Whitelists definitely are needed for roles with high roleplay, admin trust, and competence requirements.
Beyond that, inherently: a whitelist is a acknowledgement of conditional trust. The most obvious and blatant example is the ability to BE imo.
Queens?
- There is virtually no roleplay requirement beyond the same basic stuff the XO has to follow.
- Xenos have always been interesting in that they lack the same large consistent player base and the role itself has no “trainer” role like CO does in the form of XO.
- Xenos evolve. What happens if there is no whitelisted xeno drone to jump into the Queen slot?