OK. SO. My dumbass wrote another one cause my extended release adderall didn’t wear off yet, so here you go:
maybe a Contract killer occasional antag role for the traitor gamemode specifically, as you may get hired by those you reach out to in order to do their dirty work for them, completely cutting out the need for the fresh beginner syndie agent being caught while they’re trying to kill the HOS by breaking into armory as soon as the chance opens up for them, trying to shoot him dead with a full clip of rubber bullets. By hiring a hitman, they’d needn’t ever worry about having to “plan out” their kill again!*
at the start of the round you would never be distinctly known by anyone but yourself that you are an antag and so maybe you would like to live a peaceful *cough boring cough* life as a botanist, just don’t say anything, but maybe that gets a little too boring for you so now its time to reach out to one of the two prime individuals who may very much like paying for your little service, the security, with their sense of justice and the antagonists, with their evil schemes.
there could be two paths that could be taken in development in which the hitman can be identified and work with the HOS or the antag, with the role-play assumption that if you choose one side you will be payed by either company at the end of your shift, if you even happen to still live:
One, could be that the hitman is well known and easily accessible by those with the right connections, he would have only one specific code word that could be used by both the HOS and the Syndicate agent in order to be identifies so they could talk business. Both the Syndie agent and the HOS both have a codeword but that would mean that you could easily arrest both the traitor and the hitman for talking to each other, right? Wrong. If only you, the hitman, and the traitor, know the secret code, how would you prosecute them both for scheming a murder if its only your word, on top of that why even are you able to access a contract killer? If you do go to court they sure as hell aren’t gonna do anything to help you prove you are correct.
Two, would be that the hitman would know who the antags are and who the HOS is, but would have to figure out on there own a way to reach out to HOS and/or antags in order to finally get a business relationship going, this would be an even harder approach to master as first the HOS wouldn’t even know that there might even be one that round, thus any dumbass clown *could* convincingly enough trick an HOS into thinking that they might be one, and when the clown eventually snitches, the HOS gets screwed. Or regarding the antag, Once again, how the hell would they even be convinced that they themselves are actually a hitman or just someone who’s just really convincing? Also what happens when admit to being a hitman to the HOS or some snitch antag and you end up a criminal, how does space crime expand to deal with offenses like conspiracy and solicitation of murder, corruption, and most importantly assassination.
This addition would add many new scenarios where traitor would be even more possible to kill people and get away alive with their killing role as the traitor wouldn’t even ever have to _kill _anyone but if the hitman finally feels his guilty conscious or is caught he may find it worth it to turn in this traitor or many other traitors he’s worked with in order to score himself freedom, but then he’d have to go by a new name and look as he is now under witness protection; maybe before the gets the chance, the traitor gets word before he narcs, or even maybe he just notices them acting a little more squeamish than usual, he might just have to get his hands dirty after all, as dead men tell no tale.
the idea is that the security can’t legally hire a contract killer as it is illegal (duh), however they might go behind the law (as they do a lot) in order to try and uphold it, bend the rules a little when a traitor they know goddamn well is a murderer keeps getting away from the death sentence because of their very skilled lawyer. Maybe a clown disguised himself as a hitman and turned you, a HOS in with clear evidence (maybe with newly implemented printed voice transcripts from a voice recorder?) what then happens to HOS? Demotion? Does he go off Scott free? How would people react that sec has turned corrupt? Or maybe now the deed is done, but is it traceless? There may be many ways you could get caught, maybe someone pays top dollar to the hitman to talk, the pleads that “the security guard planted that there” doesn’t really become a stupid ass excuse for having contraband and more of a threat to your wellbeing when you really did.