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Research plays a vital role in fighting the Mush menace, slowing their advance and making it more difficult for them to perform their actions. Eventually, as research grows more complex and advanced tools become available, a permanent Mush cure and a distant Utopian world can even be discovered. Nothing is impossible for the resourceful crew for the Daedalus!

Mechanics

The Research Lab terminal can be accessed in the Laboratory. It brings up options for fighting Mush, granting the crew bonus Glory and provides a number of useful commodities.

Research can be a Dirty affair, and since NERON will lock unclean personnel out of the research console, wearing the Stainproof Apron when participating is recommended to avoid long treks to the shower.

Participating in research costs 2 , and the efficiency is increased for Biologist and Medic characters:

Icon	Description	Efficiency
	Neither Biologist nor Medic	Base efficiency
	Biologist or Medic (i.e. only one)	Base efficiency + 4-6%
	Biologist and Medic (i.e. both)	Base efficency + 8-12%

A character's research efficiency drops with every participation, requiring Relaying to reset it.

The BIOS affects research in that the Crew Lock can be set to Research, limiting participation to Biologist and Medic characters, and CPU Priority can also be set to Research, increasing efficiency by 1-1% or 1-2%:

Many research options have certain conditions that must be met before they become available, including the presence of certain objects or characters in the Laboratory. If these conditions are not met, the research option will not be visible, though any progress made on them is preserved. The most important conditions for research are:

• Presence of a Mush Sample, which can be replaced by decoding a Xyloph DB entry
• Presence of the Mush Genome Disk, which can be obtained by decoding a Xyloph DB entry
• The presence of Zhong Chun, which can be replaced by decoding a Xyloph DB entry
• The Dead Mush (the place of death is irrelevant, it can be even outside Daedalus)

The gained for certain research projects is immediately obtained by all living humans upon completion, and an additional can be earned when reaching Sol or Eden. Chun earns an additional 4 each time a research requiring her presence is completed. Finola earns an additional 3 for all Mush-related research.

List of Research projects

There are a total of 23 possible researches. Except for Schrödinger which needs to be picked up for "#NCC Contact Lenses", all required items just need to be put on the shelf. Some research projects require the presence of Chun in the Laboratory, or a ghost copy of her (which requires decoding the Xyloph DB Zhong Chun's Genome Codex).

Hover over the image to see the description of a research.

Warning: Description should show the actual in-game text of the research project

Requires	Image	Name	Effectiveness	Glory	Details
Nothing		Anabolics	12-18% 16-24% 20-30%	0	Generates 4 Dose of Anabolics. Gives +8 Movement Points ().
Mush Sample		Antispore Gas	6-9% 10-15% 14-21%	3	The maximum number of Mush spores generated per day is reduced by 2.
Mush Sample Any consumable		Constipaspore Serum	6-9% 10-15% 14-21%	3	Causes spore extraction to cost 4 instead of 2.
Dead Mush		Meridon Scrambler	3-4% 7-10% 11-16%	3	Causes hunters to sometimes fire against each other instead of at the Daedalus. Hunters have 20% chance of firing on one of their own (percentage given by game description).
Soap Chun		Mushicide Soap	3-4% 7-10% 11-16%	3	Transforms the Soap into a Super Soaper. Every shower you take will destroy one mush spore on your body when carrying it.
Dead Mush Chun		Mushovore Bacteria	12-18% 16-24% 20-30%	3	It takes 4 spores to turn a human into a mush, instead of 3.
Mush Sample Chun		Mush-Hunter: ZC16H	6-9% 10-15% 14-21%	6	Gives 6 .
Mush Genome Disk		Mush Language	6-9% 10-15% 14-21%	6	Gives 6 .
Dead Mush		Mush Races	6-9% 10-15% 14-21%	6	Gives 6
Dead Mush Mush Genome Disk		Mush Reproductive System	18-27% 22-33% 26-39%	6	Gives 6
Mush Sample		MycoAlarm	6-9% 10-15% 14-21%	3	Makes 5 Myco-Alarm.
Chun		Mycoscan	4-6% 8-12% 12-18%	3	Allows the detection of spores on a healthy crew member.
Nothing		Narcotics Distiller	6-9% 10-15% 14-21%	0	The Distiller can be used once a day to create a drug.
Blaster Mush Sample		Natamy Rifle	6-9% 10-15% 14-21%	0	Upgrades blaster to a Natamy Rifle, which does more damage to mush.
Schrödinger (must be carried with you)		NCC Contact Lenses	12-18% 16-24% 20-30%	0	Creates 2 pairs of Lenses
Dead Mush		Patuline Scrambler	6-9% 10-15% 14-21%	3	Mush can no longer communicate on the Mush channel.
Water Stick		Perpetual Hydration	6-9% 10-15% 14-21%	0	Gives 3 Triumph Points. TODO: This gives no Glory, but what are Triumph Points?
Dead Mush Mush Genome Disk		Pheromodem	3-4% 7-10% 11-16%	3	The Tracker can now communicate on the mush channel.
Mush Sample Dead Mush Chun Mush Genome Disk		Retro-Fungal Serum	1-1% 5-7% 9-13%	16	Generates Retro-Fungal Serum
Mush Sample		Spore Sucker	4-6% 8-12% 12-18%	0	Produces a Spore Sucker
Starmap Fragment		Super Calculator	3-4% 7-10% 11-16%	0	Installs a Super Calculator in the Nexus which allows you to triangulate the coordinates of Eden using 3 Starmap Fragments
Water Stick		Tesla SUP2X	12-18% 16-24% 20-30%	0	Increases the maximum number of turret charges by 2. Bug: Increases maximum charges by 4, to a total of 8.
Medikit		Ultra-Healing Pomade	6-9% 10-15% 14-21%	0	Healing actions regenerate an additional health point

Pheromodem

With this piece of research, humans can access and communicate in the Mush channel. However, everybody's names are obfuscated and they appear as "mush" to each other. This does not apply to the Mush themselves, who see everybody's real names.

When messages about infections appear in the channel, the names of the participants will be replaced by scrambled letters, with no clues to their identity except the time at which it happened.