History Characters / SpaceStation13

* HyperCompetentSidekick: An experienced player playing Assistant can be this, since the job answers to absolutely everybody else on the station.
* RedShirt: With assistants lacking an ArbitraryHeadcountLimit on most servers, and being the typical "newbie" role as a result, it's common for them to be treated as expendable fodder.
* StickyFingers: Stereotyped as ne'er-do-well thieves that are always trying to break into places they don't belong (and usually getting themselves injured in the process).

* ZergRush: Large populations of assistants are infamous for disregarding the rules and going on mass crime sprees across the station, a phenomena nicknamed "the greytide". Since assistants are usually newbies equipped with whatever random junk they can grab, they make for poor combatants individually, but they can sometimes win fights through weight of numbers alone.

[[folder:Centcom Official]]
Central Command is the big brother of all Nanotrasen stations. Housing much of Nanotrasen's bureaucracy, it gives out objectives, receives research, and redistributes supplies between all other stations within its influence. Comes in three flavors, Interns, Officers, and Admirals.

* GameMaster: Centcom Officials are exclusively played by server administrators.

[[folder:Deathsquad]]
If you see these guys, chances are the station is in complete ruins and they've been sent in to wipe out everything and destroy the station. They are armed to the teeth.

* GodzillaThreshold: They're only called in if the station has way passed all chances of getting salvaged. By that point, the goal turns from saving the crew to denying control of the station to whatever monsters have taken it over.
* GoodCounterpart: Good may be stretching it, since their job is basically to wipe out everything on the station just like the Nuclear Operatives, but since they are objectively on the side of Nanotrasen, they will in one way or another result in a Station victory.
* LeaveNoSurvivors: They shoot everything on sight, regardless whether or not they're a threat or just a random assistant.
* MirroringFactions: They're quite similar to the nuclear operatives.

[[folder:Emergency Response Team]]
The Emergency Response Team are tasked with being deployed to a station in distress and attempt to bring it back to a functional status. Equipped with color coded spacesuits, slightly better to better weapons depending on the stations alert level, and arriving on a shuttle straight from Centcom, they are here to help.

* SendInTheSearchTeam: The ERT often only shows up if a large amount of the station's crew is dead and the escape shuttle somehow hasn't been called in.
* LateToTheTragedy: ERT's can only be called in by [[GameMaster Centcom]], and they will often refrain from sending them in unless the crew cannot solve a serious issue, or no-one is left with the ability to call the emergency shuttle (sometimes the case with antagonists that lack round-ending victory conditions). By that point, the ERT is merely there to call the escape shuttle themselves so the round can end.

!Antagonists
[[folder:Traitor]]
The default and most generic antagonist role you can get assigned. The traitor is a sleeper agent injected into the Nanotrasen crew by the Syndicate to fulfill their dirty work. While mostly still restricted to the limitations of their station jobs, they also get the ability to purchase traitor-exclusive items to accomplish their objectives, whether it be to have somebody assassinated, steal valuables from the station, martyr yourself for the syndicate, or to hijack the escape shuttle.

* ISurrenderSuckers: Often used as a last resort of a desperate traitor who's been caught red-handed, letting yourself get arrested and taken to the brig, only for them to decide that the best way to end it is by TakingYouWithMe.
* ManchurianAgent: The Syndicate favors deep-cover amnesiac agents that can be activated with a signal, and a Traitor player is informed that their real memories have resurfaced.
* TheMole: Almost anybody in the crew can be a traitor deep undercover, from the lowly assistant, to one of the doctors of the medical staff, a scientist, engineer or even the clown. And they ''will'' exploit the benefits of their job to achieve their goals.
* RedRightHand: A lot of the less conspicuous traitor items definitely look way too obvious to ignore for the other crew, so your best bet is to hide these items if possible when you're not using them.
* TrustPassword: Traitors usually spawn in small groups, and are supplied with a list of sign/countersign code words they can slip into conversation to identify each-other without arousing too much suspicion.

[[folder:Changeling]]
A highly intelligent alien predator, their goal is to assimilate the DNA of as many humans as possible while remaining undetected using their shapeshifting powers. To do so, they must first strangle their victims (preferably after knocking them out/killing them) and then stick in a proboscis to suck out their DNA. Then, they can assume the form of any one of their victims at any time with the press of a button. Collected DNA can also be used to develop all sorts of grotesque additional powers. Changeling objectives vary slightly from server to server, but the conclusion is always to discreetly hitch a ride on the evac shuttle or an escape pod at the end of the round, to murder another day.

[[folder:Malfunctioning AI]]
Sometimes if the AI isn't being subverted by outside forces, it simply wants to kill everybody due to a system error. Malfunctioning AI gets an expended list of resources bought with CPU cycles that allows them to manuplate and create things to help them bring down all the flesh bags on their station. The goal for them is to fully take over all the stations systems by hacking APCs to increase their processing power.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Notable for ''starting'' as crapshoot rather than needing to be tampered with by someone else.
* UnwillingRoboticisation: One of the options a Malfunctioning AI can take is a Cyborg conversion machine. This takes all of their resources and gives them some disadvantages, but the machine allows them to forcefully turn fleshbags into cyborgs in one step. The downside is said cyborgs always start with a low charge power cell.
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[[folder:Wizard]]
Occasionally, the wizards of the Space Wizard Federation may become bored and decide to mess with Nanotrasen and its employees for various reasons, whether someone unintentionally insulted their frail egos, [[ItAmusedMe or just for the hell of it]], they may send a wizard and his potential apprentices over to ruin everybody's day and cause all sorts of havoc. Armed with a massive array of spells and rituals that range from deadly to just plain confusing, the wizard is a formiddable foe indeed to face, and the rounds where they appear tend to quickly become some of the most weird ones of all of them.
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[[folder:Revenant]]
A spirit infused with strange alien energies and returned to the world of the living. The Revenant is an invisible, intangible carrion-eater that prefers to feed on the dead and dying.

* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: If supernatural antagonists are not in play, the chaplain typically doesn't have much impact on the round, as they don't have any meaningful responsibilities and their chapel has nothing of value to the average crewmember. If there ''are'' supernatural antagonists, the chaplain becomes much more useful. Cult rounds, in particular, make them extremely important, as they're the only person that can deconvert cultists (directly and/or by blessing water to do it with).

* HolyBurnsEvil: As a supernatural antagonist, the Chaplain is the best equipped to slay the Revenant. Tiles blessed by holy water block the Revenant's ghostly movement and force it to solidify, and the [[AntiMagic null rod]] rapidly drains their essence with every strike.

* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: The TropeCodifier is present and accounted for, hatching from eggs and aggressively violating anyone who lacks the correct facial protection. This leaves the victim with a xeno larva gestating inside them, which will fatally burst from their chest after a while unless surgically removed in time.

* {{Mana}}: All xeno abilities cost a resource named "plasma", which passively builds up over time (and accumulates faster while standing on hive resin).

[[folder:Xenos]]
Yet another hideous alien species trying to infest the station, though these ones [[Franchise/{{Alien}} look oddly familiar]]. Led by an egg-laying queen, Xenos harvest the station crew to impregnate with deadly parasitic spawn, and have no distinct objectives beyond survival and reproduction.

!Silicons
[[folder:Artifical Intelligence]]
Everyone's friendly silicon based co-worker on any Nanotrasen run space station. The AI is preprogrammed to be Asimov Compliant and has a huge host of functions to help the staff complete their daily work without incident. Ontop of that any cyborgs on the station, that are working properly, answer to the AI and if a rogue is detected the AI can remotely detonate it! Any claims that Syndicate Tech can circumvent this are purely the stuff of rumors.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Its [[MoralityChip laws]] actually prevent it from harming the crew, that said, a malicious crew member can change them to help their objectives, [[ItAmusedMe or for fun.]]
* MechanicallyUnusualClass: You are essentially playing as the station itself, rather than a physical crew member, and you have remote control over numerous station systems. However, you're also ThreeLawsCompliant.
* MundaneUtility: Despite being able to control a large amount of equipment on the station, it's usually asked to open locked doors for the crew.
* ThreeLawsCompliant: Unless you've been hacked or otherwise broken, you are this. Failing to comply with the three laws or deliberately being obtuse for the sake of hassling players in a way that breaks character is not tolerated. However, if something has hacked the laws or scrambled them, you're expected do whatever your new laws say, even if they run contrary to the original three.

[[folder:Cyborg]]
Brains from volunteers or formerly dead crew members transferred into a robotic body whose main objective are to serve the crew and, sometimes, act as the AI's [[{{Mooks}} mooks]], Cyborgs are programmed to be Asimov Compliant and serve various functions in the station, be it as Combatants or Peacekeepers for security, Engineers for the engineering department or walking, talking medical drones for the medicine departments.

* ImprovisedWeapon: An experienced janitor player is arguably the master of this. Mops and brooms can be wielded as surprisingly capable melee weapons. Mops, buckets and spray-bottles can be loaded with dangerous chemicals. The wet patches left by mops and cleaning foam grenades are slipping hazards that force other players to fall and drop their held items.

* NeatFreak: They are ''expected'' to be this. After all, what worth is a janitor if they don't clean up the bloodstains all over the medbay?

* TheXenophile: Scientists working the Xenobiology lab is definitely the biggest example of this, which is a EnforcedTrope since the station almost always needs the utilities that the slimes bring forth. Sometimes deconstructed as well because some of the xenos that the scientists tend to study and admire are [[AdmiringTheAbomination less than docile]], to put it mildly.

A sub set of scientists responsible for the robots and machines of the stations. Ranging from cyborgs, mechs, bots, and possibly augmentations and cybernetics when some sec gets dismembered. More commonly referred to as just robos. Depending on the players walking by, sometimes you’ll see a normal robotics lab, and sometimes they worshipping the fabricators like gods and fighting the Chaplin with mechs. The best place to get proper weapons aside from sec.

Working in a sealed-off section of the Medbay, the Virologist studies contagious diseases with the goal of creating vaccines to heal the crew. They also have the equipment needed to ''create'' diseases, and will often unleash them out of malicious intent or incompetence.

* AscendedExtra: On the /tg/station codebase, the Quartermaster was eventually made into a Head on the CommandRoster, with the access and authority that entails. That said, this doesn't stop the other Heads from bossing them around out of habit.

* BioAgumentation: Their main job. Combining mutations can result in superpowers, which tend to create extreme levels of fun when sold to the greytide.

* MagicalDefibrillator: On /tg/station, the medbay's bulky, backpack-powered defibrillators are the most straightforward means of reviving non-rotten dead bodies, though it does nothing to treat their injuries or bring them out of a critical state. Averted on Goonstation, which has more realistic defibrillators used to treat cardiac arrest, and won't help a patient who is already dead.

* BioAugmentation: On the /tg/station codebase, unlocking the "experimental surgery" research node allows doctors to perform surgeries that bestow odd but useful abilities on their patients. These include creating muscled blood veins that reduce blood loss or pump without the aid of a heart; rewiring the nervous system to become resistant to stunning or immune to electricity; altering limb connections to become resistant to dismembering, or capable of PullingThemselvesTogether; altering the brain to become resistant to trauma or more likely to develop useful 'special' traumas; or grant a disease victim a TypoidMary symbiosis with their virus. Get the geneticist, virologist and/or roboticist onboard, and you'll have your own little SuperSoldier program!

* ComicallyIneptHealing: Often new Doctors will make the simplest mistake, like not applying a surgical sheet before beginning surgery, causing them to just assault their patient.
* DeadlyDoctor: Surgical tools can be turned into weapons in a pinch, and do quite a fair bit of damage besides. Certain codebases even let you perform lethal surgeries on downed foes in certain situations, like strapping a downed foe to a bed then cutting their brain out.
* MagicalDefibrillator: If someone dies but is otherwise intact, defibrillating them is typically enough to bring them back to life.
* MeatGrinderSurgery: Doctors can use cafeteria cutlery, office supplies and weapons to perform organ transplants if they need to, a practice nicknamed "ghetto surgery". The quality of tools and the environment increases the time and chance of failure for each step.
* MedicalHorror: Traitor Doctors can commit this, with tactics such as "accidentally" botching surgeries, [[SkipTheAnesthetic operating without anesthetic]], kidnapping people to have them StrappedToAnOperatingTable, [[WhyAmITicking implanting bombs and other devices inside surgery patients]], dipping surgical tools in harmful chemicals, and poisoning the cloning machine.

* PlayingWithSyringes: On the /tg/station codebase, unlocking the "experimental surgery" research node allows doctors to perform surgeries that bestow odd but useful abilities on their patients, like creating muscled blood veins that pump without the aid of a heart.

The Geneticist's main job is to research the bizarre and varied array of genetic quirks Space Station 13's crew have in their DNA, then recombine them to create mutations. These mutations can then be sold in Medbay Lobby to give the crew anything from superpowers to wacky accents - assuming their genetic code can take it. They're also nominally responsible for working the cloning machine. Known for having a reputation of being utterly oblivious to the station's goings-on.

* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: Their main job. Combining mutations can result in superpowers, which tend to create extreme levels of fun when sold to the greytide.

Even with advancements to medical technology, people can not only die, but sometimes stay dead. Maybe the brain just isn't in a usable state, or some unknown, vital spark of consciousness is absent? It might be someone who ''shouldn't'' be revived, like a saboteur from the Syndicate. Such unfortunates are interred in the morgue, under the care of the station's Coroner. The Coroner's main job is to perform autopsies on corpses to assist the security department's frequent murder investigations, as well as scientific dissections that further medical research.

* TheCoroner: The coroner is expected to handle autopsy surgeries on bodies that have died in unclear circumstances, determining the exact cause and time of death for the benefit of station records and the local HardboiledDetective. Since reviving people for first-hand testimony is fairly routine, the coroner will generally be studying crewmembers that Medical ''cannot'' revive; chiefly bodies that lack brains (brains house the player's presence) and bodies whose souls have departed (i.e. the player is spectating as a ghost or has disconnected). On the plus side, a completed autopsy grants a bonus to subsequent surgeries if, for whatever reason, the situation changes and the body becomes revivable again.

* PlayingWithSyringes: Advancing the TechTree down medical pathways demands a number of "experiments" to be recorded to the station database, which the Coroner contributes to by performing dissection surgeries on dead bodies. This is mutually exclusive with the autopsy surgery, so it's saved for bodies that aren't under some kind of investigation.

* SealedEvilInACan: The Coroner may find themselves charged with keeping antagonist corpses at the behest of Security. These bodies should be placed in the extra morgue trays located in the Coroner's personal office, to ensure they don't get mixed up with crew corpses and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero revived by well-meaning doctors]].

* CreepyMortician: A big part of the Coroner's job is to look after non-reviable corpses in the morgue, preserving them with formaldehyde and storing them safely inside special mortuary cabinets. They're also expected to perform [[PlayingWithSyringes surgical dissections]] to help progress the station's TechTree, which tends to be the fate of defeated antagonists, suicide victims (who are impossible to revive under any circumstances) and [[AnimalTesting unfortunate lab monkeys]]. Fittingly, coroners automatically have the "morbid" trait, [[NightmareFetishist causing them to enjoy creepy stuff]] while disliking having to heal the living.

!Cargo Department
[[folder:Quartermaster]]
The Quartermaster's primary job is to order equipment to help keep the station running. They make sure credits aren't wasted, kick the clown out, and make sure the Cargo Techs aren't getting into trouble - and pull their arses out of the fire when they do. They have three helpers to help them redistribute things throughout the station. They also have authority over mining, and should try and coordinate the Shaft Miners to meet the needs of the station -- primarily, this means passing on requests from Robotics, Research, and Engineering. Quartermaster players come in two flavors: profit loving capitalist, and communist revolutionary.

* AscendedExtra: On the /tg/station codebase, the Quartermaster was eventually made into a Head on the CommandRoster, with the access and authority that entails. That said, this doesn't stop the other Heads from bossing them around out of habit.
* AnEntrepreneurIsYou: One of their side jobs on some branches is to buy and sell stocks on the galactic stock market to ensure that there's always a steady income of credits to order new stuff with. If done right, this can ensure that the station will always have more than enough credits to buy anything whenever the need arises.
* CorruptQuartermaster: You can often rely on them blowing the station's budget to buy useless crap. Or, worse, ordering guns to illegally arm assistants and/or start a mutiny.
* TheFixer: Antagonistic ones usually end up serving as this to other antagonists, assuming they can hide their wheeling and dealing with contraband.

[[folder:Cargo Technician]]
Basically they load and unload crates, order things for people, and deliver orders.

* AlmightyJanitor: Despite often being mistaken for only being slightly better than an Assistant in terms of respect and authority, it's easy to forget that Cargo Technicians not only have a very justified access to maintenance, but also the cargo computer, from which they can order various things that usually do not require special ID access to open, unless you're literally ordering firearms -- which easily can be bypassed by some clever exploitation of what you ''can'' access without special ID.

* BombThrowingAnarchists: Have a reputation for turning into this even without the Revolution involved; usually with the goal of making the station communist, starting an independent state in the cargo bay, or murdering security when they get too overbearing.

[[folder:Shaft Miner]]
Their job is to mine and gather materials from the [[DeathWorld Lavaland]], usually trading it in for shiny new equipment or dying trying. Naturally, this brings with it a whole slew of risks, but the rewards are often worth it both to the station and to the miner themselves.

* AdventurerArchaeologist: In addition to providing precious materials for the station to use, the miners often puts their lives at risk to explore dangerous ruins found on lavaland in hopes of reaping the rewards they bring.
* DeathIsCheap: A notable [[AvertedTrope aversion]] in a game where this normally is the case. If you die out in the lavaland, you better pray another miner finds your corpse and drags it back to the station so you can be cloned. Combine this with the fact that miners in general tend to have the highest death rates of any non-command, non-antagonist role, and you will start to see why this is a problem for miners in general. On the plus side, there are some failsafes that miners can use to get back to the station easily should they actually become too wounded to escape back to the station by normal means.
* EmpoweredBadassNormal: If a miner is robust enough to survive the horrors of the lavaland, they usually come back strong enough to take on anything that may get thrown at them, simply through the sheer amount of loot they will pick up along the road.
* OddFriendship: Because of their reliance on tech provided by the science department, including tools and mechs, and the fact that the resources they demand is in incredibly high demand by the science department, it is very common for them to become quick friends.

!Service Department
[[folder:Bartender]]
Your stereotypical bartender; black slacks with a white shirt and bowtie, shotgun under the bar, and a big collection of booze at his side. They are one half of the bar, the other half is the Cook.

* TheBartender: Their entire job. Most of their time is spent dispensing drinks and maybe chatting with the customers.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: All those booze bottles can make effective blunt weapons in a pinch, with the added bonus of drenching the target in flammable alcohol. You can also fill bottles with more dangerous chemicals for some extra kick.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: The most straightforward way to play a traitor bartender is to lace drinks with poisons and drugs.
* TwoShotsFromBehindTheBar: The bartender is one of the few people on the station that spawns with a gun. Sadly he only has non-lethal [[TrickBullet beanbag rounds]].

[[folder:Botanist]]
Specializing in all things plant related Botanists can provide a crucial service to the station both by keeping science and medical supplied with chemicals as well as preventing the crews diet from turning into an all monkeyburger affair. Using their tools and planter boxes a skilled Botanist can grow almost anything from man eating monsters to the dankest weed you've ever even imagined multiplied by at least six. Don't let the hippie asthetics fool you though as Botanists start out with access to a variety of bladed implements meant for gardening but perfectly capable of hacking an overconfident antagonist into fertilizer.

* TheStoner: Nine times out of ten, weed is the only crop to come out of Botany, so botanists tend to have this reputation.

[[folder:Chaplain]]
Though not common thanks to the advent of cheap, reliable cloning technology, people do still die. That and the continued practice of the old religions necessitates every Station run by Nanotracen must have a Chaplain onboard to minister to the masses, as well as respectfully dispose of the dead. With access to their own chapel and a fancy coffin-shooting railgun (for giving the unfortunate their burial at space), the Chaplain is always there to be the stations confidant. Additionally their unwavering faith and piety grants the Chaplain power through their holy weapons and scripture.

* ComicallyIneptHealing: Often new Doctors will make the simplest mistake, like not using the surgical sheet before beginning surgery causing them to just horribly mangle their patient.
* DeadlyDoctor: Surgical tools can be turned into weapons in a pinch, and do quite a fair bit of damage besides. Certain codebases even let you perform lethal surgeries on downed foes in certain situations, like strapping a downed foe to a bed then cutting their brain out.
* MagicalDefibrillator: If someone dies, defibrillating them is typically enough to bring them back to live.
* MeatGrinderSurgery: Doctors can use cafeteria cutlery and office supplies to perform organ transplants if they need to.
* MedicalHorror: Traitor Doctors invariably end up committing this, with tactics such as "accidentally" botching organ transplants (or kidnapping people for OrganTheft), [[WhyAmITicking implanting bombs and other devices inside surgery patients]], dipping surgical tools in harmful chemicals, and poisoning the cloning machine.

* LawmanBaton: The security officer's signature weapon is a stun baton, which deals stamina damage with a quick knockdown while powered. Alternatively, you can [[PoliceBrutality "harmbaton"]] the target, dealing brute damage.

* StunGuns: Most codebases give security officers a simple non-lethal ranged weapon to start with, such as Goonstation's [[StaticStunGun taser]] and /tg/station's [[TheParalyzer disabler]]. In any case, they deal stamina damage to incapacitate their target.

* StunGun: Most codebases give security officers a simple non-lethal ranged weapon to start with, such as Goonstation's taser and /tg/station's disabler. In any case, they deal stamina damage to incapacitate their target.

* PoliceAreUseless: Surprisingly common when the officers aren't simply evil. It's not unheard of for an antagonist to operate unopposed because half the security division was running around trying to arrest a runaway clown.
* PoliceBrutality: Extremely common from them. It is so common it has a in-universe name, "shitsec". This has a lot to do with the fact that whenever a round has nothing going on, a lot of security players will punish other players over the most minor offence to alleviate their own boredom.

* RabidCop: A common stereotype (stemming from bad players), with them maiming crew members on the slightest of suspicions.
* RedShirt: Security Officers are often players that just want to hunt down "valids" (antagonists) and due to this are terrible at fighting. They even wear red uniforms!
* PoliceAreUseless: Surprisingly common when the officers aren't simply evil.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: If the situation seems untenable, the Captain has the authority to call in an escape shuttle to end the round. As one of the few with all-access to the station by default, the Captain is also the best positioned to [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere make a clean getaway on his own]] when things go south.

* DrFeelgood: Since they also run a quartermaster's post that crew will visit to make requests at, an apathetic chemist might just hand out anything anyone asks for, with no regard for the consequences.
* TheFixer: Chemists can easily lend their mastery of chemistry to troublemaking crewmembers and (as a traitor) antagonists, supplying malcontents with whatever poisons, sedatives, acids and space lubes they require.

The bookkeeper of the station. They provide the station with many stories to keep the crew entertained and stocking the cases with many kinds of literature. An interesting case is that many of the books they can stock are written from other players which can be submitted to inventory. The curator does have other jobs if they feel a bit bored, such as writing their own trashy novels, or adopting an unofficial side job such as carp hunting, exploration or journalism.

* BeneathNotice: The janitor job is frequently noted to be one of the least vital jobs on the station, due to keeping things clean being a secondary task when compared to keeping the station intact and running, and they have very limited access as well. However, they extremely frequently get let into places where they shouldn't be, solely because the department in question needed cleaning. [[JanitorImpersonationInfiltration This can be exploited to get quick and easy access to many places where you normally shouldn't have access to, and steal stuff from departments without anybody ever getting suspicious.]]

* ImprovisedWeapon: An experienced janitor player is arguably the master of this. Mops and brooms can be wielded as surprisingly capable melee weapons. Mops, buckets and spray-bottles can be loaded with dangerous chemicals. The wet patches left by mops and cleaning foam grenades are slipping hazards (which the janitor is safe from, thanks to their galoshes) that force other players to fall and drop their held items. The oft-forgotten lightbulb replacer can be emagged by a traitor to turn light sources into plasma-filled [=IEDs=].

* EvidenceScavengerHunt: Part of the detective's job. Provided the crime scene hasn't been interfered with by a clever antagonist or nosy crewmember, the detective goes in to start FingerprintingAir with their forensic scanner. Working closely with the medical department is recommended, as their health scanners and autopsies can determine the exact cause and time of death.

* FingerprintingAir: The detective's forensic scanner lays out a timeline of fingerprints, clothing fibers and other trace substances on any targeted object, [[LocardsTheory revealing its interaction history]]. This info can be cross-referenced with the crew manifest and security records (accessible by the detective's PDA) to identify possible suspects (antagonists that aren't initially part of the crew, like wizards, [[TheSpook lack any files]]). Different types of gloves will obscure fingerprints to varying extents, and the detective really should be wearing some himself to avoid contaminating the crime scene.

** /tg/station features .38 "TRAC" rounds that implant {{Tracking Device}}s, "match" rounds with improved [[PinballProjectile ricocheting]] ability, "rubber" rounds that deal stamina damage, "dumdum" rounds that have a higher chance to embed and cause further bleeding damage, "hotshot" rounds that [[KillItWithFire set targets on fire, and "iceblox" rounds that [[KillItWithIce drop the target's temperature to 100K to cause slowdown and burns]].