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The Circadian Half-Cycler gives a pawn that's been implanted with it the ability to never sleep again, at the cost

Acquisition

Circadian half-cyclers can be crafted at a Fabrication bench once the Circadian influence research project has been completed. The required techprint can be obtained either by trade or completing quests for the Empire. They require 15 Plasteel, 4 Advanced components, 26,000 ticks (7.22 mins) of work, and a Crafting skill of 8.

Summary

A circadian half-cycler is installed in the brain and removes the Sleep need entirely. Consciousness is reduced by 15%, which itself reduces work-related stats like Moving and Manipulation, as well as Eating and Talking.

When a pawn with this implant is shocked with EMP, they will receive brain shock, knocking them unconscious temporarily.

Installation

Installing the part requires 2,500 ticks (41.67 secs) of work, 2x medicine of ?? quality or better, and a Medical skill of 5.

Removing the part requires 2,500 ticks (41.67 secs) of work, 1x medicine of ?? quality or better, and a Medical skill of 5.

If the operation fails, the part has a chance^{[What Chance?]} to be destroyed.

Analysis

Assuming a colonist sleeps for 8 hours, this implant allows them to work an additional ⅓ of the day. The consciousness loss has a different effect on different work types:

Menial, quality-less tasks like Research, Hauling, or Cleaning are done slower, but the extra time easily makes up for it.
Crafters, Artists, and Constructors will produce the same-quality items, so the extra time is a net positive. Note that low-skill construction is more likely to fail.
- Does not increase Food Poisoning Chance either, so good for Cooks.
Plants and Mining Yield are lowered by Consciousness. This might not be an issue if you have surplus planting space, or are mining rock. However, the decreased yield is worse when mining ores or if nearby soil is limited.
Social pawns and Animal handlers will perform worse, with more failed attempts and higher prices. As animals and prisoners sleep, while trade is inheriently limited, the half-cycler has little benefit.
Similarly, Medical pawns will tend slower, with less quality, and have less successful surgeries.
Combat or Hunting pawns are less accurate, will get injured more, and are slightly more likely to die by Consciousness loss. EMP also becomes harder to use due to Brain Shock. It may be wiser to EMP mechanoids anyway, losing a combatant in the process.

Putting the pawn on luciferium can partially make up for the consciousness loss, with the two combined resulting in only a 5% consciousness loss.

Not needing bedrooms can save plenty of space. However, an unfortunate side effect of this is mood. No sleep will prevent Lovin' entirely, remove the moodlet from an impressive bedroom, and deprive a pawn of a bed's Comfort level. An armchair can provide comfort for crafter-type pawns, but all these mood-increasers are quite significant. Non-ascetic nobles still desire a bedroom that meets their needs.

Comparison to reducing sleep

A high quality royal bed, improvements to metabolism and blood pumping such as bionic stomachs and bionic hearts, and of course the circadian assistant all affect a pawn's need for rest.

A bionic stomach and heart increase the Rest Rate Multiplier to 111%, a legendary quality royal bed provides 168% rest effectiveness, and the circadian assistant decreases rest fall rate by 20%. Thus, they can reduce the required sleep down to 43%. Luciferium further improves the rest rate multiplier to 126%, and the required sleep down to 38%. Thus, the circadian half-cycler gives the pawn approximately an 4-4.5 hours of working time compared to an optimum sleeping set up, at the expense of the consciousness penalty, the loss of impressive bedroom, comfort the loss and lovin' mood buffs. The effect of the consciousness loss means that a pawn with a half-cycler will work slower, losing work progress approximately equivalent to 2 hours compared to a regular pawn over the course of the day.

Comparison to Never Sleep

The never sleep gene will completely prevent sleep with no Consciousness loss. However, with a metabolic efficiency of -6, it requires negative genes or archite metabolism to even be used at all. It takes a large amount of negatives to negate the penalty, or archite capsules for the aformentioned metabolism gene.

Never sleep is not found in any of the default xenohumans, so a genepack must be found, both for the sleep gene and whatever you're using to compensate. Alternatively, you can start with the gene, which still comes at the genetic cost.

Artificial body parts

Arm/Hand: Archotech arm • Bionic arm • Power claw • Prosthetic arm • Wooden hand • Drill arm • Elbow blade • Field hand • Hand talon • Venom talon • Flesh tentacle • Flesh whip
Head: Archotech eye • Bionic eye • Bionic ear • Bionic jaw • Bionic tongue • Cochlear implant • Denture • Aesthetic nose
Head implants: Joywire • Painstopper • Circadian assistant • Circadian half-cycler • Gastro-analyzer • Learning assistant • Mindscrew • Neurocalculator • Psychic harmonizer • Psychic reader • Psychic sensitizer • Venom fangs • Control sublink (Standard, High) • Mechlink • Mech gestation processor • Remote repairer • Remote shielder • Repair probe
Spine: Bionic spine • Revenant vertebrae
Stomach: Bionic stomach • Nuclear stomach • Reprocessor stomach • Sterilizing stomach • Fleshmass stomach
Heart: Bionic heart • Prosthetic heart • Heart • Adrenal heart • Corrosive heart • Metalblood heart
Lung: Lung • Detoxifier lung • Fleshmass lung
Kidney: Kidney • Detoxifier kidney
Organs: Liver
Visceral implants: Death acidifier • Aesthetic shaper • Coagulator • Healing enhancer • Armorskin gland • Stoneskin gland • Toughskin gland • Immunoenhancer • Love enhancer • Ghoul plating • Ghoul barbs
Leg/Foot: Archotech leg • Bionic leg • Prosthetic leg • Peg leg • Wooden foot • Knee spike
Related: Psylink neuroformer • Xenogerm
Deprecated: Scyther blade • Psychic silencer

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 == Analysis ==
 Assuming a colonist sleeps for 8 hours, this implant allows them to work an additional ⅓ of the day.  The consciousness loss has a different effect on different work types:
-*Menial, quality-less tasks like Plants, Research, Hauling, or Cleaning are done slower, but the extra time easily makes up for it.
+*Menial, quality-less tasks like Research, Hauling, or Cleaning are done slower, but the extra time easily makes up for it.
-*Crafters, Artists, and Constructors will produce the same-[[quality]] items, so the extra time is a net positive. However, low-skill construction is more likely to fail.
+*Crafters, Artists, and Constructors will produce the same-[[quality]] items, so the extra time is a net positive. Note that low-skill construction is more likely to fail.
+**Does not increase [[Food Poisoning Chance]] either, so good for Cooks.
+*Plants and Mining Yield are lowered by Consciousness. This might not be an issue if you have surplus planting space, or are mining rock. However, the decreased yield is worse when mining ores or if nearby soil is limited.
 *Social pawns and Animal handlers will perform worse, with more failed attempts and higher prices. As [[animal]]s and [[prisoner]]s sleep, while [[trade]] is inheriently limited, the half-cycler has little benefit.
-*Similarly, Medical pawns will tend slower and with less quality.
+*Similarly, Medical pawns will tend slower, with less quality, and have less successful surgeries.
-*Combat or Hunting pawns will do less damage, will get injured more, and are slightly more likely to die by Consciousness loss. Additionally, their vulnerability to Brain Shock makes [[EMP]] harder to actually use.
+*Combat or Hunting pawns are less accurate, will get injured more, and are slightly more likely to die by Consciousness loss. [[EMP]] also becomes harder to use due to Brain Shock. It may be wiser to EMP [[mechanoid]]s anyway, losing a combatant in the process.
 Putting the pawn on [[luciferium]] can partially make up for the consciousness loss, with the two combined resulting in only a 5% consciousness loss.