=LSF= Recruitment

[Menelvagor]

((IC Information))

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• Name: Marcus Chrysanthemus Black
  
• Age: 32
  
• Gender: Male
  
• Place of Birth: Kepler System; Sector D7 - Born in transit on LTF-HappyHippo [D978/5]
  
• Skills: Organisational and analytical skills; Great understanding of Human Socio-Economics and 'People skills'
  
• Previous Jobs: CEO (and only member) of a shipping company.
  
• Law enforcement, Military and/or Para-military History: N/A
  
• Department Interested in Joining: Homeland Security
  

All questions below must be answered, in order for your application to be considered.

Have you ever piloted a fighter craft and/or a bomber?

<Yes> / <strike><No></strike>

I had the pleasure of piloting a fully armed and operational Kingfisher some time ago
for the purposes of entertainment (asteroid hunting). Never operated one for military
or para-military or any other lawful or unlawful purposes be it escorting or pirating.

Why are you interested in joining the LSF?

Although I spent all my life as a civilian I alwas had a strong interest in military career; unfortunately for me (or maybe fortunately) my mind was always more analytical than blunt 'follow the orders' type that is why I didn't feel that core Navy would be the right choice for me. Thankfully because LSF is a intelligence agency I feel it not only does require what I am willing to provide, and/or what I already can do but also it can be a great beginning, or maybe even a continuation, for developing some of my skills which I would normally not use. And, obviously, as there is a part of a child living in all of us, it us but understandable that being a 'spy' is every boys' dream.

Do you have a criminal record, or have been in trouble with the Liberty law? If so, for what reasons?

<strike><Yes></strike> / <No>

Do you have any skills, competences and/or personality traits that could be useful towards the LSF?

I am a very calm person, even in stressful situations. Can easily sympathise with others and thus be a good asset when it comes to working in a group. I also don't mind going solo, and the solitude of a long gate travel ride is something I got used to over my career as a merchant; that is why long patrols or other missions that require travelling both in space or on ground dont bother me. Also often changing systems and staying in them for weeks or even months is not a problem as I don't have any family to go back to and always seen myself as a traveller. As for my skills and competencies I am much of a people's person, in a way that I know how to handle them right. I was always fascinated by interrogation techniques and other NeuroLinguistic techniques. I am also a very logical and analytical person who isn't afraid of long office hours and having to do loads of data sifting and paperwork.

Tell us about yourself, that wasn't already put on the application so far.

I started working very young, because my father, who was a victim of a faulty trade lane, got his ship cut in half, I had to take over his business. Flying on an outdated cargo ship I only managed to stay in business because of being able to think ahead and buy goods which at the time were cheep and hard to sell, but in nearby future (becaue of market fluctuations) they would provide a hefty profit. After few years my company started to grow and I hired few people to help me in goods transport but I quickly noticed that people, in general, can't be trusted that is why I decided to buy the biggest cargo ship I could and do all the runs myself. In time I became a millionaire and then five times that, it became obvious for me that life doesn't have much sense anymore as all difficulty was taken from it. After buying a huge aquarium and three sharks, tipping a cow into it, and then crushing my cargo ship into an asteroid field (all for fun) I kept living off the money I earned so far and took a great interest in military and politics. It wasn't long till I decided that I have to start doing something before I go crazy and that is why I decided to join the LSF.

If this application is approved, you will be put in our AIT (agent in training) course for two weeks, where we will determine if you're fit to be a agent in the LSF.

OORP part
((OOC Information))

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• Ingame names: Marcus.Black (my only char)
  
• Skype/Xfire username: N/A
  
• Join Date on the server: 27/01/2012
  
• Region: England
  

What should an LSF member do (Tasks, RP style, etc)?

I will quote something I learned from my previous RPs when it comes to police/government RP.
CPR - Courtesy, Professionalism, Respect.
Where Courtesy is the ability to use fluent and proper language and address people accordingly, either IC or OOC.
Where Professionalism being 'in the know' about your faction and taking actions that you would expect to be taken if this would be RL (or happening in a sci-fi movie) as well as behaving in a way that creates the impression that you are indeed, without any doubt, a government agent.
And finally Respect, which means not only to OOC'ly respect other players, but also IC'ly respect other members of the faction and members of other factions by providing them with top notch RP.

And to be frank, I am not really sure what an LSF member should do, and I don't think I should be finding it out OOC'ly. I think it would kill all the fun out of training sessions and halt the possibility of good AIT RP.

Have you read AND understood the server rules of discovery?

<Yes> / <strike><No></strike>

Then explain why the following rules are important:
3.1: Because after a milion years of evolution we should start acting like it and not swear and hate each other because of an imaginary space ship in a computer game?
3.3: Because using OOC in local chat would lead to people flooding the chat and treating the game like a chat room and disturb other players from their RP.
3.4: Because threatning others with sanctions is a sophisticated form of powergaming and pretending to be an admin is just malicious asshol'ry
5.2: This is an RP server, and what follows from that, not keeping this rule would result in it turning into an PVP server. Also random attacks on people are neither fun, nor productive (in terms or RP) and often the RP part of a fight can be much more gratifying than the fight itself.
5.6 to 5.8: Fleeing from combat by docking is non-rp as it is a form of powergaming because the computer (docking system) cannot make RP decisions based on what is going on and will always allow you to dock. I.e. if you would be fighting with LSF or LSN and then would request to dock on Manhattan then the system would allow you that, but RP'ly that is just nonsensical, thus docking in a fight is powergaming. As to the rest of the points they are there to prevent RK and promote the RP side of death as because of system limitations you will respawn (most probably near the battlefield) so to RP your death you have to leave the battlefield and also be allowed to leave it by other players (that is, those who killed you)

Have you ever been sanctioned or banned for violating a server rule in the last 6 months? please provide links to the threads if so.

<strike><Yes - provide links> </strike>/ <No>

On a scale from 1-10 how would you rate your in-game Role-playing skills?

9.5/10

Terms and conditions

The =LSF= reserves the right to expel a member from the faction if his or her conduct violates server rules, forum rules, faction rules or is being detrimental to the well being of the faction, its members and/or the community. The faction also requires applicants and faction members to respect the opinions of the various players of the community and the time they have invested in their characters, RP and other projects.

Do you comply with the above terms?: <Yes> / <strike><No></strike>

Everything else you need to know is on the liberty forums, which will be linked when accepted.