In the server rules under escalation it states
People using or brandishing Syndicate items can typically be presumed to have lethal intent. Someone with lethal intent can typically be immediately escalated against at a lethal level, a notable exception is if you have the tools to safely detain them.
I would like clarification of this because syndicate items are too broad.
I don’t think someone should be presumed lethal for syndie pajamas.
They are obviously presumed lethal with a china lake.
But there is some grey area in between. If you see someone holding an unused syndicate implanter it wouldn’t be totally unreasonable to assume they are lethal. It could be a holocaust’s or it could be a radio implant.
What about an emag, or cryptographic sequencer or a cyborg weapon module? These fall more into a gray area as they could be up to immediately threateningly stuff or they could just be turning it in to sec.