Goonhub
06-02-2014, 04:21 PM
Some of the medical roles (used to be roboticist, and mostly genetics) fall under research roles.
Genetics can clone people but to keep the job interesting you can also discover super powers, and they get their money from the research budget.
RD could probably manage both robotics and genetics but in practice they never actually do.
MD is there to cover the medical department because the RD never actually does, and without at least one person with access to robotics and genetics, people would just break in and the round would be boring.
In universe I like to think that Genetics and Robotics are jointly owned by research and medbay, but RD has too many people to oversee so the medical department is given it's own head with bridge access.
Genetics can clone people but to keep the job interesting you can also discover super powers, and they get their money from the research budget.
RD could probably manage both robotics and genetics but in practice they never actually do.
MD is there to cover the medical department because the RD never actually does, and without at least one person with access to robotics and genetics, people would just break in and the round would be boring.
In universe I like to think that Genetics and Robotics are jointly owned by research and medbay, but RD has too many people to oversee so the medical department is given it's own head with bridge access.