General Player Policy and Standards

Nova Sector Policy

	Server Rules
	Nova Roleplay Expectations
	Antagonist Policy
	Silicon Policy
	Ghost Role Policy
	Corporate Regulations
	Nova Sector lore
	Staff Operations Policy

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Character Creation Expectations
Your character must be functional. Your character must be functional and capable of doing their job. Your character should be able to function on their own, regardless of help or not. This however, doesn't meant they have to be a perfect, law abiding citizen, they can be criminals, liars, thieves, murderers, even deviants, however, they shouldn't be incapable of functioning in the station's environment. A character cannot be excessively primitive if they are part of a civilized faction such as the station crew.
Your character must fit the setting in a grounded way Your custom species must be adapted if they are of supernatural or cartoonish origin that is ill-fitting to the server, without adapting it to be more believable. i.e. Demons, Angels, My Little Pony, etc. For example: if you want an imp, incubus, succubus, and so forth character, you may if you avoid excessive mentions of magic, or abrahamic origins, stick to what's grounded and believable. Note: Possessing cartoony art of your characters is completely fine.
Give your character a proper name Give your character an acceptable name. Do not name them after real-world people (historical, political or just general popular figures) or pre-existing fictional characters (Don't just name your lawyer Phoenix Wright, be creative!). You should not give your characters titles in their names, unless a mime or clown.
No mary sue characters Your character should not be good at nearly everything, and especially not literally everything. They shouldn't be of notable importance to the lore. This means, while you can be good at engineering, and know how to patch yourself up, you shouldn't go from building your own functioning SM, to doing heart surgery. Their background, equally, should detail where the knowledge they do have, when capable, especially in regards to background records.
No feral-like custom species Your custom species and character cannot be a talking four-legged animal with no arms. They also cannot be anything too animalistic to the point they are difficult to distinguish from an actual animal. Taurs are allowed, and borgs are not a custom species.
Flavor is encouraged within reason You are allowed to be flexible with your character, even if they have abilities or features that cannot be fully depicted within the game. However, it cannot be anything that may influence mechanics, even if it is only for emotes. For instance, you can say your character has minor psionic abilities, given you act within reason about them.
No purely fetish characters Your character or custom species cannot revolve solely around a fetish and should instead be a believable, fleshed-out individual. For reference; if you have a vore fetish, the character can have physical alterations to accomodate this, but they should be able to exist without the fetish being the main focus., Another example are latex characters. As long as the character is sensible with a reasonable backstory on why they are the way they are. This does not prohibit characters that are designed to allow for whatever fetish you may have, rather your character must be well-balanced in their personality and appearance. Remember: While this server allows for ERP, it is not its central focus. For any NSFW detail in the flavortext/oocnotes/speciesnotes/records, please write them under an "incoming NSFW" warning.
Adults only Your custom species or character must follow the adults-only rule. Attempts to skirt past this rule will be dealt with harshly. To keep it simple, they must look like adults, and they should not act like a child either. Short species like dwarves, goblins, kobolds, and so forth are allowed, however, they must be physically mature. Age play is explicitly forbidden and will be met with a community blacklist.

General Crew Policy

While Nanotrasen put their name on the station, it doesn't mean that everyone is loyal, or even employed by them!

• The 'Frontier' is [ WAITING FOR LORE ]
• This means, in short, don't expect all of the crew to be 'NT', especially not for departments such as security, and cargo, who are usually if not always entirely outsourced workers!
• The station is more than just a place for mining and research.
• It's a transit hub where travelers, contractors, and so forth stay in between trips. While you could be an NT employed workman, you might just be a vagrant, or an independent contractor, trying to get by on a station with a dwindling amount of government oversight!
• Below is a list of guidelines and rules to detail what is expected out of your IC and OOC behavior as a non-antagonist crewman.

Don’t needlessly involve yourself.

It's all too common where people involve themselves too much in situations, they should either observe or step back from in ways where they can become a detriment to roleplay. Examples include:

• Watching an arrest occur is usually fine. Randomly running into one, just to start shoving the officers over while they're cuffing, isn't.
• Seeing an argument between two command staff and butting in when you have no context, and then physically intruding on it.
• Seeing someone use a Stealth Implant and without prior context, opting to viciously hunt them down while not security.

Try to use common sense and judgement to figure out when you should get involved. If you have reason to suddenly jump in, like someone getting beat to death, then it's fair game!

Do not go beyond your scope

In short, this means stick to what your character would, and should know, and don't involve yourself for the sake of it, for examples:

• Don't rush into the SM room mid-surge as a janitor, to start 'saving it.'
• Don't start doing surgery in the medical lobby, in spite of the doctors just for the sake of 'well, I can do it.'

tl;dr: keep your actions, and choices to what's within scope of your character!

You are not perfect

• To help favor a roleplay friendly environment, we expect people to limit their mechanics knowledge to some degree when possible.
• A cargo technician shouldn't know how to do an ultra-secure and safe plasma SM setup, but if there's no one else available, the pipes are straight forward enough to get it rolling on a basic set up.
• Use your best judgement and try to let others do their job before you jump into things.

Not everyone is Nanotrasen

The station isn't entirely NT owned and will be very-prone to contracted, or elsewise outsourced workers,

Important: As a non-antagonist, your on station character can not be a double agent without an approved app!

Be realistic with your allegiances remember to lean towards 'small fish' instead of main character!

NOTE: This does not give you a license to grief or self antag.

Nova Sector policies

Server Rules • Nova Roleplay Expectations • Antagonist Policy • Silicon policy • Ghost Role policy • Corporate Regulations

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