Scientist
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Scientist
Superiors: Research Director
Difficulty: Medium
Guides: Guide to Research and Development, Guide to Toxins, Guide to Telescience
Access: Research Division
Duties: Do experiments, research, and make bombs.
Scientist is one of the most feared and fun jobs on station. Being a scientist means you can make and test a large number of tools and gadgets through research, construct highly explosive bombs, or study dangerous alien life forms.
The Laboratories
Research & Development
This lab houses the development of hi-tech devices including weapons, batteries, drills, and circuit boards.
Items around the station such as the hand teleporter, stun batons and analyzers can be collected used to improve research tech levels.
Your research efforts will cap at a certain point without minerals from mining. Co-ordinate with the Quartermaster or the Shaft Miners themselves to get the minerals you need.
For a more in-depth guide, see the Guide to Research and Development.
Toxins Research
Toxins Mixing is where you spawn.
This lab focuses on exploring the possibilities of plasma gas, typically in the form of massive explosions. Also provided to you is the Toxins Test Chamber (AKA Bomb Range). Hopefully, this is where you will be testing your bombs.
Bomb making is not all that easy though, as the Toxins Research Lab is really prone to outbursts of plasma, fire, plasma that's on fire, or even plasma that's on fire and spreading N2O. Yep, it ain't easy being a scientist.
Telescience
Zip zap stuff through space and dimensions, steal the nuke and teleport it across the station, and make contact with everyone's favorite Smokey the Space Bear!
Tips
- Unless you're a traitor, don't use the bombs on the main station. You'll get banned otherwise.
- Always warn the station before your detonate a bomb. Your resident Tajarans will be less likely to claw off your face and more likely to help you fix the inevitable damage to Toxins if you do.
- Change the frequency of the remote signalling devices so that other scientists or saboteurs don't set off your explosives themselves.
- You can open your PDA, minimize the new window, and leave your PDA in your pocket so that you can set off your bombs as long as you don't need to change the frequency. Whenever it's time for an explosion you just open the window you minimized, click send signal, and it'll do it!
- Always make sure you have at least one grey slime core on hand in-case of a sudden and unexpected loss of slime life.
Traitoring
It's possible to make bombs that utterly destroy a small area, gib only those people next to you, explode when you die, bring general ruin to entire wings of the station, and more! It is recommended that you use your traitor points on things to conceal your identity, or get a space suit for those 'accidents'. Protolathed objects and slime cores can make fore interesting weapons as well.
Xenoarcheology is also a great source for weaponry, nothing says awesome like wielding a katana and going on a killing spree, if you're lucky, you may even find a loaded alien gun!