The.Apahanta | Special Operative ID

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Change Request: The.Apahanta

1. Exact name of the character:

The.Apahanta

2. Link to the request to be amended:

http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread...pid1783532

3. What exactly do you want changed? Nomads (+ K'hara) and Wild fixed to + 0.9 Reputation

4. Why are these changes necessary? Captain of the Apahanta is my main character Ezrael Vertiga. His fiance Maren von Westefeld is infected and he is well aware of it. He accepted it, however asked her and her incubus to not infect him as well, and they agreed on it. They however convinced him of the Nomads not being as evil as the humans color them. With the defection of the Apahanta, they began to influence him to not only stop fighting the Nomads, but also offered him to take his ships to Altair Complex in Omicron Iota if it was necessary. So to speak as a joker. In order to dock with Altair, I need both Wild and Nomads to be green with me (or at least grey). I prefer green as it should also indicate them that the Apahanta is on their side and not around to harm them. That way people should know don't need to /1, /2 the Apahanta in Iota. InRP, the Nomads know about it and are fine with it, ooRP it should be indicated to players somehow, as especially indies could be confused about it.

5. Provide possible links to the relevant forum roleplay. Maren being infected - Defending the Delta 14 and following; - Maren's Personal Datapad 12 and following; About her wanting the Apahanta to be allowed to moor with Altair - Transmission from Maren to Loyola regarding mooring access for the Apahanta and other ships, also mentioned here. Basically, both my main story thread "Defending the Delta" and Foxglove's "Maren's Personal Datapad" describe the dance of them being between the humans and the nomads with the focus on character development. It describes the duality of Maren and Ezrael, as they are absolutely in love with each other while they do question each other's motives over and over again. Ezrael is confronted with his fiance being infected and her constant attempts of dragging him subtly closer to the nomad side, while he suspects exactly that to happen and tries to find balancing measures to ensure his neutrality to both human factions and the nomads. Most notable in those stories is the character development of the incubus Sans Valeur, who adapts more and more human traits and personifies the duality of their traits. Additional to mention, Ezrael already did things for the nomad side, as he was the guy who managed to get Enma Loyola her SRP'd Whale. That is why she "owes" him one.

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3. What exactly do you want changed? Infinite Cloak - Cloak using weapon energy (like the Lightseeker-SRP did) instead of batteries, allowing the ship to be cloak for indefinite time without the consumption of ressources.

4. Why are these changes necessary? The range of the Apahanta is horribly limited by territorial claims and laws. Back then when Ezrael defected from the Core and took the Apahanta with him, he hoped for Bretonia offering them shelter, however Auxesia spread rumors (without evidences) that he might be infected or at least indoctrinated. His first request for shelter was denied without any compromise, his second request to at least get the permission to enter Omega-3 with the Apahanta is without any response yet (for two months now). Since neither inRP nor ooRP the ship is ment to oppose the houses and their laws, that limits the Apahanta's range to the area between Omicron Delta and Omega-49, although that already contains the possible dangers of violating Hessian, Corsair and Gammuian laws. InRP, that is a thing. So the Captain requested IRG to upgrade the Apahanta's cloaking device. That has two advantages inRP and a third one ooRP: 1. It increases the Apahanta's range by not having to rely on the gratitude of the houses. Like, when a house needs more than two months to reply to a request for shelter while in the meantime answering any other comms of other people, that's simply crappy. The first time was already a waste of time, as Ezrael had to wait an entire month just to get the request declined. 2. Since the Apahanta is on its own, there aren't faction escorts to protect it. No fighters, no bombers. The cloak is the only counter-measure the Apahanta has to defend itself, apart from battleship weaponry that doesn't impress any snub-pilot. That can be devastating on a light battleship, simply because everything in Discovery is technically working against light battleships, with the only exception being heavy battleships in the distance. CDs can easily stop the mighty engines of a battleship and even being a light battleship, the Mako lacks the boosters to avoid anything that was fired from close/medium distance. The cloak upgrade would at least be one balancing measure in this case. Nevertheless, the cloak shouldn't be used for cheap buttcloaking, thus I find the solution to have it eat the weapon energy a good compromise. 3. It would be the only counter-measure to prevent people from abusing the playerlist to hunt down pre-set targets. You know that is a thing, sadly. I rather be cloaked and at least can decide myself when and to what kind of people I show myself ingame than not even logging - because when you log in and can't do what you want because some people can't do anything without the playerlist, it doesn't encourage you to log a second time, nor does it encourage you to have encounters with those people ever again. About the specifications: InRP, IRG described that the cloak would not only eat the weapon energy but also decrease the cruise speed of the ship from 350 to 300. I don't know whether that is possible to do via admin commands without creating a new ship entry for that. The goal however, be it still for this SRP amendment or for the next one, to get rid of the cruise speed reduction. So inRP, that will be a thing one way or the other, while ooRP that doesn't need to become a obstacle. TL;DR: Upgraded Cloaking Device MKII Adv.: Traits of a Cloaking Device MKII Adv. but doesn't consume batteries but weapon energy instead, so it lasts infinitely. For reference, the Lightseeker-SRP had that kind of cloaking device as well. In its current state, the RP for that isn't finished yet. We started that more than six months ago, then Arioch sadly went inactive, and from that point I was glad that I somewhen finally got someone to continue it. Sadly, still very slowly, but at least some sort of progression.

5. Provide possible links to the relevant forum roleplay. Ezrael Vertiga requesting IRG to upgrade the Apahanta's Cloak Seth Wither of IRG contacting Ezrael directly about the cloak To Disappear For Good - Final Network Channel to report about the progression of the cloak installation

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3. What exactly do you want changed? Alteration of ID lines

4. Why are these changes necessary? The old ID lines of the SpecOps ID of my SRP are horribly, horribly outdated. Back then, the SpecOps ID for the Apahanta read as the following: 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 - Can attack any ship in self-defense or to protect/or assist an allied ship or friendly vessel - Can attack any ships with a Nomad, K'Hara or Wild ID I would like to request the new ID rules to be the following: 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 - Can attack any ship in self-defense or to protect/or assist an allied ship or friendly vessel (Optional)- Cannot dock with Dur-Shurrikun and the Ravine and similar nomad lairs (Optional)- Can engage Gallic Military ships in Bretonia (including Leeds) and the independen worlds between Bretonia and Liberty "- Can fulfill any bounty and escort contracts, and may treat transports as combat targets when executing a bounty or escort contract against them" -> I would like to keep this ID line just in case of the Apahanta actually having enemies. Right now, that would only be the Lane Hackers and Gallia, with Auxesia and the Core being only suspicious and not entirely hostile. I think this is a good way of regulating it "on spot" if there should be any enemies that I would decide to fight with the Apahanta. However, right now that would only the Lane Hackers, who don't really have any assets or the numbers (or the reason to try) to take down a battleship, and Gallia only in case of them attacking Bretonia and Cortez. The former would only be necessary if Bretonia somewhen would answer my comms about cooperation and the latter if Gallia poses a threat to Curacao (as my character would defend his homeworld in that case). "- Can attack any ship in self-defense or to protect/or assist an allied ship or friendly vessel" While I myself don't want to use the Apahanta for fighting, neither inRP nor ooRP (apart from conn sometimes), I would like to still be able to defend inRP allies and friends, including Ezrael's fiance Maren von Westefeld or other important characters like Nancy Sweetwater, Thallia Thorn and who else not. I think there is no good line for that, as this is pretty individual. Common sense should allow Ezrael to defend his allies and friends, but I can see people filing reports for a Spec-Ops ID assisting Wilde (in case of Maren being active as Wilde.Unschuld), Freelancers (Maren in civil, Thallia, Nancy, maybe even Nesrin Khan), Zoners and what not. If necessary, I'd count that as "- Can be hired on spot" like bounty hunters. I leave that up to the admin team to decide what might be more reasonable. I myself regulate that ingame anyway. "(Optional)- Cannot dock with Dur-Shurrikun and the Ravine and similar nomad lairs" I mean, it's sort of obvious that the SpecOps ID shouldn't be abused to dock where it doesn't make sense. Like, I do regulate that anyway, as I mostly only dock with corporation bases, Junkers, Zoners or Freelancer bases, rarely with unlawful bases and never when it doesn't make any sense. I added that as proposal to indicate that the reputation amendment shouldn't allow me to dock with Dur-Shurrikun as that would be weird. It should only allow me to moor with Altair and depending on future RPs, maybe with other Wild bases (for example, if Wilde.Unschuld leads the Apahanta to one for that purpose) "(Optional)- Can engage Gallic Military ships in Bretonia (including Leeds) and the independen worlds between Bretonia and Liberty" As mentioned above, maybe it is a good idea to add that separately from the Bounty lines.

5. Provide possible links to the relevant forum roleplay. Character Hub 2 - Ezrael's profile and crew profiles (relevant for assisting/defending line) Defending the Delta - Ezrael's story thread. I don't have anything else that compresses his motives, ideals and alignments than that. Don't cringe too much about my cyber. (Relevant for all lines) Maren's transmission to Enma Loyola about Altair (Relevant for the nomad/wild repfix and docking with Altair)

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