So the admins (a consensus of whoever was in staff chat at the time) have decided that not recruiting sec from the manifest is against the rules because it is done to keep antags out of sec using meta knowledge.
Regardless of whether or not its meta, Game balance should absolutely be trumping meta here. Sec cannot be round start antags except for blob for a reason. Sec do not need this knife in their back. If not recruiting from the manifest is meta, sec may as well be allowed to roll antag
Sorry to Necro this from six months ago, but it's a tricky one for me.
OOCly, I understand exactly why manifest hires to security are bad news; they are potential Antags who might infiltrate security and do bad things.
ICly, I struggle with a reason to deny the hire. In my mind, Nanotrasen paid a lot of money to shuttle all of these people out to a space station. I assume all of them went through some kind of background check. Because Antags are present, we must assume this process was