Mining Medic: Difference between revisions

===1. Be robust===

A requirement for many jobs on the station, but this one gets a special notion. If you don't know how to rub ointment onto someone while in the vacuüm of space, you're not going to be of any use.

===2. Stay fit===

So the miner accidentialy hit himself with a pickaxe in the helmet. 5 brute damage? Patch him up. The last thing you'd want is for your buddy to go into crit while fighting a hivelord, 3 damage short of killing it with all the weapons on their corpse.

===3. Beware of narrow tunnels===

Most of the radio logs we recovered of our first (deceased) applicants of the "buddy system" went somewhere along the lines of:<br>

===4. Don't neglect your gps===

So you've managed to run into a basilisk while face-checking a corridor. Great job you. You better hope your buddy drags you out, because if he doesn't you're never going to see the light of genetics. There's usually more than one mining medic, so if you get lucky they might take your ice chilled corpse to the cloning bay.

===5. Travel LIGHT===

Imagine this. You and your miner(s) are digging their dwarf system merrily. Then out of nowhere, some xeno pops up and takes the two of you for dinner. How'd it happen? But I had full vision? This was just the mesons tricking you. To maximize your usefulness, turn on your PDA and helmet light, then carry a lantern on your belt and in both pockets. You'll illuminate the asteroid as good as it gets and your situational awareness improves by miles.

===6. Don't be a hero===

When taking risks on the asteroid, the risk is pretty much always that you might get eaten alive by xenos (additionaly, blown up by a careless swing of a pickaxe). This isn't a risk you want to be taking so rather than trying to go for the "Robust guy look", simply take a step back and keep yourself safe. Unfortunately you won't make yourself look too impressive if a xeno is currently converting you to feces. However, remember that there are certain circumstances where perhaps this rule should be ignored, so that maybe you save someone who makes it so you don't have to drag him to medbay or making sure that you will still have a partner to back you up later - as they might be responsible for saving your life later. They could be pissed when you let them die, but you can patch him up if you live. He can't fix you.

===7. Play dead===

So you find yourself trapped in this maze of monsters and madness? Just play dead. We have figured out that xenos like their meat fresh, so if you can force yourself to nap in a crucial moment (not to hard to do looking at your working hours) you might just safe your hide.

===8. When in doubt, know your way out.===

Instead of roaming those dangerous age old cultist tunnels trying to find your way out, just dig. No one will mind if you lose your way in there. Those tunnels do look pretty alike afterall.

===9. The buddy system===

Why don't xenos attack eachother? Probably hard instinct. Either way around, you should do the same. Don't get tempted to split up or do the mining work yourself, because digging a tunnel is the best way to get caught with your pants down.

===10. The job change===

While Nanotrasen doesn't exactly approve of this, they don't discourage it either. A lot of effort and resources go into cloning, and a lot of paperwork afterwards. From time to time, it may very well be best to pull out

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