Commanding Officer Application - BloodMzxn
What is your BYOND key?
BloodMzxn
What is your Discord ID?
noquestionableacts
What is your timezone in UTC?
UTC+03
Player Name You Use Most?
Takashi Hirano
Ban Appeals, Whitelist and Staff Applications:
Mentor Application - BloodMzxn - #15 | Accepted.
Have you been banned in the last 3 months?
Nope.
If so, why?
Never got banned.
Command Knowledge:
How familiar are you with command positions?
I believe I’m strongly familiar with everything in regards of commanding positions - ranging from the Executive Officer of the USS Almayer that handles the general commanding over the entire operation, down to the Staff Officers who overwatch the squads more tightly, and the support backline command roles such as Auxiliary Support Officer. (That implies knowledge about Medical-Science-Requisitions-Engineering and etcetra.) I’m also well-versed in terms of Military Policing.
Played a lot of commanding spots outside of CM, SS13, whatever games. My experience is fairly extensive and sufficient in my opinion.
Hours in XO:
98.4 hours exact.
Hours in SL:
49.0 hours.
Character Information:
Why did your character decide to become the CO of a ship?
Takashi wanted to prove himself worthy infront of his family and to prove it for himself; recognized unworthy due to defying to the original purpose he was being raised for; a Corporate life filled with papers and office work was not something Takashi felt like doing, getting himself into a picky situation that involved fighting and being eventually voted out as a bad candidate for the job. He didn’t care, although, and opt-ed in to become a military officer instead and make sure those who belittled him can eat the dust.
It was also natural career growth and that he spent a lot of time along those Marines; once a Platoon Commander and then a Captain, he spent enough time to grow passion for the job and enjoyment to fight for what the United Americas stands for. He deemed his promotion as a rightful reward for his endless efforts, and so, no reason to deny it.
How did your character attain the position of CO?
Captain Hirano has performed some key-operations in the Neroid Sector, securing vital locations and ensuring rapid victories, regulating diplomatic incidents and saving important people where necessary; in progress he has gained recommendations from the visiting High Command members and his own Commanding Officer.
It was clear that he has a good strategical mindset and got his priorities set straight for the United Americas, being a competent Commander and looking forward to display his steadfast personality when it comes to giving orders.
Provide a short story of your CO.
Command Actions:
When do you believe it’s appropriate to pardon a prisoner?
Pardons is a thing used by Commanding Officers to carefully choose whether the prisoner should be early freed from his cell or kept for the full duration of his charge; and so, it all differs from one Commander to another how they decide to use their pardon and their word to enforce the Marine Law aboard their vessel. It implies the Commanding Officer releases a person that should have served their FULL, VALID, and JUSTIFIED within UCMJ jail sentence due to one or another reason. Sometimes pardon differ from simple honest mistakes to people ACTUALLY violating Marine Law on purpose because they’re simply bored.
My stance on this is simple. Spending a serious amount of time playing Chief Military Police, I have seen countless incidents where marines specifically provoked Military Police or done crimes infront of them to justify their arrest, instantly removing the point of pardoning them, because it implies they do not respect the Law and they will break it again should they feel the need to do so. Mainly, I look for next items when it comes to a pardon:
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Define how important the marine is for the operation at the current time. Is the frontline winning? Do they need dire help? Is the marine a mere cargo technician? If so, is he alone or someone else runs requisitions? If someone else is on it, there is no point to free him. If it’s a specialist and the crime is minor, along with the frontline having grim days, I may consider their pardon as long other parameters are met.
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What is their attitude? If they talked foul about MP, resisted arrest and have been generally a good bother, what’s point of releasing them? They are inherently aggressive and clearly need to serve their jail sentence to understand their mistakes, which is the purpose of the said sentence. Releasing them would be a bad idea, because their importance doesn’t override common sense. A Major issues their pardon personally, which will leave a bad look in their dossier if they let free some troublemaker that is generally only hindering with operation and insulting everyone around them, acting like a criminal, but not a marine.
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Are they honest in their words, and do they recognize their mistakes? Do they REGRET doing it? I believe that this is one of the most important items for a Commanding Officer to remark, as it will display how likely the person is to violate Marine Law again once being pardoned, if they ever will.
To sum it up, a person needs to be remorseful for their crimes, they need to cooperate and do their best to EARN the pardon. They are not ENTITLED to it, nor the Commanding Officer is supposed to pardon them. Sometimes, it’s best you leave someone without it, that they will understand not to do it again.
Give some examples of when you would or would not use pardon.
I WOULD GIVE A PARDON IN NEXT SCENARIOS:
- Specialist and a smartgunner have gotten in a conflict that degraded into a fist fight, afterwards escalating into them stabbing eachother ONCE. Military Police on the spot noticed it and ordered them to stand down, which they did without resisting the officer. They later elaborated that they never wished fight to death and that they were being silly.
Hirano doesn’t exactly agree to their actions, but he would check if those two continued to be aggressive to one eachother afterwards being brigged - if they are not, he would proceed to see if they are remorseful for their actions and how good/bad is their attitude in brig. Considering how important those two are on the frontline, Hirano would force them two to HONESTLY apologize to one eachother and then personally promise him that they will never do it again, otherwise they will let him down, essentially DRASTICALLY lowering chances of them actually going to fight once everything is settled.
In this scenario, Hirano will pardon the marines.
- It is almost round-end, right before hijack, and a mass casualty scenario (over 10 dead marines) with only 2 doctors and 1 nurse present. The second nurse got arrested a minute ago because the CMP found them having a UPP weapon that they took from a body and they had it all the time, therefore proceeding them to arrest for FTFP and Contraband. They didn’t resist arrest. Due to how important the medical personnel are and how the nurse didn’t actually do anything bad with the weapon, it would be reasonable to carry on with the pardon.
Hirano would pardon the Nurse in that case.
I WOULD NOT PARDON IN NEXT SCENARIOS:
- A pyrotechnician specialist gets drunk and assaults someone. Therefore, being arrested for intoxication and assault. They did not resist arrest and they said they apologize for their actions, but the round just started, and the marines just dropped. In this situation, they imply being drunk is what caused them assaulting a person, but this is no means a excuse, and I would say it even makes their case harder to pardon. They have intentionally drunk themselves and being unable to contain their persona assaulted someone right afterwards.
Even though they are important, their actions are extremely stupid and their sentence isn’t big enough to warrant a pardon. Hirano would NOT pardon them.
- SADAR Specialist has accidentally dropped their rocket in the requisitions line, and someone picked it up and hid it, after proceeding to mock the SADAR. In response, they started fighting the marine and shoving multiple times, then it degraded into a fist fight. When the MP arrived, the SADAR was told to leave the line, but he confirmed shoving around for 2 minutes until forcefully pulled out. They are accused of Assault, Disorderly Conduct, and Resisting arrest.
In this scenario, both the person stealing (obviously not to be pardoned), and the SADAR have delayed the intended briefing for 4-5 minutes, also contributing to survivors groundside being killed and unable to be recovered in time, due to the fact that a lot of marines had to wait. SADAR is saying that his actions were justified and that he merely tried to shove the person to take off his bag and return the rocket, mentioning that he was provoked first for no reason. He was also saying that he couldn’t leave the requisitions line due to being actively shuffled by others.
All considered, SADAR could have carried out this situation way better, and by starting a fight, he has probably killed survivors groundside, he delayed briefing, and he also most likely lied about resisting arrest excuse because there is other ways how to leave the line even if you’re being shuffled. Though they are important, they proved to be aggressive and most likely uncompliant with the Military Police, which means that…
Hirano would NOT pardon them.
When do you believe it’s appropriate to use a Battlefield Execution?
Battlefield Execution is a tool for Commanding Officers to moderate players ICly using OOC mechanics (CO sidearm)
My stance on the BE is that it’s the last resort tool in terms of enforcing the Marine Law and Chain of Command and USUALLY should be used only in scenarios when EXTREMELY necessary or/and when Military Police is not present and deputizing would hinder with the operation’s combat capability. It is something that requires the user to be very careful and I would personally avoid using it outside of situations where we have MP staff and means to deal with something without killing my own subordinate.
It also contributes to the marines lowering their morale, as shooting a fellow marine is generally frowned upon, and most of the time when a BE is warranted, an ahelp could be applied. However, sometimes the only choice is to battlefield execute a person, and if there a reasonable call to do it, I will do it.
Give some examples of when you would or would not use Battlefield Execution.
I will BE in next examples:
- A male marine decided to strip female on the field, their uniform, as a joke. The female marine casually point-blanks them to the head and calls them a pervert, killing them in process. No MPs are shipside and the CIC is solo XO with a newbie Staff Officer that clearly doesn’t know ML procedures, not speaking of UCMJ itself. While the marine indeed commit crime of sexual harassment, atleast tried to do so, nonchalantly point-blanking a person for it is CLEARLY not acceptable and counts a murder. Due to the fact that the marine coldlessly killed other for such reasons and there is no one to arrest them, they already prove themselves as a threat to other people because they do not understand when it’s justified to kill one of yours and when it’s not.
I would BE them in this scenario.
- It is a long round and the CIC had series of miscommunication with SLs, afterwards Hirano deployed to control the situation himself due to the operation losing and marines being in a terrible shape. I rallied a flank and ordered Charlie to come with me. Before that occured, the Charlie Squad Leader multiple times declared CIC as incompetent and that they will get them killed in pretty harsh words, making a hostile atmosphere between marines and their commanders. Charlie Squad Leader ignores me on the radio and pushes with his squad into choke for around 5 minutes, losing two marines to being captured, until I came myself and told them to stop. In which they casually said “Sorry sir didn’t hear you”. In this situation, the Charlie Squad Leader most likely ignored my orders out of spite on CIC, effectively doing his own thing and undermining the Chain of Command and mine personal authority, not even mentioning that they lost people due to disobeying orders.
With this all considered, I would battlefield execute them.
I won’t BE in next examples:
- Akin to situation two, I will bring up an alternative version. It is a Solaris Ridge round and the Alpha Squad Leader is a newbie Sergeant, while they try to follow orders, they were doing it extremely poorly and the Captain kept bragging about it. Once the marines push into hive, the CIC needed Alpha at Hive desperately to encircle the enemy, but the SL went the wrong way on which Captain immediately walked up to me and said that they are refusing orders and losing us this operation. Clearly, the Squad Leader doesn’t know how to communicate properly and misses the Captain speaking, but they are not experienced enough and simply misheard or lost the orders in the million text passing by in their comms channel which is OKAY. While that did greatly threaten the operation, a Battlefield Execution in this scenario would be simply unnecessary because you are practically punishing a newbie. Hirano would politely explain the Squad Leader on how important it is to listen to CIC and make sure they understand where to go using tacmap and verbal directions himself.
I wouldn’t BE the SL in this scenario.
- It is a intense pillbox hold on Fiorina, both sides have been stalled for 30 minutes and forced to hold their ground, even though Marines tried to flank and OB but to no avail. I have instructed them to secure kills while counter-attacking, but some Smartgunner kept yelling how all marines are cowards and should push, that we outnumber them (which is wrong in reality) and we can kill them all. They also call me coward and try to push, urging others to do it, but the Squad Leaders are competent and keeps marines under the line. In this scenario, the marine actively tries to undermine my command and question my decisions, attempting to force people to push. However, no one listens to them, which means in this scenario they don’t make any actual threat to the operation and just be a general nuisance. Battlefield Executing them in this situation would only lower morale, as soldiers don’t exactly like seeing their Commander shooting battle buddies for being idiots.
I would not BE the SG in this situation.
Edited due to me forgetting to add something into the BE section right after I posted.
