late fifties, she became fed up with the maritime life and desired to have more stability, for her family's sake. She applied for movement to a research station, figuring it would be a low-risk, stable place to ride out her days to retirement.

What do you like about this character?:

Her funny charm, she has that seriously-jovial-but-kinda-maybe attitude that can really exude confident resolve, while still keeping ease.

What do you dislike about this character?:

Sometimes she ends up over the top, expecting more from everyone than everyone can actually give.

What do you think makes this character fit to be a head of staff?:

Well, her command experience as well as experience within NanoTrasen gives her a good fit. It also seems like she has a good personality for someone that would slide into the Captain role, since most of her working life has been dedicated to facility management on a rather wide scale.

 

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Please provide well articulated answers to the following questions.

How would you rate your own roleplaying?:

I would give it a firm 8/10. There's always areas I can improve upon, but I generally think that with 2 1/2 years of serious roleplay experience under my belt that I've learned a thing or two.

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Edited September 16, 2017 by Guest

[Guest Complete Garbage]

HL2RP

-1.

But seriously, sdt is okay when he's not being a memelord. The backstory is okay, and while the character seems pretty bare, that's not necessarily a bad thing for IAA. I'll shoot you a +1

[NoahKirchner]

I liked the backstory, Marcus Halloway rings a bell as a solid character but I haven't seen toooo much of your others beyond the crew manifest. +1, a military backstory that isn't "HE killed LITERALLY FUCKING EVERYBODY!" is nice.

[Trazz666]

Marcus is a stinky doo-doo head and is a bad person >:c

For real though, you're a good RPer and fun to play with, despite the fact you tried putting me in the trash. +1

[sonicgotnuked]

He did pretty well when I decided to choose him instead of Lukas as the interim HoS.

You have my +1 my dude.

[Faris]

Hello, so I've given your application a read and found rather quite a few issues in them that more provide demerit to the application to itself as opposed to merit.

1)A little research found that those with the rank Lieutenant Commanders and Commanders don't even command cruisers and even Commanders only go as far as Destroyers or Frigates. So for your character to have commanded a Cruiser as a Lieutenant Commander is a huge stretch, best they'd do are very small vessels like mine sweepers.

2)Your character being a retired Commander is satisfied to work as a Quartermaster? That's a huge pay-gap even if we took it to modern standards and I doubt that pay-gap would shrink enough to make this a very reasonable thing. So in essence, this doesn't seem to be a really reasonable thing for me.

3)A break down of her age, assuming we took everything to the minimum would place her about at least at the age of 41. I've put time getting her degree followed by Naval Academy and years of service into consideration, and this is assuming she retired with the rank of Commander straightaway as opposed to going on further. She seems highly overqualified for the job of Quartermaster which is. "Qualifications: At least 22 years of age, 2 years experience in supply-management related fields, completion of NanoTrasen Introduction to Management Course."

[sdtwbaj]

Hello, so I've given your application a read and found rather quite a few issues in them that more provide demerit to the application to itself as opposed to merit.

1)A little research found that those with the rank Lieutenant Commanders and Commanders don't even command cruisers and even Commanders only go as far as Destroyers or Frigates. So for your character to have commanded a Cruiser as a Lieutenant Commander is a huge stretch, best they'd do are very small vessels like mine sweepers.

2)Your character being a retired Commander is satisfied to work as a Quartermaster? That's a huge pay-gap even if we took it to modern standards and I doubt that pay-gap would shrink enough to make this a very reasonable thing. So in essence, this doesn't seem to be a really reasonable thing for me.

3)A break down of her age, assuming we took everything to the minimum would place her about at least at the age of 41. I've put time getting her degree followed by Naval Academy and years of service into consideration, and this is assuming she retired with the rank of Commander straightaway as opposed to going on further. She seems highly overqualified for the job of Quartermaster which is. "Qualifications: At least 22 years of age, 2 years experience in supply-management related fields, completion of NanoTrasen Introduction to Management Course."

Ah, thanks. I couldn't find much detail on commanding ships, so sort of played that part by ear. I'll probably change the character name and backstory when I get to a computer, since Harriet has been my QM character for awhile before I wrote all of this, and I sort of hamfisted her into fitting the backstory and QM thing together.

[sdtwbaj]

Updated my backstory, always nice.

[ShameOnTurtles]

Application denied. PM either TishinaStalker or myself for details.