[center][u]Union of Nation-States Naval Fleet Application Form for Section 1-24-C Dreadnought Class UNSF Apollyon[/u][/center] [b]Surname:[/b] Dendallo (Den-DAY-oh) [b]Given Name/s:[/b] Tarkath (Tark) Edir (Ted also works) [b]Date of Birth:[/b] 96-08-11 [b]Address of Residence:[/b] 3606 Stonewick Dr. Vekta Prime Orbital Vekta Prime [b]Homeworld:[/b] Albion [b]Starcode:[/b] VPO-408T. (Is this Anderson, Guillermo or Lucra encoding? I put Anderson down to be safe, but I thin [color=ed1c24][i]Character limit exceeded. Please limit your response to 100 character or less.[/i][/color] [b]Ship Role Application:[/b] --Other: [i][color=6ecff6]please describe your desired position below.[/color][/i] Guidance/Navigation/Controls Chief or Specialist, name doesn't really matter too much. Look, I'm doing y'all a favor here: nowadays you hardly need a helmsman, so this position is better anyway, promi [color=ed1c24][i]Character limit exceeded. Please limit your response to 200 character or less.[/i][/color] [b]Copy of Personal Biometrics:[/b] VPO Official Pilot's License: [i]Dendallo, Tarkath Edir. Class A permit: qualified to fly {FIGHTER}-class to {CORVETTE}-class spacecraft.[/i] [b]Copy of Proof of Residence:[/b] Vekta Bankers and Associates, Statement Report Q3 127-010-04, Acc. No. 1272554666 [b]Physical Description:[/b] [url=https://i.imgur.com/HUcg3Ta.png]My last pilot's license photo.[/url] Not bad, hey? [i]Tark is 5'9". He is average height, and slightly below-average weight. He is no bodybuilder. The skin on the back of his left hand is badly scarred, but he will not discuss what the reason for this blemish is. A modular neural lace is included in his list of cybernetic enhancements, along with a IdentiTat[sup]TM[/sup] grafted in the spaces between his fingers on his right hand. He stands straight, but not stiff, with a slight curve in his stance the implies relaxation at all times. His fingers have a tendency to move on their own, whether to a present beat, or a tempo in his head while thinking.[/i] [b]Personality Quiz:[/b] [url=https://www.16personalities.com/entj-personality]ComLink 1[/url] [url=https://i.gyazo.com/053e1df10270ca75719627cc494c7bfd.png]ComLink 2[/url] [b]Describe in a 600 words or less what makes you qualified for the requested position:[/b] Let me tell y'all a story. Few years back, there were two Silvarion-class Frigates and a Superion-class Heavy Cruiser, freshly launched from one of Vekta Prime's drydocks. I'm not going to say which one, but it wasn't Tetherpoint's, at least. These spaceships were outfitted with the latest in weapons technology: HMECs, kinetics, the works. Press kit bragged they had the "Best shields in the system". The Superion was capable of a 6.2 Musk number. Know what it didn't have? An updated GNC system. They were running fifteen year-old KRV-HFC controllers on a state-of-the-art kit, and somehow they expected it to go well for them. With the amount of elements that Superion shield generator alone needed for realtime FEA, I'm surprised the whole thing didn't just crap out and burn up as soon as they turned it on. Anyway, I'm pretty sure everyone knows what happens next. On that first launch from the docks, after a perfect exit to planetary orbit, one of the Silvarions' had a little accident. They called it an unfortunate miscalculation in the thrust requirements, but let's be real. It was absolutely a controls problem. The thrust vector of that Silvarion are too optimized for those KRV models. It could only update every centisecond, so you got a rotational propogation that just got worse and worse, and every time they tried to correct it, the damn KRV-HFC just made it even. Worse. And even when they decided to turn off the autopilot, it didn't even help to fix the problem, because the fly-by-wire system itself was juuuust wrong enough to ruin everything. That Silvarion plowed into the Superion, and then the other Silvarion to boot. It was probably a good thing, though: imagine flaws like that out in the world at large. I realize that none of this really pertains to me. But it [i]does[/i] show a need for this specific position. I was a tad worried to see that the biggest project in our entire history didn't have a spot like this. Y'all won't just need one person: you'll need a team of people to run through every controls/hardware box on-board and make sure that they still function. It can't just be normal maintenance people, either. They wouldn't have found the problem that broke the VP-8J4 launch. They wouldn't know to look for signs of cosmic radiation degradation. But I would. I can find these problems in all parts of the Apollyon, and fix them before they derail everything. For a better approximation of my skills, I've attached to letters of recommendation below from some former employees. They'll be better at being impartial than me. [b]Previous Employment References:[/b] Jethro Thunder - Tetherpoint Industrial, Dynamics Division, Lead Orbital Dynamics Programmer [hider=Attached Letter of Recommendation] [i]To whom it may concern, Ted asked me to write this letter for him. Sad as I am to see him leave us, you can't find a better guy for the job than him. Told me he was going to make his own position for the ship, but I wholeheartedly agree. When he came to us, he took one look around before he told me I was working wrong to my face. After I put him in the time-out corner for a week, I decided to take his word for it. Wouldn't you know it, the timeless effectiveness of a Gantt chart DOES make a difference in workflow. I promoted him the month after. Ted has this thing he calls a Modular Nerual Lace. I don't know where he got it from (the company seems to have gone under since then), but he tells me there is a thriving CommNet community which maintains, modifies, and creates KnowLibes for MNL integration. I don't think you can get the thing installed anymore, but he seems able to learn anything in seconds, provided he can find a KnowLibe to install. Definitely a benefit in our line of work. He doesn't always say things in the most polite way, but by God, he gets results. Things nobody else even though to check are second nature for him. I recommend him highly. Regards, Jet P.S. Our AI workers seemed particularly friendly with Ted. Not sure if that's relevant, but it bears mentioning.[/i] [/hider] Oklor Viro Virra - Dustbreakers Incorporated, Macrocontrols Division, Jr. Manager [hider=Attached Letter of Recommendation] [i]To whom it may concern, Not sure why Tarkath asked me of all people to recommend him. I was his first boss, fifteen years ago. I mostly took him on as a favor to his mother and grandfather. If not for them, I would have fired him within a week. He was noisy, intrusive, and always had something smart to say. DBI is a farming company, not a systems hotbed. We had no need to replace our ten year old growbeds with a newer model. If he'd seen the profit margins, he would have understood. Bloodsucker ingrate. Still, I suppose that's what he expected me to write, eh? For a position like this one, he'd be a shoo-in. Adaptable, not afraid to put his foot down, and constantly analyzing. More than that, if there was one thing I liked most about him, it was his relaxed spirit and cheerful demeanor. Even when he was calling my best farmboss (and I'm quoting here) a "slightly uneducated barn animal who needed a gated pasture", it was a smiling, joking phrase. If Barkot hadn't laughed as much as he did, I think he might have left Tarkath with a broken neck, instead of a bruised stomach. The man also has a strange fascination with ancient artifacts. Ever since he joined that...MNL group online, he has started to fancy himself a bit of a treasure hunter, I think. I fully recommend Tark for this position. Hopefully the stress of added responsibility will temper his brilliance with wisdom. O.V.V.[/i] [/hider] [b]Biometric Signature:[/b] T.E.D. (Tarkath Edir Dendallo)