Username: huaqas
Banned Roles: HOS, Warden, Detective, Officer, Cadet (all of security)
Ban reason: Unreasonable failure to follow space law; As detective, kept and used Energy Sword against threats
Length of ban: 3 month strike, 3 day role ban
Ban Issue:
What I was banned for is not against the rules
Events leading to the ban
The chain of events began when the alert level was set to red. The only other context prior to that that is needed is that a rat king exists on the station and I they were neutral to the station.
Me (detective) responded along with HOS, Captain and one other Security officer to a incident at the bridge, where a suspect with AA had killed a department head and was trapped inside the captain’s locker room by the AI. A scuffle occurred, and i found myself in possession of a eswordm, with the suspect in a critical state.
HOS asked who had the sword to where I declared I had possession of it. I was never asked to surrender to the HOS or captain. My intentions with holding onto the sword, was to use it to during interrogation of the suspect. While I know OOC he probably just bought it with TC. I wanted to create a RP scenario where I interrogated him about the sword and where/how he got it, and would pull it out and ignite it in front of him during the interrogation. I kept it to essentially flavor the RP. After the interrogation would have concluded, I would have stored the item in the armory or evidence locker.
My first priority was saving the dead department head. I’m a detective, I don’t have cuffs, the arrest isn’t my responsibilit, the investigation is. I transported the head to medbay and waited for the suspect to also arrive. They never did because the captain and/or HOS chose to treat them at security instead despite the station lacking a medbrig. I head back to security where I found suspect and began to question them.
Immediately after I started questioning them, multiple people called out on the radio that the Rat King was hostile and was attacking people. Since I hadn’t seen the Rat King for 20+ minutes, I didn’t know how big his army was. Given this was low pop with only 3 members of security on duty, I feared the rat king could wipe the station with a big army. The esword would cut down a rat army with ease. I hear “sec to sci” on radio, and assume the Rat King was attacking people in science. I went to sciences and there was no rat king. I ask on the radio where they were before checking on botany, a common hotspot for rat kings. I couldn’t find him, so I decided I would return to security to continue questioning the suspect and get rid of the sword. Then I noticed evac was about to arrive so I chose to instead go to evac, and interrogate them at CentComm.
I boarded evac and about 30 seconds later, Rat King arrived as well. He only had 2 minions so I determined he wasn’t a major threat. I used the sword to threaten the Rat King. The Rat King said he would only harm bad people. I tell him not to harm anyone and they agree. I returned to evac security believing the rat king emergency was over.
Shortly after HOS and the other officer arrived with the cuffed suspect from earlier. The Rat King then immediately sicced his minions on the suspect when they were detained in evac security. To protect his life, I used to sword to slay the two minions, cornering the Rat King inside evac’s medbay. I’m about to ask the HOS for permission to execute the Rat King. Before I could do that, HOS began yelling “STOP THE PARAMEDIC” multiple times. The HOS wasn’t really doing anything and was just yelling/standing around evac medbay, so I stepped outside to see what was happening. I then witness the station’s paramedic kill/crit a department head and was actively dragging them off the evac shuttle with less than 15 seconds before launch. I chose to use the sword to cut down the paramedic, saving the head from death and abandonment. I then dragged the paramedic onto the evac with seconds to spare, and was immediately yelled at by the HOS for using the sword. I handed the sword to the HOS and I was contacted by a game admin shortly after.
Reason the ban should be removed
The ban states that I unreasonably failed to follow space law. I assume the law I failed to follow was code 3-01 “Possession/Use of Syndicate Contraband”.
Code 3-01 does include a note declaring an exception where… “Syndicate contraband may only be used in emergencies, and only to prevent death or gross bodily harm.”
It is in my opinion that the potential threat of a hostile rat king warranted a exigent circumstance needing a immediate emergency response. We only had three member of security, and I was worried the Rat King could have a substantial army. I believe my actions were reasonable and fall under the exception for use during an emergency, and to prevent death/bodily harm.
I also believe my choice to use it to stop the paramedic and save the slain department head was reasonable. I could have used my baton, but with seconds before launch, I didn’t want to waste time fiddling with my bag.
To criticize myself, I believe that I did violated C-01 when I was in possession of the contraband with the intent to use it as a flavor prop during interrogation. I did so with the intent to try and create a memorable experience for the arrested antag. Not to intentionally rulebreak.
Due to the constant threats during and leading up to evac, I truly believe I didn’t have a reasonable time to surrender the item to evidence. After dealing with the Rat King, I was immediately faced with a think fast situation, and I chose to use the esword to try and prevent death. I believe all uses of the esword were limited in scope and reasonably falls under the exception to C-01.
I think upon understanding the full context of the situation as well as my perspective, you’ll see the reason in my actions. I had no intention to ever violate space law or rulebreak.
I humbly ask for a reduction or removal of the strike. Thank you for your time.
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