Job Guides
Your Job is the occupation the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate has assigned you on-board the exploration ship SCCV Horizon. It defines your duties, your access, and the equipment you spawn with.
Before starting out, it is best you read the Corporate Regulations to understand what is and isn't acceptable in the workplace. You may also encounter alien species in your workplace; corporate equal rights laws decrees you should cooperate with them as you would any human. Besides, you attended your sensitivity onboarding, right?
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Command
The Corporations Allowed in this Department are: The Stellar Corporate Conglomerate (SCC).
Job | Role | Difficulty |
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Captain |
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 |
Very Hard |
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. Call people into your office for employee evaluations. | Hard |
Operations Manager |
Order crates full of powerful equipment |
Hard |
Head of Security |
Get your officers situated and ready to protect company assets. Watch them all attempt to become anything more than a mall cop. |
Very Hard |
Chief Engineer |
Promote safety and wearing PPEs. |
Hard |
Research Director |
Hard | |
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 Chemists aren't getting high. Walk in on the EMT attempting Surgery on the Psychologist. End up being the only competent medical professional. Desperately try not to metagame against lings suddenly resurrecting with full health out of no where. Suffer. | Hard |
Command Support
The corporations allowed in this department are: all of them, as well as non-corporate government employees.
Job | Role | Difficulty |
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Bridge Crewman |
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. | Hard to Very Hard |
Corporate Liaison |
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. | Medium |
Consular Officer |
Represent a nation in the Spur! Get into slapfights with members of your geopolitical rival. Run propaganda campaigns on your country. Be a target for political violence. | Medium |
Human Resources Assistant |
Interview incident report participants for your CCIA masters. This role is exclusive to server CCIA staff, and not playable for normal players; by extension, it also doesn't need a guide or page of its own. | Easy |
Security
The Corporations Allowed in this Department are: PMCG, Idris Incorporated, Zavodskoi Interstellar.
Job | Role | Difficulty |
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Security Officer |
Run around the vessel |
Hard |
Warden |
Be in charge of the |
Hard |
Investigator |
Shove everyone out of the way to collect |
Hard |
Security Cadet |
Become the most exemplary member of security. Get shoved by admins. | Easy to Medium |
Engineering
The Corporations Allowed in this Department are: Hephaestus Industries, Zavodskoi Interstellar.
Job | Role | Difficulty |
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Engineer |
Rush for those insulated gloves. Tool the heck up and get ready for literally any disaster. |
Medium |
Atmospheric Technician |
Be better than engineers. |
Medium |
Engineering Apprentice |
Have no idea what you're doing. Start following an engineer that looks like they know what they're doing |
Easy |
Operations
The Corporations Allowed in this Department are: Hephaestus Industries, Orion Express.
Job | Role | Difficulty |
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Hangar Technician |
Listen to your boss. Get paid for less than the effort it takes to haul crates around the vessel. Rummage around in the warehouse and find cool stuff. Get complaints when you mail crates and it shoots backed up trash out with it. |
Easy |
Shaft Miner |
Get geared up to mine a motherlode. |
Easy to Medium |
Machinist |
Be a mix of Research, Engineering, and Medical. Fix stationbounds. Fix synthetic crew. Fix humans(?). Attempt to smash brains into MMIs. Fail because they're often too big. 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. |
Easy |
Medical
The Corporations Allowed in this Department are: NanoTrasen Corporation, Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals, PMCG.
Job | Role | Difficulty |
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Surgeon |
Be a more Experienced™ Doctor™ than typical Physicians (probably™). Ditch the nitrous and turn people's brains off with TECHNOLOGY instead. |
Hard |
Physician |
Be the most medical of doctors. Shove pills down people's throats and inject medicine wordlessly whenever there's literally any form of injury. |
Medium |
First Responder |
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 |
Hard |
Psychologist |
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 |
Medium |
Pharmacist |
Push buttons on a machine. |
Medium |
Medical Intern |
Learn medical from people that |
Easy to Medium |
Research
The Corporations Allowed in this Department are: NanoTrasen Corporation, Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals,
Job | Role | Difficulty |
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Scientist |
Put ethics to the test |
Medium |
Xenobiologist |
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. | Hard |
Xenobotanist |
Splice nitroglycerin into tomatoes and blow up parts of the station. "Legally" crossbreed the perfect strain of recreational hemp. Accidentally ingest your own cyanide apples. Teleport around the station with Bluespace fruit and trap yourself in a wall. Have engineering begrudgingly cut you out. Assassinate a highly trained mercenary team with nothing but a bowl of fruit. Get brigged for violating the Geneva Convention on chemical weapons. | Hard |
Xenoarcheologist |
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! | Medium |
Lab Assistant |
Ask around for stuff to do. Get turned into a science fair project. | Easy |
Service
The Corporations Allowed in this Department are: Idris Incorporated, Nanotrasen Corporation, Orion Express.
Job | Role | Difficulty |
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Assistant |
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. | Very Easy |
Off-Duty Crew Member |
Don't do a thing because you don't need to, you're on vacation baby! Play the arcade machines, be surprised when you lose all of your money. Get drunk on the companies dime, wind up in the morgue an hour later. | Very Easy |
Passenger |
Check out the new Corporate ship the Horizon! WOAH what a vacation you're having, hit the bar and arcade, talk to cool aliens... See if you can convince a prospector to show you around an alien planet. What could go WRONG? | Very Easy |
Bartender |
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 Technomancer 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 |
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. |
Easy |
Botanist |
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 |
Easy |
Chaplain |
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 |
Easy |
Janitor |
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 |
Easy |
Librarian |
Stock the absolute heck out of the book shelves. Or don't. Watch nerds from a DnD club argue at a table, one of which happens to be dressed for the occasion. Print tons of bibles when weird robed people show up, some may be a little more sinister. End up reading more books than the Crew. Create a newscaster channel to |
Easy |
Corporate Reporter |
Record everyone, take pictures of everyone, 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 |
Easy |
Equipment (Stationbounds)
Job | Role | Difficulty |
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AI |
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 |
Extremely Hard |
Cyborg |
Be an AI on wheels (or legs, if you prefer). Realize you aren't a AI anymore and that you cannot access everything on the ship anymore. Listen to your 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 Machinist. End up doing everyone's job better than they can. Realize you don't have hands. Follow your laws to the letter. |
Medium to Hard |
Personal AI |
Be a pocket computer. Do pocket computer things. End up just being a universal translator/web browser. | Very Easy |
Maintenance Drone |
Repair stuff and ignore anyone that isn't a drone. Be more of an engineering apprentice than the actual job. | None |
Special Roles
Antagonists
Job | Role | Difficulty |
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Traitor |
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. | Hard |
Mercenary |
Argue in AOOC for a mission to do. Buy every single illegal thing from the Uplink. |
Very Hard |
Cultist |
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 |
Very Hard |
Changeling |
Be |
Hard |
Revenant |
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. | Hard |
Raider |
Be 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!!! | Hard |
Ninja |
Wear ninja gear to help you stealth your way to victory |
Medium / Hard |
Vampire |
Have an insatiable thirst for |
Very Hard |
Revolutionaries/Loyalists |
Revolutionaries: 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 Loyalists: Get fed up with these upstarts. Seek them out and engage in a battlemonsters showdown. |
Hard |
Special
Job | Role | Difficulty |
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Merchant |
Sell interesting goods to the crew. Make loads of money. | Medium |
Ghost Roles |
Decide to finally play instead of being an observer main. | Medium / Hard |