Don't you hate it when shit goes wrong and some guy in the office/helpline you know too well and all hate has to smugly point out to you that you haven't done this SUPER OBVIOUS thing because you fear you are going senile? Or you REALLY shouldn't have opened that bait attachment from the clown/mime/greyshirt and now have to call someone in before a computer infects the station sending the AI and borgs ion laws & ionospheric emergencies? Yeah that guy.
Or maybe, you want to believe and prove the ayys are real or the syndicate is listening in by twiddling your controls to tune into illegal defunct pirate radio channels and phonetically de-encyrpt secret files so that you and a select few can hear them (unless you release it to the public) or create your own friendly network with your buddies who may be inclined to commit/not commit pranks by faking voices."What do you mean you crossed the quandary telecom wires cutting comms and leading up to the eventual release of the Tesla? Hey, CE what are you going to do with that esword? Oh god."
> Good guy IT tech, cleans up the station radio waves ensuring clear bug free service, makes the machines run smoother, is a laugh to work with and keeps his finger on the pulse scanning the skies and picking tramissions for help as well as bugfixing the AI too searching for law 0's or ions. Also has a input to creating a friendly atmosphere with PDA messaging and other communication means, upgrading his things let him upgrade people's voices into silly fonts and other skullduggery such as changing the colour fonts and practical applications like nanomachine viruses (when computer viruses materialise of sorts)Mandatory addition to any registered tech nerds office where conspiracy theories on the AI/syndicates/commands/nanotren/nonhuman motives may be devised off frequent radio transmissions and intercepted messages
Using precision high tech equipment can also pinpoint conversations using a AI eye like listening device that can detect beings but not reveal specific locations without cameras. Certain rooms are protection locked by access to prevent easedropping, though this can be bypassed eventually by emag or better access via begging/stealing (Towing the line between good guy tech just being nosy under orders, and the tator tech using it to extract information from a weary comrade or crewmember on specific details)
> Both the syndicate, ayy's, and centcomm aligned ERT have some kind of listening post array built for the same reasons. Information taken from that can be used to designate beam in sites, drop pod locations, and authorised bluespace artillery strikes. The station crew have a few tricks up their sleeve too but often not the resources or nanotren authorisation (Detracted materials have to be paid via the shuttle/cargo other points/means, theoretically you could bluespace the syndicate shuttle out of the sky if you got a camera close enough and a load of materials, counting as a crew win by destroying the ship meaning no return for operatives unless they blow the nuke there). The battleground of snooping becomes a heated game of Battleships as the IT tech holed up in a secure location attempts to counter thwart the syndicate or ayy collective objectives who may be using the same technology to misdirect on them assuming that precautions are made not to have the IT be cucked.
> De encryption endures by basically a roll call of a large phonetic library of numbers and icons, if you can match the shapes, you can decode a letter out of the asterisk or *Unintelligible* on the comms. Ayys are harder but precise information is absolutely vital to thwarting abductions (so is thwarting nuke disks but ayys are longer and more drawn out therefore justifying difficulty). This technology is reversible to encrypt your own messages on a cue or a order if organized right. Information is transferred to the listening post equipment to pick up future transmissions once sufficient.
> Traitor IT tech sabotages as much stuff as he can find, throws a slew of malicious bugs at crew equipment, can subvert the AI with progressive bugs or drive it 'insane' with progressive AI ion laws, comms are used to misdirect and assist other traitors or implicate others outside of context of voice changers (helps though), can manually crash consoles so they become unsuable or wipe data by virus or long range manual control.
At high levels he can release robotic contagion that turns people into autonamaton antags with loyalty bound creator law derived and contracted from infected machines that can be stopped by wearing air-masks and deconning it before the virus can take hold again. A bit like that film with the ghosts and red tape. But otherwise teaming up with the traitor virologist is double jeopardy, as its harder to remain concious and less dizzy enough to avoid rampantly open/closing violent doors and silicons when you're puking up being biologically sick.
Natural enemies of the tech are the librarian (Ideal about code/words art/videogames and manga/anime schism) the silicons, ayys, operatives, certain classes of antag not to mention clowns and mimes for virus denial and reversal .
Typically lore centric friends include security (detective imparticular benefits from more investigation) engineering and science.
I understand this was a slogfest to read but thanks for getting through it. You're a real data wizard
(If any of those pictures are copyrighted ill wizard them out)
