Text; PSA/Recruitment

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Fellow passengers of the Tranquility,
The loss of many of our friends in the previous Jump, while already a tragedy, leaves us in a situation of grave peril. Volunteer crew across the board is at an all time low. No one department is flourishing; even Security is working on a skeleton crew, spread further every jump, as new passengers are consigned to higher floors. Medical is overstretched; two doctors and two nurses trading shifts. The flight crew is crippled; there are less pilots on board now than are needed to crew the shuttles should we need to abandon ship. And agriculture, which provides our fresh food and therefore guarantees our survival, is struggling to secure the help of full time volunteers.

I must urge each and every one of you, old passengers and new, regardless of how you feel about your confinement here, or how little you think you might have to offer in way of skills, to give serious thought to joining a department. Skills can be taught, but nothing short of action now will prevent disaster. Our very survival depends on you.

Each of the ship's departments will introduce themselves and link to relevant materials below. Please wait until they speak, or contact them privately to address your questions to them. If you'd like to offer your assistance but don't know where to start, we will help you get settled in the right place. When you're ready, enter your signup information here to be granted relevant clearance. Your tattoo will change to reflect your new position.

OPR
>>> Communications
>>> Flight Crew
>>> Gunnery
>>> Engineering
>>> Support

SCI
>>> Medical
>>> Agriculture
>>> Xenobiology & Genetics
>>> Physical Science

SEC
>>> Security

Remember: We all survive together, or we all die together. The choice is yours.

Please direct your general questions here.

[ Heads of department can respond to their subjects with video or whatever. Otherwise feel free to comment with voice, video or text as though this were a regular post. ]

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OPR

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Communications Department

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The communications officer is in charge of sending and receiving all messages, whether inter or intra-ship. They observe and maintain the ship's network, monitors activity, and relays comms to specific officers; they also report whether signals have been lost or muddled, and essentially make sure that all relevant lines of communication are open and functioning properly.

Head of Communications: Nathan Petrelli

Video;

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My name is Nathan Petrelli, and I Head the Communications Department here. We're situated on level one of the passenger quarters, and if you'd like to come down I'd be more than happy to orient you myself.

Communications officers keep the network running smoothly. Every time someone picks up a comms device, there are any number of things that can go wrong. We monitor calls and record and tag messages, allowing swift recollection of old data, which we keep a copy of in order to maintain our legacy should the worst happen. Outside of the department proper, we maintain a web of routers that allow us to keep a real time record of where people are in the inhabited areas of the ship, information we supply to security and medical. In an emergency situation, survival can rely on how efficiently we respond.

Computer skills are useful but not necessary. I didn't have any myself when I joined up here. A desire to listen to other people ramble about their cats is also unnecessary, but it can't hurt. That said, working in Comms is usually a pleasant experience. We have a close camaraderie between us, our own coffee machine, and every one gets time enough to pursue their own projects in their own space.

Presently, including myself, there are only three active members of communications.

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Flight Crew

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A flight officer is in charge of all onboard craft, small craft, launch of the craft, and coordination of the craft. Flight, recovery, and tactics of the ship's shuttles is the Flight Officer's main concern.

Head of Flight Crew: Carolyn Fry

video;

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[ Carolyn's in a poor mood, but the flight crew is struggling. They need the help, because if something goes wrong... ]

No experience is necessary if you want to join the flight crew. We need people who are willing to learn, both how to pilot and how to repair and maintain what shuttles we have. They're damaged after every jump. We don't have enough fuel to go joy-riding; if you want to do that, you're wasting your time. We're the people who are going to make sure that, if it comes down to it, we get off this ship safely as quickly and efficiently as possible.

[ Pause. ]

And we've got the best view. Windows; you can see the stars.

Gunnery Crew

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This crew takes care of both offensive and defensive fire control when under enemy attack. This includes coordination of the turrets and raising the shields when necessary, or orchestrating stealth attacks. Each member should have thorough understanding of fire mechanics, each type of titan-class heavy weaponry, and a solid grasp of tactics and strategy under duress.

Anderson and Teller

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Gunnery handles external threats and maintains the armory. Those may not be as common as other issues, but can and likely will happen, so we need to be prepared. [ plus, it keeps people busy and that's important for morale, but anderson won't say that out loud, much less on a recruitment post. ] If you're interested, or if you have prior knowledge of weapon technology or defense, we could use you. We also offer weapons' training.

If you have questions or would like a tour, contact Jax Teller or myself. One of us is always around in Gunnery.

Engineering Crew

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Responsible for monitoring the wellbeing of the ship. Their jobs include: ensuring everything is primed and ready when preparing for a jump, fuel usage, checking all systems when the ship is on alert or using battle stations, the environmental systems of the ship (ventilation, electricity, heat, water, gravity, electronics, etc.), looking after the status of the ship's systems, the health and status of the power plant, plant fuel, and power distribution grid. Failure to properly monitor these systems or failure of the systems themselves will result in chip and passenger death within hours.

Please speak to this person

Support Staff

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The Jack-of-All-Trades people within the OPR departments. They're the widely experienced helping hands that handle the excess jobs, or department overspill.

Head of Staff Ianto Jones

SCI

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Medical Sciences

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In charge of looking after the safety and well-being of all on-board members. In addition to the automated medbay, there is a CMO, or Chief Medical Officer, several subordinate doctors, a ship's psychologist, and a few surgeons. There are two doctors and two nurses, period.

Head of Department: Simon Tam

Re: Medical Sciences

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dont sound so different from witchin

Agricultural Sciences

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This department is responsible for the cultivation of the oxygen gardens, growth and nourishment of produce, the food provided and grown on the ship, and study of xenobotany. The death of the oxygen garden results in the death of all oxygen-dependent life forms onboard.

Head of Department: Netherlands

Xenobiology and Genetics

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The xenobiology and genetics staff examines any and all alien life present on the pre-terraformed planets, oversees the terraforming process, and analyzes and stores the genetic components of all onboard organics.

Please speak with Princess Nuala

Physical Sciences

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Catchall department for those scientists whose disciplines are not covered by the previous branches.

Speak with Wheatley

SEC

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Security Department

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The Tranquility's security systems are military-grade, and Security officers are responsible for defending the ship from both external and internal threats. Security's main duty, however, is enforcing the ship's rules and regulations—by whatever means necessary. Security is also in charge of conducting criminal investigations, should one be required.

Head of Department is Tyke, however if she is occupied please speak to Miles Edgeworth, security's secretary.

QUESTIONS

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Voice

[acapriciousthing]

I'm, uh, not entirely sure where I'd be most useful. My main skills are... specialized.

[That's one word for it right?]

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[mathematically]

I think you've just doomed physical sciences to just being me and two— well no, one's a creepy guy the other's just Wheatley.

[ Hi Nathan, isn't this exactly what you wanted to read right now? ]

voice;

[51stcentury]

So if there were some of us who might want to take this as an opportunity to follow new career paths. Hypothetically, that is...

[Someone may or may not be having an existential crisis right now. Or at least, a crisis regarding their position and worth on the Tranquility thus far.]

voice;

[northerner]

This is a good thing you've done. I should hope it attracts attention, Nathan. There are many who could use the recruits.

voice;

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Well you can help with that, Robb. Any one of yours that doesn't know what they can do--even if it's just porter duty in the gardens it would help someone out.

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[yardbird]

Didn't realize we were so undermanned.

No wonder the work's been so rough lately.

[You mean other than the fact that he's been chronically sick the last month, and has been attempting to consolidate the food supply on almost thirty decks now?]

[text]

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More levels, less people. Work's rough no matter how you look at it. Eight out of ten people on this ship are officially doing nothing to help, and no matter how you look at it that's not a good number.