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Welcome to [[Genetics]]. Just across the morgue lies a mystical realm where some of Nanotrasen's greatest minds entertain themselves by toying the Human Genome into knots.

The first thing you're going to see is that our department has two rooms. The first, the one you walk into as you enter from medbay, is the Cloning room. It has only one Cloning Console, one DNA Scanner, and one Cloning Pod. More on this later.

The second room is the one where you're going to spend the most of your time. This is where things get done, where people go to become hulking supermutants, where you are going to do. Your. Job. This room has two DNA Scanners and two DNA Scanner Access Consoles, along with two diskette boxes and a few lockers. The medicine locker has a syringe box and anti-toxin bottles. This is quite useful, as any tampering with genetic code gives Toxin damage. The bio-hazard locker has pretty much what you expect it to have - a bio suit and bio hood. Useful if a disease breaks out. The diskettes are also extremely useful, as we will see later.

* First of all, you have to know that for all things cloning, the [[Chief Medical Officer]] has a final say. He is your boss on this side of Genetics. If he tells you to clone someone and not some other guy, you do it. The only person with higher say than him on these matters is the Captain.

* On to the specifics! How does cloning work, you ask? Well, it's quite simple! Just '''grab or pull''' a body and stuff that puppy up '''in the [[DNA Scanner]] and close the door'''. If you want to remove someone from a Scanner, click on it to open the door. Unless the Scanner is locked, the person/monkey inside is going to pop right out.

* After the Scanner is already occupied, '''interact with the Cloning Console'''. You will see a few things. Now, the most important is the first. Click '''Scan''' to see if the person inside is actually not an empty husk! If there is no ghost inside the corpse, you will get a ''"Mental interface failure!"''-message, and you will not be able to clone that person. If that happens, try waiting a minute and try again (the ghost gets a message in their chatlog when their body is put into a Cloning Pod and it might take a few seconds to notice it). If they still do not respond, however, take the corpse to the morgue and be done with it. Corpses who seem to have suicided with ''no hope of recovery'' cannot be cloned and you should be taken straigh to the morgue.

* If there IS a [[ghost]] in that corpse, however, you will get a '''''Successful Scan'' -message'''. That means you now have that person's cloning data saved. You can use that at any time. But, after it's used, it's erased from the records. The only way you can save a person's genetic data is with a Cloning Diskette, which is found in the DNA Modification room.

* After you actually have DNA data from a person, '''click Check Records''', and then '''select the person who you want cloned'''. You will see a list of their UI+UE (Unique Identifiers + Unique Enzymes) and their SEs (Structural Enzymes), which are quite irrelevant. '''Click Clone'''. You will notice that the Cloning Pod is now fully active, with a shadow inside. That is the new body. You can now '''take the old corpse out of the DNA Scanner''', '''strip it completely''' so the cloned person can have their stuff back, and '''place the old corpse in the morgue'''. You don't have to worry about it anymore.

* After the pod is empty, feel free to '''clone your next patient''', and to let the old one out, since they most likely don't have clearance to open the door. By the way, clones might have genetic deformations and disabilities in their brand-spanking new bodies - it is highly suggested to '''stick the new clones with a clean SE injection'''. This will be learned in the later chapters.

=== Hark! A Husk! ===

So you've come across a [[husk]] (a gray, dead guy) on your floor, which means you can't clone that poor sod. Before you go throwing that body in the morgue, they can still be helped.

First off, make sure it's a husk. Throw the body into a DNA Scanner, if it says theres no genetic material, then you have yourself a husk, celebrate.  

Your boss here is no longer the [[Chief Medical Officer]]. Do not feel forced to listen to his orders, except when it comes to cloning. Regarding the research, listen to direct orders from the [[Research Director]] as well as the [[Captain]]. For security reasons allow NO ONE ELSE in the Modification room. Simple as that.

Now, let's get you acquainted with the DNA Scanner Access Consoles next to the monkeys. It has a few things of note. First of all, you're going to notice two clickable lines:

* ''Modify Unique Enzymes (UE) / Unique Identifiers (UI)''

* ''Modify Structural Enzymes (SE)''

You might ask yourself: What does this mean?

* Unique Enzymes = just what identify who you are, your name. Even if you change them, it will have no effect. What does change stuff is you transfering them from one person to another, effectively changing their name.

* Unique Identifiers = merely your cosmetic details - eye color, skin color, hair style, hair color and gender. You don't really have to mess with any of these, and they are quite unimportant.

* '''Structural Enzymes = extremely important!''' They contain data relevant to your genetic structure. This governs your race, and messing with it carelessly might give you disabilities. For those that handle genes with care, however, great benefits are to be had.

=== Structural Enzymes - Powers, Disabilities & Species ===

* That covers buffers. But '''"what are injectors?"''' you may ask yourself. Well, injectors are tiny one-shot needles, that contain buffer data, whatever it may be. That means you can now turn that sweet, sweet Hulk buffer into a small, awesome, orange/red injector! Good stuff. To turn a buffer into an injector, simply click Injector in the options below the buffer in question, after "Transfer To:". A small needle will spawn on top of the DNA Scanner Access Console. You can now stick his baby in anyone who stands around for enough time. ''Note: The DNA Scanner Access Console takes time to replicate an injector. Something like 90 seconds or close to it.''

* Remember how I told you about '''diskettes'''? You can use them to backup your work as well! With one in your hand, click the DNA Scanner Access Console. Now enter the Buffer screen. Click "Save To" in there to save the data to the diskette. If the diskette is not write-protected, the data is going in there! From the main screen, you can eject the disk from the console. You can also load data from a diskette much the same way. Except you click in "Load From" in the buffer screen, instead of "Save To". Easy peasy. I always like to leave the station with all four powers in an SE stored in a diskette. FOR THE GOOD OF MANKIND AND EVOLUTION!

This guide here shows you step by step how to find the powers from the mysterious blocks!

Genes are distorted and twisted by shooting them with radiation. This can be done with the DNA Scanner Access Console and the computer in your lab.

 

 

 

At the start of the shift no one has any idea which structural block is which. '''They're all randomized.''' This is why we must do science, experimentation:

 

 

# Decide whether you're going to go from lower blocks to higher blocks or vice versa and stick to it. If you're working with a fellow Geneticist, decide together and start working at opposite ends. Also remember not to focus too hard on following an orderly pattern, if another untested block raises to a high level, test it out, remember to share data with your fellow Geneticist. When working with a partner, communication is key to efficient work.

 

 

# When you got it, open the DNA Scanner to check if your monkey has turned into a human, if it has, congratulations, you've got your very own monkey-person! If no, your best bet is to take another monkey and try again.

 

# Put your test subject back into the DNA Scanner. Time to clean their gene pool.

 

'''How to manifest mutations:'''

Back to practice! Now begins the fun & hard part:

# Try to figure out the block's function. First switch your target from torso to eyes and turn on the '''penlight''' stored in your suit storage. The penlight is going to be very useful for your work to find blindness / X-Ray, so be warned. To test someone's eyes, click the Eyes in the target area, then use the penlight on the subject with 'help'-intent on. If you get a "[subject]'s pupils narrow!", this means their vision is perfect. An "eerie glow" means X-Ray Vision, and "has no reaction" or something means the subject is blind! Fix that ASAP! Write down what you find. ''Note: Figuring out can be almost impossible sometimes. You can wait for them to curse and fall down or just look at them if you can see anything glowing around their head. Or ask for a volunteering Assistant to donate their body to science and give verbal feedback on what they feel during testing. Or self-test like a boss. There are many strategies here!''

# At this point it may be a good idea to visit '''[[Chemistry]]''' and order some [[Hyronalin]] for your genetic testing. I usually order 2 pillboxes full of Hyronolin pills with ten units per pill. These are extremely useful as they lower radiation levels almost instantaneously unlike [[Anti-Toxin]], which cures the toxins damage caused by radiation but does little to the rads themselves, or Rejuvinative Chemicals, which can be injected through the DNA Scanner Access Console and slowly lowers radiation (also seems to make the patient's genome more resistant to change). This will help you keep your patients alive and allow you to use SE Syringes more often without the risk of getting radiation poisoning and falling over due to weakness. Just eat a pill after every second or third syringe, or give it to your patients when their radiation levels are high (above 20%, due to how long it takes to just wait for it to go down) like when you have just applied a saved buffer to occupant. Use the two syringe rule when injecting other players, always have them eat a pill after every second syringe.

## One is, of course, getting a player to be a test subject. This is surprisingly easy, but bewarned, the guy might VERY easily be a traitor just out for getting an easy Hulk + TK. If you get a player to help you, simply save his SE before doing anything.

## The other method is the most common approach. Grab a monkey from the pen, stuff him in the DNA Scanner, and change his species block (should be the only one above 800 at this point) until he becomes a human. Of course, run through all of the blocks to make sure it's definitely clean, and save it.

# After you have a definitely clean backup, '''rename the label''' to say so, and '''make an injector''' out of it. You never know when you're going to need it. After getting the injector and sticking it in your pocket, you are clear for working on your subject. I assume you took a monkey from the pen from now on, and will work on that assumption.

# After you get your '''first block above DAC, MAKE SURE YOU CLEAN THE SE''' (make sure all the other blocks are below 800). Check every other block for mutations. If any, even the other possible power blocks, is above 800, remove it. After you are sure the SE is entirely clean, save your work. You have just isolated this block. Check to see if your subject is blind. If he is not, you can test the work on yourself. Simply make an injector, and use it on yourself.

# Now, '''what happens is important'''. If you get absolutely no message, this means the block you just isolated and tested on yourself is a latent power! Should that be the case, you now have made your first step into greatness. If the injector gives you either deafness, strangeness or lightheadedness (you DID check for blindness, didn't you?), this means the injector (and, thus, the buffer) is bad. Scrap that buffer, remove that block from the SE and work from the next on the list. Rinse and repeat, keep on doing this until you have all four powers, and no disability. Congratulations, you have found the superhuman serum/omniSE/demigod vaccine/whatever the hell you want to call it.

'''CLEAN.'''<br>

'''THE.'''<br>

'''GENE.'''<br>

'''POOL.'''<br>

Congratulations. If you read everything is this guide, you should now be a full-fledged Geneticist! Welcome to the club, friend, hope you enjoy it! Pass on the knowledge to those in need. If you have any questions, say so, and I will update the guide to reflect it.

Simple. Flash colleagues. If the RD or the CMO come check on you, say you have a good set of powers, but the replicator is offline. Ask for him / her to strip and get in the Scanner. Lock him/her in, have your way with them, they can't leave nor can they talk. Let them enjoy their slow, painful death. If someone wants to clone the captain, that too is pretty simple. Just don't do it. As soon as the guy leaves, stuff the captain in a locker, take his stuff and call it a day. You could also eat until you get fat, transform people in monkeys and eat them. Fun for all.