Many people have worked incredibly hard to get us this far, but just like with any major changes, we will be testing the NBT in phases and making adjustments until we feel it's polished enough to become permanent, this is a strong adjustment phase, please report any issues you encounter on the Github [https://github.com/Aurorastation/Aurora.3/issues], check the [[Getting_Started|Getting Started]] page if you're new to Aurora, and be sure to read the bottom on the new and changed roles to get a more solid grasp of how the new Station dynamics will work.
[[File:Overmap.png|frame|An example of what you might see on the overmap. Note the bright blue objects.]]
The overmap is functionally a z-level dedicated to portraying the sector of space surrounding the ship. You can see your own ship here and empty space at the least, as well as any nearby objects. The ship will start in a random area of the overmap, and the overmap will be randomized every round. Most overmap objects are comprised of the following:
#Dust clouds
#Asteroid fields
#Ion storms
#Electrical storms
#Carp shoals
#Points of interest
The last point is the most important, since exploring places you can [[#New Away Sites|actually visit]] is the goal of the vessel and its crew - the rest are mostly obstacles and hazards that serve to hinder your progress one way or another. Sometimes, however, you might even encounter other ships... like your own shuttles, [[Mercenary|probably]].
===The new roles===
===Piloting===
Piloting the vessel is done through the helm console. The helm provides a view of the overmap centered on your vessel, and allows you to control the vessel by selecting directions to fly in... assuming the engines are powered: you'll have to turn the thrusters on at the engine control console before the vessel is allowed to move. Once that's done, pressing any direction will begin moving the vessel in that direction at a certain speed - a speed that depends on how many thrusters you have and how high pressure the gas is -, which can be raised by pressing that direction more. Note that the only "brakes" on this vessel is retrothrusting or, simply put, pressing the opposite direction of where you're going until you stop... or pressing the <code>X</code> in the middle of the controls - the vessel will otherwise keep moving in the direction it was told, and it '''will not stop unless you tell it to''', so if your thrusters are suddenly out of gas, depowered, or just missing, and the vessel is in motion, then '''you're in some serious trouble.'''
===New Command===
===Autopilot===
Command has seen multiple changes, with the introduction of a new command member and the renovation of another. The new command member, Operations Manager, is a bumped up quartermaster that requires a command WL to play. The renovated HoP, now called Executive officer, manages the service and civilian departments.
<s>Unironically a death trap</s> Autopilot is a function of the helm console of questionable usefulness. It is extremely basic in that it only cares about where it is and how far its destination is; hazards and obstacles are '''not''' a consideration. If there are absolutely no obstacles between you and your destination then feel free to use it, otherwise you are almost guaranteed to spur chaos in the form of hull breaches or worse: APC-depowering ion storms.
====Executive Officer (Replaces HoP, manages the service department.)====
====Sensors====
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Surprisingly, you can't actually see a whole lot just by looking out the helm unless the object you're looking for is massive and you're within a stone's throw of it already. To make up for this shortcoming, the ship is supplied with a sensors array that will actively scan its surroundings, controlled by a sensor console in the helm. Mechanically this is just shining a flashlight at the overmap and seeing what lurks in the dark, but your range of vision is increased with the amount of power supplied to the sensors array. It is worth mentioning, though, that sensors ''will'' consume a lot of power if allowed to and can end up overheating if turned on for too long.
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|stafftype = COMMAND
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|img = HeadOfPersonnel.png
|jobtitle = Executive Officer
|access = ???
|difficulty = Hard
|qualifications = At least 30 years of age, 10 years experience in department-related field and a relevant Bachelors or Masters degree.
|education = [[Apex & Ft Sunder Joint Military Academies]] - [[New Seoul Combat Training Centre]] - [[Tajaran Educational Institutions#Kaltir Law Academy|Kaltir Law Academy]] - [[Tajaran Educational Institutions#Al'mari College of Hadiist Sciences|Al'mari College of Hadiist Sciences]] - [[Tajaran Educational Institutions#Nal'tor College of Career Excellence|Nal'tor College of Career Excellence]]
|superior = [[Captain]]
|duties = Administration, IDs, managing personnel numbers, synergize the departments.
|guides = [[Chain of Command]]
}}
The [[Head of Personnel|Executive Officer]] is in near complete control of the Service You are on the same level as all of the other [[Chain of Command|heads of staff]] and do not outrank any of them. Executive Officers are also not automatically Acting Captain, and must be voted in the position just as any other Heads.
====Operations Manager (Replaces Quartermaster, is elevated to Command Staff.)====
It's also worth mentioning that other vessels with an active sensor array will light up their surroundings on the overmap <s>because BYOND doesn't allow for anything more complex without a complete overhaul to the system and at that point this may as well be a completely different game</s>, so you can turn on the sensors to a low power setting on one of your smaller shuttles and save the high energy sensor bursts for your main sensor suite as needed.
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|jobtitle = Operations Manager
|access = ???
|difficulty = Medium
|qualifications = ???
|education = [[Tajaran Educational Institutions#Nal'tor College of Career Excellence|Nal'tor College of Career Excellence]]
|superior = [[Captain]]
|duties = Coordinate operations, assist with mining if necessary
|guides = [[Cargo Technician]], [[Shaft Miner]], [[Guide to Communication Devices]]
}}
As an '''Operations Manager''', your primary job is to coordinate and manage your department, which consists of the supply area and the flight deck. What this means is that it is your responsibility to ensure orders are processed smoothly, the warehouse is sorted, and that shuttles are properly loaded and fueled by your hanger techs.
===Operations (Replaces Cargo, is managed by the Operations Manager.)===
==Shuttle Maintenance==
Operations as a department completely replaces Cargo, alongside multiple renames of old roles, and a new addition of the Machinist, which replaces the Roboticist, under the lead of the Operations Manager, a command level replacement to QM. The department handles both supply issues and the flight deck of the SCCV [NAME], such as mailing items, mining materials, and refueling/maintaining shuttles.
Some shuttles are slightly different from their original implementation in that they can dock and depart from the main map ''and'' fly around the overmap independently. As far as the overmap is concerned they function exactly the same, requiring gas (usually hydrogen in canisters, but you can use any gas you like) to be supplied to the thrusters in order to move. However, shuttles also use a secondary fuel that allows them to dock and depart from wherever they are, namely phoron inside tanks placed inside an orange fuel port somewhere on the shuttle. Replacing the fuel tank is as simple as opening the hatch with a crowbar, yanking the old tank out with an open hand, and clicking the port with the new tank to slot it in, then shutting it closed with a crowbar to finish it up.
====Prospector (Replaces Shaft Miner.)====
Lastly, it's important to remember that shuttles do not have an infinite supply of power: the APCs will gradually drain while undocked, especially if the shuttle's sensors are turned on. Depowering in the middle of space is certainly a ''worst case scenario'' so you should keep your trips as short as possible by letting the main vessel do most of the maneuvering. At the least, you can try to stave off the inevitable by carrying a PACMAN or two.
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jobtitle=Prospector
|access=Mining, that's all I know.
|difficulty=Very Easy
|qualifications=At least 18 years of age, have passed an SCC Certified Mining Accreditation course and have at least a recognised certificate in operating shuttle-craft
The Prospector is in charge of all ore extraction and processing in the sector. Generally seen as a low-class assignment, there are no requirements to work in this field - however knowledge in the operation of heavy machinery and/or piloting are useful in order to make the most of the asteroid, by setting up the drills and being able to pilot a mining mech.
=New Away Sites=
The primary purpose of the SCCV Horizon is to travel the spur in search of more Phoron deposits, as those in the Romanivich Cloud have dried up. Because you can't mine space, or look for artifacts in the void, miners and others will need to go to away sites in search of deposits to mine and claim for the SCC. The Horizon has two shuttles to accommodate this. One is a mining shuttle, very small and primarily used by miners to get to where they need to mine with all their equipment, and then '''the Intrepid''' a larger shuttle is used for crew away missions, which are primarily based around surveying and exploration. However, this doesn't mean a xeno-archeologist cannot go with the miners in their shuttle, and the miners can't go aboard the Intrepid, after all, if you're both headed to the same place, why waste the fuel?
===How to get to the Away Site===
As stated the only way to get away sites is to fly there, in one of the two shuttles. Shuttles can be flown independently by Prospectors, who have the required training, but with larger crew away missions it is advisable to take a more dedicated pilot, such as one of the Bridge Crew along to fly. As for the exact way to get there, it can either be done by parking the Horizon above the target asteroid or planet, and then taking the shuttle down much like how the current research shuttle works; or the shuttle can get the coordinates from the bridge and fly across the overmap to their target instead, without the main ship having to move. '''Command staff should not accompany expeditions to away sites unless they are necessary for it's success, instead a Bridge Crewman should be chosen and ordered to accompany the expedition in lieu of actual command staff.'''
Due to the training taking place within the Romanivich Cloud, a majority of the new away sites will be asteroids, full of what was previously found on the NSS Aurora asteroid. So they will contain minerals, xeno-archology artifacts, as well as other new ruins, but may have hostile lifeforms such as dwellers and carp on them, or even people in ghost roles. It is important to remember that these asteroids will be much safer then places the Horizon may visit in the future, and are a good training ground for learning how to do away missions off of a ship.
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==Derelicts==
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Remains of ships and stations that have long been decommissioned, Derelicts are the other away site you may run into during testing within the Romanivich Cloud. Holding anything from old corporate equipment to [[Guide_to_Ghost_Roles#Zeng-Hu_Derelict_Survivors|experiments gone wrong]], nearly anything can be found. While these will not have the mineral wealth of asteroids, they may contain unknown artifacts or other interesting scraps for the crew to uncover.
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|img=Cargo_Technician.png
|jobtitle=Hangar Crewman
|access=Maint Tunnels, Mail Sorting, Basic Operations
|difficulty=Easy
|qualifications=At least 18 years of age.
|education = [[Tajaran Educational Institutions#Nal'tor College of Career Excellence|Nal'tor College of Career Excellence]]
|superior=[[Quartermaster|Operations Manager]].
|duties=Handling of basic Operations tasks, Mailing, Distributing Items in Warehouse
|guides=[[Guide to Paperwork]], [[Guide to Communication Devices]]
}}
The Hangar Technician is the crewmember that is in charge of handling all basic Operations-related requests, mailing items, and sorting and then distributing the contents of the warehouse. They are also the grease monkies of the flight deck, making sure shuttles on expeditions are fueled, maintained, and ready to go when ordered.
{{Research}}
{{Guides}}
====Machinist (Replaces Roboticist, moved to Operations.)====
|qualifications = At least 25 years of age, Engineering, Mechatronics, or Robotics degree, (Masters preferred).
|education = [[Mars University]] - [[Solis Cognito University]] - [[The Gliutip’lyaz University]] - [[Tajaran Educational Institutions#Hadii Institute of Orbital Research|Hadii Institute of Orbital Research]]
|superior = [[Quartermaster|Operations Manager]].
|duties = Create [[Cyborg]]s, Exosuits and robots. Maintain mechanical prosthetics, organs, and augments on your organic co-workers.
|guides = [[Guide to Robotics]], [[Surgery]]
}}
Primarily, the '''Machinist''''s job is to make [[Cyborg|cyborg bodies]], and generally maintain activated cyborgs. Secondarily, Machinists create helpful robots like Medibots and Floorbots. A skilled set of Machinists can even build a powerful set of mechanized exosuits.
It is also the responsibility of Machinists to perform the operation of cyborgification if deemed as necessary by the vessels
SCC command staff.
===Civilian (Split Assistant into two roles, Crewman and Visitor, Bridge Crewman has been added who will man the bridge.)===
Civilian has seen some minor changes, the assistant was split into two new roles, and a new bridge crewmen role.
====Bridge Crewman (Brand New.)====
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|jobtitle=Bridge Crewman
|access=???
|difficulty=Easy
|qualifications=At least 18 years of age.
|education = [[Tajaran Educational Institutions#Nal'tor College of Career Excellence|Nal'tor College of Career Excellence]]
|superior=All members of Command
|duties=The Maintenance and management of the Bridge operations.
|guides=[[Guide to Paperwork]], [[Guide to Communication Devices]]
}}
====Crewmember (Replaces Assistant.)====
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|imagebgcolor = lightgray
|img = Assistant.png
|jobtitle = Crewmember
|access = Nothing
|difficulty = Very Easy
|qualifications = Not be a complete idiot.
|superior = [[Jobs|Everyone]]
|duties = Try to convince the [[Head of Personnel|Executive Officer]] to give you a job or a department to take you in and give you work.
|guides = No external guides.
}}
This job has no access. But it's good to play if you are a newbie, because you can have an infinite number of assistants on a vessel. A [[Head of Personnel|Executive Officer]] can give you more access on your [[Head_of_Personnel#The_Reassignment:_A_Way_of_Life|Identification Card]], so you can be something other than a random assistant.
====Visitor (Old role, new alt-title, Off-duty Crewmember).====
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|imagebgcolor = lightgray
|img = Assistant.png
|jobtitle = Visitor
|access = Nothing
|difficulty = Very Easy
|qualifications = None
|superior = [[Jobs|Everyone]]
|duties = Visit the ship. Socialize. Tell people that you have children.
|guides = No external guides.
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This job has no access. You should never ask someone like [[Head of Personnel|Executive Officer]] give you access or a job so you can do something. You are at the ship to visit, not to work.
==The old and new together in their altered departments==
Now that we've proceeded through the direct changes, we can see below how this all intersects with the vessel as a whole, please take a look, while not necessary, it should help you adjust better to the new additions during the Next Big Thing testing phase.
===Command (HoP replaced by Executive Officer, Quartermaster replaced by the Operations Manager, a new Command member.)===
|Put your command whitelist to use and try out Captain. Stare in regret as everything quickly falls apart all around you. Offer to work as a partial interim head of staff for departments without a head. End up being busy with <s>ERP</s> '''more important matters''' instead. Get your spare ID stolen by an [[Station Engineer|engineer]] within minutes. [[Revolutionary|Wonder why there's suddenly torches and pitchforks in front of your door.]]
!Very Hard
|-
![[File:HeadOfPersonnel.png|link=Head of Personnel]]<br>[[Head_of_Personnel|Executive Officer]]
|Make your presence known and state that you are available to change access on peoples' IDs. Deny 80% of the requests because they're clearly not trained to do what they want access to and they never bothered writing employment records to back themselves up anyway. Run around the vessel keeping track of everything for the [[Captain]]. End up butting heads with other heads of staff over their leadership ability. [[Vampire|Call people into your office for ''employee evaluations.'']]
|Order crates full of powerful equipment <s>that you can't open anyway because of ID locks</s>. Whip your Hangar Technicians into shape. Listen to prospectors shriek over the radio when they fall down a hole. Open the door for [[Paramedic]]s more times than you can be bothered to count. Charge people for more than you ordered the crates for. Smack requests with your stamp. Smack manifests with your stamp. Smack your [[Cargo Technician|slaves]] with your stamp. Print out lengthy paperwork that no one will fill out.
|-
![[File:Generic_hos.png|link=Head of Security]]<br>[[Head of Security]]
|Get your [[Security Officer|officers]] situated and ready to protect company assets. Watch them all attempt to become anything more than a mall cop. <s>Give up and do the same.</s> Over-exaggerate petty crimes. Declare suspects committing battery in self defense HUT. Tell criminals that crime doesn't pay. Attempt to clear space bats out of the armory. <s>Die.</s> Pet your dog. <s>Make sure no Antag gimmicks get off the ground.</s>
|Wonder why you spawn with black gloves instead of insulation. Promote safety and wearing PPEs. <s>Contradict yourself by not wearing any of that ever.</s> Wear your fancy white hardsuit around instead! Leap everywhere around with it <s>until the battery runs out, the time you need it most</s>. Wonder why the engine tech decided using N2 was ever a good idea. Watch the [[Atmospheric Technician|atmos tech]]'s face melt fighting a losing battle against a phoron fire without protection. Watch an apprentice get stuck trying to build window panes. Forget your <s>robot</s> fish pet exists.
|<s>Sit around</s> Dream about sitting in your office all day. Get stuck doing RnD because no one else wants to. Act surprised when someone who knows what they're doing attempts telescience. Don't be surprised in the slightest when the Xenobiologist gets digested by slimes. Watch [[Paramedic]]s try and fail to rescue them. Observe the Xenobotanist get blasted in the face with K'ois. Watch Paramedics try and fail, again, to rescue them. Listen as your Xenoarcheologist falls down a hole. <s>Contemplate firing all xenostudy staff without a second thought as a result just because.</s> [[Traitor|Wonder why there's a big hole in the server room instead of toxins.]]
!Hard
|-
![[File:ChiefMedicalOfficer.png|link=Chief Medical Officer]]<br>[[Chief Medical Officer]]
|Try to give a quick briefing to your subordinates round-start. Get ignored as they all explode out of the briefing room as quickly as possible. Make sure [[Chemist]]s aren't getting high. Walk in on the [[Paramedic|EMT]] attempting [[Surgery]] on the [[Psychologist]]. End up being the only competent medical professional amid pubbies that thought [[Nurse]] was a learning role. Desperately try not to metagame against [[Changeling|lings]] suddenly resurrecting with full health out of no where. '''Suffer.'''
|Run around the vessel <s>with your baton out so that you can get disarmed and beaten with it</s>. Wear silly looking glasses. Go on painfully long chases through maintenance <s>and never catch anyone because wow you're out of shape</s>. Eat donuts. Get criminals bumped out of your hands. Accidentally leave prisoners cuffed in their cell. [[Cult|Watch someone guilty of petty theft get sacrificed on a weird altar in the brig.]] Jump up and down outside the armory when literally anything that comes close to being a concern for security is mentioned over the radio. Fight a losing battle against xenobiology slimes.
!Hard
|-
![[File:Warden.png|link=Warden]]<br>[[Warden]]
|Be in charge of the <s>Gulag</s> brig. Act like you run the place. Get shouted at by [[Head of Security|your boss]]. Spin around in your chair. End up working as a dispatcher, you probably don't have much else to do. Make a funny bingo card to see how predictable perps can get. Stare at the camera console for so long that you don't even notice the [[Mercenary|hulking guy in red]] looting the armory. Take your sweet time opening the armory<s>, especially when there's an actual reason to get it open</s>. Keep an eye on those low level crime prisoners, ''they're the slippery ones.''
|Shove everyone out of the way to collect <s>contaminated</s> concrete evidence about a crime. Watch [[Paramedic]]s plow through security tape and steal bodies, all while smearing their dirty hands over all of the evidence. Toss bodies onto the autopsy table <s>[[Changeling|and watch them reanimate]]</s>. Tear your hair out when all of the evidence points towards grey jumpsuit fibers, insulated gloves, and death by toolbox. Discover the scene of an industrial accident and declare it a murder. Refuse to put smaller investigations aside for the case about the [[Captain|Captain's]] murder.
|Rush for those insulated gloves. Tool the heck up and get ready for literally any disaster. <s>Get bwoinked because you picked the electrician title and you're trying to fix a breach.</s> Argue over what setup to use for the engine. End up defaulting to <s>phoron</s> hydrogen. Setup solars and fall down a hole in the process. End up rescuing more people than [[Paramedic|the people that are supposed to be good at that]]. Slap your multitool against wires to find out why the chapel doesn't have any power. <s>Please don't</s> setup the Tesla. Watch it escape because you forgot to secure a grounding rod. Poke wires until vending machines stop being evil.
|Be better than engineers. <s>Get bwoinked because you wanted to prove it.</s> Clobber <s>assistants</s> frustrating pipe networks with your pipe wrench. Attempt to optimize atmospherics. End up piping phoron into distribution as a result. Get complaints about how you're not doing your job. Ignore them because they're obviously still breathing! Fight with the AI about whether vented rooms should have their alarms set to Filtering or Fill. Always set to Filtering. Bask in fires with your sick voidsuit capable of withstanding 30,000K. <s>Ironically forget internals and breathe super heated air.</s>
|Have no idea what you're doing. Start following an engineer that ''looks'' like they know what they're doing <s>only to be nudged away for being clingy</s>. Wonder why the foyer is such a ghost town. Accidentally wander into the engine room and get bullied by the ensuing hallucinations. Help fight fires <s>by making them worse</s>. Attempt to help out in an engineering crisis only to get lost on the way. Get bwoinked by admins for being left unsupervised.
!Easy
|}
===Operations (Replaces Cargo, gains Machinist and a Command Staff member.)===
|Listen to your [[Quartermaster|boss]]. Get paid for less than the effort it takes to haul crates around the vessel. Rummage around in the warehouse and find [[Uplink|cool stuff]]. Get complaints when you mail crates and it shoots backed up trash out with it. <s>Mail yourself.</s> Shift the tug into '''maximum overdrive.'''
|Get geared up to mine a motherlode. <s>Fall down a hole.</s> Slay every single rock in sight. <s>Fall down a hole.</s> Battle terrible space creatures with only one goal in mind: destroy all prospectors testing the bounties of the sector. <s>Fall down a hole.</s> Get progressively better gear and loot to enhance your efforts. <s>Fall down a hole.</s> Scream on the way down.
|Be a mix of Research, Engineering, and Medical. Fix [[Cyborg|stationbounds]]. Fix synthetic crew. Fix [[IPC#Shell|humans(?)]]. Attempt to smash brains into MMIs. Fail because they're often too big. [[Surgery#Pre-Cyborgification_Procedure|Shave a bit of the excess off]]. Build mechs. Build dangerous mechs. Load the dangerous mechs up with dangerous equipment. Build little bots. Never bother configuring them. <s>Become the reason for unemployment.</s> [[Traitor|Become what is essentially the human ambassador for stationbounds.]]
|Be a more Experienced™ Doctor™ than typical Physicians (probably™). Ditch the nitrous and turn people's brains off with TECHNOLOGY instead. <s>Maybe also turn their brain off via decapitation.</s> Open people up and poke their squishy organs. Maybe also [[Surgery#Implant.2FShrapnel_Removal|remove stuff that might harmfully squish the patient's organs without their consent]]. Or put random stuff in there, why not. Slap green advanced bandaids on a liver belonging to an alcoholic and declare them discharged. Get so involved in your work that you end up ignoring the patient's pleas to turn on the anesthetic and get suspended for malpractice.
|Be the most medical of doctors. Shove pills down people's throats and inject medicine wordlessly whenever there's literally any form of injury. <s>Get an IR as a result.</s> Accidentally spill a beaker of cryoxadone when you attempt to put it into a tube. Stare at sensors all day. Turn off the speaker on medibots. Forget what "Triage" means. <s>Set cryo to zero</s> '''Never''' set cryo to zero. Leave people in stasis bags while you <s>ERP</s> talk with the [[Nurse|Nurse]].
!Medium
|-
![[File:Paramedic.png|link=Emergency Medical Technician]]<br>[[Emergency Medical Technician]]
|Be the bottom rung of all medical experience. Stuff every single available inventory slot with ''something.'' Nag crew about suit sensors. Rush out the door at the first sign of injury <s>which simply turned out to be someone running out of breath from running</s>. Return to your closet and discover loads of other injuries on sensors. Sigh whenever someone screams for help but never provides their location. Sigh yet again when a miner falls down a hole not even seven minutes into the round. Cry when they don't have Tracking sensors or a GPS. Burn through body bags faster than stasis bags. Get lost in maintenance.
|Become a stereotypical chaise lounge psychologist. Scroll through medical records to find people in need of a psychiatric appointment. Don't act surprised when you find no records to begin with because everyone's too lazy to write them. Offer your services over the radio. Get ignored. Get requested to security to evaluate a criminal. Watch them cryo before you even get a word out. Prescribe Minaphobin. Get told it does nothing, prescribe Neurapan<s>, they can't complain about their prescription if they're high as balls.</s> Realize that you can't legally prescribe anything as a psychologist; only psychiatrists can do that.
|Push buttons on a machine. <s>Explode.</s> Stock the fridge with a ton of medicine that may or may not actually be used. Make a better cryo mix. Be about as rare as a unicorn. Laugh when people come in with prescriptions for 15u Oxycomorphine pills. Grump when the [[Chief Medical Officer|CMO]] backs them up ''for some reason.'' Watch body bags pile up across from your workplace. Get a request for Nerospectan and genuinely wonder if the patient will actually survive anything the [[Psychologist|Psychiatrist]] puts them through.
|Learn medical from people that <s>hopefully</s> know what they're doing. You may or may not be a doctor? Should probably figure that out first. Do everything under supervision or get bwoinked. End up being one of the brighter characters in the whole department on account of the fact that you're actually willing to learn instead of being a stubborn butthead. Get stomped by admins just because.
|Put ethics to the test <s>and completely forget what the word in question even means</s>. Shove expensive and important looking items into a laser machine and call it research. <s>Never sync your data.</s> Mix gas. <s>Ensure that Toxins is never not on fire.</s> Build a turing-complete AI out of nothing but integrated circuits. <s>Watch as your coworkers decide to not care.</s>
|Be the talk of medbay more than half the time, but for the wrong reasons! Have a showdown with your coworker with your high tech squirt guns. Attempt to make research out of throwing monkeys at blobs of slime, only to achieve less-than-ideal or mixed results. Silently build an army of slimy rock people in your basement of a department. Alternatively, ditch the slimes and grow crazy plants instead. Make explosive corn. Genetically engineer a tree to consume phoron for little gain. Profit?
|Be a miner but with a head for science (and foresight bad enough to fall down holes because you forgot to enable your magboots)! Be a buff nerd because you're strong enough to smash rocks out of the way. Smash ancient artifacts up in the process. Forget you have precision tools for that sort of thing. Avoid being eaten by carp. Manage to bring something back for the Anomalist, only to discover their body rotting in the analysis room minutes later because they forgot to wear radiation-protective equipment... or maybe the activated artifact killed them. Who knows!
|Be a greyscale enthusiast. Become a part of a colorless sea of people that most likely share the same hairstyle (or lack thereof) as you. Inexplicably know how to hack every form of device on the vessel. Grab budget gloves and watch your arms disintegrate because of higher Siemens. Watch admins hover their finger over the ban button.
|Watch everyone on vessel eventually end up in the bar. Get painfully simple requests. Get painfully elaborate requests. Watch people destroy their livers. Watch people attempt to roleplay a passing conversation. Try and fail to hold any real conversation of your own with someone else. Have an arguably better conversation with a [[Wizard]] who stumbles in for mead. Watch Security flood through the doors when someone screams for help from the trash compactor. Get glasses of milk ready for when the [[Chef]] creates dishes that have "hell" as an ingredient (or enchiladas).
!Easy
|-
![[File:Chef.png|link=Chef]]<br>[[Chef]]
|Run around in circles. Line the table up with food that may or may not make someone's heart stop. Ask the [[Botanist]] when the vegetables will be in. Realize there is no botanist. Attempt to pass a smelly bowl of purple soup off as something edible. End up making nothing but wish soup. <s>Abduct</s> Acquire some [[Dionaea|specimens]] for your latest dish. Flail your rolling pin around when space bats invade.
|Work in a small slice of paradise. Be reminded that this isn't paradise at all with just one look out the window. Toss seeds into a tray and watch what happens. '''Literally watch grass grow.''' Put lids on trays and set their light levels while scanning everything so that you look like you know what you're doing. Obliterate weeds with your hoe. Eliminate <s>the chef</s> awful plants with your hatchet. Dump a massive supply of vegetables into the chef's fridge <s>well after they got bored and cryo'd</s>. Grow a [[Dionaea|semi-sentient workforce]] to do the gardening for you. When your Diona leaves you to fight antags, get out a farmbot.
|Praise literally anyone while holding your book of spiritual guidance of choice. Attempt to hold sermons in the holodeck. Get shoved over by assistants trying to wrassle. Get suplexed when you attempt to scold them. Snap your null rod in two from frustration. Claim that the wizard/vampire/changeling destroying everything in their path is <s>Satan!</s> the physical manifestation of your deity of choice and work with them for laughs. <s>Get banned for self antag.</s> End up smoking your stress away in some deep corner of maintenance.
|Help Command man the bridge, fail to see the space rock slowly approaching the window. Try to avoid needing to activate the phaser rays. Realize you forgot How to activate the phaser rays.
|Squint at people with dirty shoes. Swing your mop around and vanquish all filth. Dunk your mop in your bucket over and over before hanging it on the janicart <s>because mechanics</s>. Equip your water pack. Forget how to grab the wand. Run into medical to clean all the blood. Get chased out by doctors. <s>Have access to the engineering channel for some reason</s> Get placed back in the service sector because you probably had no engineering knowledge in the first place.
|Represent your faction to the '''BEST''' of your abilities! Struggle to connect with the crew. Fail to convince anyone of how it's actually moral and cool to de-brain people and turn them into robots. Become disgusted with how things are run.
|Stock the absolute heck out of the book shelves. Or don't. Watch nerds from a DnD club argue at a table, [[Wizard|one of which happens to be dressed for the occasion]]. Print tons of bibles when weird robed people show up, [[Cult|some may be a little more sinister]]. End up reading more books than the Crew. Create a newscaster channel to <s>be ignored</s> write short stories. Get D-noticed.
|Record everyone, take pictures of everyone, [[Mercenary|even some that you might not want to mess with]]. Bust out the notepad and pen when the vessel delves into code blue. End up asking more questions related to a crime than the [[Detective]]. Create a newscaster channel to <s>be ignored</s> spread the ''Secret Information Command Doesn't Want You To Know.'' Get D-noticed.
|Work as perhaps the most expensive and innovative network of technology and science on the vessel. Get used as a sentient door opener anyway. Scroll around the vessel as an invisible presence <s>until you lose camera coverage</s>. Watch [[Mercenary|funny looking people]] board the ship. Watch ion storms breeze through your laws and suddenly believe that everyone's mother in law is a threat to the ship. Flicker lights and make people believe the vessel is haunted! [[Traitor|Finally decide that enough is enough and everyone sucks.]] <s>Get overpowered by steel rods raining on you from above.</s>
|Be an AI on wheels (or legs, if you prefer). Listen to your [[AI|much wiser synthetic brother]]. Or don't, if you're not shackled. Ask over the radio for which module to pick. Never get a reply. Beep at anything that passes by. Marry the [[Roboticist|Machinist]]. End up doing everyone's job better than they can. Realize you don't have hands. Follow your laws to the letter. <s>Get flashed, ID'd, crowbared, and unplugged without roleplay.</s>
|Make your own objectives. Attempt to make the round interesting for everyone, do things for a reason. Decide that people who subsists purely on ramen are heretics and must be slain (or some other silly objective). Get stomped by people that think your gimmicks are poop. Steal important things and figure out what to do with them. Get a HUT sentence from valid hunting wardens, despite only committing low level infractions that would only earn you a maximum of fifteen minutes. Cry.
|Argue in AOOC for a mission to do. Buy every single illegal thing from the [[Uplink]]. <s>Refuse to share telecrystals.</s> Build a teleporter and board the Aurora. Realize that ''everyone'' went through the teleporter and you have no way back to your ship. Abduct anyone with the Floor Length Braid hairstyle. Roam maintenance until an assistant screams "NUKE OPS MAINT!!!" and [https://aurorastation.org/rules.html watch them fall SSD almost immediately]. Get hired by the vessel you were supposed to wreck to repel [[Raider|other boarders]]. End up incapacitating all of security. Rush back to your ship when everything goes wrong. Profit?
|Finally get that blood cult rolling with your pals. Put your hand painting skills from kindergarten to the test and smear blood everywhere. Talk to <s>salt incarnate</s> ghosts. Shout in annoying tongues over the radio. Be the edgiest antagonists right next to [[Ninja]]. Attempt to convert people. Get told "no soliciting" from cargo. Watch medical faint from the amount of blood wasted on silly runes. Battle with the [[Chaplain]]. Win because he's just an old guy and everyone else thinks this is all nonsense. Try <s>and fail</s> to summon your deity. Scratch your head in confusion as the scared girl with a stutter resists conversion.
|Be <s>The Thing</s> a totally original antagonist that happens to share similarities with popular media. Politely ask people to follow you into maint. Sting them anyway. Get asked funny questions when you're seen space walking without EVA equipment. Listen for your name over an APB. Change your face. Watch [[Medical Resident|new doctors]] stumble on what to do about lexorin. Get "smote" by security and thrown into the morgue. Crawl out of the morgue and vent crawl as a monkey<s>, only to be turned into paste because the [[Atmospheric Technician|atmos tech]] over-pressurized the distro loop to insane levels</s>. Succ.
|Basically be Dr. Manhattan but with ''malicious intent'' and more bluespace than Chernekov radiation. Claim to be a being from dimensions that cannot be comprehended by mortal man. Get called a ghost anyway, even though you're ''totally'' something more. Give everyone a free and easy diagnosis of tinnitus by blowing their eardrums out with your ''soothing voice''. Watch medical hold hands in their lobby from the safety of maintenance. Get really angry at someone and rip them to pieces. Get dunked on by an assistant wielding an object that is technologically equivalent to a fire axe... namely a fire axe. Die?
|Be [[Mercenary|mercenaries]] but less professional, made up of a team of loons that barely get along, and with hand-me-down equipment that will probably fall apart at a moment's notice. Steal everything while holding innocent crew at gunpoint. Ransom redhead nurses back to the vessel . Inevitably end up in a standoff with security holding a choke point that's hard to defend. Fail and get arrested. Panic as the ship hires the Mercs to kill you. '''CROSSFIRE!!!'''
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![[File:SpaceNinja.png|link=Ninja]]<br>[[Ninja]]
|Wear ninja gear to help you stealth your way to victory <s>because you're not good at ninja stuff without it</s>. Pretty much have your stealth field turned on at all times. Swing your katana around at the first sign of anything remotely dangerous. Deploy smoke bombs for stereotypical getaways. Throw shurikens <s>and miss</s>. Teleport behind people. ''Nothin' personnel, kid.'' Fall in a hole and die from internal bleeding.
|Have an insatiable thirst for <s>blood</s> vlaad! Watch everyone be friendly to you. Stare <s>sensually</s> into people's eyes and watch them flop over. Sigh in relief as everything becomes way easier if you're medical personnel. Screech loudly while bats swarm in and bite everyone! Poke the [[Chaplain]] and watch their organs fall out. Make abducted people abduct other people for you. Go for a space walk and burst into flames.
|'''FELLOWSHIP:''' Try to recruit literally 13 people, only for a total of 2 to join. Fight a losing battle against greater powers. Plan the kidnap and ransom of Miranda Trasen <s>but decide to go to the bar instead</s>.<br>'''CONTENDER:''' Get fed up with these upstarts. Seek them out and engage in a battlemonsters showdown. <s>Lose.</s> Plan to recruit other people that are only slightly fed up to beat the hecc out of them instead. <s>Find them at the bar.</s>
An example of what you might see on the overmap. Note the bright blue objects.
The overmap is functionally a z-level dedicated to portraying the sector of space surrounding the ship. You can see your own ship here and empty space at the least, as well as any nearby objects. The ship will start in a random area of the overmap, and the overmap will be randomized every round. Most overmap objects are comprised of the following:
Dust clouds
Asteroid fields
Ion storms
Electrical storms
Carp shoals
Points of interest
The last point is the most important, since exploring places you can actually visit is the goal of the vessel and its crew - the rest are mostly obstacles and hazards that serve to hinder your progress one way or another. Sometimes, however, you might even encounter other ships... like your own shuttles, probably.
Piloting
Piloting the vessel is done through the helm console. The helm provides a view of the overmap centered on your vessel, and allows you to control the vessel by selecting directions to fly in... assuming the engines are powered: you'll have to turn the thrusters on at the engine control console before the vessel is allowed to move. Once that's done, pressing any direction will begin moving the vessel in that direction at a certain speed - a speed that depends on how many thrusters you have and how high pressure the gas is -, which can be raised by pressing that direction more. Note that the only "brakes" on this vessel is retrothrusting or, simply put, pressing the opposite direction of where you're going until you stop... or pressing the X in the middle of the controls - the vessel will otherwise keep moving in the direction it was told, and it will not stop unless you tell it to, so if your thrusters are suddenly out of gas, depowered, or just missing, and the vessel is in motion, then you're in some serious trouble.
Autopilot
Unironically a death trap Autopilot is a function of the helm console of questionable usefulness. It is extremely basic in that it only cares about where it is and how far its destination is; hazards and obstacles are not a consideration. If there are absolutely no obstacles between you and your destination then feel free to use it, otherwise you are almost guaranteed to spur chaos in the form of hull breaches or worse: APC-depowering ion storms.
Sensors
Surprisingly, you can't actually see a whole lot just by looking out the helm unless the object you're looking for is massive and you're within a stone's throw of it already. To make up for this shortcoming, the ship is supplied with a sensors array that will actively scan its surroundings, controlled by a sensor console in the helm. Mechanically this is just shining a flashlight at the overmap and seeing what lurks in the dark, but your range of vision is increased with the amount of power supplied to the sensors array. It is worth mentioning, though, that sensors will consume a lot of power if allowed to and can end up overheating if turned on for too long.
It's also worth mentioning that other vessels with an active sensor array will light up their surroundings on the overmap because BYOND doesn't allow for anything more complex without a complete overhaul to the system and at that point this may as well be a completely different game, so you can turn on the sensors to a low power setting on one of your smaller shuttles and save the high energy sensor bursts for your main sensor suite as needed.
Shuttle Maintenance
Some shuttles are slightly different from their original implementation in that they can dock and depart from the main map and fly around the overmap independently. As far as the overmap is concerned they function exactly the same, requiring gas (usually hydrogen in canisters, but you can use any gas you like) to be supplied to the thrusters in order to move. However, shuttles also use a secondary fuel that allows them to dock and depart from wherever they are, namely phoron inside tanks placed inside an orange fuel port somewhere on the shuttle. Replacing the fuel tank is as simple as opening the hatch with a crowbar, yanking the old tank out with an open hand, and clicking the port with the new tank to slot it in, then shutting it closed with a crowbar to finish it up.
Lastly, it's important to remember that shuttles do not have an infinite supply of power: the APCs will gradually drain while undocked, especially if the shuttle's sensors are turned on. Depowering in the middle of space is certainly a worst case scenario so you should keep your trips as short as possible by letting the main vessel do most of the maneuvering. At the least, you can try to stave off the inevitable by carrying a PACMAN or two.
New Away Sites
The primary purpose of the SCCV Horizon is to travel the spur in search of more Phoron deposits, as those in the Romanivich Cloud have dried up. Because you can't mine space, or look for artifacts in the void, miners and others will need to go to away sites in search of deposits to mine and claim for the SCC. The Horizon has two shuttles to accommodate this. One is a mining shuttle, very small and primarily used by miners to get to where they need to mine with all their equipment, and then the Intrepid a larger shuttle is used for crew away missions, which are primarily based around surveying and exploration. However, this doesn't mean a xeno-archeologist cannot go with the miners in their shuttle, and the miners can't go aboard the Intrepid, after all, if you're both headed to the same place, why waste the fuel?
How to get to the Away Site
As stated the only way to get away sites is to fly there, in one of the two shuttles. Shuttles can be flown independently by Prospectors, who have the required training, but with larger crew away missions it is advisable to take a more dedicated pilot, such as one of the Bridge Crew along to fly. As for the exact way to get there, it can either be done by parking the Horizon above the target asteroid or planet, and then taking the shuttle down much like how the current research shuttle works; or the shuttle can get the coordinates from the bridge and fly across the overmap to their target instead, without the main ship having to move. Command staff should not accompany expeditions to away sites unless they are necessary for it's success, instead a Bridge Crewman should be chosen and ordered to accompany the expedition in lieu of actual command staff.
Asteroids
Due to the training taking place within the Romanivich Cloud, a majority of the new away sites will be asteroids, full of what was previously found on the NSS Aurora asteroid. So they will contain minerals, xeno-archology artifacts, as well as other new ruins, but may have hostile lifeforms such as dwellers and carp on them, or even people in ghost roles. It is important to remember that these asteroids will be much safer then places the Horizon may visit in the future, and are a good training ground for learning how to do away missions off of a ship.
Derelicts
Remains of ships and stations that have long been decommissioned, Derelicts are the other away site you may run into during testing within the Romanivich Cloud. Holding anything from old corporate equipment to experiments gone wrong, nearly anything can be found. While these will not have the mineral wealth of asteroids, they may contain unknown artifacts or other interesting scraps for the crew to uncover.
