Departments

Detainee Labour

CD · The prisoners

Mandate: The dig. Everything the site is built from comes out of the ground here.
A shift: Muster. Draw a tool. Walk out under escort to the Cut. Work a face for twenty minutes. Haul to the skip. Credits land.
An evening: Work a face in the Cut and haul spoil to the skip
Earn credits and days off your sentence, and spend them in the commissary
Work up to Trusty, then run a gang of four as a Ganger
Everything the site is built from comes out of your face. Every stud of it
Who it suits: Everyone. It is the default role, with no barrier, and it is meant to be good enough that people choose it on purpose.
Way in: The boat. No application, no interview, sixty seconds from joining to holding a tool.

FAC · The builders and the supply run

Mandate: Turn what is dug into what is built, and keep it supplied. Facilities is the branch that changes the map.
An evening: Engineering: spend the works budget on real structures and place them on the live map
Logistics: run the truck, work the docks, keep the stores and the commissary stocked
Argue about the build order, which is most of the job
Watch something you placed get walked through by a hundred people
Sections: Engineering & Technical E&T. Builds. Check the budget, pick a module from the catalogue, site it, place it.
Logistics LOG. Moves. Run the truck, manage the skip, unload the supply boat, stock the commissary.
Who it suits: Builders, and the people who like systems, routes and being the reason everything works.
Way in: An application plus one of: a screenshot of something you built, or a trial shift hauling.

SEC · The guards

Mandate: Count them out, count them back, and keep the camp from becoming a riot.
A shift: Take the gate at the Wire. Run an escort to the dig face and stand it while it works. Head count at the top of the hour. Sweep a bunk row.
An evening: Hold the Wire and run the gate
Escort detainee gangs out to the face and back
Head counts on the hour, and contraband sweeps when something goes missing
The riot, when it comes, which it does
Who it suits: The largest branch, and the one most people join first. Structure, procedure and authority with rules attached.
Way in: An open application plus a short chat on procedure, not on lore.

MVF · The emergency team

Mandate: Answer the alarm. Everything else is waiting.
A shift: Kit check, patrol, wait. Then the alarm goes, and for fifteen minutes the Vanguard is the only thing anyone is watching.
An evening: Kit check, patrol the fjord, wait
Nothing at all, most nights
Then the alarm goes and for about fifteen minutes you are the only thing anyone is watching
Raids, breaches, and whatever comes up out of the adit
Who it suits: The smallest branch, capped at ten on purpose. For people who can stand being bored for the sake of being decisive later.
Way in: Selection, not application. G2 in Security or Facilities with a clean record, a supervisor's nomination, and a selection op run in public. Fail and you may try again after 30 days.

ADM · The office

Mandate: Keep the records. Every person, number, promotion and application passes through here and leaves a paper trail.
A shift: Process the intake when a boat lands. Run muster and file the count. Write up an incident report. Update the works ledger.
An evening: Sign people in when they arrive and give the detainees their numbers
Keep the works ledger straight so Facilities know what they can spend
Write up whatever happened at the face and file it
Run the archive, and decide what the Corporation admits to
Who it suits: People who like the paperwork of the genre: forms, stamps, redaction, numbers, filing. Also writers.
Way in: An open application with one writing sample: a two paragraph incident report from a prompt.

CMD · Command

Mandate: Hold the story and the calendar, and make sure every other branch has someone accountable at the top of it.
An evening: Authorise operations and handle incidents
Chair the promotion boards, in public, with the numbers attached
Decide what is canon and what is not
Hand departments to people and then stay out of their way
Way in: You do not apply to Command. It is where a branch director goes after running their branch well.

The Continuum Interest (CI)

The opposition. A role you are handed for one op and take off afterwards. No ladder, no application.

Research and Containment

A real department, locked until the dig reaches something worth researching.

Founder

A permanent honour for everyone who joined before the doors. It sits beside the ranks, not on them.