Name: Mark Lathrop
Gender: Male
Age: 27
Height: 6'2''
Weight: 77kg
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Section II: About You
Why do you want to join the Primary Fleet?
A desire to aid the Order's cause and to feel as though I'm contributing more actively to our goals.
How long have you been in the Secondary (Independent) Fleet?
Roughly two weeks, maybe a few days more.
What do you think you can bring to us in the Primary Fleet
I'd hope I was able to be a general help towards progress for the Order. My combat skills are not excellent though I certainly dont consider myself a bad combatant so I suppose that as well.
Please rate your combat skills out of 10 (10 being the best) (Please note: Having a higher score does not affect your application)
Honestly I would not know. I'd rather rate myself down than up so I will say five or six out of ten.
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Section III: Pilot History
Please provide a brief history of yourself.
I had a Bretonian father and my mother was from Liberty. We were quite well off, living on Planet Los Angeles where I received a good education in the area of Business. After my education I decided to get some work experience and so used the funds I had accumulated over the years to purchase a 'Rhino' freighter. With this I hauled Basic Alloy from Houston to Denver. It went well the first few times but inevitably I was confronted with pirates, having no combat experience at the time I was forced to surrender most of my cargo and even to pay a sum for passage. I attempted the run a few more times, recuperating some of my lost funds before the same happened again. By the time my fourth encounter happened I had not the money to pay for passage and so attempted to escape to the nearest active trade lane. My ship was damaged and I had to eject all of the cargo to distract them. Making it through the New York jump gate and to the planet New York, my ship was beyond repair. With what little money I had left I decided to buy the most basic civilian vessel, the 'Starflier', and kit it out. I was too ashamed at having lost all the money I'd built up to go back to my parents so after a day of practising I felt confident enough to attempt freelance work for the Liberty Police. It felt almost like retribution on those pirates that had taken from me, even though I expected to rely on the support offered. Surprisingly I was not bad at combat though not amazing either, I took several more till I was paired with another freelancer for an assignment.
After this, myself and 'Cobrastrike' as they called themself, became good friends and began working together on mission frequently. Both of us managed to advance to 'Startrackers' then we each bought a 'Hawk' and finally after much work we purchased an 'Eagle' each and equipped ourselves. I'd gone above and beyond what I'd started out as a hauler with but felt no urge to go back to that or business in any way. A while passed and both myself and 'Cobrastrike' had explored and worked from Liberty, to Bretonia, to Kusari in our exploits. But one day I got a distress call from my friend, 'Cobrastrike' was being pursued and attacked by a member of the Liberty Police. Hoping to resolve the situation I made my way to the Magellan Jump hole where the fight was taking place. The officer claimed 'Cobrastrike' had been carrying some sort of alien remains; something I had heard was only present in the Omicron systems. I scanned both vessels, fidning no trace of any remains and at that point made a very rash decision. I engaged the officer, both myself and 'Cobrastrike' dog fighting with him near the jump gate till a cruiser arrived. We were out of our depth and so jumped into Magellan to escape. After the officer came through and we fought some more I told 'Cobrastrike' to flee. I stayed behind and tried to solve the situation that I'd just made worse. The navy cruiser insisted a fine be payed for my assault on the officer, the charge of carrying alien remains was dropped due to no evidence. I payed the fine for both myself and my friend and apologised. I was told to keep out of Liberty space and so moved about from Bretonia to Kusari for work.
While in Kusari we both stumbled across a jump hole neither of us had noticed before, very close to a trade lane in New Tokyo. Curiosity got the better of us and we entered, immediately set upon by Kusari Naval forces. Somehow we survived the assault and flew into the empty expanse of the system. Unable to return the way we came we searched until we came across another jump hole, then another in the system which that led us to until we entered Alaska. Throughout the journey I got the impression my companion knew the way too well. It was not chance that we came across further jump holes, flying almost directly to them from the last but I did not question this as soon we were attacked by vessels of an entirely alien structure. The 'Nomads' as I came to know them were a tough fight and proved a test of my now more developed skills. We dispatched them though, tractoring in the remains. It occurred to me that this is probably the reason I was here in the first place. 'Cobrastrike' had been before, gathered the alien's and gone to sell them to some research centre, the officer had been right. Despite the revelation I did not want to alienate the only person I could rely on. I was tired and in a completely unknown system so I followed my friend again and was taken to the Battleship Atum where we were warily granted permission to dock on the promise of rendering assistance to the cause. The next day we fulfilled that promise, carrying out minor assignments to keep the Navy from the Omicron Minor jump hole. After a few days of this we were told if we were interested in 'The Order' we should head to Omicron Minor and visit both Toledo and the Isis which we did. We were given ID's to the Secondary Fleet and permitted access to pilot 'Nephthys' fighters.
It has been about two weeks since the day we arrived in Omicron Minor and since then I feel I've helped contribute a lot to a worthy cause. Luck brought me here, but it won't carry me further and so here I am, applying for the Order Primary Fleet.
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Section IV: Other (OoRP Section)
NOTE: Skype is a requirement for communication purposes
Skype name: drakens294
Timezone: GMT
Please provide a summary of how active you think you will be in the Order|? Example: What hours do you come online? Do you check the forums regularly?
Well, I come on ever day when its up. I spend at least three hours in game and usually its up to about six hours on and off. I hesitate to give strict hours but I'm pretty available anytime from mid day onwards and tend to get on and off from then till when I sleep at anytime between 1AM - 3AM usually. Also I'm liekly to check the forums every day, probably twice at least.
Have you ever been sanctioned on the Discovery RP 24/7 Server? If so, please provide details.
No.
Do you agree to be excellent, follow and the rules of the server and forums, and to respect the admin and moderation team and your fellow players?
I would not be applying if this was not the case. Yes, I agree.
