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This is going to be your home, buddy. Get used to it. It grows on ya!

== Cloning ==

Alright! Time to bring some bitches back from the dead!

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 different genetic code than their original bodies - I suggest sticking new clones with a clean SE injection. I will teach you how to do this in later chapters.

== Hark! A Husk! ==

So theres a husk 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.

If all goes well then your cadaver will be reborn, admittedly in a different body.

== DNA Modification ==

The basics from Cloning also apply here. Abiotic items are not allowed inside the modifier, so the subject has to be naked. That part is easy enough.

Structural Enzymes, however, are 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 - This is important! ===

The first thing you will notice is that there are exactly 42 characters in a single line. Those are your subject's SEs. This long string is divided in 14 sub-blocks, with 3 pieces each. Blocks 1 through 13 control disabilities or powers, and block 14 controls race. The string is in Hexadecimal - which means base 16 in math terms. It means a number can range from 0 - as normally, zero - to F - equivalent of <strike>16</strike> 15. So, it can go like this, from lower to higher:

The first number in each block is the most important one. It controls whether a disability is active or inactive, whether a power has a chance to activate or not, and the race of the subject.

Before we start splicing, you must know which blocks control what.<br/>

- <font color=#FF0000>Blocks 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9</font> are '''ALL''' disabilities. These are minor disabilities, and can be discovered easily. These range from Tourette's Syndrome (swearing constantly) to Seizuring. Keep all these blocks BELOW 8xx before attempting to inject these SEs in someone.<br/>

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Disability:Strangeness</font> - Very dangerous. It makes you randomly mutate. Definitely be careful with this one. The message is "You feel strange".

=== Manhandling Genes! ===

Now that you are acquainted with your friends, the genes, you have to learn just how to mess with them! It's pretty simple, thankfully. After you're in the "Modify Structural Enzymes" screen, just select the block and sub-block you want to radiate, and click Radiate! After a few seconds, the screen will pop back up, and you will see if your modification had any effect. If it didn't, well, blast the subject with deadly rays again! Harmless!

All powers have a ''chance'' of manifesting. So even if the block is high enough, you still need to pray to the RNG gods to give it to you. If you know ''for sure'' a block is a super power, just keep changing one of the sub blocks until the power manifests. Disabilities, on the other hand, will always manifest.

=== Cleaning the Gene Pool ===

Ok, so you tampered with genes. You discovered a few powers, but it comes along with a few disabilities, and you have no idea why. Time to learn why that happens, how to fix it and what to do after you're done.

I cannot stress this enough. CLEAN YOUR SE BEFORE TESTING. It's a very big sign of an incompetent geneticist to hand out injectors that give you Telekinesis, but also make you stutter, swear all the time and have bad eyesight. Seriously people, this is a big one. CLEAN. YOUR. GENE. POOLS.

== Buffers and Injectors - Handing Out Godhood ==

This is how you save your work. A very good geneticist once said: Save early, save often. His words are true. You have to save your every step in order to acquire a perfect serum. That means you have to be patient enough to bending the block to your will, dedicated enough to remove every disability, and responsable enough to save everything to make sure nothing goes wrong.

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 Modifier 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!

== All Together Now - A Practical Guide ==

Ok. So you know how to brew super-strength. You know how to turn Force Power into a needle. You know how to transform that annoying asshole into a monkey. But this is only theory. Now you want to know how to put it all together! This is what this chapter covers.

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.

== The Gene Genie - The Traitorous Geneticist ==

Sorry for the bad chapter title. I wanted to use that for a very long time.

So, you learned how to do your job successfuly, and how to be a credit to the station. You learned how to manipulate genes. Now you want to learn what the hell to do when the syndicate is the one writing your checks! Well, fret not! I will give you some pointers. But these are mostly tips - traitorous objectives differ wildly, and change your actions way too much for me to write a real guide on it.  

=== Rev head ===

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 modifier. 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.

=== Traitor ===

Also, never forget identity theft. Since you can take someone's complete identity, including looks, you can have some fun with that.

=== Wizard ===

Well... Stealth wizard? Several things you can do, mostly involving UI+UE stuff. Not worth it, really. One thing you can do is taking identities and belongings, but you have to expose yourself to mess with the console. Your choice.

=== Changeling ===

FUCKING REJOICE, your work is cut out for you! Have fun eating the lifeless corpses you clone.

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