The.Apahanta | Special Operative ID

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1. Forum name of the owner:

@Sombra Hookier

2. What exactly are you requesting?

Special Operative ID with the following ID lines, Freelancer-IFF, Reputation Adjustment: like restart FcZonerBW (the Zoner restart in Omicron-74), Core remaining hostile, Junker/Junker Guard neutral, 100% power core with the actual ship and layout

While Fugitive-IFF would be more fitting, it's a terrible thing gameplay-wise to be seen not as neutral but as hostile since Fugitive is hostile to most-to-all players. I don't want to cause region_danger.wav whenever I am around.

This vessel is a quasi-lawful entity that can:

- Can fulfill any bounty and escort contracts, and may treat transports as combat targets when executing a bounty or escort contract against them
---> While I'm not a fan of bounty hunting, there is at least one bounty to do, regarding the recent role play. (1) Also, since it's a battleship, It's not suited for trading and I need at least one classic source of income. No piracy. The focus would be on escort missions inRP and bar missions.

- Can attack any ship in self-defense or to protect/or assist an allied ship or friendly vessel
---> This character has no intention in bloodlusty killing. Compare it likewise with the Enterprise, Star Trek. This Mako will end battles, not start them...

- Can attack any ships with a Nomad, K'Hara or Wild ID
... except to this. While people know I'm the last person to initiate a battle, roleplaywise my character did all this to be prepared to deal with the nomads as well as their human allies. This character even has a data base with evidences on known nomad supporters.

3. Exact name, identification and affiliation of the character:

Apahanta (Once I can dock at any station, it will be changed to The.Apahanta - right now, it's not possible.)
Core-ID (indie) Mako-class APM battleship
Core-IFF


The money (250.000.000 (+2.000.000)) is on that ship. If you could rename it from Apahanta to The.Apahanta without having to much trouble in doing so, that would be nice. If not, I would do that once the SRP is done, so that I can dock at Livadia and repair the Apahanta.

4. Why is this request necessary for the continuation of this character's roleplay?

This character worked two month long on preparing to leave the Core, with a ship he invested about 2,5 billion credits into. The Apahanta now has literally reached a point where it has no longer access to the Core's ressources. With the help of Auxesia, it was able to defect. Since the ship still has a Core ID, it's bound to the rephack and ZoI, reducing the stations I could dock with it to one: Kreutzfeld Depot in Omega 55 of the Junkers. Corsairs, Outcast, Zoners (+Guard), SCRA and most of the other inhabitants of the Omegas and Omicrons are hostile or unfriendly to Core, not allowing them to dock, especially not with a Battleship. The stations that actually would allow it to dock, like the Puerto Rican Junkers, are out of range (and ooRP hostile because Junker Guard)

5. What short-term and long-term goals are you planing to achieve on this character?

I guess I can quote that exactly from my hub thread:

Goals:
- Find a solution to the nomad problem, actively fighting back aggressive nomads and their aggressive supporters

Progress and Reasons

---> Raven told Ezrael about the possibility to "kill" a nomad, making it unable to be recreated by disconnecting it from the mindshare, using Azurite-based technology.

---> On several occasions, Ezrael learned about not all the nomads are hostile. However, he is still very suspicious about nomads and especially infected.
---> Ezrael once was in a mind meld with K'hara|Sovereign, a cruiser sized nomad that wanted to gain knowledge about human emotions. Ezrael thinks the information exchange was very one-sided and isn't very happy about it.
---> Seiryuu|Aoi, a mysterious kusari battlecruiser appeared several times in Delta to cause problems. Ezrael is interested in bringing it down.
---> The RNC-Nestor and it's allies need to be brought down. The Captain of the Nestor tried to fool Ezrael, asking him some questions about Nodtviet and Raven, only to be revealed later as an infected.
---> He's is interested in collecting information about the Ish'tar.
---> The reactivated Dyson Sphere in Omicron Major drew his attention. On multiple exploration missions with the Apahanta or even with the Sternenstunde, he collected lots of video material. Including footage of the nomad generator.

Reason: (Tragic backstory inbound) Loosing his parents to a nomad attack in Cortez some years ago, he got involved into this bloody war. He hates everything that is a nomad or allied with them, although, he knows not all the nomads are killer machines. He treats non-agressive nomads as individuals, like he does with AIs and humans. However, most nomads tend to be aggressive and he wants them to burn in hell. Especially those humans, infected or not, who seek to ally with the nomads, don't deserve to be treated as a human anymore.

- Find a cure for Maren von Westefeld, who suffers from the effects of Cardamine

Progress and Reasons

Reason: Although Maren and Ezrael knew each other for maybe one month, he began to have feelings for her and grow attached to her. When she told him about her cardamine-addiction, he was okay with it, but knowing that she's less resistant to nomad mindcontrol and probably will die sooner or later from the effects of cardamine (or from the effects of not having cardamine supplies), he is eager to find a solution, although he knows the chances are very slim.

- Find out what Nancy Sweetwater did in her past and find a way to cure her amnesia

Progress and Reasons

Reason: Nancy Sweetwater lost the memories of the last four or five years. Confused and very saddened about it, she doesn't know where she belongs. Since Maren and Ezrael offered her a home, food and friendship, Ezrael is interested in helping her restoring her memories, or at least in cheering her up and ensure her mental integrity.

- Discovery and research the untamed wilds of Sirius in the Omicrons, Omegas, Taus and Sigmas without being banned from house space and the border worlds, especially Cortez

Progress and Reasons

Reason: Fascinated from the beauty of the omicrons, especially enjoying the view from Freeport 11 of the main sun and her belt, Vertiga wants to know more about the Edge Worlds and all the other non-house regions of Sirius. However, as a Curacaoan, he wishes to visit his homeworld sometimes, surfing around at the beaches, drink Curacaoan Tea and have intercourse with Curacaoan beauties (as long as he isn't with Maren).

- Escape from the Core, preferably with the Apahanta

Progress and Reasons

---> Kishiro Technologies has provided about 400 robotic service units (Kishiro Service Robots, short KSR), which will need to be programmed to act as the new crew of the Apahanta, as long as there is not enough manpower provided by humans. DONE

---> Auxesia created a battle scenario in the Omicron Minor cloud, damaging the Apahanta very badly, forcing the crew to abandon the ship. Most of the Core-loyals left the ship. The rest was done by the interior defense turrets provided by Detroit Munitions and Ezrael himself, killing the remaining Core-loyals. Auxesia escorted the Apahanta to Livadia, where the ship was undergoing repairs.DONE

---> Visiting Liberty, Ezrael thought about the Apahanta's interior defense. He contacted Detroit Munitions for a package of 37 interior defense turrets to defend the Apahanta from boarding humans and bots. The turrets got installed and did their job when it was needed. DONE

---> Using the system override software the Lane Hackers gave him, Ezrael was able to disconnect the Apahanta from the Core network relay. Core won't know where the Apahanta is, what happened to it, and the ship won't use a Core transponder anymore. DONE

---> Livadia Shipyard will support the Apahanta, giving it a place for repairs and restocks (only once, as long as they don't have enough trust in Vertiga).

---> Mecidal equipment will be provided in Cambridge. Since there isn't a big crew that needs medical assistance yet, the mobile medical unit Ezrael has on the Hoffnungsschimmer is enough.

---> Ezrael met Bill Hickok in Texas [x], told his story and convinced him to help. While Bill can't give him a system override software directly, he promised to contact Mr. Yoshida from the Lane Hackers to ask them about it. Also, Bill invited Vertiga to come to Puerto Rico if he needs a place to hide from the Core.
Thanks to Bill and Maren, it was possible to meet a Lane Hacker in Kepler, who gave a system override software as well as a trasmission encryption matrix to Vertiga. The meeting was intense, and the price was higher than expected: the Lane Hacker expects Maren and Ezrael to eliminate an yet unknown target.

Reason: He joined the Core since it was the only nomad-hunting "lawful" faction in the Omicrons, aside from the quasi-lawful Zoners. The Core has the weaponry and the ships to deal with nomads, and Ezrael paid a lot of money for the restauration of a Mako-class Battleship. In fact, he gave everything he had. Now, that he is disappointed in the Core and it's evil intentions, he won't allow the Core to use him as a tool to kill other humans. Planning to steal an entire Battleship, which is technically his, he wants to leave the Core along with some other people who share his opinion. He more or less silently prepares for this, asking some non-Core allied individuals and factions to help him. In exchange, he will offer to help them with all he can tolerate and do.

- Solving conflicts without the use of weapons, but being able to resist strong enemy forces

Progress and Reasons

Reason: Vertiga will never allow his inferiors or himself to shoot first when it comes to encounters with other humans. Exceptions will be made with known, non-reasonable individuals, and with aggressive nomads and AIs.

- Punching Noah Xonnel's nose

Progress and Reasons

Reason: Knowing that Maren will probably loose her humanity as a result of her cardamine-addiction and the closeness to the nomads in the Omicrons, Noah Xonnel said she would do better if she just kills herself, and Maren really thought about it. Angry about it, Ezrael wants to punch his nose as an act of returning karma. Commiting suicide is just a waste of a life, and Ezrael can't imagine a life without Maren right now.
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- Delivering a message from the Lane Hackers to the VWA

Progress and Reasons

Reason: Ezrael doesn't like it, but his part of a bargain with the Lane Hackers is to deliver a message to the VWA. This includes the destruction of one VWA ship, but the pilot has to stay alive. Otherwise, Ezrael and Maren will loose the access to the transmission encryption matrix they got from the LH, to send un-interceptable messages all over sirius.
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- Recruiting a trustworthy crew

Progress and Reasons

Reason: While the Apahanta after the defection will be maintained by 400 Kishiro Service Robots and a few Core defectors, the robots aren't an adequate replacement for a skilled crew. Therefore, Ezrael will have to find some trustworthy personnel.
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- Making allies

Progress and Reasons

Reason: In this new situation, Ezrael will have to redeem himself and the Apahanta, showing they are trustworthy philantropic beings. Making friends and allies will be very important, since Ezrael has to somehow support a battleship. While he still can rely on his own money, it will be drained sooner or later. However, it's not like he's throwing the Apahanta into one battle after another, like most factions and certain battlegroups do.
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- Establishing an own, independent communications network

Progress and Reasons

Reason: Being bound to other people's networks for communication is bad. Ezrael wants to use some objects of recognition all over sirius to install message transmitters on them. But at first, these need to be made.
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As you can see, there's much to do and much potential for further roleplay.

6. Provide links to the relevant forum roleplay.

1) Defending the Delta: Background and reasons
2) Sirius wide announcement: Ezrael/Apahanta chooses not to join Core's attack on the freeport
3) Comm to Kishiro (and Samura) about purchasing Service Robots to have a replacement for a ship's crew
4) Comm to Livadia Shipyard about helping the Apahanta with repair and supplies after defection
5) Comm to Atka Research Station about Cryer/Wisp providing medical supplies in future - still in progress, tho
6) Comm to Detroit Munitions about the purchase of interior defense turrets
7) Comm to WildBill after Bill helped Ezrael to get a meeting with the Lane Hackers and getting the permission to use Puerto Rico's shipyard
- 7a) Said Comm between Bill and Yoshida from the Lane Hackers, including a video recording
- 7b) Maren von Westefeld also helped getting a meeting, including the encoded bounty mission on the VWA
8) Comm to Sapphire Raven from Auxesia, planning the mission to free the Apahanta
9) Comm to his own Corvo, to Maren, to tell her everything went out well

Additional to that, my hub thread contains even more links to additional forum threads that have some relation to this, showing how Ezrael feels about the Core and his tendency to not carry out their stupid orders. Also, lots of videos are linked there, likewise Auxesia assuring to help, the Lane Hacker meeting, the meeting with WildBill, or the final battle with Auxesia in Omicron Minor.

7. Provide a cliffnote/summary for the links provided above.

1) "Defending the Delta" tells the story from Ezrael's perspective, showing how he more and more regrets joining the Core, how he managed to get the command of a Mako and how he upgraded it. It's a diary.
2) In this uncareful reaction, Ezrael shared with Sirius the information of the events in Omicron Delta, the attack of Freeport 11 by the Core and Nodtviet's megalovania. He picked his side, although he wasn't able to just take the Apahanta and switch ID to Zoner.
3) Buying robotic personnel as a simple replacement for a new crew for the Apahanta for the time after the defection. This happened ingame as well.
4) Since he technically was a Zoner before he joined the Core as a Mercenary and Investor, he contacted the owners of Livadia to get the permission to bring the damaged Apahanta to this place after the defection to repair and resupply it. Finn McCool gives him a chance, allowing him to dock once. After that, he has to earn the trust of the CoF.
5) Ezrael wanted to make sure he can provide enough medical supplies for the time after the Core. Since Wisp and Cryer simply passed him on to Cambridge, this is going to continue.
6) Purchase of internal defense turrets. Ezrael bought those especially to not rely on mercenaries to get rid of Core-loyal crew that doesn't want to leave the ship. They got installed parallel to this story which is already done and will be posted by Foxglove day by day.
7) Ezrael initially asked WildBill to give him a system override software, since Junkers have possibly the technology to repair abandoned ships to not just scrap them. Finding Bill in Texas, he got told that Bill will use his connections to the Lane Hackers to get that. Also, Bill permitted Ezrael to use the shipyard in Puerto Rico, because friends of the Zoners are also the friends of the Junkers.
- 7a) Said Comm between Bill and Yoshida from the Lane Hackers, including a video recording that is higher quality than mine
- 7b) At first, it was only Maren who got asked by Ezrael to help him. She was the first outsider who noticed his anti-Core attitude and was willing to help. So she contacted the Lane Hackers herself.
8) I spend hours on the mission briefing animations. q.q - In this transmission to Raven, Ezrael explains the plan and his intentions. The execution of this plan is shown in this footage. The action happens at about 20 minutes
9) Since Maren lives with Ezrael, she lives on his Corvo, the Hoffnungsschimmer, and is able to get his messages there. This message simply tells the outcome, the success of the mission.

8. How long has this character been building its backstory?

Two months of active Discovery. If you think that's too short, please check my hub thread to see that I did more roleplay in these two months than some official factions did.

9. If you feel that you would like to provide us with character references, specify whom.

@Foxglove with Maren von Westefeld
@"SeaSerpent" with Miri Keating / @Sangria with Nancy Sweetwater
@"Auzari" with Sapphire Raven
@Vendetta with Joshua Hunt / @"Unknown Neural Net ID" with Curator Endurance
@Petitioner as Detroit Munitions
@Mephistoles as Kishiro Technologies
@"Caelumaresh" as his endless amount of one-way-characters (Jane Shepard, Zoner; Emily Taylor, Order; Emily Sawyer, CR; Forest.Nymph, Gaian; Valiant.Sentinel, AI)
@"Jazzi McDee" as SCRA|Pyl'nist' (Pimakhova) and T.Thorn
@WildBill as Bill Hickok
@Yoshida as himself. I don't know who's the person behind the Godfather, and that's intended.

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