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The '''Research Director''' is the head in charge of the [[Research Sector|research department]]. Their goal is to further the station's grand quest of the pursuit of sciences, while trying to forget everything they learned at that ethics seminar.
 
== What have I gotten myself into? ==
Well, congratulations! You're a Head of the station, as well as being the boss of the rarely competent [[Scientist|Research team]]. Your job is mainly just to prevent Research from blowing up, burning, and getting covered in radiation for as long as possible. Chances are, you won't be successful at that. It's okay though, as an RD you have arguably the most relaxed and easy Head job on the station, yet you're also the most potentially dangerous. If you're interested in trying out a Head job but you're afraid of being awful, RD is the job for you. As long as you don't blow up the [[Research Wing]] or send your unstoppable [[Robots#GuardBuddy|Guardbuddies]] on a rampage/let a [[Traitor]] do these things, it's almost impossible to be a bad Research Director.
 
== So what's my actual job? ==
Whatever you make of it! Explore [[Z-level|space]] in the [[Telescience|Teleporter lab]], make explosives in [[Toxins]], set [[Chemistry]] on fire, or [[Artifact Research|accidentally kill everyone]]...
 
That being said, your basic job (and really only task) is to be the boss of the Research team. Typical RD activities include ordering [[Scientist|chemists]] to create dozens of chicken soup pills, having [[Telescience]] steal all the [[Monkey|monkeys]] on the station, and making sure [[Toxins]] and [[Artifact Research]] don't spiral out of control. However, you're also a Head, which means you also have some say in big decisions regarding the shuttle. You can [[Calling the Escape Shuttle|call and recall the shuttle]], and you have [[Bridge]] access for when you just feel like drinking wine with the [[Head of Personnel|HoP]] and ignoring your duties.
 
Failing your own creativity, here are a few things you can do.
 
=== Get the Guardbuddies moving ===
Using the [[DWAINE|DWAINE terminal]] in your office, you can assign your [[The Buddy Book|Guardbuddies to various jobs]].  To start playing with your buddies, follow these instructions on TermOS [[TermOS|here]].
 
=== Figure out Telescience ===
[[Telescience]] is often ignored during games because it requires cooperation from other people to do anything really fun.  However, as RD, your entire point is to foster cooperation and efficiency among departments, so figuring out how the teleporters work this round is very helpful.  If you've figured out how the teleporter works, all sorts of fun can come of enabling other peoples' gimmicks. Space explorers can be beamed back to resupply and offload their finds, or even better their finds can be beamed back for them.  All they need to do is to feed you the appropriate coordinates and you can take care of the rest.  One of the few always-legitimate uses for bombs is to beam them out to [[Z-level|dangerous derelicts]] to crack them open like a peanut.  If you know the location of something you want on the station, you can just teleport it straight to [[Research Wing|Research]].  Are those lazy-ass [[Miner|miners]] not doing anything with their space suits?  Lock in on their locations via the space GPS, teleport them to Research, and distribute them to your staff!  Are the [[Mechanic|mechanics]] illegally building a bunch of guns?  Teleport them into Research and give them to your [[Scientist|chemists]]!  Is the [[Captain]] brain dead in his quarters?  Teleport him to Research and steal his ID!
 
Convinced?  You should be!  Check the [[Telescience]] article for more details.
 
=== Screw around with Chemistry ===
Failing all that, being the RD is pretty much carte blanche to waste your entire round trying to figure out new and interesting ways to cause misery in [[chemistry]].  Or maybe you want to buck the trend and actually be helpful by filling a fire extinguisher with space cleaner and showing the [[Janitor]] he's a useless piece of shit. The possibilities are endless!
 
== Syndicate RD ==
You have access to the most brazenly dangerous departments on the station, control over the departments which dictate who lives and who dies, an army of loyal robot servants, and Head access.
 
Truly, the only difficult part of being a traitor RD is choosing just one plan of action out of your dazzling array of horrific options.
 
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