Player Report
Your Byond ID? Stan_albatross
Date of Incident October 27, 2020
Your Character Name? Karl Karlsson
Accused Byond Key(if known): LynuahSororitas
Accused Character Name Elzibeta Brygida
Approximate time and date of the incident (Central US Time for fastest results) 17:00 GMT, 12:00 Central US time
What rule(s) were broken: CO deployment guidelines
Description of the incident: I latejoined into the round (as a staff officer, map was corsat) about the 12:40 mark, checking the manifest before joining I saw only the CO and XO in the command cic staff section. Once I joined, I found out the CO had deployed, leaving the XO entirely alone in the cic for around 20 minutes. There was also only one CT in the requisitions department, who was to put it lightly, inexperienced.
Once I got on the overwatch cams, I could see the CO at the front line using an SG. Throughout the entire round, the CO communicated very little with the cic or anyone at all, mainly using the tablet for short announcements, command channel to attempt to set up an ob (the sole attempts failed due to frontline hive core), and the req channel to ask for more SG drums. Apparently a SG roundstart cryoed, which led to the CO taking their gear to use on the field, however I wouldn't put it in the realm of impossibility that an SG crate was ordered. Despite the fact that the CO had laser designators, she never gave coordinates for these drums to be dropped to, so I had to use old ones.
After the abortive OB attempt, the XO sent me to work in requisitions, which for context of how badly the operation had progressed, the mortar was not even sent down to the planet.
While I was not in the CIC, the XO was yet again utterly alone, and was forced to try overwatch all four squads at once as well as coordinate over every channel. Throughout this, the CO was nigh mute, and even went to sigma dome with so few men that they had to announce for backup to their position twice.
A lone XO is not able to run the CIC, especially when the req department is understaffed. Marines were constantly complaining on comms about the poor state of req, and the CO did nothing as they were deployed, likewise the XO was unable to do anything due to their state of being stuck in the cic. This violates the new guidelines as posted on the discord. The main issue is the SG kit taking and focus by the CO on combat over communication, however the solo XO thing is also an issue.
Evidence (screenshots, logs, etc): Logs of the round, particularly :
LynuahSororitas' say and attack logs
the XO's say logs
say logs concerning req
announcement logs
How you would punish the accused: warn/as CO council sees fit