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| Spacers aboard the ''Zheng He'' are divided into four broad categories<<FootNote(Warships also have Gunners and Medics. The ''Zheng He'' medical department was eliminated except for the marine medics, because of redundancy with the actual hospital installed on it, and it has no weapons.)>>: Astronauts, Technicians, Stewards and Yeomen. | Spacers aboard the ''Zheng He'' are divided into four broad categories<<FootNote(AWSF warships also have Gunners and Medics. The ''Zheng He'' medical department was eliminated except for the marine medics, because of redundancy with the actual hospital installed on it, and it has no weapons.)>>: Astronauts, Technicians, Stewards and Yeomen. |
The members of a ship's crew are called spacers. They have various occupational specialities and pay grade based on performance and seniority.
Common Training
All spacers receive common training in procedures, communication, damage control and safety equipment use, including the use of Emergency Spacesuits and working in conditions of weightlessness. Many spacers will be additionally qualified for EVA, meaning that they have had training in actually working routinely in unpressurised environments and using an Activity Spacesuit with a Personal Thruster Unit, rather than just being able to don an ES and conduct basic evacuation1 and damage control procedures while wearing it.
Specialities
Spacers aboard the Zheng He are divided into four broad categories2: Astronauts, Technicians, Stewards and Yeomen.
Technicians are responsible for maintaining and operating ship systems and operating drones. The work of Stewards involves food service, recreational facilities, and supplies. Yeoman are responsible for administrative tasks the maintenance and operation of information technology services. Astronauts are responsible for controlling the ship and all other aspects of space operations such as carried craft and cargo.
There are many subspecialties within these broad ratings. Spacers often cross-train in skills beside their primary one.
Advancement Structure
Seniority, peer evaluations, supervisor evaluations, and acquisition of additional skills and qualifications are factored into advancement in pay.
Spacers with interest and aptitude in leadership may advance to leading spacer positions, facilitating and organizing the work of more junior crewmembers and working to improve the efficiency and operational readiness of the ship. Further advancement to chief spacer is also possible. (Large ships may have more organizational layers.)
Spacers are contracted to serve some term. In the Allied Worlds Space Forces and many civilian, police, and local military spacing organizations, the contract term is based on chronological time, with time in hibernation counting against the term the same as awake time. The Allied Worlds requires interstellar spacing organizations (i.e. those using the wormholes) to count time until retirement (or the completion of an enlistment or contract term) by calendar rather than awake time and requires at least 75% pay for hibernating spacers. (The AWSF pays 100% for hibernation time.) Single-system organizations are not necessarily subject to these requirements.