Infractions
Battery - 101
To use physical force against someone without intent to seriously injure the target.
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| Repeated attempts at disarming (more than 3), tabling, non-lethal chokeholds, minor punching (less than four), smashing bottles on heads, and stunning are all considered battery. For serious harm, see Assault.
OOC Notes: This is meant to punish people for spamshoving/shittery; Consent is however, key here. Dont punish two people for battery for fighting in the corridors consensually - charge them with disorderly conduct. It's honestly up to you if you want them to pay the fine for a second offence, just don't let a rich person commit ten acts of battery over time and just keep paying the fines.
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Vandalism- 102
Any willful behavior aimed at destroying, altering, or defacing property belonging to another.
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| Smashing windows, destroying random airlocks and/or firelocks, assaulting but not destroying (see Sabotage, 302 for destruction) cyborgs, smashing random machines and shocking an airlock door in a hacking attempt are all examples of where these laws apply.
OOC Notes: This is mostly meant to protect the station from greytiders breaking in everywhere; such as, people hacking doors. While not sabotage, is damage to station infrastructure.
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Disorderly Conduct - 103
To be intentionally and publicly belligerent, exposed indecently, offensive or in general - a nuisance.
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| Spamming offensive racial terms over common, slurs included - being a general nuisance, screaming down your microphone.
OOC Notes: This is meant to allow sec to fine people for spamming 'Ligger' and other offensive terms over comms, in public, ecetera, or just being a general nuisance to the station
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Petty Theft - 104
To take items from areas one lacks access to, or to take items belonging to others or the station as a whole.
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| Keeping items which are in short supply where they belong is what is important here. A doctor who takes all the surgical tools and hides them is guilty of Petty Theft. Resisting demotion is considered Petty Theft. For more serious cases, see Theft or Robbery
OOC Notes: Don't abuse this to brig an assistant for taking spare cable coils; use it to punish hoarders (hardsuits, medical supplies ecetera)
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Animal Cruelty - 105
To Inhumanely injure, torture or otherwise abuse animals.
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| This crime exists for the CMO randomly killing runtime in their office; Not to punish chefs who kill monkeys or Pete in their back fridge; Take into consideration the intent - does it align with their job?
OOC Notes: This is ideally meant to punish people who randomly kill station pets.
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Abuse of Equipment - 106
To utilize security/non-lethal equipment in an illegitimate fashion.
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| The use of disabling devices, such as Flashes, Batons, Tasers/Disablers, and non-lethal rounds, outside the range of one's assigned duties. This should cover non-sec using items i.e. greytide with a flash randomly flashing people
OOC Notes: Try and go for people abusing things in a way that's actually harmful.
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Trespassing - 107
To be in an area which a person lacks authorized ID access for. This counts for general areas of the station.
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| Remember that people can break in, sneak in, or be let in. Always check that the suspect wasn't let in, or was otherwise given access. Trespass and Theft are often committed together; both sentences should be applied. For restricted areas, see Major Trespass.
OOC Notes: Needs to be clear that this is for trespassing only i.e. the door was open, the AI let them in, or they followed someone in.
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Rubbernecking - 109
Observing a scene of an accident, crime or emergency in an unduly manner.
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| The security department is not immune from rubbernecking, as not every engineering or medical emergency requires their presence. The first professional responder at the site of the emergency takes full authority on who is allowed to be present, with their supervisor being able to replace that authority at any time. Obstructing an arrest is included in this.
OOC Notes: Use this to disperse an undue crowd that may end up interfering with security operations; or in general, use it to get people to back off on a threat of being fined - Don't abuse this to instantly baton somebody the second you see them enter a crime scene.
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Insubordination - 111
To refuse a lawful, reasonable order from a superior member of staff; relevant Head of Staff or otherwise.
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| To deliberately ignore, mal-interpret (maliciously perform) or in general refute your head of staffs or relevant superiors orders.
OOC Notes: This is to punish people deliberately disobeying orders; that is, if they are lawful orders. You cannot charge someone with Insub for refusing to follow an unlawful order.
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Minor Misdemeanors
Assault (Actual Bodily Harm) - 201
To use excessive physical force against someone without the apparent intent to kill them.
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| This is for anything above battery, and below grevious bodily harm. Defined as causing injuries that are detrimental to one's health. Breaking someone's leg in a manner that is recoverable is ABH. Severring a leg is GBH. Keep in mind the advances in medical technology make previously dehabilitating injuries less so. Soft critical condition comes under ABH. Hard critical condition under GBH.
OOC Notes: You will almost never require medical reparations be paid, because healthcare is almost always free. Yes, in real life, crippling a leg is grevious bodily harm. But it's the future, and we can fix this surprisingly easy and fast.
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Damage to Station Infrastructure - 202
To deliberately damage the station or station property to a minor degree with malicious intent.
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| Smashing windows, destroying random airlocks and/or firelocks, assaulting but not destroying (see Sabotage, 302 for destruction) cyborgs, smashing random machines and shocking an airlock door in a hacking attempt are all examples of where these laws apply.
OOC Notes: This is mostly meant to protect the station from greytiders breaking in everywhere; such as, people hacking doors. While not sabotage, is damage to station infrastructure.
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Rioting - 203
To engage or encourage riotous behaviour among yourself and fellow crewmates.
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| People screaming for riots over the radio are not to be charged with this; refer to 'Inciting A Riot Instead'; this is for people who actually engage in riotous behaviour - bashing windows, unlawfully protesting, assaulting officers.
OOC Notes: Think about this carefully; are they a ringleader or someone swept up in the excitement of the riot? Charge accordingly.
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Robbery - 204
To steal items from another's person via force or other forms of coercion such as threats
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| Charge people with this for highway robbery - holding people at gunpoint/knifepoint, stealing their stuff and then letting them go; in more extreme cases, default to theft.
OOC Notes: Used to punish people for threatening others into giving up valuable gear; bar life-saving situations.
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Violating an Injunction - 205
To refuse to follow an injunction.
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| Charge people for this if they violate the terms of their injunction; Make sure to give them the benefit of the doubt where possible - An accidental encounter with someone is not violating a restraining order.
OOC Notes: Used to punish people who deliberately go out of their way to void their injunction.
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Abuse of Confiscated Equipment - 206
To take and use equipment confiscated as evidence outside of dire emergencies where no alternatives are present.
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| Evidence is not to be used for anything but evidence with the exception of the Syndicate Encryption Key. Anything used in a crime is considered evidence, this includes everything from tools, to guns, to emags. For general abuse of security equipment, see Abuse of Equipment.
OOC Notes: This should be ahelped if anyone gets charged with it; using evidence is against server rules due to powergaming policy. This does not count as a rulebreak if an officer picks up a dropped gun in the middle of the firefight; and uses it to save their own life
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Narcotics Distribution and Manufacture - 207
To distribute and/or manufacture narcotics and other controlled substances. For further information reference with the Contraband Tabel.
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| Forcing or tricking someone to consume illicit or harmful substances, such as space drugs, is Assault. For non-distributed drugs used for recreation, see Drug Possession.
OOC Notes: This exists to hopefully help curtail botany distributing plants filled with mindbreaker, spacetoxin, mushroom hallucinogenic. Use it to curtail druglords; not somebody selling medicinal apples.
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Medical Malpractice - 208
To unethically operate, treat or otherwise injure a patient; or reveal private information.
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| Practising medicine as a doctor on a patient without their consent or otherwise betraying the trust of the patient. Denying medical treatment to someone in need as a doctor. A psychiatrist/psychotherapist may evaluate and issue a documented veto on anybody's ability to consent to treatment.
OOC Notes: This exists to stop doctors from forcefully applying chloral hydrate to people who do not consent to treatment; and in general exists as an IC shield against shittery.
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Obstruction of Justice - 209
An act that corruptly or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication, influences, obstructs, or impedes, or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede, the due administration of justice.
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| While similar to Accessory, this charge is for situations such as destruction of evidence, stopping or frustrating officers while in pursuit of suspects and similar.
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Unlawful Restraint - 210
PLACEHOLDER
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Eavesdropping - 211
To listen into private security, command or central command communications without proper authorisation.
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| To listen in upon Security, Command OR CC Chatter. Security has a 500 credit penalty, Command 1000 and CC 1000 + Brig mandatory.
OOC Notes: This is used to punish people for stealing and using encryption keys with MALICIOUS intent. Intent is key here; You do not brig someone for taking the captains headset after they had died mysteriously in maint to report it over loud-voice.
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Damage to Cybernetic Units - 212
to use excessive force against a Cyborg, AI Core or AI shell without the apparent intention to destroy it.
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Major Misdemeanors
Aggravated Assault (Grevious Bodily Harm) - 301
To use excessive physical force resulting in severe or life-threatening harm
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| Defined as causing injuries that are severely detrimental to someone's health. A detachment of limb, entering hard critical condition. Extreme psychological scarring can count, but must be diagnosed by a doctor of psychology. Reckless GBH refers to unintentional GBH. This is for accidental. Intending to cause ABH (Actual Bodily Harm) by causing GBH is still reckless GBH. It's on the perpetrator to make a good case for reckless GBH if the victim claims intentional GBH. Attemted murder only applies if intent can be proven.
OOC Notes: Psychological harm cannot be faked to a psychologist. Use LOOC (Local Out of Character) with the psychologist and say if you're acting or not. If you're not, commit to it or it's an OOC issue. Attempted murder doesn't actually require bodily harm, but you must be able to prove intent. If you can't justify it to an admin, don't charge attempted murder.
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Sabotage - 302
To damage or destroy a notable amount of station assets.
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| This is reserved for high amounts of destruction to a limited area. For example, contained plasmafloods. It can also be used for low amounts of destruction to a large area. Siphoning the entire central primary hallway to a vacuum would be sabotage. A syndicate bomb and power sink come under here, unless the bomb destroys the AI or is placed in the Supermatter Engine. Intentionally disabling the gravity generator or disabling power for entire departments come under sabotage. Destruction of a cyborg is sabotage and counts under this law.
OOC Notes: Practically, this is usually for bombings that don't fit under terrorism, or aren't big enough to be considered that severe of a crime.
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Inciting a Riot - 303
Deliberately inciting riotous behaviour among crewmembers.
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| This is only used to punish ringleaders of the riots; the people who initially provoke and maintain the burning fire of rage within the mob.
OOC Notes: Use this to punish ringleaders versus random people involved in the riot; intent is important once more.
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Theft - 304
To hinder the crew via theft of station assets in a way that results in a detrimental outcome.
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| This exclusively covers things like hoarding engi hardsuits and extremely important viral vaccines during an outbreak or engine delamination. This is theft that is directly leading to the endangerment of the entire crew (versus grand theft; the theft of high priority items)
OOC Notes: This is entirely in place to punish hoarders who hoard hardsuits during a dangerous delamination that could potentially end the round (tesloose SM)
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Manslaughter - 305
To cause death to a person via deliberate attack or excessive negligence, without any intent to kill.
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| Any effort to prevent the resuscitation or cloning of the victim raises this to Murder. If any evidence of intent exists, see Murder.
OOC Notes: Use this to punish people who accidentally kill someone if they break into their department; For example, an engineer critting an assistant with a welder, and said assistant then dying. IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE: Intent to provide aid(such as them using their epipen on the victim) must be present.
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Assault of an Officer - 306
To cause serious but non-life threatening harm to a member of Command or Security. For disarming, grabbing, or stunning an officer during an arrest, see Resisting Arrest. Battery, Assault, and Aggravated Assault do not stack with this charge.
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| Use this for being hit with a toolbox or fire-extinguisher or the equivalent multiple times - things that will severely harm and injure you; but not pose a life-threatening risk. Treat a repeat instance of (if done during arrest) as Attempting to Escape Confinement(if the intent was to pull the other suspect away from you)
OOC Notes: Use this to punish people assaulting you with any weapon that does trauma; brute or burn or otherwise - doubly so if they do it during an arrest. Keep in mind what was used though; Fists and shoves are not assault, merely batterly
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Sexual Assault - 411
To sexually ingress upon ones person without consent.
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| Good faith is extremely important here. Sexual harassment/molestation is NOT sexual assault. Instead, apply an injunction which is far more flexible and can be used to fit the situation on a case by case basis. This keeps people from getting an hour in the permabrig for using a mechanical ass-slap from overzealous security officers.
OOC Notes: Use this in good faith. A kidnapping attempt is not a sexual assault attempt. We have noticed a few overzealous security officers abusing this to give antagonists the maximum sentence possible, even if they are merely trying to do their objectives
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Major Trespass - 309
Being in a restricted area without prior authorization. This includes Security areas, Command areas (including EVA), the Engine Room, Atmos, or Toxins Research, Vault, and AI Core.
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| Intent is oh so very important here; was it an accident or a deliberate trespass, did they break and enter in? All of this should be considered - their job especially. An engineer breaking and entering to trespass in the AI core should be treated as a malicious action; but if an assistant gets wormholed in, it should be treated as an accident without brig time. A door being left open, the AI letting them in, or they followed behind someone is still considered trespassing. There are some extenuating circumstances to this. A station engineer breaking into the vault to get an ore silo log to re-link protolathes if command staff are ignoring them for 10+ minutes and the silicons are refusing to open up or ignoring them, just ignore it. An engineer breaking into atmospherics to get an atmos hardsuit to fix a delimating supermatter engine is just perfectly fine.
OOC Notes: Intent is extremely important here; and the circumstances behind it. Don't punish people for the incompetence of command staff or saving the station.
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Possession of A Restricted Weapon - 310
To possess a deadly or otherwise restricted item.
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| Restricted weapons include but are not limited to lethals firearms, energy bladed weapons, explosives, etc. This does NOT apply for items such as Fireaxes for individuals with access to said item.
OOC Notes: This is usually reserved for players who loot the armory or traitor weapons.
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Escaping Confinement - 312
Breaking out of imprisonment or attempting to break others out of confinement.
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| You cannot execute someone for escape attempts, unless those attempts result in a crime that would warrant such punishment. If you cannot contain someone, there's a modifier specifically for this, in which you are allowed an execution.
OOC Notes: Arm blades that can pry open airlocks? Unless they consent to being left in a room with just walls (oblige this request), you can execute. If they can ventcrawl, offer them imprisonment in an environment with no vents, or execution. Pretty simple stuff to extrapolate. Don't forget to offer cyborgification as an option.
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Minor Felonies
Murder - 401
To use excessive physical force with intention to cause death, or to actually cause death.
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| Use of lethal weaponry such as firearms and explosives are considered as intent to murder. If aid was rendered to the victim by the perpetrator afterwards, this may actually be Manslaughter. For attempted murder, see 302.
OOC Notes: This only counts as murder if the victim died due to a direct result of their actions; with no attempt made to aid them during their final moments. Intent is extremely important here, it can be the difference between 30 minutes and 50. Unfortunately, unlike Dungeons & Dragon, you can't shoot someone in the face with buckshot non-lethally.
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Grand Sabotage - 402
To cause mass destruction and/or intentionally cause the delamination of a supermatter crystal, or to cause an unlawful permanent destruction of an Artificial Intelligence.
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| See sabotage for causing a delamination through gross incompetence. The supermatter part only applies if it either delimates, or the sabotage is actually severe and not just three un-wrenched pipes. Putting X4 on the crystal chamber would fit this crime. Destroying multiple large rooms, or a large portion of a department would count as grand sabotage. This usually would require a maximum capacity bomb in the perfect spot, or one and a half in less optimal spots. Mass plasmaflooding also applies.
OOC Notes: The big difference between sabotage and grand sabotage is how expensive the damages are. The Supermatter Crystal is extremely expensive. A bunch of hallways aren't.
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Grand Theft - 404
To steal items of extreme value, or top secret information and/or documents.
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| Stealing top secret documents, 25+ research nodes, the Captain's antique laser gun, the nuclear authentication disk, nuclear bomb core, the station blueprints, and any part of the supermatter crystal. For things like door remotes and ID cards, see theft.
OOC Notes: This is not solely for stealing "antag objectives".
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Enemy Of The Station - 405
Any entity, person or otherwise object that would pose a significant threat to the station, its crew in any way, shape or capacity; Read the notes for further information
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| Any entity, person or otherwise object that would pose a severe threat to the station, its inhabitants or the overall wellbeing of NanoTrasen as a whole. This counts for entities such as Nuclear Operatives, Unsanctioned Biological Entities and/or Paranormal threats. All of which can be charged under this law. This also counts for entities or people with intent to do severe damage to the stations Supermatter Shard, Self Destruct Mechanism or other high priority objects. Execution is only permitted if the threat is noncompliant and uncontainable via normal methods; otherwise, Permanent confinement is recommended and encouraged.
OOC Notes: This exists solely for detaining antagonists that have otherwise been terrorising the station without committing any other major crime (with proof). This has been temporarily added as a test; misusing of this will likely invoke a security ban. Use this only in good faith to detain bad faith actors. Do not try and push for execution unless they try to violently escape.
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Major Felonies
Disclaimer
All of these crimes usually warrant execution upon the person being found; doubly so if they resist. These crimes usually require direct witnesses and confirmation to charge for. This means you should ideally be using these crimes as a last resort charge.
Annihilation - 501
Complete destruction of the victim, where they are completely unrecoverable. This is only punishable with the loss of the victim’s brain.
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| This is your bread and butter for serial bombers; if they end up killing someone past the point of revival, stack this and terrorism. To specify; This crime is only applied on instances where a victim cannot be revived because they have been destroyed. This does not count towards DNR people.
OOC Notes: Use this to punish people who have been round removing via throwing brains into lava, space or otherwise cremating bodies.
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Terrorism - 502
To create mass-destruction and/or terror for a political, racial, ideological or religious cause.
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| This is specifically and only for what it is defined for. This is for terrorism, which under its definition, requires political, racial, ideological or religious motivation. Without it, it's something else. You may charge multiple cases of murder as multiple cases of murder, not terrorism.
OOC Notes: If a perpetrator opportunistically released a bomb, killing four security officers, because they're chasing the perpetrator down for mugging someone, it isn't terrorism. Seriously.
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Unjustified Mutiny - 503
To act individually, or as a group, to overthrow or subvert the established Chain of Command without lawful and legitimate cause.
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| Mutiny is not as clear cut as it may seem, there may be a legitimate reason for their actions, such as their head of staff being utterly incompetent. Application of this crime should always be reviewed by a third party. If the perpetrator's actions are for the betterment of Nanotrasen, or the station as a whole, consider a lesser sentence, pardon, or promotion.
OOC Notes: Use this to punish people who are wrongfully and randomly trying to incite mutinies. Dont punish people who had a legitimate reason for a mutiny (such as the captain ordering nuke-codes constantly). You'll probably never use this unless a revolution round somehow rolls.
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Special Situations and Modifiers
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| Violently Resisting Arrest
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This refers to the prisoner battering and/or assaulting others in their attempts to resist arrest. Trying to to crawl away once being batoned is not considered "violently resisting arrest", nor is running.
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Adds 10 minutes if the person being arrested engaged in assault of higher while resisting arrest
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| Non-Violently Resisting Arrest
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Breaking free of cuffs and attempting to escape without harming anyone. Harm in this instance is defined by causing them damage. Shoving that deals no brute damage is not considered harmful thus isn't considered violent.
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Adds 2 minutes if the person being detained ran away or engaged in battery while resisting arrest
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| Station-Wide Threat
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If the prison is breached, lock the prisoners in a room that isn’t venting. If a tesloose or singuloose is approaching, evacuate the prison and take the prisoners towards a safe location. If the prisoner cannot reliably be kept in custody whilst transporting them away from imminent danger of death, consider paroling them.
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Relocate the prisoner to a safe location, even if it risks them escaping, if the prison is under threat. During Delta-level threats, prisoners can be pardoned.
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| Cooperation with Prosecution and/or Security
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Being helpful towards security by confessing conspirators, revealing other suspects and supplying information of value, such as revealing hostile agents.
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A decrease of up to 50% of sentence time or an instant release depending on the situation. In some cases, the suspect should be given protective custody.
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| Self Defense
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Suspects who are defending themselves or others from attack and are forced to retaliate and respond with proportionate force are to be excused. This does not excuse from grossly disproportionate responses. Someone punching you once does not warrant turning around and blasting their face with a pulse rifle.
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Instant release.
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| Deconversion
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This pertains to any instance where the suspect was brainwashed or otherwise was not in control of their mind.
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Instant release and expungement of any crimes committed whilst under converted.
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| Incapable of Secure Confinement
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This refers to hostile creatures that have the ability to teleport outside of confinement, pry out of containment with ease or cannot be contained at all. Being stronger than usual and being able to snap the chains between handcuffs does not count as "incapable of secure confinement", don't toy with this.
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You may push for execution if the suspect is violent and cannot be contained. If the suspect is non-violent, contact Central Command for a verdict. (OOC: This is a protection from over-zealous security players who are incapable of acting in good-faith.)
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| Breaking and Entering
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This modifier is to be used atop other crimes; for example, did the suspect break into an area to assault someone - did they B&E and Restricted Trespass?
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Adds 10 minutes to the sentence if force (hacking doors, breaking windows, removing walls, etc…) was used during an act of trespass
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| Unregistered personnel
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Traders, P-T Crew coming to exchange goods or similar are considered visitors of the station and should not be arrested unless they break other laws. Use this Modifier in good faith
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Any non-visitor of the station must be part of the crew manifest, not being declared on it is met with detainment and holding until crew transfer.
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