Revolution

BRAINWASHED STAFF
Revolutionaries	Access: Wherever you had access to before Additional Access: Same as above Difficulty: Easy to Hard Supervisors: The Syndicate Duties: Stay alive, recruit more individuals to your cause, and kill the Heads of Staff! Guides: This is the guide Quote: VIVA LA REVOLUTION

Revolution is a team-based antagonist game mode, similar in vein to Gangs or Nuke Ops. In it, certain members of the crew are chosen to play as Head Revolutionaries, and they begin with the goal of recruiting other crew members to their just cause, and ultimately killing the station's Command staff to free the people from their oppressive rule.

Revolution and you

A Primer on Revolt

During a Revolution round, it is the job of the Head Revolutionaries to recruit anyone outside of Security to their cause by walking up and using a Flasher on them. From there, their goal becomes finding inventive ways to remove the Captain, Head of Security, Head of Personnel, Chief Engineer, Chief Medical Officer, and Research Director, from play. If the Revolutionaries manage to kill or exile all of the ORIGINAL heads (THIS DOES NOT COUNT HEADS THAT JOIN AFTER THE ROUND BEGINS), they are considered victorious. If the non-revolutionary crew manages to kill or exile all of the Head Revolutionaries, the Revolution is defeated.

An important mechanic of note for this gamemode is that Heads of Staff as well as Head Revolutionaries are considered to be exiled if they leave the z-level of the station or enter a locker. This means that if either team of Heads hides in lockers, takes the Mining transport shuttle to Lavaland (willingly or unwillingly), or is thrown far enough out into space, they will be listed as having abandoned the station. This can lead to Revolution rounds ending pre-maturely, but this can also allow one side to non-lethally remove a target.

The Emergency Shuttle can be called but will never arrive during this game mode. The round will not end until either side has won by eliminating the leadership of the other side.

Head Revolutionaries

Leading a Revolution is often a difficult, frustrating, and ultimately thankless task. Nonetheless, it is up to you to fight for what you know to be right, and to overthrow the corporate overlords of Space Station 13.

Head Revolutionaries begin alone in their cause, excepting the company of their fellow Head Revolutionaries. The first step to be taken is covertly acquiring more manpower for the Revolution via the flasher, which will brainwash targets that it blinds into fervent Revolutionaries. Be aware that this device is not foolproof - welding masks and sunglasses will completely mitigate the flash, and thus the brainswashing that follows. Additionally, members of Security, those with loyalty implants, and the Heads of Staff themselves cannot be converted at all. As such, discretion and care must be taken when Head Revolutionaries and selecting targets to kidnap liberate from their bonds.

As a Revolutionary Head, you will want to know the value of pursuing various potential converts. In general, your primary turning targets are Roboticists, Scientists, the Cargo Technicians, and Geneticists. Robotics can supply replacement flashes, in the case that yours burns out. Scientists, and the Research Division on the whole, can fabricate explosives, and Cargo Bay serves as a great base of operations, and can order supplies, such as more flashes, or weapons. And finally, Genetics can supply you and your revolutionary mob beneficial genetic mutations, as well as provide free access to, or lock down, the station's cloning lab. Genetics also has an additional use if you've already killed a station head - they can save the heads' appearance enzymes and then inject you with them, making you look exactly like the deceased individual (minus any loyalty implants). With the person's ID and their clothes, you can seamlessly step into their shoes, and do as you may.

Once the Revolution has begun to gain steam, the Revolutionary Head's job shifts slightly to keeping a low profile. The swarm of converted revolutionaries should be strong enough to hold its own without the Head at the forefront. Keep your identity a secret if possible, and only associate with non-revs if need be, or if you intend to liberate them.

Converted Revolutionaries

Converted Revolutionaries are the station staff members that have fallen victim to been liberated by a Head Revolutionary's flasher. As a new recruit in the Revolution, your new job is to find a way to kill or exile the Heads of Staff without getting caught, and help protect the Head Revolutionaries, all the while staying alive, yourself. Follow the orders of the Head Revolutionaries and join your brothers and sisters in tearing down the oppressive chain of command wrapped around the necks of the working class. Viva la revolution!

Revolution and Others

Heads of Staff

Your lives are on the line here. You must act carefully, concisely, and effectively.

At the first credible evidence of revolutionary activity, go somewhere relatively safe, likely the Brig. If you have access, immediately crack open the cases of loyalty implants. There is one case in the Armory and another in the Head of Security's locker. Each contains four implants. These will run out very fast, so your first priority should be implanting the Cargo staff and especially the Quartermaster, if there is one. Once the supply line is implanted, their job is to order more loyalty implants and nothing but loyalty implants. If an implanted QM complains, demote them, as they are a liability.

Once the loyalty implant stockpile is large enough, transition to implanting crew members. There will likely be a large handful of Revolutionaries at this point, so within your first few implants you may deconvert someone, showing you a message such as "Robert Robust looks as if they've remembered their true allegiance!" Immediately ask them who converted them - this will be one of the Head Revolutionaries you are looking to find - and dispatch loyal forces to find and apprehend the named individual.

In the more likely case that things aren't going smoothly, either through Cargo having been Revolutionized early on, loyalty implants having run out, general chaos and rioting erupting, or other such scenarios, it is important to keep in mind that knocking a revolutionary out with an object applied to the head has a [Damage of the Item + (Max health - Current health of person being hit) / 2] chance to deconvert them. The trusty toolbox deals 10 "brute" damage (damage type must be brute), so, a toolbox to the head to a healthy Revolutionary would bear a [10 + (100 - 100) / 2] % of deconverting them. Do bear in mind that this is not an open invitation to go about swinging a bludgeoning object at your fellow crewmates without any trace of reasonable doubt about their loyalties. Harm should not be a firm resort.

Finally, if you are a Head of Staff that would rather live, there is nothing wrong with declaring that you wish to surrender and requesting safe passage to the mining or gulag shuttle for a swift departure from Space Station 13, though it will remain to be seen if the fervent Revolutionaries will accept your surrender.

And as a footnote, please remember that hiding and making yourself an almost impossible target as either a Head Revolutionary or Head of Staff is poor form, and will potentially have consequences.

Station Staff

As a member of the general staff, Revolutionary rounds should be treated like any other Traitor round. if you see someone acting wrongly, or attacking a Head of Staff, try to stop them and call Security. Security and the Heads of Staff, however, will be under a lot of stress. If you are not loyalty implanted, it would be in your best interest to keep your distance and not startle them, or else they may consider you to be a Revolutionary and attack. Otherwise, just try to go about your typical duties as best you can. That is, unless you get flashed...