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Research plays an extremely vital role of fighting the Mush menace, slowing their advance and complicating their foul deeds. Eventually, as research grows more complex and advanced tools become available, a permanent Mush cure and a 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.

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%. TODO: Percentage needs confirmation

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 (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 (can be replaced by decoding a Xyloph DB entry
• The death of a Mush agent (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. 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		0	Generates 4 Anabolics.
Mush Sample		Antispore Gas		3	The maximum number of Mush spores generated per day is reduced by 2.
Any Consumable		Constipaspore Serum		3	Causes spore extraction to cost 4 instead of 2.
Chun		Create Mycoscan		3	Allows the detection of spores on a healthy crew member.
Mush death		Meridon Scrambler		3	Causes hunters to sometimes fire against each other instead of at the Daedalus
Soap, Chun		Mushicide Soap		3	Every shower you take will destroy one mush spore on your body
Mush death, Chun		Mushovore Bacteria		3	It takes 4 spores to turn a human into a mush, instead of 3.
Mush sample, Chun		Mush-Hunter: ZC16H		6	Gives 6 .
Genome Disk		Mush Language		6	Gives 6 .
Mush Death		Mush Races		6	Gives 6
Mush Death, Genome Disk		Mush Reproductive System		6	Gives 6
Mush Sample		MycoAlarm		3	Makes 5 MycoAlarms.
Holding Schrödinger		NCC Contact Lenses		0	Creates 2 pairs of NCC Contact Lenses
Nothing		Narcotics Distiller		0	The Distiller can be used once a day to create a drug.
Blaster, Mush Sample		Natamy Rifle		0	Upgrades blaster to a Natamy Rifle, which does more damage to mush. (Confirm?)
Mush Death		Patuline Scrambler		0	Mush can no longer communicate on the Mush channel.
Aqueous Stick		Perpetual Hydration		0	Gives glory. - To Do: Double check, twinpedia says bugged, no glory.
Mush death, Genome disk		Pheromodem		3	The tracker can now communicate on the mush channel.
Medkit		Ultra-Healing Pomade		0	Healing actions regenerate an additional health point
Mush Sample		Spore Sucker		0	Produces a Spore Extractor
Star Map Piece		Super Calculator		0	Installs a Super Calculator in the Nexus which allows you to triangulate the coordinates of Eden using 3 Star Map Pieces
Mush Sample, Mush death, Chun, Mush Genome		Retro-Fungal Serum		16	Generates Anti-Mush serum
Aqueous Stick		Tesla SUP2X		0	Increases the maximum number of turret charges by 2.

Pheromodem

Humans can access the Mush channel (read and write), but their names are obfuscated:

• Everyone talks as "Mush"
• The names of the participants are scrambled, but the number of letters remain the same (including space). This affects all previous communication on Mush channel as well.
  • 3 letters: Hua, Ian
  • 4 letters: Chao, Chun
  • 5 letters: Paola
  • 6 letters: Finola, Frieda, Gioele, Janice, Jin Su, Raluca, Roland
  • 7 letters: Kuan Ti, Stephen, Eleesha
  • 8 letters: Terrence

The Mush see their channel just like before.