Lavaland and the depths of space possess a wide array of ghost playable roles, ranging from some simple farmers to trained soldiers. All roles have unique objectives, characteristics and ultimately unique goals, they all have different ways they are expected to tackle dealing with the inhabitants of lavaland and the station.

Friendly Roles

These roles are typically expected to be either friendly towards Miners and other non-monster entities, outside of self defence.

Job	Role
Seed Vault Dwellers	Be created to spread virtue and peace. Waste your time growing dope and revolvers. Shoot yourself with the Revolvers when they don't work on the Goliaths. Honestly you're just a botanist who does not have to worry about assistants rushing you.
Free Golem	Yeah, do whatever.
Animal Hospital	Essentially spawn as a Medical Doctor in hell. Get lucky and heal a weary miner, or get unlucky and get killed by a Legion.
Beach Bum	Serve drinks to miners, serve drinks to lifeguards, serve drinks to yourself. Die of alcohol poisoning.
Demonic Friend	Try to act as a guardian devil. Watch in horror as the assistant you're guarding suicides. Get cast back into the pits of hell.

Neutral Roles

Generally indifferent to everyone else.

Job	Role
Hermit	Live in a hole in the wall. Dig your way to freedom or subsist off of mushrooms. Suffocate because your oxygen mask and tank are located across the room and you don't have a flashlight. Generally act like the Assistant of lavaland.
Penitent Exile	Try to redeem yourself. Fail because the game doesn't specify what you can do to redeem yourself. Cry because you will never be fully implemented.
Ancient Station Role	Spawn on a derelict station abandoned for over one hundred years. Die to lack of oxygen. Suicide when you destroy all your food supplies. Die when the space carp kill you. Die when the Hivebots kill you. Against all odds, maybe survive and thrive.

Hostile Roles

These roles are typically always hostile, or at leave very avoidant, towards any outside faction.

Job	Role
Syndicate Base Personnel	Use your syndicate comms to sow paranoia and panic among the Nanotrasen scum. Create biological weapons of mass terror and destruction. Shoot each other with donksoft guns.
Ashwalker	Be lava Lizards. Prove you don't need fancy guns to beat Goliaths. Die to a Watcher. Either be a minor nuisance to the miners, or proceed to annex the Mining Base. Spam lizard talk on the general radio. Get killed by security for spamming the radio, and coincidentally killing the miners.
Escaped Prisoners	Try to murder the miners. Be sad because all the miners have already died in the first 10 minutes and the mining shuttle console is smashed to bits.