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* If something poses a constant threat, you are free to use lethal force. This includes dangerous nonhuman creatures, changelings, nuclear operatives, cultists, and wizards. | * If something poses a constant threat, you are free to use lethal force. This includes dangerous nonhuman creatures, changelings, nuclear operatives, cultists, and wizards. | ||
* If hulks are smashing shit, you are free to use lethal force on them until they pass out and lose hulk after too much damage, at which point you can either take them to get healed or heal them yourself, and then brig/permabrig them. | * If hulks are smashing shit, you are free to use lethal force on them <s>until they pass out and lose hulk after too much damage, at which point you can either take them to get healed or heal them yourself, and then brig/permabrig them.</s> ''If someone's using their stun immunity to go around smashing stuff for no reason you are allowed to kill them - no reason being the key words, don't kill hulks that are breaking stuff for good reasons (like when the rogue as shit AI is flooding plasma)'' | ||
* If someone is shooting at you with lethal weaponry | * If someone is shooting at you with lethal weaponry you are free to respond in kind. | ||
* Once you have someone stunned and cuffed, there is no excuse to not take them to the brig/permabrig if they aren't one of the above listed threats. Beating | * Once you have someone stunned and cuffed, there is no excuse to not take them to the brig/permabrig if they aren't one of the above listed threats. Beating a common criminal, who is already down and unable to fight back, to death is shit. ''But do remember that several antags have ways to quickly recover from stuns and even pop out of their cuffs, beating antags to death might be the smart thing to do.'' | ||
* Executions are to be authorized by the Captain or acting Captain, if available. If '''neither''' are available, it is up to the HoS or acting HoS. If security are in agreement that the Captain is a condom, they may skip to the HoS, but whoever that is will be held accountable if they authorize shitty executions without understanding fully the crimes. | * Executions are to be authorized by the Captain or acting Captain, if available. If '''neither''' are available, it is up to the HoS or acting HoS. If security are in agreement that the Captain is a condom, they may skip to the HoS, but whoever that is will be held accountable if they authorize shitty executions without understanding fully the crimes. | ||
* When considering whether or not to execute someone, consider their crimes; did they murder people with an ebow, or did they just emag 1-2 doors with an emag? The former is something reasonable to execute them, the latter you could stick them with a lethal chemical implant and tell them to be good or enjoy death. | * When considering whether or not to execute someone, consider their crimes; did they murder people with an ebow, or did they just emag 1-2 doors with an emag? The former is something reasonable to execute them, the latter you could stick them with a lethal chemical implant and tell them to be good or enjoy death. ''Remember borging exists, it removes a potentially dangerous criminal from the round but also doesn't involve locking a player in a small cell for an hour. Ask them if they want to be paroled as a borg, if they're shit afterwards it is adminhelpable.'' | ||
* In instances where nonlethal force is not an option or not a good idea, e.g. someone in space breaking into the Armory, firing lasers at them through the windows isn't going to get you in trouble. | * In instances where nonlethal force is not an option or not a good idea, e.g. someone in space breaking into the Armory, firing lasers at them through the windows isn't going to get you in trouble. | ||
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* See the [[Rules]] section for more details. | * See the [[Rules]] section for more details. | ||
==Dealing With Threats, Minimal Force== | ==Dealing With Threats, Minimal Force== | ||