Goonhub
10-16-2022, 12:24 AM
it's late and I'm shleepy so I might not be putting this as coherently as I want but I'll give it a shot
security is a department that people seem to constantly suggest be More self-sufficient. it isn't unwarranted, because sec is like billed as The role that stops everything from going to shit. that's what they bring to the station and it's undoubtedly vital that they do
at the same time, this can breed a really insular mindset, for people who main sec. actions and interactions on-station get easily boiled down to these chess matches between sec and antags while disregarding whatever freaky artifact the scientists use to turn most of artlab to soulsteel, or a mechcomp contraption a couple mechanics built that functions as a giant roulette table, or the continental breakfast spread the chef has been working on
there's so much to experience outside of security, so much more to any given round than the moment-to-moment tension and combat between The Evildoers and The Shmucks Who Get Paid To Stop The Evildoers. and I think having the HoP there to potentially allow these two streams to engage with each other in a Non-Optimal but perhaps interesting way is important to keep sec from being shut off from everyone else completely, if that makes sense
security is a department that people seem to constantly suggest be More self-sufficient. it isn't unwarranted, because sec is like billed as The role that stops everything from going to shit. that's what they bring to the station and it's undoubtedly vital that they do
at the same time, this can breed a really insular mindset, for people who main sec. actions and interactions on-station get easily boiled down to these chess matches between sec and antags while disregarding whatever freaky artifact the scientists use to turn most of artlab to soulsteel, or a mechcomp contraption a couple mechanics built that functions as a giant roulette table, or the continental breakfast spread the chef has been working on
there's so much to experience outside of security, so much more to any given round than the moment-to-moment tension and combat between The Evildoers and The Shmucks Who Get Paid To Stop The Evildoers. and I think having the HoP there to potentially allow these two streams to engage with each other in a Non-Optimal but perhaps interesting way is important to keep sec from being shut off from everyone else completely, if that makes sense