Consciousness

Consciousness is a pawn capacity: The state or quality of awareness. A pawn loses consciousness when this falls below 30% and dies when this reaches 0%. Consciousness, also called Data Processing on mechanoids, itself doesn't have any effect on a pawn's stats, however it does directly influence several other capacities that a pawn has.

It is lethal for humans, animals and mechanoids for Consciousness to be reduced to zero. The maximum possible Consciousness capacity is 140% with a healthy pawn high on go-juice, luciferium and wake-up.

Affected stats

Name	Type	Weight	Max	Description
Eating	Capacity	1	-	A character's ability to eat.
Manipulation	Capacity	1	-	How well a character can physically interact with objects. Directly affected by consciousness and arms/hands/fingers effectiveness.
Moving	Capacity	1	1	How well a character can move around. Directly affected by consciousness.
Talking	Capacity	1	-	A character's capacity of speech. Directly affected by consciousness.
Reading Speed	Stat	1		A multiplier on how fast this person can read.

Factors

Base Factors

Consciousness is mainly affected by the following factors:

Blood Pumping: 20% importance, no allowed defect. 100% Max.
Breathing: 20% importance, no allowed defect. 100% Max.
Blood filtration: 10% importance, no allowed defect. 100% Max.
Pain: The pain factor can be calculated as follows*:

IF {1.05 - (0.45 x Pain)}[%] < 100% THEN {1.05 - (0.45 x Pain [%])} ELSE 100%

(* In English, what this says is that very minor pain has no effect, while anything more than minor starts to affect consciousness at a little less than half (.45) its value.)

Brain part efficiency: 100% importance, no allowed defect. No Max (effectively 100%).
- Joywire: part efficiency offset −20%
- Dementia: part efficiency offset −15%

Post Factors

The following factors are applied after the Base factors.

Beer (high)
- Tipsy: x90%
- Drunk: x65%
- Hammered: x10%
Psychite hangover (Flake/Yayo/Psychite tea): x80%
Cryptosleep sickness: x80%
Food poisoning
- Recovering and Inital: x60%
- Major: x50%
Heart attack painful: x50%

Offsets

The following offsets are applied after the Post factors.

Beer (hangover)
- Slight: −3%
- Strong: −8%
- Pounding: −18%
Beer withdrawal: −20%
Go-juice:
- High: +20%
- Withdrawal: −20%
Luciferium high: +10%
Psychite withdrawal (Flake/Yayo/Psychite tea): −20%
Smokeleaf joint
- High: −30%
- Withdrawal: −20%
Wake-up:
- High: +10%
- Withdrawal: −30%
Blood loss
- Minor: −10%
- Moderate: −20%
- Severe: −40%
Toxic buildup
- Initial: −5%
- Minor: −10%
- Moderate: −15%
- Serious: −25%
Malnutrition
- Trivial: −5%
- Minor: −10%
- Moderate: −20%
- Severe: −30%
Heatstroke
- Initial: −5%
- Minor: −10%
- Serious: −20%
Hypothermia
- Shivering: −5%
- Minor: −10%
- Serious: −20%
Hypothermic slowdown
- Minor: −5%
- Moderate: −20%
- Serious: −40%
Infection extreme (initial): −5%
Flu
- Minor: −5%
- Major: −10%
- Extreme: −15%
Plague
- Minor: −5%
- Major: −20%
- Extreme: −30%
Malaria
- Minor: −5%
- Major: −12%
Sleeping sickness
- Minor (initial): −2%
- Minor (advanced): −4%
- Major: −15%
- Extreme (initial): −20%
Resurrection psychosis
- Early: −10%
- Advanced: −20%
- Severe: −30%
- Total: −40%
Circadian half-cycler : −15%
Neural supercharger : +10%

Limits

If any of these conditions apply, the Consciousness can not be higher than the given value. Note that the it can still be lower.

Beer (high) blackout: 10% max
Luciferium withdrawal: 80% max
Blood loss extreme: 10% max
Anesthetic
- Wearing off: 90% max
- Woozy: 70% max
- Sedated: 10% max
Catatonic break: 10% max
Psychic shock: 10% max
Psychic coma: 10% max
Brain shock: 10% max
Toxic buildup extreme: 10% max
Heart attack debilitating: 10% max
Drug overdose
- Minor: 50% max
- Major: 10% max
Malnutrition extreme: 10% max
Heatstroke extreme: 10% max
Hypothermia extreme: 10% max
Hypothermic slowdown extreme: 10% max
Infection extreme (advanced): 10% max
Malaria extreme: 10% max
Sleeping sickness extreme (advanced): 10% max
Resurrection psychosis catatonic: 10% max

Formula

The formula is as follows:

Consciousness = IF (Base factors × Post factors + Offsets) < Limit THEN (Base factors × Post factors + Offsets) ELSE Limit

The Base factors can be calculated with the following formulas:

Blood Pumping = 1 + ({IF Blood Pumping < 1 THEN Blood Pumping ELSE 1} - 1) × 0.2
Breathing = 1 + ({IF Breathing < 1 THEN Breathing ELSE 1} - 1) × 0.2
Blood Filtration = 1 + ({IF Blood Filtration < 1 THEN Blood Filtration ELSE 1} - 1) × 0.1
Pain = IF (-0.45 × Pain + 1.05) < 1 THEN (-0.45 × Pain + 1.05) ELSE 1