Guide to Medical

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Synthetic / Augmented Patients and you

Sometimes, instead of having somebody treatable via normal means, they'll have one or more robotic limbs, or even be a full-on synthetic. When treating these, you'll have a few special things to keep in mind:
Robotic limbs are distinguished between full-on robotic (Augmentations, Prosthetics), and biomechanical (called Hybrid in the code). The key difference between those two is that while fully robotic limbs block any and all attempts to inject or spray things on them, biomechanical ones have inbuilt injection ports allowing hyposprays to inject medicine, though spraying will still not work, aswell as their bruises and burns still not being healed by chemicals.
What both types have in common is that healing chemicals have zero effect on them, although damaging chemicals generally still work. Treating toxins damage and suffocation works just how it works for your normal organic person though. This means, in order to fix them, you will require a welding tool for bruises, and cable coil for burns. Surgery will also require different tools to be effective, generally one should have a full toolbelt on hand. Just target their injured limb, apply cable coil / welder, and boom, they'll be down 15 points of damage of the respective type. They can also self-treat via that method, though this takes far more time than being treated by another person, five seconds to be precise.
Now, sometimes you may encounter a most annoying message: The [limb] appears to have suffered severe internal damage and requires surgery to be repaired further.
This means that the robotic limb passed a damage threshhold, and therefore cannot be repaired past a certain damage level with normal means, save surgery, or nanites.
Fortunately, this is pretty easy to do: Just slam em onto the surgery table, target chest with your drapes, select the 'repair robotic limbs' option, and perform the surgery itself till the damage is healed.
The threshhold state will reset upon going below that damage, so you should be fine to repair them with normal means now you have done that!

Damage threshholds

This is a list of the damage threshholds, and minimum damage when passed, for all the existing robotic / biomechanical limbs:
Note that threshholds are handled seperately for brute and burn, which means even if a limb is well past its threshhold of brute damage, you can still use cable coil to heal their small burn injuries.

Name	Threshhold	Mindamage
Augmented, Head	40	20
Augmented, Chest	40	25
Augmented, other	35	25
Prosthetic, all	15	10
Advanced Prosthetic, all	20	5
Biomechanical, all	25	15

Special Quirks to keep in mind

Full-on Synthetic people as opposed to ones just augmented have a few very distinct traits about them, which are highly important to keep in mind at times.:

• Full immunity to normal toxins.
• System Corruption instead of toxins damage.
• Robotic Limbs with the threshhold system, and therefore:
• Immunity to all brute / burn related medicine and
• Easy healing via Welder / Wire, unless above threshold.
• Immunity to any kind of alcohol, which rapidly gets purged from the Synthetic's body.
• Vulnerability to EMPs, which damage them and cause corruption.
• Critical vulnerability to radiation, aka radiation damage at half the rad levels of normal humans. (Can be removed via an upgrade researchable by science, which makes them able to handle 50% more than humans)
• Immunity to special effects of radiation like mutation and hairloss.
• Suceptibility to dismemberment, in exchange for being able to easily have their limbs reattached.
• Use power drained from APCs to gain nutrition instead of using food.

System Corruption

Synthetics have a special damage type instead of toxins, system corruption. Due to this fact, they are immune to all normal sources of toxins damage.
It generally causes a variety of negative effects, depending on how much corruption is accumulated and is comperatively slow to gain aswell as remove.
There is a variety of effects which can be caused, from mildly positive to very negative. I will not list them here as to leave in a bit of surprise, though if you want you can find all of them in the code.

Causes of corruption

Synthetics can gain corruption from a few different ways, the most prominent of which are:

• Head hits have a small chance to cause a bit of corruption.
• EMPs cause corruption scaling with strength of the EMP.
• Radiation easily causes corruption. Synthetics are highly suceptible to radiation and can therefore withstand lower amounts without negative effects.

Ways to remove Corruption

There is a few ways to get radiation out of Synthetics:

• Surgery ('Purge Corruption'), which takes a bunch of time, but purges all of it.
• System Cleaner, a chemical that slowly removes corruption.
• Waiting. Corruption above ten can very slowly move towards ten, though this becomes more and more unlikely the more dire your state is. You'll have to deal with the negative effects in the meantime though.