CSI suggestions.

[K0NFL1QT]

Having played CSI a lot lately, I think there are some glaringly obvious things missing that you only realize after a few shifts with the job.

- No Mass Spectrometer/Beakers.

You can steal an MS from the Morgue, but Medical won't be happy if they need it. You can beg Science for one, but that hinges on having friends in the department. Without one, you have no way to dispose of blood taken in a syringe without spilling it all over the floor. Which you then step in and walk all over the lab, with no way to clean up unless you're friends with the janitor. I've had to grab cans from the nearby soda dispenser to squirt the blood into, but this is just weird and unprofessional. Either more syringes or some beakers would be great, but then that's another piece of evidence that will end up strewn about the lab.

- No Forensic Storage.

Fingerprint, fiber analysis, dna and autopsy reports can all go in the filing cabinet, which is great. But you have a single empty locker in which to store ALL the fingerprint cards, swab kits and bags of evidence from every case. This is... ugly and inefficient, but acceptable. What would be appreciated is something akin to the Chemists Chemical Storage, which will accept the fingerprint cards, evidence bags, swab kits and beakers (if given), and then dispense them on request. There's a space next to the High Powered Electron Microscope that would be perfect for this.

- Space Cleaner

The CSI is usually the one who states when the investigation of a crime scene is concluded and the taped off area okay to open up to foot traffic again, and the janitor usually doesn't have access to the area or is too busy trying to slip people to care. A bottle of Space Cleaner would be amazing if it was provided at round start in the lab, but I'm aware you can go bug medical for one of their spares.

- Contaminating Evidence

This is the absolute most pressing shortcoming of the current setup. No matter how careful you are, you will inevitably get your prints, or fibers from your gloves and clothes, on a vital piece of evidence. Forensic Technicians need gloves that never leave prints, and an oversuit that will never leave fibers from anything you're wearing, if you have both the helmet and suit worn. A renamed BioSuit, with helmet and suit combo, with the variables that leave forensic evidence disabled, would be perfect. It should be obvious at a glance and instantly recognizable, and be a 'bulky item' to prevent covert storage and portability, and thus draw immense suspicion if you see someone walking around in it outside of a messy crime-scene.

[K0NFL1QT]

I just remembered something else.

- Privacy shutters.

As part of the CSIs job is handling autopsies, a little more confidentiality would probably help prevent information leaking out about dead crew who've been cloned. The medical morgue is naturally sealed off, but the CSIs lab has a series of open windows that let anyone in Sec peer in. Could also be substituted with the tinted windows like the ones you get in Robotics, but you'd have to make sure the entrance windoor doesn't still let you peer right in at the operating table.

[K0NFL1QT]

Something else.

- Toe Tags

There's few things more annoying than having a morgue tray full of Unknown bodies with no way to differentiate between most of them, incase you need to re-examine one of them, and you can't use the Hand Labeller on bodies.

[SgtSammac]

Something else.

- Toe Tags

There's few things more annoying than having a morgue tray full of Unknown bodies with no way to differentiate between most of them, incase you need to re-examine one of them, and you can't use the Hand Labeller on bodies.

 

Then don't have naked bodies in the morgue trays? Get a bodybag and label that.

[K0NFL1QT]

The CSI isn't issued a box of bodybags, so that requires taking them from the morgue and getting the CMO on my ass.

[Susan]

That's because you have an autopsy lab, not a personal morgue. The body should be either bagged and ID'd by medical first or you should have a medical official on scene.