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SECURITY

Security officers have a reputation for paranoia, a reputation that is not entirely unjustified, considering the number of hazards to the safety of the ship and crew they have to deal with. Security personnel fall into two categories: the living and the dead. Security is a hazardous profession and requires dedicated people.

Most security personnel are assigned either INTERNAL SECURITY or ESCORT SECURITY

INTERNAL SECURITY guards prisoners, throws misbehaving crew in the brig, secures the ship against intruders, and escorts visiting dignitaries.

ESCORT SECURITY (otherwise known as TARGETS) protects the landing parties and may serve on off-ship guard duty. Although no security position is totally safe, Escort Security is considered the most dangerous because of the many hazards that landing parties run into.

Good security officers must be able to tolerate a wide variety of climatic and social settings, and must be physically fit and skilled in several forms of armed and unarmed combat.

COMMUNICATIONS

Engineering may be the heart of the ship, but Communications is her brain. Without communications to relay vital information between various decks and departments, the entire ship would be unable to function (not to mention that the ship's grapevine would be rendered totally inoperative.)

Communications is technically a part of OPERATIONS but on a large ship is often its own department.

Communications covers two types of positions: COMMUNICATION OFFICERS send, receive, encode, and decode messages both within and without the ship. COMMUNICATIONS SPECIALISTS keep the actual machinery (communicators, intercoms, terminals, etc.) in good working order.

Communications keeps a finger on the emotional pulse of the ship. Communications Officers know all the latest gossip and ship's secrets - including where the sacred engineering still is hidden. (Rumor has it that the Science personnel have stolen the still for biological experiments.) If you want to know something, ask a Comm. Officer and (for a slight fee) he/she/it will get that information for you.

Communications is always looking for more recruits, preferably those with big ears, sealed lips, a talent for languages, and a keen understanding of electronic communications.