Atmospherics - Revision history

imported>Iatots: added meta tab

2016-12-20T19:58:07Z

added meta tab

imported>Atlanta-Ned: Speech template!

2016-03-17T20:18:36Z

Speech template!

imported>Kingofkosmos: Removed the guide stuff!

2014-03-11T14:01:39Z

Removed the guide stuff!

imported>Kingofkosmos: /* ATMOS QUICK SETUP */ Thumb pic shows now and added mention about green circles.

2013-11-02T17:51:15Z

ATMOS QUICK SETUP: Thumb pic shows now and added mention about green circles.

imported>Kingofkosmos at 08:32, 4 October 2013

2013-10-04T08:32:59Z

imported>Kingofkosmos at 07:45, 30 September 2013

2013-09-30T07:45:51Z

imported>Pilgrim: /* Yonder Atmosia */

2013-09-25T23:06:28Z

Yonder Atmosia

imported>Kingofkosmos at 09:56, 4 September 2013

2013-09-04T09:56:33Z

imported>Kingofkosmos: Changed the atmos quick-setup steps, since no one ever uses the other "schools of thought" and they are just confusing.

2013-09-04T09:47:04Z

Changed the atmos quick-setup steps, since no one ever uses the other "schools of thought" and they are just confusing.

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imported>Kingofkosmos: /* ATMOS QUICK SETUP */

2013-09-04T09:05:54Z

ATMOS QUICK SETUP

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 |image = [[File:Generic_atmos.png|right]]
 }}
 {{Location
   |headerbgcolor=lightblue
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   |image=Atmospherics.png|thumb
   |department=Atmospherics
-  |exits=Hallway west, [[Maintenance|maintenance]] north, engineering break room west
+  |exits=West to Engineering Foyer, north to [[maintenance]]
   |purpose=Handles the various gases in the station
   |access=
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 ===Yonder Atmosia===
 The city of pipes and air, a peaceful place often left to its automatic work. Yet, some people do come here for other reasons, like to dump bodies, charge a [[Syndicate Items|bomb]]'s O2 tank, plant a [[power sink]], get O2 for [[Jet Pack|jet packs]], steal CO2 canisters to manually flood the station, bunker down in a revolution, start a cult, build a computer forest, flood the station with harmful gasses or set up the secondary [[Singularity Engine]].
+</tabs>
 [[Category:locations]]
 {{Locations}}

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-<font size="4">'''[[Guide to Atmospherics|For the Guide to Atmospherics, click here.]]'''<font size="2">
+{{Speech
 {{Location
   |headerbgcolor=lightblue

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-<font size="4">'''[[Atmospherics#ATMOS_QUICK_SETUP|For the Quick Setup Guide to Atmospherics, click here.]]'''<font size="2">
+<font size="4">'''[[Guide to Atmospherics|For the Guide to Atmospherics, click here.]]'''<font size="2">
 {{Location
   |headerbgcolor=lightblue
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   |department=Atmospherics
   |exits=Hallway west, [[Maintenance|maintenance]] north, engineering break room west
-  |purpose=Handles the various gasses in the station
+  |purpose=Handles the various gases in the station
   |access=
   |contents=pipes, computers, ect
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 ===Yonder Atmosia===
 The city of pipes and air, a peaceful place often left to its automatic work. Yet, some people do come here for other reasons, like to dump bodies, charge a [[Syndicate Items|bomb]]'s O2 tank, plant a [[power sink]], get O2 for [[Jet Pack|jet packs]], steal CO2 canisters to manually flood the station, bunker down in a revolution, start a cult, build a computer forest, flood the station with harmful gasses or set up the secondary [[Singularity Engine]].
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 {{Locations}}

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 Here's how to do it the right way.
-[[File:AtmosDerp.png|thumb]]
+[[File:AtmosDerp.png|300px|thumb]]
-# Go to every <span style="color:red">red circled</span> pump and filter.  Make sure they're all on and set to max pressure (4500 kPa), so gas will actually be moved.
+# Go to every <span style="color:red">red circled</span> filter.  Make sure they're all on and set to max pressure (4500 kPa), so gas will actually be moved.
 # Go to the <span style="color:blue">blue circled</span> pump.  There are '''two schools of thought''':
 ::* '''Old-skool school''' that set it to 315 kPa (high enough that people can't mess with the distribution system, but low enough that it can be drained in decent time to make changes to pipes).
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 <font size="4">'''[[Guide to Atmospherics|For the Advanced Guide to Atmospherics, click here.]]'''<font size="2">
 ===PIPE PROSPECTIN'===

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 They default to CO2 only, the AI can easily help you with it.
 Congratulations, you are now more competent than 90% of all Atmos techs.
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 Remember, you are the sole reason for the station living. It doesn't take many pipe wrenchings for you to doom the entire station to plasma-y death. So be responsible with your experiments. When in doubt, adminhelp what you're going to do. After all, it's a lot less convenient to Atmospherics it up when you're job banned, so don't make that mistake!! However...
 ===HOW TO BE A TRAITOROUS BASTARD===

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 ===Yonder Atmosia===
-The city of pipes and air, a peaceful place often left to its automatic work. Yet, some people do come here for other reasons:
+The city of pipes and air, a peaceful place often left to its automatic work. Yet, some people do come here for other reasons, like to dump bodies, charge a [[Syndicate Items|bomb]]'s O2 tank, plant a [[power sink]], get O2 for [[Jet Pack|jet packs]], steal CO2 canisters to manually flood the station, bunker down in a revolution, start a cult, build a computer forest, flood the station with harmful gasses or set up the secondary [[Singularity Engine]].
 ===HOW TO BE A GOOD ATMOS TECH===
-[[File:atmos.png]]
+[[File:atmos.png]][[File:Atmos_simplified.png]]
 Atmospherics is pretty simple, but the pipe layout makes it slightly confusing for the untrained eye.
 There are 4 major pipe "loops":
-*The '''dark blue loop''' is the distribution loop. It sends air to all the vents on the station and is fed by the cyan and orange loops.
+*The '''<span style="color:blue">dark blue pipe loop</span>''' is the distribution loop. It sends air to all the vents on the station and is fed by the cyan and orange loops.
-*The '''cyan air mix loop''', which is specialized to mix and provide the air mix to the distribution loop, and is used to fill air pumps outside the front door of atmospherics.
+*The '''<span style="color:cyan">cyan air mix pipe loop</span>''', which is specialized to mix and provide the air mix to the distribution loop, and is used to fill air pumps outside the front door of Atmospherics.
-*The '''red/green loop''', which retrieves the gas in the station via the air scrubbers (red) and passes them through a set of filters (green).
+*The '''<span style="color:red">red/<span style="color:green">green</span></span> pipe loop''', which retrieves the gas in the station via the air scrubbers (red) and passes them through a set of filters (green).
-*The '''yellow loop''', internal to Atmospherics, which is used for custom gas mixes that can be fed into the canister charging station in the middle of atmospherics, or fed into the mixing tank. It takes outputs from the N2-, 02-, CO2-, Plasma- and N20 tank.
+*The '''<span style="color:yellow">yellow</span> pipe loop''', internal to Atmospherics, which is used for custom gas mixes that can be fed into the canister charging station in the middle of atmospherics, or fed into the mixing tank. It takes outputs from the N2, O2, CO2, Plasma and N2O tank.
-The air breathed by humans on SS13 is made out of oxygen and nitrogen. It is mixed on the south end of atmos. The gasses are pumped through the cyan tubes from their respective tanks ('''N2''', '''O2''') and are mixed in the air tank ('''Air'''). The breathable gas is then pumped through the cyan loop to the north of atmos, where it is then pumped into the blue loop and out to the station .
+The air breathed by humans on SS13 is made out of oxygen and nitrogen. It is mixed on the south end of Atmospherics. The gasses are pumped through the cyan tubes from their respective tanks ('''N2''', '''O2''') and are mixed in the air tank ('''Air'''). The breathable gas is then pumped through the cyan loop to the north of Atmospherics, where it is then pumped into the blue loop and out to the station for everyone to breathe.
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 [[File:AtmosDerp.png|thumb]]
-# Go to every red circled pump and filter.  Make sure they're all on and set to max pressure (4500 kPa), so gas will actually be moved.
+# Go to every <span style="color:red">red circled</span> pump and filter.  Make sure they're all on and set to max pressure (4500 kPa), so gas will actually be moved.
-# Go to the blue circled pump.  There are '''two schools of thought''':
+# Go to the <span style="color:blue">blue circled</span> pump.  There are '''two schools of thought''':
 ::* '''Old-skool school''' that set it to 315 kPa (high enough that people can't mess with the distribution system, but low enough that it can be drained in decent time to make changes to pipes).
-::* '''Robust school''' that set it to over 9000 kPa with a volume pump, enabling an efficient air distribution to where air is needed (can be controlled through vents & air alarm rather than dragging air pumps and canisters around) and making sure that people don't mess with the pipe system. This is a high-risk, high-reward style since people messing with air alarms now can be very dangerous. The robust school also changes the Waste In -pump with a volume pump, so that wastes are sucked in faster from the station.
+::* '''Robust school''' that replace the normal pump with a volume pump and set it to over 9000 kPa, enabling a super-efficient air distribution to where air is needed (can be controlled through vents & air alarm rather than dragging air pumps and canisters around) and making sure that people don't mess with the pipe system. This is a high-risk & high-reward setup since chucklefucks messing with air alarms can now be VERY dangerous. The robust school also changes the Waste In -pump (the red circled next to the blue circled one) with a volume pump, so that wastes are sucked in faster from the station.
 <ol start="3">
-<li> (optional) Go to the red lockers pointed to by the red arrow, get a hard hat, gas mask and everything else that might be of use. Remember that you need both a fire suit AND a hard hat to be resistant to weak fires. One will be useless without the other.
+<li> ''(optional)'' Go to the red lockers, get a hard hat, gas mask and everything else that might be of use. Remember that you need both a fire suit and a hard hat to be resistant to weak fires. One will be useless without the other.
-<li> (optional) Go grab the Fire Axe from the wall mount and hide it somewhere the [[Clown|chucklefucks]] won't get it and go killing.
+<li> ''(optional)'' Go grab the Fire Axe from the wall mount and hide it somewhere the [[Clown|chucklefucks]] won't get it and go killing. DON'T take it with you and go walking through the hallways trying to look like a badass, you'll be the prime target of any antagonist/griffon who needs an efficient weapon.
 </ol>
 Done correctly, Atmosia should be pumping good air just faster than it's lost, and draining bad air away away as fast as the traitors can set it on fire or alternatively draining good air away as fast as a malf AI can syphon it. You can go kick back in the bar like a boss, and wait for the inevitable minor station damage and cries of "Call the shuttle!" on the radio from folks who don't even know it ain't a big deal.
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 There are a few different pipes you can get from the dispenser. They all have their own thing going for 'em.
 *'''Regular pipes''' - The station is infested with these thing and you want to add MORE!? Place down manual valves to crush the hopes and dreams of any would-be plasma flooding AI.
 *'''Insulated pipes''' - Keeps the cold out if you're placing pipes out in space. (Regular pipes don't transfer outside heat at all from the environment, so these are pretty much regular pipes without the luxury of manifolds.)
-'''Devices'''
+====Devices====
 *'''Connector''' - Used to attach canisters, pumps or scrubbers to a pipe network. If you can't get a pipe network easily to the filter loop, an empty canister can be a good substitute.
 *'''Unary vent''' - See: Vent. Once placed down it will have to be turned on by activating it at an Air alarm terminal.
 *'''Gas pump''' - The basic pumps you'll find all over atmospherics. Good for precise pressure levels. Goes up to 4500 kPa.
 *'''Passive gate''' - Think of it as a one-way manual valve, but electronic. Doesn't pump gas, but lets certain pressure through. Can let up to 4500 kPa pressure through. It should be noted that its on status can be easy to miss, being just a small red/green light.
-*'''Volume pump''' - A bit like the gas pump, but pumps via volume rather than going for pressure. 200 is its max output, but this is fairly significant. Faster than a gas pump (You can even fill canisters up past the standard 4500 kPa pressure!), so best used in systems where precise pressure isn't needed. (Such as anything to do with the waste loop.)
+*'''Volume pump''' - A bit like the gas pump, but pumps via volume rather than going for pressure. 200 l/s (>9000 kPa) is its max output. Faster than a gas pump (you can fill canisters up past the standard 4500 kPa pressure!), so best used in systems where precise pressure isn't needed (such as anything to do with the waste loop).
 *'''Scrubber''' - Self explanatory, scrubs the nasty out of things, or acts like a vacuum. Like unary vents, needs to be turned on by an Air alarm terminal after wrenched into place.
 *'''Meter''' - Wanna know how much gas is in a pipe? Use these. (Helpful hint: In a room with the default 101.3kPa atmosphere pipes < 303.9 kPa pressure can be unwrenched.)
-*'''Gas Filter''' - Them big ol' blocks of things that ring Atmosia, takes certain gasses out. Filters them if you will.
+*'''Gas Filter''' - Them big ol' blocks of things that ring Atmosia, takes certain gasses out. Filters them, if you will.
 *'''Gas Mixer''' - Like a filter, but mixes gasses instead of filters. There is one in Atmosia that mixes nitrogen and oxygen.
-'''Heat Exchange'''
+====Heat Exchange====
 *'''Pipes''' - H/E pipes transfer temperatures between the environment and gas within'. Besides looking spiffy, you can place some in space to super-duper cool gasses, or create a burning length of death pipe.
 *'''Junction''' - Turn that regular pipe network into a H/E network, and back again! After all, you have to get that gas safely into space ''somehow''!

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 ===Yonder Atmosia===
-The land of pipes and air, a peaceful place often left to its automatic work. Yet, some people do come here for other reasons:
+The city of pipes and air, a peaceful place often left to its automatic work. Yet, some people do come here for other reasons:
 *Dump bodies.
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 *Set up the secondary [[Singularity Engine]].
 [[category: Locations]]
 ===HOW TO BE A GOOD ATMOS TECH===

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 [[File:AtmosDerp.png|thumb]]
-*1) Go to every red circled pump and filter.  Make sure they're all on and set to max pressure (4500 kPa), so gas will actually be moved.
+# Go to every red circled pump and filter.  Make sure they're all on and set to max pressure (4500 kPa), so gas will actually be moved.
-*2) Go to the blue circled pump.  '''There are four schools of thought''', '''a clever school''' that sets it to 300kPA (which allows unwrenching of pipes), '''a cautious school''' that sets it to 400-700 kPA (within human tolerance), '''a robust school''' that sets it to 4,500kPA (beyond human tolerance) and '''a genius school''' who sets it to 315 kPA (high enough that people can't mess with the distribution system, but low enough that it can be drained in decent time to make changes.)  Due to the volume of the distribution pipes themselves, it takes quite some time to fill the network past human tolerances and make pipes dangerous if broken. A good middle road is to use full pressure, wait for the pipes to fill to 300 or 400-700 kPA and then dial the pump down to match.
+# Go to the blue circled pump.  '''There are four schools of thought''', '''a clever school''' that sets it to 300 kPa (which allows unwrenching of pipes), '''a cautious school''' that sets it to 400-700 kPa (within human tolerance), '''a robust school''' that sets it to 4,500 kPa (beyond human tolerance) and '''a genius school''' who sets it to 315 kPa (high enough that people can't mess with the distribution system, but low enough that it can be drained in decent time to make changes.)  Due to the volume of the distribution pipes themselves, it takes quite some time to fill the network past human tolerances and make pipes dangerous if broken. A good middle road is to use full pressure, wait for the pipes to fill to 300 or 400-700 kPa and then dial the pump down to match.
-*3) (optional) Go to the red lockers pointed to by the red arrow, get a hard hat, gas mask and everything else that might be of use. Remember that you need both a fire suit AND a hard hat to be resistant to weak fires. One will be useless without the other.
+# (optional) Go to the red lockers pointed to by the red arrow, get a hard hat, gas mask and everything else that might be of use. Remember that you need both a fire suit AND a hard hat to be resistant to weak fires. One will be useless without the other.
-*4) (optional) Go grab the Fire Axe from the wall mount and hide it somewhere the [[Clown|chucklefucks]] won't get it and go killing.
+# (optional) Go grab the Fire Axe from the wall mount and hide it somewhere the [[Clown|chucklefucks]] won't get it and go killing.
 Done correctly, Atmosia should be pumping good air just faster than it's lost, and draining bad air away away as fast as the traitors can set it on fire or alternatively draining good air away as fast as a malf AI can syphon it. You can go kick back in the bar like a boss, and wait for the inevitable minor station damage and cries of "Call the shuttle!" on the radio from folks who don't even know it ain't a big deal.