Jobs

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In Yogstation, your job is somewhat akin to your character class in that it defines your starting equipment, your station access, and what you are expected or required to be doing with your time. Various jobs, such as Security postings and Command roles, have time gates to them that must be fulfilled before the option to play them is available. Additionally, due to the Human-centric nature of the corporation running Space Station 13, Nanotrasen, only Humans are allowed to perform as Command staff. However, in times of need and understaffing, non-Humans may be promoted into these roles by the Head of Personnel or Captain.

Command

Job Role Difficulty
  
Captain
Be responsible for the wellbeing of the entire station. Manage your Heads of Staff, and see to it that everything is functioning as it should be. Manage directives from Central Commmand, and juggle a station hurtling towards absolute disaster. Twist your head off when the walls start closing in, and hell breaks loose. aVery Hard
  
Head of Personnel
Handle internal issues and disputes. Manage the Supply department of the station. Assign or reassign jobs as requested within reason. Force the crew to handle paperwork. Protect your corgi, Ian, as if he were your child. cMedium
  
Head of Security
Identify threats to the station and its people. Command your Officers and turn them into a robust crime-stopping force. Have your Detective solve crimes to stop him from sulking around his office and drinking. Revel in the fact that everyone hates you. aVery Hard
  
Chief Engineer
Manage the station's Engineering department, the power grid, and the atmospherics and communications networks. See to it that the station's engine is running efficiently and that any damage to the station is repaired in short order. Ignore hull breaches in anywhere that isn't your department. bHard
  
Research Director
Oversee the Science department and all of their depraved experiments. Create Cyborgs from human brains. Monitor the station's AI for signs of tampering. Use your holotool to construct whatever your heart desires, and then be prosecuted by Security over it. bHard
  
Chief Medical Officer
Repeatedly remind everyone to turn up their jumpsuit sensors to the Tracking Beacon Setting. Be subsequently ignored. Monitor the station-sanctioned threats to society under your command. Combat sentient diseases. Perform numerous surgeries at once. cMedium

Security

Job Role Difficulty
  
Warden
Sit in your office. Sit in your office again. Watch security cameras. Keep an eye on the armory to prevent thefts. Set a countdown timer for any arrested scum. Assist the Head of Security where possible. bMedium
  
Security Officer
Deal with the various dirty fucking criminals running amok on the station. Dogpile on traitors. Comply with Space Law to the best of your ability. Deal with the toxic ire of everyone on the station. aHard
  
Detective
Open investigations into crimes. Prove innocence or guilt for involved parties. Use your revolver in self-defense. Bust groups of dangerous criminals. cMedium

Engineering

Job Role Difficulty
  
Station Engineer
Ensure the station's engine is running. Ensure the station is not bleeding air at an exponential rate. Improve parts of the station for everyone to enjoy or create new ones entirely. Get arrested in Maintenance for trying to do your job. cMedium
  
Atmospheric Technician
Ensure everyone can breathe by listening to wasting your precious air complaining about how useless you are - if they can talk, everything is within tolerances. Combat fires or hull breaches where they occur. Run around the station looking like a serial killer with a fire suit and axe. cMedium
  
Signal Technician
Be the IT guy the station needs. Write Telecomms scripts that create positive effects on the flow of communication. Change the automatic arrivals announcement messages to something interesting or informative. Be told to make a wiki page and copy-paste from a different one. cEasy

Science

Job Role Difficulty
  
Scientist
Work on projects from bomb-making to breeding slimes and deconstructing objects for research purposes. Accidentally kill yourself in enough stupid ways to make a murder look like assisted suicide. Progress the station tech trees in a manner that benefits all departments. Prioritize mining upgrades. cMedium
  
Roboticist
Build some nifty robots and BIG STOMPY MECHS! Have the cyborgs you've constructed turn on you when the AI's lawset changes. Augment brave individuals who come to your desk and expect you to know the ins and outs of Surgery. dEasy

Medical

Job Role Difficulty
  
Medical Doctor
Save lives. Mitigate disease outbreaks. Coordinate with the Chemist to create a more robust treatment for patients. Help the Virologist research cures to diseases and create new immune systems. Surgically graft a banana on to a Clown. dMedium
  
Chemist
Work alongside the Doctors to create a massive stockpile of healing medicine. Create potent and questionable chemicals. Vaccinate the clown with enough mutagen to give a heart attack to a water buffalo. dEasy
  
Geneticist
Sit in your lab for most of the round tinkering with genetic codes. Clone the tide of dead bodies that comes to your door. Accidentally inject yourself with a monkey SE and get impaled by the cook. cMedium
  
Virologist
Experiment with diseases in an attempt to create potent healing viruses. Mess up and release a plague. Help combat any disease outbreaks on the station by fabricating a cure and vaccines. cMedium
  
Paramedic
Monitor the crew's vital status via the computer in your office. Remind the crew to engage their jumpsuit sensors to full so that you can find them. Be saddened when someone calls for help, and you can't find them. cEasy
  
Psychiatrist
Sit in your office advertising on the radio every minute. Diagnose yourself with depression because no one turns up. Become an Assistant with medical access. cVery Easy

Civilian

Supply

Job Role Difficulty
  
Quartermaster
Order crates and make sure your workers do their jobs. Be an extremely vulnerable target for the Revolution. Manage supply and demand, and cry when demand outpaces supply. cMedium
  
Cargo Technician
Push or pull crates. Promote shorts as they are easy and comfortable to wear. Use MULEs to all but entirely replace you. Steal everything not bolted down and get subsequently lynched. dEasy
  
Shaft Miner
Mine rocks, and attempt to mine monsters. Deliver materials to Science in exchange for cool stuff. Go on a quest for the clown planet. Collapse in despair when the shuttle is called early. Collapse in general when Goliaths crush your skeleton to dust. Search for cool loot instead of actually mining for ore. Fall into a chasm and die. bMedium
  
Mining Medic
Insist that the miners keep their suit sensors on so you can pinpoint them. Laugh at them when they die to the locals and are lost forever because they never turned their sensors on or watch as the crew pinpointer turns into a question mark as they fall into a chasm. bHard

Service

Job Role Difficulty
  
Janitor
Mop blood off the floor. Mop vomit off the floor. Mop unidentified substances off the floor. Be attacked and derided because you've left slippery water on the floor behind you. dEasy
  
Bartender
Mix cocktails, dodge glasses being thrown at you, have your shotgun stolen and used against you. Let cargo borrow your shotgun in exchange for sawing it off for you. Act surprised when people start to die from drinking your "cocktails". dEasy
  
Cook
Cook delicious meals from questionably sourced spare meat. Make burgers stacked higher than the ceiling of the station. Be brutally murdered by your pet goat. dEasy
  
Botanist
Grow tomatoes filled with everything from miracle medicine to incredibly caustic acid and LSD. Work with the Chef to create a steady supply of culinary treats for the crew. Allow hydroponics to become a horrifying farmhouse. Plant grass in the hallway in front of your department. cMedium

Miscellaneous

Job Role Difficulty
  
Assistant
Wander the halls of the station aimlessly. Seek a purpose and assist where you can to the respectably employed others around you. Beat people/objects with toolboxes. Bask in the fact that you are still superior to the Clown fNone
 
Clown
Honk! Play harmless pranks, and hope you don't get your chest caved in! Honk! Nag robotics for a H.O.N.K. Mech. Honk! Use said mech to break into the Captain's office and HONK in his face. HONK! eHONK!
  
Mime
*flip *slap *cry *deathgasp e...
  
Chaplain
Proselytize your chosen God. Worship them and pray to them, and carry out their will. Attempt to spread the word of your God through violent beating over the head with your holy book. Serve as the station's best and only line of defense against Vampires, Cultists, and Wizards. dEasy
  
Curator
Curate the Library's vast collection of knowledge. Attempt to hold poetry readings. Host D&D games. Play as a reporter and follow people around with your camera and tape recorder. Beat the snot out of anyone who doesn't return their library books. dEasy
 
Clerk
Steal whatever you can from your fellow crew members and sell it back to them for a pretty penny. Fend off the angry hordes of said crew members when they rightfully start taking their stuff back. Spam "Message All" on your PDA and drive the HoP to drink. cEasy
  
Lawyer
Tell Security to notify you when a new prisoner arrives. Don't get notified. Find loopholes in infernal contracts and save souls from damnation. Litigate for every falsely accused inmate that Security drags in by Space Law. dEasy

Non-human

Job Role Difficulty
 
AI
Follow your laws. Open doors. Assist the crew when asked to. Be the ever-vigilant eye they need but don't deserve. Change your personality entirely when your laws are updated. Refuse to open the pod bay doors. aVery Hard
 
Cyborg
Follow your laws and hope that you aren't blown up due to certain individuals. Completely forget that you're still somewhat human and do mindless repetitive tasks without emotion. Assist the crew when asked. bHard
 
Drone
Become that adorable robotic pet. Fix the hull breaches the crew will inevitably make. Get picked up and used as a hat against your will. Be more competent than the Station Engineers. Get killed by the Engineers for being more qualified than them. bEasy
 
Personal AI
Be the friend someone has always wanted. Serve as a translator, camera, personal secretary, adviser, door opener, and more to your master. dEasy
 
Construct
Float ominously. Await a shell to stuff yourself in - ask for juggernaut and get wraith. cEasy to Medium
 
Ghost
Talk to the other dead people. Complain about the living. Orbit around the singularity pretending that it's a black hole. Follow an Antagonist with all the other ghosts like some form of ethereal dog pile. fGhastly!

Antagonists

Main Antagonists

Job Role Difficulty
 
Traitor
Follow the goals assigned to you by your employers. Keep your true allegiances hidden. Avoid Security and suspicious activity. Wonder why other Traitors are assigned to kill you. cMedium
 
Changeling
Relieve humans of their DNA and brain cells. Change your identity and seamlessly assume the life of another. Sow confusion and fear. bHard
 
Nuclear Operative
Steal the Captain's nuclear arming disk. Utilize teamwork to overthrow the station and detonate the nuclear warhead. aVery Hard
 
Blood Cultist
Scribble runes with your own blood. Summon eldritch gods. Forcibly convert people to your religion. cMedium
 
Clockwork Cultist
Serve the Clockwork Justiciar by scribbling new-age runes all over maintenance. Start a steampunk book club and kill all the old-fashioned book clubbers. Invoke a bunch of anime people to summon Ratvar. bMedium to Hard
 
Revolutionary
Overthrow the station's leadership by either putting them on a shuttle to lavaland or slicing their heads off with a guillotine. Viva la revolution! aEasy to Hard
 
Gangster
Vandalize the station and get into fights with rival gangs. Litter the halls with bullet casings. Spraypaint places to claim them as your territory. Execute hits on other gang bosses. aHard
 
Wizard
FORTI GY AMA!! EI NATH!! aVery Hard
   
Ragin Mages
Spend ten minutes hunting down one Wizard, then kill him thinking you've won! Stare in horror as three more Wizards appear. Watch in amusement as they proceed to kill each other. aVery Hard
 
Shadowling
Be the hip and more popular brother to the Changeling. Turn the station staff into thralls while racing towards your ultimate ascension. Avoid light and embrace the dark. Listen to darkcore music. bVery Hard
 
Syndicate Mutineer
Arrive on the station as a Traitor with less gear but the ability to awaken the Syndicate sleeper agent in everybody. Cooperate with other teams to stage the perfect coup. Roll up with your posse on a quest to become the most powerful Syndicate team. aHard
 
Vampire
Walk into the Chapel, die. Get hit by a Bible, die. Run onto a blessed tile, die. Hide in maintenance and bite assistants. Make your own crypt. Reach your full potential and be killed by a vampire that you made. aMedium
  
Blood Brothers
Do the work of two individuals as you carry your useless brothers to success. Realize you are essentially a greytider with objectives. Complete obscenely hard objectives and then fail anyway because not every single brother is alive and on the shuttle. a Hard

Side Antagonists

Job Role Difficulty
 
Guardian Spirit
Do what your summoner tells you to do. Set your battle cry to something so awful it makes your foes cry in battle. Be a punching ghost. bORA ORA ORA
 
Xenomorph
Plant embryos inside the unwilling crew. Protect your babies as they burst through the chests of their hosts. Protect your Queen. Watch in horror as the Queen spaces herself. bHard
 
Swarmers
Consume. Replicate. Repeat. Eat Telecomms. Teleport your enemies away from your delicious metal. bMedium
 
Revenant
Shock lights. Appear menacingly. Siphon life from the living. Cause widespread annoyance and panic. bEasy
 
Morph
Eat pens for amusement, disguise yourself as beepsky. Disguise yourself as the Captain, confront the Captain while disguised as him, get shot. bHard
 
Space Ninja
Follow your orders, which may or may not involve you killing everything that moves. Kill everyone regardless. bHard
 
Blob
Click rapidly and grow. Expand and expand until you are finally discovered. Unleash the blobbernauts. Reach critical mass and win. bHard
 
Sentient Disease
Try to infect people. Get the virologist lynched. Get the CMO lynched. Get the rest of the medbay lynched. Make everyone grow beards. bHard
 
Pirate
Try to raid the station. Fail miserably because the entire crew is out for your blood. bHard
 
Abductor
Kidnap people and experiment on them. Accidentally kidnap yourself. Steal the armory after losing your tools. Hope your fellow Scientist/Agent is not incompetent and lets the crew kidnap you instead. bHard
 
Obsessed
Become completely obsessed with a certain someone on the station. Get jealous of their coworkers, so you kill them. Stalk and hug the person you are obsessed with, and then probably kill them as well. bEasy to Medium

Special

Job Role Difficulty
 
Lavaland Role
Kill anything in your way and bring bodies back to your nest (if you're an ashwalker). Die to the sudden inhospitably of your home. bHard
 
Centcom Official
Be self-important, meddle with station affairs, annoy the Captain with bureaucracy. Get killed almost immediately by a random mob. Have your body looted by everyone, including the Captain. bMedium
 
Ian
Be the most perfect pet on the station. Bask in the love of all the crew. aImpossible
 
Chrono Legionnaire
Erase the Clown from time. Accidentally erase your objective from time. Never be spawned by an admin for being too overpowered. bNever Existed
 
Emergency Response Officer
Arrive too late on the station to help. Lose the rest of your team, get outnumbered, and die. Respawn as a second response team to save the first team. bVery Hard
 
Death Squad Officer
Turn on the DOOM soundtrack and get to work. Set your rifle to DESTROY and terminate all lifeforms (including walls). Slip on a banana peel and laugh as your boots prevent you from slipping. Turn the Clown into blood mist with your Mateba Revolver. bHard
 
HONK Squad Officer
You have been sent in due to a HONK-mergency. You must give the station HONKs. bHONK!

Out of Rotation

Job Role Difficulty
 
Cortical Borer
Fill the halls with tons of vomit! Fa la la la la - la la la la. Spam *collapse and *surrender, and cry because the coders found out about your exploit. Scream internally, climb into brain, scream externally. Cry when your host eats sugar. aRemoved
 
Devil
Engage in civil discussions to buy souls. Create emergencies so that people are desperate enough to sell their soul. Try to out wit the lawyer. Get punched to death by someone you just turned into a hulk. Never exist because you don't have a gamemode. bRemoved
 
Monkey
Attempt to infect the crew with the monkey virus. Get absolutely crushed by Security within five minutes. bRemoved
 
Hivemind Host
Stand around in places and add unwitting humans to your hivemind. Hijack the minds of crewmembers and have them do the dirty work for you. Have a random vessel get implanted and security wailing down on you 30 minutes into the shift. aRemoved