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About the General Department

The General Department is the most ambiguous department and encompasses Assistants, Visitors to the station, and any other roles that wouldn't fall under the general purview of other more specific departments. Unless they are non-humanoid or of the paranormal type, General roles always report to the Head of Personnel. Service roles are often the best environment for players to learn game mechanics while also interacting with fellow crew members. General roles are almost always the roles with least responsibility and the most room to learn and explore game mechanics (Even more so than the Service Department. In addition, general roles outside of Assistants offer additional abilities, resources, that allow players to explore game mechanics that they would have previously been unable to access due to their low experience.

General Roles

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Just click on one of the roles to learn more about them!

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Assistant

Assistants are tasked with assisting all departments. While given no formal responsibility they're expected to help the station whether that's through assisting with a Station Goal, running errands for departments, or staying out of trouble. This is the best role to learn basic game mechanics and there's little expectation tied to it.

Animal

Animals are NPC creatures that can be taken control of by ghosts. They are found on the station at the start of a round or created later. They have limited interactions, can typically only speak to other animals, and are unable to hurt objects or people, with the exception of sentient animals spawned by Random Events.

Ghost

Ghosts are players who have chosen to observe the round or have been removed from the round through death, cryosleep, or other means. They have, quite literally, no real control over the station. They can, however, hover around, go through walls, look closer at consoles, see everything on your screen, and talk to other players who are ghosts.

Derelict Researcher

Derelict researchers are a Mob Spawner role in the middle of Space. They're detached from the station and are a great role to experiment and learn other niche game mechanics away from the chaos of everyone else. Generally fun for newer and more intermediate skilled players.

Syndicate Researcher

The Syndicate Researchers are stationed on a remote research facility to experiment with various explosives and bioweapons. They also have access to a camera console and syndicate communications to aid agents on the main station.

General Guides

Want to read an in-depth guide for General Roles?

Just click on one of the guides to learn more about them!

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• Job Selection and Assignment
• Random Events
• A Crash Course In Roleplaying
• Nano-Mob Hunter Go
• Songs
• General SOP
• Station Pets
• Languages
• Species
• Crafting

Learning Mechanics

• Guide for Beginners
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Guide to Runechat
• Death
• Glossary

General Locations

Explore General Locations

Click through a slideshow of the various general locations. Click on a location to learn more.

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  NSS Cyberiad - Dorms

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  NSS Cerebron - Arcade

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  NSS Kerberos - Cryo

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  NSS Farragus - Holodeck