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[exponentiate]

Two questions:
What are the expectations here?
What positions are available for those who can work?

[ an exit is what tobias really wants but a perfunctory search could have told him escape is impossible — and he scoured every relevant link, every post about the ship's life he could find.

he'll settle for knowing where the needs of the ship lie. ]

Comments

[cargojet]

In terms of outlook or responsibility?
That would depend on your skillset.

[exponentiate]

Already been reminded about "base level of respect for others." [ if dryness of tone could be transmitted over text. ]
I can't imagine I'm the only one wondering so let's go with a general pitch. I'll let you know when something jumps out at me.

[cargojet]

No killing or stealing is pretty baseline, it's got to be said.
So let's see, the ship's departments are divided into Operations, Security and Science. Inside those departments, we have Communications, Engineering, Gunnery and Flight Crew, Medical, Agriculture and Research departments. Security, as I mentioned, and additional support staff who work where they're needed.
Obviously joining a department is preferred, but there are ways to help that don't involve signing up. People need to be fed who don't know how to cook, and keeping people entertained had been a problem before. We once had a whole lot of kids onboard, and they needed a teacher. Some people fix clothes. They're all niches that need to be filled.
Let me know where, and I'll go into more detail.

[exponentiate]

Flight Crew?

[cargojet]

Head of Department: Carolyn Fry
Duties: Maintaining the present complement of thirteen working shuttles, repairing further shuttles using the available resources. Volunteers with piloting experience preferred but not necessary, as present crew offers lessons. Undermanned sufficient to present demand.

[exponentiate]

A lot of the departments offering lessons?

[cargojet]

Crucial. Can't depend on finding a doctor in the stasis pods. We only have one qualified doctor at present. Further, all Tranquility technology needs a crash course. In Communications we have networking tech to maintain. Engineering keeps our O2 going and engines running. Gunnery has VR training to teach weapons skills, etc. Some volunteers originate from similar backgrounds, but even those who have been brought here from spaceships of their own are unfamiliar with this universe's specific advancements, and that's knowledge that can only be taught by those who have learned it already. When the expertise is gone, it has to be picked up from ground level all over again.

[mindtricks]

Base level of respect for others. No killing or stealing.
There are departments. What kind of work are you suited for?

[ she's missed a jump and what happened on arima is still fresh in her mind, but that doesn't mean she should be shirking her duties. ]

[exponentiate]

Do you need to remind people of that often?

[ he'll get to the other part in a second but first: sarcasm. ]

[mindtricks]

No. You asked.

[ he's welcome to his sarcasm; she's going to reply with complete dryness. ]

[exponentiate]

All right. Anything else I should be reminded of?

[mindtricks]

What do you know already?

[exponentiate]

Relevant to this?
1) Don't panic.
2) Settle in for the long haul.
3) Don't panic.

Those first and last points were stressed often.

[wiped]

Depends on what you can do. Or what you want to do. Shucks up here will train you up, if you ask.

[exponentiate]

Shucks?

[wiped]

Yeah. Shucks.

[ are you expecting an actual explanation? thomas just shrugs. ]

Do you have something you want to do?

[exponentiate]

The thing I want to do is the thing we can't. Else I imagine a lot of people would have skipped out a while ago.

[wiped]

I meant for a job. Everyone wants to escape.

[ like that's just a given. ]

We're going to find a way out. There's always a way out.

[exponentiate]

That's very optimistic of you.

[ and that's very passive-aggressive of you, tobias. ]

text;

[suddenlycaptain]

Learn what's too stupid to do in space so you don't kill the rest of us in addition to yourself.

And flight crew's always looking for help.

[exponentiate]

Is there an orientation? [ three parts sarcastic to one part genuine. ]
I was told I should speak with Carolyn Fry about flight crew. Is that you?

[ he knows she is. he wasn't entirely idle in the hours before typing up his initial message. ]

[suddenlycaptain]

I've done classes before. And I have videos.

That's me.

[exponentiate]

Maybe they should be mandatory viewing.
Mind sharing the links?

[suddenlycaptain]

They should be, but most of the people on this ship think it doesn't apply to them somehow, and I can't reinforce 'mandatory' anything.

[ One moment, and ta-da. ]

[exponentiate]

Sounds like most people anywhere.

[ and he should know: dauntless might as well have been renamed to "yolo." ]

I'll give these a look, thanks.
I read that the shuttle bay is the only place here with windows. Those there for anyone?