Application: Milan How did you find the faction? What caught your interest?
Honestly, I never considered playing as a Nomad nor partaking in such a faction until @darkwind offered me to apply after a very pleasant encounter we had in game. Among the many features that caught my attention, I would mention the experimental RP language and the possibility to adopt unusual mindsets. I'm generally attracted to immersive and uncommon RP, although I am not sure I am the best at it.
Have you read the faction writeups? Do you know what a Nomad is and do you have experience roleplaying them?
I have read it through, yes. In a few words, Nomads are artificial biological entities created by an ancient and extinct alien race in order to keep an eye on Sirius for them, which inevitably led to frictions with human settlers. The term "Vagrants" refers to those who were expelled from Sirius at the end of the 800 War, and reshaped by the subsequent period of isolation. They are aware of their lack of brute force and try to fulfill their goals through more means than mere direct violence.
I have no experience roleplaying as a Nomad yet, and my main concern is my total lack of skill – but not of enjoyment – in terms of PvP.
How long have you been playing Freelancer? Do you have experience leading factions, etc.? Have you ever been sanctioned and if yes, why?
I have been playing Discovery for over a year now, including a six-month hiatus. I did create my own anarchist Maquis faction, which has not met a lot of interest while not being quite dead and currently under a process of reactivation. I have been in several HCs, too.
I have never been sanctioned that I know of.
As a Nomad, you are the antagonist. Are you aware that you are to play this role and that others will treat you as such? Do you have a problem with that?
This is by definition the role of a Nomad, I am aware of that, although I enjoy RPing with hostile characters. I'm not the trigger-happy kind.
Do you have roleplay experience outside of Discovery? Did you ever play on other Freelancer servers and if yes, which?
None on anything evoked.
We have a clear code of conduct. We expect decent behaviour from our members on the forums as well in the game. Do you believe you will be able to do that? Do you acknowledge that your membership can be terminated if you violate the faction code of conduct or the server rules?
I'll follow it to the letter. I don't remember ever getting angry or frustrated for Disco anyway.
While not strictly necessary, getting a grip on your roleplaying ability is crucial for our evaluation process. Please provide links to roleplay that you have done on the Discovery Forums as well as a list of character names you use ingame.
Here are the two characters I intend to main and develop in the future:
Others are on hold, like the aforementioned sister, Zita Karlsohn, a former Rheinland police officer with firm Catholic beliefs and more eager to speak with wrongdoers than to shoot at them. A secret Bundschuh sympathizer, too.
I guess Louis-Lazare Donnier de Lumbres, AR's founder and leader, is also worth mentioning, although he never appears under his actual name in forum RP.
Moreover, a minor interaction with an infected pilot as an RS transport.
Last but not least, the very dialogue with @darkwind as an Outcast indie transport that motivated this application as a whole (courtesy of themselves):
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[07.04.2020 14:32:16] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Thoughtful-) *Nyx already heard about big Outcasts also, and Nyx even met them before*
[07.04.2020 14:32:38] Spacemonger: Ah. I have not seen them
[07.04.2020 14:32:42] Fiume: Dario: Oh boy.
[07.04.2020 14:33:01] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Curiosity-) *Whom could be their partners for exchange for valuable things?*
[07.04.2020 14:33:18] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Interest-) *Nyx sends warming wave as greeting to new arrived one*
[07.04.2020 14:33:35] Spacemonger: Anyone they are on friendly terms with, I think
[07.04.2020 14:33:52] Fiume: Dario: My salutations, fellow creatures.
[07.04.2020 14:33:58] Spacemonger: Greetings
[07.04.2020 14:34:14] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Amused-) *Nyx looks with interested, and wonders whom would be the one who came*
[07.04.2020 14:34:23] Death: Marauder.One was put out of action by a hostile vessel.
[07.04.2020 14:34:37] Spacemonger: I think this one is an Outcast
[07.04.2020 14:34:58] Fiume: Dario: *discomfort smile* I am one of those who live in this place, actually.
[07.04.2020 14:35:15] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Interest-) *This is the one Nyx was looking for at last, Nyx has questions and wishes to find answers*
[07.04.2020 14:35:51] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Curious-) *The vagrant wonders about whom would be friends and foe for the new arrived metal bird?*
[07.04.2020 14:35:51] Fiume: Dario: I am not one of those in charge of my kind, dear Nyx, but I can try to help. I hope.
[07.04.2020 14:36:48] Fiume: Dario: As our unfortunate nickname suggest, Nyx, we have few friends.
[07.04.2020 14:37:31] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Curious-) *But someone could be for you definitely friend and the most worst foe?*
[07.04.2020 14:37:37] Fiume: Dario: Perhaps *snif*
[07.04.2020 14:38:11] Fiume: Dario: My call would be... Our Hispania arch brethren, the Cretans.
[07.04.2020 14:38:11] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Curiosity-) *Nyx wishs to know whom they would be for Outcasts, it will not bite*
[07.04.2020 14:39:01] Spacemonger: I wish to move my ship to a place more friendly to me. I will take my leave, if noone objects.
[07.04.2020 14:39:01] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Thoughtful-) *The Cretans are your foes. Who would be your friends then?*
[07.04.2020 14:39:06] Fiume: Dario: Those are the ones we can draw anything meaningful from.
[07.04.2020 14:39:27] Fiume: Dario: I'm no soldier, Spacemonger. *grins*
[07.04.2020 14:39:32] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Amused-) *Nyx looked at forgotten metal bird nearby. The vagrant is not holding it anymore*
[07.04.2020 14:39:53] Spacemonger: Allright. Farewell!
[07.04.2020 14:40:17] Fiume: Dario: Our dearest friends... I guess it is a matter of individual preference.
[07.04.2020 14:40:24] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Amused-) *Nyx already spoke with many metal birds through Sirius, your kind is known everywhere*
[07.04.2020 14:41:00] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Thoughtful-) *The vagrant remembers to be hearing as your friends... Liberty Rogues, Lane Hackers, Golden Chrysantems*
[07.04.2020 14:41:10] Fiume: Dario: *smiles* Are we? I guess they speak ill about us.
[07.04.2020 14:41:33] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Giggling-) *Dutiful metal birds known as Liberty Police were certainly speaking not very kind words*
[07.04.2020 14:41:45] Fiume: Dario: You are correct. I personally consider the Lane Hackers to be our most valuable allies.
[07.04.2020 14:42:27] Fiume: Dario: Most of our species don't understand us, Nyx.
[07.04.2020 14:43:00] Fiume: Dario: You showed a more pleasant behaviour to me than most of my human encounters during this run.
[07.04.2020 14:43:21] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Amused-) *Nyx encounters outcasts not first time and not even third time already*
[07.04.2020 14:43:29] Fiume: Dario: *snif* Actually, than all.
[07.04.2020 14:43:50] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Joy-) *Almost all of them were friendly to Nyx, there was only one who started to shoot...*
[07.04.2020 14:44:14] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Sadness-) *He decided that protecting bounty hunter warp ship attacking Nyx is better than to stand aside or help*
[07.04.2020 14:44:28] Fiume: Dario: I can relate to that, unfortunately. *smiles* Do you feel loneliness, Nyx?
[07.04.2020 14:44:42] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Joy-) *Nyx is never alone*
[07.04.2020 14:45:06] Fiume: Dario: I guess that is only our species' curse, then.
[07.04.2020 14:45:36] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Curiosity-) *The vagrant wonders though, how wide territories for your dealings?*
[07.04.2020 14:46:09] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Curiosity-) *How much wide interests in territory for one who are Outcasts?*
[07.04.2020 14:46:22] Fiume: Dario: Hmmm... I don't know if it means anything to you...
[07.04.2020 14:46:46] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Amused-) *Nyx is interested in anything*
[07.04.2020 14:47:11] Fiume: Dario: I am one of those in charge of producing and bringing back my kind's means of subsistance.
[07.04.2020 14:47:35] Fiume: Dario: Thus *snif* my activity can bring me anywhere in Sirius.
[07.04.2020 14:48:01] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Interest-) *Nyx appreaciates this knowledge shared*
[07.04.2020 14:48:17] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Curiosity-) *And wonders how much of outcasts would be around?*
[07.04.2020 14:48:26] Fiume: Dario: I guess our soldiers, warriors? How would you qualify them? They don't venture that far.
[07.04.2020 14:49:02] Fiume: Dario: It depends on who qualifies as Outcasts to you... Pure breed? Or else?
[07.04.2020 14:49:29] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Thoughtful-) *Nyx qualifes as Outcasts anyone who considers himself to be Outcast*
[07.04.2020 14:50:18] Fiume: Dario: Not everyone among us would agree with this statement. *snif* Well, let me ask my second in comand if he has an idea.
[07.04.2020 14:50:43] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Curiosity-) *The vagrant first time hears about pure breed and not pure breed outcasts, how much would be different their
[07.04.2020 14:50:45] Vagrant.Nyx: numbers?*
[07.04.2020 14:50:56] Fiume: Dario: *voice in back* Marcello? How many could we be on Malta?
[07.04.2020 14:51:12] Fiume: Marcello: Wh... What? Erm...
[07.04.2020 14:51:52] Fiume: Dario: We're consulting last census files, one moment.
[07.04.2020 14:52:25] Fiume: Dario: To answer this second question, *snif*, let's say we are not the best among our species to produce other beings.
[07.04.2020 14:52:53] Fiume: Dario: We might have sometimes to... invite others to follow our ways.
[07.04.2020 14:53:11] Fiume: Dario: Without them being fully... us.
[07.04.2020 14:53:52] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Thoughtful-) *Nyx remembers slightly something about it.*
[07.04.2020 14:54:08] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Curiosity-) *Nyx heard about your metal birds being from small one to dreadnoughts, is it true?*
[07.04.2020 14:54:41] Fiume: Dario: So *snif*, according to a quite outdated census conducted by the National Bureau of Statistics, we are 470,000,000 -
[07.04.2020 14:55:16] Fiume: Dario: - on Malta, and I would evaluate that only half of us are pure breed.
[07.04.2020 14:55:55] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Interest-) *Nyx perked up at this. That would be some very detailed knowledge*
[07.04.2020 14:56:14] Fiume: Dario: My bird is a civilian one, not made for combat. Quite big for your standards, I guess.
[07.04.2020 14:56:36] Fiume: Dario: Bird *grins* So cute, if you ask me.
[07.04.2020 14:57:11] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Giggling-) *We have no ships at all*
[07.04.2020 14:57:51] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Thoughtful-) *Looks to check mental list of questions... almost everything was aked, except for one question*
[07.04.2020 14:57:58] Fiume: Dario: *snif* I guess we all translate our thoughts to what we can undestand.
[07.04.2020 14:58:12] Fiume: Dario: Still listening, Nyx.
[07.04.2020 14:58:33] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Curiosity-) *What color of their underwear is? Nyx is not sure how this question appeared in the list*
[07.04.2020 14:58:53] Fiume: Dario: *bursts in laughter*
[07.04.2020 14:59:11] Fiume: Dario: Sorry, I had a rough run. *snif*
[07.04.2020 15:00:00] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Giggling-) *The vagrant understands it, some time rest is needed*
[07.04.2020 15:00:07] Fiume: Dario: I tend to use government issued orange ones, but we ran out of them a couple days ago.
[07.04.2020 15:00:25] Fiume: Dario: I believe this information can't hurt the Maltese interests.
[07.04.2020 15:01:17] Fiume: Dario: Anyway, you, Nyx, confirm what my tutor Gabriele always told me.
[07.04.2020 15:01:18] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Realization-) *That's why other lights call you orange ones, Nyx wondered beforewhy Outcasts were called Orange gifted*
[07.04.2020 15:01:55] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Anticipation-) *The vagrant waits for the question to be heard*
[07.04.2020 15:02:23] Fiume: Dario: "Sirians are worse than Nomads", in a nutshell.
[07.04.2020 15:02:49] Fiume: Dario: Are you familiar with puns in my native Italian?
[07.04.2020 15:03:26] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Thoughtful-) *Nyx is not familiar with puns, but it can answer the said phrase*
[07.04.2020 15:03:43] Fiume: Dario: *snif* I have no idea how your communication device works, but never had a problem to communicate with on of yours.
[07.04.2020 15:04:15] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Amused-) *Nyx commnucates exchanging thoughts*
[07.04.2020 15:04:52] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Thoughtful-) *The vagrant was in many parts of Sirius. Some friendly persons could be found anywhere*
[07.04.2020 15:05:16] Fiume: Dario: Oh... Clever. Could you teach a human such an ability, theoretically?
[07.04.2020 15:05:27] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Thoughtful-) *And some places have persons, everyone should avoid, like Liberty*
[07.04.2020 15:06:13] Fiume: Dario: Likewise, Nyx, *snif* you're friendlier than most of my species.
[07.04.2020 15:06:43] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Thoughtful-) *Theoretically Nyx could... if human has at least possibility of its mind able to speak with thoughts*
[07.04.2020 15:06:51] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Thoughtful-) *It should be able to learn*
[07.04.2020 15:07:20] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Thoughtful-) *You can hear Nyx, the vagrant things it's already a sign of possibility to speak*
[07.04.2020 15:07:41] Fiume: Dario: That is interesting *snif* You know us better than we know you and know ourselves, right?
[07.04.2020 15:07:43] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Amused-) *All this conversation was proceeded with thoughts. You was already speaking with mind*
[07.04.2020 15:07:55] Fiume: Dario: What?!
[07.04.2020 15:08:20] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Amused-) *Nyx has no device to communicate, except its mind*
[07.04.2020 15:08:26] Fiume: Dario: But I can feel my mouth moving... *snif* Oh, that's why Marcello is acting so weird.
[07.04.2020 15:09:41] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Thoughtful-) *Nyx could try to send energy wave to melt your barriers from feeling the world*
[07.04.2020 15:09:51] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Thoughtful-) *Nyx is not sure if it would be safe for metal bird*
[07.04.2020 15:10:12] Fiume: Dario: You mean...
[07.04.2020 15:10:44] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Amused-) *If your mind is ready to speak with others, Nyx could try to boost it, by giving energy to do it*
[07.04.2020 15:10:55] Fiume: Dario: *snif* I would appreciate if you did not, Nyx.
[07.04.2020 15:11:13] Fiume: Dario: You could end our lives, to all of us here.
[07.04.2020 15:11:33] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Amused-) *Nyx did not insist*
[07.04.2020 15:11:48] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Joy-) *All what was Nyx looking for,was already found*
[07.04.2020 15:12:11] Fiume: Dario: Come on, you knew that already *smiles in relief*
[07.04.2020 15:12:14] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Wishful-) *It's time for Nyx to find some warm place with solar rays, to think and proceed, before singing to others*
[07.04.2020 15:12:46] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Apreacciation-) *Nyx thanks the metal bird anyway*
[07.04.2020 15:12:54] Fiume: Dario: Nomad songs? I guess that has to be something to hear... Erm... Think. I don't knos.
[07.04.2020 15:13:20] Fiume: Dario: My pleasure, Nyx, the friendliest being in this journey.
[07.04.2020 15:13:51] Vagrant.Nyx: (-Amused-) *Nyx sends warming wave as farewell*
[07.04.2020 15:14:08] Fiume: Dario: Farewell, addio!
[07.04.2020 15:14:41] Fiume: Dario: Seen Marcello? No need to panic.
[07.04.2020 15:14:51] Fiume: Marcello: *snif*
[07.04.2020 15:14:54] Vagrant.Nyx: *Nyx dissapears in the rift of the void, to find new place to rest*