Bionic surgery should cause infection if not carried out in a sterile chamber. Before the development of the modern sterile operating theater, surgery was far too dangerous to be anything but a last resort, with only a 20% survival rate at best, if the surgeon properly sterilized all their equipment before beginning.
To that end, new supplies for would-be cyborgs:
Makeshift Surgery Tent
Volume: 1 L
Weight: 0.5 kg
Bash: 0
Cut: 0
To-hit bonus: -5
Moves per attack: 89
Damage per move: 0.00
Materials: plastic
Flags:
Improvised from a body bag and a LOT of disinfectant, this portable surgery tent is just sterile enough to perform a single surgery on a man-sized creature at no risk of infection.
Primary skill used: first aid (4)
Time to complete: 5 minutes
Components required:
> 1x body bag
> 8x bleach OR 12x disinfectant OR 12x disinfectant soaked rags OR 12x disinfectant soaked cotton balls OR 24x makeshift disinfectant
Byproducts: (none)
Notes: Cannot be constructed from (filthy) components: "Disinfectant won't be enough to sterilize this, you have to wash it with soap first."
Disassembles to: 1x body bag
Field Surgery Tent
Volume: 0.5 L
Weight: 0.5 kg
Bash: 0
Cut: 0
To-hit bonus: -5
Moves per attack: 89
Damage per move: 0.00
Materials: plastic
Flags:
A sterilized, packaged field surgery tent, just large enough to protect a single man-sized patient from infection for the duration of a surgical procedure. Rarely used before the Cataclysm, as a properly sterilized hospital surgery theater was vastly superior, even in an emergency, but the few hospitals that still stand are now anything but sterile.
Crafting:
Primary skill used: first aid (4)
Time to complete: 5 minutes
Components required:
> 1x used field surgery tent
> 8x bleach OR 12x disinfectant OR 12x disinfectant soaked rags OR 12x disinfectant soaked cotton balls OR 24x makeshift disinfectant
Byproducts: (none)
Notes: Cannot be constructed from (filthy) components: "Disinfectant won't be enough to sterilize this, you have to wash it with soap first."
Disassembles to: 1x used field surgery tent
Used Field Surgery Tent
Volume: 0.5 L
Weight: 0.5 kg
Bash: 0
Cut: 0
To-hit bonus: -5
Moves per attack: 89
Damage per move: 0.00
Materials: plastic
Flags:
A packaged field surgery tent, just large enough to protect a single man-sized patient from infection for the duration of a surgical procedure... or at least it would be, if it hadn't already been opened (and probably used). Rarely used before the Cataclysm, as a properly sterilized hospital surgery theater was vastly superior, even in an emergency, but the few hospitals that still stand are now anything but sterile.
XXL Body Bag
Volume: 8 L
Weight: 4.0 kg
Bash: 0
Cut: 0
To-hit bonus: -10
Moves per attack: 180
Damage per move: 0.00
Materials: plastic
Flags: TRADER_AVOID
This container can store 200 liters.
Eight regular body bags, cut up and taped back together, to make a bag fit for a giant's body.
Crafting:
Primary skill used: fabrication (2)
Time to complete: 1 hour
Tools required:
> 1 tool with cutting quality of 1
Components required:
> 8x body bag
> 160x duct tape
Byproducts: (none)
Disassembles to: (cannot disassemble)
Makeshift Surgery Theater
Volume: 8 L
Weight: 4.0 kg
Bash: 0
Cut: 0
To-hit bonus: -10
Moves per attack: 180
Damage per move: 0.00
Materials: plastic
Flags:
Improvised from an extra large body bag and a tank of disinfectant, this portable surgery theater is big enough for an entire trauma team, or one extraordinarily large creature, and sterile enough to perform a single surgical procedure at no risk of infection.
Crafting:
Primary skill used: first aid (4)
Time to complete: 2 hours
Components required:
> 1x XXL body bag
> 48x bleach OR 72x disinfectant OR 72x disinfectant soaked rags OR 72x disinfectant soaked cotton balls OR 144x makeshift disinfectant
Byproducts: (none)
Notes: Cannot be constructed from (filthy) components: "Disinfectant won't be enough to sterilize this, you have to wash it with soap first."
Disassembles to: 1x XXL body bag
Performing a bionic installation or removal without a sterile tent/theater adds an infection in all body parts the bionic is installed to or removed from, of random hours between 1 and 100, minus the userâs first aid skill, and minus 10 if the user has the Autodoc Specialist trait. If infection hours for the body part is zero or less, no infection occurs; otherwise, the character suffers all the effects of the infection at once following surgery, including potential death if âhours infectedâ is over 24 (âYou die of toxic shock during surgeryâ), or recovery if the character fights off the infection. Characters with the Squeamish trait will refuse to perform surgery on themselves without a sterile tent/theater, even if they are immune to infection.
Performing a bionic installation or removal with a surgery tent/theater consumes the tent/theater and returns a body bag/used field surgery tent/XXL body bag.
