Player Report
Your Byond ID? Solidfury7
Date of Incident August 29, 2019
Your Character Name? William 'Jester' Crimson
Accused Byond Key(if known): Retrokinesis
Accused Character Name Audrey Aulin
Approximate time and date of the incident (Central US Time for fastest results) 6PM ISH GMT, 1PM CST
What rule(s) were broken: Mass Pardoning, Unlawful Arrest, Attempt to circumvent the rules
Description of the incident: During briefing, there were marines who were causing quite the ruckus by throwing CAS flares (which as 15 points from the SL vendor and pretty valuable) around the Captains podium.
Seeing as these were CAS flares, (and a full pack of them) I detained the Bravo Specialist and Bravo Smartgunner for wasting them all and throwing immovable bright green flares at the XOs podium, which prompted responses from the XO.
These individuals were detained, and other individuals began to join in with equally bad behaviour, from setting up machines guns and the portable barricades at the Captains podium, aiming at them.
To a few other things of equal "Early game shannigans tier" such as interfereing with arrests, as many of the moderation know, I prefer to deal with this early games shannigans ICly, rather then letting them get boinked and noted.
Myself and a new MP detained the 4-5 marines with correct procedures, during this time, the Captain awakens or arrives, and he begins to ask the specific charges of each individual, and such things during processing, I tell him, and my MP team member and I begin adding notes while processign the 5 prisoners along with my new MP.
The Captain continues to press the charges over and over, and I inform them I will be with them shortly, I just need to get them all in a cell as procedure dictates.
This is the procedure as the CMP
Set the timer
Put them in an orange uniform and shoes
Give them a standard headset
Take their ID off
Buckle them to the bed, flash or stun them and recover your handcuffs, then exit the cell.
Search their belongings.
Update their records with their "Prisoner" status, charges and the time they are serving.
However, many of the individuals lacked records beyond very quick notes, such as the charges, and the Captain increasingly began demanding responses, while a CMP and a brand new MP deal with 5 prisoners, all with specific protocols which must be followed and obeyed, and who all must have accurate records so that the appeal (and crime)
However, the Captain continued to attempt to interfere with the arresting procedure. Captains cannot alter marine law. I informed him that I must continue with my prisoners (some who were buckled in the MP lobby now) before dealing with any specific orders, such as pardons.
I inform another MP to handle the pardon once he's finished with the prisoner he is handling, as my other MP is newer however, I eventually do it myself. This action later comes back to cause issues, as because I had to deal with both the Captain and a pardoned prisoner, another prisoner (An Alpha Medic) was forgot about and spent around 10-15 minutes unattended in the central brig, waiting to be processed like the others.
Before the alpha medic situation however, the Captain begins ordering a mass-pardon of all prisoners with Disordely Conduct. I tell him that that Mass-pardons are not permitted by the CO Council, therefore I will not follow what I view to be an unlawful order.
This agitated the Captain further when after some time back and forth, I inform the Captain I will allow her to pardon them if she so wishes, but I will not personally be acting on a mass pardon of 4 people. This agitated the Captain, who took offence to me telling the Captain I would not interfere with her "mass-pardoning" which I strongly advised her against, and I quickly sensed that the Captain was exploring the idea of BEing me.
The Captain orders that I am detained for "Neglect of Duty", by this point, another MP has awoke, the MPs at this point (even the brand new one, who exclaimed to the Captain that there were only 2 of us and we were exceedingly busy ensuring prisoners were treated correctly as dictated by procedure) were hesitant to detain me. I ended up detaining myself and preparing to file a report, I believe this is my first Captains report ever, as those of you who know me know I prefer to let most things roll ICly, its more fun for all involved.
However, I hear a prisoner while Im preparing to write my fax that the Captain has ordered all prisoners times be reduced to 1 minute, with some of these individuals having Timers of over an hour from crimes within the brig (such as insulting the Lieutenant who was on their side, ironically and myself.)
This shows an evident attempt to circumvent the rulings regarding mass-pardoning and pardoning in general, and an obvious attempt to abuse the privileges that Captains hold.
Her actions, such as detaining a CMP for NEGLECT OF DUTY who was following marine law to the dot
Her attempt at mass pardoning
And then the attempt to get around the mass pardoning by simply reducing all timers to 0 (Which require both the MPs and prisoners to be told the reason why this is occurring, which I am unsure happened) just shows that these actions were designed to circumvent rulings which were made for a reason, for convenience.
Evidence (screenshots, logs, etc): Logs will show the relevant information. So, please post the logs of the situation.
How you would punish the accused: I'll leave that up to the council, although It does show the issues with having a Captain being the highest authority of marine law, however not be accountable to the same standards of a CMP, despite being whitelisted.