Forensic Scientist

The Forensic Scientist is a role focused on investigation using the general forensics system as well as specialty evidence others can't notice. Alongside the Detective and Coroner, they serve to respond to death on the station and potentially provide information that could help the crew deal with threats. However, although they have superior investigative abilities, they lack the implicit tools to pursue suspects, requiring them to collaborate with others to utilize their results

NERD!

Unlike their investigative contemporaries, the Forensic Scientist is a lab rat and does not have any skills in confrontational scenarios. A complete lack of armor, firearms, or even just handy-in-a-pinch medical equipment means that they are weaker than most and more prone to being picked off by a scheming traitor. However, this lack of brawn is made up for by their breadth of equipment.

The forensic lab as a location contains a wide array of machinery, capable of accepting any provided evidence (fingerprints, blood samples, etc.) and giving back a report on who it belongs to. This makes the area a center of investigative work on-station, since any obtained evidence can be utilized and catalogued here, helping any do-gooders track down criminals.

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While general evidence like fingerprints and DNA samples can be collected by anyone, the Forensic Scientist has the intrinsic ability to collect additional evidence that the less-scrutinous crew have missed. When someone interacts and leaves contact evidence (fingerprints or glove fibers) they also may leave speciality evidence. This can be only be seen and collected by the Forensic Scientist, although since it always occurs alongside typical evidence, they can be alerted to it by other crew.

This evidence is generally based on clues, and while it cannot give a direct link to the perpetrator like typical forensics, it can be a helpful tool in eliminating potential suspects. Some of this evidence includes:

• Hair strands (hair color)
• Skin cells (skin color)
• Sweat particles (sex)
• Fingernail material (age)

When collected, the evidence manifests as a small physical item which can be collated alongside other evidence in the forensics lab. Additionally, this means that the forensic scientist's clues are much more reliable than the Detective's internal hunches, better suiting them to their more cooperative role.