TGMC:Synthetic

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SYNTHETIC

Synthetic

Access: Everywhere Difficulty: Hard Rank: Mark I (starting), Mark II (10hrs), Mark III (50hrs) Class: Silicon Supervisors: Officers, such as Captain and Field Commander, Squad Leader; basically anyone with a loud text on the radio. Duties: Assist and fill in for the crew to your best ability. Guides: Guide to Medicine, Guide to Surgery, Guide to Defibrillation, Guide to Engineering, Guide to Base Building / FOB, Guide to Requsitions, Guide to Fire Support Quote:"RO, order rocketsledge right now or I cut the captain in half!"

More information about skills

Synthetic Skills		Early Synthetic Skills
Medical	4/5	Medical	3/5
Surgery	4/5	Surgery	3/5
Engineering	4/5	Engineering	5/5
Construction	4/5	Construction	5/5
Police	2/2	Police	2/2
Powerloader	4/4	Powerloader	4/4
Leadership	0/4	Leadership	0/4
CQC	5	CQC	5
Smartgun	-4	Smartgun	-4
Melee	1	Melee	1
Firearms	-1	Firearms	-1
Stamina	0	Stamina	0
Synthetic Traits		Early Synthetic Traits
Additional slowdown	0	Additional slowdown	1.15
Bonus HP (Total HP)	+25 (125)	Bonus HP (Total HP)	+100 (200)
Incoming damage multiplier	0.7	Incoming damage multiplier	0.6

Synthetics are the ultimate support and logistic crewmember. As a Synthetic, you have skills for medicine, surgery, engineering, construction, and using powerloaders. You're still a support crewmember. While there's no rules against going offensive with melee weapons, you should leave it to the marines to cover you. As a Synthetic, you're expected to have advanced knowledge in medicine, surgery, engineering and at least some knowledge of command and requisitions.

Default radio commands:

• .v for Command
• .u for Requisitions
• .m for Medical
• .s for Fire Support
• .e for Engineering
• .q for ALPHA SQUAD
• .b for BRAVO SQUAD
• .c for CHARLIE SQUAD
• .d for DELTA SQUAD
• , for General radio
• .n for Silicon
• ,6 for Robotspeak
• ,x for Alienspeak
• For custom squads, the radio prefix
  is usually the first letter of the squad name

Synthetic vs Organic

As a Synthetic, you have advantages and disadvantages versus organics. Selecting either of the synth options in character setup yields different skillsets and appearances. Selecting Synthetic as your Synthetic Type preference allows you to play as a synthetic that carries over the human appearance of your character from the editor. Selecting Early Synthetic will make you appear as a pale bald android.

Normal Synthetic is recommended for new synth players.

Your Advantages

• • You only take BRUTE and BURN damage, and get a damage reduction. You take damage from normal sources, like bullets, lasers, explosions, fire and acid.
  • You don't go into critical condition where you can be dragged, and you don't go blind below 0 HP.
  • You're immune to pain. Xenos also cannot see your health bar. They can only tell if you're dead, alive, or SSD through a HUD icon and examine.
  • Decapitations don't kill you permanently, and you don't become permanently dead over time. If your head is nor your body is lost, you can be defibrillated once they're sewn back together. You can still be destroyed by gibbing, like if a dropship lands on you or you're in an Orbital Bombardment area.
  • You're very easy to heal. You can repair BRUTE damage with a blowtorch, BURN damage with wires, and both with nanopaste (found in surgical trays). You're much slower if you do this on your own, so don't hesitate to ask others to repair you.
  • Xenos cannot drain or cocoon you for psy points unlike combat robots and organics.
  • You're immune to larval huggers; however non-larval variants still try to attack you. This makes you a very robust way of dealing with larval huggers and Carrier traps.
  • You get more health.
  • You're immune to flashes, welding tools, and other blinding sources. You have a natural Medical HUD too.
  • You're unable to fumble during surgery when using any surface regardless of skillset, unlike your human counterparts.

Your Disadvantages

• • You are still affected by damage slowdown
  • You don't go into critical condition. You can't be dragged around in critical condition, but you start to overheat rapidly when you reach the -30 health threshold, sparking and taking increasing BURN damage unless you fix it, until you do ultimately die. Early Synthetics take slightly more damage per tick from overheating.
  • You can't fire guns, prime grenades, or wear armor like the Xenonauten or Jaeger armors.
  • You can't run or jump.
  • Your storage situation is difficult to manage as you usually have to prepare for medical emergencies and engineering situations.
  • You have a melee damage malus and deal less damage per attack.

What Should I do as a Synthetic?

As the ultimate support unit, you should try to help where needed! During low population especially, you'll end up in a lot of different situations.

Round Start Checklist

These are some tasks you can do that wind up often forgotten by everyone else, but can prove critical for an operation.

After you spawn in:

• Communicate with Command and marines. Be aware of the plan and bring items accordingly.
• Head to Engineering, replenish and turn on the generators. Leave 6 generators on and 6 generators off but fueled in case nobody shipside can replenish generators.
  • Configure the SMES units - set the input (top slider) on the units to maximum, or 200kW.
• If nobody is has used the FOB drone, ask which LZ is preferred, then build the FOB with it.
• Load the P.A.C.M.A.N. generator and phoron onto the Alamo. These can power the APC at the Landing Zone, which in turn will provide power to things like ASRS export pads and teleporters.
• Run to Medical and grab any additional supplies like spare stasis bags or roller beds. You can set up a roller bed with a blanket and a plushie in the FOB or on TAD for marines to sleep off small amounts of CLONELOSS damage.
• Deploy your medevac beacon and link it.
• Station requisitions for a few minutes.
• Raise the ship's orbit to level 5 using the navigation console in CIC. You are able to do this once the round time hits 12:10.
  • There's no noticeable disadvantage to being on maximum orbit, but it allows you to gain more requisition and dropship points, and increases the transit time of the dropship in the event it is hijacked by xenomorphs!

Things to do During a Round

These aren't exhaustive, you can do basically anything you're mechanically allowed to do.

Shipside

• Set SLs (choose carefully, they will become your superior officers).
• Set up the Tadpole. Or even fly the Tadpole during the operation!
• Man Requisitions if the Requisitions Officer is overwhelmed or not awake.
• Handle engineering duties like restocking generators or reloading the Orbital Cannon.
• In Medical, perform surgeries on damaged marines.

Groundside

• Spot for various fire support methods.
• Heal fallen marines.
• Build frontline or FOB defenses.
• Field surgery.

If you're going on a mission, bring some company to help you avoid being picked off by backline xenomorphs.

Combat

There are no real rules on combat for Synths. But it should be kept in mind that it's not your specialization and you're support personnel first, so your internal demand for unga should be contained unless it's an emergency, such as defending yourself from xenomorphs.

Fighting

But how do Synthetics fight without armor or guns? Well, this part is your answer.

Not all armor is restricted by default. You can wear the flak vest and bulletproof vest (both in your vendor), which provide needed soft armor. The flak vest, provides some protection from acid and slashes with a slight slowdown, while the bulletproof vest gives you hard bullet protection. You can use most melee weapons and flares, including Harvester weapons (without the Vali benefits), throwing knives, machetes, bayonets, bricks, and powerfists. The only "gun" you can fire applies to the rare Human vs Synth situations, like during events; you can fire tasers.

You can technically get your head back, but try not to even lose it in the first place! Your head can be dragged by xenomorphs for miles where it will never be found.

TGMC Roles
	TerraGov Marines Ranks	Command	Captain, Field Commander, Staff Officer, Pilot Officer, Transport Officer, Mech Pilot
		Vehicle Crew	Assault Crewman, Transport Crewman
		Engineering and Supply	Chief Ship Engineer, Requisitions Officer, Ship Technician
		Medical	Chief Medical Officer, Medical Doctor, Researcher
		Marines	Squad Leader, Squad Smartgunner, Squad Engineer, Squad Corpsman, Squad Marine
		Civilians	Corporate Liaison
		Silicon	Combat robots, Synthetic, AI
	Xenomorphs Playtime	Tier 0	Larva, Minions
		Tier 1	Drone, Runner, Defender, Sentinel
		Tier 2	Hivelord, Carrier, Hunter, Wraith, Bull, Warrior, Puppeteer, Spitter
		Tier 3	Gorger, Defiler, Widow, Ravager, Warlock, Behemoth, Crusher, Praetorian, Boiler
		Tier 4	Shrike, Queen, King, Hivemind
	Others		Zombie, Emergency Response Teams, Sons of Mars, Survivor