Novus Luna (Cyrus Ambrose) - Command Application

[Novus Luna]

Byond ID:
My Byond ID is Novus Luna, as are my Discord and forum usernames.

Player name you use the most:
I primarily play as Cyrus Ambrose. In playing him, I mostly play as Executive Officer or Staff Officer, as well as Specialist or Squad Medic.

Make a list of links to all of your applications and (job)ban appeals, including whitelist and staff apps, within the last year. Also, provide "Ban reason; Verdict" beside each (job)ban link:
I have not made any applications on the CM-SS13 forums previous to this, and have not been banned from the server or from any role therein.

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?
While this is non-applicable to me in terms of the specifics given in the question, I do understand that anyone, regardless of any status on the server, may be stripped of their whitelist at the behest of the server staff.

Do you understand how the Battlefield Execution functions?
The Battlefield Execution is the ultimate demonstration of authority that the Commander of a USCM Vessel has access to, and it should be used only if the circumstance calls for it without question. Battlefield Execution is a Commander executing any personnel under his direct jurisdiction (any personnel assigned to his vessel other than the Chief of Military Police) for egregious action that has hindered the mission or otherwise disrupted operations in such a way that, in most cases, will likely have directly or indirectly cost the lives of other vessel personnel. After a summary execution of this form, the Commander is required, as per the operating procedure of the execution, to make an announcement regarding the execution and the reason for it. While the Commander can not be legally arrested or immediately rebuked for this action - before doing so, one must send a message to the admiralty via contacting High Command and inform them of the situation.

Do you understand you are not above Marine law, or allowed to enforce it yourself?
Not I, nor anyone on my vessel, am above the laws of the government or military to which I belong. The Commander may be arrested as any normal personnel would be if he is found guilty of a crime of Marine Law.

What do you think is the job of a Commander?
The job of a vessel Commanding Officer is not to act the part of a glorified Military Police, for it is not his place to enforce the law. The job of the vessel Commanding Officer is not to assume direct, micro-managerial control of the ship-side departments, for it is the duty of their respective Line Officers to do so.The job of the vessel Commanding Officer is not to force himself into every situation, both on the vessel and in the operation as a whole, for it would thereby be impossible to lead, and would make the Chain of Command useless.

It is the Commanding Officers job to lead his Company via strategic command throughout their operation. It is on him to know when to assume direct control of a single squads situation - which should be done sparingly, if permitted by the present command staff - and know when to delegate. The Chain of Command is present for good reason, as are the Executive Officer, Staff Officers, and Squad Leaders on it. The Commanding Officer is the one who, at the end of the day, has to make the tougher decisions: the decisions that cost many marines life even if they are for the greater good, and the decisions that may be a great gamble of high risk and reward in order to complete their mission. He is there to think on behalf of the entire Company, not on the needs of the individual Platoons or Squads, Fireteams or Soldiers.

If a member of your staff is disobeying orders, how would you handle it?
It is seldom my place to be involved in matters of the law. If he proposes a valid reason to disobey my order, perhaps proposing an alternative, it will be considered. If he has no such response, or is blatantly disregarding my orders, the military police will be called upon to act accordingly. If and only if this insubordination cost the lives of Marines directly, and the insubordination was knowing and intentional, would the member of my command staff be summarily executed for failure to meet his duties.

Why should you be whitelisted?
Command, ever since I started playing Space Station 13 roughly 6 years ago, has been my favorite department to play in. No mechanical complications, no hostile enviornments...most of the time...just roleplay - and it is roleplay that I play this game for. I do not come here from the likes of Goonstation or other servers with even less roleplay understanding than some people of this one. I come from Apollo Station, Baystation, places where roleplay, especially of the Command staff, and even more so of the Commander, is expected. I have experience, years of it, as the highest form of command for various servers, with Baystation introducing me to militaristic command - and all of that was threaded into roleplay. I will come off as serious, potentially as harsh, because I will hope to expect higher form of roleplay in my wake; I will not be some jester in an Officers uniform that in reality wouldn't have gotten into the armed forces to begin with, much less the position and rank of Commander. I would obviously not expect this change from every Marine, nor could I hpe to enforce it. I wouldn't. It is merely something that I would...strive for. Hope for. My experience with command and roleplay is what I bring to the table - I merely ask for the chance to sit down and show if it pays off.

[Survivor]

Although a new account on the forums, I've had Cyrus under me as Commander a few times now. He does fine from what I've seen, and I wouldn't mind letting him get the whitelist.


+1

[MattAtlas]

Cyrus is a pretty swell dude OOCly and a good roleplayer ICly. Good at command too, so why not? +1

[ThesoldierLLJK]

Yeah sure +1

[Loco52]

I've never seen you but people are very keen to +ing you so I suppose you're a good player. I'll throw a quick question for my +1 here

1) Your CMP is being incompetent, brigging marines for excessive amounts of time, stunbatoning without warning and a multitude of other things. He ultimately ends up executing (practically murdering) someone without your authorization. If hypothetically this broke no server rules, does a BE take place here? What'd you do?

[Novus Luna]

I've never seen you but people are very keen to +ing you so I suppose you're a good player. I'll throw a quick question for my +1 here

1) Your CMP is being incompetent, brigging marines for excessive amounts of time, stunbatoning without warning and a multitude of other things. He ultimately ends up executing (practically murdering) someone without your authorization. If hypothetically this broke no server rules, does a BE take place here? What'd you do?

Firstly, I would message the admins to make sure that he broke no server rules unless they told me themselves, because if it was just him saying that in LOOC, I would not believe it for a heartbeat. As stated in my application, the Chief of Military Police is immune to the Commanding Officer's capability to summarily execute personnel, and just because he has made such a grievous error, that does not change things. So, this would be my order of actions: I would first request - not order, as they are not under my authority - but request that the Military Police detain their Chief of Military Police for his crimes thusfar, listing out Prevarication, Assault, and Unwarranted Execution as the main charges noticed, reminding them that the Commanding Officer - acting or otherwise - must affirm the execution with the Chief of Military Police for it to be carried out. I would also point out to them that the Chief of Military Police does not have the authority written into Marine Law to give imprisonment times past the Maximum Sentence, if he has done so. That would be the extent of my involvement to the Military Police, barring the situation worsening, at this time. It would be at this time that I send a message to the Provost Marshall Office through High Command, requesting that the Chief of Military Police be stripped of his authority and removed from his position at the time, as well as requesting permission for Battlefield Execution should he cost the life of another marine, or cause the situation to escalate into a firefight or Code Red. How I proceed from there would depend entirely on the responses given from the Military Police and Provost Marshall Office.

[Loco52]

Great, +1

[Ghostdex]

I've seen you around +1

Edit: I dont really like what I’ve seen around -1

[ChengChan]

Active player and competent. +1 good luck, Commander.

[awan]

Yeah, it is no secret we go back a bit. I know you longer than most people on cm. I like you and think we are friends. So here is my +1 for someone who I still know from my deep dark and hidden past.

[Frans_Feiffer]

When I first started maining XO, I admit our first few runins were a bit iffy, however seeing you around nowadays, that’s not really the case. I think you got what it takes and I wouldn’t mind you being CO. I only ask you play XO a bit more. I know you’re a competent SO, but I haven’t seen you too much as XO. Could just be differences in time though.

+1

[NethIafins]

Finally decided to be active on forums? heh

It's funny how people I perceive as a group (you, Cheng, Anderut22, 420, and Vitoras) decided to make CO apps at the same time

+1 from me, you are good player and I never had issues with ya

[Arbs]

Yeah good lad with a crazy pink haircut. I’ve seen you main SO and I believe you are fit for a commander.

But keep in mind the main responsibility for a commander is to effectively get the job done while they may give great interactions at the same time. Marines will be looking up to you, so give them a good example to follow.

Have courage and be robust. I wish you the best with the application. +1

[Novus Luna]

Yeah good lad with a crazy pink haircut. I’ve seen you main SO and I believe you are fit for a commander.

But keep in mind the main responsibility for a commander is to effectively get the job done while they may give great interactions at the same time. Marines will be looking up to you, so give them a good example to follow.

Have courage and be robust. I wish you the best with the application. +1

I...have gelled back red hair. Like, I'm colorblind, so I'm not sure if I just royally fucked that up, or what.

In any case, thanks everyone for all the support thus far.

[Trevoriousdafox]

I think Cyrus would make a good CO.
He's pretty competent, knows how to lead the marines effectively and a pretty nice dude most the time.
He's also a good SL on the ground so it's a +1 from me!
Good luck Cyrus hope to see you lead us to more marine majors!

[420MYK]

Finally decided to be active on forums? heh

It's funny how people I perceive as a group (you, Cheng, Anderut22, 420, and Vitoras) decided to make CO apps at the same time

+1 from me, you are good player and I never had issues with ya

I noticed that too :L

As for your app Novus. Youre good in CiC (when i see you there) and good on the ground fighting, overall a competent player and as far as ive seen you're almost never in trouble if ever at all. I dont get to RP with you much but that's nothing major at all, we cant all be RPing all the time or benos would never die.

Easy +1 from me lad good luck with the rest of the app ^.^

[Bancrose]

I know you and trust you.

Solid roleplayer, and not a baldie. Also well known.

+1

[LittleBlast]

I've had some good experiences with you before. +1

[Jarek]

I've seen you around and I haven't seen you do anything horribly bad.

+1

[ThesoldierLLJK]

Alright I was told to be serious more, so ill just say that although he has had some hiccups from his behavior with staff, the guy can RP and I've seen him do really well in the SO role. I already gave him a +1, but I'll just say I think he can do the job.

Plus as he has gotten the predator whitelist, I would trust him as well.

[Lumdor]

You just got predator whitelisted from what I saw, as did I about a month ago.

Though from what I have seen when you have played pred, which I believe is only a couple rounds now you've been a bit salty. Now, you've not been extremely salty but to a point that could raise concerns.

Now, what is to say you don't do the same thing as CDR? Though you RP quite well so you may be very different as CDR I just wanna know how you'll act as CDR.

[Novus Luna]

The perpetuation of that between recent rounds is due to the situation I'm currently in. My personal computer is broken, drastically lessening the amount of time I get around here. Pair that with lag that somehow effects me the most during predator rounds, and it makes things a tad frustrating to say the least, especially since I'm actively trying to play predator during what little time I have. The lag, naturally, is incredibly bad for combat environments. Looking at this for commander, the combat issue becomes null as I will not be deploying almost every round like some others seem to. Being commander also means I'm in an environment that encourages roleplay rather than shoot-first-talk-never, which in itself will be a destressor for me.

[Lumdor]

I'll go with a +1 on this. As you said I believe you'll do well as CDR as you're more RP oriented.

[taketheshot56]

Ill +1 this but i hope you will take the role seriously and not get salty like predator. Sometimes you need to take a step back.

+1

[Emeraldblood]

Resolved - Accepted