[ericthered]

There is a bunch of info on the "Global Database Backup" for needed jobs. none of them are on this ship, and they're all two days out of date. There is a large call for people to sell things, to perform medical services, to work with technology of some sort (that part is rather opaque), "AutoManagers" (which appears to mean monitoring machines) and designers for "Rooms" and "Sets", which appears to have something to do with the ANI. A lot of little niche jobs also appear, but they seem to all require and ANI, even ones that seem mundane. Why does a plumber need one? The presence of habitat maintenance jobs is a little jarring for some reason.

She does find the old applications to get on the beagle: it states quite plainly that all positions are filled, but the voice in the access unit is remarkably helpful at interpolating and gathering a list of what WAS required. About half of the crew here are researchers, with the others being highly qualified experts in various fields like medicine, zero-g ballistics, Habitat maintenance, logistics, and others. There is a conspicuous lack of cooks and cleaners outside of "auto-managers".


Strangely, she finds her eyes keep drifting back to the list of research positions. Something about all that feels familiar.