Health scanner shows time of death

[Frank_Stein]

Forensics rewrite allows for autopsies, including time estimates for detectives and sec assistants (and medical doctors for limbs and organs). So a detective can try to guess the time of death based on evidence left behind by a reagent or health analyzer. So my idea is that the time of death is something that you predict rather than obtain directly. It could definitely provide the time of death directly, but I think it would be more interesting to do it indirectly.

I think a good way to go about it would be to have different decomposition rates for the organs, essentially having them turn "rotten" at different rates so during the autopsy you could estimate time of death by guessing how long they have been dead and subtracting that from round time.

You could work in things like cold slowing down or stopping those decomposition rates and you'd have to detect things like water or ice crystals and factor that into your estimates.

You could do this inspection manually with an autopsy, but I could see medical scanners and forensic scanners give that information without needing to cut into the body. Maybe the medical one can just detect decomposition rates, while the forensics scanner also give chemical analysis on individual organs (lungs tell you chemicals breathed, stomach gives you ingested, etc)