Goonhub
02-20-2015, 01:06 PM
I like the detective a lot and I don't think he requires any major changes!
When security is short on staff, he's a dependable extra pair of hands. As capable as any other redshirt, but with a little more flavour.
In a high-pop round, with a full sec force, the detective can play a little more hands off. He doesn't need to be a beat cop patrolling the station and breaking up petty disputes. He gets a lot more free time to scope out potential threats, investigate events in more depth than his security officer counterparts (who've already been called away to deal with some other crime.) and really dig deep in to the schemes of stealthy antagonists.
Sure, a lot of the time crimes are cut and dry. The bad man with the gun shot all the nice crewmen and ended up in a cell because of it. But when a corpse turns up and nobody knows why, the detective gets to truly shine.
The detective has more time and tools at his disposal to root out those tricky undercover traitors,vampires and changelings that get missed in busy mixed rounds and that's a neat niche to fill.
It's very satisfying to match a set of prints from a couple of maint bodies, pin a guy for a crime and watch with a smile as the friendly chaplain goes horror form in the middle of the busy medbay and the HoS and his goons have to deal with the fallout.
When security is short on staff, he's a dependable extra pair of hands. As capable as any other redshirt, but with a little more flavour.
In a high-pop round, with a full sec force, the detective can play a little more hands off. He doesn't need to be a beat cop patrolling the station and breaking up petty disputes. He gets a lot more free time to scope out potential threats, investigate events in more depth than his security officer counterparts (who've already been called away to deal with some other crime.) and really dig deep in to the schemes of stealthy antagonists.
Sure, a lot of the time crimes are cut and dry. The bad man with the gun shot all the nice crewmen and ended up in a cell because of it. But when a corpse turns up and nobody knows why, the detective gets to truly shine.
The detective has more time and tools at his disposal to root out those tricky undercover traitors,vampires and changelings that get missed in busy mixed rounds and that's a neat niche to fill.
It's very satisfying to match a set of prints from a couple of maint bodies, pin a guy for a crime and watch with a smile as the friendly chaplain goes horror form in the middle of the busy medbay and the HoS and his goons have to deal with the fallout.