The Station's reputation

[Hackie]

What is this topic about?

This is about discussing the grade of the station, is it a high-tech research station booked with the best of the best, or is it some glorified shitty oil rig booked with useless employees and used for PR occasionally?

What I think of it

The station isn't special, it's just an outpost by the Romanivich cloud to do some research, gathering of materials, and training. The security force isn't a bunch of stupid mall cops, neither is it full of top grade PMC soldiers. The crew is just average to good people hired by NanoTrasen. It isn't relatively high-tech and isn't making ground breaking research. It makes minor improvements such as advanced experimental weaponry or some completely useless mods to mecha such as the H.O.N.K.

[Sentient Bowtie]

Personally, I think the station is shit.

The staff are passable, but the station itself is shit most of the time when anything dangerous (read: literally anything) happens.

Syndicate operatives are ransacking the station? Everyone's dead or about to be.

Syndicate personnel have infiltrated the staff? See above, but with more explosions.

Some sort of alien(s) are aboard and wreaking havoc? See the first, but with more blood and alien plants everywhere.

[Farcry11]

I personally think it's a low-grade hunk of junk. Fatalities are high, a high number of crewmen (some of my characters included) are incompetent, unprofessional, or too busy snogging each other to do work, and there's few shifts where blood doesn't deck at least one hallway completely. Very little real research is done, and the bar is perhaps the most frequented area on the station.

So yeah, low grade for sure. At times, I almost think we should spin it as a civilian/residential station instead.

[Tenenza]

Aurora's just this station. It's not state of the art, but it's out of the way, and doesn't really have that great oversight. It's claim to fame pretty much comes down to it's pretty diverse crew, which is mostly a result of people being assigned there because the higherups don't want them to be anywhere else. We're out of the way, but, we're not like, a deathtrap. A few decent breakthroughs have come out of the station, but no one really expects those to be a consistant thing, and there are like, a few decently respected experts that are either there because they were expecting a less stressful environment then the top-level stations, or they pissed someone off in HR. But, it's a small research station, way out there, we're not the best, but we're far from the worst. Like, we're not CERN. I'd kinda compare us more to one of the dead end SETI facilities, in that, we're not expected to have guaranteed results, we're off the beaten path, but we're still staffed and funded fairly well, and are secretly under threat by a Aliens and people who dress in red and/or talk about communism.

[canon35]

The NSS Aurora is CentCom's problem station, where they ship all the idiots, crazies, and other unwanted people.

[Guest]

The NSS Aurora is that station everyone likes to laugh at.

Sometimes, they're right for doing so. But some people can't help being judgmental, they often have skewed ways of looking at the world.

Often, though, I find very redeemable qualities of the crew of the Aurora. They're difficult to see at first, but look close and you'll find something you'll like.

[LetzShake]

Everyone thinks Aurora is the station that everyone laughs at but that's because it's held to a higher standard. The reality of it is, most of NTs other stations are way bigger fuckups, and only people who have transferred from other stations realize it.

[Farcry11]

Everyone thinks Aurora is the station that everyone laughs at but that's because it's held to a higher standard. The reality of it is, most of NTs other stations are way bigger fuckups, and only people who have transferred from other stations realize it.

 

What's the evidence of that, though?

If most NT stations were as marvelously incompetent as ours, how is NT such a massive company? Logistically, it doesn't make sense.

[LordFowl]

The NSS Aurora is a great station, that produces epic and ground-breaking discoveries on a somewhat frequent basis.

However, this all goes to hell when That One Shift comes up, that shift packed with degenerates and nincompoops. Its a good thing that That One Shift lasts at the very most four to five hours.

[Chaznoodles]

It's cheap because Nanotrasen are cost-cutting dosh-hoarders, meaning it's liable to fall apart. Costs are cut when employing crew, which means we end up with some of the dregs of society aboard working.

[LetzShake]

Everyone thinks Aurora is the station that everyone laughs at but that's because it's held to a higher standard. The reality of it is, most of NTs other stations are way bigger fuckups, and only people who have transferred from other stations realize it.

 

What's the evidence of that, though?

If most NT stations were as marvelously incompetent as ours, how is NT such a massive company? Logistically, it doesn't make sense.

 

Incompetence does not preclude profit. The station does what it needs to. It mines plasma and makes scientific discoveries, even with all of the problems it probably still turns a profit.

And I just say that because it reflects the status of SS13 in general. We may think we have chucklefucks on our server but have you played other servers? Other servers can be analogous to other stations, I'd say. Also keep in mind antag rounds are generally not canon and non-RPd shifts outnumber actual RPd shifts, it's safe to say the station is far more productive than it appears.

[canon35]

All stations exist in the same universe.

Goon and hippie are the problem stations, Hypatia and Bay are the safest and most productive, Alium is where they ship the mentally damaged, CM is really an arena for the entertainment of Execs(Same with Traitor Deathmatch).

[Valkrae]

The NSS Aurora is the station that everyone laughs at, but then shuts their mouth when the station does something they all set their mind too.

Because when we work together, We make NT hope they have enough PR Agents to throw at whatever disaster we're going to cause.

[Eliot Clef]

The NSS Aurora is the MASH 4077th. When you're there and nothing of note is happening you can't imagine that this place is anything but a miserable shitpile full of malcontents and crazy people.

And then things come together, people get their work done, and it's actually pretty amazing.

[NebulaFlare]

It's where they send all the Tajara.