I wasn't going to permabrig him, and we were litteraly the only people alive. except for the pAI. What should I have done, organized a trial with me as the prosecutor and the (super-biased because he killed his master) pAI as judge? Or the other way around, with no way for the pAI to acces the proof? There was literally NO way to organize a trial. I also saw him walk out of Engineering right afer the pAI announced that his master was assaulted by the captain and found Isook's body. I also found his prints on an emag and a box of .357 shells, and everybody else was dead or not responding. There was no other person that could have done it. Also, he didn't even try to think up an excuse, he just said "I'm the captain, release me." and I replied "No" (This is not exactly the sentences we used). I put him in permabrig to store him. I could also have put him in the normal brig and set the timer to ten minutes. It wouldn't really have made a difference. Besides, there's plenty of places to hide for vending machines and they hardly do a lot of damage. The straightjacket was only for a very short time so I wouldn't have to worry about you running around everywhere while I stripped you and did some things.
Also, I was the HoP, so having some cuffs on me did make sense, especially after I yelled "Hello?" over the radio in the arrivals shuttle a few times and got zero answer.
I threw him in permabrig while I grabbed the detective's scanner and scanned the emag and box of .357 shells and went to rescue the pAI and Isook. As I mentioned earlier, it was just a way to store him until I could manage things, because, as I mentioned earlier too, I was the only person that wasn't the pAI or the captain that apparantly murdered someone. I'll give you that I had no way of knowing that we were the only people alive, but nobody ever responded to my radio messages.
I was also going to space him on the shuttle under influence of the pAI, which may have been wrong, but due to the thing with velocity and all that I didn't manage to drag him anywhere.
As I said, I was the HoP, which is basically a mini-captain, so I assumed recognizing the most common traitor item ever would make sense.
Even more, the pAI gave me quite some information on the situation.
You weren't going to permabrig me? Weird, you only coming back when I (admittedly IC in OOC) posted I'm dying - BTW we need an intercom in Permabrig - and I've already been heavily burned, and unlike you, without armor which tends to protect from those, so the vending machines were dangerous.
You only took the straitjacket off after I complained, and being 'worried about me running around' - if you aren't worried about the prisoner potentially escaping, it means the prisoner hasn't a single chance to escape, which in turn means lolstraitjacketroundwin.
.357's proved exactly nothing as they weren't, as you were quick to assume, obtained via PDA. I've just wanted to test what I heard about modifying weapons, which resulted in the revolver blowing up in my face, and Captain can have lethal-only weapons as exemplified by his, you know, laser.
I don't see what logical connection is there between being given silent treatment by the staff and having cuffs. If you were supposed to have them, they would spawn in your office. And HoP is not 'mini-Captain'. Captain is Captain, mini or otherwise, and HoP is traditionally supposed to take over when there's NO CAPTAIN. Giving yourself all access at the round start is absurdly powergamey.
Emag can be recognized as illegal, but there is no connection to Syndicate itself - it's an ID with an electromagnetic strip quickly hacked together. So illegal, but unlike, say, Red Spacesuit not obviously Syndicate.
I don't see why spacing would be any better than outright shooting me to death out of blue because someone else's pAI decided to be nuts. The situation sure would look fun for CentComm investigation: you sitting alone in the escape shuttle with a gun and a dead Captain, with evidence unsecured and, due to you stripping me bare-handed, all the evidence you had - traces from clothes - bearing fingerprints from both you and me. You could have just as well murdered me, usurped command, murdered everyone who ended up dead and changed into HoP clothes and took off on shuttle.
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As for Captain cloning - this is one singular case which I find excusable, since if no-one is playing Genetics (or Botany) there is no way to bring people back into the round.