Nanotrasen Port Authority Job

[palpetinus]

Now let’s separate them

CE loses their Cargo and Mining Access. Better space suits, fuel,  and materials are now lost because the miners just put everything in the Mining Fab. Getting materials now becomes much harder too, as cargo cannot be relied upon for resources and spare RCD ammo becomes nearly impossible to find. The well greased engine of engineering grinds to a halt due to a lack of logistics and as such the station will start to run out of power.

If we're talking Goon 1 and 2: as if Mining and Cargo ever work with other departments. Unless the CE goes in there personally and does things himself, it's a coinflip whether or not you get what you want. It's far easier as an engineer/mechanic to get something from mining by hopping into the nearest pod and camping the mineral magnet, slipping into the department when someone leaves and taking what you want. If they do cooperate, the CoC doesn't really matter, they'll cooperate if you ask nicely anyway.
Almost the same for Cargo, except you can't really steal anything. If Cargo doesn't cooperate, you might be able to convince the CE to go in there and get something, if the CE isn't already dead in a ditch, powergaming an antag to death, an antag himself or busy making sure the engine doesn't explode via hellburn.

If we're talking Goon RP: all of that is moot. The department still has to do its job, it'll just be a request from Engineering rather than an order. If they don't cooperate, the Captain, HoP and (new) Quartermaster can push the necessary buttons.

I've mined and played QM for many, many shifts and I've seen the CE maybe twice in mining (to check up on us, not to get something) and occasionally in QM to order something that could be ordered like anything else.
I've also yet to see the "engine of engineering grinding to a halt", with just a normal furnace-burn, literally the most basic shit on the station, a TEG can power the station for the entire shift. Maybe getting a 1TW hellburn going could be harder, but that'd be a bonus, not a necessity of the department.

I can, however, see a role between CE and Cargo+Mining. Bottom line, almost no CEs ever feel responsible for Cargo or Mining, most just go in there to get something they want, then leave again. I've seen HoPs interact more with Cargo than CEs.