Synthetic Application - kooarbiter
What is your BYOND key?
kooarbiter
What is your Discord ID?
kooarbiter
Do you usually play a specific character? If so, who?
Ezra Bass, Annie Nash, Kay ‘eyes’ Williamson
What whitelist applications have you previously completed?
Synthetic Application - Leo
Synthetic Info:
Name of the Synth Character you wish to play:
Dayton
What is your Synthetic’s Personality?
Slight southern drawl, construction worker/foreman/civil engineer affect. Dayton will occaisonally use outer colony slang as appropriate, but will reign it in a bit around officers and company executives.
How will they react to the different ranks of the USCM, what would they talk about in a one on one conversation? What are their interests? What is an advertisement logline that could be written for them?
Dayton was created as a response to blue collar workers and roughneck military personnel who get along better with a Synthetic model with a more familiar Dialect. Though every bit the thorough professional around C suite and/or Commissioned officers.
“Hey there partner, I see you’ve been filling gaps of our barricade line with plasteel barricades; they’re nearly as tough as an arcturan, but maybe we could substitute some of them with iron 'folders on the parts less likely to get hit? We can repurpose the plasteel to reinforce the high traffic areas, would be a good bit cheaper on your supplies too.”
Dayton’s interest involve civil/civic engineering, efficient foot traffic, and cost efficient construction, in the interest of company logistics.
Is your colony under siege by megafauna? are your workers tripping up over themselves just trying to pass through the mess hall lunch line? Dayton’s here to sort that muck out! For our esteemed guests and employees who need a little southern hospitality on the far reaches of the galaxy.
Why do you want to be a synthetic/why should we whitelist you?
I feel somewhat limited playing either medical or engineering, and find that Staff Officer is not well suited enough to do both. Nearly every synthetic I’ve met has been interesting to RP with, or at least stands out from the leathernecks on command comms, and I’d like to join their numbers.
I am personally southern and can naturally RP a more southern character. I’m not a trucker myself, but one of my family’s friends was a lifetime trucker, and we were better off knowing her and she rubbed off on us with her affect and eccentricities. I like to think I can emulate some of her energy for this character and contrast many of the more calm and collected/upper crust type synth quirks
What is your most memorable interaction with a synthetic?
On LV once, i was singlehandedly saved from near death by a synth, I want to say Yin? She carted me halfway across the map and put up with my shenanagains while stitching me back up together in colony med, with lurkers and runners baying outside for my blood. Quite the fun cookie to hang around.
Synthetic Character Story:
A small, rodent like creature scurries through a maintenance hall, behind it, a small team of marines, along with Dayton, and a researcher chase it down, nets in hand.
“Dayton, are you sure this damn fligatoe-” Private First Class Brown shouted between huffs and puffs.
“Fligotias Rodentia, is what the colony bestiary listed it as, some kinda flying rat, supposedly as venomous as a Texas lawman, if the author’s right…” Dayton replies, cool as a cucumber despite a heavy coating of steam on his face and what must have been 20 minutes of non stop running now.
“Whatever, this rat thing, are you sure we can’t just shoot it? I’m not afraid of a little exercise, but even I get tired of running eventually, and all these steam pipes aren’t helping.” PFC Brown spits out. A side voice, coming from researcher Mallard, appearing no less exhausted than the marine behind him reports, “Dayton is right, this thing has somehow broken out of containment and I’d like to get it under wraps before it bites someone and I get two infractions on my record…”
“Unfortunately, no PFC, this thing’s glands contain a venom that works like a neuro toxin, we can’t risk shooting it and getting the air coated in the stuff, we’d be stuck in sickbay for a month…well, you would anyways.” Dayton replied, checking down at his motion tracker and following the signals as they moved and shifted through an unending series of corridors and side rooms.
After a moment of hesitation from Dayton, stopping just short of a narrow gap in the floor, a pipe jutting from the wall rests inches from his forehead, as he watches the creature scurry away and out of sight. The others catch a moment of breathing, and before one can speak the creature re emerges, jumping out of a vent on the ceiling, and catching the researcher on the face, scratching at him and nearly puncturing his eye. Before panic can set in, Dayton inches up in front of the researcher while the pair of organisms are distracted, and lightly plucks the creature off of him without ceremony. The creature is netted, and caged, and brought to research for study, the creature capturing cohort seemingly none the worse for wear.
“Yes sir” Dayton speaks, torn between the conversation on the phone and the researcher messing with the gauze held to his eye. “No, the creature was recaptured with little incident, no biohazardous cleanup required sir, just a few small scratches on Doctor Mallard, but we’re all otherwise okay.” A few more tongue lashings directed vaguely at the researcher pass, before the Chief Medical Officer gives up and moves on to something else, the radio no longer crackling in everyone’s ears.
Skills:
Engineering:
Very, I can construct a complex defense network, I can set up every emplacement the marines commonly use, and swiftly prioritise repairs during an assault. Back when engine setup was required, I did it often without incident, along with the SMES system. I can outfit both dropships efficiently, and set OB/AA, only needing to ask command their preference.
Command:
Proficient. I can handle overwatch, calling in supply drops and orbital barrages. I can organize an assault or defense, although I struggle leading marines on a flank. I’m very talkative in command roles, and i strive to make sure everyone knows what the team is doing at any one time. I like to think I am also a very good ASO, although you’d have to ask my subordinates that.
Medical:
Very, I can perform nearly every surgery with very little if any wiki reference, I can mix together all of the neccesary chem mixes without incident, I can heal and triage on the ground, and assist medical in sorting patients when needed. I enjoy setting up my loadout as medic/Doctor and I miss the old forum thread where people shared theirs.
Requisitions:
Proficient. I can handle req line very well, and I can interpret what supplies are needed on the ground when, along with the expected requests shipside. Some people have criticized me for being strict on not giving out two restricted weapon systems (HPR/m56d/m2c/etc.) to one marine without compelling reason though. I can fill boxes efficiently and scavenge what I need from prep and the ship to order.
What are some scenarios that you can perform combat in? Give us a brief example.
When you or a USCM personnel are under direct and immediate threat from a hostile belonging to a hostile organization IE CLF and UPP, or an alien lifeform such as yautja or xenomorph.
Colony Synths are permitted if aligned to defend themselves, the colony survivors, and colony infrastructure/critical equipment from imminent danger.
During Hijack, synthetics are permitted a greater range of allowance for defense of themselves and other USCM personnel.
Synths are not expected to perform any combat on the frontlines, and if the above criteria are not met, they are required to flee from threats, and otherwise ensure their own self preservation.
Final Info:
Have you been banned from CM in the last month for any reason? Do you have any active jobbans?
No
Are you currently banned from our Discord?
No
Let us know why you were discord banned.
I wasn’t
Do you have anything else you would like to include about your application?
Please let me know if it seems like my synth’s southern drawl becomes borderline too much, I don’t intend to have it change the way I pronounce words, or throw slang in very often, but it’s not always obvious from an inside perspective. I’m also not very robust with regular combat, so I will probably not fight if at all possible.