I am not a murder seccie pre-amble
I’ve been playing SEC for Roughly 159 hours now, as far as I’m aware, I’ve got some of the most rp out of the role not counting all the times I’ve been “Acting captain (HoS)” and sole commanding officer are from bickering discussing sentencing with lawyers, officers and the warden. Sitting in interrogations and hammering the coy mood out of traitors with evidence, witnesses and some minor pushing of buttons on a unlocked uplink one time to get the “hostile agent” charge across to a lawyer.*
And Twice now I’ve entered the infuriating dance wherein changelings have had the Decency to co-operate with Sec and actually submit to terms of incarceration and the second time a traitor was gunning to kill them the entire time. I’ve also released some folks with hostile agent and assault charges, much to the semi-exasperation of both officers and assault victims alike, all in accordance with space law
I’m stating this to say definitively, I’m not a blood thirsty perma-happy Seccie and am suggesting some changes to the handling and operation of SPESS LAW!
The two areas I have issue with are; 1 - The length of sentencing. 2 - Charge stacking in sentencing. 3. Serious repeat offenders
Starting with the length of sentences with charges, some of these are wildly shorter than their current according to the wiki while others can have minor counts can add slightly extra time en-lieu of fines.
Adjusted times rundown:
Infractions or 0XX - 30 seconds.
Minor crimes or 1XX - 1 Minute.
Medium crimes or 2XX - 2 Minutes.
Major crimes or 3XX - 5 Minutes
Capital crimes and Modifyers are unchanged in procedure.
While that sounds Very lenient this is where charge stacking comes into play.
Charge stacking:
Now currently Charge stacking says “default to the highest crime and disregard others” but that is boring as fuck and is considering the long sentences of current SPESS LAW. I will only advocate for charge stacking if the shortened sentences are what is being considered. but in the case of these drastically shortened lengths, the only people who get 10 minutes or more really fucked up in the eyes of DAS LAW
The results? well the greytider who got caught with insuls (contraband in their case) while tress-passing, only gets about 6 minutes, probably less if interrogations clear things up and he Co-operated in the arrest from a reduction to 2 minutes and confiscated insuls or just being put out the door cause he actually had permission and this was determined in interrogations
Meanwhile the Hostile agent who also Murdered, and committed theft gets a maximum 20 minutes while SEC and Command get to bicker discuss about the absolute ruckas this guy has caused and let the station crew cool their heads.
Moving on, We’ve all seen the “Repeat offender” modifier and at this point what that means is very much in the air, I’m alot more iffy about this myself but personally it’s lead to 3 major out comes:
The outcomes
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Mr murderous hostile agent gets 4 to 5 minutes for being very suspicious in his break and enter, along with the tools and insuls he very obviously used in the deed.
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The mime who decided to run around SEC with soap and pies for 2 minutes after being politely asked to leave FOR THE SECOND TIME! gets to stay another 2 minutes in a cell with his pie and soap taken away too, because he did this once already and the humor has worn off!
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THE CONTRACT. Hidden within the Bee station Wiki’s Paper markdown page is the rarely written or understood “ENEMY OF NANOTRASEN RETIREMENT CONTRACT”, The purposes of which are unclear but most obviously applicable to Hostile agents, Revolutionaries (not active in code as of writting!) Nukies, who will explode before they sign this, and Changelings, who will try something before they sign this assuming they honor it.
Thusly while it says “Enemy of Nanotrasen” this is less of a Trial and more of the poor trouble making treacherous sod admitting to what they are with dignity and letting them choose between permanent residence in brig/gulag, being canned and packaged in a borg body and lastly just plain dying. This of course should signed AT LEAST in the presence of a lawyer, but having the HoP, Captain (or acting so long as it ISN’T THE HoS) or preferably 2 or all of them is better. it must be honored to the letter by SEC, this is of course an admission of guilt for a degree of forgiveness.
All that said, thanks for taking the time for reading and considering what I’ve said.