/tg/Station 13

Screemonster wrote:deep lore: literally everyone on the station is actually a syndicate infiltrator, it's just that most of them haven't been activated that day and are trying to maintain their cover, and the syndicate's various cells and subdepartments are too uncoordinated to realise that they've all independently infiltrated the same place

Shadowflame909 wrote:Why would I wanna work here?

leibniz wrote:

Shadowflame909 wrote:Why would I wanna work here?

There is nowhere else to work.

Davidchan wrote:SS13, lorewise, is the state of the art space station. It's classified and a controlled location, hence why security is often encouraged to use lethal force on trespassers and intruders (aka antags), so just being selected to work on the station alone is a privilege. Least, thats what they tell all the brain damaged baldies who were really just hired to be spare test subjects and fill out the crew roster.

My own personal headcanon is that the station itself is just part of a series of social experiments to see 'normal' humans might react to unusual and stressful situations, not unlike Vault-Tec and their Vaults in Fallout. Doubling as a loyalty testing grounds, crew that prove loyal to the company and are productive get promoted to better work places, while everyone else is just brainwashed or drugged into an amnesiac state and ran through the scenario repeatedly till they succumb to testing and start drinking the NT koolaid or die in an 'accident.'

SaveVatznick wrote:I dunno, I think the shuttles are just buses, and there's an departures shuttle we never see since we're always in the shifts where "something happens".

People commute in, pull their shift, and take the shuttle home to their Nanotrasen-provided high density space apartments. Kinda like Rapture in space, but far less colorful, less fantastical, and more utilitarian. Maybe some of the spessmen have families, or pets at home. Maybe some of them are too poor or in some kind of company indenture, so they have to sleep in the dorms at the station. I don't think people are cloned EVERY SINGLE SHIFT.

The story of ss13 is about the high points of crazy action where everything goes to hell, sure, but action isn't interesting without plot. I'd lean towards a story that's about being lost in the cold, vast expanse of space and being lost in an equally vacuous and far-stretching post-earth corporate system that consumes your life. Really, I'd imagine most of the time, the world of ss13 would play out like a George Tooker painting.

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Everyone waiting in line for something, tangled up in bureaucracy, everyone doing their jobs, too superficially contempt and fearful of their peer/superior's reactions to try living outside the corporate structure, but never every happy. I imagine some of the traitors are just people who have finally snapped. The whole cloning thing can really be held over your head - your superior threatening to wipe your cloning record and fire you, returning you to mortal flesh and bone. Maybe you notice your co-worker is gone, and you don't know where they are, if they're dead, or just transferred to another workplace, or if they defected.

oranges wrote:never, ever, ever, look up

PKPenguin321 wrote:

oranges wrote:never, ever, ever, look up

i heard that if you do this, you get retroactively erased from history, like you never existed in the first place.

PKPenguin321 wrote:

oranges wrote:never, ever, ever, look up

i heard that if you do this, you get retroactively erased from history, like you never existed in the first place.

Qbmax32 wrote:Everyone is a syndicate sleeper agent and the station is just a simulation run by the syndicate to determine the best ways to assault/steal from/assassinate someone on the station. Traitors who successfully hijack the shuttle get pulled out of the simulation as a reward