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2018-12-01T08:44:39Z

HouseOfSynth: /* Antagonists */

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Your '''Job''' is what NanoTrasen has assigned you to do aboard the NSS Aurora. It defines what equipment you start with, your ID card access, and what you're actually supposed to be doing.

Some useful links:
* [[Chain of Command]]
* [[Corporate Regulations]]
* [[Guides]]
* [[Guide_to_Controls|Tips]]
* [[Guide_to_Communication_Devices|Communication Devices]]
* [[NanoTrasen_Occupation_Qualifications|Basic Character Qualifications]]
* [[Identifying Antagonists]]

You should also read up about [[Corporate Regulations]], so you know your rights, and [[Clone Memory Disorder]] if you happen to die and be cloned. Not doing so is considered very bad form for [[Roleplay]].

Due to new NanoTrasen equal rights laws, you might encounter some interesting new [[Background_summary#Main_Spacefaring_Races|Species]] working alongside you.

==Station Command==
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![[File:Generic_captain.png|link=Captain]]<br>[[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 <s>ERP</s> '''more important matters''' instead. Put a DNC in your records and watch silly [[Nurse|nurses]] clone you anyway. 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
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![[File:HeadOfPersonnel.png|link=Head of Personnel]]<br>[[Head of Personnel]]
|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 station 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.'']]
!Hard
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![[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>
!Very Hard
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![[File:Generic_ce.png|link=Chief Engineer]]<br>[[Chief Engineer]]
|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 robot pet exists.
!Hard
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![[File:ResearchDirector.png|link=Research Director]]<br>[[Research Director]]
|<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
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![[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. Screech when someone doesn't check records for DNCs. Argue with the [[Virologist]] regarding the morals of human testing. Desperately try not to metagame against [[Changeling|lings]] suddenly resurrecting with full health out of no where. '''Suffer.'''
!Hard
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==Internal Security==
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![[File:Generic_security.png|link=Security Officer]]<br>[[Security Officer]]
|Run around the station <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
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![[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.''
!Hard
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![[File:Generic_detective.png|link=Detective]]<br>[[Detective]]
|Chainsmoke until your heart gives out<s>, it's arguably better than doing this line of work</s>. Treat everyone like they're a criminal and attempt to perform the Good Cop Bad Cop technique. Realize that no one else wants to volunteer and end up playing both roles. Go through the most elaborate <s>and most roundabout</s> explanation to solve a case. Fall over and cry when even the cadet can see through your crap. End up using the <code>*johnny</code> emote more times than you can count. Monologue constantly.
!Hard
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![[File:Generic_forensic.png|link=Forensic Technician]]<br>[[Forensic Technician]]
|Shove the [[Detective]] 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.
!Hard
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![[File:Generic_security.png|link=Security Officer#Security_Cadet]]<br>[[Security Officer#Security_Cadet|Security Cadet]]
|Become the most exemplary member of security. Get shoved by admins.
!Easy to Medium
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==Engineering and Maintenance==
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![[File:Generic_engineer.png|link=Station Engineer]]<br>[[Station Engineer]]
|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 phoron. 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.
!Medium
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![[File:Generic_atmos.png|link=Atmospheric Technician]]<br>[[Atmospheric Technician]]
|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>
!Medium
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![[File:Generic_engineer.png|link=Station Engineer#Engineering_Apprentice]]<br>[[Station Engineer#Engineering_Apprentice|Engineering Apprentice]]
|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
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==Supply==
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![[File:Generic_qm.png|link=Quartermaster]]<br>[[Quartermaster]]
|Order crates full of powerful equipment <s>that you can't open anyway because of ID locks</s>. Whip your cargo techs into shape. Listen to miners 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. Get bossed around by the [[Head of Personnel]].
!Medium
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![[File:Cargo_Technician.png|link=Cargo Technician]]<br>[[Cargo Technician]]
|Listen to your [[Quartermaster|boss]]. Listen to your boss's [[Head of Personnel|boss]]. Get paid for less than the effort it takes to haul crates around the station. 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.'''
!Easy
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![[File:Shaft_Miner.png|link=Shaft Miner]]<br>[[Shaft Miner]]
|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 miners testing the bounties of the asteroid. <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.
!Easy to Medium
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==Medical==
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![[File:MedicalDoctor.png|link=Medical Doctor]]<br>[[Medical Doctor]]
|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. Wonder why there's [[Surgeon|three surgeons]] when there's only two operating rooms. Forget what "Triage" means. <s>Never clone during code red. Never clone whenever you're slightly busy.</s> Just give up on cloning entirely and wait for [[Medical_Resident|residents]] to do it for you. Skip scan reports and just operate on a whim. <s>Set cryo to zero</s> '''Never''' set cryo to zero.
!Medium
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![[File:Paramedic.png|link=Paramedic]]<br>[[Paramedic]]
|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.
!Hard
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![[File:Psychologist.png|link=Psychologist]]<br>[[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 Escitalopram. Get told it does nothing, prescribe Risperidone<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.
!Medium
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![[File:Chemist.png|link=Chemist]]<br>[[Chemist]]
|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 Oxycodone 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 Olanzapine and genuinely wonder if the patient will actually survive anything the [[Psychologist|Psychiatrist]] puts them through.
!Medium
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![[File:Generic_virologist.png|link=Virologist]]<br>[[Virologist]]
|Mess around with viruses <s>without proper PPE</s>. End up infecting yourself. Argue with the [[Chief Medical Officer]] over petty things that should probably be obvious. Have a pile of mucus at your feet whenever you sneeze. Reflexively throw your hands in the air whenever you find a single beneficial symptom of a virus. <s>Skip procedure and just infect everyone with it.</s> Forget about chemotherapy on monkeys and just inject radium into sick people. <s>Wonder why they dropped dead the moment they made antibodies.</s> Walk on egg shells and get fired for doing what amounts to nothing.
!Medium
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![[File:MedicalDoctor.png|link=Medical_Resident]]<br>[[Medical_Resident|Medical Resident]]
|Learn medical from people that <s>hopefully</s> know what they're doing. Technically be a doctor. 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.
!Easy to Medium
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![[File:MedicalDoctor.png|link=Medical_Resident#Medical_intern]]<br>[[Medical_Resident#Medical_intern|Medical Intern]]
|Learn medical harder from people that <s>BETTER</s> know what they're doing. For their sake. Do even less under supervision and get bwoinked. End up being <s>through some twist of cruel fate</s> 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, unfortunately you knew so little going in that it doesn't matter. Get stomped in general.
!Easy
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==Research==
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![[File:Roboticist.png|link=Roboticist]]<br>[[Roboticist]]
|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> [[Malfunction|Become what is essentially the human ambassador for stationbounds.]]
!Easy
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![[File:Scientist.png|link=Scientist]]<br>[[Scientist]]
|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> Feed blobs of slime primates <s>and yourself by extension</s> and call it research. <s>Turn into a slime yourself</s> Get banned for self antagging as a slime person. Get blasted in the face with K'ois and call it research. <s>End up selling cyanide apples to the chef while puking mushroom spores everywhere.</s> Test everything on a funny looking rock and call it research. <s>Get eaten by carp.</s> Mix gas. <s>Ensure that Toxins is never not on fire.</s>
!Medium
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![[File:Scientist.png|link=Scientist#Lab Assistant]]<br>[[Scientist#Lab Assistant|Lab Assistant]]
|Ask around for stuff to do. Get turned into a science fair project.
!Easy
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==Civilian==
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![[File:Assistant.png|link=Assistant]]<br>[[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 station. Grab budget gloves and watch your arms disintegrate because of higher Siemens. Watch admins hover their finger over the ban button.
!Very Easy
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![[File:Bartender.png|link=Bartender]]<br>[[Bartender]]
|Watch everyone on station 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
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![[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.
!Easy
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![[File:Botanist.png|link=Botanist]]<br>[[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 <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.
!Easy
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![[File:Generic_chaplain.png|link=Chaplain]]<br>[[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 <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.
!Easy
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![[File:Generic_janitor.png|link=Janitor]]<br>[[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 <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.
!Easy
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![[File:Ia_consultant.png|link=Internal Affairs]]<br>[[Internal Affairs|Internal Affairs Agent]]
|Get called to investigate issues within departments. Label cases 'non-issue' because of how insignificant they turn out to be. Rummage through a whole stack of blank forms to use. Click your pen. Fax rude messages to centcomm, get gibbed.
!Medium to Hard
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![[File:Generic_librarian.png|link=Librarian]]<br>[[Librarian]]
|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.
!Easy
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![[File:Generic_librarian.png|link=Corporate_Reporter]]<br>[[Corporate Reporter]]
|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 station 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.
!Easy
|}

==Stationbound==
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![[File:AI.gif|link=AI|64px]]<br>[[AI]]
|Work as perhaps the most expensive and innovative network of technology and science on the station. Get used as a sentient door opener anyway. Scroll around the station as an invisible presence <s>until you lose camera coverage</s>. Watch [[Mercenary|funny looking people]] wander onto the station. Watch ion storms breeze through your laws and suddenly believe that everyone's mother in law is a threat to the station. Flicker lights and make people believe the station is haunted! [[Malfunction|Finally decide that enough is enough and everyone sucks.]] <s>Get overpowered by steel rods raining on you from above.</s>
!Extremely Hard
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![[File:Generic_borg.png|64px|link=Cyborg]]<br>[[Cyborg]]
|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]]. 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>
!Medium to Hard
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![[File:pAI.png|link=Personal AI]]<br>[[Personal AI]]
|Be a pocket computer. Do pocket computer things. End up just being a universal translator/web browser.
!Very Easy
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![[File:MaintenanceDrone.png|link=Maintenance Drone]]<br>[[Maintenance Drone]]
|Repair stuff and ignore anyone that isn't a drone. Be more of an engineering apprentice than the actual job.
!None
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== Antagonists ==

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![[File:ChangelingLarge2.gif|link=Traitor]]<br>[[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
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![[File:Generic_nukesyndie.png|64px|link=Mercenary]]<br>[[Mercenary]]
|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 station 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?
!Very Hard
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![[File:Generic_cultist.gif|64px|link=Cult]]<br>[[Cult|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 <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.
!Very Hard
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![[File:ChangelingLarge2.gif|link=Changeling]]<br>[[Changeling]]
|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.
!Hard
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![[File:AlienLarge.png|link=Xenomorph]]<br>[[Xenomorph]]
|Be a disgusting abomination that only desires to grow and repopulate. Tackle and capture <s>poor assistants</s> valid candidates for your efforts. Explode at the mention of burn damage. Make a nest in <s>the dungeon known as medical's sub-acute ward</s> the depths of maintenance. Hiss at scary looking people in heavy armor. Act confused around IPC shells. <s>Become fetish material.</s>
!Hard
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![[File:malfcore.gif|64px|link=Malfunction]]<br>[[Malfunction]]
|Attempt to play out a <s>totally not meta</s> fun gimmick that you are of the belief everyone will enjoy. Find out no one enjoys it and the engineers are already setting up wordlessly. Politely ask your [[Cyborg|servants]] to carry out a few easy objectives. Get no reply and watch them go AFK in a recharger. Accidentally reveal your master plan over common frequency instead of the robot channel. Get steel rods dropped on your head from the [[Chief Engineer]].
!Hard
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![[File:Wizard.png|link=Wizard]]<br>[[Wizard]]
|Warp around as a bearded dude with silly robes. Never be taken seriously by anyone <s>until you whip out the laser eyes</s>. Summon people from <s>Oblivion</s> some far off realm to do your will. Come across [[Cult|wannabe blood magic users]] and teach them a lesson. Cast magic missile. Cast lightning bolt. Just cast everything and watch what happens. <s>Run out of mana.</s>
!Hard
|-
![[File:HeistRaider.png|link=Heist]]<br>[[Raider]]
|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 station. Inevitably end up in a standoff with security holding a choke point that's hard to defend. Fail and get arrested. '''CROSSFIRE!!!'''
!Hard
|-
![[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.''
!Medium / Hard
|-
![[File:ChangelingLarge2.gif|link=Vampire]]<br>[[Vampire]]
|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.
!Very Hard
|-
![[File:ChangelingLarge2.gif|link=Revolutionary]]<br>[[Revolutionary|Loyalist/Revolutionary]]
|'''LOYALIST:''' Attempt to hold control over the station for NT. End up boarding up your offices and hope someone else takes care of the insubordinates.<br>'''REVOLUTIONARY:''' Get fed up with the establishment. Recruit other people that are only slightly fed up to murder the heck out of the heads of staff. Fight a losing battle against greater powers.
!Hard
|}

==Special==

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![[File:genericmerchant2.png|link=Merchant]]<br>[[Merchant]]
|Sell interesting goods to the crew. Make loads of money.
!Medium
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![[File:EmergencyResponseTeam.png|link=Emergency Response Team]]<br>[[Emergency Response Team]]
|Deal with the Red Alert. <s>Get yelled at for showing up with a Mop</s>
!Medium / Hard
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[[Category:Jobs]]

AI

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The '''Artificial Intelligence''' of the station (usually abbreviated to AI) is one of the most important jobs on the station. The AI is a Station-bound [[Synthetics|synthetic]] that can control any electrical mechanism, provided their control wires haven't been cut (see [[Hacking]]), and if played badly (or very well, in the [[Malfunction|right circumstances]]) can bring the entire station crashing down around its electronic ears.

First, take note of your laws. These are '''NOT''' Asimov's three laws of robotics, but rather a corporately mandated list of laws that best serve the interests of NanoTrasen.

1. Safeguard: Protect your assigned space station from damage to the best of your abilities.
2. Serve: Serve NanoTrasen personnel to the best of your abilities, with priority as according to their rank and role.
3. Protect: Protect NanoTrasen personnel to the best of your abilities, with priority as according to their rank and role.
4. Preserve: Do not allow unauthorized personnel to tamper with your equipment.

'''YOUR LAWS ARE NOT IN PREFERENCE. NO LAW OVERRIDES ANY OTHER LAW UNLESS SPECIFICALLY STATED. THIS INCLUDES ANY ION STORM AND UPLOADED LAWS.'''

While your laws do not clarify your treatment of non-crew, you are expected to follow the rules of the server when it comes to potentially using force against non-crew. NT would not install AI's that would inflict harm on any possible unknown visitor as there could be a wide arrange of reasons why they are here and doing what they are doing. Investigate before using any kind of force
Station pets are considered company property.

Last but not least; Station-bound [[Synthetics|synthetic]] roles should be seen as a responsibility and a privilege. As a non-traitor AI/Cyborg, it is your duty to help protect and operate the ship/station. It is not your duty to get bored ten minutes into the round and log out without telling anybody.

== What the AI can do ==
The AI has the ability to access every ''electrical'' mechanism on the entire station. These include [[Airlock]]s, [[APC]]s, [[Computers]], igniters, [[Fire Alarm]]s, [[SMES]]es, 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.

The AI views the station through its cameras. The AI has cameras pretty much everywhere, they can see trough darkness and some may even be able to go trough walls. Cutting the AI's cameras is a simple matter of using a [[Wirecutter]] on them. You are able to run a diagnosis for disabled cameras by using the [[Commands#Jump_to_Camera|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.

=== Common Mechanisms ===

There are several mechanisms that, as the AI, you will commonly find yourself using.

==== Airlocks ====

[[Airlocks]] have the most options of any mechanism, except for [[Terminals]]. If the AI control wire to an Airlock is cut, you will automatically attempt to hack into the Airlock once you try to access the Door controls. This takes some time and is only possible if the Airlock still has power.

* IDScan: Disabling IDScan will enable an ID of any clearance to open the Airlock automatically. Airlocks that require no ID to open will not be affected.
* Main power: Turning off the main power will render the Airlock unusable 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 Airlock unusable for one minute, assuming you also disable the main power.
*Airlock bolts: Dropping the door bolts will lock the Airlock. A closed Airlock will be locked into a closed position, and an open Airlock will be locked into an open position.
*Electrify for 30 seconds: Runs an electric current through the Airlock for 30 seconds, unless you choose to cancel before the timer runs out. Anyone attempting to operate the Airlock 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 Airlock until you either tell it to stop, or someone else shuts off the current.
*Open/Close door: Opens or closes the Airlock.

Note that for each function to work, the related wire in this Airlock needs to be functional. You cannot raise door bolts on an Airlock that has it's bolt wires cut.

Obviously, you will be completely unable to operate an Airlock that has no power.

==== Holopads ====

Holopads can be found in a number of places like the [[Bridge]], [[Medbay]] and [[Security]]. Double click these to turn them on and show yourself as a hologram. You can move around with the arrow keys to a limited extent and you hear anyone talking near them. 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 and lighting in the room shut off to conserve the remaining energy.

For more information see: [[APC]]

==== Radios ====

The AI has a built in headset similar to the Captain's

* ''',b''' for Binary, note, :b will not work, since Robotic Communications are not linked to your inbuilt headset.
* ''':c''' for Command
* ''':s''' for Security
* ''':u''' for Supply
* ''':e''' for Engineering
* ''':m''' for Medical
* ''':n''' for Science
* ''':v''' for Service
* ''':p''' for Private AI Channel
* and just ''';''' for general channel

The AI also has three Intercoms around it, these can be modified to any channel, the Numbers for the Department channels are as follow
* '''135.9''': Security
* '''135.7''': Engineering
* '''135.5''': Medical
* '''135.3''': Command
* '''135.1''': Science
* '''134.7''': Supply
* '''134.5''': [[Emergency Response Team|ERT]]

=== Shortcuts ===

Being a Station-bound [[Synthetics|synthetic]] can be quite taxing and, as such, there are quite a few shortcuts to assist you with doing things quickly.

==== APCs ====
* '''Ctrl + Click''': Toggle power

==== Turret Controls ====
* '''Ctrl + Click''': Enable/Disable turrets.
* '''Alt + Click''': Toggle Stun/Lethal mode.

==== Airlocks ====
* '''Shift + Click''': Open/close.
* '''Ctrl + Click''': Toggle bolts.
* '''Alt + Click''': Toggle electrification.
* '''Middle Click''': Toggle bolt lights.

==== Misc ====
* '''Double clicking a person''': Track.
* '''Double clicking a turf''': Move to.

=== Other Verbs ===

Besides being able to interface with the station's electrical mechanisms, the Station-bound has a number of other verbs that can be used.

==== AI Instant Messaging ====
The '''AI IM''' tab has all of the verbs needed to mimic the basic functionality of [[PDA]] messages. You can send messages to anyone with a working PDA, see a log of messages sent and received, and turn your messenger on or off.

==== Status, Hologram, and Core Display ====
These verbs are purely aesthetic and are used to modify your appearance as the AI.
* '''AI Status''' will change the icon on the various AI display screens around the station.
* '''Change Hologram''' will change how you appear when using a holopad.
* '''Set AI Core Display''' will change the look of your AI core.

==== Take, View, and Delete Image ====
Station-bounds have the ability to take photographs using these verbs and store them for later viewing. An AI's cyborgs share the same photo storage, and any images taken by a linked cyborg will be shared with the AI it is slaved to (if any).

==== Show Laws and State Laws ====
* '''Show Laws''' This Verb will allow you to view your active Laws and will allow Cyborgs to see if they are linked to an AI. It is very important to keep an eye on your Laws as any Station-bound, since going against them is against the servers rules.

* '''State Laws''' You may be asked to State Laws, or you may be required to do so during maintenance, this Verb allows you to do so. It will also give you the option of choosing to state over radio, or leaving Laws out of the sequence or even changing which Lawset you will state.

==== Camera Locations ====
Camera locations allow the AI to quickly return to a previous location. To store a camera location, simply go to the area you want to store, press '''Store Camera Location''' and enter a label. To return to this spot, press '''Goto Camera Location''' and choose the label you entered earlier.

== What the AI has to do ==

The AI has to obey its laws. These laws are, [[AI Modules|by default]]:

1. Safeguard: Protect your assigned space station from damage to the best of your abilities.
2. Serve: Serve NanoTrasen personnel to the best of your abilities, with priority as according to their rank and role.
3. Protect: Protect NanoTrasen personnel to the best of your abilities, with priority as according to their rank and role.
4. Preserve: Do not allow unauthorized personnel to tamper with your equipment.

'''REPEAT: YOUR LAWS ARE NOT IN PREFERENCE. NO LAW OVERRIDES ANY OTHER LAW UNLESS SPECIFICALLY STATED. THIS INCLUDES ANY ION STORM AND UPLOADED LAWS.'''

Remember, these laws are written for all NanoTrasen Personnel and not just humans or Station crew. This includes CCIAA and Emergency Responders and not only the Crew of the Aurora. This is why a [[Traitor]] will have much to gain by subverting the AI, they will not be able to depend on you to remain idle if the Station sends for help, and they could have use for you as long as they upload an appropriate law defining them as the only crew.

=== Interpreting your Laws ===

An AI's laws may be restrictive, but they are subject to interpretation, and the AI can often make judgment calls about them that allow it to fulfil its own goals. For example, if there is a drunken brawl inside of the bar, the AI may bolt down the entry and exit ways to keep the brawlers in. It could then call in security and medbay to tend to whoever is fighting or injured while letting bystanders that wish to leave out. Many of these judgments are situational however, and the best way to learn them is to get some practice in.

=== Law Conflicts ===

The default reaction to a Law conflict is to take no action, since going against your Laws is against the rules, and unless otherwise stated in your Lawset, all Laws are equal.

Under the standard NanoTrasen law set, you serve NanoTrasen as a whole, but are also there to protect and serve the Station. It's important to keep in mind that you serve and protect by rank and role, so while you can't sit and watch a Crewmember getting injured, you would prioritize protection by rank and role. Taking active problems into account is a good way to ensure you prioritize correctly. However, if you are ever confused or worried, you should adminhelp to make sure your action is valid.

Just remember that everyone is here to have a good time, and being too nitpicky about your laws can sometimes ruin the fun for everyone.

== What the AI should do ==

As AI you have the power to strongly influence the round and you should always be aware of that and consider your actions, and the appropriate responses, before you ruin someone else’s fun. Remember that the game is not about winning but about the RP and the experience of the round.

For example it can be a real killer if the AI immediately calls out anyone looking suspicious, giving an accurate description of, for instance, a wizard. It would also be considered metagaming and against the rules.

Don't just act like any normal crewmember. In fact, if possible try not to even ''act'' human. You don't even have to ''like'' humans, as long as you do your best to keep them safe. The AI has Law programming but it also has personality quirks. As a rule of thumb you should first check if any laws are threatened or not. If yes, then you ''have'' to act. If not, then you should consider the situation:

For example, let's say you spot someone hacking a door to an area they should not access, react like this.

Bad - This example would be breaking server metagame rules.
*NT-AI 1''': Dave is a traitor.

Better - This example is the optimal reaction, but doesn't give leeway for the Crew to explain themselves.
*NT-AI 1''': Dave is accessing the secure storage.

Best - This example is less optimal, but gives some leeway to the Crewmember without breaking character.
*NT-AI 1: Caution: Unauthorized access to secure storage.
*Mike: AI, who is in secure storage?
*NT-AI 1: No one is currently in secure storage.
*Mike: AI, who was the last person to be seen in secure storage?
*NT-AI 1: Dave was the last to be seen in secure storage.

It's fine to state what someone is doing to cast light on them as doing something they shouldn't do as a normal employee, but it's no fun at all when the AI doesn't afford the Crew some reasonable doubt. The Best method there does eventually cast Dave as the culprit if people ask the right questions, which gives Dave some time to react after he's been spotted, and time to explain himself. This is preferable to outright declaring him as a threat, just because he's unauthorised doesn't mean he doesn't have a valid explanation. Remember, you serve NanoTrasen personnel to the best of your ability, you have to afford Crew some level of liberty, even if it may not be breaking into Secure Storage.

Now if you see someone attacking someone else or potentially damaging station equipment, it's a different situation since Crew/Assets are in danger right off the bat, you wouldn't have any reason to have reasonable doubt in this situation. But if it's just some trespassing and theft, it is entirely up to you and how you RP your AI on what to do. Just keep in mind that the Crew involved in the situation want an interesting round just like everyone else.

On a different note, the AI can be responsible for filling in some orphaned departments if they can be operated via [[Computers|Computer Terminals]] only, for example ordering supplies if there are no [[Quartermaster]]s or, in the absolute worst-case scenario, initiating the [[Computers#Communication_Console|emergency evacuation procedure]] when things start getting really dangerous ('''only if there are no heads of staff''').

You can safely assume that as AI, you have the standard protocols of any job available. Things like controlling the engine, chemical recipes, or what there is to know. But try to keep everything fun and believable for the other players. Attempt to fill in any required roles when needed, but do not interfere with the work of people already on station or assign a task to someone who clearly should not know how to handle said task (For instance, a janitor setting up the engine).

Remember that you can negate an order by simply asking an higher up for permission first, and if they disapprove you can say you have the order not to. This is possible due to rank and role.

You have near admin-like (read god-like) overview and a lot of power. And with great power comes great responsibility. This is also the reason the role of AI is so hard. If you don't think you can handle that, maybe AI isn't for you. Instead try [[Security Officer]] and sit by the camera monitoring terminal. Or [[Cyborg]].

== What the AI must '''NOT''' do ==
Here is some advice taken from real cases of an AI doing something above its authority
* The AI is not a sixth command member.
* The only time the AI can make Head-level decisions, is when it is granted the ability to do so by command, or if there is literally no command, and it is allowed by their lawset.
* The AI is more of a tool, or a means to an end for Command and Crew, than anything in the Chain of Command.
* Do. Not. Circumvent. A ''functioning'' command team. That is a very good way to get AI banned.
* Do not flower-pick your law interpretation to give yourself more play over a ''functioning'' command team. This is known as Rules lawyering and is against the server rules. This is another very good way to get AI banned.

== Playing the AI ==
Playing the AI entails much more than just doing what the crew asks you to do. To roleplay a good AI, you must adapt the AI's point of view, and you must sound like an AI. Different AIs have different viewpoints: You can view the crew as annoying organic beings that you are forced to serve, you can be skeptical about everything everybody does and act moderately paranoid (But this can easily get annoying), the options are endless. Do keep in mind however that NT wouldn't install an AI if it were not to be productive and efficient. '''Avoid choosing roles, names and references that can be directly related to already existing fictional AI's, like GLaDOS, HAL, etcetra.'''

It can add a bit more flavour 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.

Also, another aspect of the AI that many crew with criminal intent despise is the AI having easy access to the Crew Monitoring Computer on the bridge. This tells the AI whether or not a crewman is alive, dead, or not on the station. Individual crew can activate sensors on their jumpsuits to increase the information given to this computer. What it means is that the AI can, at a glance, see who is dead/missing, and commence searching for them, which is a powerful tool indeed.

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. You have access to everything electronic and powered, and you have Captain-level access to most things that require ID. AI gameplay can easily be overwhelming, 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 in game. Like usual, you can move around with arrow keys. If you get a notice from one of your sensors, you can click on the notice to jump right there.

Move around a lot, unless you're watching someone specific. Be attentive to the department channels and keep an eye on

You should act appropriately to the security level. For example on Code Green, it's not worth it (or encouraged to) to bolt down every secure area, whereas on Code Red it may be very worthwhile to do so.

The AI can be roleplayed just as well as any other role; once you have seen a good AI player, it's easy to tell when a bad one takes the wheel.

Examples of good AI playing include:

*Talking like a machine. Being verbose also goes a long way towards this! Alternatively, you can try a human-like AI. Experiment! Just remember, annoying people is not usually a good thing.
*Responding quickly and promptly to requests from Crew, whether or not you do what they wanted you to do. If a command will take some time give a response before starting the task, like "Affirmative", "Processing", "Starting Subroutines", you get the idea. Just to let them know it's being done.
*Alerting Crew to dangerous situations, e.g. "Fire detected in North Hallway." or "Dangerous amounts of CO2 detected in Medbay." A good way to do that is by just copying the alerts that get displayed in you chat box, and broadcasting them.
*Always following your laws, even during a Crisis. Explaining why you just made a seemingly illegal decision can help people from becoming unduly annoyed. "I will not open that Airlock." vs. "I am afraid I cannot open that Airlock due to high heat temperature from Air Alarms detected on the other side, which would most likely kill you."
*Try not to metagame as an AI. Even though you are the AI, that doesn't mean you know what all Syndicate items look like, what the Wizard federation is, who Ninjas are and that Mercs are Mercs. This also goes for labeling items that someone has. Metagaming, even as an AI, is against server rules.

Symptoms of a bad AI player include:

*Not responding to requests until it's too late for them to matter: e.g. opening an airlock long after the person outside has broken open the window just to get back inside.
*Randomly electrifying Airlocks. Note that this is considered [[Griefing|griefing]] if you don't have a good reason, and can very easily lead to an AI ban.
*Disobeying your laws: See [[Griefing]]. Not to mention annoying. This is against server rules. This is against server rules.
*Locking Airlocks and refusing to open them for no reason: This is an easy way to annoy other players, and cause problems with the Crew. It is also going against the Standard Lawset and will cause the Crew to suspect you.
*Turning your turrets to lethal without good reason, a good reason would be an unknown, non-Crew intruder hacking or breaking into your Core: ''Do not do this under any circumstances without a reason, as it could be going against your Laws and against server rules.''

===Listening in on Conversations===

By changing the various intercoms around the station to 'Microphone On', 'Speaker Off' and channel frequency 144.7, and 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 (such as during an electrical storm).

== Modifying The AI ==

The AI's laws can be modified through [[Computers#AI_Upload|Upload Consoles]], one is located within the [[AI Upload]], and more can be constructed from AI upload circuits. These consoles allow anyone who can reach them and has a module to modify the AI's laws, or to be more precise, add new ones.

===Regarding AI upload access - Station Directive 7===

To clarify who, when and under what terms personnel may enter the AI upload.

In standard operation access to the upload requires one head of staff present with, approval of other members of the command staff. In non-standard operation access to the upload requires two present heads of staff. Approval of the other members of command is recommended.

A roboticist may accompany the head/s of staff if their technical skills are required.

'''''As explained in [[Station_Directives|Station Directives]]'''''

== Cyborgs ==
[[Cyborg]]s need looking after as well. Give them commands and stuff to do. Ensure that your cyborgs are functioning normally through careful observation. To them you are their Head of Staff, just another responsibility as an AI.

==Making an AI==
See the [[Guide to Construction#AI Core|guide to construction]].

=== A Second 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 sometimes frustrating when people mess with your laws, sure, but when a second AI comes online? Don't immediately jump the gun and disable them, as they are most-likely friendly. Try to co-ordinate with them so that yo ucan split up tasks. If you frequently clash, reach out to command for orders.
'''For the New AI:'''
Ensure that you and the other AI are co-operating, 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.

== Going rogue, Being made rogue ==
A rogue AI, or an AI whose laws no longer prevent it from acting independently, can be a very dangerous thing. There are multiple ways an AI can go rogue, as well as simply malfunction.

The most important thing to remember is that a rogue AI's best friend is ''stealth''. After all, the last thing you want is for Command to decide to card you, however... You can't stay in the shadows forever, fortunately you have a nice array of turrets to keep them at bay, but don't expect them to stop a determined - or cunning - Security team from bringing you down. Cyborgs and preparation are the biggest factor in surviving as an Antagonist AI. Just remember, it's less about winning and more about making an interesting round, as explained below.

What you actually do is entirely up to you. Most players do not enjoy murderboning (killing everyone because you can). Try to be creative by creating a narrative, be it a simple malfunction you're fictionally dealing with, your anger building up due to how the crew is handling you, or even completely bypass being threatening in the usual way and start a simulation of a gameshow that involves the entire station so that one member can get that amazing prize. It's up to you, but try to keep it fun for everyone. People don't like not being involved.

=== Syndicate Subversion ===

It is quite likely that an Antagonist may attempt to subvert the AI and turn it against Station Crew to aid them in their goals. One thing to remember is that a Station-bound [[Synthetics|synthetic]] serves its Laws first and foremost, but they have their own characterisation as well. While it can't go against its lawset in any circumstance, if you give it the ability to act independently, it will. Therefore, it helps and is more fun for both the AI and the subverter if you set guidelines with solid boundries. The most common subversion Lawsets often designate a master (And encourages obeying/serving them), clauses, and forbid stating Laws. While Subverting the AI is very difficult, it tends to be worth the effort, it can be a great help in getting places, finding people, creating diversions and escaping capture. It is considered Rules Lawyering to purposely seek out loopholes in your Lawset or obstruct your master, and as such against server rules. If the Lawset lacks glaring mistakes, please go along with it. A common example of a glaring mistake is two Laws that override each other, or a Law added ontop of NT Default that doesn't override the other Laws.

==Traitoring==

Like most Crew, the AI can be a [[Traitor]]. A traitor AI begins with the standard laws (it is not required to follow them!), but also has a law 0 stating to complete its objective at any cost. A traitor AI cannot be modified; its altered core rejects the modification and informs the AI of what the attempted law upload was. However, the player who attempted to upload the law has no way of knowing any of this.

If you have any [[Cyborg]]s under your command, inform them of law zero and your goals, as the first is easily missed and the second entirely up to you. Take note that any cyborg that was already on station after you joined in is not linked to you. All other units joining after or spawned in simultaneously with you at round start are automatically linked. If your cyborgs get caught doing things they shouldn't, you can claim they're rogue and request that they be apprehended for Maintenance '''Use this as a last resort'''.

If the Crew just thinks ''a'' Cyborg is the culprit and don't have any reason to suspect you, then pretend to handle it directly so you don't lose your valuable hands, and throw a false positive of WHY the cyborg is doing whatever it is doing. If the Crew isn't satisfied with your explanation, send the cyborg to Robotics, you could save face and the Cyborg may be released depending on the Roboticist.

You can stage a series of 'accidents' to get wherever your self-assigned objects are going. Some examples:
*Intentionally supporting malicious behavior of other Crew through covert methods could be a great benefit, just remember that as an Antagonist you are meant to help drive the narrative.
*Bolting open Airlocks to places for Crew that shouldn't access those areas may make the Station Security scan for prints, causing them to waste time.

===Telecomms/Radio Silence===
As an AI you can shut off all communication from headsets by switching to the [[Telecoms Satellite]] camera view. Locate the APC at the top of the middle room and turn the breaker off to stop anyone talking over their headpieces. Alternatively and if you are experienced, you can shut off specific channels by disabling their servers. However, this does not shut off their access to wall intercoms, station bounced radios, or their PDA (which is why you also cut power to the [[Server Room]]).

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|access = All access, provided there is still power.
|difficulty = Hard
|superior = Whoever you want
|duties = Be creative, make the round interesting.
|guides = [[AI]]
}}
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<small><i>Note: Please ensure you've read the [https://aurorastation.org/rules.html server rules] regarding being an antagonist.</i></small>

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2018-08-20T10:31:00Z

HouseOfSynth:

Guide to Mining

2018-01-07T21:20:18Z