Central Command -> Internal Affairs

src/design-proposals/internal-affairs.md

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+# Central Command Department -> Internal Affairs
+
+
+| Designers  | Implemented | GitHub Links |
+|------------|---|--------------|
+| willowzeta | :x: No | TBD          |
+
+## Overview
+
+The "Central Command" department on the station should be renamed to "Internal Affairs".
+This intended to make the perception of the department better match its function.
+
+## Background
+
+According to two player polls held on the Discord server, we found that [Captain players feel that they will face admin punishment if they go against a CC VIP](https://discord.com/channels/1276640157511979008/1297622994222321684/1498356678813548636),
+and similarly, [players of heads of staff roles feel like CC VIPs have more power than them](https://discord.com/channels/1276640157511979008/1297622994222321684/1498356751739785226).
+
+The intended purpose of CC VIPs is to create conflict through enforcement of Standard Operating Procedure,
+which is intentionally inefficient and intrusive.
+
+Instead, these polls suggest that players *aren't* pushing back against CC VIPs, on account of fear of
+out-of-character consequences, even though in-character conflict is the intended function of these roles.
+
+It is currently soft consensus amongst Funky's leadership that this is a result of the branding of "Central Command".
+On other forks, "Central Command" is solely the in-character facade of admin intervention.
+
+As Funky is rarely a player's first point of contact with the SS14 ecosystem, this implicit association with
+out-of-character authority is something we can reasonably expect an average player to have.
+
+Therefore, the average player will see that some characters belong to "Central Command", and infer (consciously or otherwise)
+that these characters have special out-of-character protections, when they do not, and in fact, the opposite is generally desired by admins.
+
+## Features to be added
+
+The on-station Central Command department, in any place it is mentioned in the game, will be changed to Internal Affairs.
+This rebrand should clear up a lot of the confusion with the department's place in the game.
+
+On the crew manifest, the Internal Affairs section should display under the Command section.
+
+A new Internal Affairs access should be added, to replace Central Command access on Internal Affairs roles.
+
+The Nanotrasen Representative will be renamed to Internal Affairs Executive (IAE/IAX), clarifying the relationship between the role and its
+subordinates, while also doing away with a very unfortunate acronym.
+
+Internal Affairs Agents and the Magistrate will retain their current names.
+
+NTRep/IAE and Magistrate clothing should no longer be primarily green, in order to nullify Central Command associations.
+
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