skop
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Post by skop on Mar 15, 2014 1:02:47 GMT
This has been on my mind for a few hours today, and I started to think. What does the basic Civilian know how to do? A few things that I'd presume they know how to do are;
-Use canisters to fill tanks
-dismantling basic furniture, like tables, racks. Anything that doesn't turn back to metal.
-Able to make basic foods such as burgers, sandwiches, boiled eggs, ect without any cooking skills.
-Apply bruise packs and ointment without the use of a medscanner.
-understand the fact that air flows to places where there is no air, and that emergancy shutters are usually there for a reason.
-Botany skills allow for people to construct objects out of wood, same as engineering.
-That welder tanks have a valve that can be loosened with a wrench, which can be used for makeshift explosives.
-How to attach various small things together, like signallers and sparkers.
-That attaching wires to a glove, and attaching them to a power cell can hurt people.
-That if an airtank feels "Furiously hot" or freezing that you should not breath through it.
-Using a basic weapon charger, not necessarily how to use the weapon.
- Xenomorths are not known about by ANYONE, regardless of rank or history
- Seeing a dark blue APC does not mean the AI is rouge, the APC is faulty.
This is all I have on what I consider to be basic, what do you people think?
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TimLynn
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Post by TimLynn on Mar 15, 2014 12:01:02 GMT
-That welder tanks have a valve that can be loosened with a wrench, which can be used for makeshift explosives. -How to attach various small things together, like signallers and sparkers. -That attaching wires to a glove, and attaching them to a power cell can hurt people. Agreeing with this apart from those stated above. But I would like to add these. - Xenomorths are not known about by ANYONE, regardless of rank or history - Seeing a dark blue APC does not mean the AI is rouge |
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Post by sgtsammac on Mar 15, 2014 12:06:33 GMT
-That welder tanks have a valve that can be loosened with a wrench, which can be used for makeshift explosives. -How to attach various small things together, like signallers and sparkers. -That attaching wires to a glove, and attaching them to a power cell can hurt people. Agreeing with this apart from those stated above. But I would like to add these. - Xenomorths are not known about by ANYONE, regardless of rank or history - Seeing a dark blue APC does not mean the AI is rouge Dark blue APC just means it is a faulty APC for x reason.  |
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Post by Spy227X on Mar 15, 2014 13:53:56 GMT
-That Voltage is bad.
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skop
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Post by skop on Mar 15, 2014 15:09:49 GMT
I'll add those things
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Post by greenlightbulb on Mar 15, 2014 16:54:07 GMT
Just curious on everyone's opinion on this... Do we know about what the new developments R&D makes and what they can do? Because they're supposed to be highly experimental prototypes, yet people seem to know everything about them. I personally think its more fun to act like they're all brand-new technology. Should something like that go on the list, d'you think?
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Post by sgtsammac on Mar 15, 2014 17:03:35 GMT
An addition to this:
You can know what companies may or may not be in the syndicate. But you do not know that they are the syndicate or particularly hostile to Nanotrasen unless you are head of staff or captain.
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Post by subdigital on Mar 15, 2014 17:44:20 GMT
I think the Syndicate should be more like what the KGB was in the eyes of Americans during the Cold War. You know OF them, nomater what job you are, but you wouldn't know what company's they are with. Who they are, or other exact details. The stuff you do know is that they are hostile and should be reported to security if seen.
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Post by VoltageHero on Mar 17, 2014 12:28:05 GMT
- Every crew member is trained to disarm the nuke in five seconds, while blindfolded and handcuffed while getting shot by tasers, and also disarming smaller bombs at the exact same time. Also when on fire with no air.
Oh, what do you mean that doesn't make sense?
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Post by PumpkingSlice on Mar 17, 2014 12:33:02 GMT
- golems are the true minions of the RD, while the botonist has its Dionea pals & Co.
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TimLynn
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Post by TimLynn on Mar 19, 2014 10:37:29 GMT
An addition to this: You can know what companies may or may not be in the syndicate. But you do not know that they are the syndicate or particularly hostile to Nanotrasen unless you are head of staff or captain. To add to this, You know of them as legitimate factions, you may have heard scant rumors about their affiliation with the syndicate, but unless you are HoS or captain thats all you know. |
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Post by greenlightbulb on Mar 19, 2014 22:31:10 GMT
- That anyone wearing red is a target and must be killed at any cost. Black too now.
- All security is shitcurity.
- ban he
But seriously.
- Unknown alien life, no matter what it looks like, is possibly dangerous and you should call for security/science. Especially if it looks scary.
- Slimes are dangerous, stay away from them.
- The various things cargo can order.
- Basic space law.
- The chain of command (To some extent).
- Listen to what the redshirts say.
- Try to not drag injured people if you can help it, wait for a medic to arrive with a bed/body bag.
- If you see someone who isn't on the crew manifest, call security.
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Post by pkisbest on Mar 20, 2014 0:45:04 GMT
-All staff should be expected to know basic EVA with certain jobs being excepted
-Generally people don't know how to use cryo, or any of the scanners in medbay. Maybe health analyser. Most should be able to ask where it hurts and ask the person how they got it so as to know where to treat it(example "my right arm hurts and it was from electricity" most people would know burn on the right arm apply ointment but not advanced first aid kits)
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Post by nebulaflare on Mar 24, 2014 22:52:56 GMT
Anything in a first aid kit can be used on a person, without catastrophic effects.
Everyone knows how to use a microwave to make hot donk pockets.
If an air/power alarm is red, that usually means something bad.
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Post by guydudeman on May 17, 2014 16:54:07 GMT
While I agree that some (probably most) of the stuff R&D can make should be unknown, recognize a damn laser gun, apologies to whoever I am calling out, but some security officer described a laser pistol as a normal pistol but "it appears to shoot some sort of energy out of the end of it ((playing off the fact that it is new technology))" maybe I was mistaken and it was actually a black hole gun or a plasma gun or something, but if something is well known in modern sci-fi, it should be known in the distant future (he should NOT necessarily know if R&D can make one, but everyone should recognize a laser gun, especially a security officer).
"maybe I was mistaken and it was actually a black hole gun or a plasma gun or something" Or maybe it was a stun gun that looked like a regular revolver except with racing stripes and it makes total sense to be confused.Also, I agree with the medical stuff, and more specifically I would say this, with the exception of the Advanced first aid kit, everyone should at least know 1. Injectors in 1st aid kits help really hurt people2. If someone is choking/gasping for air, the pills in the "Oxygen Deprivation 1st aid" will probably help3. If someone is throwing up/feels nauseous, the pills in the Toxin 1st aid should probably help4. If someone is burned/burning, the pills in the burn 1st aid should probably help5. People probably DON'T know the right place to inject syringes (from IRL experience, anything that needs to be injected into a vein is hard, I think the auto-injectors are a muscular injection, which is easy, you just stick it in an arm somewhere, so a lay-person could probably do that)6. I would probably say that someone with no skill in anything medical could not properly bandage a wound/apply ointment, but someone with even amateur level medical skills could probably do so.
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Post by Depandio on May 18, 2014 4:03:26 GMT
-If engineering is having a bad day, errbody is having a bad day.
-I heard that the antique gun behind the bar is real.
-No way. Is it loaded?
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Post by farcry11 on May 18, 2014 5:03:33 GMT
-Never steal Peter's Patch.
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Post by greenlightbulb on May 18, 2014 15:43:12 GMT
In response to guydudeman. I was that security officer, and the RD was using a stun revolver. Just going off the sprite, it looks mostly like a classic revolver with a yellow stripe on the barrel, so my character was only guessing if it was an energy based weapon or projectile based.
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Post by bluesp34r on May 18, 2014 16:59:37 GMT
You should be able to know WHAT people from each department can do, but not necessarily HOW unless it's your department.
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Post by PumpkingSlice on May 19, 2014 16:16:47 GMT
- Science is probably a higher priority then my own life.
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