Personal Health

Standard Characters

Each character begins with 3 Hit Points (these are tracked globally, not per location).

The standard Death Count is 60 seconds.

Cybernetics and Replacement Limbs

You are free to physrep as many cybernetics or replacement limbs as you like. These are biomech technology and do not grant any bonus against specific injuries or disease. Cybernetics you have purchased in game and have an effect will malfunction under the Static call but will still be able to operate as their designed limb.

It is presumed that the Ardent has sufficient supplies to regrow any lost limbs between events. For the remainder of the event, the patient would use a temporary cybernetic limb.

Alien Physiology

All aliens aboard the AES Ardent have comparable biologies and are comfortable in the same environments. Their organs may look different, but they’re all in roughly the same place and do roughly the same thing. Organs cannot be exchanged between different species.

Some aliens may have striking features, especially the Vari and Omdua, but these are mostly decorative and do not bestow any game benefit beyond looking cool.

We are open to the idea of adding some biological differences that affect surgeries at a future date once we’re happy with how the surgery mechanic is working. We do not wish for any playable species to have a major biological advantage in any way. We are trialling some basic differences with Blood Types.

Blood Types

Every character has a blood type which is randomly generated at character creation and listed on their ID. If they have a blood loss symptom, they will need a transfusion from a matching crewmate or from the medbay’s stock or a number of units stated after the symptom. Most alien blood is incompatible; follow the Blood Types guide to find out what you can transfuse.

If left untreated, BLOOD LOSS symptoms reduce by 1 Level overnight.

Alien	Blood Types	Distribution	Colour	Custom Rules
Anthroid	Biomech Fluid	All	Clear Red	BLOOD LOSS symptoms do not naturally reduce overnight.
Human	O	50%	Red	Can receive O-Type Blood
	A	36%		Can receive O and A-Type Blood
	B	11%		Can receive O and B-Type Blood
	AB	3%		Can receive O, A, and B-Type Blood
Omdua	Substrate	Unique to Character	Crest Colour	Requires Omdua Substrate Synthesizer to prompt rapid Substrate production internally.
Skala	Type-I	Red, Orange, or Black scales	Light Red	Main scale colour, can change over time. Incorrect blood transfusion causes FATIGUE 3 and temporary shift in scale colour around the injection site.
	Type-II	White, Blue, or Purple scales	Purple-Red
	Type-III	Brown, Yellow, or Green scales	Yellow-Red
Tever	Tesoval	All	Orange-Red	Can consume TesoBar to convert 1 Level of BLOOD LOSS to FATIGUE.
Vari	Vas/Mus	All	Two liquids: Green-Red and Clear	Vas: vascular chlorocruorin, varies from green to red. Mus: muscular hydraulia, clear. Both these liquids must be replenished simultaneously.