Days blurred into weeks, and finally, the last day of Year One of the Federation Era arrived. After finishing their final shift of the year, the crew was officially granted a five-day public holiday.
Naturally, essential services such as the medical bays, the nuclear reactor control rooms, and the military garrison still required personnel on duty. However, these departments adopted a strict rotation system, ensuring everyone got their fair share of time off.
Currently, almost all of the fifty-thousand citizens aboard the Noah had been assigned permanent roles. Unemployment was practically nonexistent; in fact, there was a severe labor shortage across dozens of sectors. The engineering teams were scrambling to deploy automated drones to fill the gaps.
