Guide to Genetics: Difference between revisions

  |text=Welcome to genetics, brother! Are you feeling good? You SHOULD feel good! You are now like unto a tiny god! Are you prepared to be what you were born to be? Are you ready to save the station (or totally fuck it up)?

== The Department ==

[[File:Genetics.png|thumb|240px|right]]

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.

The third room has your test subjects! These monkeys are going to be your guinea pigs, you are going to experiment on them, and make the suffer quite a bit. It's pretty inhumane. But such is life, and after a few seconds, it will all be worth it. They actually have it pretty easy, it's better than getting gibbed and eaten.

 

==[[File:scanner.gif|64px]][[File:Medcom.gif|64px]][[File:Clone.gif|64px]] Cloning ==

When you first hear about "cloning", you may think that people are referring to making many clones of yourself so you can take over the station. This is not the case (although that can be done too, just not exactly that way). Cloning is a process of of reviving someone who has died. For a cloning process we need a dead body and cloning equipment, which can be found in your Cloning Room.

# 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 they can be cloned scanning will succeed regardless of whether they're in their body or not. There are still a few possible errors - see the section on cloning errors for details.

# If scanning is successful, however, you will get a '''''Successful Scan'' -message'''. That means you now have that person's cloning data saved. You can use this record to steal their genetic data at any time, but cloning is more limited - if their last death happened after they got scanned, any attempts to clone using the record will fail.

# 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.

# The cloning process takes from 2 to 3 minutes. For whoever is getting cloned, it seems like a very long time. But it's not long for you. While the guy is getting his new body set up, take his '''belongings and stuff them all in the locker''' right by the cloning pod, so their stuff isn't scattered all over. Plus, cloning the captain and leaving his ID and other secure items on the floor sure is bad.

#* '''Aborted cloning:''' Use this as [[traitor]] to screw with that assistant who talked smack to you earlier. During the cloning process, it is possible to eject the incomplete clone by unlocking the Cloning Pod with your ID and ejecting the unfinished clone (needs to be >40% done) or by getting an Engineer to unlock the Genetics APC so you can shut off the power temporarily, which also causes the clone to (instantly, no matter how done) eject. This will usually clone people without limbs or vital organs, making them die quickly.  

# 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.

# If R&D has been doing their job, they might upgrade the cloner to a level where it can autoprocess. If this is the case, you only have to press the Autoprocess button on top of the window, and the cloner will scan automatically. This is useful to process a large pile of bodies quickly - scan them one at a time, and autoprocess will do the rest.  

=== [[File:Husk.png|64px|OH GOD OH FUCK]] 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 without upgrades. Before you go throwing that body in the morgue, they can still be helped!

# Run back to Genetics and grab a humanized monkey.

# Return to Surgery and remove the humanized monkey's brain too, and dispose of it.

# Now shove the husk's brain into the monkeyman's corpse and defibrillate the monkeyman.

If all goes well then your cadaver will be reborn! Admittedly in a different body.

=== Helping the Headless ===

Sometimes you'll find corpses whose head is separated from their body. Thanks to the marvels of modern science, this is not a problem!

#If you have a head or a brain, just chuck it in the cloner as normal! To clone a head or brain you must throw it into the cloner by activating throw with '''R''' and then clicking. Then click the cloner to close it.  

# Put plasmaman into cloning scanner

# Scan them, start the cloning process

# Drag their dead body to cloning pod

# Undress them and leave their clothes in a pile

# Turn on shower near cloning pod

# Once they pop out of cloner, put them under shower and wait for them to dress up

# Once they pop out of cloner, put them under shower and feed them a few blue pills ([[Guide_to_chemistry#Salbutamol|Salbutamol]]) from aforementioned medkit. Plasmamen suffocate if they don't have plasma to breathe!

# Yell at [[Supply_crates|cargo]] to order plasmaman supplies. In the meantime, bug Engineering/Atmos for a plasma tank.

=== Why can't I clone this dude? ===

| Remove the brain and put it into an intact body (ie another corpse or monkey-turned-human), then scan that corpse. Yell at RnD to upgrade your scanner.

| The corpse has no ghost inside it. This means that the patient's ghost is either floating around somewhere or they already got cloned.

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.

 

* 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.

* '''Genetic Sequence = 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.

A mutation might look something like this. Not exactly, since size varies and there's usually blocks replaced with X's

=== Genetic Sequence - Powers, Disabilities & Species ===

There are '''four''' blocks. Every one of those letters in the boxes are connected. '''A goes with T, and G goes with C.''' Order does not matter.  

Mutations are the same across people with the sole difference being the X's. If all the little slots are filled with the correct AT, TA, GC and CG pairs, the mutation is activated. If this is not the case, it's deactivated. One might want to disable the monkey mutation by replacing one of the healthy pairs with an X.

The more difficult mutations will have alot of unknown pairs. You cannot just randomly enter A-T, since it's predetermined what it's supposed to be. Knowing all this, you could whip out the genetic scanner in your pocket and see if someone has just the right pairs where there would be X's otherwise.

|This is pretty obvious. Subject becomes extremely strong, enough to punch through reinforced walls, and is unable to speak without yelling. The subject is also immune to stuns and cannot be pushed past. This mutation is lost when the subject falls to critical health. Created by combining Strength with Radioactive.  

|Radioactive + Strength

!Thermal Vision

|The user of this genome can visually perceive people's unique thermal signatures, even through walls and in darkness. Combine with Radioactive to make the X-Ray power.  

|

|style='color:#0000ff'|''"You can see the heat rising off of your skin..."''

|25

!X-Ray Vision

|Also a very good power. Basically, it gives the subject the ability to see everything that is beyond their normal vision: walls, furniture, even other people! This, combined with Telekinesis, is a deadly combination. Created by combining Thermal Vision with Radioactive.  

|Subject's eyes ''"glow eerily"'' if looked at with a penlight.

|style='color:#0000ff'|''"The walls suddenly disappear."''

|Thermal Vision + Radioactive

|35

!Chameleon

|The subject becomes able to subtly alter light patterns to become invisible, as long as they remain still.

|Subject starts fading into the background.

|style='color:#0000ff'|"''You feel one with your surroundings.''"

|25

!Nearsightedness

|Makes the subject's screen go hazy at about halfway from the edge of your whole vision. It's not THAT bad, and can be temporarily fixed by using prescription glasses.

|\

|style='color:#ff0000'|''"Your eyes feel strange."''

!Epilepsy

|Subject starts to fall down and keeps shaking all the time. They're horrible, and there's no easy cure short of fixing the block.

|style='color:#ff0000'|''"You get a headache."''

|Makes the subject drop small items you're holding, like syringes. Pretty harmless, but has potential to be extremely annyoing.

|Subject coughs.

|style='color:#ff0000'|''"You start coughing."''

|Genetic

|The subject swears all the time. They may also experience paralysis that takes even longer than the seizures. Avoid.

!Nervousness

|Makes the subject stammer. Annoying at best.

|Subject stammers when they speak.

|style='color:#ff0000'|''"You feel nervous."''

!Deafness

|Makes the subject deaf. Harmless at best, annoying at worst. You just don't hear anything, not even yourself.

|\

|style='color:#ff0000'|''"You can't seem to hear anything..."''

!Clumsiness

|Subject has a clown-like clumsiness. For those that have always wanted to be clowns. It makes the subject accidentally drop things they hold, unable to use tasers, handcuffs, guns exploding in their face etc.

|\

|style='color:#ff0000'|''"You feel lightheaded."''

|Genetic/Clowns

|\

!Mute

|Completely shuts down the speech center of the subject's brain.

|\

|style='color:#ff0000'|''"You feel unable to express yourself at all."''

!Wacky

|Forces the subject to talk in an odd manner.

|\

|''"You feel an off sensation in your voicebox."''

!Strength

|Subject feels stronger, but isn't.

|Combine with Radioactive to make the Hulk power.

|"You feel stronger"

!Fire Sweat

|Subject sweats '''liquid fire'''[CITATION NEEDED] and grows slightly more resistent to fire[CITATION ALSO NEEDED]

|Subject will spontaneously combust

|style='color:#ff0000'|''"You feel hot."''

|Genetic

|A rare genome that attracts odd forces not usually observed.

|"You feel a heavy, dull force just beyond the walls watching you."

!Radioactive

|Subject radiates energy from their skin. They're just as susceptible to it as anyone else

|Subject glows with a green aura

|style='color:#ff0000'|''"You feel it in your bones"''

|5

!Telepathy

|Subject is able to broadcast it's thought directly to others

|A rare mutation that allows the user to telepathically communicate to others.

|style='color:#0000ff'|''"You hear your thoughts echo in your mind"''

|10

!Firebreath

|Subject becomes able to breathe concentrated balls of fire.

|An ancient mutation that gives lizards breath of fire.

|style='color:#0000ff'|''"You feel a heat built up in your throat"''

|Causes the speech center of the subject's brain to produce large amounts of seratonin and a chemical resembling ecstacy when engaged.

|''"You feel so happy. Nothing can be wrong with anything. :)"''

!Chav

|Forces the language center of the subject's brain to construct sentences in a more rudimentary manner.

|\

|''"Ye feel like a reet prat like, innit?"''

!Swedish

|Forces the language center of the subject's brain to construct sentences in a vaguely norse manner.

|\

|''"You feel Swedish, however that works."''

!Elvis

|Forces the language center and primary motor cortex of the subject's brain to talk and act like the King of Rock and Roll.

|No longer in Genetics, but can be acquired via admin spawned injector

|Makes the subject randomly mutate. Very dangerous. Definitely be careful with this one.

|Strange mutation that causes the holder to randomly mutate.

|style='color:#ff0000'|''"You feel strange."''

|No longer in Genetics, but can be acquired via admin spawned injector

|The affected person does not conduct electricity.

|The affected can channel excess electricity through their hands without shocking themselves, allowing them to shock others.

|Insulated + Radioactive

|Your sense of smell is comparable to that of a canine.

!Geladikinesis

|Allows the user to concentrate moisture and sub-zero forces into snow

|This mutation lets you create snow, used to build snowtiles, walls, balls and snowmen

|style='color:#0000ff'|''"Your hands feel cold"''

!Cryokinesis

|style='color:#0000ff'|''"Your hands feel cold"''

|20

|Victim randomly teleports a short distance away and becomes extremely disgusted as a result.

!Paranoia

|Subject is easily terrified, and may suffer from hallucinations.

|Subject screams frequently

|style='color:#FF0000'|''"You feel screams echo through your mind..."''

!Gigantism

|The cells within the subject spread out to cover more area, making them appear larger.

|Subject is slightly larger than normal

|''"Everything around you seems to shrink.."''

=== [[File:DNA Injector.png|64px]] Buffers and Injectors - Saving Your Work and Handing Out Godhood ===

* You may've noticed the buffers on someones enzymes. Good, those are boring and are for appearance. Now let's move on to what you want to know

 

* Want to save a mutation? Hit ''store'' to save it to the mutations tab!

 

 

 

 

=== Manhandling Genes! ===

==== First Steps ====

* Check the '''computer''' next to it, you'll see a bunch of information. Find ''Genetic Sequence'' and try to not confuse them with the other enzyme blocks above.

All mutations are randomized so no one really has any idea what they got in store

==== Humanizing a Monkey ====

Always humanize your monkey first, or their powers wont work.'''

# You and your buddy share the mutations you've discovered, work togheter to discover them all

# Scroll through the mutations and find monkey. Then change a random pair and you're donzo.

# If for any reason you got yourself some bad mutations and have no one to remove them, grab the [[Guide_to_chemistry#Mutadone|mutadone]] pill bottle in your lab. You usually have several 50u pills available, which is overkill. Dissolve a pill by pouring a tiny amount of water into a beaker (by using the beaker on a sink once), then drop a pill of [[Guide_to_chemistry#Mutadone|mutadone]] into it and take a sip. It should instantly clear all your mutations, unless your mutations have [[#Chromosome_21|reinforcement chromosomes]].

# [[Guide_to_chemistry#Mutadone|Mutadone]] will also clear the "monkified" mutation from monkeys, instantly turning them human. Use a dropper set to 1u to squirt dissolved [[Guide_to_chemistry#Mutadone|mutadone]] into the eyes of monkeys to mass humanize them without needing any machinery.

==== Manifesting Mutations ====

# If there's more than 2 double X-pairs, consider using the JOKER or going out and scanning some people and see if they have the missing pairs.

# If it didn't work, you may've messed up somewhere. Double check. Also make sure they're not still a monkey. If all else fails, move on to another mutation or scramble their DNA.

==== Against the Radiation ====

*'''[[Guide_to_chemistry#Pentetic_Acid|Pentetic Acid]]''' works very well against both rads and toxin damage.

==== Genetic Instability ====

When you manifest a power, you may get a message like "It feels like your skin is moving." This is telling you that your genetic instability has gotten higher, and you'll need to be careful not to add too many more powers. All humans can withstand up to '''100 genetic instability''' before they start to bubble and melt. 101 instability would be too much. Negative mutations generally don't give you instability, but powers do. As a rule of thumb, the stronger the power, the more instability it gives. Choose your powers wisely.

==== What to do with your powers ====

 

 

Each active mutation in a person has a single chromosome slot. You can only add chromosomes to people who are inside the connected DNA scanner. Do so by opening the ''Genetic Sequencer'' tab. Then click anactive mutation, or [[#Manifesting_Mutations|find one]] if none is active yet. You should see the line ''Chromosome status:'' and a clickable "----"-button. Click that button. If that mutation is compatible with any of the currently stored chromosomes, you will get a list where you can select that chromosome. Select it, and you have now filled that mutation's chromosome slot. To delete the chromosome from that slot, you can deactivate and reactivate the mutation by turning any letter to X and then back. <br>

<br><br>Congratulations. If you read everything is this guide, you should now be a full-fledged Geneticist.