Atmospheric Technician

Currently being edited heavily by Cody.

Description

 * This is infamously the most toughest system to understand when it comes down to SS13, after Genetics. If you're reading this guide, then you are most likely clueless. Don't Atmosia.PNG we'll start from scratch.

Atmospherics can be the most vital part of the Station. Malfunctioning AIs can set a flaming fireball of plasma to purge all humans, or send in a colorless gas that will suffocate people without they even realizing it. But you shouldn't be abusing this letting gas flow throughout the station as a non-traitor!

As an Atmos Tech, it is your responsibility to investigate air leaks, then seal and replace the oxygen that was lost. Plus, it is your job to stop any plasma fires that start. You should have enough firesuits to avoid having a heatstroke, but it won't actually stop you from being on fire.

First, the basics

 * The most important thing to understand when it comes to Atmos is the direction of the gas flow. The pumps with a red mark on the end show the direction of the gas it will push through its pipe.


 * The main point of this section is to show which way gas moves. If you know what direction the pipes point the gas, you will understand Atmospherics A LOT easier.


 * Now, look back at the Atmos picture. Find the computer that has red tiles around it (bottom most left computer). That one should be the Nitrogen control. The pump to the left of it means it exiting from the Nitrogen container (from there it will go towards the Air controller, the bottom most right computer). Then the pipe to the right is the nitrogen gas that has been separated from the Grand Atmos Loop. Don't worry what the Grand Atmos Loop is right now, it's just the system of air being put into the station, then recycled back. So the gas seperated from the loop will go back into the container, it has no other way to go except forward. Remember that gas in pipes have to move in one direction


 * If yoFilter.PNGu don't understand the part about the "gas seperated from the loop will go back into the container", then it'll be explained further. If you look at the nitrogen control computer again, check out that grey block northeast of it, with the flashing arrows. Those are filters, whatever gas is selected, it will grab it and pump it out to the side of it. So in the nitrogen example, the filtered gas is aimed south into the windows going out into space, where the Nitrogen container room is.


 *  Just reading this guide won't give a 100% comprehension of Atmospherics, you'll need some experience with it in-game. For starters, observe the direction all the pipes go by looking at the pumps.

The color  coded  pipes!
So you might be thinking, "Ok, I understand the colors stand for different sections, but what is actually their purpose?" Well, here you go.

Red pipes: This is the beginning of the recycling loop, the gas that's sucked up by the vents or scrubbers on the station doesn't dissapear! It has to go somewhere. These pipes come from outside atmos and leads into the green pipes.

Blue pipes: This is the default gas loop that leads outside of Atmos to the station. These pipes control the actual air that keeps us alive. It is all ready set at to have the Nitrogen gas at 79% and oxygen at 20% which is your natural "Air" composistion. The pipes lead from the output valves of the Nitrogen and Oxygen controllers to the Air computer. Then the output of the Air computer is sent out to the station for us to breathe! The Air output pipes lead into the grilles on the eastern side of the room, and come out at the top part of the room where it goes into the station.

Green pipes: This is the advanced section of the red pipes, they lead the gases back home to their correct containers. Remember earlier with the filters? Filters are absolutely necessary in this process. The filters pick what gas is need to be separated and sent to it's proper container. Notice how every Main Gas computer has one filter by it. If any gas hasn't been removed by the filter when it reaches the end, it goes into another Container room (which can help you release gas into the station)

''' WARNING! The next part may be a bit hard to understand. '''

Yellow pipes: These are the only pipes and pumps not turned on. THESE are what you use to flood the station with gases. Notice the three control computers on the east end of the room: CO2, Plasma, and N2O. All dangerous. The yellow pipes are the output of those three computers and helps lead them to the green pipes in the Northeast Room which goes to the Mixed Container. The output of the Mixed Gas Containter\Computer leads to another turned off pump, if all the correct pumps are turned on, you can send gas into the station. If you have anything in your Mixed Container though.