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The Orchid, Science

Botanical research

Aptitude breakdown

Recruits posted to The Orchid usually score close to The Staff and The Pearl too.

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Your station

Careful, curious and good with living things. The Orchid is presented as a greenhouse for botanical research, and the role rewards people who follow safety rules to the letter.

In the show

Your role: Science

Researchers who design the experiments, take the readings and write them up. You would rather have a good question than a quick answer.

Your first day

  1. 06:30Greenhouse rounds: water, light and humidity for every bed.
  2. 09:00Lab work on the morning’s cuttings.
  3. 12:30Lunch outside, away from the seedlings.
  4. 14:00Safety briefing. Listen to all of it, even if you know it by heart.
  5. 16:00Write up the day’s results before you forget what they meant.Science duty
  6. 17:00Lock the greenhouse and log who went in.

Who you would work with

People from the show who did this work for the Initiative. Their files stay sealed, names and faces included, until you reach the episode that shows them on the job.

Your personnel file

Share it or save it as an image. Add a name if you like; it stays on this device.

Personnel file
DHARMA Initiative recruitmentDI-01180
Name
Station
The Orchid
Assignment
Botanical research
Role
Science
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Tap the Name line to put your name on the file. It is optional, stays on this device and never goes in a link.

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The other stations

Roles: Workman, Science, Security, Psych, Education, Kitchen. An unofficial fan quiz; the badges are our own drawings, not DHARMA logos.