Player Report
Your Byond ID? Wulferion
Date of Incident April 23, 2021
Your Character Name? Faerwald Wulfe
Accused Byond Key(if known): drevenshekel
Accused Character Name Wahakahama Windhealer
Approximate time and date of the incident (Central US Time for fastest results) around 21:00 UTC
What rule(s) were broken: Rule 2 + CO guidelines
Description of the incident: I was SEA during an LV round with Dreven as CO. Some time around when briefing was supposed to happen there was a brawl in the hangar (designated as the briefing place) MPs responded to this and several marines were slated for arrest. (People were openly assaulting the MPs and myself, stealing MP equipment and so on) While this was going on i asked the CO to try and get his men in line. Staff took notice of this mini-riot as well since there was an ARES announcement about it. COs response to this was ordering the MPs to vacate the DS and hangar and stop arresting marines, which is an illegal order and was of course refused. (As SEA i informed the CO that such order is illegal on MP comms) As a reaction to this the CO tried to mass pardon all of the marines using MP comms which was of course denied as thats not the propper pardon procedure (and every CO should know this). Before the matter could be settled the DS launched (with or without COs approval i cannot say) and all of the marines deployed avoiding punsihment. There was no briefing to speak of as it was all done via announcements (which is agains CO rulings as well but given the circumstances this point is mute)
After the deployment the CMP decided to fax HC about the issue and asked me to write the fax regarding CO. During this time the CO inquired about „who is in the brig“ probably making sure none of the marines were actually jailed (however this is purely speculation on my part). After the fax was sent, arrest of the CO was approved by ARES announcement and some of the MPs were sent to arrest the CO. Given the COs position on the front lines this took some time, nearly until the end of the round.
As a reaction to his arrest the CO ordered marines to „peacefully“ march on the brig during which the round ended and server restarted. This action was in my opinion bordering on LRP (seeing as a captain going against HC decision like that was borderline sedition and would certainly face greater consequences for such action) Furthermore COs were in the past discouraged and even warned when similary trying to avoid IC punishment for breaking WL rules.
This incident in my opinion shows either a very poor understanding of ML and more importantly CO guidelines and pardon procedure by Dreven or just him knowingly ignoring it because it doesn’t suit him. In either case its something that should be investigated by the council especially since it was not the first occurence of such behaviour.
Evidence (screenshots, logs, etc): Sadly the only screenshot i took was of the ARES announcement. (Chat log in game didn't save the start of the round) But all the necessary evidence will be in the logs, mainly announcements and MP comms.
ARES arrest announcement stating the charges against CO: https://gyazo.com/66d5a8fa2c64ae040474478eaff3a7f8
How you would punish the accused: WL warning at the very least. The important part is that Dreven should brush up about rules and CO related ML and SOP.