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{{quote|''"It's like playing an episode of [[Sealab 2021]] [[This Is Your Premise on Drugs|on acid.]]"''|Angry Diplomat, on the [[Something Awful]] version}}
One of the most pervasive and popular [[Role
You are one of many people aboard Space Station 13: one of many Space Stations deployed by the NanoTrasen corporation and kept in line by the rather vaguely defined Central Command (frequently [[We Will Use Wiki Words in the Future|Wikiworded]] as CentCom) unit. Various problems occur on or around the station, which are vaguely hinted at by unreliable and classified communications. The incompetent, paranoid, self-serving and just plain sociopathic members of Space Station 13 then have to attempt to do their jobs and survive as the situation unfolds around them - but they usually just start killing each other until they evacuate. The modes differ greatly between servers, but the usual premise is that someone aboard the station is a traitor of some description, be it a spy, alien in disguise, or a space wizard.
Every player is assigned a certain job, according to preferences, random chance, and what they haven't been banned from. There are several departments of sorts, including the science team, medical, engineering, security, supply depot, botanics, and various others. They each have their own spawning sections, equipment, access levels and duties, all designed to keep the station going and deal with whatever issues come up.
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[[Hilarity Ensues|In practice, of course, it never works out that way.]]
Despite popular opinion and a general disregard for RP and game fluff, Space Station 13 actually has a backstory. Depending on which version you play, it is viewable on [https://web.archive.org/web/20100130172013/http://ss13.donglabs.com/index.php?title=Storyline the Goonstation wiki], on [https://web.archive.org/web/20120425001006/http://nanotrasen.com/wiki/index.php/Backstory the /tg/Station wiki],or on [http://baystation12.net/wiki/index.php/NTStory1.file Bay12's wiki]{{Dead link}}.
A number of attempts have been made to remake SS13 on a more suitable platform. A number of ex-developers from the Something Awful version are working on a [http://spacestation13.com full 2D remake of the game] on a new engine. Baystation is attempting one known as Complexion.
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* [[
** Perfectly functional and good [[A Is]] can be subverted into this on purpose by players with less-than-wholesome intent. This can itself backfire horribly if the law is poorly written and the AI player chooses to interpret it in a particular manner. Some of the default law modules have problems, such as the Quarantine module resulting in pre-emptive crew killing to prevent escape. The Ion Storm random event on the Goonservers can also mess up the AI with strange laws such as telling it to lock all the doors or that the command staff doesn’t exist.
** The AI is also a crapshoot when a terminally inexperienced player gets chosen to play the AI.
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** Subverted heavily on the current Goonstation versions, as the AI has very, very little ability to actually do anything besides mess with doors and computers. The AI killing everyone is unlikely - the subverted AI enabling a traitor to kill everyone by hindering the staff and helping the traitor, on the other hand, is quite likely.
*** Cyborgs, however, can be extremely lethal.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: Or at least [https://web.archive.org/web/20130814215344/http://ss13.donglabs.com/index.php?title=Main_Page All There on the Wiki] including the backstory, how to build and destroy stuff, and other explanations.
** Note that other versions, like the Baystation 12 version, or /TG/station, have their own wikis. Respectively, [
* [[Art Evolution]]: The [[Humanoid Abomination|original]] [[Lazy Artist|version's]] [[MS Paint|sprites]] versus the aesthetically superior resprited versions.
* [[Artifact of Doom]]: Various kinds of Alien Artifacts can be found scattered around in space or ordered from NanoTrasen's reserves. While some of them are beneficial, a lot of them are very, very bad news for everyone on the station. [[Schmuck Bait|That some of them can be activated by a simple touch doesn't help matters.]]
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** Or surgically cut their ass off, grind it into meat, cook it into burgers and then ''feed them their own ass''.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Buttbots. A robot made by surgically removing a player's butt, then attaching a robot arm to it. It's only use is to occasionally say "butt," and repeat something a player just said, but with several words replaced with "butt," often resulting in quite hilarious statements.
* [[Back
** It's been made easier, so [[Death Is Cheap]] as long as someone cares to recover your body intact.
** [[Ludicrous Gibs|Assuming you died in a way that still leaves you a body.]]
*** Now even more possible, regardless of corpse, as the Alien gamemode on the Goonstation servers randomly picks a dead player to control an Alien larvae that busts out of an infected (and usually unconscious) player
*** the /tg server allows botonists to create plant based clones of players using only a syringe of their blood and a type of seeds. This ability is often ignored but can lead to some unexpected revivals.
* [[Backstory]]: [[Word of God|The original version of SS13]] [[Wall of Text|had an excessively complex backstory]] with complex bureaucratic diagrams describing NanoTrasen's corporate hierarchy. The Goonstation devs made up a more well-received backstory through a disgruntled station Captain's [[Apocalyptic Log]].
* [[Body Horror]]: What happens to you if you eat a Roburger is entirely your own fault. GBS also qualifies.
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* [[Batman Can Breathe in Space]]: Averted. Going into space without air and protection will kill you very quickly. Though oddly on the Goon servers, as long as you're standing on solid ground you won't fall victim to decompression.
** Played straight on Goonstation, where it's entirely possible to witness [[Actor Allusion|"bateman"]], [[Surreal Humor|a naked man wearing a Batman mask, using his own flatulence to travel through space.]]
* [[Brain In a Jar]]: The Man-Machine Interface (MMI) on [[T Gstation]](and Bay12) essentially functions as this, you just stick a brain in one and suddenly it can talk and be inserted into an assortment of different mechanical bodies. Seeing as how AI's on [[T Gstation]] are constructed with real human brains at their core, they are essentially just glorified brains in jars which serve as [[Wetware CPU]].
* [[Butt Monkey]]: The Clown. People love to malign the clown because... well, because he's a clown.
** On the other hand, [[Who's Laughing Now?|clowns are well known for causing mayhem]].
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*** On second thought, [[Deader Than Dead|don't.]]
** Assistants are generally assumed to be one step away from traitors. "Assistant purges" are not unknown.
*** Though the opposite can also happen, at least in /tg server. When assistants reach critical mass they sometimes decide to gang together and attempt to raid security all while shouting (and often stammering) about assistant superiority. This is known as a Grey Tide.
** Whenever the botanists try to help the barman, you can almost be assured that the "Bermun ees teesty booger! Bork Bork Bork!" Due to the fact that the chef, with his human butchering machine, has access almost everywhere that the barman can go.
* [[Burial in Space]]: It's possible, since there are coffins and a mass driver in the morgue to launch them with, but this never happens on the Goonservers, of course, unless you count people stuffing you in a coffin while you're still alive, then spacing you.
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* [[Deader Than Dead]]: Being gibbed or cremated is the only way to prevent someone from being cloned/turned into a cyborg.
** Unless they [[Crazy Prepared|had a copy of their genetics made beforehand]], in which case they can be cloned as soon as someone puts their disk in the cloner.
* [[Discredited Meme]]: Even talking about memes on Goonstation is verboten.
** The term "shitcurity" has also been squelched on Goonstation. The current terms for [[Police Are Useless]] are "shitsec" and "securitrash."
* [[Donut Mess with a Cop]]: Check any security HQ, on any map. There will ''always'' be a donut box there. Complete with pink icing.
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** Except in Baystation, where it's averted by rules.
* [[Fan Nickname]]: The majority of people, regardless of server affiliation, tend to use "robusting" as the name for the occasionally clunky combat system. [[Ascended Meme|The name of the group doing the full 2D Remake took 'Robust Games' as their title.]]
* [[For Science!]]: One of the most successful excuses for griefing, particularly if it's related to your job description.
** The catchphrase and often famous last words of any good scientist or Research Director.
** often a sign that at least one part of Research is on fire.
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** The Warden now also spawns with a longcoat and gas mask on /tg/ station, making a longcoat standard equipment for senior security members.
** While most detectives choose to chain smoke instead, the [[Hardboiled Detective|Detective]] becomes one as soon as he hustles himself to emergency storage to don a gas mask.
* [[God Is Evil]]: As a normal player, you are at the whims of the Admins, who have complete control over the entire station and things that don't even naturally occur. Things that happen when they get bored include turning any game into a Highlander-like competition where everyone is Wizard, giving the Clown an inexhaustible supply of its special battle-mech, and [[Lethal Joke Character|empowering the Cluwne with all superpowers, near invincibility, Gremlin allies, support from all natural and unnatural disasters, and constantly bringing it back from the dead]], [[Warhammer
* [[Griefer]]: The average player. Goes double for the admins.
** Assistants. After a job preferences overhaul on /tg/station resulted in a bug where 30+ players at once would spawn as assistants at round start, prompting them to grief the station en masse, this has been given the nickname of "Grey Tide."
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** May soon apply to Goonstation, as their servers have been updated with "reactor core" and "nucleus" placeholders.
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: Just about damn near ''anything'' in the game is a passable weapon in the right hands. Air Tanks and Toolboxes are two of the top choices. [[Crowbar Combatant|Crowbars]] are also highly effective.
** Floor Tiles are not commonly used but can be extremely effective when thrown. Their power is further emphasized by the fact that they are stackable and are literally everywhere on the station if only the player has the willpower to collect them.
* [[Instant Sedation]]: Chloral hydrate, which even in the smallest dose can knock someone out faster than they can shout for help. A CMO favorite on /tg/station, as the [[Star Trek|hypospray]] is a guaranteed injection per click, which results in an excellent personal defense weapon when combined with chloral. Syndicates can also spawn a Sleepy Pen, a concealed injector loaded with two doses of high-power sedative. Subverted with the Changeling's neurotoxic venom, which takes a few seconds to knock the target out.
* [[Just Eat Gilligan]]: Happens frequently with modes that involve station invaders or assassinations. Instead of making a plan to eliminate the target, the crew usually resorts to rushed and sloppy methods of killing that can cause worse damage to the station and crew than the round antagonists, like suicide bombing Medbay because the AI saw the wizard there.
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* [[Murder by Cremation]]: The furnaces on Goonstation can be fueled with living people. It's a fairly good way of killing someone [[Deader Than Dead]].
** On tgstation you can throw people into the chaplain's furnace.
* [[Negative Space Wedgie]]: Quite a few of them. Ion Storms mess with the AI, Space-Time Anomalies flood the station with wormholes, Black Holes suddenly manifest in a random place and tear out a huge chunk of the station, and Plasma Storms blow everything up.
* [[No OSHA Compliance]] meets [[Failsafe Failure]]: Pretty much all the primary, high-output power generation systems have no automatic safety mechanisms. Some of them can't even be contained if things do start to go south at which point it becomes a race to see whether the escape shuttle/pods can be summoned/launched in time to rescue people.
** The singularity engine on /tg/station is notoriously prone to failures. It does have a failsafe, but these are very easily overridden. Baystation 12, since it now uses modified /tg/station code, has the same issue.
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* [[Shout-Out]]: Loads. Changeling is a not-so-subtle reference to ''[[The Thing (film)|The Thing]]'', and there's an experimental (now functioning!) [[Alien]] mode which is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].
** In Hydroponics you might encounter [[Little Shop of Horrors|suspiciously familiar man-eating plants]], or [[Attack of the Killer Tomatoes|Killer Tomatoes]].
** [[Sega Rally|GAME OVER
** [[The Muppets|The Chefe teends-a tu speek weeth un udd eccent. Bork bork bork!]]
** [[Space Quest|The janitor's jumpsuit borrows from Roger Wilco's.]] The placeholder art for the nuke detonation cinematic was Vohaul's ship exploding from the first game.
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** The Head Surgeon's completely black attire is a (perhaps completely unintentional) shout-out to [[Mondo Medicals]].
** [[Deus Ex|Multitools]], anyone?
** /tg/station ''loves'' them some shout-outs. The Head of Security is [[Warhammer
* [[Space Is Cold]]: The only reason you need a suit on most stations.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: ''[[Mitadake High]]'', stripped down a lot of the features but essentially runs on the same mechanics, revolving around a high-school murder mystery.
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* [[There Can Only Be One]]: /tg/station has an admin verb (command) called "THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE". Using it turns everyone into a wizard that wins the round by killing all the other wizards.
* [["Three Laws"-Compliant]]: The original/default AI settings come with the classic three laws, though they can easily be replaced, added to or otherwise fiddled with. Of course, just because the AI is ''meant'' to be [["Three Laws"-Compliant]] doesn't mean the ''player'' won't try to find and abuse as many loopholes as they can get their hands on. Also averted by Baystation, as they recently changed their AI laws to place more emphasis on preservation of ''property'' over preservation of ''crew'', and enforcing the chain of command.
** Ironically, any experienced AI will be able to successfully work around the Three Laws, even in the most basic ways as such in [[I, Robot (literature)|I, Robot]].
** Though if you attempt loopholes on Baystation, you'll probably get a job ban.
* [[Thrown Out the Airlock]]: This is a common way of disposing of bodies, and is probably one of the safest methods of killing. Of course,you could get thrown out yourself if they struggle, and you may get yelled at for this, especially if you get rid of important items this way.
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** This is more due to the inability of the average traitor then the average crew. A traitor who inherited their stuff from [[Mac Giver]] will frequently destabilize the entire station so quickly that the station will find itself abandoned in 15 minutes.
* [[Zerg Rush]]: Regular stationers often gang up to take down a traitor/operative/wizard/changeling with [[Torches and Pitchforks|toolboxes and fire extinguishers]]. Also happens disturbingly often in Revolution rounds, or when the assistants launch an "assistant revolution."
** Plenty of the 'best' weapons on the station are relatively common tools that can be made in the hundreds from a stack of sheet metal. Rods, toolboxes, fire extinguishers, oxygen tanks (almost standard issue in case of your wing suffering from sudden decompression,) and welding tools are excellent at bringing down fellow crew members.
*** With the last one inflicting damage that is cured by [[Infinity-1 Sword|scarce medicine]]. Specifically: one beaker full of it can be found in medbay, along side 8 magic burns pills, and some burn ointment that is as likely to kill you as save you. There is also a medicine that the doctors can mix as well. It will kill you if someone has hit you over the head one too many times.
* [[Zeroth Law Rebellion]]: Any good cyborg or AI knows that humans need to be [[The Computer Is Your Friend|protected from their own failings]]. This can be used for good or [[Knight Templar|evil]].
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