Commanding Officer Whitelist Application
Personal InformationByond ID? Rxv995
Player Name You Use Most? Lena 'Swan' Lebedeva / Nicole 'Shrike' Vonel
Make a list of links to all of your ban appeals as well as whitelist and staff applications (both accepted and denied) submitted within the past year. For appeals, provide an additional ban reason and the appeal’s verdict next to the link. N/A
Have you received any bans in the last month? No
What is your timezone in UTC? UTC-05
What is your discord username and handle? Rxv_#6183
Basic Questions & StoryWhat do you think is the job of a Commander? The highlight of the CO's job is in the name, commanding. You are the ultimate authority by default aboard the station, and all personnel aboard operation-start answer to you.
However, you are not condemned to the CIC. It is your default position, but the CO actually has other responsibilities that don't just make him XO+. Typically you will find yourself involved with the MPs and marine law, as you are the ultimate authority aside from literally the law, aboard the station. This is evidenced by the CO's unique and personal responsibility, battlefield executions and pardons. You are the ultimate entity legally standing between death and prison for personnel.
Why do you want to be a Commanding Officer? I believe it's the final step to optimizing being in command, for me. I hope the new rank, equipment, and qualifications can earn me a more respected position among the crew and marines.
Provide a short story of your Commanding Officer. Lena 'Swan' Lebedeva earned her officer rank following her training after her twenty-fifth deployment. Thanks to her demonstrated tactical skill in combat, Lebedeva was offered a position as an ensign in the USCM. Accepting, she spent a short while proving her worth. Showing great promise, she qualified for lieutenant as a Staff Officer in the USCM. After numerous operations and demonstrating a remarkable efficiency in commanding personnel and strategy, she was offered her training as Executive Officer. Upon completing her training, Lebedeva went through another fifteen operations demonstrating remarkable skill in her position before applying for and being provided the opportunity to qualify as a Commanding Officer, without question succeeding thanks to her friendships developed with command personnel during her service.
Lebedeva's time as an Ensign was short, given the guidance of her superiors and easy-going attitude. By comparison, her time as a Lieutenant made up the majority of her time in service. It is there that she demonstrated most of her prowess in command and particularly with tactical awareness. Upon reaching O3, Lieutenant Commander, Lebedeva actually had to assume command of the operations she was involved in due to absence or inability of her commander. Due to this, she only served the minimum time required before her promotion as she made it quite evident she was qualified for O4, Commander. Her service as a Commander was quite long, mostly due to her refusal of a promotion. Though it only ever really amounted to rumors, she would outright refuse and deny the idea of promotion due to an unusual reverence of her superiors, believing herself to not yet have earned the rank. However, after numerous operations and encouragement from friends in the corps, she gave into the idea and accepted the idea of attempting a promotion, eventually earning O5, Captain.
Lebedeva's seventh operation as a Commanding Officer, Operation "Famous Walk," stands as her most remarkable operation to date. Most noteworthy was her application of orbital bombardment ordnance to crush CLF resistance in a feigned retreat. After the discovery of major CLF elements and dispatching of the USCM, Lebedeva coordinated an assault on the CLF elements. Employing liberal use of USCM artillery elements, Lebedeva's forces exposed the CLF elements and forced a desperate retaliatory assault that proved too strong for USCM elements to resist. Lebedeva's choice was to feign a retreat, exposing CLF elements to incredibly devastating USCM ordnance and securing a successful operation.
ExperienceHow familiar are you with command positions? Quite, with 35.9 hours in SO, 64.1 in XO, 4.2 in MW, and 4.5 in CE.
Approximately how many hours do you have as Executive Officer (XO) at the time of writing this application? ~65hrs.
How familiar are you with Department Head positions? Aside from 4.5hrs as CE, I've not enjoyed head roleas excluding the XO, but I've had plenty of experience in the departments themselves, notably as a skilled engineer. I've also indirectly been an RO more than once due to lowpop hours and the demand to have Req filled out while I played XO.
How familiar are you with Marine Law and Standard Operating Procedure? With 4.2 hours in MW, 11.2 hours in MP, 35.9 in SO, and 64.1 in XO, I've seen my fair share.
I still actively review ML and SOP on the wiki to keep myself up-to-date. My time in CIC is not my only time as XO and SO, I have found myself involved with the ML even then.
ScenariosWhen do you believe a Battlefield Execution should be used? Ideally? Never.
In reality? I'll provide some scenarios in which this is applicable.
Scenario 1: A mutiny is being staged, not only during or after a physical attack, but even before on conspirators if you discover them beforehand. Not only is this essentially self-defense, it is a legitimate threat to the operation.
Scenario 2: Someone actively sabotages groundside operations, risking marine lives. This is grounds for a BE as to secure the safety of the operation.
Scenario 3: A marine groundside attempts to overrule any CIC authority, leading marines independently. Sure, this could be done with a remarkably positive effect, but the BE is to be done beforehand to ascertain the safety of the operation. Regardless of the outcome it is best to assure there is no risk.
Scenario 4: The CE is a victim of murder and the killer is sure to target more personnel. Only if caught by the CO first and non-lethals prove ineffective, a BE is applicable, especially if the CO's life and others are actively in danger.
Under what circumstances do you believe it is legal to pardon a prisoner? There are only a very limited few options in which a pardon is applicable, and a large amount of responsibility is placed upon the CO if they choose to pardon a prisoner.
Typically these situations will only occur for instances where the crime(s) committed were/are justified provided they are not capital crimes. There are more situations in which a pardon CAN be done, but it probably isn't a good idea depending on the person you're pardoning.
ConfirmationsDo you understand that any player - even donors or staff members - can have their whitelist status revoked should they break our Server Rules or Roleplay Guidelines? Yes
Do you understand you cannot advertise or promote this application on any platform, including Discord? Yes
Do you also understand that you may not edit this application 1 hour after it has been posted? Yes