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SQUAD PAGE

Basics of squaddery

  Welcome aboard valued employee! We deeply thank you for signing up as a Doctor/Engineer/Clown. But, there is one more thing you have to do. What, you expected a calm shift honking around?
 
That's right, here in the navy, we need every hand at the ready when combat hits. And thus, squads were born. When the sirens ring, and General Quarters is declared, all non-essential personnel must assist in the fighting.
 
Non-essential personnel means non-combat generally. So everyone NOT in the munitions department. Doctors, scientists, engineers, bartenders and such.
 
When you arrive on board, you are greeted by a large, reddish text, detailing which squad you are in, and what you will have to do. Don't get alarmed, it really isn't difficult. I'll detail what each squad does below. For now let's go over what to do. In the beginning of the shift, not much. Do whatever your job requires. After all, you are still useful, just not combat. Combat usually doesn't begin until one hour has passed, or vene more, depending on your Bridge Crew, so you might even go without GQ a whole shift. If you do get into GQ, however..

General Quarters

Oh uh. The alarms are ringing the ship has entered combat or CC is just annoying you. You now have to make your way to a squad vendor. They are usually located in central areas, such as briefing, the main hallway or the bar. Head over to them, vend your equipment box and start your duty.

General squad equipment

These are the things every squad member gets, when they step on board.

• Squad pager: Allows you to speak on the squad comms with :f. It works when it's in your inventory. It works when comms are down. It works without any need for interaction. Its great! Yet noone uses it
• Squad lanyard: A little thingy that goes on your neck, and displays a HUD icon next to your character.
  

Squad Types

Damage Control

The squad tasked with doing what the engineers never do: fix holes. This makes them just about the most useful squad on a ship full of holes. In their boxes, they get inflatable walls and Flexi Seal(tm). These walls may not be the strongest, but they can keep air in, and the vacuum out. So put on a skinsuit - or ask the AI to open EVA -, turn on internals and start fixin.
 
The Flexi Seal(tm) is useful for two reasons. One being that they can fix up damaged inflatable walls. This is rarely used, as inflatables pop very easily. The more useful thing is fixing the Nuclear Reactor. Yes, here in the future we fix reactors with flex seal. So dont ask questions, and drop off a can at the engineers doorstep.

Paramedic

The paramedic squad members are the unsung heroes of the ship. Their box has all the equipment needed to stabilize and save a patient. They may not be able to heal everything on the spot, but they can drag you back to medbay.

Although their equipment is nothing to laugh at, it can always be improved. If an actual doctor would be on their squad, they could lend them a few first-aid kits. But even if you don't have a squad mate in medbay, you could always just ask. The chemist most likely has a synthflesh factory up, and the CMO wont mind if you take a roller bed or two.

TEMPERATURE PAGE

From the up-and-coming atmos tech to the assistant just trying to survive, themperature is an important aspect of life on the station. If all goes well in Atmosia, the tempreture of the ship sould remain normal. But all never goes well. Because of this, it is useful to know how the ship can heat up or cool down.

When you begin to heat up or freeze over, a lttle indicator will pop up on your hud. If its only a small temperature difference - such as from drinking a hot drink -, you will be fine. But if it is substantial amount of heating or cooling, you are in danger. First of all, take off any insulating clothing, like space suits or emergency fire suits. Then head to an area with normal temperature. You can also use special drinks to cool you down, or take medicine to heal yourself from burns

Heat

Temperatures usually rise when there is a fire, or if some weird gas mix leaks from atmos into the vents. You can overheat yourself as well, if you become too fat or if you drink too much hot drinks. It can also be caused by certain viruses.
 
Heat is more dangerous than cold, and here is why:

• Altough walls, windows and airlocks hold back fires, they can only for so long.
  • All of the above can be damaged by heat. Walls break down, windows shatter and airlocks get opened by a shitter.
  • Of course, stronger walls/windows hold up longer. Reinforced walls don't break, and plasma-glass windows don't shatter.
• Heat can kill extremely fast, in part because it creates overpreassure as well.

As such, if you get the warning signs of over-heating, get put of there fast. An emergency firesuit with a hard hat protects from all but the hottest of fires.

One big danger of heat is your body overheating. This occurs when you are standing in a hot room without protection. Of this happens, simply putting on a hard suit won't help, as your body will remain heated, even if the room cools down. In this case, head to a cooler room, wait until your body is cold then put on the protective gear and go back.

Fire

Fire comes in two variations aboard the ship. Either they are in the atmosphere, or, in a much less dangerous manner, they are on an item or person.

The first type occurs when plasma or tritium is mixed in the air. They can ignite when a flame is introduced, be it a sparkling light tube or a lit welder. These are more dangerous, and can damage everything in their path. If you see one, run away, and call out on radio. If you are feeling heroic, put on a firesuit and grab an extinguisher. If you are lucky, you may just save one person. The danger of such a fire is that it is a deliberate plasmaflooding, and it is being refilled. In that case it could be a Malf AI or a traitor Atmostech. These fires have one weakness: burning through floors. That way, they are opened up to space and quickly empty out.

The other type is personal fire. It is a fire that is on a person. This is caused by a wide spectrum of things, from an assistant welderbombing himself, or a virus igniteing you from the inside, to a God being angry at you. If you are set on fire, there is one thing you can always do: press the Resist button to drop and roll on the floor. THis puts fire out on you, altough you can reignite. You could also grab a fire extinguisher and spray on yourself. These small fires cause brun damage to you, which can be cured by ointment or burn patches at medbay. They can also set your clothes aflame, which can burn down, forcing you to get a set of new ones.