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|jobtitle = Virologist
 
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|caption = "But it's a '''beneficial''' virus. I swear!"
 
|access = [[Virology]], [[Medbay]], Mineral Storage
 
|access = [[Virology]], [[Medbay]], Mineral Storage
|additional = [[Morgue]], [[Operating Theatre]], [[Chemistry]], [[Genetics]]
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|access2 = [[Genetics|Genetics Lab]], [[Morgue]], [[Operating Theatre]], [[Chemistry]], [[Guide_to_genetics#Cloning|Cloning Lab]]
 
|difficulty = Medium
 
|difficulty = Medium
|superior = [[Chief Medical Officer]]
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|rank = Sub-Lieutenant ('''SLT''')
 
|duties = Study the effects of various diseases and synthesize a vaccine for them. Engineer beneficial viruses.
 
|duties = Study the effects of various diseases and synthesize a vaccine for them. Engineer beneficial viruses.
|guides = [[Infections|Virology 101]], [[Guide to medicine]]
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|guides = [[Infections|Virology 101]], [[Guide to chemistry#Virology Recipes|Virology Recipes]], [[Guide to medicine]]
 
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As a research station, there are a lot of departments of research; the study of space viruses is one of those research departments! Congratulations doctor, you have been selected to study and treat various types of viruses, and create valuable vaccines. So grab your [[latex gloves]] and get your [[breath mask]] on and hole yourself up in [[Virology]], it is time to perform some disease research.
 
As a research station, there are a lot of departments of research; the study of space viruses is one of those research departments! Congratulations doctor, you have been selected to study and treat various types of viruses, and create valuable vaccines. So grab your [[latex gloves]] and get your [[breath mask]] on and hole yourself up in [[Virology]], it is time to perform some disease research.
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'''Bare minimum requirements:''' If an epidemic breaks out aboard the station, don't be the source of it.
  
 
[[File:Virology.png|300px|thumb|alt=Virology|link=http://puu.sh/3EFaf.png|[[Virology|ERP Fortress]]]]<br>
 
[[File:Virology.png|300px|thumb|alt=Virology|link=http://puu.sh/3EFaf.png|[[Virology|ERP Fortress]]]]<br>
  
 
==Welcome Doctor==
 
==Welcome Doctor==
Unlike Robert Nevile, you will not have a huge kick ass adventure while curing diseases. You will have a boring time, and likely fuck up constantly. Just make sure the [[Chemist]] or the [[Chief Medical Officer]] are around (and attentive) or you won't be able to cure uncommon diseases and might have an outbreak.
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Unlike Robert Nevile, you will not have a huge kick-ass adventure while making diseases. You will sit in your lab and likely fuck up constantly. Just make sure the [[Chemist]] or the [[Chief Medical Officer]] are around (and attentive) or you won't be able to cure uncommon diseases and might have an outbreak. Curing diseases is typically first done by [[Chemist|chemists]], but it's your job to turn cured blood into a vaccine, which is a much more effective treatment.  
  
 
===[[Infections|Infecting]] Monkeys===
 
===[[Infections|Infecting]] Monkeys===
Primarily, this is your job. Find a batch of virus, inject a monkey, and record the results. Then cure the monkey.
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On paper, this is your job. Make a virus, inject a monkey, and record the results. Then cure the monkey.
  
If you're concerned about the monkeys and don't want to have a pen full of contagion conveniently sitting around, move a single monkey to one of your isolation rooms and treat/infect them there. You can also use this as an easy way to keep all your cures localized and in a single sample, giving you an expedient route to creating the vaccines on the Pandemic 2000.
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If you're concerned about the monkeys and don't want to have a pen full of contagion conveniently sitting around, move a single monkey to one of your isolation rooms and treat/infect them there.  
  
Take your sample, put that in a beaker and load it up on the Pandemic in your main room. Congratulations. You've found a vaccine.
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How to create vaccines:
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# Take a blood sample from a cured subject.
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# Inject the blood into any beaker.
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# Insert the beaker into the Pandemic 2000.
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# Select "create vaccine".  
  
You can also see the cure to a disease using your Pandemic machine, and reproduce it if there is an active culture in the blood, for [[Traitor#Advanced_Methods_of_Murder| whatever reason.]]
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This gives you a bottle containing a few units of vaccine against that particular disease. As [[Chemistry]] to turn it into 0.5u pills, or do it yourself in the [[Holodeck]].
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You can also see the cure to a disease using your Pandemic machine (even if the virus has 2+ stealth), and reproduce it if there is an active culture in the blood, for [[Traitor#Advanced_Methods_of_Murder| whatever reason.]]
  
 
===A MAN IN BRAZIL IS COUGHING!===
 
===A MAN IN BRAZIL IS COUGHING!===
Viruses can get loose on the station many ways: [[random events]], [[traitor]]ous activity, and the most common way of all: your own incompetence. If you accidentally infect someone with a harmful virus, well, there is not much you can do except quarantine, treat, and ensure they aren't infectious before releasing them. Make sure only people that know [[Beyond the impossible|exactly what they're doing]] can enter your room. Warn people beforehand that you're conducting experiments and remember to vaccinate yourself once you research a disease.
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Viruses can get loose on the station in many ways: [[random events]], [[traitor]]ous activity, and the most common way of all: your own incompetence. If you accidentally infect someone with a harmful virus, well, there is not much you can do except quarantine, treat, and ensure they aren't infectious before releasing them. Make sure only people that know [[Beyond the impossible|exactly what they're doing]] can enter your room. Warn people beforehand that you're conducting experiments and remember to vaccinate yourself once you research a disease.
 
 
Viruses can be spread through blood. People with viruses will often spread blood everywhere. Do the math. Then do your job and clean up the blood.
 
  
 
===CREATE A PANDEMIC!===
 
===CREATE A PANDEMIC!===
You are able to create your own diseases with various symptoms, stats and bonuses. Read [[Infections#Advanced_Diseases|this]] for a guide!
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You are able to create your own diseases with various symptoms, stats, and bonuses. Read [[Infections#Advanced_Diseases|this]] for a guide!
  
 
==== Symbiosis ====
 
==== Symbiosis ====
Viruses don't always have to be something to be avoided. With a bit of work you can engineer friendly viruses that come with a number of beneficial symptoms, such as eliminating the need to eat, or even one that lets the body regenerate its own health. Just make sure you clear it with the [[CMO]] and let the station know what your friendly virus does before releasing it, or you might find yourself at the end of a pitchfork.
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Viruses don't always have to be something to be avoided. With a bit of work, you can engineer friendly viruses that come with a number of beneficial symptoms, such as eliminating the need to breathe, or even one that lets the body regenerate its own health when badly hurt. Just make sure you clear it with the [[CMO]] and let the station know what your friendly virus does before releasing it, or you might find yourself at the end of a pitchfork.
  
 
==Tips==
 
==Tips==
* Virology can turn you into just as much as a superhuman as Genetics.
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* Do not use sneeze or cough symptoms in beneficial viruses without neutering them. These are annoying and people will rush medbay to have it cured. They also make the virus appear negative on medical huds.  
* Coughing as a symptom makes people drop grabs and can thus be used to make changelings miserable as they keep dropping absorbs.
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* A perfectly made virus blend from virology can heal you under certain conditions at a decent rate.  
* A perfectly made virus blend from virology can heal you at a slow, but decent rate, even out of critical condition. A person can only be infected by three viruses at a time, I believe. A virus blend that has three instances of the following symptoms will heal you from crit (assuming there is no other source of damage present), protect you from suffocation, and allow you to run at max speed even if you have a bulky exosuit with active magboots. Toxic Filter, Toxic Compensation, Self-Respiration, and Stimulant. Add Weight Even to one of the strains to grant hunger immunity, and something else such as Eternal Youth to give yourself a third unique strain. Matching symptoms in different virus strains will stack with each other.
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* A person can only be infected by one advanced virus at a time but can have up to six symptoms. In terms of beneficial viruses, there are several symptoms.  
** Viruses with different, unique symptoms can be mixed together in a beaker to produce a strain with some or all of the symptoms of component strains.
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** Level 6 Beneficial Virus: This tier of virus can be made with all the resources available at round start, with minimal need for outside help. A nice symptom at this level is '''Self-Respiration'''.  
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** Level 8 Beneficial Virus: This tier requires you to grind uranium and silver or gold. '''Regenerative Coma''' is considered to be the "best" symptom overall.  
 
* If you actually do manage to make a beneficial virus and want to distribute it, have a superior vet it and ask them to announce it to the station via their desk.
 
* If you actually do manage to make a beneficial virus and want to distribute it, have a superior vet it and ask them to announce it to the station via their desk.
* If you get denied a crate (probably more than half your rounds), ask Engineering for a share of their plasma or ask the HoP for mining access so you can get your own plasma. (This is the only reliable way you are going to get plasma!)
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* If you get a virus with unwanted symptoms, use your dropper set to transfer one unit of [[Synaptizine]] to your virus. Your 30 unit bottle will be good for a full 30 uses.
** If you get a virus with unwanted symptoms, use your dropper set to transfer one unit of synaptizine to your virus. Your 30 unit bottle will be good for a full 30 uses!
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* A beneficial airborne virus with decent resistance stat will protect the crew from most of the bad viruses that may be spawned from people breathing miasma.
* If you are a virologist who wants the most from a beneficial virus, but cannot fit all the desired symptoms into one strain, consider removing "Weight Even" from your symptoms if you already included stimulant. All that hunger does is reduce a person's speed; Stimulant totally negates all slowdowns, and thus this renders Weight Even redundant.
 
  
 
==Typhoid Mary==
 
==Typhoid Mary==
Being a [[traitor]] is where a dangerous [[jobs|job]] like this one really shines. Make sure you get the heads of staff to crack a virus crate open for you, or use a traitor item on it to pop it open yourself. Brain Rot seems to be the best way to screw over the crew, and if people wonder why you are in a spot, mumble something unintelligible. (even though a good virologist would've cured himself already).
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Being a [[traitor]] is where a dangerous [[jobs|job]] like this one really shines. Even if the Gibbing virus is forever lost to the archives (F), you can still wreak a lot of havoc and confusion on the station.
  
Releasing a pandemic is a good way to cause chaos, creating a convenient cover for illicit activities. As an added bonus, then curing the disease and eradicating it from the station is a good way to get in the good graces of the crew, further protecting you from any suspicion. As always, protecting yourself from the disease is most important. Be conservative, however. If the crew finds out that EVERY disease has been somehow released, they'll be out for your blood. Releasing diseases when not a traitor is a great way to be banned!
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Releasing a pandemic is a good way to cause chaos, creating a convenient cover for illicit activities, or straight out murdering most of the crew. As always, protecting yourself from the disease is most important. Be conservative, however. If the crew finds out it was you who released the disease, they'll be out for your blood. Releasing bad diseases (even from neglect) when not a traitor is an easy way to be banned.
  
If for some reason you don't want to spread terrible death everywhere, your office is secluded and difficult to get into, making it a common base for [[gang]] or [[cult]] activity.
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If for some reason you don't want to spread terrible death everywhere, your office is secluded and difficult to get into, making it a common base for [[cult]] activity. Don't forget to cut the cameras.  
  
 
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Latest revision as of 19:51, 21 June 2021

Virologist
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"But it's a beneficial virus. I swear!"
Information
AccessVirology, Medbay, Mineral Storage
Additional AccessGenetics Lab, Morgue, Operating Theatre, Chemistry, Cloning Lab
DifficultyMedium
SupervisorsChief Medical Officer
RankSub-Lieutenant (SLT)
DutiesStudy the effects of various diseases and synthesize a vaccine for them. Engineer beneficial viruses.
GuidesVirology 101, Virology Recipes, Guide to medicine

As a research station, there are a lot of departments of research; the study of space viruses is one of those research departments! Congratulations doctor, you have been selected to study and treat various types of viruses, and create valuable vaccines. So grab your latex gloves and get your breath mask on and hole yourself up in Virology, it is time to perform some disease research.

Bare minimum requirements: If an epidemic breaks out aboard the station, don't be the source of it.


Welcome Doctor[edit | edit source]

Unlike Robert Nevile, you will not have a huge kick-ass adventure while making diseases. You will sit in your lab and likely fuck up constantly. Just make sure the Chemist or the Chief Medical Officer are around (and attentive) or you won't be able to cure uncommon diseases and might have an outbreak. Curing diseases is typically first done by chemists, but it's your job to turn cured blood into a vaccine, which is a much more effective treatment.

Infecting Monkeys[edit | edit source]

On paper, this is your job. Make a virus, inject a monkey, and record the results. Then cure the monkey.

If you're concerned about the monkeys and don't want to have a pen full of contagion conveniently sitting around, move a single monkey to one of your isolation rooms and treat/infect them there.

How to create vaccines:

  1. Take a blood sample from a cured subject.
  2. Inject the blood into any beaker.
  3. Insert the beaker into the Pandemic 2000.
  4. Select "create vaccine".

This gives you a bottle containing a few units of vaccine against that particular disease. As Chemistry to turn it into 0.5u pills, or do it yourself in the Holodeck.

You can also see the cure to a disease using your Pandemic machine (even if the virus has 2+ stealth), and reproduce it if there is an active culture in the blood, for whatever reason.

A MAN IN BRAZIL IS COUGHING![edit | edit source]

Viruses can get loose on the station in many ways: random events, traitorous activity, and the most common way of all: your own incompetence. If you accidentally infect someone with a harmful virus, well, there is not much you can do except quarantine, treat, and ensure they aren't infectious before releasing them. Make sure only people that know exactly what they're doing can enter your room. Warn people beforehand that you're conducting experiments and remember to vaccinate yourself once you research a disease.

CREATE A PANDEMIC![edit | edit source]

You are able to create your own diseases with various symptoms, stats, and bonuses. Read this for a guide!

Symbiosis[edit | edit source]

Viruses don't always have to be something to be avoided. With a bit of work, you can engineer friendly viruses that come with a number of beneficial symptoms, such as eliminating the need to breathe, or even one that lets the body regenerate its own health when badly hurt. Just make sure you clear it with the CMO and let the station know what your friendly virus does before releasing it, or you might find yourself at the end of a pitchfork.

Tips[edit | edit source]

  • Do not use sneeze or cough symptoms in beneficial viruses without neutering them. These are annoying and people will rush medbay to have it cured. They also make the virus appear negative on medical huds.
  • A perfectly made virus blend from virology can heal you under certain conditions at a decent rate.
  • A person can only be infected by one advanced virus at a time but can have up to six symptoms. In terms of beneficial viruses, there are several symptoms.
    • Level 6 Beneficial Virus: This tier of virus can be made with all the resources available at round start, with minimal need for outside help. A nice symptom at this level is Self-Respiration.
    • Level 8 Beneficial Virus: This tier requires you to grind uranium and silver or gold. Regenerative Coma is considered to be the "best" symptom overall.
  • If you actually do manage to make a beneficial virus and want to distribute it, have a superior vet it and ask them to announce it to the station via their desk.
  • If you get a virus with unwanted symptoms, use your dropper set to transfer one unit of Synaptizine to your virus. Your 30 unit bottle will be good for a full 30 uses.
  • A beneficial airborne virus with decent resistance stat will protect the crew from most of the bad viruses that may be spawned from people breathing miasma.

Typhoid Mary[edit | edit source]

Being a traitor is where a dangerous job like this one really shines. Even if the Gibbing virus is forever lost to the archives (F), you can still wreak a lot of havoc and confusion on the station.

Releasing a pandemic is a good way to cause chaos, creating a convenient cover for illicit activities, or straight out murdering most of the crew. As always, protecting yourself from the disease is most important. Be conservative, however. If the crew finds out it was you who released the disease, they'll be out for your blood. Releasing bad diseases (even from neglect) when not a traitor is an easy way to be banned.

If for some reason you don't want to spread terrible death everywhere, your office is secluded and difficult to get into, making it a common base for cult activity. Don't forget to cut the cameras.

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