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10-16-2018, 05:52 AM
This is an idea for a book I had. People just resort to using the CDC when they can just cure the disease themselves for less expense.
Start:
Curing Diseases for Dummies
Authored By: Harold Harold, PhD
So there's a rampant disease on your station, and you want to cure it. Well, nothing wrong with that. Sadly, there are too few people that are knowledgeable enough to know how to operate the equipment to obtain a cure. Most people just resort to using the CDC, which is, while technically effective: a waste of money! We here at NT believe in not spending money when you don't have to, so understanding how to save potentially thousands of credits is a vital employee skill!
Firstly, you need to obtain a pure sample of the virus. This will involve extracting the blood from an infected, most likely yourself. Then, drip some blood onto a blood slide, and insert it into a centrifuge. Add an empty petri dish to that same centrifuge, then begin the cycle. It will take awhile, but you'll end up with a petri dish that contains a pure sample.
Now, take that petri dish from the machine, and insert it into a microscope. Observe it while zoomed out: you'll get the type, shape, and color of the pathogen. The shape doesn't matter, but the type and color are vital.
Next, zoom in. The symptoms will be listed, but more importantly, the suppressant information. Combine this with the color of the pathogen you observed when zoomed out, and you will get 1-3 ideas for what the suppressant will be.
(Put the suppressant hint table from https://wiki.ss13.co/Pathology_Research#Suppressant here)
Now, the antiagent is guaranteed based on the type of pathogen. It goes as follows:
Virus: Antiviral agent
Bacteria: Spaceacillin
Fungus: Biocide
Parasite: Biocide
Great Mutatis: Mutation Inhibitor
Beakers of these anti-agents are available from the Path-O-Matic ™ vending machine available in the pathology lab.
This may sound counter-productive, but you'll want to keep growing the sample that's in the petri dish, so you can make multiple cures. Like with anti-agents, beakers of growth medium (except stable mutagen) are available from the Path-O-Matic ™.
Virus: Eggs
Bacteria: Bacterial Growth Medium
Fungus: Fungal Growth Medium
Parasite: Parasitic Growth Medium
Great Mutatis: Stable Mutagen
Now, once the petri dish grows beyond its initial supply, you're ready to make cures! Take a mechanical dropper and set it to 2 units. Draw and drop from the petri dish into a vial using it. Insert that vial into the Synth-O-Matic ™. Then add the beakers of antiagent and suppressant. Push the "manufacture syringe" button, wait a few seconds, then bam! If you did it right, you have a functional cure!
That wasn't so hard, was it? Now that you have such a powerful money-saving technique at your disposal, go show the world how efficient you are!
ADDENDUM: Synth-O-Matic ™ Modules
These modules will make synthesizing cures even easier! They may cost money, or some effort to find, out in space somewhere, but they're worth the effort! To install/remove a module, simply screwdriver open the machine's maintenance panel.
Fungus Module: The Synth-O-Matic actually doesn't have a module for producing cures for Fungi by default, so you should probably go find it!
Irradiation Module: Enables you to use radiation instead of a suppressant to synthesize cures. Takes longer.
Synthesizer Module: Uses matter fabricators to synthesize antiagent, ensuring that you are no longer reliant on the vending machine.
Upgrade Module: Increases the machine's efficiency fourfold at creating cure syringes!
Vaccine Module: Enables cures to prevent future infection. DISCLAIMER: Only works on viruses.
Assistant Module: Helps you analyze exactly how much antiagent/suppressant you'll need for curing a pathogen.
(End book here)
Start:
Curing Diseases for Dummies
Authored By: Harold Harold, PhD
So there's a rampant disease on your station, and you want to cure it. Well, nothing wrong with that. Sadly, there are too few people that are knowledgeable enough to know how to operate the equipment to obtain a cure. Most people just resort to using the CDC, which is, while technically effective: a waste of money! We here at NT believe in not spending money when you don't have to, so understanding how to save potentially thousands of credits is a vital employee skill!
Firstly, you need to obtain a pure sample of the virus. This will involve extracting the blood from an infected, most likely yourself. Then, drip some blood onto a blood slide, and insert it into a centrifuge. Add an empty petri dish to that same centrifuge, then begin the cycle. It will take awhile, but you'll end up with a petri dish that contains a pure sample.
Now, take that petri dish from the machine, and insert it into a microscope. Observe it while zoomed out: you'll get the type, shape, and color of the pathogen. The shape doesn't matter, but the type and color are vital.
Next, zoom in. The symptoms will be listed, but more importantly, the suppressant information. Combine this with the color of the pathogen you observed when zoomed out, and you will get 1-3 ideas for what the suppressant will be.
(Put the suppressant hint table from https://wiki.ss13.co/Pathology_Research#Suppressant here)
Now, the antiagent is guaranteed based on the type of pathogen. It goes as follows:
Virus: Antiviral agent
Bacteria: Spaceacillin
Fungus: Biocide
Parasite: Biocide
Great Mutatis: Mutation Inhibitor
Beakers of these anti-agents are available from the Path-O-Matic ™ vending machine available in the pathology lab.
This may sound counter-productive, but you'll want to keep growing the sample that's in the petri dish, so you can make multiple cures. Like with anti-agents, beakers of growth medium (except stable mutagen) are available from the Path-O-Matic ™.
Virus: Eggs
Bacteria: Bacterial Growth Medium
Fungus: Fungal Growth Medium
Parasite: Parasitic Growth Medium
Great Mutatis: Stable Mutagen
Now, once the petri dish grows beyond its initial supply, you're ready to make cures! Take a mechanical dropper and set it to 2 units. Draw and drop from the petri dish into a vial using it. Insert that vial into the Synth-O-Matic ™. Then add the beakers of antiagent and suppressant. Push the "manufacture syringe" button, wait a few seconds, then bam! If you did it right, you have a functional cure!
That wasn't so hard, was it? Now that you have such a powerful money-saving technique at your disposal, go show the world how efficient you are!
ADDENDUM: Synth-O-Matic ™ Modules
These modules will make synthesizing cures even easier! They may cost money, or some effort to find, out in space somewhere, but they're worth the effort! To install/remove a module, simply screwdriver open the machine's maintenance panel.
Fungus Module: The Synth-O-Matic actually doesn't have a module for producing cures for Fungi by default, so you should probably go find it!
Irradiation Module: Enables you to use radiation instead of a suppressant to synthesize cures. Takes longer.
Synthesizer Module: Uses matter fabricators to synthesize antiagent, ensuring that you are no longer reliant on the vending machine.
Upgrade Module: Increases the machine's efficiency fourfold at creating cure syringes!
Vaccine Module: Enables cures to prevent future infection. DISCLAIMER: Only works on viruses.
Assistant Module: Helps you analyze exactly how much antiagent/suppressant you'll need for curing a pathogen.
(End book here)