User:PowerfulBacon/Escalation Policy2

Faction Escalation

Certain factions or antagonists have their own additions to the escalation policy that allow for different responses towards other players.

1. Station - Aligned to the station and should be friendly towards crew. Should not be attempting to unnecessarily start conflict.
2. Neutral - Neutral roles have no alignment and do not need to be friendly towards the station, but must have a reason to initiate combat.
   • Neutral defenders may skip to the 'kill' phase of escalation.
   • Defenders may skip to the 'kill' phase of escalation when fighting a neutral role.
3. Hostile - Hostile roles are against the station.
   • Hostile roles may skip to the 'kill' phase of escalation immediately without any prior interaction.
   • Aggressors and defenders may skip the 'kill' phase of escalation when fighting a hostile role.
   • Hostile roles follow the antagonist policy but may have some additional privileges outlined below.
   • If the hostile role is a member of the station's crew, security must follow space law and make attempts to revive the victim if the situation permits.
   • The crew must make a reasonable attempt to deconvert hostile roles that are known to be deconvertable.

Not all factions are immediately obvious, once a character appears to be a part of a certain faction, or is performing actions that a specific faction would follow, then the appropriate response may be followed.

Escalation Guidelines

Role and Faction	Alignment/Crew Response	High-Impact Justification
Station Crew (Nanotrasen)	Station	Never
Transformed Station Crew	Station	Never
Rescued Derelict Crew	Neutral	Never
Slaved Golems	Neutral (Special)	Upon master's request.
Free Golems	Neutral
Silicons	Neutral	When required by laws, or when it is the only way to satisfy a law.
Unbound Positronic Brains	Neutral	Have no alignment and may optionally align to their creator while they have no laws, but must avoid actions which put them at risk of being shutdown whilst they are at the mercy of the player holding them.
Malfunctioning Silicons	Hostile	To protect themselves, or whilst doomsday is active.
Malfunctioning AI	Hostile	Whilst under attack from any member of the crew.
Traitor (Syndicate)	Hostile	For any objective/directive, or for general acts of indiscriminate sabotage that a Syndicate agent might perform.
Blood Brother (Syndicate)	Hostile	Only for objectives/directives.
Changeling (Syndicate)	Hostile	To hunt humans, protect themselves against identified threats, and to reduce the population count.
Brainwashing Victims	Neutral	When justifiable by the brain-washed order.
Nuclear Operatives (Syndicate)	Hostile	Always
Heretic	Hostile	Once ascended.
Blood Cult (Nar'sie)	Hostile	Once ascended, or against nonconvertible targets.
Clockwork Cult (Ratvar)	Hostile	While on Reebe, for targeted acts of sabotage, or against nonconvertible targets.
Space Wizard (Federation)	Hostile	Always.
Space Ninja (Spider Clan)	Hostile	To hide evidence.
Revolutionary	Hostile	Against heads, or nonconvertible targets.
Pyroclastic Slime	Hostile	Always
Sentient Animals	Neutral (Special)	When ordered to by master, if enslaved, or always otherwise.
Teratoma	Hostile	Never.
Morph	Hostile	To consume individual targets.
Swarmer	Hostile	Never.
Abductors	Hostile	Never.
Obssessed	Hostile	Never.
Xenomorph	Hostile	Always.
Space Pirate	Hostile	May do so if it assist with gaining funds.
Revenant	Hostile	Always.
Nightmare	Hostile	Never.
Ashwalker	Hostile	To make sacrifices to the necropolis. Should not willingly leave Lavaland.
Lavaland Syndicate	Hostile	Against any attacker of the base.
Other Lavaland Roles	Neutral
Space Dragon	Hostile	To protect their nests, and for health.
Giant Spiders	Hostile	For reproduction.
Blob	Hostile	Always
Fugitives/Spacepol	Neutral	Against each other
Vampire	Hostile	To complete objectives.