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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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