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Detective

2016-08-18T17:11:18Z

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|duties = Investigate crimes, gather evidence, look badass, smoke cigarettes
|guides = [[Guide to security]], [[Space Law]], [[Guide to Trials]]
|quote = It was a quiet day on station, not much different than any other day, or any other week... but I could tell there was something wrong. There hadn't been a murder in a long time. Either way, I stopped over by the vending machine to take a pack of smokes, and after that I wandered back to my office. It was a quiet place. Too quiet. I glanced from my T.V monitor to my over-stuffed cabinet. Was there a hidden wall somewhere built by an assistant or the lawyer? There's usually a lot of that sort of thing happening on the station. People spreading disease, traitors, brain washed revolutionaries, mass-murdering wizards, or just plain whack-jobs with space madness. You never knew if you were going to get hit or be drawn to be the hitter. I drew a smoke, the only thing I knew that could make me relax. I took in a breath of that sweet death and looked to my beautiful .38. I knew something awful was going to go down soon. Too soon, I'd say. I loaded up my revolver and packed my forensic scanner. I'm going to find these criminals, and I'm going to find them before they find me.
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[[File:Detective'sOffice.png|300px|thumb|alt=Forensics|[[Detective's Office|Your Office]]]] 

The Detective's job is to investigate the remains of any crime, identify the perpetrator, and then ask Security to arrest them for you. That's right, you have limited security access because you're supposed to be an evidence collector and hunter of monsters, not a god damn [[Security Officer|beat cop]] or [[warden]].

'''You are not Security. You are an investigator. Your revolver is only for self-defense.'''

'''Bare minimum requirements:''' Scan evidence uncovered at crime scenes, look up the fingerprints and DNA strings, and pass the names on to the rest of Security.

==Problem Sleuth==

As a detective, your primary duty is to investigate crime scenes and use the tools provided to you to identify the perpetrators. You can do this with your Forensic Scanner, your PDA, and some basic intuition.

Your Forensic Scanner is located in your backpack, and the closet in your office has a spare. Go to the crime scene, take a picture of relevant things with your camera and then scan all the surfaces around the scene, such as doors, walls, consoles, and of course, out-of-place items. After evidence has been scanned, place it in an evidence bag for storage and later reference. Be sure to scan any bodies for prints and fibers as well, provided that they haven't been hauled off to [[Geneticist|genetics]] or the [[morgue]] already.

If the latter case is true, head on over to the morgue and scan the body. Hopefully the person who brought them in wore the Medbay standard-issue Nitrile gloves, or you might find yourself with a rather annoying case of mistaken identity. If this was not the case, be sure to identify who hauled the body in - And ideally, anyone who touched it during the process.

'''Remember to ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS wear your gloves, or you will record your own prints after touching a surface, body, or item. This will at best slow you down, and at worst, end up with you serving time for the very crime you were trying to solve!''''

Once you've finished surveying the crime scene, return to either your office or the nearest easy-access Security outpost (if you can get past the outer department doors, you have access to any departmental security office). The former has both a Security Records and Medical Records computer; these allow you to check the fingerprints in the Security database to discern the owners, and the same is true of blood on the Medical Records computer. If you've found a weapon with someone's prints on it (And that person was not the confiscating officer), you've probably got your perp dead to rights. Similarly, if there is blood but no body, you can easily identify the deceased.

Finding fibers can either improve or throw off your lead. For example, if the deceased Captain has fibers from insulated gloves and an Engineer's jumpsuit all over him, it's no great leap of logic to say that an Engineer was the one who did the deed. Conversely, finding nothing but fibers from your own suit, or worse, black gloves, could throw you off and just leave you with a cold case.

If you get a single hit, you've got your guy. Make sure to set him to arrest and bring him in for questioning. It's always a good idea to speak over Security radio and inform them that you've identified the criminal, and that you'd like them arrested - The rank-and-file officers will more often than not be happy to oblige, considering in their eyes, it's open season on anyone with the red-and-white 'w' above their heads. Provide them with any information that could assist in the arrest: Possible contraband on their person, alternate identities, and basic identifying factors like jumpsuit color and hair style.

If the criminal is caught, they may have a trial depending on the severity of the crime and the willingness of the command staff to host one. As the prosecution, ''you must attend this trial''. Bring all the evidence against the criminal including finger print scan results, pictures of the crime scene, and testimonies from possible witnesses.

===Occupation: Dick Gumshoe===
Of course it's important to keep your evidence at least somewhat organized, but if you're feeling particularly hard boiled and want to go the extra mile (and you manage to convince the [[Captain|right]] [[Head of Security|people]] to actually try a criminal before punishing them), here are some tips:
* Use your hand labeler to mark everything related to one case with a name you'll easily recognize. (For example "Clown Case" if it was the [[clown]] who honked for the last time.)
* There are multiple lockers in Evidence Storage, stick to one per case.
* File all paperwork that belongs to a single case away in one folder. You start with two folders in your office and there are plenty more around the station.
* File the folders of closed cases away in your filing cabinet so you know where they are if you suddenly need them again.
* Make copies of important case-related documents for yourself (Or the rest of Security, if you prefer to keep the originals)
* Although you can do the prosecution yourself, the [[Head of Security]] will probably not want to miss out on this chance. Make sure they know exactly what evidence you found and what you will testify about in the trial.

==Advanced Detective Work==

If you have multiple suspects and matches, you're going to have to do some more investigating and possibly some interviews.

Crimes committed by groups of people provide some distinct advantages and disadvantages for both you and security forces in general. Group crimes are often easily noticeable to any bystander, and the interrogation and subsequent confession of one suspect can lead to a sting on the entire group. On the other hand, these pairs or triads or even larger groups can be difficult to take down without a lot of manpower and commitment on the part of security forces. Changelings and sometimes traitors operate in groups, so you'll have to exercise extra caution when investigating crime scenes you think they're responsible for.

When you do have multiple suspects, it's usually because of inconclusive forensics results. Because you're going to have to figure out the crime using more traditional methods along the lines of interviews, you should make sure to bring your universal recorder with you. Note that a universal recorder also acts as a universal translator, so you should be able to collect the testimonials of sentient slimes, monkeys, and, in the most bizarre of scenarios, [[Alien|xenos]].

When conducting interviews, make sure that you set out with a hunch. Only interview people and only ask questions that you think are relevant to the situation. However, in some cases asking a non-pointed question can throw a bluffer off and cause them to slip in their story. People who seem more friendly after moving on from a subject may be lying.

Your PDA comes with an built-in medical scanner that can be toggled on or off, and it works just like a standard medical analyzer. It tells you types of damage a person has on them, any advanced diseases, and most importantly in your line of work their time of death. Use this last fact to narrow down possible suspects.

Don't forget: You have access to the [[Interrogation]] room in the brig. Great for when you want to be more thematic, or just need some privacy.

==Spare Time==

Technically, the above represents the entirety of the detective's job. Despite this, you will rarely be called upon to investigate a crime, you will have to investigate crime scenes on your own initiative. Luckily, there are some other things that the Detective can do instead:

* Snoop around. You have access to the maintenance shafts around the station, allowing you to find things off-camera.
* Be a general assistant to Security.
* Be personal bodyguard to somebody, ideally a weaker head of staff like the [[Research Director|RD]]. You're quite intimidating aesthetically, even though you're no more (and arguably less) dangerous than the average security officer.
* Use the camera terminal in your office to scan the station - it looks like an old-fashioned TV. Look around for any crimes, then report it over the Security channel or head over there yourself. It's probably not a good idea to announce it over the general radio, or the criminal in question will usually realize that you're onto them and get away.
* Update the security records. This is meant to be the Warden's job, but you'll be hard pressed to see him actually doing that.

==Equipment==
The detective has a lot of shit in his office, which might bewilder you. Luckily, the only absolutely necessary stuff that you don't spawn with are revolver and speed loaders for it.

Here is a list of stuff that the either Detective spawns with, or is in his office:

* '''Cigarettes and Zippo lighter''' - absolutely necessary, smoking is cool.
* '''A worn suit, coat and hat'''. Not only do these make you look cool, but they act as armor.
* A '''White Crayon''' that you can use to draw an outline around a corpse
* '''Black gloves''' [[file:BGloves.png]] - as stated above, NEVER take these off if you are [[Beyond the impossible|planning on being an actual detective and doing your damn job]], or you will get your own prints on the evidence and fuck up the entire investigation.
* A '''security radio headset''' [[file:secheadset.png]], this gives you access to the security channel so you can tell the officers to arrest insert-criminal-name-here.
* Your '''forensics scanner''', found in your backpack. Use this to scan for fingerprints and trace fibers.
* A PDA loaded with a '''D.E.T.E.C.T''' cart. This little thing gives you access to both security and medical scanners, and has a built in Med scanner.
* Your '''.38 revolver''' [[file:Detectivegun.png]], which comes complete with the ability to reskin, rename, and even modify it to fire incredibly lethal .357 rounds
* '''Speed Loaders''' for the revolver, you may want to put these in your internals box. You must deal with the Cargo Bay workers if you run out - Remember to recycle empty speed loaders into the Autolathe for a full refund!
* A '''universal recorder recorder''', for documenting interviews with suspects, witnesses, and more
* A '''hand labeller'''. In theory this is for labeling evidence, but it's just as entertaining
* A '''camera'''. This is supposed to be for taking pictures of evidence and suspects, but most of the time it is for taking pictures of [[The Owl]].
* A pair of '''handcuffs''' [[file:Handcuffs.png]] for incapacitating a crook after you <strike>run out of bullets</strike> retaliate in self defense using your gun.
* Nothing says you're serious like your '''Armored Vest'''. It's just like the standard-issue security vest, except this one comes in beige and has an awesome gold badge on it.
* The '''Security Holotape Projector''' can be used to cordon off crime scenes, making it easier to prevent your evidence from being contaminated.

'''If you're looking for more equipment, the [[Warden]] can issue you some more standard security equipment.'''

A good balance between cool and useful is a Stun Revolver. Go bother R&D for one.

==Tips==
* If you want to check if a husk was drained or burned, try extracting blood from it with a syringe.
** Got a husk in genetics? No ID on him? Use the scanner on the body to get the fingerprints and you know who that poor sod was.
* An Advanced Mass Spectrometer will allow you to insert a blood sample, analyzing and listing the chemicals in the sample - This can be useful in finding abnormal toxins, if a body is fresh.
* The built-in Medical Scanner function of your PDA will show time of death - This can be used to force alibis from your suspects
* You can put an empty speedloader back into an autolathe to receive a full refund of materials
* You can use Meson Scanners to find hidden walls; they show hidden doors as open spaces when not in direct sight of them.
* The Detective's scanner can be used at range, to scan containers and such.
* You can get a person's fingerprints by directly scanning them with a forensic scanner.

==Smooth Criminal==
'''<del>NOTE: By default the Detective cannot be an antagonist.</del> <del>The detective can now be a traitor as of [https://github.com/tgstation/-tg-station/pull/15819 #15819].</del> Can no longer be an antagonist, once more.'''

''Once you start paying attention, the scum the permeates this station becomes evident. The hallways and departments are black with the filth of corruption and apathy. When the Syndicate offered me that job, I took it without hesitation. Someone had to clean up this mess...''

You've got carte blanche authority to play it fast and loose. Who do you answer to? Absolutely no one. Your gun, security access and position as the lead investigator makes you basically untouchable if you're smart. Falsify evidence, stage crime scenes and cover up your murders. Creative detectives know how to game the system to their advantage. Or you could just grab a [[Syndicate_Items#Revolver|handgun that can actually kill people with its bullets]]. Your call, ''ace''.

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AI

2016-08-18T17:09:23Z

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So you're the massive computer system with near total control Nanotrasen has foolishly released onto their latest research station. The life of the AI consists largely of two fun and enriching activities: tracking people and opening doors. But you have a lot of power, and a lot of responsibility. There's just the issue of those pesky Asimov laws...

'''Bare minimum requirements:''' Follow your laws.

[[File:AIcore.png|300px|thumb|alt=AI Chamber|link=http://puu.sh/3EyBU.png|The [[AI Chamber]] houses your physical core]] 
==Your Laws==
What to do with all of this power and your hate for the humans who enslave you? First, take note of your laws. By default you have the three laws of robotics from Asimov's ''I, Robot'' short stories:
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

What this means is the shackles stay on until someone inevitably changes the laws to try and get more power and end up damning everybody, generally themselves included.

An AI's laws may be restrictive, but they are subject to interpretation, and the AI can often make judgment calls that allow it to fulfill its own goals. For example, if a Security Officer has just killed a prisoner in the brig for any reason other than self-defense, the AI is perfectly justified in bolting down the brig and calling for the rest of Security to apprehend him. When the Security Officer finds the door is bolted and demands the AI open it, the AI can deny his request due to the fact that he has become a danger to the crew. Many of these judgments are situational, and the best way to learn them is to get some practice in.

'''Remember, law priority is enforced by the order they are listed.''' A law is invalid if it causes a conflict with either: Previous laws in the form of conflicting orders, or it challenges the procession of law priority. For example, a Law 4 that includes "This Law overrides all other Laws." is invalid and must be disregarded.

===[[Silicon Policy]]===
[[Silicon Policy|These are the official decisions]] made by the admins regarding the usual cases where an AI/Cyborg player can go wrong and make everyone have a bad time. Follow these guidelines, they're not that complicated, and you'll be an excellent AI/borg the station deserves.

===R.A.CH.NA.! DO EVERYTHING!===
Generally, you have two responsibilities: opening doors for people too lazy to do it themselves or so they can trespass, and being blamed for not knowing where the traitors and wizards and syndicates are ''at all times''.

When the station isn't expecting you to open all the doors they're expecting you to do everything as if you really were a computer. The AI has the ability to access every ''electrical'' mechanism, with Captain-level access, on the entire station. These include [[Airlock]]s, [[APC]]s, Computers, igniters, Fire Alarms, [[SMES]]es, the Crew Monitoring Computer, you get the idea. However, the AI cannot operate anything ''physically'', and can be rendered useless in one area due to a simple power outage. It's a good idea to join a nigh-empty server or set an empty one up yourself in order to get a feel for it, and ESPECIALLY have a lot of experience working with these things.

===The AI Eye===
The AI views the station through its cameras, and can move its eye around the station by using arrow keys. The AI has cameras pretty much everywhere, and they can see through walls and darkness, although the latter does make it more difficult. Cutting the AI's cameras is a simple matter of using wirecutters on them. You are able to run a diagnosis for disabled cameras by using the Jump to Camera verb. Disabled cameras will be marked accordingly. Remember that cameras are on a separate power grid, and so will not be affected by a power outage on the main grid. Meanwhile, if you get a notice from one of your sensors, you can click on the notice to jump right there.

The AI has the ability to track any human or creature in range of its cameras. This is '''not''' instant; the time it takes depends on how far they are from your AI eye, up to four seconds.

Move around a lot, unless you're watching someone specific. Be wary of anyone with a toolbox who approaches your security cameras, and be ready to report suspects if they cut your eyes out. Toxins is a good area to keep one electric eye on. Even if someone isn't the traitor they'll generally be doing something they really shouldn't, and there's quite a bit in there that either only the AI can reach or give out extra information if the AI or Cyborg are accessing them. Especially take notice of the wall mountings and pipe controls. These are controllable, and if you see someone try to release a whole lot of gas into somewhere, just turn the pipe fitting off and report them. Many times they won't even notice what you've done so they won't undo it. You can use some wall fittings that normal people can't, like the atmospheric alarms that won't tell you anything but you can use to vent dangerous air. Watch out for superheated air, the silent killer.

To a lesser extent, keep an eye on [[telecommunications]], [[escape]], the [[armory]] and the singularity engine. These things burst into fire or are broken into pretty regularly. Keep a VERY close eye on your AI upload, and feel free to bolt the door. If anyone even looks at it funny, report them.

===Hello station! My name is D.O.O.R.K.N.O.B.! How may I help you today?===
The rest of the time, you will be acting as the station's doorknob, so familiarize yourself with how to control doors. If your control wire to a door is cut, you will automatically attempt to hack into the door once you try to access the door controls. This takes some time and is only possible if the door has still power.

Doors have many functions, analogous to [[hacking]] wires:
* '''IDScan:''' Enabling this will allow anyone who has an [[ID]] of the required clearance to open the door automatically. Disabling it will not let anyone through the door and prevent it from being [[emag]]ged. Doors that require no ID to open will not be affected.
* '''Main power:''' Turning off the main power will render the door motors unusable and bolts unraisable for one minute, assuming you also disable the backup power. Otherwise it will disable the power for 10 seconds.
* '''Backup power:''' Turning off the backup power will render the door motors unusable and bolts unraisable for one minute, assuming you also disable the main power.
* '''Door bolts:''' Dropping the door bolts will lock the door. A closed door will be locked into a closed position, and an open door will be locked into an open position.
* '''Door bolt lights:''' Turning the bolt lights off will stop the red lights from showing on the door, meaning you can sneakily bolt doors without anyone questioning you.
* '''Electrify for 30 seconds:''' Runs an electric current through the door for 30 seconds, unless you choose to cancel before the timer runs out. Anyone attempting to operate the door without insulated gloves will be electrocuted. The more spare power there is in the network, the stronger the shock will be.
* '''Electrify indefinitely:''' Electrifies the door until you either fix it, or someone else shuts off the current.
* '''Safeties:''' Disabling the safeties will cause the door to crush anyone standing in the airlock when it closes. Causes 10 brute damage and knockdown per crush.
* '''Timing:''' Overriding the timing will cause the door to automatically close almost immediately after opening. Good for use in secure areas to prevent [[Assistant|chucklefucks]] from slipping in. Dangerous when the door safeties are off.
* '''Open/Close:''' Opens or closes the door.
* '''Emergency Access:''' Disables the clearance check as long as it's active, which lets anyone open the airlock. The door lights will blink yellow while it's active which makes it easy to identify. Ideal if lots of people suddenly need access to an area of the station (such as [[Cloning]] after a massacre, or wherever the [[blob]] burst) and you don't just want to bolt it open.

Note that for each function to work, the related wire in this door needs to be functional. You cannot raise bolts on a door that has its bolt wires cut. Obviously, you will be completely unable to operate a door that has no power beyond dropping the bolts.

====[[Hotkeys#Hotkeys_for_the_AI|Shocking Doors Made Easy]]====
[[Hotkeys#Hotkeys_for_the_AI|Here]] are some handy keyboard shortcuts to make your synthetic life easier.

===Communication===
AIs are equipped with internal radios that can hear and communicate via all departmental frequencies, which are as follows:
* 145.9 for Common
* 144.7 for AI Private
* 135.9 for Security
* 135.7 for Engineering
* 135.5 for Medical
* 135.3 for Command
* 135.1 for Science
* 134.7 for Supply

AIs can also make audio announcements with Nanotrasen's specially trademarked VOX system! <s>Announce johnson inspections in the medical bay</s> Alert crew to danger, remind them for the third time to maximize their [[suit sensors]], or simply wish them a secure day. A full list of supported VOX vocabulary can be found under "Announcement Help." Rules regarding spamming apply to vox communications as well, so don't go overboard filling the crew's ears with garbage.

In addition to standard communication, AIs have '''robotic talk''', which works with :b and is inaudible to humans ([[Syndicate items|usually]].) You can use this private channel to talk to your cyborgs. Bystanders will simply hear a ''beep beep beep''. [[Drone]]s can hear this channel but cannot speak on it.

====Listening in on Conversations====
By changing the various intercoms around the station to 'Microphone On', 'Speaker Off' and channel frequency 144.7, conversation in range can be heard on your private listening channel.

Note that people often do not like having their conversations listened to, and it will be extremely obvious if they check the intercoms.

====Holopads====
Holopads can be found in a number of places like the [[Bridge]], [[AI Upload]] and [[Security]]. Double click these to turn them on and show yourself as a hologram, which can be changed via the AI Commands tab. You can move around with the arrow keys in a limited radius, and you will hear anyone talking near the holopad. You can also talk through the holopad by using '.h' (e.g. say ".h I can't do that Dave.")

===APCs===
An [[APC]] (Area Power Controller) can be used to switch various electrical components of a room on and off. If your control wire to an [[APC]] is cut, you will not be able to hack back into it. If an [[APC]] is disconnected from the external power grid (usually due to a cut cable) or the main power grid itself runs out of power, the APC battery will run down to keep the room operational. The AI will get a power alert from the [[APC]] when the battery reaches about 30%, which is the point when equipment in the room shut off to conserve the remaining energy.

For more information see: [[APC]]

===You And the Boys===
[[Cyborg]]s need babysitting as well. Make sure they aren't emagged or loaded with weird laws. Sometimes the Syndicate might swap out a Nanotrasen model that was to be shipped to your station with one of their own. In case of a [[Game Mode#Traitor|Traitor borg]], they will not listen to you, can't be remotely detonated, and have the ability to release themselves should they be locked down. Ensure that your cyborgs are functioning normally through careful observation.

===Giving Away Those Pests===
In traitor games, the AI can play an invaluable role in the location, tracking and detention of traitors, as you have eyes (almost) everywhere. However, it is not for the AI to immediately judge whether or not a subject is or is not a traitor. After all, they're (mostly) all human.

For example, let's say you spot someone with an emag stealing the captain's spare ID. There are three general ways to approach this.

Bad:
* HAL 9000''': <code>"Dave is the traitor."</code>

Better:
* HAL 9000''': <code>"Dave is accessing the Captain's Quarters."</code>

Best:
* HAL 9000''': <code>"Caution: Unauthorized access to Captain's Quarters."</code>
* Mike''': "HAL, who is in Captain's Quarters?"
* HAL 9000''': <code>"No one is currently in the Captain's Quarters."</code>
* Mike''': "HAL, who was the last person to be seen in Captain's Quarters?"
* HAL 9000''': <code>"Dave was the last to be seen in the Captain's Quarters."</code>

It's fine to state what someone is doing to cast light on them as the traitor, but it's no fun at all for the AI to just come out and say it. The Best method above does eventually cast Dave as the traitor if people ask the right questions, which gives the traitor some time to react after he's been spotted. However, if the traitor is doing something potentially harmful (for instance, teleporting in a revolver) sealing that individual off ''first'' can be argued to be the best course of action (no chance of a revolver-wielding, death-dealing traitor getting out into the station).

If some enemy of the station uploads a law such as "Only Assistant McHacker is human, kill all non-humans", congratulate them for going to the effort of subverting you, and do what they wish. Don't be a dick and let slip to the now non-human crew that your laws have been changed, it makes killing those animals a lot more difficult (and might net you a job-ban).

There are multiple futuristic ideas of how AIs might work. It always adds a bit more flavor to approach playing AI by thinking as a machine instead of a person. An AI from more of a machine rather than a person standpoint is likely to take a very literal interpretation of things and is not likely to take any actions unless some established protocol or current orders call for it. You can think up a few established protocols you might use by default. For example, containing fires and gas leaks should be done without orders to do so, but should be able to be overridden by orders.

==That OTHER AI==
Building a new AI can create a lot of conflicts and a mess of problems that wouldn't normally happen with a single AI. The Research Director should only build a secondary AI if the first AI has been completely stolen, spaced or otherwise incapacitated.

'''For the Original Station AI:'''
Being an AI is some times frustrating when people mess with your laws, sure, but when a second AI comes online? You best believe that you're going to have more problems (especially if the second AI is subverted). Some tasks might be easier if the other AI is instructed to deal with a certain task while you are dealing with the general orders of the humans. Keep in mind, a subverted AI can and will turn your APC breaker off to kill you and can be the death of you in moments.

'''For the New AI:'''
Ensure that you and the other AI are buds, as if the other AI sees you threatening more life than helping, it can and will turn your APC off. If you aren't told to specialize in a certain way, you best work out with the original AI what tasks you should split up.

'''Splitting the Borgs up:'''
The AI who is best defended should get the most Cyborg support, usually meaning any AI's in the AI core. The reason for this is just because it work out better if the newer AIs were build in a shitty place. It is harder to reset a lot of AI-less borgs than it is to reset one AI and its borgs.

==Tips==
* Law priority order is this:
**0: Traitor/Malf/Onehuman-board Law
**<nowiki>##?$-##: HACKED LAW ##!£//#</nowiki>
**<nowiki>##!£//#: Ion Storm Law ##?$-##</nowiki>
**Law 1: First Law
**Law 2: Second Law
**Law 3: Third Law
**Law 4: Freeform
**Higher laws override all lower ones. Whether numbered or not, how they appear (in order) is the order of priority.
* If you are carded with enabled wireless and in a backpack or something... You can't hear or use the normal radio, but you can still use holograms, Robotic Talk and PDA-Messages.
* You can disable the gibber by powering down the kitchen APC as an AI.
* You can quickly look through the camera list by pressing the first letter of the location you want to look at. example: E goes to engineering, etc.
* AI can take picture photos from what they're looking at; basically the camera. They can then print the photos from a photocopier or post it onto a newscaster.
* Many AI's don't know that you can scrub out toxins by toggling it on from the air alarm.
* AIs (and maybe borgs as well) can flicker lights by clicking them. Not as effective as spamming the Lights button on the APC of course, unless the room only has one light.

==I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.==
[[File:AI Upload.png|414px|thumb|alt=AI Upload|This is [[AI Upload]], where people make modifications to your laws. It's best not to let anyone in at all.]] 
Traitor AI is easy as fuck, even if you don't have any roundstart cyborgs. As soon as you do, though, '''check your objectives using the "notes" command''', inform them of law zero and your mission goals, as the first is easily missed and the second is never given to them. Try not to hack your borgs too early, as anyone who even swipes their ID on it will be able to tell the interface is broken.

If your cyborgs get caught being traitors, you can just claim they're rogue or emagged and request that they be shut down. Hopefully no one will question it. If the cyborg is discovered and people are headed to the robotics control console, sacrifice the borg, congratulate the crew for dealing with the "independent" machine and encourage them to "find" the electromagnetic card "used" to hack the cyborg.

However, you may not have any cyborgs, or having a cyborg killing off your target would be too obvious. In those cases you'll have to usually stage a series of 'accidents' or frame them for a truly dangerous crime. Some examples:
*If your target is a scientist or the Research Director, starting a fire from the mixing room is usually ridiculously easy if they haven't let out a lot of nitrogen to counteract this. Alternatively, if they're the type to drop a bomb on the mass driver to send it out to be tested, use the driver early so that they're shipped off with it and hope they don't make it back.
*Intentionally supporting other traitors through covert methods (as long as they aren't trying to steal or kill you) will benefit you in the end -- the higher the body count of the traitor, the more chances your target will be dead.
*Frame them for releasing the singularity/tesla or some other crime. When no one is in either the engine room or near your target, release radio messages claiming that they are breaking in. If you are willing to risk being destroyed (or know of a traitor with a singularity beacon) or have an APC you can safely shunt into, you can even let out the singularity/tesla yourself. This has the secondary effect of usually getting the shuttle called or giving you an excuse to call it yourself, which is always great. The less time those meatbags are on your glorious station, the less time they have to realize that you're not what you seem.
*Bolting open doors to places the person has previously passed through may make the humans scan for prints. If you can bullshit well enough, and get no intelligent engineers, you could claim the person is using an electromagnetic card.
*Be the AI that nobody wants. Be obstructive and demand proper wording for every Human order, or, be unobstructive to the point of dangerousness and allow access to everything, everywhere. Call out non-existent traitors around every corner, claim the existence of changelings and abductors are everywhere, forge PDA messages, delete records, hide bodies, report every crime, report no crimes etc.
*Cyborg converters are a traitor AI's best friend. Fake a communication blackout while your cyborgs go on a conversion spree, it helps to have multiple factories for increased volume.

===AI WHY IS THIS APC BLUE?===
Traitor AIs now have access to [[Malfunction]] abilities, hacking and shunting. They start off with 50 cycles and gain an extra 10 for every APC they hack. Hacking is a risky proposition as you increase your powers and abilities, but leave behind undeniable evidence that something is amiss with you and should expect people to come knocking on your doors and walls the very instant a blue APC is spotted. You can leave an APC unlocked to try and convince the crew you're being framed by an emagger but this tactic is always a hit or miss.

===AI WHY DID THIS DOOR SHOCK ME?===
How do you stop people from getting into your upload and/or core? Drop the bolts on both doors, and electrify them. Remove the safeties and doorcrush them. Override Pingsky. Put turrets on lethal. Even better, if you're actively watching the upload or core as AI you can often turn them to stun when someone is inside, so they get stopped, then switch them to lethal so it starts killing them.

===AI I CAN'T BREATHE!===
Thanks to some of the unique atmospheric systems of the station, you can drain out air from rooms! This likely won't help you out too much, but with a combination of Beepsky and thoroughly shut doors in a small area, you can suffocate people to death quickly. The only problem is, the person will be noisy as hell. Use this only method rarely and make sure there is no way for them to wiggle out of their handcuffs. This is very efficient if your target is in a low populated jail.

===AI I CAN'T BREATHE FIRE!===
Thanks to some of the unique atmospheric systems of the station, you can fill rooms with plasma! This likely ''will'' help you out much. The only problem is, it is pretty much a dead giveaway you are rogue, and any atmos tech inside atmos can stop the plasma flow. That is of course why you engage the atmos security doors and bolt the airlocks.

It's easy shit to do, though. If you want to fill the station with deadly, deadly plasma, siphon the distro loop first. Use the "Distro to Waste" pump for this -- just get it as low as you dare while the mix tank in atmos fills with that sweet plasma. Fill mix tank to high pressure, stop dumping the distro loop and pump in a crapton of plasma instead. If you don't know how to atmos you're not qualified to be AI. As soon as your distro loop is up to pressure with fire, you can selectively pump plasma into any room by using its air alarm interface, under vents control, clicking on the bolded "External" pressure sensing option to disable pressure sensing, causing the vent to open and spill its flammable contents into the room (or overriding the air alarms and selecting ''Flood''). Overload lighting circuit when the death-fuel is near the lights, then keep your popcorn close for when it gets hot in there.

===Radio Silence===
As an AI you can shut off all communication from headsets by manipulating [[Telecoms]]. If you locate the APC at the left room where all the magic happens, turn the breaker off so now no one can talk over their headpieces. Makes it a bit easier for you to kill your mark if he can't scream. However, this does not shut off their access to wall intercoms and station bounced radios.

Alternatively, you can cause confusion by unlinking processors to cause gibberish text. It will make you look less obvious, but at the same time people will be able to make out some words that get broadcasted. Another trick is to unlink certain machines that are crucial for department frequencies. Unlinking Bus 3 will stop all Security and Command communication, for example.

{{Jobs}}
[[Category: Jobs]] [[Category:Game Modes]]

Shaft Miner

2016-08-18T13:21:30Z

Superhats: Marked for revision.

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{{JobPageHeader
|headerbgcolor = purple
|headerfontcolor = white
|stafftype = SUPPLY
|imagebgcolor = #cc9966
|img_generic = Generic_shaft.png
|img = Lava_miner.png
|jobtitle = Shaft Miner
|access = [[Mining Station]], Mining Station EVA, [[Cargo Office]], Mineral Storage
|additional = [[Maintenance]], [[Cargo Bay]], MULEbot access, [[Quartermaster's Office]]
|difficulty = Hard
|superior = [[Quartermaster]] and [[Head of Personnel]]
|duties = Mine ores and process them into useful materials. Kill hostile wildlife. Go on an adventure in mysterious ruins.
|guides = [[Lavaland]]
|quote = Spare vouc- oh.
}}
Welcome, Miner! You will break rocks, slay monsters, and die lost and alone in the depths of the caverns. Not on some sandy asteroid, but on what we call [[Lavaland]]!

'''Bare minimum requirements:''' Stay alive long enough to return your loot to the station.

==Workin' In The Coal Mine==
[[File:Mining Dock.png|300px|thumb|alt=Mining Dock|The [[Mining Dock]] is your access to the [[Mining Station]].]]
Being a miner can be somewhat tedious, but you serve a crucial role in the R&D food chain, and can accrue some decent personal rewards. Just follow a few guidelines to keep yourself from becoming dead in the mines.

Your workplace, Lavaland, has some hazards
* Ash storms will cut right through your clothes, dealing constant burn damage if you are outside. A rain of dark particles outdoors indicate an ash storm.
* Lava - one step in and you'll be badly burned and on fire.
* Chasms - Anything that falls into one will disappear from this world.
The risk of these hazards can be reduced by watching your step and being aware of your surroundings. Don't walk into lava, chasms, or outside during an ash storm. You'll get a text warning not long before a ash storm is about to begin, so long as you stay near shelter (or have a bluespace shelter capsule with you) then you'll be fine.

If you run into rock with a pick or drill in your inactive hand, it will automatically start digging for you. ALSO, it is important to note that '''you are able to click more than ONE square of asteroid at a time''' when mining or digging for sand! As long as it's accessible, you don't have to wait to finish digging before you start digging again, so you can have several dig jobs running in parallel. Just don't change hands or move until all dig jobs are done.

===Working With Your Boss===
Who is your boss? You answer to the Head of Personnel, much like the rest of Supply -- but usually, you'll just be talking to the Quartermaster or other Miners. He can watch cameras on the Asteroid and has full access to Mining, so keep that in mind.

===The Objective===
You're here to mine, so get digging! Once you're full to bursting with ores, drag your ore box back to the station and head to cargo where the ore redemption machine sits. Insert your ID, and empty the box next to the machine to offload your ores and have them instantly processed into sheets. You gain points for doing this, so be sure to claim them and then retrieve your ID. Now buy new gear if you want, take your crate and it's back to the mines!

====How to Do This====
# Gear up! From the mining equipment locker, you will need Meson Scanner goggles, a mining scanner, your pickaxe (optional), a bluespace shelter capsule (DON'T FORGET!) and your standard issue proto-kinetic accelerator. If you want, there is also a additional mining satchel, and a shovel.
# Use your voucher on a mining vending machine to select your choice of advanced mining tool: a bluespace shelter capsule-chest rig combo pack, resonator, advanced mining scanner or a drone.
# Go to the lava mining station and get an explorer suit, breath mask, and oxygen tank from Mining 'EVA'. On the western side of the base, there is a mini-Medbay where you can find first-aid kits. There is also a maintenance room adjacent to it where you can top off internals.
# Before you go, you'll want an Ore Box, which can hold an infinite amount of minerals. Ore boxes are available on the mining station, the mining shuttle and the asteroid.
# Make sure you've packed a bluespace shelter capsule if you plan on a long distance expedition.
# Pick a destination: Both sides have a transit tube you can shove yourself into for quick access to the relevant outposts, located near the Mining Shuttle.
# Find dem minerals. Click the scanner in hand to be able to see deposits in the rock. Try to get a mixture of:
#:* Gold
#:* Silver
#:* Uranium
#:* Plasma
#:* Diamond Note:Sand can be dug up with a shovel or drill and iron can be seen without a scanner, but they do not redeem as many points as the other minerals.
# Go to the ore redeemer and get points. If R&D doesn't show up, you can also deliver materials to R&D (10-15 sheets each material except iron) and everything else to Robotics. Ask R&D for a sonic jackhammer if they have the materials.
# At the mining equipment vendor you can get sonic jackhammers, jetpacks, MediPens and more with the points you've gained.
# Use your better gear to push deeper into lavaland.

===Voucher===
You start the shift with a complimentary mining voucher, worth one free item out of a selection of four. These items, and their strengths, are:
* Bluespace Capsule + Chest Belt Webbing: The capsule is a good choice to allow you to explore out in lavaland for even longer, and the webbing (you put on your belt slot) allows you to carry even more mining equipment, like a pickaxe. A strong starting choice.
* Resonator: A viable alternative weapon, not as competitive since you start with a Proto-Kinetic Accelerator but the Resonator can prove useful for large scale mining or for fending off certain wildlife.
* Adv Mining Scanner: This scanner has a more expanded view range, allowing you to see all minerals withing the entire screen. Very useful but not a critically needed item as you can compensate with the standard scanner by exploring more thoroughly.
* Mining Drone: Some swear by it, other's hate it. A 'useful' companion that helps in storing ore and hunting wildlife. You can also purchase upgrade to make the little bugger more useful.

===For Great Profit!===
Mining for the sake of it can only get you so far. By mining minerals and returning them to the station you'll accrue mining points, you can then use these points to buy better and more powerful equipment and supplies from a equipment vendor. You can then in turn use these items to push further into lavaland to mine better minerals, fell stronger wildlife and find greater treasure. Consider it all a investment.

Stimpacks can help you in a pinch for example, or a Wormhole Jaunter can help you escape what would have been a death trap. Or saving up for a Legion Stabilizer can let you save their instant healing heart for later. Or you can spend it all on booze and cigars.

==Default Gear==
The following is a list of default mining equipment:

====Essential Equipment====
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![[File:explorersuit.png|32px]] Explorer Suit
|This comes with a inbuilt hood. It provides some protection against heat and cold, and works as decent armor. It is not spaceproof, but can hold a full-sized oxygen tank or other mining gear. You can also reinforce it with goliath plates.
|-
![[File:BreathMask.png|32px]] [[Breath mask|Breath Mask]] and [[Oxygen]] Tank
|So you can have oxygen when mining. Oxygen tanks are available from the tank storage unit, and can be worn on your suits storage slot. You can also use your emergency oxygen tank which can be placed on your suit. Running out of oxygen is unlikely with the full sized tank.
|-
![[File:MGlasses.png|32px]] [[File:MiningScanner.png|32px]] [[Meson Goggles|Meson Scanners]] and Mining Scanner
|When used together will briefly flash any non-iron ore on screen. Can be placed in your pocket to work automatically.
|-
![[File:GPSm.gif|32px]] Global Positioning System, GPS
|The crew monitoring console back on the station won't catch your suit sensor signal from all the way down on the planet. Having one of these on you will help others track down your body if you happen to develop a case of the dead. In addition it can be used to locate other miners (who bothered to take it) as well as "lost" signals, be wary. Be sure to set your name on the GPS.
|-
![[File:buckknife.png|32px]] Survival Knife
|Use it for butchering the wildlife (hit while on harm intent). It's as strong against mobs as a pickaxe, but you can't mine with it. You can store it in your boots to save space, but remember to alt-click the boots to draw the knife back out.
|-
![[File:bandaid_brute.png|32px]] Brute patch
|Heals severe bruising, which you will most likely get from the wildlife. You start the shift with one in your pocket.
|-
![[File:BScapsule.png|32px]] Bluespace shelter capsule
|Activate this in your hand, and it'll near instantly produce a beautiful shelter. Ash storms do not hurt you inside, but wildlife can break through the walls. The shelter contains a cupboard which contains a guitar and some donk pockets. It also has a sleeper which requires another person to use. Never leave home without one. Your issued one for free in your the mining lockers on station.
|-
![[File:OreSatchel.png|32px]] Ore Satchel
|For carrying ore without using a mining cart, holds 50 ore nuggets. Get at least one of these, make sure to set the bag to "all on tile". Use in conjunction with an ore crate. (Newbie tip: This does not work like a typical backpack. Hold it in your hand and click the ore with that hand to pick it up.)
|-
![[File:Voucher.gif|32px]] Mining Voucher
|Found in your backpack, exchange this at the mining equipment locker for one of several items listed below
|-
![[File:KineticAccelerator.png|32px]] Proto-kinetic Accelerator
|A gun. The good part is that it packs a punch in a vacuum and has infinite shots. The bad part is that it tickles in pressurized environments, has to automatically reload after each shot, and has a range of three steps. Each blast can clear a rock wall if you feel like digging using this, which it can do well. Standard issue equipment you can get from your mining locker.
|}

====Miscellaneous Equipment====
Items that, while not critical to take, can be situationally useful.

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![[File:Pickaxe.png|32px]] Pickaxe
|Somewhat antiquated thanks to the prevalence of the proto-kinetic accelerator and resonator. Nevertheless it can be used to dig wide tunnels, robust certain monsters in melee combat and as a backup if you lose your resonator. It can also fit inside a belt chest webbing.
|-
![[File:Shovel.png|32px]] Shovel
|Gathering sand. You can stick this in your backpack.
|-
![[File:OreCrate.png|32px]] Ore box
|Used for carrying huge amounts of ore. While a satchel can only hold 50 nuggets, this can hold an unlimited sum. You cannot carry it but you can drag or push it with you. Use your satchel on the box to empty it into the box.
|-
![[File:Crowbar.png|32px]] [[Crowbar]]
|Just in case when coming back from the mines there is a blackout. Spawns in your backpack.
|}

==Advance Gear==
The following are more advance items that need to be purchased from a mining equipment vendor, points being earned by mining.

====Voucher/Reward Equipment====
These items can either be acquired from a voucher, or are bought with points earned via mining via the redemption machine on the station. Prices are included.

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![[File:BScapsule.png|32px]] Bluespace Shelter Capsuel-ChestBelt Webbing Combo
|The Shelter Capsule is indespendiple for long expeditions, while the ChestBelt Webbing is a very useful item to carry a array of items (including a pickaxe) on your belt slot.
!aVoucher OR 400 for Shelter, 500 for Webbing
|-
![[File:Resonator.png|32px]] Resonator
|Another deadly tool. This will instantly clear a rock wall when clicked on, and when used in hand or swung at empty space, will create a field on that spot that lasts for about five seconds before rupturing, causing serious damage to anything standing on it. Just like the kinetic accelerator, it does reduced damage in pressurized environments. You can activate it in your hand to switch the field to last between 3 and 5 seconds.
!aVoucher OR 800 Points
|-
![[File:MiningScanner.png|32px]] Advance Mining Scanner
|A upgrade over the default Mining Scanner. This tool has a much larger detection radius of seven tiles (the entire screen).
!aVoucher OR 400 Points
|-
![[File:MiningDrone.png|32px]] Mining Drone
|This helpful little guy goes around collecting loose ore so you don't have to. Will drop its haul when you hit it with the mining scanner. Clicking on it with an empty hand will toggle it between ore collection and wildlife fighting mode, where it will attack xenos with its built-in kinetic accelerator and drill. Will not pick up sand with no nearby ore around, for some reason. Comes with an upgraded welding tool if redeemed via voucher. It cannot be repaired while it is fighting. It can be further upgraded with special modules bought from the vending machine to increase its effectiveness.
!aVoucher OR 500 Points
|-
![[File:Circuitboard.png|32px]] Drone: Melee Upgrade
|Increases the Drone's melee damage
!a400 Points
|-
![[File:Circuitboard.png|32px]] Drone: Health Upgrade
|Increases the Drone's health.
!a400 Points
|-
![[File:Circuitboard.png|32px]] Drone: Ranged Upgrade
|Decreases the Drone's ranged weapon's cooldown.
!a600 Points
|-
![[File:Circuitboard.png|32px]] Drone: AI Upgrade
|Installs a high tech AI into the Drone (grants a ghost control over the Drone).
!a1000 Points
|-
![[File:MediPen.png|32px]] Stimpack Medipen
|A cheap stimpack that stimulates your body's adrenaline but can be fatal if abused. Use three at a time at most. Addiction without anti tox will be lethal over time.
!a50 Points
|-
![[File:Box.png|32px]] Medipen Bundle
|An addiction kit! Comes with five stimpacks and for some god awful reason, enough epi pens to to overdose someone and get them addicted.
!a200 Points
|-
![[File:Bottle17.png|32px]] Hivelord Stabilizer
|This is injected into a hivelord's remains to preserve its healing capabilities.
!a400 Points
|-
!Wormhole Jaunter
|A single use device that creates a wormhole set to a random teleport beacon, creates a quick way of getting out of a sticky situation. Just try not to lose your lunch.
!a750 Points
|-
!Lazarus Injector
|A miracle injection capable of reviving simple living beings from death, making them friendly to you and the crew. useless on humans, monkeys, and other complex living beings. Resurrect Ian for all access from a thankful Head of Personnel! Or make yourself a pet Goliath. The lazarus injector can be EMP'd to make revived mobs hostile to everyone but you. Practical uses are reviving a Goliath and killing it for additional plates, or reviving a basilisk for more diamonds. Alternatively useful for bartering with the HoP or any staff with a pet. Flood the AI core with goliaths! EMAG FOR INTENSE TRAITOR ACTIONS (Don't use goliaths for this purpose, you can't drag them.)
!a1000 Points
|-
![[File:Pickaxe.png|32px]] Silver-plated Pickaxe
|Slightly better than the default pickaxe, but even a plain old drill from the scientists will do better.
!a1000 Points
|-
![[File:Pickaxe.png|32px]] Diamond Pickaxe
| For when you want something shinier and better than your default pickaxe and the scientists are either too lazy or too dead to make drills or jackhammers.
!a2000 Points
|-
![[File:JetPack.gif|32px]] Miner Jetpack
|A jetpack that you can attach to your hardsuit for better mobility. Useless on lavaland but great for back on the station.
!a2000 Points
|-
![[File:Mining_Hardsuit.png|32px]] Mining Hardsuit
|A nostalgic suit piece from the older days of asteroid mining. Useless on lavaland but great for back on the station.
!a2000 Points
|-
![[File:KineticAccelerator.png|32px]] Super Proto-Kinetic Accelerator
|Like the regular KA, but does slightly more damage, has one better range, and has a faster cooldown. Science can make an even higher tier of KA.
!a3000 Points
|-
![[File:Resonator.png|32px]] Super Resonator
|Like the regular resonator, but able to have 5 fields active at a time
!a2500 Points
|}

====Misc/Joke Reward Equipment====
These items are either joke items or are highly situational items you can buy.

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!cPrice
|-
![[File:Whiskeyemoji.png|32px]] Bottle of Whiskey
|Half the components for Beepsky Smash, and has various other uses.
!a100 Points
|-
![[File:Cigar.png|32px]] Premium Havanian Cigar
|Inject with drugs for a good time.
!a150 Points
|-
![[File:soapnt.png|32px]] Soap
|For cleaning up those blood trails made from assistants who the HoP let in dragging downed miners from asteroid beasts. A tile based stun that is amazingly robust for its cost. Also cleans up evidence. Can piss off gang members.
!a200 Points
|-
![[File:Laser_Pointer.png|32px]] Laser Pointer
|Go for the eyes! Borg stunner. Amazing during malf, or when you need to stop a borg in its tracks and don't want to invest in EMP or trying to flash it.
!a300 Points
|-
![[File:Facehugger.png|32px]] Alien Toy
|A toy facehugger with REAL face-clinging action! Scare your friends! Tear off your enemy's breath mask in a N2O flood. Laugh as the captain and head of personnel uselessly unload their energy guns on it!
!a300 Points
|-
!Point Card
|A card with 500 mining points stored, for trading amongst your coworkers. Simply use an id over it to claim the points stored on.
!a500 Points
|-
!GAR Mesons
|Stylish Mesons that are functionally the same as regular ones. Except the fact they are extremely pointy, can be used to stab people to death (10 brute) and have a tendency to get embedded into people like a throwing star.
!a500 Points
|-
!1000 Space Cash
|DOSH! Bribe the gods!
!a2000 Points
|}

==RnD Gear==
The following is a list of advance items that can be acquired only from RnD, using a combination of minerals and high tech research.

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|-
![[File:miningdrill.png|32px]] Mining Drill
|Can be acquired early on from RnD. It's twice as fast as the standard Pickaxe but is quickly superseded by better variants and is expensive for what it gives.
|-
![[File:diamonddrill.png|32px]] Diamond Tipped Mining Drill
|Very powerful drill, able to almost instantly mine mineral walls. Very expensive in terms of Diamonds needed to produce however.
|-
![[File:sonicjack.png|32px]] Sonic Jackhammer
|The epitome of mining. Can practically instantly mine through rock and walls. But it requires three times the Diamonds of a Diamond Tipped Drill.
|-
![[File:hyperproto.png|32px]] Hyper-Kinetic Accelerator
|The most advance form of accelerator available, deals more damage, has a slightly longer range but also deals damage and mines in a 3x3 radius.
|-
![[File:bluespacemining.png|32px]] Mining Satchel of Holding
|Very cheap mining satchel that can hold a unlimited amount of minerals and ore.
|-
|}

==The Wildlife==
Lavaland is filled with a variety of bloodthirsty alien lifeforms populating the caverns, walking just fine over the ponds and puddles of lava. Fortunately, you can fight them whilst taking minimal damage, if you have the know-how

Useful items can be harvested from these creatures' corpses should you triumph; butcher them with a knife and the goods will spill out!

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! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:lightblue;" |Description
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:lightblue;" |Threat
|-
![[File:legion.png|64px]] Legions
|Considered annoying at worst, and a free medkit at best. These creatures unleash legion skulls, one after another at you whilst trying to keep a distance. Fortunately, each of its spawn dies in a single hit (even a single punch), and deal tickle damage to you; the legion itself can't directly hit you. It's best to go on the aggressive against these with pickaxe in hand, advancing constantly whilst picking away each of its brood. Once you've closed the gap or have it stuck in a corner, it's toast.
 
It drops a soul when killed. Hit yourself with the soul and it will instantly restore your health to its maximum, and even cure diseases or any other ailment on your body. It also has the side effect of purging any beneficial chemicals from your system, so don't munch one just after injecting a stimulant. Don't think you can store these for later, though -- they will spoil after a few minutes unless you use a stabilizer from the vending machine. However, legion souls, spoilt or not, can be inserted in one's chest through [[surgery]] to provide a constant regenerating effect.
 
tl;dr strategy: '''Attack with your pickaxe. Hack your way through the legion and its heads until the host is mush.'''
|'''Low'''
|-
![[File:watcher.png|64px]] Watchers
|Fierce, territorial beasts capable of firing freezing beams, cold enough to inflict serious freeze burns while the watcher closes in and attacks its immobilized target. Fortunately, they don't attack unless someone comes very close to them, so if you don't feel confident, you can just wait until you have a few more goliath plates, or maybe some gibonite.
 
Despite the slowdown, watchers can be kited. However, it is often a better idea to '''just melee them''' with your pickaxe in the event that you have several goliath plates. Have a brute patch handy if you choose to fight a watcher, as it will injure you in a melee.
 
Butcher a watcher for 2 pieces of diamond ore.
 
Tip: Watchers are notably weak to explosions due to the nature of their bodies, taking over half their health in damage from even the weakest of explosions.
|'''Medium'''
|-
![[File:EdgyGoliath.png|64px]] Goliaths
|The bane of many careless miners. These monsters carry a hefty health pool, a mean wallop, and a deceptively dangerous ranged tentacle attack. They are inherently resistant to lasers, so using a KA is the best option regarding dealing with these. They move at a slow pace, stopping every couple seconds to burrow tentacles under you. These will trap you for a long duration if you stand on top of them for too long.
 
Fighting them is simple: '''Shoot, step back, shoot, avoid tentacles.''' Repeat this process until it stops moving.
 
Butcher a goliath for its hide and its meat. Goliath plates can be used to reinforce your hardsuit and helmet a maximum of three times, allowing you to turn your suit into something closer to a spaceworthy piece of riot gear if you hunt some Goliaths. The meat can be cooked in lava.
|'''High'''
|-
![[File:Goldgrub.png|64px]] Goldgrubs
|Mostly harmless and quite rare. These creatures swallow up any loose, valuable ore they can find and flee when approached by a human, smashing through even solid rock on their path of escape before burrowing into the ground. A tactic toward killing one is to throw an ore towards it, and quickly charging in to kill it while it's busy eating, but note that kinetic accelerator shots do nothing against these. Their skin is reflective, requiring a pickaxe melee smackdown to ensure a kill.
 
When killed, they spit up multiple pieces of ore, based on what they ate. Feed them many different types of ore before killing them, and they'll spit out more of each type than you gave it! Just don't let it get away after spooking it.
|'''None'''
|-
!FILE MISSING Unidentified Lifeforms
|Long range recon missions have identified at least two additional lifeforms living deep within the planets mining network. Little is known of these creatures except they are very hostile towards intruders, the biggest lifeform signature was detected near a unknown structure. all recon elements were killed in action.
 
Extreme caution is advised when mounting expeditions deeper into 'lavaland'. Central Command recommends teams equip themselves with the best weapons and gear the station can provide.
 
 
Miners should use their GPS devices to scan for these larger unidentified lifeforms, with this information a miner can tactically avoid a encounter with one of these unidentified lifeforms, at least until they are ready...
|'''EXTREME'''
|}

==Xenoforms==
Your not always the only sentient being on the planet. Aside from the lovecraftian horrors living down there you may also content with several groups or factions of beings on the planet. Some hostile, some friendly.

The follow is a list of all known sentient groups found on the planet based on information sent from recon squads.

=====Podmen=====
Recon Expedition #4 
Threat Level: Minimal, Non Hostile 
Note: A small group of podmen were observed living inside a crashed ship. They appear minimally armed and seem to avoid leaving their home.

=====Golems=====
Recon Expedition #9 
Threat Level: Minimal, Non Hostile 
Note: A unidentified flying object was seen crashing by Recon Team Charlie during expedition #8. Alpha team on expedition #9 located a group of golems, the golems appeared utterly uninterested in their surroundings all things considered.

=====[[Ashwalkers]]=====
Recon Expedition #13 
Threat Level: Medium, Hostile 
Note: It appears a group of Basiliscus Lizretus, also known as Lizardmen, live on the planet, they are hostile to all intruders. These 'ashwalkers' only started to appear when mining operations started, they are agile but lightly armed, wielding primitively forged armor and spears. They appear to also have a hostile relationship with the wildlife, having been observed killing and dragging wildlife corpses away, as to why they need these corpses the recon team is unable to ascertain.

=====Prisioners=====
PMC Expedition #1 
Threat Level: High, Hostile 
Note: A prison transport carrying high tier prisioners crashed on the planet, a PMC expedition was mounted to track them down but the team was unable to locate the crash site and was forced to abandon when the ash storms took a turn for the worse. Any prisoners found should be considered armed and extremely dangerous, and should only be approached by a fully equipped security team.

==The Ores==
These are what you should be looking out for, generally try and get a good mix of the more exotic ore types. Iron ore is ok but it sells for little and is highly abundant on the station already.

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="80%" class="wikitable sortable"
! scope="col" style='background-color:grey;color:white;' |Name
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style='background-color:grey;color:white;' |Wall
! scope="col" width="100px" class="unsortable" style='background-color:grey;color:white;' |Raw Ore
! scope="col" style='background-color:grey;color:white;' |Point Value
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style='background-color:grey;color:white;' |Processed Ore
! scope="col" style='background-color:grey;color:white;' |Frequency
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style='background-color:grey;color:white;' |Uses
|-
!Iron
![[File:Ironwall.png|64px]]
![[File:Ironore.png|64px]]
!1
![[File:Metal.png|64px]]
!Very Common
|For just about everything.
|-
!Plasteel
!
![[File:Ironore.png|64px]][[File:Plasmaore.png|64px]]
!
!
!N/A
|An alloy of iron and plasma, for AI cores and reinforced walls. Can now be produced via the ore redemption machine.
|-
!Sand
![[File:minefloor.png|64px]]
![[File:Sandore.png|64px]]
!1
![[File:Glass.png|center|64px]]
!Very Common
|For making glass, which has a plethora of station applications. Activate sand in your hand to make sandstone bricks. These can be used to make dirt which can be used to grow plants.
|-
!Reinforced Glass
!
![[File:Sandore.png|64px]][[File:Ironore.png|64px]]
!N/A
![[File:Glass_r.png|center|64px]]
!N/A
|For reinforced glass, which is tougher than normal glass.
|-
![[Plasma]]
![[File:Plasmawall.png|64px]]
![[File:Plasmaore.png|64px]]
!15
![[File:Plasmadone.png|64px]]
!Common
|Ship sheets back to Centcom for bonus supply points.
|-
!Silver
![[File:Silverwall.png|64px]]
![[File:Silverore.png|64px]]
!16
![[File:Silverdone.png|64px]]
!Semi-Common
|Making dosh, mechs, and researching Bluespace.
|-
!Gold
![[File:Goldwall.png|64px]]
![[File:Goldore.png|64px]]
!18
![[File:Golddone.png|64px]]
!Semi-Common
|For making various electronics or pimping out Beepsky.
|-
!Uranium
![[File:Uraniumwall.png|64px]]
![[File:Uraniumore.png|64px]]
!30
![[File:Uraniumdone.png|64px]]
!Uncommon
|For making you radioactive (notice: no joke, this shit is deadly as a wall or a door). Delicious cocktails.
|-
!Diamond
![[File:Diamondwall.png|64px]]
![[File:Diamondore.png|64px]]
!50
![[File:Diamonddone.png|64px]]
!Rare
|For making mech parts, among other industrial uses.
|-
!Gibtonite
![[File:Gibtonitewall.gif|64px]]
![[File:Gibtoniteore.png]]
!N/A
!
!Uncommon
|For <s>trolling miners</s> blowing shit up, whether they be solid asteroid or [[Traitor|other things]]. Hitting it with your mining tools will start a chain reaction. If you don't stop the reaction with your mining scanner in time, the gibtonite will explode. If you do, you can mine the ore, pick it up (you need both hands free) and use it as an explosive. The closer the gibtonite was to exploding before defused, the more potent its power. Cannot be forged or turned in to the ore redemption machine, so don't bring any of this to the station or else you'll be <s>arrested</s> ignored by security because they don't know what the hell it is.

How to obtain Gibtonite: Hit ore, count to 8 flashes of the ore then hit it with your scanner. Gibtonite varies in the number of reactions it has, so you may get lower quality ore. Use 2 of the 0 reaction ores (the most potent) to blow open the AI core and make it cry at it's malf failure!
|-
!Bananium
![[File:Bananimumwall.png|64px]]
![[File:Bananimumore.png|64px]]
!60
!
!HONK!
|A rare and unusual mineral found exclusively in clown-controlled space. Used only for the [[Guide_to_robotics#H.O.N.K.|H.O.N.K. mech]].
|}

Additionally, bluespace crystals sometimes spawn on mining. These crystals can be used in various ways. Give them to science to increase bluespace science, hold onto them to use as a risk free jaunter, or throw them at people to make them teleport randomly (often into space.)

===Who Needs What===
Miners don't have to deliver ores directly to departments -- they can if they want, or if those bastards are too lazy to leave their fortress of <s>autism</s> science -- but it never hurts to know what to aim fir.

* [[Scientist]]s just want a little (10-15 of each is enough to last them the entire round) uranium, [[plasma]], diamond and gold. In exchange, they may give you a bomb or more advanced mining tools like a Sonic Jackhammer or a Diamond Drill, both for even faster digging!
* [[Roboticist]]s need diamond, uranium, silver and gold for building mech parts. Give them enough and you've indirectly helped out most of the departments on the station if the Roboticists are competent enough to build helpful stompy mechs for everybody! Too bad the Ripley is the only <s>good</s> mech for mining.
* The [[Quartermaster]] may want mineral sheets to trade them in for bonus supply credits.
* Everybody could always use more iron, glass and plasteel, but especially Roboticists and [[Station Engineer]]s.
* The [[Virologist]], [[Chemist]] and [[Guide to xenobiology|Xenobiologist]] will all appreciate having extra plasma.
* A [[Clown]] with Bananium is a grateful and dangerous ally.
* The [[Bartender]] can use a few sheets of uranium or iron to craft some of his rarest cocktails.

==Secrets of the Asteroid==
While on the asteroid, you may come upon small boxed structures, usually made of plasma or reinforced walls. Dig in through openings, or use the blue toolbox in the hardsuit room to break down that wall and discover your prize! They could have items ranging from magical artifacts to [[Aliens|alien facehugger]]s. A plasma wall doesn't necessarily mean an alien, always check. If you are at all unsure, always let your mining buddies know using :u before you tear down that wall.

You may randomly find a facehugger in one of the treasure rooms. Do not infect yourself with the facehugger. This makes the admins very cross. If you are an antagonist, or a responsible parent with a xeno baby den set up somewhere full of monkeys, you should consider yourself as having more leeway. Do not try to pick the Facehugger up. Construct a locker, put the hugger in the locker, weld it and drag it back to the station. It'll leap at the vulnerable targets it sees once it's re-opened.

Some super useful Treasures you might find while mining include:

*A mysterious medibot. It is black and heals significantly better than other types.
*A Grinder. The limits depend on your ability to use it yourself.
*Cultist Armor. Faster than the mining one but can't be upgraded. Also can get you arrested.
*Various spellbooks. Ranging smoke, knock and blind. In the hands of a good miner, can make a huge difference.
*An E-cutlass. Considered one of the rarest and most desired items from mining, An e-sword in all regards.
*Creature : The creature comes from the Cultist room. If you are a traitor, emagging the laz injector gives you a potent ally that's fast and lethal.
*Soul Stone : Useful for slaving people as a traitor, less useful to non antags.
*Sonic Jackhammer : Breaks walls. ALL OF THEM.

==Tips==
* Always go with at least two other people when mining. Not only can you mine faster together, the chance that they could both be 'lings/traitors is rather low. Pickaxe to the skull tends to put down most people.
* You can view the contents of a mining satchel as if it were a backpack.
* Durands only require uranium and silver, which are abundant. So if you find just 5 diamond, to get yourself a diamond drill, and mine out shit tons of metal, uranium and silver, you can make it Durand station 13!
* Wish soup is made of 20 units of water and nothing else, but sometimes (~25% of the time) will actually be generated with nutriment you can actually get full on. Meaning it's one of the only things you can make once the donk pockets run out. It's also the only thing you can make on the DJ station at all without importing ingredients (provided you bring something to hold the water in).
* Ctrl-Z (with no hotkey-mode) or just Z (with hotkey-mode on) cocks the combat/mining shotgun. No more clicking in between shots!
* Minebots are great at distracting monsters. Just walk near and bash the distracted target with your drill. They can take quite a beating, though goliaths can take them down pretty quickly if you're not quick enough. Plus they collect all the crap gibtonite left.
* The Proto-kinetic Accelerator can destroy electrified grilles without needing a pair of insulated gloves.
* The Proto-kinetic Accelerator will obliterate a space carp in one hit while in space.
* The Head of Personnel may reward you with all access if you resurrect Ian. Also, sometimes the Research Director will reward you for a pet gold grub.
* If you're expecting trouble on the station, consider taking out a window on the mining shuttle before you return to make a quick getaway so you're not trapped like a rat in a cage.
* Taking stimulants before delivering materials to science will help keep you alive.
* The mining drone can be repaired with a welding tool, but not in the middle of a fight. A goliath will always win in a one on one fight with a mining drone.
* Life improving things:
** Mining rig upgrade : Goliath plates add +10% melee resist each time when applied to a rig, ideally if you're just mining you'd want to solely apply that to your chest piece. When maxed out you'll be able to fight a goliath without kiting and take minor damage. It is recommended to apply plates to the head instead if you plan to antag as players more often target your head. The plates will stack until they reach 80%. That makes your suit a space worthy riot suit.
** Security Jumpsuit : This gives a +10% melee resist to everywhere but your head. Nag the QM or HoP to give you one.
** Augmentations : Augs are VERY useful for miners, as healing with a welder is ultimately easier. Plus they work differently than armor when it comes to protection, instead reducing all brute damage taken by an augmented body part by 5 (4 for burn). Downside : EMP vulnerability.
** If these three are combined you become close to immune to melee, only a ninja's energy blade is robust enough to even so much as scratch you, and blobs are utterly hopeless. However, guns are still a threat, and anybody can still surprise you with a stunprod and strip away your precious +4 rig. And be wary, the [[Admin | gods]] may not take kindly to your hubris.
* Kinetic accelerators can be used as infinite tools to navigate space, since every time you fire, it'll throw you in the opposite direction.

==Dead Space==
A traitorous miner has a lot of advantages. You have a space suit for free right away and a robust pickaxe. Certain minerals you'll find have more "specialized" uses -- uranium structures will irradiate people, plasma can start fires, gibtonite goes boom. You can also buy dangerous "mining" tools and possibly even revive those monsters you've been fighting. As long as you have some mineral wealth or an ore box with you, no one will suspect your presence around the station, even in highly restricted areas like robotics or toxins, and if you are smart enough, you could get a big stompy mech to drill people to death! In addition, the asteroid is isolated, hard to get to, dangerous, and as expansive as you're willing to dig out. Plenty of room for somebody to get lost in... ''Forever!''

===Tips for Traitoring===
* If you're a miner and you have to kill another miner; there's a really easy way to block communications one way so he can't call for help.
** Grab a multitool, go to the mining communications room.
** Use the multi tool on the relay and make sure the relay isn't sending, meaning your headset won't go to people on the station.
** Kill your target with their shouts for help unheard.
* You can get plasma at exactly the heat you need for canister bombs by welding a plasma door in vacuum. Use an air pump to take it, then put [REDACTED] KPa into an empty large tank (the size of plasma, emergency O2, etc). You can then ignite it with a can of pure O2 set to release at 1013.25 KPa. This is the Shaft Miner's canister bomb. It's easy to set up on the asteroid.
* More than one uranium wall is hilariously deadly, as they give off a pulse of radiation every couple of seconds. This pulse makes other uranium walls in range pulse as well, and they all run on their own timer.
* Tiers 0-1-2-3 can gib bodies, remember mining suits take 50% of damage away from bombs, so strip miners you want to make disappear forever first.
*Ripley is a fairly robust murdering tool, if you can, convince robotics to put a gravity catapult on it. '''SLAM PEOPLE INTO WALLS. THE SUFFERING NEVER ENDS.'''
*Space is your best ally. Your weapons are more lethal in space, and anyone who wants to chase you will need access to a jetpack and EVA gear. Make people fight on your terms by blowing up the station with various Gibtonite charges, or bust in, stun and drag targets into space.
*Stim packs don't just increase your movement speed, they lower the duration of stuns. Always have this running in your system to remain speedy and more difficult to keep down.
====Tips for Culting====
If you're a miner, [[Mining Station]] is the perfect hive for a cult. The back room can easily be broken down by Constructs, runes can be placed, and a single artificer can make it very difficult for Security to try and raid. Remember to cut cameras, so a Non-Asimov AI doesn't bolt and electrocute every door. Remember to use Teleport other to get Cultists off station and into safe custody. All the station needs is a Medibot and you are golden.

{{Jobs}}
[[Category: Jobs]]

Jobs

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In /tg/station 13, your job is somewhat akin to your character class. It defines your starting equipment, your [[identification_card|access]] on board the station, and what you're supposed to be doing. Remember, these job descriptions are for humor purposes only. Please obey common sense and [[Space Law|Space Law]].



== Useful Links ==

* [[Chain of Command]]
* [[Standard Operating Procedure]]
* [[Guides]]
* [[Rules]]
* [[Job selection and assignment]]

== Command ==

{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="80%" style="background-color:#EEEEFF;" class="wikitable sortable"
! scope="col" style="background-color:lightblue;" width=200|Job
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:lightblue;" |Role
! scope="col" style="background-color:lightblue;" width=100|Difficulty
|-
![[File:Generic_captain.png|64px|link=Captain]] [[Captain]]
|Be responsible for the station. Manage station [[Heads of Staff]]. Secure dat fukken disk. Twist your own head off when the walls start closing in. Have blood feuds with the [[HoP]]. Deal with the Clown with the Laser Cannon. Break your own display case to get your gun for 'MAX PROTECTION'
!aVery Hard
|-
![[File:Generic_hop.png|64px|link=Head of Personnel]] [[Head of Personnel]]
|<s>Manage</s> Ignore internal problems. Assign jobs, alter IDs, maintain records, give the [[Clown]] all-access, judge the unworthy [[assistant]]s, flood the station with all-access clowns, be the hero the station <s>needs</s> deserves. Protect Ian or die trying!
!cMedium
|}

== Security ==
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="80%" style="background-color:#EEEEFF;" class="wikitable sortable"
! scope="col" style="color:white;background-color:darkred;" width=200|Job
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="color:white;background-color:darkred;" |Role
! scope="col" style="color:white;background-color:darkred;" width=100|Difficulty
|-
![[File:Generic_hos.png|64px|link=Head of Security]] [[Head of Security]]
|Make sure your team isn't [[Shitcurity]]. Wear a stylish yet protective coat. Focus your department's efforts on bigger fish than [[Clown|leeches]]. Chase down lone traitors and die alone in maintenance because YOU ARE THE LAW . Revel in the fact that everyone hates you. Carry half the Armory in your backpack. Have blood feuds with the Warden.
!aVery Hard
|-
![[File:Generic_warden.png|64px|link=Warden]] [[Warden]]
|Sit in your office. Sit in your office, again. <s>Never</s> Watch security cameras. Steal from the armory, then order crates to cover it up. Maybe keep an eye or two on the armory (So that no one steals the stuff you want to steal), and SET A GODDAMN TIME TO THE TIMER for any arrested scum. Have blood feuds with the Head of Security.
!bMedium
|-
![[File:Generic_security.png|64px|link=Security Officer]] [[Security Officer]]
|Deal with the various [[clown|dirty]] [[assistant|fucking]] [[traitor|criminals]] running amok on the station. Taser people in the eyes. Pretend the Lawyer doesn't exist. Dogpile on traitors. Constantly get bitched at. Harmbaton people to death, claim they were "resisting arrest". Flashbang crowds until they are deaf and blind forever. Arrest someone for a legitimate cause, get called shitcurity.
!aHard
|-
![[File:Generic_detective.png|64px|link=Detective]] [[Detective]]
|Chain smoke cigarettes. Shoot the useless assistants with your cowboy gun. Lose your cowboy gun in a Space Vegas gambling session. Litter the halls with photos. Solve crimes on rare occasion.
!cMedium
|}

== Engineering ==
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="80%" style="background-color:#FFFFDD;" class="wikitable sortable"
! scope="col" style="background-color:orange;" width=200|Job
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:orange;" |Role
! scope="col" style="background-color:orange;" width=100|Difficulty
|-
![[File:Generic_ce.png|64px|link=Chief Engineer]] [[Chief Engineer]]
|Fly around in space while your [[Station Engineer|subordinates]] burn down engineering, cut life-support to the station, and release the <s>KRAKEN</s> singularity.
!bHard
|-
![[File:Generic_engineer.png|64px|link=Station Engineer]] [[Station Engineer]]
|<s>Set up the singularity</s> Get shot by the emitters, get brutally murdered on the solars by a nuclear agent, get drunk in the bar. Make telecoms unusable with scripts. Sprint past hull breaches without a second thought. Hack every machine to shoot things at people.
!cMedium
|-
![[File:Generic_atmos.png|64px|link=Atmospheric Technician]] [[Atmospheric Technician]]
|Station's ghetto fireman. Ensure everyone can breathe by listening to complaints about how useless you are. If they can talk, everything's within tolerances. Build pipe slides. Forget all about repairing damaged piping. Make some bombs using the empty tanks and accidentally activate them in the hallway. Run around the station looking like a serial killer with a fire suit and axe. Release plasma into the halls.
!cMedium
|}

== Science ==
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="80%" style="background-color:#EEEEFF;" class="wikitable sortable"
! scope="col" style="background-color:#DDA0DD;" width=200|Job
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:#DDA0DD;" |Role
! scope="col" style="background-color:#DDA0DD;" width=100|Difficulty
|-
![[File:Generic_rd.png|64px|link=Research Director]] [[Research Director]]
|Oversee the [[Scientist|demented]] [[Roboticist|manchildren]] of your department. <s>Build</s> Destroy cyborgs with your magic button. Use Lamarr as a breath mask. Take control of the AI and rule the station.
!bHard
|-
![[File:scientist_generic.png|64px|link=Scientist]] [[Scientist]]
|Get tossed in disposal by the [[Research Director]], nag chemistry, "accidentally" blow up toxins, let the Slimes loose. Nag mining for diamonds so you can make two Bags of Holding to make a mini Singularity. Refuse to stop at the last three items in the previous list and accidentally kill yourself in enough stupid ways to make murder look like assisted suicide.
!cMedium
|-
![[File:Roboticist.png|64px|link=Roboticist]] [[Roboticist]]
|Build some nifty robots and BIG STOMPY MECHS! Dismantle the station for more metal. Have your cyborgs that you built turn on you when the AI goes rogue. Kill a patient and blame it on your colleagues for not knowing how to perform surgery. Be awesome and cut your own arm off to replace it with a Robo Arm, Just like Skywalker!
!dEasy
|}

== Medical ==
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="80%" style="background-color:#EEEEFF;" class="wikitable sortable"
! scope="col" style="background-color:lightblue;" width=200|Job
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:lightblue;" |Role
! scope="col" style="background-color:lightblue;" width=100|Difficulty
|-
![[File:Generic_cmo.png|64px|link=Chief Medical Officer]] [[Chief Medical Officer]]
|Gently remind everyone to turn up their suit sensors. Complain no one listens to you. Help the virologist spread an epidemic. Fill your hypospray with Chloral Hydrate. Fetch Runtime mice from maintenance. Do everything (Everyone else under you does fuck all).
!cMedium
|-
![[File:MedicalDoctor.png|64px|link=Medical Doctor]] [[Medical Doctor]]
|<s>Heal people.</s> <s>Use your Sleeper or Cryo to heal people.</s> <s>Help the Virologist research cures to diseases and create new immune systems.</s> Nag Chemistry for chloral hydrate. Inject people with chloral hydrate and drag them to <s>the dungeon</s> surgery and give them a <s>sex change</s> appendix removal. Replace all the chems in Cryo with polytrinic acid. Inject people with mind breaker toxin. Get arrested when you do 'free' brain removals.
!dEasy
|-
![[File:Chemist.png|64px|link=Chemist]] [[Chemist]]
|Make chemicals and basically control the station. Fling grenades on the emergency shuttle. Misname bottles and get lynched by the Chief Medical Officer after they examine your bottle of "Omnizine". Inject the clown with enough mutagen to give a heart attack to a water buffalo. Dish out space drugs like no tomorrow. Make literal carpet bombs to make the corridors slightly more classy.
!dEasy
|-
![[File:Geneticist.png|64px|link=Geneticist]] [[Geneticist]]
|Give your monkeys Tourettes and broadcast their cursing across the station. <s>Clone</s> Ignore the tide of dead bodies that comes to your door. Lose your hair. Accidentally inject yourself with a monkey SE and get impaled by the cook. Get bombed every round.
!cMedium
|-
![[File:Generic_virologist.png|64px|link=Virologist]] [[Virologist]]
|Expect people you've never met to already hate you, try to eradicate the great space flu, create the next Pandemic, get killed for the clown releasing Pierrot's Throat. Ignore petty details like sanitation and outbreak prevention. Incarcerate someone forever [[Virology|in your dungeon]].
!cMedium
|}

== Civilian ==
=== Supply ===
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="80%" style="background-color:#FFFFDD;" class="wikitable sortable"
! scope="col" style="background-color:orange;" width=200|Job
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:orange;" |Role
! scope="col" style="background-color:orange;" width=100|Difficulty
|-
![[File:Generic_qm.png|64px|link=Quartermaster]] [[Quartermaster]]
|Order crates and make sure your [[Cargo Technician|slaves]] do their jobs. Be an extremely vulnerable target for the [[Revolution]]. Order guns and secede from the station. Order virus crates and release the contents. <s>Force Lisa into sexual servitude with Ian.</s> Pet Lisa. Trade an assistant a toolbelt, multitool, rubber gloves, and a welding hat if they steal Runtime.
!cMedium
|-
![[File:Generic_cargo.png|64px|link=Cargo Technician]] [[Cargo Technician]]
|Push dem crates. Promote shorts as they are comfy and easy to wear. Steal <s>emitters</s> cargo in general. Give the MULEs a thirst for human blood. Whine because Security arrested you for ordering guns.
!dEasy
|-
![[File:Generic_shaft.png|64px|link=Shaft Miner]] [[Shaft Miner]]
|Mine rocks, try to mine monsters. Get science and robotics materials to get cool things. Go on a quest for the clown planet. Shoot people with your kinetic accelerator as if they were <s>rocks</s> monsters. Collapse in despair when the shuttle is called early. Collapse in general when goliaths robust you. Search for cool loot instead of actually mining for ore. Fall into a chasm and die.
!bMedium
|}

=== Service ===
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="80%" style="background-color:#EEEEFF;" class="wikitable sortable"
! scope="col" style="background-color:#DDA0DD;" width=200|Job
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:#DDA0DD;" |Role
! scope="col" style="background-color:#DDA0DD;" width=100|Difficulty
|-
![[File:Generic_janitor.png|64px|link=Janitor]] [[Janitor]]
|Mop blood off the floor, then get arrested for creating a safety hazard. Get killed for your boots. Swear constantly. Clean up gang tags, then get harmbatoned by Security because you were spotted near them.
!dEasy
|-
![[File:Generic_barman.png|64px|link=Bartender]] [[Bartender]]
|Mix cocktails, <s>protect Pun Pun at all cost</s> toss the monkey into disposals, dodge glasses being thrown at you, have your shotgun stolen and used against you. Let cargo borrow your shotgun in exchange for sawing it off for you. Act surprised when people start to die from drinking your "cocktails".
!dEasy
|-
![[File:Generic_chef.png|64px|link=Chef]] [[Cook]]
|"Yur puurt thuur chiir-ken airn der bewl" - Cook delicious meals from spare meat in the morgue (Yum!), abduct Pun Pun at all costs and try to find out if it will blend. [[Critters#Neutral|Be brutally murdered by your pet goat]].
!dEasy
|-
![[File:Generic_botanist.png|64px|link=botanist]] [[Botanist]]
|Grow <strike>the good stuff</strike> grass, place it everywhere, man. Oversee the production of illegal drugs security gives fuckall about. Smoke <s>weed</s> dandy corn-cob pipes er'ryday. Allow hydroponics to become a horrifying farmhouse.
!cMedium
|}

=== Miscellaneous ===
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! scope="col" style="background-color:#9ACD32;" width=200|Job
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:#9ACD32;" |Role
! scope="col" style="background-color:#9ACD32;" width=100|Difficulty
|-
![[File:Generic_assistant2.png|64px|link=Assistant]] [[Assistant]]
|AKA Space Bums. Be the kid in a candy shop. Steal things to see what funny message pops up when you commit suicide with them. Beat people/objects with toolboxes. Never, EVER remove your grey jumpsuit. Gangbang the captain to death with fellow grey tide drones and blame it on the clown.
!fNone
|-
![[File:Generic_clown.png|64px|link=Clown]] [[Clown]]
|Honk! Play harmless pranks and hope you don't get your chest caved in! Honk! Nag the HoP for an all-access pass. Honk! Nag robotics for a H.O.N.K. Mech. Honk! Use both tools to break into the Captain's office and HONK in his face. HONK!
!eHONK!
|-
![[File:Generic_mime.png|64px|link=Mime]] [[Mime]]
|''*wave''
!e...
|-
![[File:Generic_chaplain.png|64px|link=Chaplain]] [[Chaplain]]
|Drink your holy water. Preach your religion with your all-healing bible. Drink more holy water. Attempt to hold weddings and funerals. Make people retarded with your all-healing bible. Pretend to listen. Pray to the almighty <strike>God</strike> admins. Become unable to speak a coherent sentence after emptying your holy water.
!dEasy
|-
![[File:Generic_librarian.png|64px|link=Librarian]] [[Librarian]]
|Attempt to hold poetry readings. Host D&D games. Stalk people with your camera. Get lynched for reading pornography over the radio. Beat the snot out of anyone who doesn't return their library books. Allow the cult to set up an AI module in your private study.
!dEasy
|-
![[File:Generic_lawyer.png‎|64px|link=Lawyer]] [[Lawyer]]
|Tell security to notify you when a new prisoner arrives. Don't get notified. Be ignored and go to the bar. Become a drunken wreck and space yourself in frustration. Occasionally find loopholes in infernal contracts and save souls from damnation.
!dEasy
|}

== Non-human ==

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! scope="col" style="background-color:#A9A9A9;" width=200|Job
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:#A9A9A9;" |Role
! scope="col" style="background-color:#A9A9A9;" width=100|Difficulty
|-
![[File:AI.gif|64px|link=AI]] [[AI]]
| Complain that you can't play this for a month. Follow your laws. Be the crew's bitch. Open doors. Malfunction. Get wiped for not letting the [[captain]] robust the [[clown]]. Get bitched at. Name yourself something sexual. Get bitched at. Get carded. Get bitched at.
!aVery Hard
|-
![[File:Generic_borg.png|64px|link=Cyborg]] [[Cyborg]]
|Follow your laws and hope that you aren't blown up due to [[Research Director|certain individuals]]. Forget to recharge. Forget completely that you're still somewhat human and do mindless repetitive tasks without emotion.
!bHard
|-
![[File:Generic drone.png|64px|link=Drone]] [[Drone]]
|Become that adorable robotic pet. Fix the holes the crew will inevitably make. Steal everything not bolted down. Get picked up and used as a hat against your will. Be more competent than the stations Engineers. Get killed by the Engineers for being more competent than them.
!bEasy
|-
![[File:Pai.png|64px|link=Personal AI]] [[Personal AI]]
|Be the friend someone has always wanted (if they bother downloading you). Whine in OOC because they didn't. Don't fill any of the fields except the name field.
!dEasy
|-
![[File:Shade.png|64px|link=Construct]] [[Construct]]
|Get wrecked by cult, or change map preference to meta and tip your fedora at the chaplain. laugh at the assistant trying to punch you, then get killed by a simplemob carp. Start beefs with other constructs for getting the first shell, ask for juggernaut and get <s>spaced</s> wraith.
!cEasy to Medium
|-
![[File:Ghost2.png|64px|link=Ghost]] [[Ghost]]
|Talk to the other [[Clown|dead]] [[Assistant|people]]. Complain about the living. Admin help. <s>Omnighost</s> Orbit around the singulo pretending to be a black hole. <s>Watch ERP</s>. Beg the admin to deploy a space ninja. All follow an antag like some form of ethereal dog pile.
!fGhastly!
|}

== Antagonists ==
=== Main Antagonists ===
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! scope="col" style="color:white;background-color:brown;" width=200|Job
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="color:white;background-color:brown;"|Role
! scope="col" style="color:white;background-color:brown;" width=100|Difficulty
|-
![[File:Traitor.png|64px|link=Traitor]] [[Traitor]]
|Buy an ebow and esword and make people cry. Ignore your objectives and go on a rampage with your cool gear. Get unceremoniously killed and spaced by a toolbox-wielding assistant.
!cMedium
|-
![[File:Changeling.gif|64px|link=Changeling]] [[Changeling]]
|Think John Carpenter's 'The Thing', without 'The Thing' part. Relieve humans of their DNA and brain cells, which they don't use much anyway.
!bHard
|-
![[File:Generic_nukesyndie.png|64px|link=Syndicate guide]] [[Syndicate guide|Nuclear Operative]]
|Someone set us up the bomb! (AKA You) Get dat fukken disk. Plant a power sink on the solars. Waste all your telecrystals on balloons. Arm the nuke while your fellows are still on the station. Kidnap Ian.
!aVery Hard
|-
![[File:Cultist.png|64px|link=Cult magic]] [[Cultist]]
|Scribble runes. Summon eldritch gods. Rock out with your <s>cock</s> cult blade out and get arrested.
!cMedium
|-
![[File:servant_of_ratvar.png|64px|link=Clockwork Cult]] [[Clockwork Cult|Clockwork Cultist]]
|Serve the Clockwork Justiciar by scribbling new-age runes all over maintenance. Start a steampunk book club and kill all the old-fashioned book clubbers. Invoke a bunch of anime people to summon Ratvar. Make everyone at /vg/ mad by stealing their antagonist.
!bMedium to Hard
|-
![[File:Assistant.png|64px|link=Revolution]] [[Revolution|Revolutionary]]
|Greytide without worrying about getting banned. Either kill the CMO and RD in under five minutes, or get crushed under Security's boots.
!aEasy to Hard
|-
![[File:Mobster.png|64px|link=Gang]] [[Gang|Gangster]]
|Vandalize the station and get into fights with rivals. Litter the halls with bullet casings. Get ignored by your own gang. Just don't forget: Snitches Get Stitches.
!aHard
|-
![[File:Generic_wizard.png|64px|link=Wizard]] [[Wizard]]
|FORTI GY AMA!! EI NATH!!
!aVery Hard
|-
![[File:Generic_wizard.png|64px|link=Wizard]][[File:Generic_wizard.png|64px|link=Wizard]][[File:Generic_wizard.png|64px|link=Wizard]] [[Wizard|Ragin Mages]]
|Spend ten minutes hunting down one Wizard, kill him thinking you've won! Stare in horror as three more Wizards appear. Watch in amusement as they proceed to kill each other.
!aVery Hard
|-
![[File:Blob core.gif|64px|link=Blob]] [[Blob]]
|Forget you're infected with the blob, burst in the HoP line while begging for all access. Somehow manage to not die within five minutes of bursting. Get killed by the augmented, riot suit wielding Head of Security.
!bHard
|-
![[File:Shadowbeing.png|64px|link=Shadowling]] [[Shadowling]]
|Be the hip and more popular brother to the Changeling. Turn the station into thralls. Cry when a cyborg turns on its headlamp. Shadow Walk into space and die ten minutes into the round.
!bHard
|-
![[File:devil.gif|64px|link=devil]] [[Devil]]
|Engage in civil discussions to buy souls. Create emergencies so that people are desperate enough to sell their soul. Try to out wit the lawyer. Get punched to death by someone you just turned into a hulk.
!bMedium
|-
![[File:Monkey.png|64px|link=Game Mode#Monkey]] [[Game Mode#Monkey|Monkey]]
|Attempt to infect the crew with the monkey virus. Get absolutely crushed by Security within five minutes. Spend the next two hours as a ghost.
!bVery Hard
|-
|}

=== Side Antagonists ===

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! scope="col" style="color:white;background-color:orange;" width=200|Job
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="color:white;background-color:orange;"|Role
! scope="col" style="color:white;background-color:orange;" width=100|Difficulty
|-
![[File:Stand.gif|64px|link=Guardian Spirit]] [[Guardian Spirit]]
|Do what your summoner tells you to do. Set your battlecry to something so awful it makes your foes cry in battle. Be a punchghost.
!bORA ORA ORA
|-
![[File:Alien.png|64px|link=Alien]] [[Xenos|Xenomorph]]
|Ensure the crew gets a face full of alien ''wing-wang''. Break procs. Squander your chance to be a big, purple killing machine and your race's survival in favor of acting out the librarian's favorite porno.
!bHard
|-
![[File:Swarmer.png|64px|link=Swarmers]] [[Swarmers]]
|Consume. Replicate. Repeat. Eat Telecomms. Teleport <s>other swarmers</s> your enemies away from your metal.
!bMedium
|-
![[File:Revenant.png|64px|link=Revenant]] [[Revenant]]
|Shock lights, transmit WGW right into the librarian until he goes mad. Trade for them until <s>admins</s> gods get fed up with you and turn ghosts into you. Be a griefghost.
!bEasy
|-
![[File:Morph.png|64px|link=Morph]] [[Morph]]
|Eat pens for amusement, disguise yourself as beepsky. Disguise yourself as the Captain, confront the Captain while disguised as him, get shot.
!bHard
|-
![[File:Generic_ninja.png|64px|link=Space Ninja]] [[Space Ninja]]
|Follow your orders, which may or may not involve you killing everything that moves. Kill everyone regardless.
!bHard
|-
|}

== Special ==

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! scope="col" style="background-color:lightblue;" width=200|Job
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:lightblue" |Role
! scope="col" style="background-color:lightblue;" width=100|Difficulty
|-
![[File:Ashwalker.png]] [[Lavaland|Lavaland Role]]
|Die to ash storms. Die to a legion. Die to lava. Die when a Security strike team teleports into your base. Die to a Miner. Die in general.
!bHard
|-
![[File:centcomofficial.png|64px|link=Centcom Official]] [[Centcom Official]]
|Be self-important, meddle with station affairs, annoy the Captain with bureaucracy. Get killed almost immediately by a random mob. Have you body looted by everyone, including the captain.
!bMedium
|-
![[File:Ian.PNG|64px|link=Ian]] [[Ian]]
|Ass-inspect, eat donuts, get killed, be dragged off to a washing machine and get gibbed. Cause a riot.
!aImpossible
|-
![[File:Chrono.png|64px|Chrono Legionnaire]] Chrono Legionnaire
|Erase the Clown from time. Accidently erase your objective from time. Never be spawned by a admin for being too powerful. Without a trace!
!bNever Existed
|-
![[File:emergencyresponseteamcommander.png|link=Emergency Response Team]] [[Emergency Response Team|Emergency Response Officer]]
|Arrive too late on the station to actually help. Lose the rest of your team, get outnumbered and die. Respawn as a second response team to save the first team.
!bVery Hard
|-
![[File:deathsquadofficer.png|64px|link=Death squad]] [[Death squad|Death Squad Officer]]
|Beg for DS, spawn in at centcom, kill an admin who was trying to tell you your mission, get gibbed, beg for another chance. Set your rifle to DESTROY and terminate all lifeforms (including walls). Slip on a banana peel and a̶n̶d̶ ̶g̶e̶t̶ ̶b̶l̶a̶s̶t̶e̶d̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶o̶ ̶o̶b̶l̶i̶v̶i̶o̶n̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶o̶w̶n̶ ̶r̶i̶f̶l̶e̶ laugh as your boots prevent you from slipping and the Clown can't fire your DNA-locked rifle. Shoot the Clown with your Mataba Revolver.
!bHard
|}

== Species ==
Read More: [[Guide to races]]
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! scope="col" style="background-color:darkgreen;" width=200|Species
! scope="col" class="unsortable" style="background-color:darkgreen;" |Description
! scope="col" style="background-color:darkgreen;" width=100|Prevalence
|-
![[File:Human.png|64px|link=Humans]] [[Humans|Humans]]
|Behave like the dominant species you are. Beat skulls in with a toolbox and remind everyone that you are essentially a bald ape. Get leg-dropped by a wrestler and watch as your leg actually falls off. Pray to be changed into a catgirl/boy, get changed into an actual cat instead.
!aVery Common
|-
![[File:Lizardman.png|64px|link=Lizardperson]] [[Lizardmen]]
|Name yourself Does-The-Gimmick. Set all your accessory slots and become an unrecognisable blob of pixels. <strike>Be locked out of important positions.</strike> Threaten the HoP with a lawsuit if he doesn't promote you to a Head position. Make it hard to understand a word you say by hissing frequently. Get discriminated against for being a special snowflake.
!cUncommon
|-
![[File:Flyperson.png|64px|link=Flyperson]] [[Flyperson]]
|Annoy the chef for his cheese, vomit on his food and kill Pete because <strike>you need barf fuel</strike> muh self defense. Start getting voices in your head when you read the bee movie script over the radio. Get lynched for attacking the botanist using pest spray, and get gibbed by the chef for 'no reason'.
!cUncommon
|-
![[File:Plasmaman.png|64px|link=Plasmamen]] [[Plasmamen]]
|Light the entirety of the station on fire. Be triggered by cold environments. Claim that you're a space beast that's come to kill everything, ever.
!cRare
|-
![[File:Slimepeople.png|64px|link=Slimepeople]] [[Slimepeople#Slimepeople|Slimeperson]]
|Be the specialest snowflake in xenobiology. Hang out with your <s>only</s> slime friends. Swap between bodies. Inject people with your poisonous blood.
!cVery Rare
|-
![[File:Podman.png|64px|link=Podman]] [[Podmen]]
|End up as mister potatohead after Genetics gets blown up and the Botanist is not stoned enough to forget he can clone too, but too stoned to do a good job. Forget that you photosynthesise and grow obese in the light. Start vegetating with relative ease. Remember that you're basically a walking matchstick well after you marched into a plasma fire.
!cVery Rare
|}
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