[Accepted] Vaurca Loredev App

Ckey/BYOND Username: rabbittabbit

Position Being Applied For Vaurca Loredev

Past Experiences/Knowledge:

None relevant to SS13.

If you were chosen for Lore Developer, what would your plans be for Vaurca?

-Development of Vaurca settlements within Biesel space

-Development of Human reaction to Vaurca Presence, particularly those from Sol

-Clarification of differences between Bound and Unbound Vaurca as well as the personalities of each.

-Establish clear differences between the different Hives and develop inter-hive relationships

Would you embark on major or minor rewrites of Vaurca lore? If yes, why is your rewrite worth it?

I think the most important first step is to revert the to old Vaurca lore, Pre Chev. Most people seem unhappy with the new Vaurca lore and having read through the old lore I also agree that it is much better and much more fitting how Vaurca are portrayed and seen by others. From here I think incremental changes and developments adding onto the good base that old lore is. I also think it is important to survey and discuss what Vaurca players themselves want and also those who have shown interest in Vaurca. As loredev it's important to gauge what the community wants from a species and to incorporate that into the lore rather than write for your own desires.

I'd also like to say that I am very new to this community and don't expect any real chance of this app being the winning one, however from playing my Vaurca character I've grown quite attached to the species and would love to see it fleshed out in a way that is understood and well liked by the playerbase. Whether I get to do this myself or see someone else do it it doesn't matter to me but at the very least I'd like to show my interest for Vaurca lore and the betterment of it.

I've looked at your application and while it looks alright to me, there is one heavily crippling matter that needs to be addressed. Now, as you said, you're relatively new to this community, but at the same time you've got a lot of run ins with staff and are currently on very thin ice when it comes to administrative action, so what's to happen if you were hypothetically picked but then did something that broke this ice? It's not very sound investment in my opinion at this time but I'm interested to hear your thoughts.

It's a very fair concern and one I definitely understand. Truthfully given this circumstance I never held any true esteem in this application but mostly wanted it to be known te interest was out there, whether to help however I can or to be known for the future that I care about the state of at least the Vaurca lore. I imagine if I got the position and ten got in trouble again I'd have to leave the position immediately which seems obvious and fair. If people don't trust me or don't believe I'm up for the task that's fair and i understand why but personally I wouldn't apply Igbo I didn't think I could do it.

Call me a devils advocate here but if you held no esteem for this application, why apply to begin with? There are other ways to indicate interest in this species.

Because I genuinely want to do it, there's no harm in putting my name forward even if the chances aren't likely.

Hello,

you do have a solid game plan for what you want to do. However I am a little put back by your lack of eagerness. You are very new and that can give me pause but if you show clear eagerness and drive that shows you're capable and willing that's something that can be overlooked.

How do you want to develop the hives in Tau Ceti? What sort of paths do you have for them?

What sort of plans do you have for the inter-hive relations? Will there be bigger differences between Klax and Zora and Lii'dra?

For the Vaurca in Tau Ceti I want to really emphasise the stress they're under as poor, unemployed refugees in a system that only barely tolerates them. While I think obviously back in Sol things would be much worse for the Vaurca I also believe that their status as terrifying slumming refugees taking up human resources in Tau Ceti to be a source of derision from their hosts.

Firstly I think some depth about the various Zo'ra broods in district 9 of Mendell City could be expanded, while traditionally a hive would work well together the fact that these broods have so little at their disposal would bring up tensions between broods themselves leading to squabbling and even fighting between the impoverished factions. This could lead to interesting situations of what would be the equivalent of "gang fights" or such other conflicts within the Vaurca district that would spill out into human areas furthering the mistrust of Vaurca in the eyes of other species.

For the Zo'ra brood on New Gibson I like the idea of them having more bound vaurca than the other Vaurca broods (whose bound population wouldve been culled a fair amount) due to the planet being an industrial powerhouse for Tau Ceti, as such these free workers would be common and utilised in exchange for the unbound getting to stay there which I believe to have New Gibson settlements be a lot nicer than those on Biesel and the disdain towards Vaurca there be lessened in comparison.

I think the K'lax should remain closely tied with the Unathi who host them with the unbound adapting more to Unathi culture as well as the bound being more responsive to orders given from Unathi than Humans. I'd also like to ramp up the tension between K'lax and Zo'ra with unbound generally greatly disliking those from another hive and the bound refusing to listen to orders from Vaurca of another hive. I'd imagine the K'lax would be more rare in Tau Ceti than Zo'ra so unbound K'lax would probably be eager to prove theyre more valuable over their more prevalent Zo'ra cousins. As for attitude I do like the idea that the K'lax remain more spiritual than the Zo'ra who seem more pragmatic but I'd want to reduce the importance of it. (please no mamaz milk stuff)

As for Lii'dra I kinda like them as they are, as a mystery boogeyman that the Zo'ra and K'lax Vaurca are afraid of but dont really speak of. Just the idea that these creepy bugmen have another variation that scares the shit out of them gives a sense of impending dread which I think is ideal.

Firstly I think some depth about the various Zo'ra broods in district 9 of Mendell City could be expanded, while traditionally a hive would work well together the fact that these broods have so little at their disposal would bring up tensions between broods themselves leading to squabbling and even fighting between the impoverished factions. This could lead to interesting situations of what would be the equivalent of "gang fights" or such other conflicts within the Vaurca district that would spill out into human areas furthering the mistrust of Vaurca in the eyes of other species.

I always just assumed gangfights were common in Vaurca society

Every unbound has the right to claim bound and the only limit is how much the other unbound will hate you for it

Bound are treated like recources,if you could even call it that

first off that makes me wish there were a whole lot more vaurca players so I could get caught up in this as a Bound player...but alas

Second off I like this dynamic

For the Zo'ra brood on New Gibson I like the idea of them having more bound vaurca than the other Vaurca broods

Wasn't there recently a news article about the K'ois blockade and the millions of bound dying on Biesel?

I could be talking out of my ass of course,but this would definitly lend validity to this idea

I'd also like to ramp up the tension between K'lax and Zo'ra

This

Truthfully Ive only seen two other Vaurca characters and both were also Bound (I play a bound Vaurca). I think Id like to poll the playerbase on what would interest them in the unbound as to be honest a lot of the warrior poet stuff from the current lore for Unbound needs to go.

Originally I was very concerned about your relatively inexperience with our server. But I've talked to you on the discord and you are articulate in your goals and you have a clear, comprehensive plan for the species. You want to draw on the lore that LordFowl was building, and you are the most 'conservative' of the applicants in that regard in how you would build them.

Application accepted.