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Reporting Personnel: Ronald Monday Job Title of Reporting Personnel: Security Officer Game ID: crE-dzBl Personnel Involved: - Meng Jie, Offender - Clarity Beck, Offender - Chase Sutton, Witness Time of Incident: Real Time: 0030 - 0100 GMT Location of Incident: Horizon, Security Lobby Nature of Incident: [ ] - Workplace Hazard [ ] - Accident/Injury [ ] - Destruction of Property [ ] - Neglect of Duty [ ] - Harassment [x] - Assault [x] - Misconduct [x] - Other __Excessive Use of Force__ Overview of the Incident: The Xenobotanist on-duty showed up to our department's front desk asking if they could use our coat hanger. I obliged and brought it out for them to take over, when Officer Clarity Beck showed up to rip the rack out of their hands and bring it back in, suspicious of the request for an unknown reason. They radio'd our Head of Security and informed them about the Xenobotanist's request. The HoS did not respond nor acknowledge it, so I moved the coat hanger back outside to hand it to the Xenobotanist. Officer Beck moved out of the lobby again to remove the hanger away from the Xenobotanist's hands, and then started to bodyblock me from getting inside by standing between me and the airlock, and shoved me towards the hallway. I shoved back to get inside, and they put me in a chokehold and slammed me on the floor in response. Once they released me, I punched them in the face for their unwarranted handling of my person. Investigator Sohei tried to get between us, and Commander Meng Jie resorted to charge-dumping his energy pistol on me to "resolve" the conflict. They then put me in cuffs and moved me into Processing to detain me for Battery. The follow-up investigation on Clarity Beck's part of things by Investigation remained incomplete due to the shift's time constraints. Submitted Evidence: - Would you like to be personally interviewed?: [x] - Yes [ ] - No Did you report it to a Head of Staff or a superior? If so, who? If not, why?: Yes. Elizabeth Joyce, Captain Actions taken: Briefed about the situation, unresolved. Additional Notes: I'm not contesting my Battery charge.

ill only +1 if fuma ilica returns because it's a cool character even though lenny is a good rper and deserves the command whitelist sorry @ me when this happens good luck

Goes hand in hand with the toxicity present in my opinion to the point where people care more about what's happening outside of the game on the discord servers than in-game. I don't agree that the cliquing in roleplaying communities is a boogeyman issue as it very much shuts off the newcomer from a pleasant experience as I've witnessed quite a few times throughout the years both in Aurora and outside. It used to be as simple as departmental cliques simply flat out ignoring people outside of their department and the new guy who's immediately assumed as a "huboid" or "greytider" which in itself is another stupid prejudice a lot of people have and with time the circle closes further in, which is both good and bad but still annoying to deal with when this whole game is about characters interacting with each other. I think the strong perception of cliques is valid and should remain but it isn't really something with a solution, there isn't really much you can do about it except removing the platform/stage they use to further their shut-in, lashing out to the outsiders behaviours and put their focus back on what's happening within the round. Your friend circle shouldn't be affecting anyone's interactions in the game for better or worse, which a lot of people have difficulty dealing with. It also works in reverse as people get peeved about what happens in game and starts lashing at people OOC be it Discord or otherwise. Sure, there's nothing wrong with socializing with your fellow players in a normal circumstance but when the video game takes a backseat and the highlight is what people are yapping about in a chatroom you gotta ask what's the point of all that. First mistake, albeit with good intentions, is to assume roleplayers in an already niche platform like BYOND/Space Station 13 notoriously holding a lot of weird communities (saving this server's presence, mostly) is mature enough to ascend over the toxicity and petty squabbles. My main point remains, nuking the discord and most ooc channels should improve people's focus on what's going on in-game, as I've experienced in a few other platforms. Local OOC is all you need to help out with in-game stuff as it needs be.

nuke all the discord servers and disable the global ooc on top of that honestly let these cliques crawl back into their private discords each and they can bicker all about their least favorite people out of sight and mind for everyone's sanity nothing of value will be lost if you ask me, just hop into the game, kill your antag or sit in the bar and chat with your friends in-game and get out as god intended, skipping all the dumb drama

Thanks for all the answers. I would like to conclude my questionnaire by stealing Caelphon's question before they arrive. What is your perspective of the Libération, Révolution et Évolution Arc so far?

Do you plan on keeping the Sol Alliance acting rather than put them in the backburner for other factions/races that were overlooked during the Human and most overwhelmingly Tajaran arc and event trains, so it can be freed the current direction or past sins (major) in order to give the Alliance the (in my opinion) needed leeway to act more "neutrally" or shed it's previous skin and take a different direction once you're tagged back in? (I liked the action taken for Sol to destroy the SFA in the more recent articles, rather than have them be annihilated by Elyra, or the Coalition, or a united production of a WMD in example.) Do you think it's a good idea to expand on the lore (cultural mostly) of the Core and Jewel Worlds of the Sol Alliance, now that they've shrunk? I think Konyang (when they were still Sol) and New Hai Phong are great Solarian worlds, Europa has a distinct identity and Venus has two clashing cultures within itself that can be identified by their appearance and ideals, just like Silversun with the Originals and the Idris drop-ins. I like the cultural points in the wiki articles and I would like to see more of it. I think one way to combat John Sol is to give the common Solarian man more to tackle than crayons and gargoyle voidsuits, even though you said you'd rather work on something entirely new. Arguably, all these vastly different and identitarian cultures could've been integrated to original planets to expand on a smaller but more meaty Solarian circle but that's a hot take from me that I'm not looking to argue. Connected to all of this, do you intend to tackle anything specific on the Human lore front besides expanding on phoron lore once you're back in action?

I will rephrase my second question to "would you consider giving factions other than Sol a direction to a grey-er area in upcoming changes and development?" then, as I didn't necessarily mean that we should pause and stack up bullet points for every nation in the active lore for good and evil points. As it stands, most people read Biesel, the Coalition of Colonies and most of the Xeno groups as underdogs and Solarian Humans as the dominating evil guy here to take everyone's sweet rolls and phoron. Don't you think it would he beneficial to the conflict of actors and players in-game to expand the variety of involvement from different factions in a way that isn't solely good or solely bad? Or having one of these outweighing in a particular faction disruptive? Thanks for the answers though, satisfied my curiosity more or less. (Also +1 while I have my reservations about the impact of KOTW on the faction standings, kyres[one] has a big [good] impact on the world building and interactivity of the lore with in-game elements so they are simply based I believe)

As someone living in a Muslim country I found the gimmick pretty funny and not at all felt uncomfortable about the stereotypes played up for comedy. Not all Muslims have a problem with alcohol just like how not all Christians go to Church. It doesn't change the fact that the religion expects them to uphold these bans, and in Arabic communities its actually quite frowned upon to consume alcohol. Rakı is a turkish alcoholic drink, and I would consider Turkey a mildly Muslim country compared to an Arabic country, like the UAE where you wouldn't be able to consume your 50oz as freely. And Elyra is clearly inspired more by the latter, as well as the character performing the gimmick. So I didn't see any issues with this whatsoever. Consuming pig meat is forbidden, but that doesn't change the fact that culling hog and wild boar populations is a reality in Muslim communities. The term mamluk, while the term comes from slavery roots, is not an insult or a derogatory term just like how Janissary isn't. In fact both of these classes were held in high regards of their respective societies. All in all, I think singling this guy out over this lighthearted gimmick is an extreme reaction, I think if anything it should be construed as poking fun of Elyran writing. If you were to take action against this guy, who didn't overtly do anything related to religion save for a direct involvement into the culinary stocks of a ship he is currently ruling as the CEO, you might as well take action against all the common chatter most of them coming from me poking fun of the religious aspects of Elyra described here as lighthearted.

As a Sol main tired of seeing the same John Sol gimmick of nuking Konyang with antag announcements and boarding the Horizon to kill and capture anyone they see, I have a question or two since you coordinated/hosted KOTW and talk about how the game shouldn't be on the backburner. I believe that the current lore is equally to blame/is responsible for the frequency of these antagonist plays as the limited creativity of the players running the gimmick. Do you plan on making any changes to where Sol Alliance currently stands in the lore post-KOTW arc so it can get out of the cartoon villain / monster of the year role it's currently hogging? What do you think about highlighting the bad laundry of the other major factions in the lore to blur the lines between good and bad guys so we can get rid of this mentality of Power Rangers Union of All the Major Factions in the Galaxy united against Sol Alliance rushing in to save the day (again), so we can embrace the dystopic nature of the expanded universe rather than focusing on a singular BBEG entity?

Yamaha bikes are pretty decent overall and their spare parts are abundant, I'm eyeballing an XV 535 bobber myself as I'm not a fan of crouch rockets. Perhaps one day I might get a Harley Davidson Softail bobber or an Indian Scout bobber like Zelmana (not in this economy) Here's a pic as eyecandy

Zhi is a great character to interact with, and a natural in their position. Didn't even know it was a trial until I saw this thread. +1

Reporting Personnel: Ronald Monday Job Title of Reporting Personnel: Security Officer Game ID: coX-aMPs Personnel Involved: - Fyodor Koesvyin (Offender) - Arete Pavlites (Witness) - Karl Voight (Witness) - Elliot Keles (Witness) - Elwood Johnson (Witness) Secondary Witnesses: - Eva Meier (Witnessed the Hivebot Invasion response through ship cameras.) - Ana Roh'hi'tin (Witnessed the Hivebot Invasion response through ship cameras.) Time of Incident: Approximately 04.30 AM (Ship Time) Real Time: Approximately 08.00 AM GMT+3 Location of Incident: Engineering - Atmospherics / Air Mixing Nature of Incident: [x] - Workplace Hazard [x] - Accident/Injury [ ] - Destruction of Property [x] - Neglect of Duty [ ] - Harassment [ ] - Assault [x] - Misconduct [ ] - Other _____ (Place an x in the box that applies. If other, replace line and specify.) Overview of the Incident: During the early morning shift today, we have received an alert regarding a hivebot invasion in Engineering's Air Mixing room which is a part of Atmospherics on Deck 1. After confirming the hivebot presence is real and elevating the alert code to blue, we quickly moved to the Armory to respond to the threat as fast as possible, given the critical location of the invasion. Upon entering the Armory and equipping myself with a machine pistol, a .45 calibre handgun and a laser rifle, I was informed by Elwood Johnson, our Warden, that the Head of Security ordered us to only take laser weaponry from the Armory to respond to the Hivebot threat. I was requested by Johnson to put the ballistic weaponry back, but I've ignored his request and took the firearms with me anyway, as I believed that firing heated energy beams from a laser rifle is more dangerous than ballistic ammunition, as the tanks kept in there are impact resistant. In addition, in my experience with responding to Hivebot threats on the Horizon and SCC Aurora previously showed me that you can never have enough ammunition while handling the Hivebot threat, as the situation get out of hand very fast with the rapid appearance of Hivebot reinforcements and underwhelming firepower. I say this as someone who's been left for dead in a plasma fire caused by Hivebots in my previous workplace by my co-workers, and I could not and will not stand that happening to anybody else. As the situation called for timely response, I swiftly departed from the Armory with my "uncalled for" firearms to respond to the Hivebots in Atmospherics. Upon arrival, I've found the rest of the officers already engaging the threat, while the First Responders were trying to evacuate the injured from the scene. After allowing the First Responder to move Atmospheric Technician Donny Willey who was injured during the fight out of the room, I walked in and immediately saw the responding officers injured and incapacitated; therefore I took the initiative and stepped forward to provide covering fire on the hivebots circling the officers and the beacon itself while they were being escorted outside. After successfully taking the officers in danger out of the scene, I proceeded to take out the remaining hivebots and the beacon itself and attended to my own injuries, which wouldn't have been successful if I hadn't "smuggled" my ballistic weaponry out of the Armory in the first place and would cause excessive injuries and damage to the personnel and ship equipment, which could have been potentially catastrophic given the proximity of the beacon to the air reservoir. After resolving the situation, I was confronted by Fyodor Koesvyin in the Brig about my choice of weaponry, and I was questioned regarding my decision to take a .45 handgun out of the Armory to respond to the threat. He then proceeded to order me to apologize to him directly about my behaviour, completely ignoring the fact that a security officer was killed during the Hivebot infestation, despite First Responders' best efforts, which could have been potentially averted had Koesvyin not committed misconduct by failing to equip us adequately to respond to the threat. This made me lose my temper for a moment and verbally assault the Head of Staff at the gross indifference to the situation that was caused by his misconduct, which resulted in my suspension and charge of i111 and i109. I do not regret my decision regarding this matter. Submitted Evidence: Transcript from an Interview conducted by Arete Pavlites, involving Elwood Johnson. Would you like to be personally interviewed?: [x] - Yes [ ] - No Did you report it to a Head of Staff or a superior? If so, who? If not, why?: Yes. - Karl Voight (Executive Officer) - Arete Pavlites (Corporate Representative) Actions taken: I was suspended and charged with Failure to Execute an Order (i111) and Slandering a Head of Staff (i109), encouraged to pursue this with Internal Affairs. Additional Notes: I want the Failure to Execute an Order (i111) charge removed from my records, and humbly request the necessary actions to be taken against the Head of Security Fyodor Koesvyin by CCIA to prevent further damage to the crew and corporate properties of the Horizon flying under SCC.

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