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Nova Sector Antagonist Policy

Good Faith

Good Faith should be starting point of your interactions; while they won't always go how you want, it's important to always be trying your best to focus on creating roleplay where possible, even in dire circumstances! This doesn't mean you have to ignore the mechanics on the game, be that fixing a girder, or getting in a fight, just that you shouldn't be playing this role, or any other with the sole-intention of putting roleplay in second-place!

General Rulings: Antagonists should not be hijacking/attacking the escape shuttle without admin-permission. Most of your actions should be focused around your objectives, or the people directly related to them, you should be keeping opt-in status' in mind aswell. Remember, RP is the focus, and even if the objective could be done with no witness' you should aim to generate some RP around the event itself. If you want to add additional objectives, or side-steps to getting towards an objective, make an ahelp so staff can keep in the loop for the where-and-why. Conversion requires there to be at least double-the-security for the amount of people you want to convert, unless it's a pre-set number of converts (Like holoparasite, or simian back up) Avoid targeting anything relating to atmospherics, or the engine, ahelp for permission if it's part of a gimmick to do so. You should not be attempting to force the round to end quickly via sabotage, massive destruction of the station, or total destruction. If you roll an antagonist that is not on this list, ahelp to inform staff. If a antagonist in the roster below does not have any metaprotections listed, it has none. Do not exfiltrate without a approved OPFOR or ahelp, you're in it for the long run. You've rolled [antag], and are ready to knock the head off your target, or elsewise, kidnap them, how should you go about this? As said below, you want to keep opt-in's in mind, this doesn't mean you can't wack the opt-in no engineer who just walked in on your murder, but it does mean you shouldn't kill them, just to steal their jaws so you can break into medical faster. Above anything else, before and after this, you want to avoid damaging large-swathes of the station for 1-2 targets. So what can I do?! Damage an area, as long as said damage is specifically related to the objective. Target sec when they show up, as they're always opted in. Elsewise, you can follow their opted in prefs, be it round removal, or what the objective said.

Opt-In Opt-In Prefs No means you will not be placed in any antagonist objectives. This does not make you immune to IC consequences or circumstance. Yes - Inconvenience applies to antagonists and their objectives, namely being kidnapped or cuffed either by objective or circumstance. Yes - Kill applies to both antags and non-antags, letting them know you're open to be killed more wantonly, which also means means you can catch the fade for walking in on a bad situation. Yes - Round-removal is much the same: it lets people know you're alright with round-removal in most situations. So if you walk into a bomb threat you should expect they won't even try to not gib you.

PMS / Station Threats:
Permanent Mechanical State The state in which waiting the usual time for CI isn't required, and anyone under it can be attacked immediately as CI is flagged up, this includes anyone with an AOE passive effect on others (mask of madness, syndicate mood-draining-module, or people who have shown the ability to teleport away from situations.) If an RP situation comes up, while they're PMS, PMS is suspended until mechanics start again.
Station Threat: A station threat is an antag who any player can: hunt, pursue, or elsewise try to kill, without the pursuer needing to worry about valid hunting rules. This is to say they are completely free game for the crew to target. Station threats are still protected by CI policy, unless they are in a permanent mechanical state. Note that some antagonists start as station threats out the gate. However, For EX: Any threat which makes a CC announcement, think: heretic ascending, contractor sending someone away, pirates arriving. Any threat, or person which wipes out either the entire, or the majority of the present security force.

General Antagonist Roster

Antag Type:	Description:	Special Rules:	Metaprotections:
Threats From Within Traitor Changeling (Station Threat) Malf AI (Station Threat) Obsessed Blood Brothers	Description:You are a ne'er do well, a criminal, a contractor, or else-wise just a person who's offered to do an easy job for a years pay, whatever the case. You're here with a goal, and likely, not one they ever expected you to complete.	Special Rules: Malf AI: Ahelp to Doomsday. In addition, you're not able to CI in many cases of the things you do. Keep in mind rule 5.	Metaprotections: Traitor: Everything can be identified within context if it's not a item known by Nanotrasen (see; corporate regs.) Changeling: You're a well known threat to the station, any showing of your powers is going to put you at the top of the list for threats. Malf AI: Research, Engineering, and the Captain can identify the more subtle signs. Otherwise, anyone can call it out if you're being less than subtle. Blood Brothers: Follow Traitor gudelines.
Magical Threats Clock Cultist Heretic	Description: You are a worshipper of arts that can only be explained through the conclusion that magic exists. Your goal is to satisfy your masters and further your arcane knowledge.	Special Rules: Heretics and Clock Cultists cannot ascend.	Metaprotections: Heretic: You're an esoteric thing, not many people worship your specific deity. Don't be surprised if you start doing a bunch of very obvious things (tearing open rifts, using powers, etc.) and people call it out.
External Threats Blob (PMS and Station Threat) Contractor Fugitives/Hunters Lone Infiltrator Nightmare Morph Revenant Space Pirates (Station Threat) Space Ninja Spy Voidwalker Space Changeling Alien Infestation (PMS and Station Threat)	Description: You're not of this station. The people here aren't familiar, but you still have a job to do, whether it be from a master of some kind.	Special Rules: Blob: Do not spawn near or adjacent to the engine room atmospherics, or ordinance. Nightmare: Do not attempt to sabotage the engine. Morph: Do not take the form of large sprites such as the BSA, DNA Vault, etc. In addition, they shouldn't be immediately rushing for the ore silo. Space Ninja: If your objectives are overly griefy (space most of the station, mass sabotage, etc) Ahelp to have staff help you fix them. You can very quickly be placed into PMS if you're teleporting constantly.	Metaprotections: Nightmare: Most people know you hate light and can regenerate in the dark. Space Changeling: Follow Changeling metaprotections above.
Event Threats	Description: Events run by administrators and other staff.	Special Rules: The staff running the event antagonist will set the rules. Listen to what they say.	Metaprotections: Set by administrators, assume none.

Sandbox Antagonists

What is a Sandbox Antagonist?

Sandbox antagonists are our idea of trying to promote higher roleplay in Antagonists by offering engagement with known professional and high quality actors within the community. In particular, having high performing and creative individuals behind the Antagonist wheel ensures that we have better experiences and opportunities for character development with the average crewmember. This role, compared to a traditional rolled antagonist, is expected to be some of the highest performing role players on the server that create memorable and fun experiences for other players.

Sandbox Antagonists Roster Lone Infiltrator Contractor Space Ninja Heretic Clock Cultist Traitor Changeling Malf Borg/AI

Requirements: Members of this go through an online application process on the discord. Approval will add a note to your ckey that can be used to redeem at any time and is reusable. The character that is applied should have a detailed backstory on how/why they are in this role, with an additional caveat if they are a station character as to why they are Players that apply for this must be in good standing on the server. While not required, we'd like to see interesting gimmicks and ideas for this area. You are not limited to only playing the antagonists on the left side, however you are restricted to using these as the "base" of your idea. If you have a unique idea that might not fit into these categories, you're welcome to present it in an application.

Rules: Keep in mind rule 5. If your objective is to just do some low key rp with someone, that's fine, but you shouldn't see a already hectic situation and decide to pour more gasoline on it. This goes doubly if you decide your gimmick is going to be violent on shifts where there is a low population or security presence. Don't spam it. Try to limit use to every few days. You can apply with as many characters as you want, but approved Antagonist token characters are barred from Security, Command, and Double Agent roles. There is a higher standard for roleplay with this, we expect high amounts of good faith with this. Try not to do the same gimmick every time. While you still are beholden to the general antagonist rules, you are given complete freedom in terms of what you want to do outside of that.

Nova Sector policies

Server Rules • Nova Roleplay Expectations • Antagonist Policy • Silicon policy • Ghost Role policy • Corporate Regulations • Security Policy

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