Sec biker

[Coldflame]

 

With https://github.com/ParadiseSS13/Paradise/pull/4119 merged, the idea that's been chucked around the discord a few times might be actually possible. This would, of course, be quite the undertaking to code and implement.

 

The general idea is to replace the sec pod pilot with a security biker, focused more on space mobility and chasing EVA-equipped targets than area denial and mob cleaning, generally making for a more interesting role that makes a greater contribution to the sec team than the pilot currently does. Compared to their current state, they'd have a few key differences; primarily, the space pod is replaced with a unique security spacebike capable of seating up to two people (with cuffed people having to resist out of a stationary bike in order to escape being buckled to it). This would move faster than the pod does (perhaps at pre-nerf pod speeds), but would be extremely brittle and suffers damage upon collisions. The pike would make the sec biker the fastest element in space, but would require more skilled space combat and could easily be stopped by an armed pursuer without taking evasive maneuvers. The bike would be reasonabily difficult to repair, likely needing to be recovered and brought to the station to be fixed. The bike would be a powerful tool in the hands of antags (perhaps alongisde system wherein it must be 'primed' using a Biker/HoS ID along with a few tools to stop it getting stolen on rounds without a Biker). Instead of a security hardsuit, the biker would get a spaceproof leather jacket-helmet set. It'd restrict movement less than a sec hardsuit and be more distinctive, but only have moderate armor, roughly comparable to that of a secvest.

 

Rather than equip the bike with weapons, the biker would be able to use weaponry whilst riding.

 

This is, obviously, unlikely to actually happen, but I figured it was a worthwhile idea enough to post, if only for posterity's sake.