Access: All Research Departments, Genetics, Robotics, Bridge, Research Director's Office, Teleporter, Telecoms Satellite

Difficulty: Hard

Supervisors: Captain

Duties: Lead Research and Development, supervise your Scientists, monitor Genetics research, make sure robotics are building borgs or mechs.

Guides: Guide to Command, Guide to Genetics, Guide to Research and Development, Guide to Toxins, Guide to Xenobiology, Guide to Xenoarchaeology.

The Research Director in charge of what is (theoretically) the reason the station is around. You job is to direct research into new things. And you have a group of Scientists to help you do that.

Contents [hide] 1 Overview 2 Directing Research 101 2.1 There's No I In Team 2.2 Computer Maintenance And You 2.3 AI Overpopulation: The Core Circuit And You 2.4 Assistant with Science 2.5 Lamar 3 A True Traitor

You arrive on the station inside your office next to toxins. You have the front seat. So sit back and enjoy the view. Remember that you have two of the most important things on the station, Robotics control and the AI integrity restorer.

As the Research Director, your job is obviously to direct research. You have access to anything scientific.

Your official responsibility is to ensure that nobody does anything they shouldn’t. This means making sure the Geneticists don’t run rampant with powers, that Roboticists don’t cyborg people without good reason, and that Toxins does not destroy the station.

Try to stop Toxins from igniting. Teach your scientists the proper way to handle plasma.

In the event of AI damage on an Intelicard, there is a computer in your office which can be used to repair its systems. This is a long process, but it is still usually better than having no AI at all. In addition, it is possible to build a new AI from the circuit also found in your office. Using plasteel and glass, it is constructed just like any other computer up until the human brain is inserted. Keep the existence of the human component hush-hush! It's a trade secret! Please be aware that a freshly constructed AI comes with the default NanoTrasen laws.

Whether to reduce the load on primary AI or just to increase information chaos, with this nifty AI Core circuit board found in your office you can make a second, working AI. You need the following components first: a screwdriver, a wrench, 4 sheets of plasteel, 2 sheets of reinforced glass, the circuit board, and, of course, a brain in an MMI.

Make an AI Core frame with plasteel, wrench it in a preferably secure place near an intercom (or a radio), add circuit, screwdrive, wires, MMI, glass, screwdrive again. Voila! Now there's two working AIs on station!

You can be of great help as an assistant with large amounts of access. Collecting flashes and power cells for robotics and other items for research.

Inside the display case in your office is a surgically modified facehugger. It can no longer kill anyone or implant its embryos inside a host body, but it still feels the need to leap on anyone in reach. It's usually best kept in its case. With a chameleon projector, Lamar can be scanned to act as a fearsome disguise. Lamar can also be used as a breath mask due to its innate ability to keep the host oxygenated (and will not die by doing so), although it is very unsettling and people may draw the wrong conclusions.

The Research Director, like all Heads of Staff, make extremely dangerous traitors just by virtue of their access and departmental loyalty. While your underlings are less likely to fall in line than Security most of the time they'll listen to what you want them to do. Toxins will be your best bet; with all those explosives, you'll probably be able to hold the station hostage. Since you have access to it, Genetics could be useful, but the Chief Medical Officer will be overseeing it more often than not. You hold a lot of power, and at the same time, a decent amount of responsibility. It is easy to bring the station to its knees, if you know what you’re doing. Great if you’re an antagonist, dickish if you’re not. Less useful but still dangerous, robotics is a useful stopping point for traitoring and changeling activities. Even the humble Research and Development division has potential for a traitor, as it can produce a wide array of weapons and armor unavailable to anyone else when fully upgraded - including energy crossbows, decloners, plasma guns, ablative armor, and the Chemical Pack/Mask.