Subsystem List

Name	Global Variable	Description
Air	SSair	ZAS simulation ticks & zone rebuilds.
Airflow	SSairflow	Handles object movement due to air pressure. Does not support START_PROCESSING(). 0.1s tickrate.
Alarms	SSalarm	Tracking and processing of air, fire, and power alarm datums. In-game alarm objects are not processed here.
Ambient Occlusion	SSocclusion
Arrivals	SSarrivals	Controls the Odin arrivals shuttle & handles Odin despawn timeout.
Assets	SSassets	Player asset cache. Handles sending of NanoUI and other HTML assets to players. Does not fire.
Atlas	SSatlas	Loads the Map
Atoms	SSatoms	Handles atom initialization. Does not fire.
Battle Monsters	SSbattlemonsters
Calamity	SScalamity	Generic processor intended for use with blobs, singularities, and other major objects. Supports START_PROCESSING().
Cargo	SScargo	Manages cargo shuttle & supply transactions.
Chemistry	SSchemistry	Handles multi-tick chemical reactions.
Diseases	SSdisease	Generic processor intended for use with diseases. Supports START_PROCESSING().
Disposals	SSdisposals	Generic processor intended for use with disposal holder objects. Supports START_PROCESSING().
Economy	SSeconomy	Holds and handles the various money accounts
Effects Master	SSeffects	Handles new-style effect ticks.
Electronics	SSelectronics	Handles integrated circuts
Emergency Shuttle	emergency_shuttle	Handles emergency shuttle movement & calling.
Events	SSevents	Handles random event scheduling & ticks.
Explosives	SSexplosives	Handles explosion processing.
Falling	SSfalling	Handles objects falling down openturfs.
Garbage	SSgarbage	Garbage collector. Manages qdel'd objects.
Global Listener	SSlistener
Holomap	SSholomap	Generates the Holomap
Icon Cache	SSicon_cache	Global holder for icon cache lists. Does not fire.
Icon Smoothing	SSicon_smooth	Handles queued icon smooth operations.
Icon Updates	SSicon_update	Handles icon updates queued with queue_icon_update().
Jobs	SSjobs	Handles job assignment, spawning, and despawning. Does not fire.
Law	SSlaw	Container for corporate regulations. Does not fire.
Lighting	SSlighting	Processes queued lighting engine updates & contains lighting object lists.
Machinery	SSmachinery	Handles machinery ticks, powernet ticks, and contains the global camera list.
Mobs - AI	SSmob_ai	Handles thinking mobs
Mobs - Life	SSmobs	Mob Life() processing & container for global mouse list.
Modifiers	SSmodifiers	Generic processor intended for use with modifier datums. 1s tickrate.
NanoUI	SSnanoui	Manages & processes NanoUI datums. Supports START_PROCESSING(), but should not be used for processing directly.
News	SSnews	Handles the news. Creation of channels and loading news from the db
Night Lighting	SSnightlight	Handles automatic night lighting switch over.
Orbits	SSorbit	Handles orbit datum updates.
Overlay	SSoverlays	Handles addition/removal of overlays from atoms. Does not support START_PROCESSING().
pAI	SSpai	Global pAI controller, handles candidate finding & global pAI software list. Does not fire.
Persistent Configuration	SSpersist_config	Perists Configuration Across Reboots
Pipenet	SSpipenet	Handles atmos pipenet processing. Supports START_PROCESSING().
Power	SSpower	Contains powernet lists and manages RCON. Does not fire.
Processing	SSprocessing	Generic multi-purpose processor. Supports START_PROCESSING(). 2s tickrate.
Processing (Fast)	SSfast_process	Generic multi-purpose processor with a high (0.5s) tick-rate. Supports START_PROCESSING().
Projectiles	SSprojectiles
Radio	SSradio	Communications controller, manages radio frequencies. Does not fire.
Response Team	SSresponseteam	Handles selection of ERT or TCFL depending on round progression
Seeds & Plants	SSplants	Maintains global seed lists, plant icon caches, and handles spreading vine processing. Supports START_PROCESSING().
Shuttles	shuttle_controller	Handles shuttle processing & maintains global shuttle lists. Supports START_PROCESSING().
Space Parallax	SSparallax	Space parallax setup & container for space parallax lists. Does not fire.
Statistics & Inactivity	SSfeedback	Handles inactivity kick, feedback gathering, and round-end statistics. Cannot be var-edited.
Sun	SSsun	Solar sun tracking & solar panel updates.
Sunlight	SSsunlight	Handles surface sunlight illumination. Does not fire.
Ticker	SSticker	Manages game mode & round status.
Timer	SStimer	Handles timer (addtimer) processing.
Trade	SStrade	Handles the merchant Traders.
Traumas	SStraumas	Handles the Traumas.
Voting	SSvote	Handles voting. Shocking.
VueUI	SSvueui	Handles VueUI
Xenoarcheology	SSxenoarch	Handles xenoarch find generation at world start. Does not fire.
XKeyScore	SSipintel	Container for IPIntel cache. Does not fire.
Z-Copy	SSzcopy
Map Finalization	N/A	Handles asteroid generation. Selects and loads the Away mission
Early Miscellaneous Init	N/A	Handles miscellaneous server setup steps done early in server boot. Does not fire.
Late Miscellaneous Init	N/A	Handles miscellaneous server setup steps done late in server boot. Does not fire.
-- Retired --
Objects	SSobjects	Handles processing of the processing_objects list.
Open Space	SSopenturf	Handles updates of open turf overlays & turfs, as well as containing the global lists of all openspace overlays + all openturfs.
Wireless	SSwireless	Maintains wireless reciever lists & handles wireless datum pairing.