As of a recent update, ODSTs have been moved over to the ONI prowler, and a majority of times they're played as government spooks. Not only is it inconsistent with the purpose of the ODSTs by and large, as they are special forces and still fall under the UNSC Marine Corps.  It's also a frustration to players, the government spooks are more often than not off on their own incongruent mission, leaving the marines in a bad place and not assisting them because "You're not allowed to know why I'm here", or operating outside of the chain-of-command and attempting to be their own separate force entirely from the UNSC.

I'm suggesting the 4 man team be reinstated on the UNSC frigate, as the wiki page on ODSTs mentions  that "[They] maintain units of varying strength aboard many UNSC vessels and installations". And as James mentioned on the discord, the prowler being set up for various ERTs. Someone mentioned break-ins of the ODST armory being an issue, if this is the case, I suggest moving it to some unused space, perhaps somewhere on deck-1, where it's not easily accessable, and just give ODSTs higher access around the ship.

Hopefully moving them back to the frigate would help increase cohesion between the ODSTs and regular marines, as bringing them back under the same chain-of-command and having them as part of the crew puts them back in a much more integrated position.

I'm sure I've missed something, and I'd love to see where this goes, and what people have to add or detract from it.

Special thanks to Kudzu for being my editor and helping me sort  the post!

Ckey: Veio274


Discord name: Ani

In-character name> Dillon O'Neil 

general character info: A quiet man who enjoys shooting, his desire is to become an ODST, he is a smoker but good shot


Reason for joining : he entered the UNSC after his planet was invaded by covenants and the UNSC helped to kill them.

Ckey: Darkking1234

Discord Name: Darkking1234

Character(s): Joe Walaski

What is your character's intended playstyle?: I plan to play as a support/overwatch kind of character always there watching my comrades backs,providing support fire and engaging targets from a distance.

Do you understand that members of this whitelist are held to a higher standard of roleplay?: Yes i do.

Do you understand that if your behavior is deemed inappropriate you will be removed from the whitelist?: Yep.

Do you understand that breaking a server rule can remove you from this whitelist permanently?:Yes.

Ckey: Ingredients

Discord Name: Ingredients

Character(s): Dans Guard

What is your character's intended playstyle?: A support role that involves covering the rear, and attending to injured ODST soldiers in the field of battle. ODST Medic.

Do you understand that members of this whitelist are held to a higher standard of roleplay?: Yes.

Do you understand that if your behavior is deemed inappropriate you will be removed from the whitelist?: Yes.

Do you understand that breaking a server rule can remove you from this whitelist permanently?: Yes.

Ckey:Erikeuh


Discord name: @Kill Kanadian Klansmen#3889 

In-character name: Nasser Al'Komun

general character info: Al'Komum, along with his other comrades back on Earth, wanted to believe in "winning the battle of democracy", but to him, it quickly became clear that even more than before, bourgeois elections don't do shit all for the working class, so he dropped his "idealistic" beliefs and decided that, yes, political power do grow out of the barrel of a gun, and he'll be behind the barrel, this time. But Earth can't yet liberated, the People's War must first start in the outer colonies, and, there, he wasn't the first one to be sick of the UEG... Nasser managed to join the URF by breaking out two "innies" out of a police car, it wasn't easy, but with the aid of a very large rock and a toy gun, he managed to threaten the lone cop into releasing the rebels, who promptly gunned down the officer, as expected really, now complice of crime, and more willing to join, it was easy to join the guerrila fighters.

Reason for joining : Al'Komum doesn't really like entryisme, even more that the URF is composed of people he would never call comrades, he'd gladly take over the organisation and set it straight, but he understand the URF is right now, the only opposition to the UEG and it's armies. So, as long as the UEG and UNSC stand, he'll fight alongside the URF.

What position are you applying for (Development or Staff)?
Development.



How old are you?
27 (23/11/1990)

Known IC Names Or Ckey:
Ckey: Flaksim
IC name: Maxime Kashada


Discord Name? (The projects preferred chat application):
Flaksim


What timezone are you in?
GMT+1


How active can you be?
I can devote 7 ish hours a week to this project, might be more, its my most conservative estimate.


How long have you been active within the Space Station 13 community?
Since 2007.

Do you have a history of bans?
I got banned on the goon server a couple of years ago, unsure why, but I believe I went "fuck it" and murderboned everyone one round.


Do you have any past experience as server staff/moderation?
I used to be the only staffer back when colonial marines first started out under kitty, but nothing on SS13 since then.
(Left the job in protest when the host was adamant that turning everyone who hit another teammember into a corgi was a good way to counter griefers: Griefers intentionally let themselves get hit by innocent players, whom then turned into corgi's and were mercilessly slaughtered by aliens, terribad.)


--Development Questions--


*If you are applying for development, What skills do you have?( Mapping, coding or spriting etc.) 
I'm a mapper, but I have dabbled in coding and spriting aswell, with mixed results.

*If you are applying for development, How long have you done Space Station 13 development?
I have been involved with SS13 since 2007, when I used to make bug corrections to the code and map. (These are the days of the flight bridge to engineering, and when a high pop round was 15+ players on a station that could fit 20 at max)

Since then I havent really worked on SS13, with one exception where I took an early version of SS13 and created a substantially larger map for it. (It was never used, server populations werent that high back in the day.)

I mostly worked on my Star Trek byond game pet project (some sprite attachements below, but we did map out a defiant, sovereign and starbase before we put it on hold) And twiddling with Stargate Online (Mapping various planets and ships for that game)


*If you are applying  as a mapper, How long have you been a Mapper and how well do you understand it?
I have been mapping on and off since 2007, but seriously mapping was mostly on SGO between 2012 and 2014, and my trek game around that period with Asha_LaPoe


   
   
   
   
   

Ckey: Focks in a bocks


Discord name: Focks-Bocks

In-character name: Angelique Moerk

general character info: The helpful private with Squeakers the mouse plush. She seems a little disheveled for standards, but more than makes up for it with exuberance and vigor, making food for the crew in the mess, leading new crew around the frigate, and assisting colonists all around the frontier. Unless you catch her in a bad mood, then she just comes off as sarcastic or bitchy.  


Reason for joining : Moerk enlisted after dropping out of college and having a large lack of direction in her life. She thought the UNSC would give her an opportunity to travel the galaxy, and give her purpose through helping the folks on the outer colonies and the frontier of space from all the atrocities and nasty plots the URF had been committing on the citizens of the UEG.

Ckey: Sibg

Discord Name: Sibg

Character(s): Makayla Mallard, Dimirti Mason

What is your character's intended playstyle?: Sticking to the back picking off targets and supporting my squad.

Do you understand that members of this whitelist are held to a higher standard of roleplay?: Yes.

Do you understand that if your behavior is deemed inappropriate you will be removed from the whitelist?: Yes.

Do you understand that breaking a server rule can remove you from this whitelist permanently?: Yes.

General Summary: Essentially a gamemode based around the overall direction of Halo 3 ODST where the map is a multi z city at night where respawns are either nonexistent or limited, making stealth or evasion more important than regular combat. The humans will be various survivors of a Covenant attack and the only reason the city is still standing, albeit barely, is because there are relics in the city that the Covenant Luminary raised attention to. The Covenant players must both hunt for the humans and hunt for relics strewn throughout the city, returning them to their ship.

Details: The city will have 3-4 z levels including a basement level with sewers and basements, the street level, and each building will possibly be either a single story structure, two story, or sky scraper style tower. The entire map will have a run down, recently attacked, gritty and dark feel to it. I will be taking heavy inspiration from H3ODST with styling the city and adding the possibility of supply caches. This gamemode would not require Covenant being more fleshed out though that would be helpful.

Roles: The Covenant would have grunt minors, elite minors, and possibly a limit of 1-2 cloaked elites. The human roles would be surviving police, insurrectionists, marines, and a slim number of ODST that dropped late into the fight. Civilians were either killed or evacuated earlier before the round began.

This Gamemode would be based around humans either killing the remaining covenant or hiding out/running until they get what they want and leave. There would be no clear cut victory or loss, only a story of survivors in their last hours as aliens rip their city apart in search of what they believe to be Forerunner artifacts.

Ckey: Spartankill3r


Discord name: Spartan#7620

In-character name: Warren Janeway

general character info: Warren would have grown up on Earth. His father, a former veteran of the UNSC and decommissioned Lieutenant, would raise him with strict discipline and athleticism. He would achieve decent grades as well as performing excellently in several sports available to him in school. Being a little hot-headed, he often got into fights as a teenager, though through his father, and his physique, he would be able to stand his own ground quite effectively. The atmosphere from home, to joining the UNSC wouldn't be too different, as his father had readied him for this career. When he had turned 18, and graduated from school, he would have enlisted.

Reason for joining: Heavy influences from, and respect for his father would make him enlist himself into the UNSC.

OOC reasons, I love SS13, and I'm loving this server as a fan of the Halo Universe, to the point that I'm planning on  donating on my next paycheck lol.