Escape Shuttle

General Area
Escape Shuttle
The escape shuttle: the savior and bane of many players.
Obvious exits	West to the Escape Shuttle Hallway
Purpose	Transporting the station crew back to CentCom
Access level	Public access to the main seating and medical areas, security access to the shuttle brig, command access to the shuttle bridge
Noteworthy contents	Two sleepers, emergency and medical supplies
Clearance	Everyone
Security level	Medium
Style	Shuttle
Balance Requirements	No major balance requirements
Other Notes
Locations on NSV13

On one hand, it is with this that many players are allowed to supposedly continue life after departing Space Station 13. On the other, many players may die waiting for the shuttle to leave, due to either a shuttle brawl or a traitor who happens to want no company with him on his return voyage. The escape shuttle is also the cause of many arguments as to whether or not the situation on the station warrants an evacuation. (The correct answer is, if anyone is working in toxins, you should call the shuttle, just to be safe).

Lets not muck around here. You may have avoided death by asphyxiation thanks to some Greyshit smashing windows for the hell of it. You may have dodged a bomb ripping the Medbay to pieces. You might not have breathed in the horrible, horrible virus that was 'accidentally' released into the air system, but none of that my good friend, compares to the hell that is the Escape Shuttle.

Any form of restraint that was previously displayed has a mysterious habit of vanishing in the last few minutes of a stations life. Friends turn on friends, Clowns become murdering psychopaths (Again), Security start stunning everyone and anyone and someone always drops a flashbang or two.

Welcome, to the Escape Shuttle.

Calling the Shuttle

The shuttle can be called from a Communcations Console by any Heads of Staff, the AI and its Cyborgs, or anyone with Bridge access. The same people, except the AI and its Cyborgs, can recall the shuttle so long as 5 minutes have not passed (3 in Red Alert) since it was called. During Revolution, Malfunction and Blob game modes, the shuttle can be called but it will never arrive.

Once called, the shuttle takes ten minutes for Central Command to power, program, and supply before arriving at the station, waiting for three minutes (if the Heads or a traitor with an emag don't get too jumpy first), and then leaves the station, taking two minutes to travel in hyperspace. Presumably the supplies are in case in the shuttle really fouls up this hyperspace process.

Shuttle Bridge

The shuttle bridge at the fore section requires Bridge/Headquarters access and is reserved for the Heads of Staff, although the general crew gets a boner for occupying restricted areas and will try and slip in.

The bridge contains many consoles, the most important one being the Shuttle Console. If at least three Heads of Staff swipe their IDs on it (or if a traitor emags it), the waiting time for the shuttle gets shortened to 10 seconds. Doing so as a non-antag and without a genuine emergency (rampaging singularity, nuke ops, mass murder) is a good way to make everyone hate you.

Shuttle Brig

The shuttle brig (marked with red flooring) should be used to house criminals long enough to be transferred over to Centcom security for further investigation and possible incarceration. Traitors within the brig when the shuttle arrives at centcom will fail their escape objective. Requires Security access to enter.

Due to the fact that this, in effect, Security's only haven on an otherwise chaotic shuttle, you can generally take it as read that walking through those airlock doors into the Shuttle Brig without being Security will see you get robusted to fuck, or just outright murdered. Security are understandably incredibly twitchy on the Shuttle, so probably best just to leave them in peace as they beat their prisoners into submission for the Centcomm bods.

An alternative is to escape on an escape pod.

Locations on Hammerhead
General	Service	Medical	Cargo	Science	Engineering	Security	Munitions	Command	Outside
Arrivals Dormitory Departures Escape Shuttle Locker Room Maintenance Primary Tool Storage Waste Disposal	Bar Chapel Custodial Closet Hydroponics Kitchen and Freezer Library Theatre	Medbay Chemistry Lab Chemistry Manufacturing Chief Medical Officer's Office Cloning Genetics Medbay Storage Morgue Operating Theatre Patient Room Virology	Supplies Cargo Bay Cargo Office Delivery Office Mining Dock Quartermaster's Office	Research Division Nanite Lab Research and Development Lab Research Director's Office Robotics Lab Server Room Toxins Lab Toxins Test Chamber Xenobiology Lab	Engineering Atmospherics Incinerator Chief Engineer's Office Construction Area Engineering Hangar Gravity Generator Room Solars Engineering Storage Rooms Telecommunications	Armory Brig Brig Physician's Office Courtroom Detective's Office Head of Security's Office Law Office Prison Wing Security Equipment Room Security Posts Brig Control	Hangar Bay Hangar Armoury ATC Rooms Weapons Bay Arms Depot Master at Arms' Office	AI Satellite AI Upload Bridge CIC Captain's Quarters War Room E.V.A. Gateway XO's Office Teleporter Vault	Central Command Space