User:Robotonic
Early draft: Cargo Technician, just started. Intended to be more intuitive for new players.
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Cargo Technician
Superiors: The Quartermaster, who in turn reports to the Head of Personnel
Difficulty: Easy
Guides: Guide to Paperwork, Supply Crates
Access: Cargo Bay, Mail Room, Maintenance
Duties: Distribute crates to the departments that ordered them, collect empty crates, load and unload the supply shuttle.
As a Cargo Technician, you're responsible for the loading and unloading of crates, fabricating items in the Autolathe as the crew requests and delivering ordered crates around the station via the crate mailing systems or by manually pulling them out of your office.
Your Workplace
The Cargo Bay is your home as a Cargo Technician and where you spawn if you joined as the game began. It is located to the left of the Head of Personnel's Office. The cargo department contains spare materials, equipment, and most importantly an autolathe capable of fabricating simple items and tools commonly requested by crewmembers.
Running the Cargo Bay
Your immediate boss is the Quartermaster who is assigned with running your department. The quartermaster is typically well acquainted with all of the equipment and Standard Operating Procedures of the cargo bay, and if in doubt should be asked for advice.
Disposals Mailing
This is an alternative way of delivering items, and is usually preferable to MULE transport as long as the pipes are still intact.
- Wrap your item/crate with package wrapper.
- Pick up the destination tagger and click in your hand to set a destination.
- Use the destination tagger on the parcel.
- Optional: Use a pen to write a message on the parcel, or custom set a destination.)
- Stick it on the conveyor, or dump it in a disposals unit, and let the system handle it.
- Tip: Click and drag the large parcels to disposals units to put them in. This can only be done a few times however.
You can also gift wrap packages, but these cannot be tagged with a destination, and have to be delivered manually. This will not work with large objects. The process is slightly more complicated.
- Pick up the item you want to gift wrap.
- Hold a sharp object in your other hand. (Wirecutters are the most common for this.)
- Click the wrapping paper with the item you want to wrap.
Gift wrapping a human is also possible, but they must have a straight jacket on and you need the wrapping paper in your hand. This is usually not a good idea. A
Using the MULEBot
- Drag the crate on to the MULE.
- Set a destination with your PDA or on the control panel.
- Send the MULE off!
How to Recharge the MULEBot
- Open up the maintenance panel with a screwdriver. (Make sure the controls are unlocked first!)
- Take out the power cell. (Top entry.)
- Insert charged power cell.
- Close panel with screwdriver.
Traitoring
You're a bit of in a pickle here, but wait. There's an Autolathe that can help you GREATLY. Be careful though, if there is a Quartermaster, he will probably notice your shady activities in the Cargo Bay. It is possible to emag the cargo ordering console and order certain special shipments, which will help you greatly if you manage to sneak them onto the station unnoticed by your colleagues.