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General Crew SOP
and thank you for choosing the CEV Northern Light to dedicate your skills and passion to in our effort to explore where no being has before. Please take a few minutes to read this document and our attached Regulations to make your stay as comfortable and safe as possible. In this document we'll go over your rights and liberties and responsiblities as a crew aboard the Northern Light.
This section outlines the rights and duties of command staff, being the joint owners of the Northern Light.
- Neither the Captain nor his representative can make changes to this contract
- Organizational heads may refuse orders from the captain with sufficient legal, moral, or ethical grounds to do so without breaking The Contract.
- Organizational heads may choose to back out of The Contract. However in doing so they understand that all members of their department are no longer considered crew.
- The Captain or his representative may not legally assign personnel to organizations on board without the approval of the relevant organizational head
As a Northern Light crewman/inhabitant, or one of it’s many third party contractors you’re entitled to many unquestionable rights, to remind you of them…
- Whatever civil rights your citizenship to a governing entity allows.
- May store and bear handguns, long-arms, or energy weapons and any kind of nonlethal munitions.
- Conduct business which is not inconsistent with their contract, and is not connected with selling other inhabitant’s or organization's property.
- Protect themselves and any other inhabitant in case of immediate risk of loss of life or severe bodily harm.
- Appropriate everything found within uninhabited sections of the vessel, if it is not the property of any inhabitant or organization on board.
While most of these explain themselves. What defines a personal defense weapon will be clarified later.
- All equipment within the security department is the property of Aegis, and may only be dispensed with approval from the Marshal or Gunnery Sergent.
- Aegis has the right to refuse to follow an order that may place the lives of Aegis Operatives in unreasonable danger.
- Aegis has the right to refuse to follow an order that may place legal liability on Aegis Security as a whole.
- Any inventions which are created aboard Northern Light belong only to Nanotrasen. Nanotrasen staff may sell them to the ship's inhabitants if deemed necessary.
- All equipment within the bounds of the medical and science departments (outside of personal property) are considered property of Nanotrasen.
- Nanotrasen may freely sell steroids, prostheses, bionics, nonessential surgical treatments, and any medical supplies outside of necessary medical care at their discretion.
- All materials and objects obtained on any NT-sponsored expedition are to be distributed by the Chief Science Officer.
- Shuttle Vasily Dokuchaev is owned by Nanotrasen.
- Einstein Engines is permitted full autonomy within their department to modify and improve the equipment of the vessal as they see fit, so long as they do not endanger the rest of the crew.
- All equipment within engineering is the sole property of Einstein Engines. This includes the maintenance tunnels around the Engineering department.
- Einstein Engine personnel have the right to refuse repairs if doing so would risk their life or livelihood.
- Einstein engine personnel is to be granted access to any area that has significant damage to structure, atmospheric integrity, or power-nets.
- Einstein engines may charge for purely cosmetic or nonessential work at their discretion.
- All materials and objects within the cargo bay are the sole property of the Guild Merchant.
- All materials and objects obtained on any FTU-sponsored expedition are to be distributed by the Guild Merchant.
- All Union Techs in the facility are employed directly by the Union board.
- All exports and imports of material goods to the facility are to go through the Union.
- The Mining Barge, the Hulk, is owned by the Union
- The Union has exclusive mineral rights on all sanctioned NEV Northern Light expeditions.
- All funds and goods within the service account are direct property of the Club Manager.
- The Club Workers reserve the right to refuse service for any reason.
- The Club Manager has the exclusive right to dismiss his employees.
- All equipment and goods within the Church are the sole property of the church.
- The Church may practice any rites and rituals they see fit within the bounds of the church, so long as all participants are both willing and of sound mind.
- The Church has the exclusive right to provide asylum.
Every company or person representing a company has basic obligations in their, or their company's contract. Refusal to follow these obligations will be seen as severing of the contract with the Northern Light Command Board.
- The CEV Nothern Light belongs only to the board of directors. The board consists of all command-level personnel.
- The Current acting captain is the highest authority within the ship/station. Per contract all inhabitants of the Northern Light agree to follow the captain's orders.
- The Captain may not withdraw from this contract unilaterally, except in the case of wide-scale mutiny.
- In the event of incapacitation or death, the First Officer is to take over for the captain. If there is no first officer all present board members (Heads of Staff) may vote to promote an acting captain from amongst themselves.
- The Captain may order Aegis troops to solve any task with approval from the CAS Commander or Gunnery Sergeant;
- Any troublemaker should be arrested using non-lethal equipment. Lethal force may be used if there is a life-threatening hazard to operatives or civilians, in an emergency situation (i.e. Code Red), or if directly ordered by a Head or the Captain.
- Nanotrasen is responsible for the health of the crew. Nanotrasen is obligated to provide essential medical care to the rest of the crew free of charge.
- To maintain atmospheric conditions at Terran Standard or a safe equivalent on all inhabited portions of the ship.
- To provide sufficient power to all segments of the vessel.
- To ensure that propulsion systems maintain operational.
- To repair structural damage to any department
- The Union is expected to provide all necessary material support requested by other departmental heads at a reasonable cost.
- The Union is expected to protect the assets of the facility as a whole, with reasonable expectations.
- The Union is expected to comply with all legal requests made by Aegis, The Captain, and the Board of Directors.
- All equipment within The Club are property of The Board.
- All Club Staff are expected to maintain a clean, safe environment for themselves and their patrons.
- Church Custodians will maintain a clean, safe environment in the public areas of the facility.
- The Church will provide biomass to medical for the purpose of revival without charge.
- The Church will provide mutual aid to the facility as a whole in event of an emergency.
The Northern Light uses a standard color-coded alert system as used across most installations and vessels in the galaxy, following Solgov workplace safety guidelines - any look at a fire alarm, or habitat lighting should inform you at what level of alert your ship is at and how to respond.
Green, or all clear - is the normal operating level of your workplace. With no known security, structure, viral or mechanical threats. You will be able to know this by the normal fluorescent lighting and green light on fire alarms.
At blue alert, there has been one or many incidents that point to a suspected security, structure, atmospheric, viral, triage or mechanical threat - or a combined situation of these examples. At blue alert depending on the context of threat some departments may have authority over you. I.E. During a major series of hull breaches all engineering staff orders should be followed, or during a viral outbreak, all medical personel’s requests. To know if it's a blue alert, once again check with your nearest fire alarm, or mind that the ambient lighting of your workplace may change blue.
If your installation or vessel is at red alert - there has been a major and confirmed security, structure or medical threat. At this level security personnel may be in full hazard gear, and the relevant department handling the crisis has full authority to solve or mitigate it depending on command staff’s discretion. Obey all command and departmental orders for your safety and the safety of others.
If your installation or vessel has reached Code Delta there has been a security or exsurgent threat that warrants a total self destruct and/or evacuation. Every and all command staff orders must be followed for everyone’s continued safety - not doing so may result in extreme measures to keep order.
Ship contraband is defined as such: “Any article or device that can compromise the health, security or safety of a Nanotrasen workplace beyond a reasonable degree.” Which is to say that while your workplace tools or equipment COULD pose a hazard to yourself, others or the structure - it’s intent is not. However an explosive device would be contraband as it’s only purpose is those three things.
The Northern Light prides itself on being a pioneer of workplace freedom regarding recreational substance use to cope with productivity demands. Allowing most safe, controlled substances to be used in mild amounts on work hours. However this is limited to the following conditions.
- It does not negatively affect an crewman's ability to work.
- It does not have any immediate, negative health or psychological effects.
- It is not banned by your workplace’s local regulations.
- Command staff approve of the substance as safe and mostly non-addictive.
Unfortunately despite the salvage crew's best efforts and our security's contractor's diligence. Not all aggressive pests have been exterminated from the vessel. This combined with our presence in unregulated space means as a crewman you are allowed a reasonable personal self defense weapon if you should need it to keep your workplace pest free under these guidelines.
- It should be a firearm or bladed/blunt weapon that can be concealed or holstered and put into safety when not in use.
- If it is a firearm it should have less than lethal rounds, or a less than lethal firing mode. While some flora or mechanical hazards won’t yield to taser or riot rounds - you use lethal munitions at your own risk.
- It should be a ‘reasonable’ weapon for it’s purpose. I.E. you do not need anti-armor rifles or explosive weapons to deal with mutated pests.
- Any device or tool that compromises or bypasses standard access requirements, secure communication channels or workplace structure without good reason. Should not be permitted in an crewman’s possession.
- Any armor, clothing, or emblem that shows one as a hostile actor to Solgov, or the ship itself.
- Any combat-rated voidsuit or hardsuit equal to or superior in protection to the voidsuits assigned to CAS personnel.
Let's face it, life aboard a vessel at void is hard and stressful. If you’ve found yourself in a verbal or otherwise conflict with another crewman or contractor, the following guidelines should be followed to prevent any undue escalation and hopefully seek a resolution.
- If it is a purely social or verbal issue. Remain calm and walk away if need be - angry words or a physical confrontation can’t be taken back.
- Try to approach the issue with the party or parties again after some time to settle.
- If the situation still can’t be resolved - your supervisor, or command may be able to help.
- Just because you are armed, doesn’t mean you have the final say.
Welcome aboard and thank you again, we at Northern Light command can't promise the journey will always be easy, but with your cooperation we'll get home together.