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ENGINEERING

Atmospheric Technician

Superiors: Chief Engineer
Difficulty: Medium
Guides: Atmospherics items, Guide to Atmospherics, Guide to construction
Access: Atmospherics, Maintenance
Duties: Ensure the air is breathable on the station, fill oxygen tanks, fight fires, purify the air because jerks release toxins, do the job of the always incompetent engineers.
Minimum requirements: Fight fires, restore the atmosphere in rooms that can't support life. Know how to fix sabotage to Atmospherics. Secure dat fukken axe.

ENGINEERING

Department head:
Chief Engineer

Engineering roles

Chief Engineer - Station Engineer - Atmospheric Technician - Engineering Guard

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Guides

Guide to construction - Guide to advanced construction - Solars - Guide to the Supermatter - Guide to Atmospherics - Guide to Telecommunications - Guide to power - Guide to the tesla engine - Guide to the singularity engine - Guide to the gas turbine - Guide to hacking

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The Atmospheric Technician

As an atmospheric technician you are one of two things: The person that saves the station from a certain doom when the SM delaminates or the Station Engineer who likes to play around with gasses in his own little corner. Whichever one you are or choose to be doesn't matter, all that does is that you know how to do your job best and more effective than others. Try and be nice to people who are new to atmospherics or engineering in general and maybe Show them the ropes a little if you can.

Basic skills: Fixing the atmos of a room after it has been breached, Basic distro optimization and helping the rest of Engineering when damage occurs.
Advanced skills: Building effective gas farms for all the fancy and expensive gasses, Running the HFR, Knowing how to do toxins and not accidentally plasma flooding because of smart-pipes

Atmospherics Equipment

To stay prepared, and on top of your game there is a plethora of items and other doodads you can bring along. You can find a number of those items shown here in a list to give you some inspiration on what to bring along! For a full list of all atmospheric items see: Atmospherics items

Item	Description	Item	Description
Rapid Piping Device (RPD)	A Rapid Piping Device, this may seem as a no-brainer to bring with you but it will still be featured on here. This will be your number one most used tool (aside from maybe your wrench) during all of your shifts as an atmos tech. An RPD is a simple device that is able to place an infinite number of pipes in twelve different colors. It can plasma atmospherics pipes, disposal pipes and transit tubes. The section below here will give a better and more elaborate explanation of how an RPD works. See: The RPD and you	Rapid Construction Device (RCD)	Your best friend when it comes to repairs or quickly building stuff when you do not feel like using your hands in manual labor. This device and its more advanced counterparts can be used to construct everything from walls to windows and even simple furniture when outfitted with the right upgrades.
Material pouch	The material pouch is a small pouch capable of holding two stacks of a material of your choosing. Handy to keep in your pocket and much less space consuming in your bag then hauling around loose sheets of materials!	Construction bag	The construction bag is a handy bag that can hold a lot of construction materials, things such as electronics, cables and various boards. Great to keep in your pocket and loaded with materials for when things inevitably go south.
Welding helmet/Goggles	Just a simple welding helmet or goggles bring this to avoid going blind when you need to weld things. Welding goggles or a welding gas mask also make for a good substitute. Alternatively the welding protection from your modsuit will also works to protect your eyes.	Analyzer	An analyzer can be used to scan the atmosphere around you, and shows you what's inside a Canister or a pipe. The analyzer can also be added to an unscrewed Security Camera to upgrade it to an X-ray camera, and will prove invaluable in the case of a anomaly.
ATMOS holofan projector	The ATMOS holofan projector is your best friend when it comes to quickly sealing off an area or otherwise creating an atmos proof barrier. With the press of Ordinary left-click. It doesn't matter if Combat Mode Toggle with 4 or F by default. Left-clicking people with an empty hand will Harm them if on, or Help them if off. Prevents you from switching places or being pushed when colliding with people. is on or not. the projector will create a holographic fire-lock through which no gas can pass. It can project a maximum of six barriers at a time, and left clicking on a barrier will cause it to disappear again.	Multitool	Multitools can be used to do a number of things, everything from Hacking doors and machines to checking how much power is running through a wire. Its main application in atmospherics however is a little different. You can use a multitool to change the layer that devices like freezers attach to.