Commanding Officer Whitelist Application
Personal Information
Byond ID? MrDadMan
Player Name You Use Most? Amber Walsh
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-4(EDT)
What is your discord username and handle? Frog#6006
Basic Questions & Story
What do you think is the job of a Commander? I feel the role of CO is guidance.
The word guidance means many things for a CO: the CO is someone who has experience in multiple aspects of the game and knows how to provide advice for upcoming leaders and assist with their knowledge to lead not only their marines, but importantly, their peers as well. The CO is a very solid role model to many players of how one should display themselves not even combat-wise, behavior-wise, but as well as leadership to those that require it.
I believe that the CO should step into the AO when additional help is needed, such as communication, pointers, morale, and even deploying in situations to become a central leader that will effectively use their exceptional knowledge to properly lead their men to the desired goal.
Why do you want to be a Commanding Officer? My desire to become a CO has become a personal matter.
I’ve always stuck mainly to shipside because shipside interactions were what gave me enjoyment, not so much the combat. Eventually, my interests peaked for a synthetic whitelist, so I asked around for advice about my conduct. I was told straight forward that I was a toxic player, and I needed to cut it if I wanted a chance to be more active in the community. I looked back on myself and did exactly that. I enjoy playing xeno because it’s a large part of the server, and I took to playing Queen due to lowpop not always getting a roundstart queen. I enjoyed commanding and playing a significant role in leading a victory with strategic playing. I soon got tired of playing Queen and took to playing SL, SO, and XO more.
I was stopped by a Captain, and he told me straightforwardly that I had the potential to be a great leader and that I could get myself to Captain, but I needed to put in the hard work and forge my way to being qualified. A month has gone by since and I’ve tried my best to fix my conduct while maintaining my humor and personality. I want to take the challenge of proving that the “Queen of LRP” can make a change and do what is necessary to obtain a hard-to-earn position in not only the game, but also the community.
Provide a short story of your Commanding Officer. It’s not a short story, but I can’t get my story across without having length and detail put into it! I also see dossiers very often, so I’ll try my best to avoid directly making one, but still including how my character worked her way to her position.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...wHcW2_9XY/edit
Experience
How familiar are you with command positions? I completely understand the role and job of every command job. I have extensive groundside experience and I know the maps very well. I’m very confident in my ability to lead, communicate, strategize, maintain cohesion (while deployed), and when to enable aggression and pressure while fighting (while fighting).
Communication is crucial while leading; commanding isn’t about holding the marines’ hands, but to guide them.
Approximately how many hours do you have as Executive Officer (XO) at the time of writing this application?
How familiar are you with Department Head positions? My knowledge is extensive in almost every department. I’ve put most of my in-game time into shipside roles and have experienced most interactions offered through most of the departments.
Medical: 231 hours. There was a point in time that I knew everything that the server could offer about medical, and I still hold adamant that I am better than most medical players to this day.
Engineering: 131 hours. I know practically everything that involves engineering shipside and the importance of certain things, including deployment to create efficient defenses, electronics, and communications.
Requisitions: 45 hours. I properly understand managing the finances; communication; proper operation supplying; attention management; supply strategies to do at the beginning of rounds; and handling equipment, weaponry, ammunition, tools, etc. distribution to marines.
Military Police: 12 hours. I understand the importance of staying in character/rp while playing a role that requires serious conduct. I also understand the procedures one must go through for processing arrests, proper SOP for MP conduct, and am confident in my ability to properly play in the department.
How familiar are you with Marine Law and Standard Operating Procedure? I’ve thoroughly sat down and read both on the server wiki several times for instances where I wanted to ensure my understanding. I’ve spoken with players with much more experience involving ML and SOP and even more so interacted with them. I’ve been in many situations involving both and I can say that even though I may not be perfect, I have advanced knowledge in both areas. I’m confident in my ability to handle decisions regarding pardons and appeals.
Scenarios
When do you believe a Battlefield Execution should be used? I feel a BE would be used in the case that the situation is out of control and removing the source is the solution to the issue. This would mean that the person does not resolve their behavior, MPs cannot control the situation and properly get the person(s) in custody, or even someone is directly going against my orders and refuses to pay mind to what I would have in mind for the time.
In any situation that would require competent intervention, I would resort to a BE if there was no other way to handle the situation in a timely and appropriate manner.
Acceptable BE: a squad marine is attacking their squad leader on the dropship with harmful intentions and the squad leader is murdered in the process. This BE is fine because the situation was out of control from the nearest authority (their SL, seeming he was murdered) and using a BE would stop the marine from attacking.
Unacceptable BE: the CMP arrests the RO against your order for DTGP and sentences them in brig. The BE is not fine because the arrest was not invalid and the crime did happen, so BEing for this situation of insubordination is not acceptable.
Under what circumstances do you believe it is legal to pardon a prisoner? If someone gets arrested, there is a reason for it. An exception I would give and pardon someone for is if their absence is making a visible difference in the operation or someone is required for a plan premade for the AO and their assistance is required to hastily execute what is needed to be done.
There are also variables like time on their sentence, severity of crime, truthfulness, type of crime, and how they act that will affect my judgement about pardoning as well. However, a pardon is also under the condition that they DID commit the crime and that the crime is not a CAPITAL crime.
Acceptable pardon: the RO broke a window in their department and you believe they are vital to the operation.
Unacceptable pardon: a squad marine murders the CL and you thought it was funny, so you pardon them. The MPs say that he cannot be pardoned, but you do it anyway because you're the Captain.
Confirmations
Have you read the Code of Conduct? Yes
Have you read the application process page? Yes
Do 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