story time: so one time as a CL I found a bright red xenomorph egg just sitting there in the hallway. I was like “never seen that before, wonder if the company would like it” so I take it and leave it in my office containment unit and promptly send a fax to the company.
They sent a reply pretty quickly and said that they would send someone to come collect said egg and asked if I wanted something to return to which I asked for A nice vintage gun worthy to put up on a wall.
Someone docks at the station, collects the egg from my office and hands me a gold plated rifle and M1911.
CMP then comes along and decides to do a search of my office because they saw a suppressor on my office table. they found the faxes about the egg and the company and proceeded to get me arrested for sedition.
after a visit with a WY lawyer and after a Provost marshall I am eventually freed from my sentence.
In post round chat though there was a small debate on if I committed sedition or not which was ultimately inconclusive. so I would like to know, was it sedition?
in a spirit sense, yes because per the first contact at the operation start, you’re giving the ability for further xeno spread to WY, when the USCM is actively engaged with xenomorphs as a known enemy by that point.
in a technical brass-tacks marine law wording sense: it actually isn’t sedition. is it illegal per the “if it’s a crime IRL, it’s a crime here”? sure. but it’s not sedition since you didn’t have the intent of keeping the egg on the almayer and thus overthrowing the legitimate command directives (also they didnt know there was an egg, but that’s beside the point). you also didn’t intend to create a massive threat to the ship, since you passed the egg off to the goons, and the egg was on the ship anyways, so its simple existence in your office versus the hall wouldn’t have been your fault either. sedition could be tacked on to whoever brought the egg up and left it in the hall, maybe. your charge would’ve been more appropriately assessed as subterfuge for the strong evidence you were carrying out goals against the USCM’s mission, broadly; but not the USS Almayer specifically.
also contraband if the gun wasnt in “a secure area” on green alert, whatever that entails, but likely your safe, personal room, or as some very good CLs have in the past, your bathroom. you’d be right to have had your primary sidearm you start with but the m1911 would’ve been additional unauthorized weaponry if on green, so that would net a major contraband charge for a picky MP.
you had a good lawyer if you got out of that lol. and also one that was, literally, correct.
Pretty sure it’s against the law to search your office with unreasonable suspicion. A suppressor isn’t enough because your office is a secure place. Also, reading classified faxes? If I was in charge of the CMP I’d arrest him for NoD, but the fact that he found out about the xeno egg makes his suspicions reasonable.
I’m pretty sure you should have been arrested on the charge of subterfuge but because faxes aren’t strong enough proof it shouldn’t happen if your lawyers are good.
It would only be sedition on two counts if you grew the red xenomorph in your containment without the knowledge of Command + Create a massive threat to the ship. You did neither and actually performed as a Corporate Liaison would, furthering the interests of the Company from a dubiously legal perspective.
As CL you are given a reasonable degree of privacy from search/monitoring your office so long as you haven’t been doing anything illegal. Finding a suppressor isn’t grounds for a search and you were frankly powergamed.
There’s a reason why in US law, police can’t just find illegal reasons to search your property, for if they find illegal shit in there in the process of carrying out that illegal search, they can’t use the evidence found. Its pure dishonest practice.
Tip for CL’s: if an MP is asking you to submit to a search of your office, ask them if they have Form C-1053. this is a real form that they will have to fill out to conduct a lawful search. you can find this at the linked doc which you can also find in the guides subforum